290 million people....how did we end up with this dumb sonuvabitch?

[kentuck]

Think about it. Two hundred and ninety million people and the best person we can find is George W fucking Bush! How in the hell did that happen? That's some scary shit, ain't it?

[NNadir]

1. 290M mostly lazy people.

Easily distracted. Thoughtless. Easy to manipulate. Greedy. Dishonest.

If we want to know the source of our problems, the mirror would be a good place to start.

[pfitz59]

2. What he said!

Yep!

[kurth]

3. In the GOP world, scary shit floats to the top

Same thing happens in the corporate world.

[leftofthedial]

4. $$$$$$$$ trumped democracy

and religious insanity trumped reason

and political zealotry trumped patriotism

[derby378]

5. Repeat after me: Military-Industrial Complex

The same MIC that Gen. Smedley Butler and Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower tried to warn us about.

[Steve55]

6. Over reliance of southern governors as presidential candidates

Time for a Senator to win (2008).

[SPKrazy]

8. How About A General, Or A Former Vice President?

Senators don't necessarily have any executive experience (at least that is the argument)

Southern governors (Arkansas)have been willing to run and gotten the vote better than say, Vermont governors have.

Any opportunity to bash the south it seems Steve?

[SPKrazy]

7. Daddy's Name

and Daddy's money

otherwise, he'd be a fucking bum on the street corner

mad as a hatter he is

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. How can 33% of the American people still be so stupid??? n/t

[joemurphy]

10. Well, actually, the first time around he lost.

He was appointed President by a 5-4 vote of the Supreme Court voting along party lines.

The second time he may have lost as well. Ohio's irregularities have never been investigated properly. But he was running as a "war" president who was tough on terrorists. Kerry, however, was Swift-boated.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

11. Ah... yup.... sad how things played out for us... truly sad for the world

at large.... pity.

[fooj]

13. And that vote by the SCOTUS was UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

Peace.

[pretzel4gore]

12. Remember Johnny Carson?

Before Johnnny retired, towards the end of his career, this be in 1991 or so(?), they played a rerun from during the Iran hostage era, when Sadegh Ghotzeday(sp) was foreign minister in the revolutionary Iranian government. Well things had changed alot in Iran in the years since; religious extremists had seized control and the moderates like Bhaktiar etc were forced into exile. In the 1990 era Carson rerun, Johnny mocked Sadegh Ghotzbedae (he was the bearded hippie type official who spoke english etc) again and again. That show was long after Sadegh Ghotzebedae had been arrested, tried and executed by the extremist Iranian government (the ex prime minister was also assasinated in Paris about same time)....The US thinks it is the centre of the world, and to some extent it is, but that rerun of the Tonight Show typified the almost surreal cruelty of a country that makes jokes about a man who voluntarily tried to serve his people and the revolution, and failed because he was simply too decent and the politics too brutish! The USA really deserves geebush, or at least those people who chuckled at Johnny Carson that night in the early 90's, do....

[Southsideirish]

14. "Of all the gin joints in all of the world, he walks into mine...."

:grr: :grr:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. The :"plain folks" elected a "downright moron". Inevitable.

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” - H.L. Mencken

[valerief]

17. I think the glorification of Forrest Gump helped. n/t

[valerief]

16. Diebold and ESS and Sequoia and a hip pocket court system. n/t