Bush at 29%
POSTED BY: DallasFirefly
UPDATED: Thursday, May 18, 2006 17:22
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One of the things that frustrates me so much about Bush is how far he has lowered the bar. Basically, anyone who can speak in complete sentences and reasonably address a question comes out looking like a superstar in comparison. I remember being at the march in San Francisco back in February 2003 (back when a lot of us thought that maybe, just maybe, hundreds of thousands of people saying, "Hold on, wait a second, let's not rush into Iraq." might actually temper the going-off-half-cocked nature of the administration) and listening to one of the speakers - a Member of Parliament - and thinking, "I sure wish my President could speak like that." It's a thought I've had often in listening to other politicians speak over the past many years.
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"... a crack team of spin doctors." You were using perfectly good English, it's just that these kinds of puns write themselves in regards to Bush.
Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.
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Soupcatcher,
I wish you were right. In the US, logic, reason and/or passable English don't hold a candle to the emotionally resonant two (or three) word phrase. Hard work, dead or alive, smoke 'em out, flip flop, ownership society, fine job, mushroom cloud, etc etc Once it gets past a couple of semi-complete phrases in a row, people's eyes roll in their heads, eyelids close, heads nod. Thinking is hard work.
Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.
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Originally posted by DallasFirefly:
Kinky Friedman is interesting, but he can't beat Perry. He can only siphon enough votes away from Chris Bell to reelect Perry......Independents always hurt the major party candidate
You are probably right about this, DallasFirefly... and while I think that Friedman would bring a fresh new approach to politics in this backward state, I am enough of a realist to know that it just won't happen. Unfortunately it seems that we are stuck with Gov. Gooodhair for a while longer. I would throw my complete support behind Bell if I thought he had any chance, but I just don't see it.
My wife is a public school teacher in this state and I've seen firsthand the inequity in that system for many years. This state will remain mired in mediocrity for years to come.
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I STILL have my "(Mission)
Rue- You caught that two-word tango really well. That's just about what most people respond to.
What I can't figure out- even after extensive ...er... discussion with Bush supporters on this board, is... who ARE those 29%?? I know they're not rich enough to really benefit from this Administration. Some are having flashbacks to the WMD scenario that they just can't seem to get over. PTSD. Some think that Bush is God's right-hand man. But others... they're not religious, they do not seem to be overly traumatized by 9-11, they SEEM to be running on at least 7 of 8 cylinders but they also seem to be willfully mentating in some kind of alternate reality. There's no global warming, the tax cut did not cause the deficit, Iraq is a success. I just can't seem to quite wrap my brain around it!
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Originally posted by SignyM:
I STILL have my "(Mission)Nothing Accomplished" bumper sticker on my car. For quite a while I thought it would earn me popped tires and an egging or two
a friend has the ever-popular "Bush Is A Punk-Ass Chump" on his old pickup.... with no problems to speak of...but he's about 6'5 & 270 lbs.....
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They probably could, if they actually made the decisions :) If they actually knew what they hell they were talking about. In old Dubya, I don't think we have that ability.
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SIGNYM
What I don't understand is why ANYONE that isn't a Rich, White, American, Straight, "Christian" Male voted for him.
WTF? Blacks? Women? Homosexuals? Hispanics? Non-Christians?
Thats what I don't get.
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Wouldn't it be funny ... well, not funny actually, but weird ... if Bush didn't win either election?
Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.
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I am doing the happy dance just at the thought of a Bushless USofA. Although that means ya'll in Texas would still be stuck with him.
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