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lancdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 03:48 PM
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The irony of the Bushies is they know to run campaigns but not govern
I guarantee you if Bush gets in again, many of the people who voted for him (the ones who don't like him but can't stand Kerry either) will regret it within months. It'll be like he got in under false pretenses because he made the election about Kerry while managing to gloss over his manifest failures. And nobody's second term is better than their first term, so we can all imagine how terrible four more years will be. The chickens will come home to roost.
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 03:49 PM
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1. They govern the way they run campaigns..lies, smears, and intimidation
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lancdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 03:51 PM
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3. Yes
everything they do is politcal. Nothing is ever done for the long-term good of the country.
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jean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 04:13 PM
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8. heck, lots of what they do is't even good for the short term! They
can't see beyond their greedy, self-serving snouts!
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mimitabby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 03:50 PM
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2. do too
they know how to get what they want, the rest of us be damned.
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JI7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 03:51 PM
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4. they have the big media on their side
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lancdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 03:51 PM
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5. Definitely
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amber dog democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 03:52 PM
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6. I am seeing an impeachment in the crystal ball
if the Chimp wins. He can hallucinate til the cows come home but it won't matter much. As much as these neocon idealists have no contact with reality, my safe bet is they will only screw up things worse.

Chimp never intended to govern, Chimp wanted to harvest loot for all his rich friends. He is playing in the sand box with other people's toys.

Bad chimp. Bad chimp.
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shrub chipper Donating Member (622 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 04:15 PM
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9. So Crashcart Cheney can be pResident!!!
Now that is an even scarier thought...if anything could be worse that shrub, it would be the thought of that evil fascist as our President.
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amber dog democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 04:39 PM
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11. You have a point.
Well, we can impeach him too; the same way the Radical Republicans went after Andrew Johnson in 1865. Make the bastard resign.,
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A_Possum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 03:55 PM
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7. What's Bush done all his life?
All he's ever done is go around glad-handing people. He never made any decisions, never had any responsibility, never had to do squat but try to sell lies and cons to try to get people to invest in his failing attempts to find oil(I used to be in the oil business, I know what that's about). Eventually he had to use his buddies to get a $25 million loan from Osama and Saddam's drug-money/terrorist bank front, the BCCI.

While Kerry was working it shut it down. Which he did. And good riddance.

Kerry reported for duty. Bush went AWOL.
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shance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 04:22 PM
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10. If you define running campaigns as slandering, lying and scapegoating
Campaigns don't have to be run that way, do they?

We could actually have campaigns that focused on the issues, if we had an ethical mainstream media and more ethical people in power.
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