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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (672957)	2/21/2005 6:11:41 PM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

OK, if that made you chuckle this ought to have you rolling on the floor. _______________________ This first post isn't by you but your reply to it is very revealing I think. It follows Scott's post. _________________________ To: Kenneth Kirk who wrote (97) 6/16/1999 11:12:00 PM From: Scott Wheeler Read Replies (2) of 672957 A liberal's view of BUSH LITE: 1) It isn't that he's wishy-washy - in fact his "positions" don't appear to spring from convictions at all - because I don't think he has much substance in that department. GWB with fire in the belly? Hah! Not! 2) Why does he want to be president? I have yet to hear one plausible word from him. It makes me chuckle to watch you whigs contort yourselves into "explanations" of his inability to say what he stands for. Hello! He is not running to pursue an agenda. He wants to be President because he wants to be President, finis! 3) Is this Texas' answer to J. Danforth Quale's microcephaly? Maybe Gore is no genius, but come, on, guys, can you really see Georgie Bushlite fisticuffing it successfully behind a debater's lectern? I bet the thought makes you guys bloody nervous! 4) He has little government experience and virtually no legislative background. And he's not a lawyer, so he can't even fall back on knowledge of law or the Constitution. By the way, what IS his educational background? Yeah, Yale - but what did he DO there? BTW, Hillary went there, too, but actually did something during law school. I'll bet GW gets hammered less by the press during his run than she does during hers and yet still fares worse than she does. 5) Has he ever had a single thought cross his frontal lobes about foreign policy? Say, tell me, in the 60's and '70s while a lot of us were engaged with political activism (right or left) was THAT the period he was getting polluted every night and running around? (Can you say "the right's insistence on personal moral rectitude will come back to haunt them in the 2000 election"?)... 6) Don't forget - his father was so beloved by voters that they threw him out of office. Do you really want to attempt to resuscitate this dynastic corpse? 7) I'll admit that the conservative field leaves much to be desired, with the possible exception of John McCain (hey, why not host a battle of the two Vietnam Vets!), but in spite of that you guys can certainly still do a lot better than GW, IMHO... 8) That he has beaucoups bucks more than his brothers (and that laughable sister) in the party seems a shabbily insufficient reason to run him as your best hope to lead the country. No, I think you guys better rethink this sloppy option - it's not going to work out for you, of this I am fairly certain. Regards, SW -------------------------- To: Scott Wheeler who wrote (102) 6/17/1999 5:29:00 PM From: GROUND ZERO View Replies (1) \| Respond to of 556057 Excellent post!!! All GW has is a name, and that's not even his..... Let him run... he'll lose..... GZ siliconinvestor.com --------________________- The thing is ZERO, you're just someone who jumped on the bandwagon after junior/Rove got rolling. You said yourself all he has is a name. Another thing is you continually accuse people here of things which you are much more guilty of than they are. That's why I made these posts. You are one of the worst kind of hypocrites there are.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (672957)	2/21/2005 6:17:34 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

TO ALL: I occassionally get emails from overseas, sometimes I post them here if I think you all would be interested. If you believe the Michael Moores of the USA you would think Europeans hate us. Here is an editorial sent me from a Romanian newspaper (in english) that might make you proud to be an American, at least gives you a different slant. jdn Subject: FW: Fw: A Wonderful Editorial--Please Read Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 09:50:22 -0500 We rarely get a chance to see another country's editorial about theUSA. Read this excerpt from a Romanian Newspaper. The article was written by Mr. Cornel Nistorescu and published under the title "C"ntarea Americii, meaning "Ode To America") in the Romanian newspaper Evenimentulzilei "The Daily Event" or "News of the Day". ~An Ode toAmerica~ Why are Americans so united? They would not resemble one another even if you painted them all one color! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations and religious beliefs. Still, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the army, and the secret services that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed out onto the streets nearby to gape about. The Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand. After the first moments of panic, they raised their flag over the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a government official or the president was passing. On every occasion, they started singing their traditional song: "God BlessAmerica!" I watched the live broadcast and rerun after rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who gave his life fighting with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that could have killed other hundreds or thousands of people. How on earth were they able to respond united as one human being? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put in a collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit, which no money can buy. What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way? Their land? Their galloping history? Their economic Power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases with the risk of sounding commonplace. I thought things over, but I reached only one conclusion...Only freedom can work such miracles.