Posted on 06/20/2004 3:21:27 PM PDT by Howlin
CBS at 7:00 P.M. EDT
That's OK, because I have quite a few other names for him, most of which would get me instantly banned here.
However, while watching the McLaughlin Group with my dad today, I got angry enough at Eleanor Clift that I used the c-word. I actually asked my dad "Is it OK if I now refer to that hag as a [c-word]?" He just looked at me with a slightly startled/amused expression and said "Uh, I think you just did..."
Bill Clinton charmed the press. They liked him because he was a likeable guy. He had star power. Bush does not have this likeability factor. In fact, few people have it.
Why does Bush bring out the worst in everybody? From supposed allies to the press, people don't seem to like him. Bush calls Putin, pootypoot. Would you liked to be called pootypoot? Get the picture?
The press is liberal, but they treated Carter with the same scorn as they do Bush. Reagan was likeable, and the press fawned over him. Everybody liked Reagan, except his political opponents, who thought he was Satan. Ditto for Clinton.
but he did win. and Gore was running for what was essentially Clinton's third term - and won the popular vote. don't underestimate the Clintons - if Hillary should become president, the first husband/wife pair to achieve the presidency, the media and the sheeple will make them into demi-gods.
Bush only brings out the "worst," as you say, in people who are American haters.
He still doesn't understand the meaning of words such as "duty", "honor", and "commitment". Nor can he think about any subject, except in terms of how it affect him personally (either today, or as part of his elusive "legacy").
As for the stuff about him and Hillary, it's all a farce, designed to make them appear as "average married folks". Their 'marriage' is not one in the conventional sense-- rather it is a partnership of two maniacs addicted to power, who help each other out.
Clinton is more of an economic conservative than Bush 43.
Why does Bush bring out the worst in everybody?
Wow--you are batting 1000 for a newbie.
You nailed it.
Ronald Reagan: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Bill Clinton: "I did not have sex, with that woman, Monica Lewinsky!".
Bill Clinton: "I did it because I could."
No doubt, Clinton charmed Katie Couric and any female reporter, while Hillary looked the other way for her own power ambitions, and thus bastardizing the institution of marriage, IMO.
Dontcha wish everyone ion the media would use us as a clearing house ? LOL.
That's the dumbest-assed thing I've read here all day.
Even many of those who disagree with Bush's policies like him as a person.
Bush has the likeability factor in spades. Kerry, on the other hand, doesn't.
You live in a different universe.
We need our own dang show!
"people don't seem to like him."
That's not my impression at all! On what do you base this? Sure, he gets bashed by folks like DU-ers and the mainstream press, but his popularity is hovering right around 50%, I believe.
I think it's funny that he calls Putin PootyPoot!
China is the oldest civilization in Asia. I wear this bracelet on my arm, and I have since June, because it was given to me by Christians there, who live in an area where they are persecuted and sometimes killed by government forces. 100% of their religious freedom is now in the control of those people. Can you imagine the bleeding heart American liberals reaction if even one black American Muslim lost their life to a muderous government persecution of their religious beliefs? So we have a big stake in that.
No Pity at all just anathema
What is the color of the sky in your world Scotty?
Now go away. The main reason a fair number of people hate Bush is because they hate America and they don't like his Christianity. It reminds them that they are being measured and found wanting, which may I say, applies to you.
So far Boomers as a social force has been on the liberal side, not the conservative side - the modern conservative movement was in fact not origianlly a Boomer movement. The cultural, intellectual and unelected government functionaries in what we call "the establishment" are overwhelmingly Boomer now, and overwhelmingly liberal. Even the GOP is more moderate that it is truly conservative. That is just what the culture war is about. It is the "progressive activist" of the sixites that defines our generation, not the Vietnam Vet.
Perhaps GWB and CO. will turn the tide but at this point it reamains to be seen. That is in fact why this election is so bitter - it is a tbattle for the soul of a generation. It is not "baloney" at all, nothing could be more obvious. That does not mean that it tars all of us in that generation or that you should take it personally. But if they are not defeated they will in fact tar our entire generation.
Evey generation as a "youth movement," the point is that the "youth movement" of our generation was hijacked by the hard left and that the sheer size of the Bommer generation was so large that it created and impact beyond the norm. This is precisely what the 1960's were, and are, about.
To fight the good fight against the left it is necessary to look the Boomers straight in the eye for the damage that our generation has wrought. Not all of us, of course, but enough.
And Bill Clinton and his wife clearly articulate this aspect of our generation, like it or not.
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