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kerrygoddess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 01:50 PM
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You’re Not Qualified to Govern this Country
You’re Not Qualified to Govern this Country if You Don’t Understand the Uses of TV
September 27th, 2005

America was stunned to find out that Bush and many members of his administration had not tuned in to TV coverage of Katrina. How or why, in the midst of an epic proportion catastrophe in our country, our leaders were tuned out instead of tuned in, poses a huge question as to their responsibility in responding to Hurricane Katrina, let alone being informed of day to day life in America and the failings of this administration to acknowledge the hopeless despair felt by so many in the aftermath of Katrina.

Newsweek columnist Anna Quindlen suggests, “You’re not qualified to govern this country at this moment in time if you don’t understand the uses of TV. In fact, those in public life should be required to watch it.”

MORE & LINKS - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=699
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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 01:58 PM
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1. That is the truth! That says it all! n/t
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 02:04 PM
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2. And the really amazing thing is
that all he had to do was PRETEND TO CARE early on. Forego the cake and guitar. Look concerned.

They aren't as good at this stuff as we all thought they were. This is their soft underbelly.
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drluch Donating Member (42 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 02:13 PM
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3. I like how Bush is falling all over himself to show
how much on top of the Rita crisis he is, flying all over the place while telling us to conserve energy. Does he still not watch tv or read the papers like he used to, and instead listen to his "closest aides"?

But the big question: Did Condi let him go to the john at the UN?
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GayCanuck Donating Member (170 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 02:25 PM
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4. I don't know
maybe he watched too much TV as a kid.
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 02:30 PM
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5. Every TV show and movie about the White House
shows countless TV screens tuned all day long to various news outlets.

* couldn't be bothered to get off his butt and WALK over to one?

Sheesh.
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maxsolomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 02:44 PM
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6. thank the FSM i'm not in public life
bob dylan films on PBS excepted.
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 03:51 PM
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7. Can anyone imagine a black man
Edited on Tue Sep-27-05 03:57 PM by Karenina
"appointed and annointed" the "Leader of the Free World," unable to string 5 words together in a comprehensible sentence, appointing unqualified, incompetent cronies who themselves are unable to keep constituents "out of harm's way" doing PHONY PHOTO-OPS ad nauseum after OBVIOUSLY being aroused from a drunken, drugged stupor...

How long since would the White House have been surrounded by outraged citizens with torches, pitchforks and a LYNCH MOB??? I ask you.

America is one VERY SICK nation and a menace to the survival of homo sapiens on the planet.
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