Posted on 01/28/2008 2:23:12 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Americans Want a New State of the Union, Not a Third Bush Term January 28, 2008
While the president prepares to deliver his final State of the Union Address tonight, a speech that media reports say will offer no new ideas, it's clear the Republican presidential candidates are following in Bush's footsteps offering no new ideas of their own, only a third Bush term. [AP, 1/25/08]
From the war in Iraq to denying health care to low income kids to the economy, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Rudy Giuliani offer more of the same failed Bush policies while Democrats are all offering new solutions to the country's problems. And the country is certainly looking for a new direction with 75 percent of Americans believing that America is on the wrong track, according to a recent New York Times/CBS poll. [New York Times, 1/28/07]
"After eight years of failed Republican leadership, Americans are ready for change, not the third Bush term we'd get with any of the Republican presidential candidates," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. "President Bush's final State of the Union must be just that. America literally cannot afford another State of the Union address by a Republican who may have a new name, but most certainly will support the same policies that have kept us in a never ending war in Iraq and gave us an economy that's not working for all Americans."
That's why the American people are overwhelmingly supporting Democrats in the presidential nominating contests. In every state so far, we have seen record turnout on the Democratic side and lagging enthusiasm among Republicans. In South Carolina, a state President Bush won with 58 percent of the vote in 2004, more people participated in the Democratic primary than the Republican primary and Democratic participation surged to 530,322 from 291,175 in 2004--an increase of 82 percent. In Iowa, Democrats doubled Republican turnout. In New Hampshire, a record 287,821 people voted in the Democratic primary, while GOP turnout fell. And in Nevada, three out of four Nevadans caucused in support of a Democrat.
Record turnout is fueled by Americans trusting Democrats on the issues. According to a Wall Street Journal poll, "Americans continue by double-digit margins to favor Democrats over [Bush's] party to get the country out of a recession, and to handle a range of issues - the economy generally, budget deficits, health care, energy policy and homeownership problems, as well as global warming and the nation's low standing abroad." [Wall Street Journal, 1/25/08]
Clinton Third Term!
They forgot RON PAUL!! I’m gonna scream and hold my breath ‘til the dummycrats mention RON PAUL!! Google Ron Paul!! Oh, Wow Dude, I just noticed it’s 4:20....
McCain’s running mate is going to be Joe Lieberman.
And if McCain is elected president, he will switch parties and become a Democrat.
He would do it to avoid the serious challenge he would face within the GOP for renomination in 4 years.
McCain would move quickly to pump up his Democrat credentials as soon as he takes office.
McCain will make the biggest flip-flop of all: From Republican to Democrat.
Clinton third and fourth term!
Then on to Chelsea, for his fifth and sixth term!
This is great news! Hopefully the DNC will spend all year mounting a heavy campaign against Bush/Cheney ‘08 ... and won’t realize until early November that George Bush and Dick Cheney are retiring. Read the Constitution, slick — two terms.
Romney/ Thompson ‘08 ... it ain’t perfect, but its the best we’ve got!
H
Why do they waste so much paper? Here’s the dem response to everything in the world:
Failed Republican leadership
Evil Bush
Evil Cheney
Haliburton
Karl Rove
Lost war
Change
Save, the environment dems! Stop writing such long-winded press releases and just say the buzz-words that are the red meat for your masses.
I wish bush would announce that for security concerns he is suspending the 22nd amendment
I would love to see the reaction
Mr. Obama, what kind of change will you endorse.
I will change the way you live or die.
Mrs. Clinton, what kind of change will you endorse.
I will change the way you live or die.
There are some 24 candidates for President on the AZ Republican Primary Ballot. BUSH ain't one of them. Wise up DNC!
It is a Tragedy that President Bush can not run for a third term. The 22nd amendment was a mistake. Democrat FD Roosevelt could be elected to 4 terms, yet our Republican wartime leader, President GW Bush, is limited to 2.
The 22nd amendment should be repealed. If the Republican nomination is not decided before the convention, there is a possiblity that Jeb Bush could be nominated. That would give us the opportunity to choose a True Constervative and a True Leader.
Three words: Hillary For Life.
>> It is a Tragedy that President Bush can not run for a third term. The 22nd amendment was a mistake. Democrat FD Roosevelt could be elected to 4 terms, yet our Republican wartime leader, President GW Bush, is limited to 2.
Bush is limited to 2 because they realized allowing Roosevelt to have 4 was a mistake. Having career Presidents isn’t a good idea.
>> The 22nd amendment should be repealed.
Are you sure we wouldn’t be ending the 4th term of Bill Clinton if it were? Surely Clinton would run again.
>> If the Republican nomination is not decided before the convention, there is a possiblity that Jeb Bush could be nominated.
I think that’s unlikely.
H
The 22nd amendment should be repealed. If the Republican nomination is not decided before the convention, there is a possiblity that Jeb Bush could be nominated. That would give us the opportunity to choose a True Constervative and a True Leader.
Whoa! Is it already happy hour where you are? Please make sure you have a designated driver. In case you haven't been keeping up on current events, a complicit drive-by media would have helped the impeached perjurer-in-chief clinton to reelection in 2000 if not for the 22nd amendment in spite of the fact that the economy was slipping into recession. And if W could run for reelection again he might not even get the GOP nomination based on the bloody primary fight he would have on his hands over (1) immigration reform, (2) his lack of vetoes and the runaway spending of the GOP majority congress that he had for the first six years of his administration, (3) the dreadful lack of leadership that resulted in the loss of the GOP majority in both houses in 2006, and (4) his apparent unwillingness to step up and defend those who have sacrificed a great deal defending him or our borders. Furthermore, the drive-by media has so successfully turned public opinion against him that even if he managed to get the nomination he would lose in the general election even if the dems all got stoned at their convention and nominated Dennis Kucinich. The 22nd amendment was a good thing (even though it never would have been necessary if politicians still had any sense of honor by the time they reach the point they can run for president). It's a shame we can't get a similar amendment passed to limit the terms of congress.
And Jeb probably has even less chance than Ron Paul of becoming president.
Don’t want a Clinton 3rd term either!!!!
Forgot “Scooter Libby”
I don't suppose you mean she switched her position and is now pro-life. (A third and fourth Billary term might not be 'for life', but it would sure feel like it.)
But the sixth would be - and then after that pre-groomed Chelsea, followed by her spawn, Bill the Second. The Clinton Dynasty would be born, and we would not see this dysfunction leave America until warp drive is invented.
If there was no 22nd amendment, there would have been a third term for Reagan, and probably no Clinton presidency.
Why is Pres. Bush a lame duck? Because he can’t run for a third term or even threaten to run for a third term. We have had only 1 president who took more than 2 terms, FDR. Teddy Roosevelt could have, but he promised not to, and then split the Republican Party in 1912, allowing the victory of Wilson.
Even if a president does not plan to run for a third term, the possibility that he might and might be successful gives him more authority and power during his second term.
Maybe Pres. Bush would not be re-elected (that’s what they thought in 2004), but others couldn’t be sure of that. No, the 22nd amendment was a bad idea.
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