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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 06:25 PM
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People didn't even EXPECT Bush to do anything until 3 days in.
9/11 President my ass. They KNOW how fucking incompetent this piece of shit is.

They know he won't do a damned thing.
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H5N1 Donating Member (777 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 06:26 PM
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1. That is strange but true
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 06:26 PM
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2. He's too busy looting!
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aresef Donating Member (270 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 07:46 PM
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16. Political capital, that is.
Here we go again. He says a few words, the necessary agencies have been mobilized for the last few days, he flies over in Air Force One. Let me repeat that. AIR FORCE ONE. Not Marine One, but Air Force One, meaning he was too high up to see individual people and their tragedies.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 08:47 PM
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19. Not just political capital, but greenbacks too...
Bush and his pals are making a killing, off of Iraq and the gouging at the gas pumps.
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aresef Donating Member (270 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 09:59 PM
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22. And my stepdad jokingly bet...
Halliburton will have some overpaid role in the cleanup.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 05:01 AM
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23. I'll bet you he's right about that.
I'll bet you they are ready to move in right now like a lock of buzzards. The reason Cheney hasn't been seen, is probably because he's been too busy writing himself checks, to come out and say, "Go F**k Yourself"!
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BlueJac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 06:28 PM
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3. I don't believe it!
People on freeways needing water and food.....where is the help.Oh I forgot...........Iraq. Shit the choppers should be everywhere dropping food and water instead of missles in Iraq.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 07:27 PM
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15. Why can't they get water and food and some kind of shelter to
those people stranded on that overpass, IF they can't get them off that bridge, AT LEAST get them some provisions! JHC!
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aresef Donating Member (270 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 06:28 PM
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4. All the rights-abriging security measures in the world...
...can't stop Mother Nature, sadly. If I was very religious, my prayers would be with those poor people. They may never get their lives back, and for some, that's in a literal sense. And they're right to be angry. We could have done more to prevent this.
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 06:29 PM
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5. The AWOL pResident
AWOL for NG duty, AWOL on perrsonal business ethics, AWOL on 9/11, AWOL on the tsunami, AWOL on NOLA. Spot a trend here?
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 06:30 PM
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6. We are now officially a nation of enablers.
We cower in gratitude when things don't get worse because of Bush.
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 06:31 PM
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7. Great post. That's exactly it.
We expect nothing better.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 06:32 PM
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8. America - low expectations and getting lower
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 07:22 PM
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13. ahhh
but you can't pick on the special olympics preznit.
gotta be nice to retards.
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 06:32 PM
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9. You got that right!
:woohoo:
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 08:17 PM
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17. .....
Best smilie ever.
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WhollyHeretic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 06:37 PM
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10. This week has been a dazzling display of ineptitude
It's mind boggling how much death and destruction this steaming pile of crap is responsible for or contributed to with his incompetence, lies and ignorance.
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MissMarple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 06:42 PM
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11. I have a strange feeling the Bush administration has jumped the shark
or the couch, or the hurricane. Louisiana and Mississippi are wrecked, and the areas on the coast are devolving into chaos. There aren't enough security personnel, the ones who are available are hungry, thirsty and overworked. New Orleans is in a state of anarchy. The police are scavenging for gas and food, gangs of looters have cleaned out stores with guns. Quite frankly, if I was there, I would want a gun, as well. It is a dangerous place, something like New York City in "Escape From New York".

And all the trapped people, families on roof tops, people on overpasses in the hot sun, college kids in dormitories, people in the hospitals, still are in need of immediate aid and rescue.

This administration's inept political hacks, it's pennypinching ways with American security issues, it's squandering of money on an ill planned war, a bad energy policy, and the infamous tax cuts that keep Americans in minimum wage jobs....well, it's all coming back to haunt them.
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Toots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 06:51 PM
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12. He was made aware days in advance of impending disaster but he felt
he needed to get on with his life. I suspect thousands are going to die during this crisis and yet Bush* will somehow get a huge bounce from this and the MSM will swear he is the second coming. He had days to prepare and yet days after the fact and FEMA or the Guard neither one are on the scene. Why Why Why Why. What is wrong with this country? Am I a traitor for asking that question also.
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 07:25 PM
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14. No, the people are waking up to their own ridiculously low expectations.
I get the feeling this is it.

It's fucking resignation time. This is the straw.
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 08:20 PM
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18. Clinton beat him to New York....from another country.
Edited on Wed Aug-31-05 08:21 PM by RUMMYisFROSTED
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 09:06 PM
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20. Yup. nt
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electron_blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 09:10 PM
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21. After 9/11, people defended Bush for taking so long to respond, saying
Edited on Wed Aug-31-05 09:10 PM by electron_blue
it wasn't fair to attack him, and "you wouldn't know for sure how you'd respond if you were President" blah blah blah. To which I always replied. "Maybe not, but NOW WE KNOW HOW HE RESPONDS TO NATIONAL EMERGENCIES. Are you happy with that kind of President?"

We knew 4 years ago how Bush responds. Nobody should be surprised how he responds now. You could even write a script about what he will do next.

Let's see - what happened initially after 9/11? Did he respond "helpfully"? No, he manipulated the American public into giving up significant freedoms and to conceeding to higher prices of gas.

I guarantee you we'll be seeing more of the same from Bush within the month.
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