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One Taste Donating Member (636 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 03:16 PM
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How can anyone support this..regardless of party?
This is a quote from another non-political message board.

"That's one of the things I like about Bush. He doesn't care what you think, he does what he thinks is right. Hopefully he's not wrong."

This baffles me to no end..:wtf:
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 03:17 PM
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1. People revered Hitler the same way.
frightening.
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Virginian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 03:23 PM
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4. and Stalin, too!
While Stalin was having people persecuted, they would write to him asking him to intervene because they thought he was a good guy and not the ultimate cause of their distress.
He had only good press. No bad stories were written about him. Everyone thought he was a good and kind leader -- until later.

I've been watching the History Channel, too.
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 03:38 PM
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7. History channel!
Hasn't that been a great series on Hitler? Fascinating. So many parallels.
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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 05:52 PM
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11. Freaking scary.
I was watching the Nazis in America special, when they showed the American Nazi rally at MSG back in the 30s (?).

It sent a shiver down my spine when I remembered the GOP is having its convention at MSG. And that if you colorized the footage you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between the two events.

God Bless 'Murika? :argh:
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 03:17 PM
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2. Blind faith
in a dead-end alley....

nasty combination.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 03:19 PM
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3. give them the list of Bush flip flops!
Most are from Daily Kos...

• When Bush came into office, he said the economy was so good that he had to give some of the surplus back to us in the form of tax rebates. Now, his campaign ads claim he inherited a recession when he came into office.
• Bush is against campaign finance reform; then he's for it.
• Bush is against a Homeland Security Department; then he's for it.
• Bush is against a 9/11 commission; then he's for it.
• Bush is against an Iraq WMD investigation; then he's for it.
• Bush is against nation building; then he's for it.
• Bush is against deficits; then he's for them.
• Bush is for free trade; then he's for tariffs on steel; then he's against them again.
• Bush is against the U.S. taking a role in the Israeli Palestinian conflict; then he pushes for a "road map" and a Palestinian State.
• Bush is for states right to decide on gay marriage, then he is for changing the constitution to ban it.
• Bush first says he'll provide money for first responders (fire, police, emergency), then he doesn't.
• Bush first says that 'help is on the way' to the military ... then he cuts benefits
• Bush- Prior to 9/11, terrorism was not important compared to Star Wars missile defense because, “Osama bin Laden doesn’t have any missiles; ” "then, soon after 9/11: “The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden”. However, in March of 2002 after 9/11, Bush said, "I don't know where he is. I have no idea and I really don't care.
• Bush claims to be in favor of the environment and then secretly starts drilling on Padre Island.
• Bush talks about helping education and increases mandates while cutting funding.
• Bush first says the U.S. won't negotiate with North Korea. Now he will
• Bush goes to Bob Jones University. Then say's he shouldn't have.
• Bush said he would demand a U.N. Security Council vote on whether to sanction military action against Iraq. Later Bush announced he would not call for a vote
• Bush said the "mission accomplished" banner was put up by the sailors. Bush later admits it was his advance team.
• Bush was for fingerprinting and photographing Mexicans who enter the US. Bush after meeting with Pres. Fox, he's against it.
• On Jan 24, 2002, Bush said he would not exploit 9/11 for political purposes, then in the his very first campaign ad for re-election, he uses images of the dead from 9/11.
• Bush says he doesn’t go to military funerals so as not to intrude on the privacy of the families, but then uses the flag draped coffins of 9/11 in his re-election campaign invading the privacy of dead civilians.
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One Taste Donating Member (636 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 03:34 PM
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6. Oh I've tried.
One actually said "many of these are very gray and your statements are very black and white. You can be for something and against certain points of an issue."

Then when I said thanks for realizing that you can agree with parts of something and disagree with other parts, and made reference to conservatives saying Kerry flip flopped on the IWR and NCLB, he said, "if he is for the NCLB, then he should have fought for what he wanted and not settled. If he settles, then shutup about it. He should stop whining about something that he voted for."

These people are helpless.
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bushisanidiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 03:26 PM
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5. They're Called Lemmings.. and the GOP counts on them to turn up
in full force every election.
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mrgorth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 03:56 PM
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8. What's a lemming?
Someone who just likes fake strength?
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Virginian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 09:46 AM
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12. A lemming is -- simple answer
A lemming is a mammal that commits suicide by following the leader.

It doesn't stop when it senses danger or maybe doesn't sense danger. It is like many of the ditto heads, blindly following a leader regardless of the consequences.

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tinanator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 09:52 AM
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13. A Lemming
is someone who believes what Disney tells them.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 09:59 AM
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15. Link
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bearfartinthewoods Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 05:44 PM
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9. don't underestimate this.....
Edited on Tue Mar-16-04 05:49 PM by bearfartinthewoods
i hear it ALL the time around here. and it is something Kerry is going to have to counter by presenting the same quality and dammit, this screwing around with the mysterious 'foriegn leaders' or 'other leaders' is NOT helping.

ON EDIT...the crooks and liars, with no names and no backup is NOT helping either. BE FUCKING SPECIFIC..if he has something to say he should say it and back it up or risk beiong taken as a blowhard.
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terryg11 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 05:49 PM
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10. unfortunately thre are some in every party
I've met some democrats that are the same way. It doesn't matter what the person says, if they are a democrat then they must be right. Of course, they often are but that's not the point
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 09:56 AM
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14. He's been proven wrong!
On taxcuts, the economy, the war, etc...How many reasons do they need?
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