Bush supportors should tag this as their mottoe for the re-election campaign

[skibunnyme]

Calvin When I grow up, I'm not going to read the newspaper and I'm not going to follow complex issues and I'm not going to vote. That way I can complain when the government doesn't represent me. Then, when everything goes down the tubes, I can say the system doesn't work and justify my further lack of participation

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[kimpire]

Bush isn't "blaming things rather than fixing them". He's fixing them in a way you don't like, or think will work.

Hey

[skibunnyme]

Listen, I don't hate Republicans, and I don't love Democrats. Both parties, as far as I am concerned, are sending this country straight to hell with their quibbling, ridiculous rhetoric, and asinine agendas. However, I also know that this is politics, and this is the way politics work. I'm not fan of Bush, in fact, I despise the man, and nothing is going to change my opinion of him. I think he's spectacularly incompetent, ignorant, deceptive, manipulative, and lets just saw not the brightest bulb in the White House. I know we've had presidents like him in the past, and that the Democrats aren't stellar example of virtue or intellect either, but I think Bush gets the gold star as the most incompetent President we've ever had. Not only is he stupid, but he thinks he's smart, and that makes him very dangerous

Re: Hey

[kimpire]

You should read the political discussions I end up having on my LiveJournal (most of my posts are friends-only but I can add you if you want to see them). They go into twenty, thirty comments -- none of them proselytizing, all completely logical arguments in which I debate with friends of mine the merits of Iraq, the economy, the religious/secular debate, etc. Most of them start with some absurd jab I post against the Democrats and then people protest and I defend the jab

Re: Hey

[lumberjackvt]

I don't know about anyone else, but honesty is as important, if not more important than competency in my book. I don't give a damn about the President's intelligence if he's lying through his teeth about why he's sending my comrades into war. (Yes I am in the military, no, I do not consider myself conservative by any means) There is clear, categorical evidence that Bush has purposely lied in order to deceive the public. I guess we have to ask ourselves if integrity really counts for anything anymore.

Re: Hey

[kimpire]

I'd like to see this evidence. So far as I'm aware, everything that's been reported to us by the president was verified by intelligence that may or may not have been correct -- but was certainly not fabricated. The whole Niger incident, for example, is still supported by the British government as being entirely true, even though the American govt has, due to negative media coverage, withdrawn their support of that intelligence. And we got it from the British in the first place.

If you can tell me where and when Bush lied, I'd appreciate it.