The George W. Bush Thread.

Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: *Laura*
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 03:50 PM

Miaw.
and HA - I'm not a guest! I can log in again now.

xLx

and I suppose you ARE an expert aren't you? yes, yes, I thought you were.

Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST,Amos
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 10:51 AM

In yet another stunning display of cerebral short-circuitry, our Furless Leader spoke thus:

"I'm going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess, it's the Mother in me."—Washington D.C., April 14, 2005

IS this a gender problem? Or just a Freudian issue?

Sheesh!!!



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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST,Amos
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 10:54 AM

Oh and this one:

""I understand there's a suspicion that we—we're too security-conscience."—Washington D.C., April 14, 2005

and "I want to thank you for the importance that you've shown for education and literacy."—Washington, D.C., April 13, 2005

and "I repeat, personal accounts do not permanently fix the solution."—Washington, D.C., March 16, 2005

Why do we need a dictator who cannot compose a simple sentence?


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST,Amos
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 10:56 AM

"It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life."—Washington, D.C., Dec. 21, 2004

"They can get in line like those who have been here legally and have been working to become a citizenship in a legal manner."—Referring to immigrant workers, Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2004

"And so during these holiday seasons, we thank our blessings. ... "—Fort Belvoir, Va., Dec. 10, 2004

"I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed by the atmosphere. And they say 'man, you're looking pretty.' "—Washington, D.C., Nov. 4, 2004

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"Wodda marooon!"

----Bugs Bunny, 1951

Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 10:58 AM

"Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat."—Washington, D.C., Sept. 17, 2004 .

"That's why I went to the Congress last September and proposed fundamental—supplemental funding, which is money for armor and body parts and ammunition and fuel."—Erie, Pa., Sept. 4, 2004


Yep!! Ghoulish preee-version, I reckon....


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Amos
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 12:48 PM

By contrast to this foot-in-mouth moron, try listening to someone more articulate who has actual values.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Amos
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 04:23 PM

From my favourite New York doyenne, Maureen Dowd:

The white smoke yesterday signaled that the Vatican thinks what it needs to bring it into modernity is the oldest pope since the 18th century: Joseph Ratzinger, a 78-year-old hidebound archconservative who ran the office that used to be called the Inquisition and who once belonged to Hitler Youth. For American Catholics - especially women and Democratic pro-choice Catholic pols - the cafeteria is officially closed. After all, Cardinal Ratzinger, nicknamed "God's Rottweiler" and "the Enforcer," helped deny Communion rights to John Kerry and other Catholic politicians in the 2004 election.

The only other job this pope would be qualified for is "60 Minutes" anchor.

President Bush has also long acted as if he channeled the voice of God. And now Tom DeLay and Bill Frist are also pandering to the far-right-wing and evangelical Christians by implying that God speaks - and acts - through them, too.

Mr. Bush's more subtle obeisance to the evangelical right is no longer enough. Puffed up with its electoral clout, the Christian right now wants politicians to genuflect openly.

The doctor who would be president is down on both knees. He's happy to exploit religion by giving a video speech on a telecast next Sunday that will portray Democrats who block the president's judicial nominations as being "against people of faith."

A flier for the Christian telecast, organized by the Family Research Council, shows a confused teenage boy with a Bible in one hand and a judge's gavel in the other. The text reads: "The filibuster was once abused to protect racial bias, and it is now being used against people of faith."

The born-again Tom DeLay has been fighting his ethical woes by acting like a martyr for some time. Dr. Frist, by contrast, was not known for playing the religious card before. But he is clearly willing to turn himself over, lock, stock and barrel, if it will help him marginalize such Christian-right faves as Rick Santorum and Sam Brownback, and garner support from those who always vote because they see elections in terms of eternity.

Even Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Bible-Belt Republican, seemed surprised by the brazen move by Dr. Frist, the Senate majority leader. He told Newsweek: "Questioning a senator's motives in that way is a very dangerous precedent."

And, of course, the Democrats are apoplectic. "I cannot imagine that God - with everything he has or she has to worry about - is going to take the time to debate the filibuster in heaven," Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois said.

As they toy with less lofty multiple-anchor formats, the networks may be more open to women. But at the Vatican and in the Christian right's vanguard, we can be sure that the voice of God is not female. ...


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