George W. Bush is white America's answer to Baby Doc Duvalier.

[shereads]

Discuss.

 

[cloudy]

I haven't really noticed it before, but there are some parallels.

Maybe Duvalier didn't really die!

Maybe he was abducted by aliens like Elvis really was, and while he was there, he got that weird skin disease that Michael Jackson has, and then came back to make another attempt at ruling the world!

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

No way!

Baby Doc was a much sharper dresser.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[colddiesel]

An even worse alternative?

Duvalier had no redeeming features

George Bush junior has one. He has survived and thus deprived Dick Cheney the presidency.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

One more year and the real fun begins.

I dont care for Bush, I dont like his brother Jeb. But no one has made a legitimate case that Dubya has wrecked the country. Unemployment remains low, mortgage rates are low, no one is starving. I think you confuse Dubya with Jimmy Carter.

In my opinion Dubya has done more for the liberal agenda than most Democrats. If Democrats werent pissed about the 2000 election they'd agree. He carries your water for you.

 

[SesameStreet]

Discuss.

I don't agree with the title of your thread.

What more is there to discuss?

 

[cloudy]

I don't agree with the title of your thread.

What more is there to discuss?

oh look. There's one of those endangered species. They believe Bush is a good president after he's worked so damn hard to prove them wrong.

Thank god they'll be extinct soon.

In the meantime, I have some ocean front property in Arizona I'll sell to you real cheap.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

No way!

Baby Doc was a much sharper dresser.

Rumple Foreskin

Exactly. Though, we've never really seen what he can do with home decor.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

I'm really insulted that you make this comparison, She. Doc was a much kinder, humanitarian individual than Bush.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

One more year and the real fun begins.

I dont care for Bush, I dont like his brother Jeb. But no one has made a legitimate case that Dubya has wrecked the country. Unemployment remains low, mortgage rates are low, no one is starving. I think you confuse Dubya with Jimmy Carter.

In my opinion Dubya has done more for the liberal agenda than most Democrats. If Democrats werent pissed about the 2000 election they'd agree. He carries your water for you.

Ummmm... Clinton moved the U.S. from a record deficit to a record $236 billion surplus...

GWB moved the US from that record surplus to a record $331 billion deficit...


Hmmmmm... what part of "economic disaster" don't you understand?

 

[3113]

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I dunno, Shereads. I don't see the resemblance. Bush has shorter sideburns, no mustache and he hasn't got that cute little dimple in the chin. The ears are kinda similar....

 

[DesertPirate]

Ummmm... Clinton moved the U.S. from a record deficit to a record $236 billion surplus...

GWB moved the US from that record surplus to a record $331 billion deficit...


Hmmmmm... what part of "economic disaster" don't you understand?

You might want to shift the blame/credit for all Federal spending to the Congresscritters who pass the bills. Especially with all the Billions in addons at the end. The Prez just signs them.
Party doesn't matter, if all the brains in Washington were dynamite, you couldn't generate enough force to blow a nose!

 

[3113]

You might want to shift the blame/credit for all Federal spending to the Congresscritters who pass the bills. Especially with all the Billions in addons at the end. The Prez just signs them.

Fine by me. Of course, Clinton could have vetoed rather than signing them. Meanwhile, how does that let Bush off the hook for the deficit? And my, that does put the same Congress (for the first six years) to blame for that deficit as well. Why were they so good about saving money with Clinton and so dreadfully bad about it with Bush? Why, every time Bush said, "more money, more! Borrow! Borrow!" did they jump and say, "yes, master!"

Sorry, but ya can't cut out either prez entirely from taking the credit/blame for the surplus, much as you'd like to try.

As for brains, I seem to recall that Clinton was a Rhodes scholar. I'd say that means he had enough brains to blow his nose and then some.

 

[rgraham666]

Fine by me. Of course, Clinton could have vetoed rather than signing them. Meanwhile, how does that let Bush off the hook for the deficit? And my, that does put the same Congress (for the first six years) to blame for that deficit as well. Why were they so good about saving money with Clinton and so dreadfully bad about it with Bush? Why, every time Bush said, "more money, more! Borrow! Borrow!" did they jump and say, "yes, master!"

Sorry, but ya can't cut out either prez entirely from taking the credit/blame for the surplus, much as you'd like to try.

As for brains, I seem to recall that Clinton was a Rhodes scholar. I'd say that means he had enough brains to blow his nose and then some.

Bur, but, he was a Democrat!

Everyone knows that Democrats can't possibly have an IQ higher than room temperature. Otherwise they'd be Republicans.

 

[jomar]

Bur, but, he was a Democrat!

Everyone knows that Democrats can't possibly have an IQ higher than room temperature. Otherwise they'd be Republicans.

Well, a good bit of the hard thinking was going on with Little Bill - siphoned off some reserves, ya know.

 

[sr71plt]

Bur, but, he was a Democrat!

Everyone knows that Democrats can't possibly have an IQ higher than room temperature. Otherwise they'd be Republicans.

Not only that, everyone who can't read history knows that Democrats are the big spenders and Republicans are the savers.

 

[mellowgyrl]

One more year and the real fun begins.

I dont care for Bush, I dont like his brother Jeb. But no one has made a legitimate case that Dubya has wrecked the country. Unemployment remains low, mortgage rates are low, no one is starving. I think you confuse Dubya with Jimmy Carter.

In my opinion Dubya has done more for the liberal agenda than most Democrats. If Democrats werent pissed about the 2000 election they'd agree. He carries your water for you.

I wonder what homeless shelter you've visited. I know when I volunteered over the holidays the number of hungry were in abundance.....of course I'm no political analyst and I'm sure I'll catch all hell from you (based on your previous posts) for pointing this out.

Sorry, but I'll be damned if I give GW President of the Century Award!

 

[shereads]

Duvalier had no redeeming features

George Bush junior has one. He has survived and thus deprived Dick Cheney the presidency.

His survival has been irrelevent. Cheney was president from Day One.

 

[Katyusha]

One more year and the real fun begins.

I dont care for Bush, I dont like his brother Jeb. But no one has made a legitimate case that Dubya has wrecked the country. Unemployment remains low, mortgage rates are low, no one is starving. I think you confuse Dubya with Jimmy Carter.

The unemployment figures posted by our government are inaccurate because they don't take into account the number of people who've given up searching for work and are no longer eligible to draw unemployment. The job figures are inflated by high-turnover positions in places like the restaurant industry and Wally World. Unemployment is rising. Slowly, but it is rising. The stock market is unstable and has been for most of his presidency. Mortgage rates are not nearly as low now as they were in the very early 2000s...at the beginning of his presidency. We have a national debt that is out of control. Inflation is accelerating because the government is printing more money to pay for things that we can no longer borrow money for, but salaries will not to keep up, which means less and less consumer spending. And the dollar is continuing to weaken and is on the verge of spiraling down, and falling from its status as THE international currency, which will have a devastating effect on our economy.

Now, what were you saying about no legitimate case that Bush has wrecked our country?

 

[Katyusha]

You might want to shift the blame/credit for all Federal spending to the Congresscritters who pass the bills. Especially with all the Billions in addons at the end. The Prez just signs them.

Yes, but there is already a huge deficit when he sends his budget to Congress. Every budget thus far has projected deficits around $200-$300 billion. Congress just inflates those deficits.

 

[shereads]

I dont care for Bush, I dont like his brother Jeb. But no one has made a legitimate case that Dubya has wrecked the country.

You need to see rubble littering the streets, is that it? Or is it that you must personally be suffering some economic setback? No? How about having someone you love brought back in a body bag from Iraq, his death having accomplished less than nothing, and his obit consigned to the Local News section because he's only the latest of thousands?

You're right. Under the standards Bush and Cheney apply to their experiment in the middle east, nothing short of the collapse of Halliburton Industries can qualify a country as "wrecked."

Honest to God. The Bush years have me convinced that conservatives are all in denial so thick, you could use it to repair potholes. My brother in law still maintains that George W. Bush "will go down in history as a 'thinking man's president.'" The only possible explanation for that one is some kind of nerve gas.

 

[shereads]

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I dunno, Shereads. I don't see the resemblance. Bush has shorter sideburns, no mustache and he hasn't got that cute little dimple in the chin. The ears are kinda similar....

Cheney would look good in some of that gold braid.

 

[3113]

My brother in law still maintains that George W. Bush "will go down in history as a 'thinking man's president.'" The only possible explanation for that one is some kind of nerve gas.

So was it you or your sister who was adopted? I'm just sayin', she married the guy....

 

[DesertPirate]

Yes, but there is already a huge deficit when he sends his budget to Congress. Every budget thus far has projected deficits around $200-$300 billion. Congress just inflates those deficits.

I was not defending anyone. Every President is at fault for signing the crap, and every member of every Congress is at fault for passing it. This goes back at least to FDR with his "at the time" huge deficits.

Professional politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem!

If pro and con are opposits then the opposit of progress is congress .

 

[sr71plt]

IProfessional politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem!

Naw, exercised constituent self-interests are the culprits. Politicians would vote nobly if they didn't have to face another election (or get a job after leaving office).