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07-13-2005, 11:44 PM
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Re: Bush asked his boss...
No...Bush's boss is Cheney. Rove is Cheney's Mini-Me...in fact, they kind of look alike, too. Of course, does that now mean we can call Rove Mini-Dick?
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#3
07-14-2005, 03:20 AM
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Re: Bush asked his boss...
It's more than four and a half years since Bush became President and the left are still telling the same jokes.
It's no wonder so many voters think they have no original ideas.
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07-14-2005, 10:19 AM
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Re: Bush asked his boss...
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It's no wonder so many voters think they have no original ideas. [/ QUOTE ] Given that Bush is the least popular President since Nixon, perhaps you meant voters "thought"? The common denominators of GOP policies have remained the same at least since LBJ: unburden and subsidize the rich, increase military spending, increase the use of military force, repress dissidence. (The same period also coincides with the permanent stagnation of worker incomes). Economic boom, budget surplus and peace? Then cut taxes and increase defense spending. Recession, terror and two wars? Then increase military spending and cut taxes. Indeed, the core of rightist prescriptions has remained tediously unoriginal since Cato the Elder and can be summarized as "more for the fewer." The only thing "new" about these Republicans are Bush's cowboy constume and accent (the only Bush sibling who talks like a Texan) and a greater willingness to leverage social tensions and dumb guy credulity.
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07-14-2005, 10:26 AM
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Re: Bush asked his boss...
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[ QUOTE ] It's no wonder so many voters think they have no original ideas. [/ QUOTE ] Given that Bush is the least popular President since Nixon, perhaps you meant voters "thought"? [/ QUOTE ] Are we basing this on some poll- the political equivalent of sticking your finger in the wind? I could have sworn President Bush was just re-elected and got more votes than any other Presidential candidate in history.
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#8
07-14-2005, 12:35 PM
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Re: Bush asked his boss...
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I could have sworn President Bush was just re-elected and got more votes than any other Presidential candidate in history. [/ QUOTE ] This kind of meaningless statistic is an example of what I called dumb guy credulty. U.S. voter population was higher than ever, therefore more people than ever voted for Bush and more people than ever voted against him. 40% of the eligible elctorate didn't even participate. The important fact is that U.S. political institutions, including the Bush presidency, are widely perceived by Americans as failing.
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#9
07-14-2005, 12:39 PM
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Re: Bush asked his boss...
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Are we basing this on some poll- the political equivalent of sticking your finger in the wind? I could have sworn President Bush was just re-elected and got more votes than any other Presidential candidate in history. [/ QUOTE ] If you are going to question the validity of polls, don't use equally bad statistics yourself. The fact that Bush got more votes than any candidate in history has a lot to do with the fact that the US population is higher now than ever before. In 2004 John Kerry got more popular votes (59 mil) than Ronald Reagan did in 1984 (54.5 mil). Does that suggest that Kerry was more popular than Reagan? Furthermore, there are plenty of statistics which suggest that Bush's reelection was not so impressive: [ QUOTE ] Bush won with the smallest margin of victory for a sitting president in U.S. history in terms of the percentage of the popular vote. (Bush received 2.5% more than Kerry; the closest previous margin won by a sitting President was 3.2% for Woodrow Wilson in 1916.) In terms of absolute number of popular votes, his victory margin (approximately 3 million votes) was the smallest of any sitting President since Harry S. Truman in 1948. [/ QUOTE ] link I don't really care how Bush's popularity ranks historically, but I hate it when people use bad statistics (such as Bush's total number of votes) to back up their assertions.
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07-14-2005, 08:34 PM
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Re: Bush asked his boss...
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and got more votes than any other Presidential candidate in history. [/ QUOTE ] I'm not taking sides here, but you do realize Kerry got more votes than most people who have been elected President. This is a meaningless number.
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