Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Bush Shrugs Off Slump in Polls; Jokes about Second-Term "Quagmire"
AP ^ | June 24, 2005

Posted on 06/24/2005 11:52:17 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative

WHITE HOUSE President Bush is shrugging off the polls showing his job approval rating at low ebb. At a news conference with Iraq's visiting prime minister, Bush jokingly suggested the word "quagmire" to a reporter asking about a possible "second-term slump."

The president says he knows U-S troops have a difficult mission in Iraq against a bloodthirsty and determined enemy.

And he says on domestic issues, he's asking Congress to "take on some big tasks." He says he's not surprised his idea for a Social Security overhaul has met stiff resistance from lawmakers.

Bush added: "This is a time of testing. It's a critical time."


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bush; bush43; congress; polls; quagmire; secondterm; socialsecurity; term2; texasflowerlies; wariniraq; whatmelaugh
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100101-115 last
To: texasflower
So you think I give a damn what another one of the disruptors has to say? I don't.

For the past month or so, I've had enough. I rarely pass up an opportunity to tell you creeps what low life slime I think you really are.

So, perennially angry? No, not at everything. Just angry with ALL of you.

99% of FR and I get along just fine. It's you I can't stand.
101 posted on 06/25/2005 5:49:48 PM PDT by texasflower
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 98 | View Replies]

To: warchild9

What makes you think I am a bot? Because I can find some redeeming qualities in him and NONE in you guys?


102 posted on 06/25/2005 5:51:06 PM PDT by texasflower
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 100 | View Replies]

To: texasflower

You're a bot because you get so emotional so easily.

I admire W's character, and I believe he's sincere, quite a change from the scumbag we had in that office before him. However, his character doesn't change the fact that he's also a terrible, weak president.


103 posted on 06/25/2005 5:54:25 PM PDT by warchild9
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 102 | View Replies]

To: warchild9

Believe me I don't get emotional easily. This has built over a couple of months time.

This crap and the Schiavo thing has turned this place upside down and I truly depise those of you who are doing it.


104 posted on 06/25/2005 5:55:56 PM PDT by texasflower
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 103 | View Replies]

To: texasflower

I had nothing to do with the Schiavo matter.

So why do you have the reputation for walking around angry all the time? I've never met you before, and I've been aggravating bots for years on this forum.


105 posted on 06/25/2005 6:02:11 PM PDT by warchild9
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 104 | View Replies]

To: warchild9
I don't have that reputation with everyone. People who run around every single thread finding a way to bash the President piss me off.

People who don't have the decency to keep their bull headed opinions off of other people's vanity threads or even prayer threads piss me off.

People who freepmail other people and tell them I'm a bitch or perennially angry instead of facing me directly piss me off.

They are cowards and they piss me off.

People who can't think past Ann Coulter's long legs and blonde hair, to realize that she's not helpful, she's a big mouth bully piss me off.

Those are the people that think I'm angry.

But as I said before, 99% of the people who are on FR don't piss me off and I get along with them just fine.

I have over 11,000 posts and there are only about 200 of them like this. Most of them in the past three months and always about the same topics and same type of poster.

You figure it out.

I'm actually a very nice person. I'm just sick of the garbage.
106 posted on 06/25/2005 6:14:26 PM PDT by texasflower
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 105 | View Replies]

To: warchild9

Also, people who make sport out of irritating "bots", just for the hell of it, piss me off.


107 posted on 06/25/2005 6:18:54 PM PDT by texasflower
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 105 | View Replies]

To: texasflower

That's what makes you fun. Lighten up, and people wouldn't tease you so much.


108 posted on 06/25/2005 6:26:49 PM PDT by warchild9
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 107 | View Replies]

To: warchild9

What exactly is it that you think "makes me fun" to annoy?


109 posted on 06/25/2005 6:34:13 PM PDT by texasflower
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 108 | View Replies]

To: Soul Seeker
Well said, post #11.

I'm a critic of Bush sometimes but this isn't the thread to complain about illegal immigration, property rulings, or SS reform.

110 posted on 06/25/2005 6:35:02 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: texasflower

You get all emotional so easily. Cold, rational people are just boring. Who cares to debate the issues, when "debate" serves no purpose whatsoever on the internet. It's an entertainment medium.

I'm really not such a bad guy. I just tease.

Oh, I have a Cuban wife, and I tease her, too, until it's obvious my life is in danger.


111 posted on 06/25/2005 6:39:49 PM PDT by warchild9
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 109 | View Replies]

To: warchild9

After all that you want to play the soft and fluffy card?

Okay.


112 posted on 06/25/2005 6:41:33 PM PDT by texasflower
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 111 | View Replies]

To: warchild9

"Please note I inferred I considered Reagan's amnesty a mistake.'

I wasn't talking to you, my comments were to Howlin. Of course it was a mistake and like I said, he would have changed his mind after 9/11. Unfortunately, Bush doesn't. I think it says a lot about this man, I remember when Reagan died, I kept hearing people say that Bush was the Reagan of our time. I laughed so hard....and now I know I was right.


"That he brought down the Soviet Union compensates for lots of mistakes--don't forget what kind of threat that was, and what kind of threat China is, and is becoming, and that it's being abetted by the people who bankroll Washtington."

Um, how could I forget about the threat of the Soviet Union. Especially when I don't believe the cold war really ended. Reading the works of soviet dissidents and defectors would show anyone what the real plan was. Now they're back. Of course China is a threat, I think it's stupid of this Administration not to make more of an issue out of it.


113 posted on 06/26/2005 10:11:29 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite (Saddam: $25k to suicide bombers = BAD --- Bush: 50 mil to terrorist scum = "GOOD")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 88 | View Replies]

To: texasflower

Your post #91 is extremely intelligent.

I doubt you do anything to support the troops, other than to post here, which is no support at all. Your response is an insult to my friend, and I'm sure he'll be thrilled when he reads your response, which I've cut&pasted and sent to him. He'll be happy to see that some "patriots" like yourself deny his existence.

I'd tell you to go crawl under a rock, but I have more respect for rocks than to ask that.


114 posted on 06/27/2005 8:16:13 AM PDT by Blzbba (Let them hate us as long as they fear us - Caligula)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 91 | View Replies]

To: Blzbba

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1439913/posts


115 posted on 07/10/2005 8:59:20 AM PDT by ru4liberty (I don't know what tomorrow holds, but I know Who holds tomorrow. May His Name ever be praised!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 114 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100101-115 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson