Posted on 08/22/2006 5:27:46 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
His other attempts at a legacy have all failed, just like his do-nothing Presidency.
IMHO, if the dot com boom hadn't come along on his watch, (by a stroke of luck OR the fact that his veep invented the internet) he would have been considered a worse President than Carter.
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He's still trolling for a legacy.
Slick Willie: The Bride at every Wedding; the Corpse at every Funeral. ;)
At least he's celebrating the right thing...even if it WASN'T his idea.
Jeez, this man needs to be locked up someplace!
Getting away with it means never getting called on it by the press.
The Slickster is rapidly falling into place alongside Jimmah as one of the most irrevalent U.S. Presidents in history.
Next thing you know, he'll be taking credit for the Balanced Budget.
"How We Ended Welfare"
Does this mean that no one in the U.S. is on welfare? Wow!! I didn't know that. Has Medicaid closed down? No more payments to mothers and children with no Daddy present? No more food stamps? Gee.
And if we end Sosha Security 'as we know it', will that create a new beginning for millions of Americans? Oh, YES!
Just think what ending the tax system 'as we know it' could mean...
On that score, you're dead on.
I imagine they will probably always get away with it there, but the press has to pay the price in that case.
Declining numbers for the Drive By Media are underway, and in my opinion, the number of people who pay attention to them will decline drastically by the end of the decade.
It hits them where it counts the most too. New York Times stock closed at $32.70 per share one year ago. Today it closed at $21.64. That's a decline of 34% in one year, which looks like it's fastest, long term decline in several decades, if not it's entire history. That's a slide that won't be easily stopped. It almost certainly will be trading in the single digits a year from now, and may well face delisting within several years.
President Clinton was the best friend Republicans ever had.
Trouble is most of them are too dumb to realize it, even after having endured 5 1/2 years of job losses, recession, war, corruption, 9/11, stock market stagnation, and repeated violations of constitutional rights under the present Commander-in-Thief.
Once again, you present lies.
Job Losses? We have replaced all the jobs lost in the recession and then some.
Recession? Began during the Clinton term, ended 4 years ago.
Stock market stagnation? Surely you jest. Where's your backup for that?
Violations of constitutional rights? Name 'em.
Your Dem talking points can't make millions of jobs go away, and they can't rewrite history. Next!
Where do you live - Somalia? Here in the states, things are going like gangbusters! If the *Crintons had anywhere near Dubya's financial numbers, Big Media would call it "PROSPERITY"! (Remember that little propaganda campaign?) And we haven't used the 'recession' word since it ended once *Bubba and *Louise left office.
The Maha said it best just today. The bold parts are for you Murrymom -
RUSH: This notion advanced by our most recent caller, Jill from Ithaca, that she has a neighbor who is disabled and just can't get by, can't get her medications and eat at the same time. You know, this is a wives tale. That was a prediction, that was one of these crisis talking points that the Democrats began many years ago, I mean, over ten or 15 years ago. I mean, I can remember I spoke to a group called GOPAC in Washington back in '94 or '95, I forget which. It might have been earlier than that, because Pat Schroeder was still in the Congress. Congressperson Patsy Schroeder from Colorado. At any rate, at this time the Republicans were being criticized for something to do with Medicare, and it was going to result in seniors having to choose between real food and medicine.
They might have to go out and eat dog food and so forth, and I opened up the speech by thanking the GOPAC people for inviting me and telling me how happy I was to be among their company and that was going to take the lead on this. So supportive was I of the Medicare plan that I had gone out and bought my mother a new can opener so she'd have easy access to the dog food that she was going to have to buy, what with the Republican Medicare program. Pat Schroeder went to the floor of the House and actually read the transcript of what I said and didn't get the humor at all and started waving the paper around, this is who they are, she said, this is what they believe.
This business of seniors and other people eating food or not eating food or not getting their medicine is absolute bunk. It's a wives tale. It is a myth. People do not have to choose between food and medicine. Big pharmaceutical companies, Merck and Pfizer, all have programs for people like this, and they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on them, on these programs. It's just absurd. This country has the greatest health care -- and Jill was typical. She doesn't have a car but she's worried about gas prices. She doesn't have a car but yet she's worried about gas prices. So what? I don't know if she has kids in college, either, but she's worried about that. She's just worried. She didn't have kids, and she's worried about things that have no effect on her.
Jill is classic. A lot of people -- not just liberals -- do this. How many of you people...? Today is, what, August 31st? Whatever is going on in your life, let me just run a little test with you. Virtually every one of us have something every day that troubles us, something that is in the future, or something that has happened that's going to impact the future. What do you do to deal with this? Most people make the mistake of going negative, and they start telling themselves stories. "Oh, my God, it's going to do this, it's going to do that, oh, jeez." You can't possibly know what's going to happen yet you tell yourself you do, and it's almost always negative, it's almost always pessimistic. It's easy. Pessimism seems to be far more easy and natural to achieve than optimism.
You have to work hard at that. So people start telling themselves all these stories about things they can't possibly know and they live the stories, even though they haven't happened, and it's exactly what's happening I think here with the liberal perception of the economy. It's just going to hell in a hand basket even though it's not. They just know it's going to, I'm not going to have any money to get by, I'm going to be uncomfortable, my God! While everything is fine, while they're still telling themselves all these stories. And when you start telling yourselves stories about things you can't possibly know because it's the future, then your dye is cast.
You're pretty much spelling out the attitude you're going to take into the future and you're spelling out the steps you're going to take and you're going to live it. Because you're anticipating the worst, you get ready to be the worst, you get ready for the worst to happen and then whether it does or not you're convinced it has, and it just becomes a self-defeating spin cycle. You never get out of the dryer, you never dry off -- and it's common. A lot of people do this. It leads to suffering that you need not put yourself through. Look at all the suffering the left is putting out there. There's no reason to suffer in this country, but look it how much they're suffering! Look it how much pain that they are causing themselves, look at all of the pessimism and negativism that virtually envelopes and surrounds them.
It's all uncalled for, and it's all unnecessary. It's a common thing that human beings do. You know why? We have all been raised to one degree or another to believe that there is virtue in suffering. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that there is virtue in enduring BS, enduring pain, enduring suffering, why, that defines character. Why, that tells somebody who's really strong and who's really weak. You put yourself through hell, you go through hell, and you handle it well, by golly, by gosh, you're a tough person. Well, look at it another way. We all have one life. I happen to believe we are created by Almighty God. I also believe in a loving God. I can't believe life is meant to suffer.
I just don't believe it. I don't believe life is meant to be endured, and I don't think that self-imposed suffering -- I mean, there's genuine suffering out there, losses of family members and pets and so forth, don't misunderstand here. I'm talking about the self-imposed suffering, because you think it makes you virtuous, because you think you're standing out in the eyes of God, because you think it's toughing you up. There's already enough that's going to legitimately hit all of us that will stress us and pain us and test us, without the stuff we make up. And you go out and start making it up, you spin the stories of the future you can't possibly know, you get down deep in all of this, and you end up suffering. I can't believe that's what life is supposed to be. It's a great gift.
There's so much to enjoy, so much to learn, so much to experience. I mean, to sit around and be enmeshed in a whole bunch of suffering, self-imposed and self-created, and that's where the American left is. When you get in that cycle, there's nothing optimistic, and you don't even want to hear it. By the time you get so deep into your own pain and suffering and storytelling good news even makes it worse because you don't want to believe the good news. You're so miserable that you don't want to be happy because you don't trust the happiness is going to last, and so you'd just rather say miserable rather than have the false alarms of happiness.
All of this, the vast majority of this in life, is self-imposed. People do it to themselves, and it doesn't help when we've got a Drive-By Media doing everything they can do to enforce all of this. So, people end up believing that we actually have Americans in great numbers choosing between life and death, medicine versus dog food or other food; that we actually have people keeling over and dying on the streets, because they don't have health care, that we actually have people who are being fired left and right because the gas prices so high they can't get to work. You name it, we have a hurricane that's going to destroy North and South Carolina.
Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans, it will never be what it was. We've got global warming happening out there! It's going to swallow all of us! If that doesn't get us, these stupid guys who are at Yellowstone, 30,000 years late in its 600,000-year massive eruption! That's going to kill us. Any moment now it's going to dump seven feet of soot all over the country. The media is out there asking people: If you knew the date of your death, what would you do between now and then? If you knew the day of your death? I've got the story in the stack. So they keep pummeling us with all of this, oh, my God I'm going to die and I've gotta think about dying.
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