Bush supporters give me a break!

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Registered: 08-02-2004
Bush supporters give me a break!
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Wed, 08-04-2004 - 2:17pm
I have just read through some of the info on the GOP thread and this will be my first time posting a discussion, so here it goes:

I truly feel like whenever I hear a Bush supporter speak, it is like listening to someone with Stolkholm syndrome, THEY ARE COMPLETELY BRAINWASHED!!! I mean, honestly, unless you are living in a cave (without internet, mind you) there is no way that the Bush supporters do not intake the same news that I do.

HE LIED!!! HE LIED!!! Let this serve as a newsflash to anyone who did not know. THERE ARE NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. IF THERE ARE, HIS DAD SUPPLIED THEM. This is something that they were aware of befor the sent us into Iraq. That is unethical manipulation of your position of power.

For those of you who were just about to argue that we went in for "humanitarian" reasons to collapse the tyranical reign of Saddam, let me just halt you in your tracks. Why are we not in any country in Africa, in which there are civil wars, AIDs epidemics, and feminist repression running rampant due to governmental proceedings? Why are we not in China? Why are we not in Palestine (oh wait, I forgot, we are, sponsering their killing by the Israelis)? Becaus they do not benefit us? So what's the deal, we fight for humanity contigent on how much money we gain from it? Give me a break!

I read another posting about how Republicans are frustrated with the Democrats focus on how George Bush cannot speak. A couple interesting points: It worries us that he cannot speak because you'd think that after a couple years at Yale, the University rated number one on the recently released Princenton Review, that he would be able to process a few words. I guess the fact that he graduated with like a D average just does not count. Additionally, I would just like to call to attention the fact that over and over again science has come to the conclusion that the major difference between humans and the animal kingdom is our ability to speak, and our advanced methods of communication which in turn lead to organization and technology, thus the advancement of the human race. If he cannot speak, then he is getting closer and closer to the animal, right?

Finally, on the GOP thread several posters commented on how although Dems were calling them nervous, they were actually unwaveringly confident. Yeah, I would be too if my party had just rigged the last election!!

People, women, get to the polls!!

Let's make it like father, like son, one term!

Lani

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Registered: 08-06-2004
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 12:53pm
Here's my take...let's look at this issue of WMD from the point of view of a police officer, my husband. Recently, carrying out a warrant for a very well known drug house, the team went into the house and found nothing except piles of cash. Does this mean that there never were drugs being sold and distributed from this house. Absolutely not!! Obviously the money came from somewhere.... Hmmmm, could it be from the sale of drugs? Of course. You sell drugs, you get cash! So, getting back to Iraq.... US Troops and others have been finding piles of money. You sell your weapons off (because the UN and former President Clinton have been warning them for 12 years that we're going to come check if they have any) and you get cash!! The WMD have probably been sold or moved, and they (Saddam and his henchmen) assume they got rid of the evidence!! The WMD are probably sitting in Syria, Iran, who knows where. And you know what ASSUME means!
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Registered: 04-18-2004
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 12:56pm

Hey Telle!


Welcome to the board!

Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board

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Registered: 07-05-2003
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 1:00pm
ashley51 wrote - "I have tried to ask my more moderate friends about Bush's success and none of them have been able to list one success of this administration."

Bush,

1) Reorganized homeland security, the largest reorganization of the US government since WW II.

2) Has prevented additioal attacks against our nation from terrorists.

3) Passed the Patriot Act, which aside from helping get rid of terrorists, is helping solve some of the drug problem, and some organized crime issues.

4) Passed the largest extension to the Johnson era entitlements, in particular added a drug benefit to Medicare.

5) Passed NCLB the largest change to the Dept. of Education since it's inception.

6) Largest tax cuts, across the board.

7) Doubled, then tripled federal spending on education.

8) Liberated Afganastan & Iraq (50 million humans out from tyranny), helped secure relations across the world including cooperation with countries in the middle east.

9) Persuaded Libya to cease all WMD development, pay terrorist judgments, and to rejoin the nations of the world.

10) Made fundamental changes to Clinton era program for volunteers.

11) Spent more money and offered more aid to African nations suffering from AIDS.

12) Cleaned up the Oval Office from the stench of Clinton, it's no longer a sex parlor.

Hmm... guess it's nothing... eh? The above off the top of my head...

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Registered: 06-17-2004
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 1:02pm

Neither Clinton nor his Arkansas cronies sued when they were accused of everything from drug running to murder.

Renee ~~~

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Registered: 06-17-2004
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 1:04pm
CLs

Renee ~~~

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 1:07pm
I feel "safe" expressing my opinion in any thread, so maybe I just don't understand what the problem is.

As long as "outsiders" don't post on the GOP board directly, I see no problem with people making comments on what is publicly posted there. The GOP Treehouse name I suggested was actually commentary on how childish I thought the whole proposal was. It's all a little bit Spanky & Our Gang, isn't it?

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Registered: 06-17-2004
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 1:25pm
<<I feel "safe" expressing my opinion in any thread, so maybe I just don't understand what the problem is.

As long as "outsiders" don't post on the GOP board directly, I see no problem with people making comments on what is publicly posted there. >>


Respect doesn't require understanding; it requires acknowledging our differences.

Opening those comments for debate,

Renee ~~~

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Registered: 08-02-2004
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 1:51pm
I never said Pakistani, somebody else said Pakistani, I said Palestine from the beginning.
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Registered: 08-02-2004
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 1:53pm
What does that have to do with anything? I am not an immigrant.

I know the US is not a popular democracy, as I have said before, I said that the electoral college failed us in the last election and the Popular vote was more telling.

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Registered: 04-08-2003
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 1:54pm
It was a simple mistake, maybe a typo/slip-o, whatever. They knew what you meant, but wanted to deride your posts for it.

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