[Awgie]

My good buddy Bob is an obsessive Bush hater. I get 2-3 of these emails per week. I can't keep up with it. Maybe some of you would like a shot

[Democracy In Iraq]

Two words: E-Mail Filter.

[rlmorel]

Yep. Bob has a problem. Why do you feel obliged to keep up with it?

People with OBHS (Obsessive Bush Hating Syndrome) will never be satisfied with any answer you give, no matter how truthful or well researched. You are completely wasting your time.

I suggest you write a rule for your email filter.

[GSlob]

I'd suggest he ought to start drinking cologne "White Lilac". Per classic "Moscow-Petushki", drinking this particular brand of cologne reconciles the drinker to life's imperfections. Hopefully it will mitigate his obsession as well.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

There is no point arguing with those fools - they will only believe what they want to believe.

[hflynn]

Thanks for sharing your e-mail with us. NNNNNOOOOOOTTTTTTT!!!!

[Mike Darancette]

Bush hating buddy needs a cranial enema.

[RightWhale]

We were wondering what Baghdad Bob was doing these days.

[L98Fiero]

I would say: All this crap and you liberals want to make governemnt BIGGER! What are you all? Retarded?

[Thom Pain]

Tell him to impeach & remove President Bush from office. (Don't point out to him that it would make Mr. Cheney President; he (your friend) might stroke out!)

[robowombat]

This reminds me of a Frosty Woolridge original. He wanders about firing off broadsides in the best loose cannon style so that merely parsing what he is saying/implying takes a long time. My recommendation is tell you friend to incorporate some critical rigor in his analysis or you will continue to freely use the Delete Key.

[Publius6961]

I would start by asking how the same tasks were handled after damage by hurricanes between 1993 and 2000...

Surely, there was at least one intense hurricane during that time...

[ziggygrey]

This is the time that the administration needs to get its act together. Bush's approval rating was 80%+ when people saw a take-charge leader... recently, things have appeared adrift, but somehow the administration doesn't seem to think that the American people need to see what they saw in 2002!

100% employment in Iraq would douse the insurgency overnight. We need to hand the country over to them, let THEM do the reconstruction (afterall, they did it after 1991) as well as the fighting, and start dealing with the real threats out there - Iran and Syria.

If Bush rallied the country in an offensive against Iran, watch his poll numbers shoot up overnight - and people like your friend will look like whiney liberals..

On Katrina, the admin was a little late getting on top of that disaster. It was good to fire Michael Brown (but it should have happened a little sooner). Bush visited a week ago, and that was a start... people want to see their president at the disaster scenes, taking charge..

[I see my hands]

"Awgie: My good buddy Bob is an obsessive Bush hater."

[Richard Axtell]

Halleburton, Schmalleburton. This is all just standard leftist-socialist boilerplate. Halleburton is actually trying to unload its Iraqi contract, as it is unprofitable. So much for the billions and billions. Besides being uniformly uninformed, these "critics" are simply wrong in their assumptions as to the facts. Halleburton is NOT an oil company, contrary to what most of these pedestrian howlers think. It is a construction company. And very, very few other world construction companies are capable of doing what they do. Bechtel, Brown and Root, perhaps, one French company, and ironically, Ozama Bin Laden's father's construction company! Maybe they would feel better if OBL had the contract, hmmmmmm?

[dead]

There is not a single "fact" presented in this screed that is sourced.

The time it takes to make up a bunch of alleged facts and type them up. Ten minutes.

Here, watch me:

H.R. 252 secures $11.7 billion dollars for tomato farmers over 11 southern US states. The main sponsor for the concurrent bill in the Senate is John Kerry. For each taxpayer dollar spent, the cost per pound of tomatoes for the Heinz corporation is lowered by 12 cents. Overall this increases the profit margin of Heinz by just under $1.2 billion annually, benefitting the principle shareholder of Heinz, Teresa Kerry, to the tune of $400 million. In addition, the Heinz Foundation, and related charities, funnel $780 million to leftist organizations such as The Tides Foundation. Three of the principle board members of The Tides Foundation are in the employ of the Southwestern Tomato Growers Association and decide how the federal farm aid is distributed amongst their members. These three individuals contributed a total of $12.1 million to Democratic PACS over the course of the last decade...

[TankerKC]

Tell your buddy this: All of these example of the federal government wasting money argue for reduction of the federal government.

[Ichneumon]

I get 2-3 of these emails per week. I can't keep up with it. Maybe some of you would like a shot

Turn it around on him -- make him document and support each claim and implication, with citations to primary sources. And note that Michael Moore, Air America, some random email he received from liberal moonbats, or CNN/ABC/NYT/etc. are *not* "primary sources".

In the attempt, he'll learn a lot about the unreliability of his *current* sources (due to spin, incompetence, and dishonesty), and at the very least, it'll keep him out of your hair for a while.

If you really want to drive him nuts, play it not like you're challenging him or attempting to dispute his claims, make him think you're genuinely interested in learning more and/or telling others about these "revelations", but you need more documentation before you can go forward with them.

If he manages to document some of the small details (e.g. no-bid contracts), send him back out to research whether that's an unusual arrangement in cases such as that, etc. You can keep him busy forever this way. Remember that on any item or claim, the important questions (borrowed from the excellent book, "How To Lie With Statistics") are:

1. Who says so?
2. How does he know?
3. What's missing?
4. Did somebody change the subject?
5. Does it make sense?

Hold Bob's feet to the fire until he answers those questions for *each* of his many assertions and implications.

In short, don't just reply with a length, "is not!" Walk him through how to be a critical thinker on his own material.

[Wristpin]

Print out out, fold it into a paper airplane and throw it into the trash like the Dems do with military ballots.

[cowboyway]

What this country has seen over the last two terms of GWB is the opportunity of companies aligned with GWB to make billions when a tragedy occurs ...off of taxpayers money.

Hey Bob! The left wing and the democrats are primarily responsible for this situation starting with Roosevelt's New Deal where the 'central government' was assuming responsibilities that were formally handled on a local and state level, continuing thru Johnson's Great Society and into Carter's National Malaise.

Centralized government, Bob. Public schools, entitlement programs, medicare, medicaid (and universal health care if it gets rammed down our throats). All failures with enormous budgets. Thank the democrats for these wonderfully inefficient and expensive programs that the dems desperately need to hang onto in order to pacify and ensure their voter turnout.

So, Bob, when Big Government has a big job to do it looks towards Big Business to get the job done and that usually means Big Money. And yeah, somebody is gonna get rich. Somebody usually does.

But it's good to know that there are people like you, Bob that wouldn't have anything to do with that tainted money.........yeah, right.

One thing that you're overlooking Bob; plenty of small businesses will get sub-contracts from the big boys.

[PeteB570]

It is interesting that the OBHs are never satisfied.

Getting the relief there is too slow, speed it up and the wrong people are getting the money. Complain, complain.

No temporary housing, speed up the factories, pay overtime and complain about the costs. Manufactured homes need to be transported, hire more drivers then complain about what it costs. Complain,complain.

Move all the people out of the area then complain the trailers are sitting empty. Complain, complain.

Libs say they have the answer, a bigger, more bloated bureaucracy. Yeah, right. A chicken in every pot.