America a less hopeful nation under Bush.
By on Jan 31st, 2006 at 9:56 pm
America a less hopeful nation under Bush.
Despite Bush’s claim that “In recent years, America has become a more hopeful Nation,” 61% of Americans think the country is on the wrong track. (HT: MyDD)
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I think we each need to send Heir Bush a dictionary. He clearly doesn’t know the meaning of the words in his pre-written speeches.
January 31st, 2006 at 10:05 pmi’m drunk
January 31st, 2006 at 10:06 pmGo to Home Depot,Wal-Mart,Kmart,Sam’s Club,Lowes,Best Buy,Costco,Target,and all the other big box stores. Look at all the middle aged and older workers who look out of place, and ask them how hopeful they are.
January 31st, 2006 at 10:13 pmFor Christ’s sake minimum wage =
# 2 Hee hee hee, good one, I had to have some wine to endure this…
And because Bush tells them to, Hamas is now going
to recognize the state of Israel… riiiiiiiight.
How many times did he use the word ‘freedom?’
January 31st, 2006 at 10:17 pmI meant to keep count. I was waiting for ‘the march
for freedom’ and I was not disappointed.
Sorry I think it’s ‘freedom is on the march,’ that’s it.
January 31st, 2006 at 10:21 pmI still can’t quite figure out whether Bush truly believes what he said and is simply living in a world of his own which has no relation to this one — or doesn’t believe a word of it and is simply selling snake oil. There were so many things in this speech which were quite patently absurd given his own policies — pleading for unity when he’s been just a partisan as anyone, talking about improvements in technology after he’s cut billions in student loans, bringing up the topic of affordable healthcare while cutting Medicaid, beating the dead horse of Social Security…it just went on and on. I can’t understand how anyone with any functioning brain cells left can continue to believe in this man anymore — but then again, I never believed in him to begin with.
January 31st, 2006 at 10:33 pmHe is absolutely correct. Since the majority of us think the country is on the wrong track, we end up hoping for a better future. So if you think about it, George has made us a more hope filled country.
January 31st, 2006 at 10:38 pmProving once again that there are lies, damn lies and State of the Union lies.
January 31st, 2006 at 10:38 pmAnd Well, Like Nixon Here…
“Thirty-five years ago,” the San Francisco Chronicle’s Bob Egelko recently wrote, “President Richard Nixon claimed constitutional authority to wiretap Americans’ phone calls to protect national security without asking a judge…” In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled “against Nixon, saying the Constitution granted the powers he was claiming to judges, not presidents.”
Egelko also pointed out the “Presidents have approved wiretaps without court orders since the 1940s, but the legality of the practice was thrown into doubt after the Supreme Court ruled in 1967 that electronic eavesdropping was a search, and thus covered by the prohibition on unreasonable searches in the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment.”
January 31st, 2006 at 10:48 pmThere were so many things in this speech which were quite patently absurd given his own policies — pleading for unity when he’s been just a partisan as anyone, talking about improvements in technology after he’s cut billions in student loans, bringing up the topic of affordable healthcare while cutting Medicaid, beating the dead horse of Social Security…it just went on and on. I can’t understand how anyone with any functioning brain cells left can continue to believe in this man anymore — but then again, I never believed in him to begin with.
Comment by Bluestocking — January 31, 2006 @ 10:33 pm
I think they have lied so much and so often, thru Roves Spin, and that they realize WE know about their Double Speak, Echo Chamber propaganda, they are tongue tied.
January 31st, 2006 at 10:54 pmBush is a Dead Duck Politically speaking, he may as well just Quit, like he has alot of other things.
In between the frequent dashes to the porcelain goddess
I heard a knock at the door.
It was a plumber,
Comeing to fix the leak.
Thanks for the advancement.
The drippy, wet SOTU speach.
An indication of the sense of intergral securities that which are lacking from an adminisrtation that parades its New Clothes.
WE NEED TO WAHE AMERICA UP
January 31st, 2006 at 11:12 pmI just couldn’t watch another lie session. My apploigies to our founding fathers for not doing enough to stop our corupt goverment. We are growing in numbers by the day, and will overcome these dictators. I was weak, but I am getting stronger. Iran is just a diversion from them robbing the country. Lie to us, shame on them, lie to us more…shame on us.
January 31st, 2006 at 11:16 pmGood one. ;)
I am full of hope. You know why. Bush and friends have brought this country down so low that it can only go up from here. I suppose there is complete depression, but I am also hopeful that Bush will be stopped before that happens.
January 31st, 2006 at 11:17 pmWell, #4, for each time he said “Freedom” you were required to take a drink (beer, wine, soda, cider, whatever). Take it from there. If you were imbibing, you’re wasted.
January 31st, 2006 at 11:18 pm#12 Comment by wisedup
Apolgies for inaction needs to go to the future.
January 31st, 2006 at 11:29 pmInactivity betrays their future, not our past.
Their past is happening NOW!!!
Yeah, we’re hoping that Bush’s reign of error ends soon.
February 1st, 2006 at 12:10 amWHERE DID BUSH GET HIS THOUGHTS ON “HUMAN-ANIMAL HYBRIDS”?
http://www.tv.com/Manimal/show/2154/summary.html
February 1st, 2006 at 8:50 amhopeful that Bush realizes he not King
that corporations are most important things
Bush isnt the lord of the Rings
man woman child dying in War Polity
that we may see world war three
fallen never to know one another
killed from afar by politico blunder
far more in common the fallen have
their backs the politicos stab
with slick and slimy words
tell you what you wish heard
Power is money to them man dirt
laws they sold along with their heart
mean spirits filled with infinite dark
Washington where corrupt liars lurk
for their you will find
February 1st, 2006 at 9:15 amthe most inhumane kind
#17 Have you ever looked at Cheny?
February 1st, 2006 at 10:37 amThe part I liked was when the Democrats cheered and clapped about rebuffing Pres. Bush’s attempt to destroy Social Security!
February 1st, 2006 at 10:37 am#17 Comment by Clif
He’ll be in office for 30 days, max.
Read developing news. HERE
Then it’ll be Hassert.
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