George W. Bush: Not actually the devil

The Student Life (Pomona College) ^ | 12/22/03 | Peter Douglas

[metalboy]

The problem with Bush bashing is that it is a sign of desperation..

No, the problem with Bush bashing is 100% of the people who do it have yet to bash Al Qaida or Saddam. Like my tagline says..........

[2banana]

wouldn't it be great to see Bush, the Vietnam War deserter, in a debate against GENERAL Wesley Clark.

Since when is joining the National Guard equal to "desertion?" This person needs a military history lesson and a lesson of the units in Iraq and Afghanistan right now...

[sharpink]

I love the end of it. If we could just move left "the people" will be with us. Thats how you beat GWB.

[saminfl]

We live in a polarized nation, and for better or worse motivating the poles is the only way to win this election.

Does Poland have a voice in our elections?

[Dave Olson]

Democrats ... lose what is left of their integrity as well.

Impossible! They cannot lose what they never had.

[Roughneck]

>>>>wouldn't it be great to see Bush, the Vietnam War deserter...<<<

Bush was not a deserter-dems just bear false witness.

And what did klinton do?, why, he avoided the draft altogether by leaving the country.

But we're not supposed to talk about the "past" right?

Dems are IMO just useless bags of skin...

[RebelBanker]

The writer is an ignorant child. Safe in his warm little academic cocoon, he has no idea how the real world works and obviously has no clue what most "real" Americans believe.

[dead]

What a juvenile view of politics.

Silly little kid.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

The "now what" moment is a likely result should a Democrat win the Presidency.

I always think back to when Clinton was first elected. HE WAS SURPRISED! And to me, that is stunning.

[CatoRenasci]

The thing that one can be most certain of is that young Mr. Douglas, who wrote this drivel, is the scion of the very moneyed interests he bashes: Pomona College is an exclusive, very expensive, elite liberal arts college, most of whose students' parents make incomes in excess of $200,000 per year.

Kid, yer just like your boomer parents who raged against the machine. But, at least we were cheerfully stoned, got laid a lot (pre-aids, post-pill) and eventually grew up to be responsible republicans. The lefty democrat politiicans to day are mostly not the kids who really played at being hippies, but the ones who were, like Clinton, the student government nerds, who went to law school while all the rest of us dropped out, went to real grad school or got jobs. Beware, kid, there's probably a republican life in store for you!

[Frank_Discussion]

IMO, they did have it, but it sublimated sometime very shortly after certain events in the vicinity of Dealy Plaza.

[randog]

If, instead, a candidate could convince disillusioned voters that he or she was genuinely dedicated to fixing the nation's decaying social institutions and promoting social justice, they could easily pick up the votes that went to Ralph Nader in 2000.

Still trying to win the last election, I see. And they like to call themselves "progressive".

What's interesting about this article (and the dem strategy generally) is that leftists are slowly figuring out that they have no popular appeal. They're desperately trying to make 2+2 equal 5 and getting frustrated when their "new math" doesn't pan out.

[ClearCase_guy]

Does Poland have a voice in our elections?

Perhaps Howard Dean has a web-site inviting political contributions from Poland.

[SF Republican]

Bush, the Vietnam War deserter oh really?

[PISANO]

Since when is joining the National Guard equal to "desertion?

REMEMBER that Democrats operate in WONDERLAND. Words ONLY mean what THEY want them to mean. Truth & Facts are completely irrelevant. Hence X42 did NOT dodge the draft EVEN with PROOF in writing that he did, and GW, a trained fighter pilot in the National Guard is labeled a 'DESERTER'.

[elbucko]

....and promoting social justice,...

Just what, exactly, does that mean to the deep thinker of this article. The term "social justice" is merely blue baiting and nothing more. The majority of these people cannot define simple "justice", let alone the specious term, social justice.

[cubreporter]

John Kerry was in the Air National Guard was he not?

The Bush Bashers can continue on...they always seem to follow each other and end up going nowhere just as they are heading down that same road now. Going nowhere. They are pathetic and pitiful and desperate to say the least.

I would say to the author if the dem/libs/Bush bashers had any original or constructive ideas for the American people they would be busier working on those same ideas and not bashing the President hoping it will catch on with others and bring him down. But the reason they are not working on ideas is because folks, ... THEY DON'T HAVE ANY NEW IDEAS...ONLY THE SAME OLD STALE ATTACKS AND THE WORDS "FIGHT FOR YOU."!!! They have nothing. Zilch. All they have is attack, attack, attack and this crowd is just a new batch of faces than from before. New faces...old, stale, musty ideas. They never learn...they are so predictable and disgusting. Losers all. They never have original ideas...look at them...all of them. They are just so "in the past" and so " backed up in time." Just look at hilleree..yipes.

As for a Bush/Clark debate...all GWB would have to do is show up and he'd reveaL Clark for who he really is. A puppet who can't remember from one sentence to the next what he said, who said it, where he heard it, where it was discussed or when it was said and on and on and on. He makes things up and then when questioned he can't remember or makes references to something he "heard." He's terrible. Why do these people lie so much? It's a way of life with them.

As for the author of this article...he is waaaaaay out in left field along with the rest of that ilk.

[Egon]

then the Democrats will not only lose the election, but lose what is left of their integrity as well.

Uh huh.

[dead]

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