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Sat Apr-23-05 10:06 AM
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Tell me; What's so bad about George W. Bush? |
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So I can tell my conservative buddy.... http://brainbuttons.com/home.asp?stashid=13Buttons for brainy people - educate your local freepers today!
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Sat Apr-23-05 10:08 AM
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1. He is the ONLY US pResident |
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Edited on Sat Apr-23-05 10:12 AM by DulceDecorum
to be thrashed in single combat by a pretzel. And he has a removable hump.
Seriously, that is like asking why people dislike Satan. If he cannot see it, then there is not much we can do for him.
There are none so blind as will Nazi. -- Mrs Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian.
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Sat Apr-23-05 10:10 AM
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2. Removable hump? I thought that was his codpiece... |
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Sat Apr-23-05 10:19 AM
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4. Nah. You forgot Poland. The codpiece is the Ambassador there. |
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Sat Apr-23-05 10:10 AM
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True, dat. In fact he gets facial injuries on a weekly basis, but not from combat wounds.... or are they, perhaps, from combat with Pickles?
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Sat Apr-23-05 10:20 AM
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5. The pillows at the White House |
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leave marks, not lasting impressions.
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Sat Apr-23-05 10:21 AM
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6. Bush has no idea what a democracy is. |
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He thinks a democracy is a system where people vote for a dictator. That the 49% of the people who did not vote for him,"lost". Therefore they have no right to have their views considered. Those who voted for him and "won" have the right to impose their veiws on the those that didn't. He is quite sincere in this belief. Bush is a classic representative of the tyranny of the majority. The very thing the Constitution and Bill of Rights was designed to prevent.
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Sat Apr-23-05 10:31 AM
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10. Caligula felt there had to be limits to freedom |
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unless that freedom was his.
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Sat Apr-23-05 10:44 AM
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Bush does not accept that if the Democrats had a voting "majority" they have the same right to impose their view. This is because he has God on his side. So he is always in the "majority".
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Sat Apr-23-05 10:22 AM
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7. A little Iraqi girl covered in her innocent parents blood |
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-- after they've just been slaughtered by jittery troops who were told Iraq would be a cakewalk is his idea of "freedom on the march" and "spreading democracy."
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Sat Apr-23-05 10:34 AM
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11. Dubya's supporters APPROVE of THAT. |
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Take your buddy to the local Veteran's hospital and let him chat to people who were wounded in Iraq and then came home to sire children with serious birth defects.
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Sat Apr-23-05 01:15 PM
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26. Yeah... sadly, probably true |
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But, I don't know if a veteran's hospital would do it either -- they'd just chalk it up to the price you pay for protecting "our freedom!"
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Sat Apr-23-05 10:22 AM
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8. Tell your conservative buddy that we LOVE Dubya. |
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Edited on Sat Apr-23-05 10:24 AM by Old Crusoe
Nothin' like a smirking pseudo-cowboy who lies through his teeth 24/7 to earn DUers' respect.
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Tell him there isn't time to count the transgressions against democracy Bush has perpetrated or presided over.
Ask your friend if he would want Dubya as a friend. Or John Ashcroft. Or Donald Rumsfeld. Or Eliott Abrams. Or John Bolton. Or Scooter Libby. Or the Swiftboat Liars.
If he says "Sure, why not?" -- then you need to fire this friend and hire some new ones.
If he says "I see what you mean..." -- then buy him a cold beer and urge him to register as a Democrat, Green, or other progressive. We need his vote.
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Sat Apr-23-05 10:27 AM
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It's his coalition of ultra-conservative right wing religious nutjob controllers that are a large part of the problem. Their publicly stated goal of an ideological dictatorship of the United States should rock any traditional conservative to the core. The policy decisions they have made are NOT conservative. His track record is one of bigger and bigger government, more intrusion into personal decision making and record-breaking deficit spending. Any conservative who likes George W. Bush is not paying attention. He is betraying every political value they cherish.
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Sat Apr-23-05 10:37 AM
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12. If he doesn't understand by now, that means he is uninformed and will |
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not inform himself. And, if YOU don't know, YOU need to get busy.
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Sat Apr-23-05 10:38 AM
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13. Start by explaining that Bush is his worst liberal nightmare come true |
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Conservatives usually consider these acts to be part of a LIBERAL AGENDA:
Unilaterally invading a country (supposedly) to free a people from oppression. (What could be more lib-rul)?
Engaging in "nation building" - spending billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to build infrastructure in another country (where's the conservative outrage?)
Recklessly running up the deficit to historic levels. (Gee, aren't they always accusing liberals of financial irresponsibility?)
Spending $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to start of government program to "promote" marriage. (Aren't they supposed to be for smaller government?)
Convening Congress during the Schiavo case and signing legislation to directly interfere in the very personal lives of a single family. (What ever happened to their motto of keeping government off our backs?)
Present the evidence to your friend and make the case: Dubya ain't no conservative. From a conservative standpoint, he is the very worst breed of liberal.
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Sat Apr-23-05 10:45 AM
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15. He's Too Stupid to Unhook his Parachute Harness after landing |
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on an aircraft carrier, and then parades around on the deck like a chicken on crack with his testicles pulled up to his belly button. The guy is a complete idiot and is an embarassment to the USA..
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Sat Apr-23-05 10:53 AM
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16. don't forget the couple of million spent, with the carrier doing lazy |
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circles in the pacific for hours, trying to keep the shoreline out of the photo shoot, and changing directions with the wind so it wouldn't muss bush's hair or flap the mission accomplished banner. it was literally, a multi-million dollar picture shoot. no president in history has ever had to resort to anything that staged or expensive.
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Sat Apr-23-05 12:31 PM
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23. No other President would have to. |
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Sat Apr-23-05 12:38 PM
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poppy gave millions to hill & knowlton, and they produced propaganda that could actually fool people.
bush spent millions on that photo op....and just looks like a fool.
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Sat Apr-23-05 01:03 PM
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25. I wonder... how much are his photo ops costing us anyway?? |
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Edited on Sat Apr-23-05 01:06 PM by Blue Belle
I mean, this is the ONLY thing this President does!! How many times has he gassed up Air Force One this week alone?? There was the photo op for the Lincoln Library, Photo Ops/various town Hall meetings across the country to pitch his Social Security debacle, there was the scheduled photo op in West Virginia that was canceled, Plus, he had to fly out to the ranch to cut more brush (if only he took as much care to cut corporate loopholes out of the tax code... but I digress)... then there are the various photo ops in the Rose Garden for god knows who's football, volley ball, basket ball, chess teams (please correct me if I'm forgetting any).
Is it just me? Or does this sound a little excessive? Did Clinton have as many photo Ops/Vacations on the Country's dime?
The only person working hard here are the photographers trying to get this President's image to show up on film. That's why you always see him with sores on his face - Dracula's minions are working over time with their photoshop duties (that's probably costing us a butt-load of cash too).
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Sat Apr-23-05 01:23 PM
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28. that's an excellent question. |
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you must hate america for questioning how much it costs us for our beloved leader to be seen in all parts of the country by handpicked crowds and loyal reporters. :sarcasm:
You're right! he's been bouncing around this country since he proclaimed his 'mandate' - is there a presidential travel budget that must be committee approved by congress, or is this merely backcharged to the state and handled by the GAO? Clinton never did this, his photo ops were simple: jogging, shaking hands with a world leader, etc - the stuff that felt good. bush is just acting like he's still on a campaign - pointless stops, getting nothing accomplished (might be a good thing, though) his handlers must sense something about to happen, maybe the neo-cons are planning another terror attack?
personally, i think the sores on his face are there because he's back on the sauce. rotten lawton did this to us in his last couple of years as FL governor. he'd have to be carted off to some place west of tallahassee where he would dry out for a week or so, then get sent back to the capital where his aides would get him to act gubernatorial before he went back on the sauce. i think that's why bush goes to crawford so much - binges or drying out.
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Sat Apr-23-05 11:10 AM
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17. His distain for democratic institutions and his embrace of |
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authoritarian rule.
His inability to modify his beliefs even if they are proven wrong.
His loyalty to ideology over loyalty to the constitution.
His arrogance
His anti intellectualism
His inability to understand the concept of loyal opposition.
His putting our nation and people at risk by diverting our military resources away from Osama and al Qaeda to pursue Iraqi oil so US companies can cash in on the growing Asian market.
His willingness to sell off our birthright so his friends can sell ANWR oil to China.
I believe James Thurber warned us about people who own two Scotties.
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Sat Apr-23-05 11:25 AM
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18. Short answer: Warmonger, Mass Murderer, Archcriminal, Serial Liar, Moron. |
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Sat Apr-23-05 11:56 AM
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He's a foolish, stubborn man who refuses to listen to anyone but the 'yes men' surrounding him, and as a result, the economy is going to hell in a handbasket; we've got soldiers fighting and dying in two wars on the other side of the world and only one of those wars could reasonably be considered justifiable.
The people surrounding him are bent on absolute power and have shown that they are willing to take that power at any price, including the Constitution.
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Sat Apr-23-05 12:12 PM
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20. He is an arrogant, alcoholic asshole |
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Edited on Sat Apr-23-05 12:13 PM by ComerPerro
And is possibly the dumbest person to ever be even considered for the office of POTUS.
He is a coward and an unapologetic liar. He is a condescending jerkoff (how can someone so stupid be condescending, you ask? Stumps me still).
He doesn't give a shit about this country, only about using it to promote himself. He doesn't give a shit about the people of the US, only about how to exploit them so his backers can profit.
He is the dumb, popular rich kid in your high school English class who got drunk all weekend and BSed his way to a D minus during school.
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Sat Apr-23-05 12:27 PM
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21. Deceptive, anti-military, financially irresponsible |
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Ask him if he believed * Admin. when they said that Iraq could finance it's own reconstruction. Ask him if he believed that the people would welcome U.S. forces with open arms (candy and flowers). Ask him if he believed that the war effort would cost "1 or 2 billion" as Bush admin. said. Don't even bring up WMDs.
Bush doesn't provide troops in the field with appropriate body armor, vehicle armor, troop rotations, hospital benefits, veteran's benefits, etc. Ask him if he believed Bush in 2000 when he said that the U.S. military was overextended dangerously when he says now, with nearly 200,000 more troops deployed and without any increase in overall numbers, the military is not dangerously overextended. Both obviously cannot be true.
$9,000,000,000 is missing in Iraq. Surplus to defecit. It shouldn't be difficult to demonstrate financial irresponsibility.
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Sat Apr-23-05 12:29 PM
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22. Only 'prez' to be installed by the Supreme Court. |
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Regardless of the peoples' choice, the Supreme Court STOPPED THE RECOUNT.
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Sat Apr-23-05 01:23 PM
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27. He's Proud, Arrogant, Deceitful, Hostile, Hateful, Sarcastic, Uncaring... |
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...unLoving, unjust, greedy, stingy, unrealistic, irrational, he causes division, strife, envy, confusion, death, destruction, etc.... Just a few things that he PROVES TRUE, daily.
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Sat Apr-23-05 01:43 PM
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29. You tell me: Is there ANYTHING good about George W. Bush? |
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Sat Apr-23-05 01:44 PM
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list in alphabetical or numerical order.....
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