Posted on 02/01/2006 6:39:55 AM PST by AmericanDave
I understand their hatred now. When they panned to Shillary I just cringed and actually thought how much I hate her, God forgive me.
Get back to work!
I agree with you! Unfortunatley Pres Bush, though improving, will never be the Great Communicator like Ronald Reagan; that's a very high standard. But I will say, I see improvement through practice. He still has three years to improve some more...... And his speach writers are not as good as Reagans either!
Sorry you got up on the wrong side of the bed.
The speech was great, the President was eloquent and I am so proud to American!!!!
He made it even more clear last night that his concerns are on a global level, and not domestic. His comments on illegal immigration says it all. We are headed toward an open border policy and there is nothing that will stand in his way. I will vote Democrat next election if that is what it takes to seal our border.
I gave it a B also....very good on foreign policy and not so good on domestic policy. The president is clearly not as engaged when it comes to domestic stuff, other than the tax cuts. But the health care system in this country is out of whack, and I wish he would say more about it in his speeches. He doesn't seem to push his HSA's much outside of giving it lip service in his SOTU speeches. His rhetoric on energy sounded a bit Al Goreish to me....what happened to ANWAR? He should have pounded it home last night.
See Post #14. It isn't a CNN poll, it is a C-SPAN poll.
I don't know about that. The President said Immigration, not open borders, illegal immigration.
We need to have a policy regarding rational immigration. We need to ENFORCE that policy. We also need to accept those in the world who have great minds, great ideas, wonderful work ethics.
Some of the very best, brightest Americans have been immigrants....they offer fresh insight and motivation for all.
Hillary was a disgrace last night, with her strange smiles, shaking her head at other moments, or looking like a royal *itch when Bush mentioned her husband. How unlikeable can you get ?
With all due respect your limited depth of knowledge concerning the immigration issue is exceeded only by your own percieved understanding of it.
There is absolutely nothing indicating that this administration is or desires to move toward an "Open border policy" If Bush gets his guest worker program he will aquiesce to the building of the fence and strict enforement of laws concerning illegal immigration. bet on it.
Just excatly how would you propose to handle the 11,000,000 illegals here now. I'd love to hear a coherent plan from you as to how exactly we would get rid of them.
Do you have the foggiest idea the consequences of removing 11,000,000 people from the employement rolls??? Wage rates would skyrocket as would inflation. Also are you aware that these people DO pay SS tax. The removal of 11 million workers from the rolls presently paying into SS would make a bad situation one helluva lot worse.
Bushs proposal is a common sense approach to addressing the situation thatallows people to become citizens legally and at the same time preserve the dilicate balance of labor supply and demand.
Kneejerk absolutism in the approach by people such as yourself is generated more from hormones than brain cells.
Get real--they are all liars. If you would vote for Democratic you should be trolling DU.
'A good day to be a Republican.'
AMEN.......
For some of these folks, I suspect that it has less to do with their hormonse than it does with other folks' melanin. Not all, but some.
Hormonse? Of course I meant to spell it "hormnose." Or maybe homnorse.
Overall I'd give a B+. I was so disappointed in the President's comment last night saying how we needed immigration and not to isolate ourselves to pump our economy. We might as well accept the fact nothing will be done until we elect the next one.
It is funny how everyone thought he would fail at foreign policy and be good domestically and it is just the opposite. I agree with his foeign policy except giving money to Hamas, which should stop today with a pubic annoucement as such. He is ignoring his bases call to reform taxes, the IRS, and close the borders.
If he was serious about energy he would mandate that every state have at least 2 more nuclear plants ( it takes about 3-4 years to build one ) by 2012 and the ones that can, have coal plants to boot. Think of the job creation for that project. 2030 makes me sick. The Middle East is so unstable it may not be that long before we see $5-%10 a gallon for gas. I hate to quote a democrat but Kennedy started a path that took us to the moon in a decade why can't we cut of the Arabs by 2015-2017.
I am so frustrated. It was his chance to drive home some stuff and drive a stake in the democrats' heart and rallying the country and he comes out concilatory making light about his dad's favorite two person, yuck!!!
I get the impression that there is agreement in
Republican circles and immigration reform will be enacted soon. This was the theme of the speech, even though pundits have missed it. We cannot withdraw from the world into isolationism.
Link, please. I have to see this.
MS-NBC: Are You a Bush Booster -- or Basher? (Updated: 5:27 p.m. ET Feb. 12, 2004)
Tell us if you approve of President George W. Bush's overall job performance and whether you think he will be re-elected in the upcoming election. Click the "Vote" button at the bottom to submit your results and see others' responses, then click here to see how Americans nationwide answered these and other questions in this week's NEWSWEEK poll.And YES, they did include the link to an FR thread in that partisan editorial rant. So then I used it as an opportunity to educate visitors that there are also documented acts of DUping, DUmping, and ISLAMming polls.Editor's Note: This week, the online version of the Newsweek poll received an unusually high rate of response, with the clear majority of participants casting uniform votes. For these reasons, we believe the poll is being intentionally manipulated. In addition, we received an e-mail alert suggesting that the campaign is being coordinated by at least one special-interest group.
I tend to agree. It will be interesting to see whether that reform can deal effectively with the real roots of the illegal immigration problem -- that it's driven by Americans who pay illegals to cross the borders.
Hillary has always enjoyed that particular look of royalty.
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