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2008 The Absolute Rejection
Posted by Charles Mudede on Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:54 AM
Nothing can be salvaged from the Bush years. And the leaders of the world will not shake the hand of this negative King Midas, this man who made a disaster out of everything he touched.
As for Obama's new New Deal:
President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday outlined his plan to create 2.5 million jobs in coming years to rebuild roads and bridges and modernize schools while developing alternative energy sources and more efficient cars.If it at all works, if any of his policies and immediate actions stabilize the economy, then the GOP supremacy envisioned by Karl Rove will become its total opposite.
As for the future of al Qaeda:
NEW YORK (CNN) — Spiritual leaders of New York's African-American Muslim communities lashed out Friday at a purported al Qaeda message attacking President-elect Barack Obama and, using racist language, comparing him unfavorably to the late Malcolm X.Into the dark they go with Bush. His fate is tied to al Qaeda's fate.
Ayman al-Zawahiri said Obama was the "direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X.The imams called the recorded comments from al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri, "an insult" from people who have "historically been disconnected from the African-American community generally and Muslim African-Americans in particular."
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As much as I don't like Bush, that CNN commentator is retarded. Bush didn't offer his hand to anyone, he already shook their hands earlier.
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yuck, that video almost makes me feel sorry for him. gross! god, he's so pathetic that it makes me uncomfortable!
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@2: Agreed. It appears prearranged, although its purpose escapes me. Nobody, including Bush, seems to expect that he will be included in the hand-shaking. My best guess is that this occurred immediately after the agonizingly long ceremony where he greeted all of them, and thus it was deemed unnecessary for him to shake their hands again. Pretty awkward, though.
Bush's fate tied to al Qaeda's fate. If you reverse direction, I suppose he was at the height of his popularity immediately following the height of their success, wasn't he? The analogy becomes even more frightening the further one follows it. Hm.
Bush's fate tied to al Qaeda's fate. If you reverse direction, I suppose he was at the height of his popularity immediately following the height of their success, wasn't he? The analogy becomes even more frightening the further one follows it. Hm.
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See, this is the reason that Republicans and Democrats don't understand each other. It's not a one to one mapping. Republicans believe its up to the American People -- businesses, organizations, neighborhoods -- to solve problems bottom up. Democrats are meanwhile savoring at the thought of using the current crises to generate ever more large bureaucracies.
To say that "Bush didn't do anything" is to say that "you didn't do anything" to fix the problems.
To say that "Bush didn't do anything" is to say that "you didn't do anything" to fix the problems.
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Bailo - the American people DID solve the problem from the bottom up - they voted for Obama. And I dispute your contention that Democrats = bureaucracies. The size of government *increased* under Reagan & Bush, but decreased under Clinton.
But I should know better than to answer a troll.
But I should know better than to answer a troll.
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charles-
could you start two different, completely separate blogs?
one, with the poignant and awesomely poetic observations of world history as it unfolds...
and the other one just full of weird horny non-sequiturs about butts and asians and celebrating your stance on how all african males love to share their women, and the women love it too?
i guarantee i'd read the weird one as much as the important one. but mingling them both together just makes you seem kinda crazy.
could you start two different, completely separate blogs?
one, with the poignant and awesomely poetic observations of world history as it unfolds...
and the other one just full of weird horny non-sequiturs about butts and asians and celebrating your stance on how all african males love to share their women, and the women love it too?
i guarantee i'd read the weird one as much as the important one. but mingling them both together just makes you seem kinda crazy.
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No one likes an Asshole that starts an illegal war, keeps prisoners of war with out due process of law, calls other nations cowards or some such, and turns his own nation into an impoverished country with a polarized population that marginalizes minority groups. He brought this all on himself.
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Do any of the commenters constantly asking Charles to stop posting ever themselves contribute anything worth reading?
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Bush, Cheney, Lieberman, and anyone else in power who was responsible for the Iraq debacle should be forced to go there, or maybe to the Afghanistan border, and do hard labor building schools for kids, water systems, and any other infrastructure repair necessary. No amenities. And for about ten years.
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Charles,
Speaking of world leaders not shaking hands with other world leaders, what's your take on Carter and Annan being denied a visa for Zimbabwe? Surely, your contempt for Bush should match that of Mugabe. Right?
Speaking of world leaders not shaking hands with other world leaders, what's your take on Carter and Annan being denied a visa for Zimbabwe? Surely, your contempt for Bush should match that of Mugabe. Right?
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if any Asshole started the war, it was Paul Wolfowitz. he was pardoned, appointed head of the World Bank, acted like an Asshole there, then quietly slipped back into Washington D.C.'s beltway to dictate policy, irregardless of who is president. POTUS=PUPPET
if any Asshole started the war, it was Paul Wolfowitz. he was pardoned, appointed head of the World Bank, acted like an Asshole there, then quietly slipped back into Washington D.C.'s beltway to dictate policy, irregardless of who is president. POTUS=PUPPET
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According to the Daily Show, Bush had already shaken the hands of everyone that he walked by (the doors opened, out Bush walked, the other person shook his hand and they posed for a pic). Why is it a slight if he's not doing it again?
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@18,
Ummm, maybe because everyone else did get their hand shook and nobody wanted to offer Bush their hand a first time let alone a second time.
Ummm, maybe because everyone else did get their hand shook and nobody wanted to offer Bush their hand a first time let alone a second time.
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