9-11 Smear-Mongering Fails to Dent Bush's Popularity

NewsMax.com ^ | Saturday May 25, 2002

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[TenthAmendmentChampion]

I think LIEberman sounds exactly like Willie from the old ALF sitcom. In fact, during the 2000 campaign I thought it would have been a funny skit to have ALF playing the part of algore and LIEberman trying to cope with the ozone man's goofy ideas. Too bad I didn't know about FreeRepublic then.

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LOL...where do you FIND these???

I gotta disagree with the Tom Ridge cartoon, though. Ridge is actually doing his job...media hysteria mongering notwithstanding. The alert codes were changed to "Star Treak" style because almost no regular American citizen knows what "DEFCON" means, let alone what "delta" or "charlie" mean, and the fed needed a way to get a quick response from the ...err...voters from the BLUE areas of the map.

Yeah, I know lots of FReepers live in the cities still...and you FReepers who DO live in cities know you're part of the informed minority.

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Sheesh...can't type...again. Should never have gotten back online.

Signin' off..again. Stay safe, everyone.

[alnick]

You can add to that list the claim that Bush wants to poison the children with arsenic in their water and salmonella in their hamburgers.

[twntaipan]

The entire Democratic party should be indicted and imprisoned for treason--or worse.

[sakic]

If I can find someone to bet I'd be happy to make the wager.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

This is an interesting bet and topic. If God forbid 9/11 or worse than happens again than many will scream what I am now...GET THE TERRORISTS HERE IN OUR COUNTRY OUT PRONTO, (if you don't think our technology can know where they are, think again) and seal our borders.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Post the U.S. terrorist's map with the link, please...I can't find it.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Look at how desperate they are.

[JulieRNR21]

Here's another one to make the RATs squirm: Bush has stayed at over 75% job approval longer than any other president.

Watch Gallup Poll Video here:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/Multimedia/video/archived/2002/05/vr020509c.ram

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

It is a joke :-). Yes most of the U.S. is dumb and cares only about THEMselves and their mini vans and little league/soccer games but it was a joke.

I found them here.

[Brad’s Gramma]

It didn't show, for some odd reason. And, although I think SOME people can right click and choose Show Picture....I can't. Oh well.

[Brad’s Gramma]

You can add to that list the claim that Bush wants to poison the children with arsenic in their water and salmonella in their hamburgers.

He DOES? Why, why, I'll NEVER vote for him again!!!!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"Post the U.S. terrorist's map with the link, please...I can't find it."

It's your choice, sit at home OR actually get out and help defend America.

How YOU can assist fighting terrorist cells in the United Sates.
17yrs old and up, no upper age limit. Something for everyone to do



Jihad in America: Author Steve Emerson explains how he made video, lived to tell about it

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

We are at war. We are surrounded. But gosh darn dare we do anything about it it is profiling and offensive to their phoney religion and downright politically incorrect.

I say kick all out in the map you just posted, we know where they are, their privilige to live here should be revoked ASAP. And then seal our borders tight.

[stryker]

Question: Knowing now that Roosevelt knew that the attack on Pearl Harbor was coming, but that the US public could not be convinced to join the war against Hitler without allowing the attack, was his decision to allow the attack a good or bad decision with hindsight? In all fairness, we must conclude that as horrible as the conclusion seems, it was one that was correct. It prevented the conquest of Britain and the movement of the remainder of Hitler's troops to the Eastern Front where they would have won, rather than lost, the battle for Stalingrad, and therefore defeated the Soviets.

Next question: If Bush knew the strike were coming, but could not convince the American people to favor a general war against terrorism in time to stop the development and use of nuclear weapons against the US, would his decision to allow the strike be a good or bad decision with hindsight if the war concludes with victory and no nuclear strike?

I have always found it hard to believe that the Pentagon can be so easily attacked, considering it must have the most heavily defended airspace in the world. I would imagine that under that beautiful grass, there are pop up AA guns that surround the entire edifice. If not, we have complete idiots for generals. I also imagine that fighter jets can be over the Pentagon to defend it within two or three minutes of notice to do so. However, it was nevertheless hit in just that spot which was just reinforced against such attacks and had the fewest people inside the entire building in that area. How strange and coincidental this has always seemed to me.

Now, as a very hard core realist, I do not hate Bush if it turned out he knew. I do however, hate the fact he is not prosecuting this war with every available asset we have--deportations, tactical nuclear weapons, temporary internment of nonresident aliens, inspections of every box and person that enters this country, even if it means a civilian draft, etc. Rather, he seems intent on running as tepid a war as possible and trying to piss off as few people as possible and hope that we don't get hit rather than flat out guaranteeing it with the appropriate tactics. If we are at war, then let us act like warriors. If we are not, then let us forget this play and go home the wiser for the lesson.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Very good points that are leaving me thinking. Especially the Pentagon being hit points.

Outstanding post.

Ditto and Kudos.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Look at the map and read the link in post # 115.

What are your thought on this? Especially the part where the reporter becomes concerned and it is basically let known that the FBI/CIA could not launch any investigation of 'individuals.' What kind of crap is that?

[Mudboy Slim]

"The truth is the party that garners support on the other side of center always wins. Of couse when a candidate or party does that, he has to go far enough to recover the part of the base this tactic loses."

Your argument for Triangulation is noted, but I do not believe it is what's best for the Country. You assume it is the best strategy for winning the election and retaining Power, however it doesn't do much good for ratcheting back the Power and Scope of the Federal Leviathan. That should be the Right's ultimate goal, IMHO, not simply retaining Power. What good is Power when we continue to enact the Left's Agenda on so many fronts?

"Our entire political system was based on the dominance of the center. It takes 60 votes in the Senate. It takes the Senate, the House, the President, and Supreme Court to make major changes in our nation. We have a stable government because it is biased for the views of the center."

Less than 50% of the American people vote, and I believe a good majority of the non-voters are folks who don't feel they need an ever-expanding Federal Bureaucracy like we've had for the last 70 years. If the GOP could capitalize on Dubyuh's popularity and run on an aggressive agenda for empowering States, Localities, and Individuals while decreasing the Scope of the inefficient and ineffectual Federal Bureaucracy, it is my opinion that we could attract a good number of non-voters while energizing those on the Right who tend to sit out elections wherein they believe the RATS and the GOP are all-too-similar.

"In this most evenly divided political time in our history, the candidates and party that most runs to the center will win.The winner will then move the nation slightly left or slightly right depending on who wins."

Seriously, when was the last time Federal Spending as a Percentage of Gross Domestic Product decreased in the last 30 years?! The Fed's share of the National Pie continues to grow regardless of who wins elections...it's time we started ratcheting spending down for a change.

FReegards...MUD