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flummuxt
Joined: 15 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:29 am Post subject: George W. on drugs? |
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Maureen Dowd doesn't actually say this, but you've got to wonder when you read her column, "Soft Shoe in Hard Times":
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/opinion/16dowd.html?em&ex=1206072000&en=e72534346cce91e4&ei=5087%0A
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Boy George crashed the family station wagon into the globe and now the global economy. Yet the more terrified Americans get, the more bizarrely carefree he seems. The former oilman reacted with cocky ignorance a couple of weeks ago when a reporter informed him that gas was barreling toward $4 a gallon.
In on-the-record sessions with reporters � and more candid off-the-record ones � he has seemed goofily happy in recent weeks, prickly no more but strangely liberated and ebullient. |
Word was his father was taking prescription drugs while in the White House, specifically, Halcion, which has a reputation for sometimes producing bizarre changes in a person's ability to think clearly.
It sure sounds like someone is feeding Jr. some happy happy meals.
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At a dinner on Wednesday, the man who is persona non grata on the campaign trail (except for closed fund-raisers) told morose Republican members of Congress that he was totally confident that �we can retake the House� and �hold the White House.�
�I think 2008 is going to be a fabulous year for the Republican Party!� he said, sounding like Rachael Ray sprinkling paprika on goulash. That must have been news to House Republicans, who have no money, just lost the seat held by their former speaker, and are hemorrhaging incumbents as they head into a campaign marked by an incipient recession and an unpopular war. |
Do you think the Feds could charge Bush with DWI for his handling of the economy?
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�I�m coming to you as an optimistic fellow,� he told the Economic Club of New York on Friday. His manner � chortling and joshing � was in odd juxtaposition to the Fed�s bailing out the imploding Bear Stearns and his own acknowledgment that �our economy obviously is going through a tough time,� that gas prices are spiking, and that folks �are concerned about making their bills.�
He began by laughingly calling the latest news on the economic meltdown �a interesting moment� and ended by saying that �our energy policy has not been very wise� and that there was �no quick fix� on gasp-inducing gas prices.
�You know, I guess the best way to describe government policy is like a person trying to drive a car in a rough patch,� he said. �If you ever get stuck in a situation like that, you know full well it�s important not to overcorrect, because when you overcorrect you end up in the ditch.�
Dude, you�re already in the ditch. |
Maureen Dowd is a great writer. If you haven't already, you should check out her columns. If I could, I would marry her, or at least marry her style.
George W. has become life imitating art. When his accidental presidency began, The Economist ran a picture of him as Alfred E. (What Me Worry?) Newman.
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Bush, who used his family connections to avoid Vietnam, told troops serving in Afghanistan on Thursday that he is �a little envious� of their adventure there, saying it was �in some ways romantic.�
Afghanistan is still roiling, as is Iraq, but W. is serene. |
Perhaps The Economist needs to run a new picture of Bush as Dorian Gray. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:41 am Post subject: Re: George W. on drugs? |
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| flummuxt wrote: |
| Perhaps The Economist needs to run a new picture of Bush as Dorian Gray. |
Why, because he's not aging? He has a portrait in his attic that keeps getting older? He's become a hedonist?
I don't get it. |
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flummuxt
Joined: 15 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:43 am Post subject: |
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| Maureen Dowd is a great writer. If you haven't already, you* should check out her columns. |
* Not including Tiberious aka Sparkles. |
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nicholas_chiasson
Joined: 14 Jun 2007
Location: Samcheok
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| W Bush has aged a ton since he took office. As did all 2 term presidents. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Never fret, McCain will bring fresh ideas. |
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santafly
Joined: 20 Feb 2008
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| I remember watching an interview of Bush on MTV when he was running for his first term. He responded to a couple questions with some nonsensical string of imaginary words (he has gotten better at talking, now he can put together simple sentences in 4yr old texan dialect). The interviewer waited till he finished his nonsense and then said something like "you not only didn't answer the questions, your responses weren't intelligible". He just stood there silently for about 10 seconds and then they cut to a commercial. |
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xingyiman
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject: Re: George W. on drugs? |
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| flummuxt wrote: |
Maureen Dowd doesn't actually say this, but you've got to wonder when you read her column, "Soft Shoe in Hard Times":
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/opinion/16dowd.html?em&ex=1206072000&en=e72534346cce91e4&ei=5087%0A
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Boy George crashed the family station wagon into the globe and now the global economy. Yet the more terrified Americans get, the more bizarrely carefree he seems. The former oilman reacted with cocky ignorance a couple of weeks ago when a reporter informed him that gas was barreling toward $4 a gallon.
In on-the-record sessions with reporters � and more candid off-the-record ones � he has seemed goofily happy in recent weeks, prickly no more but strangely liberated and ebullient. |
Word was his father was taking prescription drugs while in the White House, specifically, Halcion, which has a reputation for sometimes producing bizarre changes in a person's ability to think clearly.
It sure sounds like someone is feeding Jr. some happy happy meals.
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At a dinner on Wednesday, the man who is persona non grata on the campaign trail (except for closed fund-raisers) told morose Republican members of Congress that he was totally confident that �we can retake the House� and �hold the White House.�
�I think 2008 is going to be a fabulous year for the Republican Party!� he said, sounding like Rachael Ray sprinkling paprika on goulash. That must have been news to House Republicans, who have no money, just lost the seat held by their former speaker, and are hemorrhaging incumbents as they head into a campaign marked by an incipient recession and an unpopular war. |
Do you think the Feds could charge Bush with DWI for his handling of the economy?
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�I�m coming to you as an optimistic fellow,� he told the Economic Club of New York on Friday. His manner � chortling and joshing � was in odd juxtaposition to the Fed�s bailing out the imploding Bear Stearns and his own acknowledgment that �our economy obviously is going through a tough time,� that gas prices are spiking, and that folks �are concerned about making their bills.�
He began by laughingly calling the latest news on the economic meltdown �a interesting moment� and ended by saying that �our energy policy has not been very wise� and that there was �no quick fix� on gasp-inducing gas prices.
�You know, I guess the best way to describe government policy is like a person trying to drive a car in a rough patch,� he said. �If you ever get stuck in a situation like that, you know full well it�s important not to overcorrect, because when you overcorrect you end up in the ditch.�
Dude, you�re already in the ditch. |
Maureen Dowd is a great writer. If you haven't already, you should check out her columns. If I could, I would marry her, or at least marry her style.
George W. has become life imitating art. When his accidental presidency began, The Economist ran a picture of him as Alfred E. (What Me Worry?) Newman.
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Bush, who used his family connections to avoid Vietnam, told troops serving in Afghanistan on Thursday that he is �a little envious� of their adventure there, saying it was �in some ways romantic.�
Afghanistan is still roiling, as is Iraq, but W. is serene. |
Perhaps The Economist needs to run a new picture of Bush as Dorian Gray. |
Maureen Dowd is a vepid femminist who dates effeminate men and then byotches about them not having game. To each his own I guess.
I think Bush is mostly in denial and unadmitting that the boat is about ready to sink much like Clinton was not admitant that the economy began tanking on his watch during the late 1990's.
Bush started the Afgan and Iraq wars and then didn't have any time for the economy which has floundered under his watch.
Bush has been a bad president but if you're just one of the types who still harbors resentment over the 2000 elections all because you can't seem to comprehend the electoral process then please refrain from ad-hominem attacks. History will Judge Mr. Bush as is will his predecessor Mr. Clinton. Bush isn't a one man gang lots of his actions are determined by groups of advisors many of which have PhD's and are military experts. DO they make mistakes? Sure. But blaming society's ills on a single president although seemingly justifiable is sophmoric. Democratic supporters will whine and bawl about how Republicans destroyed the unions and brought about the downfall of organized labor but fall short of adding the tidbit that union busting was all done under the watchful eye of a democratic controlled congress. Of course our current democratic congress has stellar marks. Heck theie approval rating i less than Bush's.
Republican - Friend of the Rich, depisers of the poor
Democrat - Friend of the Rich, lies to the poor and tells them they care. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 4:52 am Post subject: |
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| Maureen Dowd is a great writer. If you haven't already, you* should check out her columns. |
* Not including Tiberious aka Sparkles. |
Still don't get the Dorian Gray connection. But perhaps I'm being obtuse. |
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ernie
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
Location: asdfghjk
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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i'm not sure whether 'on' means 'using' or 'against' anymore, so i'm not sure how to answer the question...
war on terror = war against terror
that dude's on drugs = that dude's using drugs |
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Donkey Beer
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:36 am Post subject: |
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Yet another GWB bashing thread.... by this point your message falls on deaf ears.
Why don't you campaign against global warming while you're at it. |
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