Why is America addicted to a Losing President??

[opihimoimoi]

The man is in the LOSING MODE, Persistent and Consistent....he just keeps on Losing....and we keep on giving him more to lose for us...

he is like a compulsive gambler using our money to play around with...
but he keeps losing more and more.....

Gas is $3.49 here in Hawaii takes $85 bucks for a lousy fill up...Damn

We are fucked....

[bullimiami]

1. Stuck with more like. Its the corporatocracy that loves him so.

the people are not so enamored.

[opihimoimoi]

15. Enough emamored to still back him up.... sucks...

[BlueCaliDem]

32. It's the All-American "Rooting for the Underdog" Syndrome...

...and it's only cheered on more, when this underdog seems like he/she's winning at everything he/she does (helped by an utterly helpful-to-Repubs-exclusively, brainwashing media, of course).

Of course there are the regular Repuke-hacks that would vote for a sockpuppet just as long as it's Republican, but the majority of Independents, and even some Democrats and Republicans that voted for him, did so because of the above, I believe.

I mean, the corporate-owned right-wing biased media (that need friendly Repub votes for huge tax cuts and more lenient FCC rules) nearly put the halo around *'s cocky head during his campaigning against Gore; showing Gore as a know-it-all, and * as the less intelligent of the two, and did the same with Kerry.

Am I the only one who sees this?

[opihimoimoi]

36. To RULE, one must FOOL..... Thats their Philosophy and SOM

Standard Operating Manual

That they did with money and power so successfully attest to the effectiveness of the approach....

[BlueCaliDem]

73. And It Shouldn't Be Happening So Successfully Anymore...

....NOT in this age of the "information superhighway"!

I mean, there are so many sources from which people these days can get their information, and news, and it's clear with the down-spiraling of ratings with cable and network news outlets (in addition to disappointing print news subscriptions for the big ones like NYT's and Los Angeles Times...people are clearly opting for other ways to get their news, and I'm wondering (hoping, maybe?) that come next year, that Standard Operating Modem will have the least affect.

[opihimoimoi]

76. Yes, Improvements are ON THE WAY

Hopefully, we will see a paradigm shift towards Sanity and REASON.

[marmar]

2. There was a recent piece by an Australian...

called "America's Battered Wife Syndrome." It kind of sums it all up. (Of course it doesn't refer to the many of us who've always despised the prick.)

[opihimoimoi]

16. Beat me more so I can love you more?? Damn....

[patricia92243]

3. They have not known he is a loser. The press has very carefully covered i

it up and lots of people don't have the internet or go to the trouble to look at the news if they do have it.

Even though he is receiving a tiny bit more negative press now, it is still pretty much hands off of him.

[tatertop]

4. I talk to so many people who have no idea what's going on

It really scares me

[opihimoimoi]

22. They have elected to TUNE OUT CURRENT EVENTs. Might make them think

[Angry Girl]

14. Agreed. This quote says it all:

"An unnamed Bush official told reporter Ron Suskind, 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.' For those who didn't like it, another Bush adviser explained,

'Let me clue you in. We don't care. You see, you're outnumbered two to one by folks in the big, wide middle of America, busy working people who don't read the New York Times or Washington Post or the LA Times.'

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050509/alterman
April 21, 2005 (May 9, 2005 issue)
Bush's War on the Press
Eric Alterman

[opihimoimoi]

48. Sheer unmitigated, undiluted intense ARROGANCE the evil kind

[Angry Girl]

50. As opposed to the "good kind" of course! :-)

[opihimoimoi]

54. Touche....Arrogance 101...let me count the ways.....

[Angry Girl]

55. It might even be Arrogance 314, the graduate class.... And

please don't start counting their arrogant ways, because you'll be here till next Leap Year!

Monday morning.... what trouble can we get into now....

[opihimoimoi]

59. Arrogance 365.22 Long Term Counter Effects of

Existing and predicted problems for Humanity because of persistent Arrogant Leadership 101.07

Combo of Selfish, Ignorant, Arrogant, Leadership:

Forget "Healthy, Wealthy and Wise"

The Focus is on Self/Special Interest and not General Interest/Common Good.

Huge Problema....Huge...

Focus becomes defense/enhancement of Wealth/Position/etc and NOT research as to what will work better...

Advancement is slowed down

Knowledge is stifled.

Brain washing continues

Famines coming our way, over pop not being addressed, food supply
dimming.

Nutrients in eco system out of balance more and more due to Humanity

Extinction Reduction Unit not yet formed/funded

etc

[Angry Girl]

62. Prereq for Arrogance 365.22: The 14 characteristics of fascism

You must have received a B or better in this class before you can be accepted in ARR-365.22. PNAC'ers may request the instructor's permission if you have already covered this material during a previous invasion.

Course Syllabus:

1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism.
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights.
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause.
4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism.
5. Rampant sexism.
6. A controlled mass media.
7. Obsession with national security. .
8. Religion and ruling elite tied together.
9. Power of corporations protected. .
10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated.
11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts.
12. Obsession with crime and punishment.
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption.
14. Fraudulent elections.

http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=britt_23_2

[opihimoimoi]

70. Shhhh, not too much, they are here to lurk......shhhhhhhh.....

[opihimoimoi]

77. There are much more to this but they wish it suppressed.. we should find

the ways to counter Facism by exposing their Intent...Control and Dominance..and the means by which they employ...we know them as LIE CHEAT STEAL...all the things we were taught not to do...they do...

[opihimoimoi]

17. Double Damn...the sheep don't even know the Bush is a LOSER?

Get their faces outta the Sports section to read the FRONT PAGE... that is the GOAL.

[Ferret Annica]

75. Good intermediate goal...

...however, the news is filtered way too much. And increasingly, this is done more and more by the sort of people who gave us Bush.

If they are enticed to go to the front page only to be propagandized by Neo Cons and other lower forms of political life, then the whole purpose of trying to inform people is defeated.

Their aggressive effort to even think about progressive political stances should be countered eye to eye. It is far easier to do now then it would be to do later after any success at playing sheep dog.

[opihimoimoi]

78. The Wise Owl stays in the trees and watches....and Learns...

We should employ what we learn...

[Ferret Annica]

91. I am a tree-sitter

Veteran of many shifts in forest sits and have done urban tree actions.

Interesting you should frame your comments using the metaphor you do.

[opihimoimoi]

92. I'm a tree hugger myself....always was....Humans are related..symbiosis

[Skittles]

38. COME ON

THE MAN'S IDIOCY IS ON DISPLAY EVERY TIME HE SPEAKS

[opihimoimoi]

53. BUT BUT the Peeps BELIEVE IN HIM, give him money, flowers, love

[Wapsie B]

5. Some of it is ignorance and not being fully informed.

Some of it's spite and payback for 8 years of Clinton.

[opihimoimoi]

18. Revenge has it price..Trying to get back at the Dems for the Clinton years

by voting for Bush...is....is....crazy. They hurt themselves by doing so. just look at the confirming evidence.

[Wapsie B]

28. Yes they do.

It's just too bad they have to drag us down with them.

[opihimoimoi]

29. Yup...they do drag us down.... Triple Damn...DDD

[orpupilofnature57]

6. Because he's like fast food and crack

[opihimoimoi]

19. The Bush Fas Food taste like SHIT...but they don't even know it.

The other half might be on something besides Beer.

[mike6640]

7. at least you guys in Hawaii have

DaBus. How much is a monthly bus pass going for these days? Or have they screwed up the bus system in the last decade since I lived there?

BTW: With everything needing fuel to import there; how much is a gallon of milk going for?

M

[opihimoimoi]

20. Per half gal..its $3.60....milk is outrageous...now almost the same as GAS

Bus Pass....?

[cassiepriam]

8. Because the US is the dysfunctional family from Hades.

We are as crazy as Bush.

[opihimoimoi]

21. Much evidence abounds re your assessment...

[cassiepriam]

37. That's the real story, most of the US is as crazy as Bush,

How did this happen? How did we get so ignorant, apathetic,
greedy and immoral?

[opihimoimoi]

46. Social Engineering by the Pubs Brainwashing UNIT..its been going for years

They got Media, TV Radio Newspapers, mag rags, etc, books

They got most of the Churches

They got the Military Complex

Wall Street

Media Whores like Rush, Hannity, etc

Money, oodles of money and....

POWER..they got more power than ever before....

[cassiepriam]

49. You have to admit they have done a brilliant job. Evil but brilliant.

[opihimoimoi]

52. But to what end?? They are destroying the Planet to the point

leading to massive die offs....there will be High Odds for Famine and Conflict..disease too.

Their legacy is horrid. Sure they are winning now...don mean it can last forever, esp if decisions are dumb ones.

[cassiepriam]

57. Sociopaths only have one end, their own greedy self serving agenda.

They care nothing about any thing else. I have often wondered what
they will do with all their wealth when the country and people are destroyed. But they are very short sighted and care nothing for tomorrow.

[opihimoimoi]

60. The Result of The IGNORANT SocioPath....a combo to wreck the Nation

if left at the Helm.

Short sighted = falling off Segways/bikes/couches/stairs/cars/helos/
etc. Cannot envision beyond the nose....just pretends to.

[cassiepriam]

63. Arrogance and ignorance, a lethal combination.

[opihimoimoi]

66. The Combo allows for Delusion to set in, become infected., anything

goes after that.

[cassiepriam]

67. yes the combo allows for anything, no limits, no boundaries.

[opihimoimoi]

69. Facism is built on sheer POWER....Bush and...The Neocons have that POWER

But like a May Fly...life spans of Facism is of short duration.

[indepat]

9. We f**ked ourselves by supporting this regime in astounding numbers

notwithstanding what they were doing and were up to.

[opihimoimoi]

23. Stupid Voters tend to elect stupid Leaders= stupid decisions= misery

[texpatriot2004]

10. A fantastic question.n/t

[opihimoimoi]

72. Come on in and JOIN us, LOL

Where are your questions?

[lancdem]

11. His numbers are now in the 30s

which is some solace, at least.

[opihimoimoi]

24. We shoul;d take that as a sign of AWAKENING....

[yorkiemommie1]

12. what everybody else has said

plus he's a 'straight-talkin', 'shoot from the hip', used ta be bad, but now reformed, regular kinda guy, heh-heh.

the sheeple think he's John Wayne.

....

judging by the Star Bulletin's survey this week re: Miers, I see that the GOP still maintains its base there!

Aloha from SoCal, home of King's Bakery ( I think it's awful no King's in HI. )

[opihimoimoi]

25. Too many churchie peeps here,,,,easily fooled/conned

Polls rigged....or, comped by the KA Drinkers.

Sorry, no kings bakery anymore...Sad...Ebisu right across the street is still there, sushi and tempura onolicious.

[savemefromdumbya]

13. Basically stuck with him unless.....

he is impeached or etc.

[opihimoimoi]

26. Like a bad storm, Bush will soon fade away ... leaving nothing but

a bad name on the books.

[savemefromdumbya]

81. Politics needs to be cleansed of ALL the Bushes

every Bush - sanitize!

[opihimoimoi]

83. Neil and Marvin tooo

[savemefromdumbya]

84. corruption

these guys have been tied in all sorts of scandals haven't they?

[opihimoimoi]

86. They give EVIL Family New meaning....

It passes on from generation to generation....

[bluedawg12]

27. He was likeable, told us he was honest, told us he would

cut txes and bring prosperity, that he would be a uniter and not a divider, and told us that he would include all Americans in his dream, while somehow preserving American morals, and that he was for a strong proud America.

He aligned himself with powerful religious images and words.

He forgot to tell us that the neocons had been planning how to run ths country for a long time and that he would say pretty words not matched by his deeds.

People got suckered into the awe- shucks, regular guy, going back to American traditions in a tolerant and enlightened 21 st century.
Then he unleashed the theocrats on us and their plans for social engineering.

He cut taxes, invaded Iwreck, screwed up nation building, ranup a huge deficit for our children and brought out the ugliest in human nature in the name of cultural wars.

People can't believe they were duped.

[opihimoimoi]

30. The Shock and Awe of being Conned/Scammed from within, evades their senses

[bluedawg12]

31. Your cost of gas is outrageous- where is the leadership from this WH?

They remain as immobile as with Katrina.


oil companies BTW, are having huge profits this year.

[opihimoimoi]

34. WH Leaderships is whot caused this high gas prices...they have found a way

to do it/pull it off.

Oil Profits at Obscene levels only a plot can produce....

[bluedawg12]

43. Our pain = their profit. n/t

[beltanefauve]

33. 9-11

scared the living bejeezus out of "middle" Americans. When Bush said, "You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists" they believed it. Dissent is unpatriotic to them. There's a disconnect between reality and their own false illusions of safety. There's no way these people can break from this loser President and still feel safe.

[opihimoimoi]

35. As it turns out, to be with Bush...hurts ourselves as he knows nothing

of REAL Solutions...only diabolical ones....

[savemefromdumbya]

85. I think Adolf said the same kind of thing

except it was in German.

[opihimoimoi]

87. Adolf was a sick dude...dying from slow death, syphilis, was on drugs

constantly, meth, opiates, you name it...He was high pretty much all day and night...but, the peeps backed him...

How so for our Bush? same thing, constantly fooling the sheep.

[OneTwentyoNine]

39. Wait until it gets really cold here in the states......

While most of us pay much less for gas than Hawaii we're going to get RAPED by heating oil costs. Where I live its the natural gas suppliers that have already announced 50% increases.

You can cut back on driving but how the hell do you cut back on the heating when its 10 degrees outside?

[opihimoimoi]

44. If you cut back, risk hypothermia..if you keep warm...go broke.

its a poor persons quandry..what to do..what to do? VOTE BLUE IS WHOT TO DO...

[mrcheerful]

40. Problem is

even if Dem's win in 4 to 8 years when the sheep are doing better they will vote in another repuke. Thats been their patteren since 69. I think most of the sheep are masochistic,they like being beat up and it serves an deep inner desire to be ruled over. Thats why they are so worried about those poor rich people that Dem's over tax. After all the rich worked hard to get rich. The repukes said so and so its true. After all only Dem's lie.

[yorkiemommie1]

41. inner desire to be ruled over

i see it all the time. the Daddy complex. my husb. backs the tax cuts because 'they' - the rich, deserve it. otoh, we are on social security and my paltry parttime paycheck and whatever he makes when he does consulting. but it's OK that the rich got their tax cuts, 'because they pay most of the taxes'.

[opihimoimoi]

45. Send the rescue squads to save him from Ignorance....asap....

[ucmike]

42. successful branding.

bush's handlers came up with an image, not a canidate. they targeted and sold their "product" to the people in this country who are least likely to question the value of a product. just like some people will buy anything with the nascar brand on it because they like nascar. they never question why nascar is so great, they just accept it.
same with bush voters. they bought an image and a brand name. it was easy when the product was packaged as "patriotic, wholesome, conservative, religous". now they are reluctant to change their brand loyalty because it would be like admitting they were wrong in the first place.

[opihimoimoi]

47. Yup...Edzakery...its the perception of the product...love it.

[serryjw]

90. Ronald Reagan is their hero

After trying for 4 years they can't defend their love of this man. It was all good packaging, branding with a large dose of propaganda. Aren't you amazed that Kerry lost because of his war record. They are good.....evil, but good.
The first rule of marketing is know your target audience Rove certainly did.

They may have more degrees, but we have the higher intellect. They simply can't fool us.

[opihimoimoi]

93. Our Day is fast approaching....

[SunDrop23]

51. Not a LOSING President, but a LYING President

How is it that so many people give him a free pass for doing the very types of things they would disown their own family members for?

I ranted on this in a post a few months ago - how many Christians, of which I am, have allowed this guy to disregard the very tenents that our faith is founded on.

A prime example are the civilian deaths in Iraq that NOBODY wants to address.

I once asked a group of righties in a different forum...what do you say to the father who holds his lifeless 2 year old daughter?

a. That's the price of freedom.
b. Stay the course.
c. Better her than an American 2 year old.
d. You are Muslim so you are going to hell anyway.

The responses I got were

"We don't target civilians" to which I said OOOOOH in that case never mind all the innocent people that have been killed. I mean, we aren't targeting them so they don't count.

"Iraqis really want freedom and they understand this struggle."

and of course I got the barrage of:

"You're unAmerican."
"You love Saddam Hussein."
"You've never been in the military so who are you to criticize."
"I hope you die of a terminal illness."

[opihimoimoi]

56. Lying and losing by lying. Bush has reached a point of Liar Fatigue

Lower Numbers believes in him these days... too many past Lies have produced the CRY WOLF SYNDROME.....

[McCamy Taylor]

58. Addicted? Try no divorce remedy available with GOP Congress.

[opihimoimoi]

61. Yeah, some are committed by virtue of Position/Power/Salaries

Committed Pubs but hate it, have to fake it, are Ohh, Ohh, UUUh, Pubstitutes.

[zann725]

64. It's that instinctive "Father Knows Best" yearning...

"Daddy does no wrong, would never harm us" that fosters the enablement (and denial) of such All-American values as incest, rampant spousal and substance abuse that IS and HAS BEEN the very structure of Dysfunctional families and nations since the dawn of time.

[mrcheerful]

65. Wonder why

liberals and Dem's aren't the same way? Oh yeah, thats right most of us grew up during the 60's and our minds were corrupted by sex, drugs and rock n roll, said the conserve sipping his 10th bourbon and scotch.

[opihimoimoi]

71. Nature at work, called Diversity....everything is in Plural...only a few

make it across the Highway of Extinction.

[opihimoimoi]

68. Could be .. could be.. But perhaps..a yearning for the Leader who

offers PROTECTION from the FEAR, Induced, Heightened, and/or for REAL.

In sports its the Quarterback, the man who calls the shots...

In Society, its the President, King, Dictator, etc.

He the guy to lead us to the Promised Land...

In Bushies case however, its been all bad..news...all.

[zulchzulu]

74. Polls say otherwise...

Yeah, there are some Repugs who will be for Bush if only because he's a Repug, but if you look at the recent poll numbers, America is NOT for the Chimp by a LARGE majority.

[opihimoimoi]

79. It ain't over till its over and the Bush ain't over yet...we must be

Unrelenting

[KnowerOfLogic]

80. People don't want to admit the massive mistake that america has made. nt

[opihimoimoi]

82. To a Degree, its their AVERSION to CROW

They don't want to eat crow/admit mistake...You got it right...lol

[TheCentepedeShoes]

88. They don't care

What is it - half the voting age population doesn't bother to vote, even in Pres. elections? They're only concerned with their own lives. They have no sense of history and the lessons learned by others and don't realize that "their own lives" and that of their families depend on more than just possessing the next piece of cheap crap they can get at the mall.

[opihimoimoi]

89. Pathetic voting ratios....more like 40%

The question should be WHY and HOW can it be IMPROVED?