Posted on 06/15/2006 4:01:18 AM PDT by NJRighty
June 15, 2006 -- WHO'D have thought it possible even a month ago? President Bush is getting his mojo back.
The president just had the best week of his second term, perhaps of his entire presidency - and the end of the investigation of Karl Rove, which would have been the headline grabber not long ago, had little to do with it.
Instead, the president's brilliantly conceived and executed trip to Baghdad - giving exactly the right boost at the right time to new Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki - capped off seven days that included the forming of a full Iraqi Cabinet and the success of the U.S. military in locating, bombing and killing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the sadistic Jordanian-born insurgency leader that Osama bin Laden once called the "prince of Iraq."
Equally significant, the night Zarqawi died, American forces staged 17 raids on insurgent targets. By Monday, they had launched 140 more. On the day of the president's visit, 75,000 troops fanned out over Baghdad, ordered to clear the Iraqi capital of the violence and anarchy that has plagued it for months.
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Where did you get your MBA, cowboy?
Hi, Tamzee. We're all doing okay here; hope you and yours are doing well and in good health. FR has changed a little but we're still fighting the good fight :-)
It bothers me to no end to see the near deification of Bush. While he has had some conservative victories so many of us expected, with a pub House and Senate, so much more.
The saddest parts of this admin have been his attempts at triangulation and his capitulation to solidly liberal compacts such as the Dept of Education, Medicaid Drug bill and Campaign finance reform (ugh!). Most of these capitulations were for short term gain politically with no real thought to the consequences ten or so years down the line.
This so-called "comprehensive immigration reform" is along the same lines. It has been shown that major negative consequences will come to pass and yet he still pushes for it.
That's why he's saving Bin Laden for later.
You've posted your blue graphic on immigration THREE TIMES now in this thread. This is not, repeat, not an illegal immigration thread. If you're lost and need help finding one, search for "immigration" from the search screen.
I think Bush is a God and that enables him to seize your home and personal land and then declare them a National Mexican Immigrant Museum and Park.
to be blues-correct about it, "He got his mojo workin'."
Well thanks. I like it here at FR too.
Count me in!! I'll try to get my FReeper Mojo back.
Does 9/11 ring any bells, at all, for you?
How about al Qaeda?
How are WE "suffering as a result" of being in Iraq and Afghanistan? Explain in detail.
Do you realize just how silly your post reads? It's 1/2 DNC talking points and 1/2 12 year old boy bravado.
There is a HUGE difference between Clinton's nation building where the strategic interests of the US were ZERO and our nation building in Iraq. HUGE. You're displaying some real simpleton like thinking on this. Plus, just bombing Iraq and then leaving would have been the biggest waste of men, time, and money. You trying to sound smart on this subject by spouting how we should have done what the demonrats suggested? Hello? Is there anyone home?
GOD bless you and thanks! :-)
I bet he would, too.
There are lots of disrupters that call radio shows. That is one reason for screeners. They have to learn to determine who is a disrupter and see to it they never make it on the air. Disrupter's try to fool the screener. They rarely succeed in doing so. Not one in a thousand is smart enough to fool a trained screener.
When I was doing talk I put together some of the common characteristics of a disrupter. To find out about them we would just ask for their phone number in case we wanted to call them back. Lots of them gave us their numbers.
We found the most common characteristic of a radio disrupter was a person who had never experienced success. They see themselves as helpless pawns in the hands of the great and powerful. So like a dog chasing a Greyhound Bus they try to disrupt the people they see as controlling their chances of success. They don't really have an object in mind. Like the dog chasing a Greyhound bus, they don't really expect to catch it. The disrupter doesn't think he or she can effect our views or opinions. They don't intend to persuade or earn respect. They bark at the top of their lungs while chasing the bus down the road. Their object is to make noise and disrupt. It is not to accomplish anything other than to bother those they see as influential and more powerful than they.
They are attracted to both Radio shows and the Internet because they it allows them to be anonymous. Anonymous is very important because they fear those they bark at. Deep down they feel they are inferior human beings.
You will notice they constantly see conspiracies every where. People who have achieved success in life on almost any level know better. They know there is no evil cabal running the show and calling the shots. But the losers who have never won have a very distorted view of reality.
They have to believe that there is some evil cabal running things or they would have to face their own failure in life.
Why are they so afraid of Mexicans? Do they fear that some out of work Mexican looking for job picking tomatoes is going to set off a bomb that destroys a big factory or mall? NO Way! What they are afraid of is they will not be able to compete with uneducated poor Mexicans. They see themselves going down even further on the social and economic ladders. The common thread is their belief that their failure in life is because of some factor other than their own limitations. To them "Its the damned Mexicans!" is as good an excuse as any for their situation in life.
They see themselves as inferior to others, because in fact and deed they are inferior to all the people who succeed on their own merits. The hate Mexican group has to have a group or a person to blame for their own failures.
The disrupters are best at blowing splendid opportunities.
I went to Washington D.C. for the Reagan funeral. We went first to the place where the body would be transfered from the hearse to the horse drawn vehicle. That was right across from the white house. A man was sitting in an chair with an empty chair beside him. He asked me if I would like to sit down until his wife arrived. We introduced ourselves. Then his cell phone rang. He got up and walked away to talk on the phone. When he came back he told me he was an adviser to President Bush and we exchanged business cards. He had previously worked for Jeb Bush in Florida and Jeb had recommended him to George W.
I told him my career had been in radio and TV. That took the conversation to the Rush Limbaugh drug case then big in the news. He was especially interested in the chances of Rush being indicted. I told him I had done some checking and there was not valid way Rush could be indicted for Doctor shopping. Limbaugh consulted 4 doctors. Three were associated with or associated with the same group practice, and the 4th was his ear specialist in California. A group practice and a specialists can not be doctor shopping.
He asked me how I happened to come to the funeral. I told him I was a Freeper and several Freepers were attending.
His next comment surprised me.. He asked what my Freeper handle was... I told him "Common Tator". He then said, "I read your posts all the time." He later told me he reports to the president about what he reads on the net.
My point is winners are always looking for ways to make converts to persuade and influence. They are not about disrupting. They are about influencing those who read their posts. I had zero idea that anyone in the White House would read anything I write. But I am always trying to reach out and persuade people to adopt my views.
Losers are always looking for ways to disrupt winners and spend time looking for excuses to explain their failure. Those are the primary reasons they are losers.
Winners are always seeking ways to persuade and influence. That is why they are winners.
Spot on!
Lincoln said, "I do not control events, events control me." Every good politician is an opportunist. Like a soldier picking his way through a minefield, all a president can do is to hope theat he won't step on a mine. If he gets through, he's a hero; if not, he's dead meat.
Wow that is a great post. I've always said that I think a lot of the perpetual whiners have serious emotional problems, with deep seated anger being one of the biggest. Most likely, as you point out, it's because they feel trapped and/or helpless to change their lot in life and so develope a lot of anger. Then misery likes company. Successful people are too busy DOING to sit around and whine.
Absolutely love the post!
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