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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:36 PM
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Bush: The Incompetent President
We've heard the endless media stories about the Republican party being the "Daddy" party; the party that we can supposedly turn to in times of a crisis, the party of competence, the party that can execute.

The Presidency of George Bush belies all those media myths. His has proven to be just the opposite: a presidency plagued by incompetence, tragic blunders and large scale deceit.

Bush's reaction to 9/11 was one of macho posturing and blustering. Four years later, the man who ran the criminal network that flew the planes into our buildings is alive and well and his Al Queda network is thriving.

Bush's handling of the Iraq war has been, by almost all accounts, an abysmal failure. He attacked a sovereign nation that had not attacked us: an unprovoked act of aggression followed by a war so poorly planned and so mindlessly executed, that it seems that we may now be setting the country up for many years of either militant theocracy or civil war.

Bush and Co's handling of Katrina: a disastrous response to the greatest natural disaster in our country's history. The full story of the tragedy will inevitably be told over the next few months and years. But the "compassionate" President is the one who slashed FEMA, folded it into another inept government agency, defunded it and then ignored constant pleas from local New Orleans government officials to do something to buttress and repair the vulnerable levees.

Bush is the man who won election by telling Americans that he would bring responsibility back to the White House. He crowed when he entered Washington that the "adults" were back in charge. He calculatedly created the media image of a decisive, can do leader.

But reality has caught up with fiction. His is a thoroughly failed presidency. He has been confronted with enormous challenges and has failed to execute, each time. When employees perform this way, we fire them.

History will remember how this man failed his nation, not necessarily through flawed ideology nor machiavellian intrigue: but rather because the Daddy party under George W Bush turned out to be the Amateur Son Party. He has crafted a government that cannot respond adequately to the major crises of our times. He has blundered, again and again, at times when his country need him most.

George W Bush. The Incompetent President.
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bullimiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:45 PM
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1. If the GOP is the 'daddy' party. Daddy is a greedy, drunk, arrogant...
ASSHOLE.
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ochazuke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 08:05 PM
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3. And since the Democrats are the Mommy party...
you can ad 'wife-beating'.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:52 PM
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2. He was also incompetent on 9/11 but the media covered up for him...
and said shit like he had "grown into the job" bullshit. That Big Lie helped put us into this predicament we are in today. He has been incompetent since the first day he stepped into the White House with those little cowboy boots and that big ten-gallon hat falling over his ears and eyes...
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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 10:04 PM
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7. Yep
The media bears great responsibility for this, because his incompetence showed from the very early days, but they wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. They are only NOW, five years into this disaster of a presidency, finally growing a journalistic spine.
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 08:58 PM
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4. If the GOP is the "Daddy Party", then it's fime they were brought up
on charges of Domestic Abuse.


'Cause America has been well and truly fucked, battered, and damaged by them.
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MojoXN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:03 PM
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5. My sympathies are with your people mcscajun...
Because they're MY people too. We'll get through this, we true Americans. One day, we'll be rid of this nightmare and be able to restore New Orleans and the rest of the South to its dignified grace and beauty. Mark my wods, my friend, things can only get better from here.

MojoXN
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Matariki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:51 PM
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6. yeah, back child support payments as well LOL
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