State your opinion on ** in one sentence

[many a good man]

How do you deal with acquaintances that you've known only superficially but for a long time when the convesation first turns to politics? How do you briefly state your opinion on our current president? My feelings run so deep that I find it very difficult to adequately summarize my point of view. Can you help me?

[Deja Q]

1. One word does it for me:

Impossible.

[neebob]

2. He belongs in prison.

That sums it up for me.

[NMDemDist2]

3. the Man is in a fantasy land of his own making and is ignoring the

frightening reality all around him.

[Vincardog]

4. aWoL FRAUD

[Botany]

5. * is a born lucky tool of powerful forces that don't give a damn ....

about anything except for money and power who at the same time
manipulates deeply held religious believes to maintain a sham cover
that he was legally elected.

[youthere]

6. Easy...

PPPLLLBBBBTTT!

[jjtss]

7. One sentence....

He's a dangerous sociopath with an inclination and capability for nuclear war. (a sociopath has no conscience or sense of responsibility for his actions)

[Ron Green]

8. One sentence:

Here is a man who, by any standard of judgment, is the least qualified to be President in our country's history, and has yet been given the license by powerful interests to do more domestic and international harm than anyone in the modern history of the world.

[wildmanj]

9. opinions

opinions are like a@@holes---all seem to have one :hippie:

[NAO]

10. Only possible with a Kerry-style sentence...

That man can pack a lot into one sentence.

I'm sure that did not help him with the American electorate, who seem to prefer simplistic, absolutist dogmas to nuanced, elaborated, and carefully constructed utterances.

[legalcoffee]

11. *disclaimer: objects in rear view mirror are closer than they may appear..

Before I went to the poles I had to consider the real issues and where both K and G stood, needless to say I was very concerned for our country after the inaguration. (this is where you give a polite nod and a sympathetic look and walk away)

[newyawker99]

17. Hi legalcoffee!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Undercover Owl]

25. breathe deep.

Try to remain calm.

BTW, welcome, legalcoffee!

[MeDeMax]

12. we reap what we sow n/t.

:kick: ass !

[BeHereNow]

13. Sociopath.

And in the words of Helen Thomas,
"The WORST pResident EVER."
BHN

[HomerRamone]

14. To quote Chevy Chase:

He's a dumb f**k.

[bobweaver]

15. Never talk poltics with them... if they bring it up, change the subject

[karlrschneider]

16. This is a very far distance from one sentence, but I thought it appropriat

appropriate. I sent this letter to W. a couple of years ago, and it is largely comprised of a message written by my old friend Dave Hamilton on the FIDO network, probably around 1995, to an insane 'creationist, Laurie Appleton. With his kind permission, I rewrote it very slightly to make it applicable to the Chimp, and it still seems relevant. Here it is:
------------------------------

Once, I asked my friend if she believed in the existence of Satan. She
said not in a literal sense, but that the concept embodies social chaos
and destruction - lies, deceit, harm. I was reminded of a conversation I
had 25 years ago with a close friend, a professor of developmental
psychology, after I had finished a clinical practicum working with
inmates in a federal penitentiary. He asked me if I thought anyone was
truly evil, and in my callow and idealistic youth I said no; that
everyone has some redeeming positive quality.

Over the last few months, I've considered the promises, rhetoric and
actions that have emanated from your 'administration', and it gave me
thought to review that old question. I got out the notes I have been
keeping on you for some years and went over them, which led me to
question my friend.

I decline to proffer a diagnosis of your mental state. That would be
unethical. Without slander or libel I am free to call you a liar and a
cheat. The evidence exists at literally thousands of locations around
the world and is available with little effort.

Most people are acquainted with pain. You enjoy it vicariously in myself
and others. Undoubtedly there are some who simply pity you. I do not. I
despise you. I find no worth in you as a human being whatsoever, and
whatever qualities are lumped together to construct the mythical figure
of Satan are all found in yourself.

I will continue to expose you because as Edmond Burke said, "Evil
triumphs when good men say nothing." So I shall continue from a sense of
duty to humankind, just as years ago I separated the body parts of
small, dead children from wrecked autos after some drunk had whimsically
declared himself capable of driving. Please do not think for one second
that I am exposing you for any other reason. Not one word or action I
have ever seen from you contains a grain of truth or honesty.

I shall fulfill my promise to have my children and friends read history
textbooks because I want them to find out now that there are people like
yourself that would strip them of their intellect and innocent desire to
learn truth, and then rape them with the perverted seed of fascism,
disguised as "compassionate conservatism."

I want them to know that beyond the humour in your self-ridicule there
is a depth of evil that is unsurpassed in the most hardened criminal.

I care not whether you seek mental help. You are there; I am here. As
long as you continue to spew crass and arrogant lies in public (who
knows what craven notions you espouse in private) and decimate the soul
of America I will be there to show the dishonesty that oozes from every
pore of your wretched body.

You have fooled, cajoled, or intimidated a fair portion of the
electorate. But your scam is coming unraveled...every day, thousands
of Americans are willing to admit they have been victimized by a superb
con job and we are not going to take it any more. What you have done to
the country, the Presidency, the Constitution and the world is obscene
and disgusting.

Not all of us are willing fools, Mr. Bush.

[vixengrl]

18. He's a pander who has put the concepts of "liberty" and "morality"

into service as prostitutes for his own selfish goals.

[depakid]

19. Pathological liar

Bush and his administration lie so often that it's second nature.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/5/23/201822/996

[ccinamon]

20. A soulless, worthless, evil tyrant masqarading as a human beeing. n/t

[ComerPerro]

21. The man is a complete fraud, and everything about him is a lie

[Lisa]

22. one word -- disappointment

-- that a person who was given so much (health, education, family name) has done so much ill with it

-- that many Americans (even more this time!) voted for him because they trusted him, and he's let them down

-- that he and his cronies would have to resort to fearmongering and deception to enrich themselves, when they really didn't need "more" in any case

-- that he's destroyed the country's reputation, painstakingly built up by generations of Americans

-- that he's scorned the trust and friendship of many nations around the world, just because he can't stand admitting he's made mistakes

Don't get me started!

[More Than A Feeling]

23. He is the worst president ever, and his administration

skates on the borderline of the constitutional definition of treason.

[Just Me]

24. He advances corporate values, not American values. eom

[idiosyncratic]

26. He doesn't speak in complete sentences . . .

He is not deserving of one of mine.

[troubleinwinter]

27. Sociopath

[sundancekid]

28. having been in your spot myself, I start out by saying: we will probably

disagree sharply on this one, but I still value our relationship. Then,I slap down the following sentence: Bush is a tyrannical and fanatical dictator with messianic illusions who masquerades as a freedom-lover, but who instead sows poisonous seeds of disdain, disrespect and discord on the very ground of our domestic and international liberties while claiming the fruits of liberation.

[Mz Pip]

29. Bush

is an intellectually lazy, narrow minded individual with no grasp of the complexities of geopolitics or the needs or ordinary citizens.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[0rganism]

30. First, decide where your best interests are -- tact is essential

If that "superficial acquaintance" happens to be your boss's boss, you might want to tone it down at first no matter what s/he says to bring up the topic. Likewise, if you want to have any hope of swinging a moderate peer's opinion, you can't put yourself on the fringe from the beginning. You can probably get across whatever ideas you need to convey, but your choice of words and emotive expression should be varied accordingly.

"Bush is an imperfect human who's made some decisions with which I strongly disagree" is a much safer starting point than "Bush is a mind-controlled tool of the fascist resource extraction industry who's robbed pension funds to pay off his corporate backers and carelessly deployed the military to advance an irresponsible imperialist agenda which putts the entirety of human civilization at risk."

Common sense, people, common sense.