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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:21 PM
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When will Bush be referred to as an "Unpopular President"?
I remember how they(the media) shoved it down our throats when Bush had anything above 52% that he was a "popular president" and that he had such a connection with the American people, blah blah blah. Now his ratings are in the toilet with even Rasmussen giving him only 43% and most showing him 37-39%. For the love of God, call him what he is. He is despised by a majority of the American public and all of his policies are rated as failures by majorities of the public.
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:23 PM
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1. maybe the dems should start using this phrase, give it some legs nt
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:25 PM
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2. It just so happens to be true.
By any definition, Bush is politically unpopular now. Sure, he isn't Bob Taft unpopular, but he is almost Jimmy Carter in 1980 unpopular.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:26 PM
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3. That's right. That's all it takes is to spread the word.
blah blah, and President * is an unpopular president; therefore, blah blah.
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YDogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:26 PM
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4. Works for me.
I'll make a point of mentioning it several times tomorrow.
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:30 PM
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10. We can catapult with the best of them.
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:38 PM
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20. Nice graphic to go with the text, there n/t
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ArbustoBuster Donating Member (956 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:26 PM
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5. I would prefer...
...that they call him "that felonious, lying, cowardly, AWOL drunk."

And I'd like a pony and my own Space Shuttle, while I'm dreaming of the impossible. :)
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:28 PM
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6. Problem is that is too many syllables for the average American to handle.
They would lose you at "felon..", though that might be a good thing. However, by the point you got to "drunk" they might be offended because so many of them are no good drunks.
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ArbustoBuster Donating Member (956 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:37 PM
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19. I'm willing to settle for "scumsucking weasel"
...if that's shorter. :)
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:30 PM
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8. Duh. You think? It amazes me how lame the Dems are.
:rant:
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madame defarge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:29 PM
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7. A Failed Presidency...
I read this at www.democracycellproject.net and it made a lot of sense to me...

Keep it simple say the message gurus.

OK. What are we looking at in Washington DC?

ANSWER: "A FAILED PRESIDENCY"

From this moment forward, don't talk about anything having to do with current events, politics, gasoline, hurricanes, the war in Iraq, the ever-swelling federal deficit, the ever-lengthening list of members of Congress sweating in their offices waiting for the subpoenas to arrive, the flunkies scattered through every branch of the government who saw what happened when the spotlight settled on the equally unqualified Michael Brown, day in, day out, on every blog you visit, in every email you send, repeat, repeat, repeat: "A FAILED PRESIDENT."

Three little words, one simple frame that covers all of the sins: the sins of omission, all the things that George Bush didn't do, like listen to the brave generals who told him we would need a much larger force to occupy Iraq, like pay even the slightest attention to the destitute and the dying in New Orleans while he flew off to a fundraiser, like acting on his promise to fire anyone who was shown to be involved in the Plame scandal....and the sins he did do, like nominating a completely unqualified person to the nation's highest court, a crony who will undoubtedly refuse to recuse herself from sitting in judgement as this administration's brightest and best troup from courtroom to courtroom, desperately seeking to stay out of jail, like lying over and over and over to the nation about an alleged connection between Hussein and the suicide plane bombers of 9/11, and of lying about Iraq's nuclear program, and all the other lies, and stealing the American people blind in what is probably the largest involuntary transfer of wealth in the history of the world...

I could go on, but what is the point. It's all there in those 3 little words: a failed presidency.

P.S. Tone control: somber is in, gleeful is out. Stay out of the vengeance business, however tempting it may seem. Deuteronomy 32:35 KJV: "To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste." No one wants any president to fail, when that failure means the infliction of so much unnecessary pain, suffering, and death.

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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:30 PM
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9. He was unpopular when he sold his stock in Harken, unpopular
when public money paid for the stadium in Texas, unpopular when he "debated" Gore, and unpopular with me since the day I saw him.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:31 PM
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11. First, wouldn't he actually have had to been elected President?
When was the rat bastard actually elected? Second, he has always been unpopular with me, in any capacity! Smarmy little worm, that he is!
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:34 PM
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14. He's been unpopular enough with me for the rest of the country.
I really hate the bastard. Now I don't have to hate as much as I used to since more people hate the slimy fucker too.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:53 PM
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23. I really hate him too!
And I am not prone to hate in general, but he really brings hatred out in me! I have hated him since he decided to run as Gov of my state and slandered Ann Richards! He is a slimy bastard!
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:32 PM
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12. The whores have signed a pact with the devil.
They wouldn't call him "unpopular" even if he was run out of town by an angry mob. I'd love to see them try and spin the 2% approval among blacks into a good thing. That would require major, major contortions.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:33 PM
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13. "2% of blacks? Hey it's something!"
"Proves that he can communicate with parts of the black community!"
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Richard D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:34 PM
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15. Shortly before . . .
. . . he's referred to as "THE WORST FUCKING PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY!"

Well, we can dream, no?
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:35 PM
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16. He is reaching for bottom five territory right now.
I mean he is getting down there with Pierce, Buchanan, Harding, Nixon(in my mind anyway), etc...
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samdogmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:36 PM
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17. Come on! He's the WORST! President EVER!
No contest. No question.

That's how we should refer to him: WORST PRESIDENT EVER!
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:39 PM
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21. Buchanan, Pierce, Harding, Taylor and that crowd are pretty bad.
He's going for it though. Another three years and we could be there.
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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:36 PM
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18. I call him the "failed President" or
a National Embarrassment.
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TomClash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:45 PM
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22. NOW!
eom
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slor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 08:22 PM
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24. They will call him that when...
it is down to only his vicious mama supporting him.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 08:34 PM
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25. She is a nasty one. eom
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Nimrod2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 08:36 PM
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26. They will come around, patience.
We are going to win this, we just need to keep working the rest of THEM.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 09:47 PM
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27. I hope they eventually come around.
However, I think regardless of whether the media come around or not the Democrats are going to win big next year. People have finally had enough of Republican government.
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