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Wishful thinking, sadly.

BlazerBoy

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if that issue of Time were ever to be published it would make up for the infamous 'Hitler as person of the year' issue...
 
Ah, the sounds of liberals whining. Poor babies. Just because all of your politicians have no balls.

Perhaps we should have handled the post-9/11 world the way Jimmy Carter handled the Iranian hostage crisis? What was it he did again? Oh, yeah. Months of nothing, followed by a botched rescue mission. Or maybe we should have handled things the way Clinton did the first World Trade Center bombing? Or the bombing of the Cole?

The left's method of handling terrorism will get us all killed. You want to die? Go for it. But leave me out of it. Leave the United States. Move to Canada and be a big, fucking pussy. I'll throw a wreath on your grave. Save there won't be a grave for you, since you're an infidel and a homosexual.
 
Next in line: President Pro-Tempore of the Senate Ted Stevens:

Theodore Fulton "Ted" Stevens (born November 18, 1923) is an American politician from Alaska. He is currently the longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate and, because of this, is the current president pro tempore. Stevens has been accused of directing excessive amounts of pork barrel projects to Alaska. This was most recently highlighted by the intense scrutiny of the two "bridges to nowhere" that were included in the law authorizing federal transportation programs through 2010.

Ethics Questions

In 2003, The Los Angeles Times published charges that Stevens had gotten rich through influence peddling, steering government contracts to his associates, and insider trading, all of which Stevens denied.

The details of the case are as follows. In 1997, Stevens invested $50,000 with developer Jonathan B. Rubini. In 2002 Rubini and his partner bought back the senator's interests in their deals for $872,000. During the time that Stevens had money invested with Rubini, Stevens steered a $450 million contract to Rubini to build and own housing at Elmendorf Air Force Base.

In 2005, The Anchorage Daily News published reports that Stevens' son Ben Stevens held a secret option to buy into an Alaska seafood company at the same time as Sen. Stevens was creating a special Aleutian Islands fishery that would supply the company with pollock worth millions of dollars a year.

In 2005, Stevens also prevented oil executives from being placed under oath when they spoke before a Senate comittee hearing of which he was the Chairman. It is unusual for this to happen, though it is well within the power of the Chair of a committee.

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Hmm...he's got that John Tower Brylcreem-and-Bourbon-Addiction look...
 
Number_6 said:
Perhaps we should have handled the post-9/11 world the way Jimmy Carter handled the Iranian hostage crisis? What was it he did again? Oh, yeah. Months of nothing, followed by a botched rescue mission.

Not quite nothing, there was the hilereous attempt to turn a herculese into a harrier by attatching rearward and forward facing JETOs, so that it could take off from and land from inside a football stadium.

The taking off went fine, but when the forward facing JETOs were fired, the plane just had its wings ripped off.

Still at least that happened in america so the bodies wernt paraded naked around teran afterwards.
 
Jimmy Carter was a good man. Probably not a good choice for President but who is? A bit before my time as well.


You know, the picture is funny. I chuckled. But I rarely do at anti-bush stuff these days. It's been done to death and Bush has yet to be the tyrant people wish him to be so they can rebel against something.

I have been a Bush supporter since the very day he was elected. I am obviously not American but it pays heed to stay upto date with U.S politics and I pay attention to it almost as much as I study British politics.

The Bush/Blair demonization leaves me slightly annoyed to say the least. Especially in the case of Blair. How short a memory the voting public has. It was Winston Churchill that said:

The greatest argument against Democracy is a five minute conversation with your average voter

And he was right.

Sensationalism is much more important to your average Joe than any real world politics. In the day and age of Big Brother, Survivor and all the rest of the mindless TV, people need quick, simple, black and white world views or they lose interest quick. And that goes for the right and left. There are people who would have Saddam marry their daughter before saying a positive word for Bush or Blair. It's insane.

I don't agree with all the policies of Bush or Blair. Though my problems with both of them is CERTAINLY not on foreign policy. I am pissed at Blair on things like housing for 18-25 year olds. Things that directly effect me and that needs to be dealt with.

Both of them have taken a difficult, unpopular but ultimatley smart view to foreign policy. Remember Before 9/11? Remember how the world was? It was a very different place to live in. Almost retro by todays thinking on terrorism and national and global security. It was shoved directly in our collective faces from one side of the Earth to the other how organized and together these fucking nutters are to hijack and carry out highly successful missions on U.S soil.

I have always said that I call them as I see them. Through my limited expierience due to my relativley young age my own perspective has taught me that being ever so slightly to the right of center is the preferable and smart place to be.

I have issues with Bush but ultimatley I think he is a good President and that Blair is a damn fine Priminister.


Umm, I'm not sure who that was aimed at but, yeah..
 
Oh, please don't misunderstand me. I have the utmost respect for Tony Blair. President Bush I think if often not given the respect due his position, his political decisions, good or bad, notwithstanding.

In another thread, I said I like debate for the sake of debate, especially if its something I'm slightly interested in. My career track will take me directly into public service, but the studies I've done in Politics and my personal experiences over the past 5 - 6 years post high-school and slightly before have done little to nothing to stemming this massive apathy I have towards politics in general. When I was born, Ronald Reagen was president, and within a few short years, Bush was in office, and the cool thing at school was to be the child of a Desert Storm soldier. Then came Clinton. A few minor problems in his administration, but I still count him as the best President of my lifetime. However, when I started to be offput by politics was in 1999. I was scurrying about, preparing for my senior year in high-school, and the Young Democrats and Young Republicans were plastering posters up reminding the seniors to register to vote. Students walked around nailing thesis' to the Library walls outlining why Al Gore was teh worst choice for President. Fast forward a few months later, and George Bush is the president, but not after me watching a bitterly fought battle between my friends in school over something as silly as party affiliation. I was so disgusted with it, I did something that probably represents the greatest failing of my generation: I decided I did not care in the least about politics, and to this day, I haven't cast a single vote in any election. That's why I ultimately won't complaign too loud about George Bush, or the lack of solid leadership from either major party here, becuase I still don't really care. Like you said, unless its something that really strikes hard into a place I care about, like the enviornment or Education. I'm not a hard-line liberal, I'm slightly left of center, and I only recently settled there, because like my sexuality, I like being right in the middle of things. :D
 
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