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Wed Mar-17-04 09:53 AM
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Can you name one thing Bush has told the truth about? |
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This question is open to Repub lurkers also. I do not wish to hear about subjective terms such as honor and integrity because those are lies also. But, scratching my head, I think of all the lies told about Iraq, about the economy, about jobs, about Medicare, etc., and I cannot think of one time that we were told the truth about even one subject? Perhaps someone can help with this easy challenge??
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Wed Mar-17-04 09:55 AM
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Wed Mar-17-04 09:56 AM
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um..hmmm...oh wait! I know! He said that he would be a uniter, not a divider. He certainly has united the Democrats like never before. Does that count?
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Wed Mar-17-04 09:56 AM
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3. he came out of his mothers festering womb |
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Wed Mar-17-04 09:56 AM
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4. "This country would be easier to run |
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if it were a dictatorship, long as I'm the dictator."
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Wed Mar-17-04 09:58 AM
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7. That was wishful thinking, not truth. I go with his name. |
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Wed Mar-17-04 09:58 AM
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5. He said we were going to war |
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:01 AM
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11. But he lied about working with the UN.... |
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It was only an excuse to put the troops in place.
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Wed Mar-17-04 09:58 AM
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6. He told the truth about hitting the trifecta |
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and he was honest to gleefully chuckle about how terror and death allowed him to loot the treasury.
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Wed Mar-17-04 09:59 AM
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8. I believe he was telling the truth when |
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he admitted being a drunken bum until the age of 40. He has since given up on the drunken part.
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:00 AM
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10. I think he has drank since then... |
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:00 AM
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9. That he had hit his "trifecta?" |
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:04 AM
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12. Actually, that's an urban legend. The person inventing the "trifecta" meme |
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was actually Al Gore. Bush never said it; he only benefits from it. Go figure.
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:09 AM
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17. "trifecta" meme - I saw the Bush tape - why is this an urban legend? |
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:-)
How did Gore "invent" the application of "trifecta" to 9/11?
Indeed there is an urban legend that Bush said the various parts of the "trifecta" excuse in earlier speeches.
But the speech he made claiming a "trifecta" is real.
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:14 AM
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19. In the 2000 presidential debates |
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Gore specified the three conditions which could be used to justify opening the social security lockbox: war, recession and national emergency. Bush most certainly did say on more than one occasion that he "hit the trifecta" referring to the three conditions Gore had originally described.
Bush promised during the presidential campaign to avoid tapping Social Security except in cases of war, recession or a national emergency. "Lucky me. I hit the trifecta,'' Bush told Daniels shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the budget director. --Miami Herald, Nov. 29, 2001
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Wed Mar-17-04 11:42 AM
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34. Thanks - I had forgotten that :-) |
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Wed Mar-17-04 11:46 AM
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35. I was actually responding to #12 |
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but Bush told the trifecta "joke" at several fund raisers after it was printed in the MH...he got laughs with it too. Hardly an urban legend.
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:06 AM
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sh*t for brains. Oh wait--maybe he didn't say that.
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:07 AM
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14. He'd run America like a business |
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Edited on Wed Mar-17-04 10:08 AM by Atman
Hey, businesses borrow billions and fail to pay it back before tanking, too, all the time. Especially ones Bush is involved in.
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:09 AM
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15. "Fuck Saddam... we're taking him out!" -George W. Bush |
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I guess that was pretty honest.
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:11 AM
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18. In a moment of anger, he probably told the truth... |
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That and the comment about easier being a "dictator"....sound as if they are probably true.
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:09 AM
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Christians and Muslums worship the same God. True...
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:16 AM
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20. interesting challenge. Sure, he gets trivialities right all the time. But |
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the reason this is a hard thing to think of is that this administration is constantly in "spin" mode. He does get the occasional thing right. When he forcefully and quickly denounced violence against Muslims in the aftermath of 9-11 he saved lives. There was nothing going on like the outburst of hatred like we saw in 1991 with the hatred against Muslims following the invasion of Kuwait, despite there being far less justification for hatred back then.
The president can send signals like that to the general public and it affects the mood of the populace and it can set the boundaries that people react within. Poppy didn't do that in 1992 and the result was numerous incidents of violence against people percieved to be Iraqi. Contrast Bush's (early) response to 9/11 with Aznar's cynical manipulation of the Madrid bombing. Following similar tragedies, Americans grieved while Spaniards reacted with rage. The tone of our separate mournings is pretty starkly different.
The sad part is that that is the only instance I can think of in which the president in a moment of crisis did the right thing. Sadly, when things are planned out in advance, rather than reacted to in crisis, this president always gets it wrong.
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:17 AM
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21. The issue isn't that Bush *always* lies |
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It's that he lies about the big stuff. Most of the WH spin has small elements of truth at their core, so as to make the claims defensible. If they had no factual basis, the lies would not be as powerful.
Lying is just like writing fiction - you have to maintain the suspension of disbelief.
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:17 AM
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22. One thing I can think of |
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Off the top of my head, that ad where he said "I know EXACTLY where I want to lead this country"
Yes Bush and that is the scary part.
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:19 AM
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23. He'd do for America what he did for Texas |
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run it into the ground and destroy it environmentally and economically.
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:21 AM
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24. "I'm the master of low expectations." |
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:21 AM
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25. Sure. He said, "We're going to have tax relief." (Inaugural address) |
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He didn't specifically say how the "relief" would be apportioned. But he did promise tax cuts, and this particular line was the big applause-getter in his Inaugural Address. (Such as it was.)
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:29 AM
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26. "I'm a war president." |
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:32 AM
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27. "I'm taking a vacation"? |
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:35 AM
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28. "I'm a uniter not a divider" |
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He's united the whole world against us.
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:45 AM
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29. i think he said he wanted to be a dictator |
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he is trying, you must admit.
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:52 AM
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Wed Mar-17-04 10:54 AM
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When they said one of his dogs died.
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Wed Mar-17-04 11:02 AM
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32. He said that 2001 was |
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a great year for he and Laura. I believe it was: he secured his dictatorship when he hit the trifecta. What more could you ask for.
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Wed Mar-17-04 11:06 AM
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33. His would be the "personal responsibility" administration |
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The thief has managed to make Bill Clinton and/or his penis personally responsible for everything that's happened since he stole office.
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