Posted on 01/01/2006 12:32:44 PM PST by ncountylee
CRAWFORD, Texas — For six days, President Bush has stayed in nearly complete isolation on his ranch here — just mountain-biking and brush-clearing, the White House insisted daily, and seeing only one visitor, his mother-in-law, Jenna Welch. He never even ventured into this little town of 600, not even to the cheeseburger joint that he often uses as a political tool to show that he is in touch with his neighbors.
But on New Year's Day, after a brief stop at an Army hospital in San Antonio to visit wounded soldiers, Bush is scheduled to return to the White House earlier than usual from his break and start a campaign to set the tone for 2006 and, perhaps, the remainder of his presidency.
As part of an ambitious strategy the White House has mapped out for the next four weeks, Bush has scheduled two major speeches — one on the economy on Friday in Chicago, another on Iraq — ahead of the State of the Union address, which is tentatively scheduled for Jan. 31. By the time he appears before Congress, Bush's aides are hoping, two of the immediate challenges the president faces — the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. and the permanent renewal of the Patriot Act — will be behind him.
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Why, I'm sure that this is exactly the way that this scumbag NY Times columnist writes about his Democrats when, for example, they show up at sporting goods stores and inquire, "Is this where I can get me a huntin' license?"
It would be a first.
Absolutely correct.
Ar the NY Times, Democrat politicians take "well-deserved breaks".
Hmmm, when I left, what was it you said....
Well, I don't wonder why either of you ran from this fight. You could not defend your positions, so you lashed out instead with weak attacks on me
Hmmm, attacks like this
...you're one of the dumbest people I've ever encountered in five years...
or maybe this:
I prefer to think of you as difficult and a total jerk
or perhaps this
anyone calling himself a conservative could be as completely stupid as you're being ...
You mean lashing out with those kind of attacks on me? You do remember that was you, right?
What were you saying about honesty, character, and principle? Did that include hypocrisy?
Dolt.
Yep, but I can't say it in polite company. ;-)
Well...one thing I can say in polite company is that they take themselves, and their interaction with strangers on the internet, waaaaaay too seriously. I mean, look at all the real, worrisome news out there. Sharon may be dying. That crackpot in Iran is threatening nuclear anihilation. The three crackpots in Latin America are proving that the tradition of Leftist dictators there is alive and kicking. Washington is about ready to go into its latest inside-the-beltway scandal in an attempt to force yet another President's eye off the ball of national security in a dangerous world. The New York Times found a way to blame President Bush for the mess in that West Virginia mining town.
All that, and more is in the news today, but the dweeb is worried about what he thinks some stranger on an internet forum said about him. If that's not the definition of taking oneself too seriously, I don't know what is.
No, that was someone else. I am not a bush hater.
Clinton used McDonald's to keep "in touch" ... although I would say he was more intimately in touch when he ordered pizza with Monica into the WH!
Maybe you're wrong about that. Ever consider it?
Could it be that the person of whom you speak is not at all worried? That maybe you've *gasp* erred?
Why then, you say, would someone defend themselves from being called a bush-hater? If you're asking that then you do miss the point.
The point is not whether you call someone a bush hater, it is whether you're willing to allow and/or accept any critical point of view.
It's my bet that's what the poster had in mind, and I'm awfully sure he didn't give a damn about what some anonymous person on the web thinks of his/her anonymous posts. That would be stupid.....
I will use it to educate my son about how to spot biased news reporting...then it will line the bird cage very well.
The GWB haters around here are not going to post to you anymore.I am not a Bush hater. What indicates to you that I am? Or did you just jump without thinking? BTW that's a likely groupthink behavior - jumping without first looking.
I criticized the president for ignoring immigration concerns. How is that a GWB hater?
I said the repubs are open to attacks on SS and taxes because the dems prevented SS and tax reform so far. How is that being a GWB hater?
Really, how is it?
148 posted on 01/04/2006 9:03:04 AM PST by Principled
After a series of posts on the matter, you're now denying it was you. To which I only care to reply, yeah, right. Whatever.
I am not a Bush hater. Why are you so fixated on insisting it? What's wrong with you?
No. That's wrong. I am denying being a Bush hater. Why must you persist in your delusions?
I criticized the president. Now I am a Bush hater? Only to you.
I and so many tire of the vicious personal attacks by those refusing to hear any criticism of the President, the administration, or the party. How the heck can we identify areas for improvement? (or maybe to you, there are no areas for improvement?).
I think the president should be criticized on immigration and your vitriol and personal attacks will not deter it. Get over it.
This is not journalism, it's pure propaganda. I'm not sure he could have written a more biased article.
The next time a lib friend claims that there is no media bias, this article becomes a trump card.
I emailed to two lib friends and the one that I have heard from could only claim "well this is just one guy."
Track #5, Sonata in D for Two Pianos (It's only $11.98 on Amazon......a steal of a deal!)
Listen to it for TEN minutes before you sign on to FR, and it will increase your mental capacity, and save you from yourself on threads like this.
Your reading will improve, you'll understand what people are actually saying (i.e. comprehension) instead of reacting with unbridled emotion, and you'll feel MUCH better about yourself, so you stop imagining that people are attacking you (You see, I didn't say you were dumb.........I concluded that you were just being a jerk.........and you are. NO one is as dumb as you are acting right now. Comprehension is the name of the game, son).
Mozart. Give it a try. G'nite! :)
Oh, wait a minute! 75% of that post was a quote from the OTHER guy! You didn't say anything nasty at all! LOL!
I guess I am among those who have been abusing you. I again apologize but it is your fault for hanging out with the wrong crowd. Didn't your parents warn you about that? :-)
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