Poll. George W. --resolute?

[Pure]

The Chicago Trib, today, endorsed Bush. They argued that whatever the other mistakes or failings, he's resolute (in the war on terror).

 

[cantdog]

He's trapped. His rhetoric for weeks has been to keep on keepin on. He's coupled this with accusations of irresolution aimed at one of his opponents. He couldn't change course now, even if it looked like a policy was a failed one.

Stuck is not the same as resolute.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Destitute (of new ideas) is more like it!

 

[Lauren Hynde]

"And as far as I'm concerned, [this administration's] best argument for election is, Yes, I drove us into a brick wall. But I didn't blink!" -Jon Stewart

He's resolute, all right, but whoever said that is always a good thing?

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Good thread...

I was just thinking how we didn't have enough political bullshit in the AH, and TA_DA, here's more of it...

 

[carsonshepherd]

he's resolute all right... in the stubborn, petulant way of someone who refuses to face facts. Here's what Kerry said about that:

"What's happening with the flu vaccine is really an example of everything this administration does - deny it, pretend it's not there, and then try to hide it when it comes out and act surprised," Kerry said.

 

[cantdog]

Good thread...

I was just thinking how we didn't have enough political bullshit in the AH, and TA_DA, here's more of it...

Poor baby.

Republicans do hear the footsteps coming up fast, don't they? Maybe if you all stop talking about it, it'll go away. It is sad to see your dreams of empire circling the fuckin drain.

You're making me grin. Maybe if you have a president and a secretary of defense who support torture and a secret police, you actually can't get re-elected in America. (Whether you got in with a judicial coup or normally by an election process.)

Just maybe, Americans have enough sense to be appalled about torturing pricks lining their pockets war profiteering, cheating to suppress the vote, detaining citizens indefinitely, body-searching everyone, peeping in our windows, reading our mail...

It's over, man. You guys are goin the fuck down. Get used to it.

 

[Belegon]

I wish I were as confidant as you Cant...I am still scared as hell the little fuck will get re-elected...

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Kerry or Bush, my eection day party will begin a wake before the fist vote is cast.

is he resolute? yes. In the same manner a child is resolute that his Daddy is the biggest, strongest smartest man in the world. resolution from an ignorance of other oprions is still a powerful resolution.

Personally, I think we have four more years of GWB coming.

-Colly

 

[impressive]

I wish I were as confidant as you Cant...I am still scared as hell the little fuck will get re-elected...

I'm scared, too ... but I adored Cant's rant. (yuk yuk ... Cant's rant)

 

[Guest]

Yeah, I loved this bit. Gave me a little hope (just a little . P.

It's over, man. You guys are goin the fuck down. Get used to it.

 

[Liar]

Poor baby.

[znip]

It's over, man. You guys are goin the fuck down. Get used to it.

Cant: Um... did he say he was a Bush-fan? At least not in this thread. What's the beef?

Quiet: Quityer bitchin and startup some non-politic threads then.

 

[Boota]

Kerry or Bush, my eection day party will begin a wake before the fist vote is cast.

is he resolute? yes. In the same manner a child is resolute that his Daddy is the biggest, strongest smartest man in the world. resolution from an ignorance of other oprions is still a powerful resolution.

Personally, I think we have four more years of GWB coming.

-Colly

Even if Bush gets re-elected, I don't think we'll have four more years. I think he'll be assassinated.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Even if Bush gets re-elected, I don't think we'll have four more years. I think he'll be assassinated.

I doubt that seriously. Do you really want Dick Cheeny making the decisions?

 

[Huckleman2000]

Even if Bush gets re-elected, I don't think we'll have four more years. I think he'll be assassinated.

Hmmm... The question is, by an American or someone else?

Resolute, I think, has a connotation of holding to the right position in the face of adversity. Bush is just pig-headed.

 

[Belegon]

I feel the need to correct my earlier post. After all, the bastard was never really elected in the first place, so how can we re-elect him?

Still scared...

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... After all, the bastard was never really elected in the first place, so how can we re-elect him? ...

http://irregularoo.com/redefeat.gif

 

[Belegon]

fave new shirt from T-Shirt Hell...picture of W giving a peace sign with the inscription...

"I'll bet you vote this time hippie!"

 

[shereads]

He's resolute, I'll give him that. I know a golden retriever who's resolute regarding a thrown tennis ball. If you accidentally sent her ball over the edge of the Grand Canyon, you'd be hard pressed to restrain this dog from going in after it. I'm not sure that makes her a smart dog, but I think it would make her an excellent president. Don't you?

 

[shereads]

I feel the need to correct my earlier post. After all, the bastard was never really elected in the first place, so how can we re-elect him?

Still scared...

It is scary, isn't it? It's scary and so deeply sad. This, the least qualified person ever to hold the office; a man who has screwed up everything he's attempted in his adult life; this man who spends lives like other people write checks; this narrow little man will get a second term as leader of the most powerful country in the world. Because he's resolute.

I know it's coming. It won't even be close.

But this year has taught me that I live in a nation of sheep, and that's an even scarier realization than the one that GWB is about to be re-elected in a landslide.

Here's as good a reason as any for the upcoming Bush/Cheney victory, from a Washington Post article about undecided voters who finally settled on Bush after his resounding series of embarrassments in the three debates:

"He may not be the most intelligent person, but the same could be said about me."

 

[hunting_tiger]

It is only a rumour

He isn't resolute from what I have heard.

Two years ago someone said to him that he should ask us to send a force to the Middle East to help the peace process.

GWB said ... They have no army.

One of the other guys said .. They do have an army and as a matter of fact Switzerland also have an army even if is small.

GWB said .. They DON'T have an army !!

And that ended the discussion that day.

Two weeks later GWB met the other guy and said .. Sorry you are right they have an army.

So .. He can change his mind.

And in case you wonder .. It is the other guys that makes the Cuckoo Clocks. We make Volvos.

 

[Pure]

I personally don't think he's resolute, as in opposing setting up the 9-11 commission, and in refusing to testify.

I think Cheney and Rummy [and minions] are resolute. Maybe Condy.

Resolution implies character. "Character", in my book, must appear before 40, and there's no evidence of it in this case. GWB stopped drinking and got born again in 1985, at age 39, but accomplished little, and didn't become governor, under Rove's tutelege, till 1990 (age 44).

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PS. Boota, I'm not sure where you are, but you'd better hope Bush isn't assassinated. That would insure the advent of fascism at least four years earlier-- would work something like the failed attempt to blow up Hitler, at his meeting with aides. Are you in a country that's supplying the armies of the Lord, or 'hosting' them?

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... from a Washington Post article about undecided voters who finally settled on Bush after his resounding series of embarrassments in the three debates: "He may not be the most intelligent person, but the same could be said about me."

I saw one of those post-Debate uncommitted voters’ decision thingies, too. (3rd Debate - ABC, I believe.)

80 percent thought that Kerry had given better and clearer answers.

60 percent thought that Bush was either mistaken, or lying, at some point.

70 percent thought Kerry had definitely won the debate.

19 of the 20 uncommitted voters had made a decision, and 17 of that 19 had decided to vote for Bush.

The reason given (collectively) was because: Kerry may have given better answers and had better ideas, but they thought Bush really believed that he was right. *

I decided that if they truly were uncommitted voters somebody had better commit them immediately.


* What is this, a dress rehearsal for Peter Pan? I do believe in fairies! I do! I do! I DO!

 

[amicus]

"Eeeny Meeny Miny Mo...catch a Liberal by the toe..."


The shrill whining by the Left can be heard round the world and nary a shot was fired.

Clear for all to see is the usually hidden message of the left; that contempt for the concept of Democracy...the right of the average person to vote.

It is not surprising the the Democrats National Committee and the Kerry Campaign Headquarters did not publicize an agenda or a Platform for Democrats and Liberals to rally round.

The Left paints a rosy picture of European and Canadian Social Democracies...and wishes the ugly american independent cusses would just accept the rising tide of collectivist governments around the world as an inevitable fate.

But those cantankerous Americans, that usually silent 'quiet majority' the unwashed masses of 'illiterate entrepeneurs' are somewhat possessive of their freedoms and their rights.

They don't like paying taxes beyond a level they consider fair; they don't like being told what to do and when to do it and they sure as hell don't like the billionaire Kerry family, the Massachessetts elite Liberal left, dictating domestic or foreign policy.

The Democrats offered no platform...no planks...no passion...only an opposition to the incumbent President and his administration.

At best the Kerry campaign. if it could be nailed down, would be of, "we can do it better!" A 'me too' position on the War in Iraq, on Homeland Security, on border protection.

On the economy, as always, the Left wants to tax it more and control it more...as always...they wish to 'manage, restrict and regulate this nation of cantankerous independent Americans.

In your dreams, Fleischman...said Janine Turner on Northern Exposure to poor ole Joel....

In your dreams...Liberals...get a job!

amicus

 

[Belegon]

The quote I heard that I just so thought was loverly...

"because when he says he loves his wife and family it sounds like he means it..."

I love my wife and kids too. That does not mean I should run the most powerful nation ever in the history of the fucking planet!