Posted on 09/11/2005 9:34:36 AM PDT by SmithL
"Sometimes I visualize the president as a bottle of bleach poured over the landscape of America. In Bush's wake, hopes and dreams have faded."
I have discovered on another forum..That perception is ingrained and no amount of truth telling can destroy it..
It is a mindset..
The new platform of the Republican Party! But we should add, "Thank your lucky stars you live in the biggest and most prolific bakery in the world."
He could've had coffee with a charitable Republican just as well, without all the political banter. What does this prove?
In any case, if Rats could express how to go about getting what they want in reasonable AND practical terms, someone might start to listen to them. So far they've wanted social security, welfare, abortions, the end to Christmas as we know it, free access to our country by any and all, and coming soon - Sharia law and homosexual marriage, if the two can exist in the same space. I figure it's our turn now.
Yes, but it got him out of having to write half a column, and he didn't even have to pay for it.
Well the column was interesting enough. It was pretty void of "political meat" ...but fine for what it was.
In Bush's wake, hopes and dreams have faded
Would someone please tell me what 'dreams' these people ever had that they are prevented from persuing????? I am baffled as to how the president has prevented them from the following: buying a home at the lowest interest rates in many, many decades; owning a car that is built to last many years, not just the four years they used to last; traveling anywhere they wish at discounted rates; shopping in supermarkets filled to the brim with goods, including discount-priced items; educating their children, including through four years of college at local and state levels for a low price; the list goes on and on and on. Just what exactly are these people looking for????????????
Hahahaha! And you can bet the coffee was on expense account.
Yes....since Bush's election I've turned into a soulless bag of skin....lifelessly dragging myself out of bed every morning, hoping today is the day I'll mercifully be release from my limbo-like existence by a bus hopping the curb and crushing me against a wall.
I've also stubbed my toe on my dresser at least 3 times since that bastard took office.
Oh woe to me is the horror!
"Sometimes I visualize the president as a bottle of bleach poured over the landscape of America. In Bush's wake, hopes and dreams have faded."
Wait a minute. Hasn't George W. Bush been an Everyday Citizen of America, just like you and me, for MUCH longer than the five years he's been President? He didn't have access to bleach before taking the Oath of Office? Did he stop you from pursuing your dreams PRIOR to his Presidency? Will he continue to impede your stride when he's a private citizen again?
Who ARE these people, and how does ONE person make or break their sad little lives? I love President Bush, Laura, The Twins...all of 'em. But in reality, they have little or no impact on my everyday life. I would say my own parents have had more of an impact & influence, or a best friend, or a spouse. Maybe this guy has none of the above?
What a doorknob. I wouldn't have had the patience to spend one minute with this guy, let alone an entire afternoon.
I have to agree with this, but the Democrat presidents make the Republicans feel the same way.
The only way out is to somehow make the presidency nonpartisan. This constant fighting between the two groups, especially with 9/11s and Katrinas doesn't do anybody any good.
What does this prove? What does anything prove? Just an interesting column, that's all. Why so defensive?
The hopes and dreams that have faded are for a socialist utopia, complete with Hillarycare and gay marriage.
this guy Michael Bowers is a hoot. Ask him to be on his e-m list,
at
mbowers@starnewspapers.com
FReep-mail me if you know his FR name...
I'm sorry, but THAT is the most messed up basis for altruism that I've ever heard.
I wonder what ELSE he "learned" in school..
Oh the cookie thing rings a bell!
I was raised to believe that begging was the ultimate in bad manners and degrading. If you saw someone with something you didn't have, you just sucked it up to envy or greed.
But I can not tell you the number of times I've been asked for something I had in my hand, usually food, by a coworker.
Not a subtle hint either but an outright 'would you share that' or 'are you going to eat all that' or a "can I have your (second piece of fruit, Coke, whole lunch). Its not just me, but I've noticed that folks will literally offer their meal to all at the worksite lunch table. Out of manners I guess. And there are folks who actually take some of their food! And not just a little bit too, but often half of what is on their plate.
It's almost like "I'm now going to martyr myself to the group".
I've see folks reach over and take all of someone's dessert, or in one restaurant setting, literally take half their entree.
They see it as charity....I don't know what the heck it is. It definately is cultural and it was a shock when I saw it for the first time.
Thanks for the ping!
They smoked it, put it up their noses and in their arms. When that wasn't enough, they robbed grannies and carjacked commuters to get the drugs to keep themselves stupid and poor.
Not only am I not going to give a GD thing to 'The Poor', I want my damned money back!
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