Not as far as I am concerned. I would never vote for Bush. I love seeing the results of all these polls. That say that Bush is in the Lead. They never called my house! Try asking thousands of poeple instead of 800. We'll have to see how it goes on Nov 2. I know my wife is voting for Kerry also. That is 2 votes that the polls aren't tracking.
I have to take back one of my statements. We did get one call asking us if we would vote for Nader. Ummmmm NO! 🙂
Originally posted by Silver Stardust
A genius with ambition at least knows what they hell they're doing. An idiot with ambition...well, we've all seen that.
tell that to Napolean and Hitler.
not that Bush is an idiot... the guy got into Harvard Buisness school and Yale (father conection) ... he turned 3 companies from scratch to multi-million dollar oranizations on his own... 😐
Originally posted by Tex
An idiot coupled with ambition is even worse.
Hence the Bush administration.
Adof Hitler. Napolean Bonaparte.
Latest Genious we had was Woodrow Willson 😐 the guy who let the world slip into WWI and in the end finally go to war .... and afterwards was so obsessed with his plans refused to compromise and henceforth got nothing done, especially when creating the League of Nations 🙄 which helped ignite WWII.
One of Bush's professors at Harvard was Yoshi Tsurumi, who was then teaching a course on International Business. He remembers having Bush in his class....
Back in the 1970s, George W. Bush attended Harvard U., on his way to obtaining a Master's in Business Administration.Can you believe that this man has a Master's degree from Harvard?And that he also has a history B.A. from Yale? Bush the Barbarian: a history major! I suspect, but I can't prove it, that old "Daddy Bush" must have had something to do with getting "Junior" those just above "C" average grades from these two once-highly-distinguished bastions of Ivy League learning (Ellis Henican's "Affirmative Action, Bush-Style," originally published in the Hartford Courant, 01/22/03).
In any event, one of Bush's professors at Harvard was Yoshi Tsurumi, who was then teaching a course on International Business. He remembers having Bush in his class. I mean, how could you ever forget Bush and that patented dumb and blank look on his mug when he is asked a question that he doesn't know how to answer? We just saw it again, when at a recent press conference, he stalked out and refused to reply to this query: "What exactly was your relationship with Ken Lay and Enron?" (Capitol Hill Blue, "Bush League," 07/09/04.
Even though it was over 30 years ago, Tsurumi "vividly" recalls Bush the student making this stunning statement in his classroom at Harvard: "People are poor because they are lazy." Now, this is the same guy who, as President, spent 42 percent of his first eight months in office on vacation at his Crawford, Texas ranch! He has never had a regular job in his entire life, unless you're counting the sinecures that daddy weaseled for him in the energy business and with the Texas Rangers' major league baseball club. As governor of Texas, Bush is remembered mostly for this infamous fact: He signed more death warrants--155--than any other elected official "in all of recorded American history" ("The Texecutioner" ).
Tsurumi continued reminiscing about this truly unremarkable pupil. He wrote, "Bush was opposed to labor unions, social security, environmental protection, Medicare and public schools. To him, the antitrust watchdog, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities Exchange Commission were unnecessary hindrances to 'free market competition.' To him, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was 'socialism'..." (Inequality.org, 03/01/04).
Bringing things up to date, Tsurumi made this telling point: "President Bush and his brain, Karl Rove, are leading a radical revolution of destroying all the democratic political, social, judiciary and economic institutions that both Democratics and moderate Republicans have built together since Roosevelt's New Deal." (Rove is Bush's chief political strategist within the White House, and a wily character. He has gained a reputation as having a Rasputin-like effect on the weak-minded Yale man. Rove helped to get Bush elected both as Texas governor and as president. See Wayne Madsen's biting commentary, Karl Rove: The King of Dirt, From The Wilderness Publications, 12/05/03).
On the disturbing jobs issue, Tsurumi said, "The US has over 5 million part-time job holders who want full-time jobs but cannot find them. In addition, the US has 8 million persons who have had to settle for full time jobs paying far less than their previous jobs. The 'jobless recovery' and the widening income gaps are aggravated by massive migrations of good-paying manufacturing and service jobs abroad. Such migrations have been accelerated by President Bush's misguided tax cuts... America's skewed income distribution is rapidly making the US resemble Argentina or Mexico. The 'jobless recovery' is not a political mirage, but a serious problem...The U.S. has a widening income gap between a few 'haves' and many 'have-nots.'"
Blasting away, Tsurumi concluded, "President Bush's tax cuts have given over 93% of their benefits to large corporations and well-to-do households with over $250,000 of annual income (about 10% of the U.S. households). Moreover...they are abolishing taxes on such asset-based income as stock dividends and capital gains. He is opposed to taxing management aristocrats' self-dealt stock options (salary payment in kind). He is opposed to requiring the corporations to treat such stock options as their personnel expenses. More than anything else, management aristocrats' stock options are encouraging many corporations to abandon manufacturing-and-supply procurements at home and switch to imports from China and other lower-wage countries. He is phasing out estate taxes. All of these measures are transforming the past 'potbelly flower vase' shape of the U.S. income distribution to the 'bottom-heavy hourglass' shape."
Finally, the IQ-challenged Bush just barely got through Yale and Harvard. And, now, thanks to Professor Tsurumi's keen analysis of his reactionary economic ideas, "Bushonomics 101," we know, unless stopped, that they will roll the clock back in this country to the predatory Age of the Robber Barons. Some of Bush's extremely conservative schemes include: demonizing the poor, sucking up to the ultra -wealthy with monstrous tax cuts, shipping our best manufacturing jobs overseas, pushing bloated budgets, incurring huge foreign debts, and, by stealth, the dismantling of FDR's New Deal programs.
For over 1320 days, America has suffered under "Bushonomics 101," along with his totally reckless invasion and occupation of Iraq. Absent Bush's defeat in November, he (and his demented brain, Karl Rove) will have four more years to rip this nation even farther apart.
Taken from http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/071904WilliamHughes.shtml
Originally posted by RaventheOnly
Adof Hitler. Napolean Bonaparte.Latest Genious we had was Woodrow Willson 😐 the guy who let the world slip into WWI and in the end finally go to war .... and afterwards was so obsessed with his plans refused to compromise and henceforth got nothing done, especially when creating the League of Nations 🙄 which helped ignite WWII.
Oh and Congress refused to let the US go to war, we were a bit isolation oriented back then. Also interesting to read up on 🙂
And about Neapolean, He pulled France out of the largest civil war in France, or maybe ever. He was a dictator, but he did let the people have rights, just a bit too power orientated.
Originally posted by Tptmanno1
Accually you couldn't be more wrong.
Woodrow wilson could have prevented WWII but noone listened to him. He created the League of Nations but Congress prevented him from joining it, saying that it was too Euro-centric. He also created the Wilson 10 step plan (or somthing like that) that would have fixed europes problems and prevented WW2, but France and England said no and forced Germany into signing the "War Guilt Clause", placing 100% of the blame and cost of the War on germany (WW2 was started equaly by all partys, becasue of the elaborate system of alliances, its quite interesting, read up on it sometime. 🙂 ) This Clasue pushed Germany into a great depression, which they only got out of By Hitler's war machine. That creted jobs and boosted the economy by having ppl build tanks and enisting in the army. (Hitler was a Great domestic leader and probably the best speaker of this century, he was just a TAD phyco.)Oh and Congress refused to let the US go to war, we were a bit isolation oriented back then. Also interesting to read up on 🙂
And about Neapolean, He pulled France out of the largest civil war in France, or maybe ever. He was a dictator, but he did let the people have rights, just a bit too power orientated.
The reason he failed in all his efforts because he refused to compromise. He was very arrogant. The Republican congress would have allowed him to join the League if he had given in on another point... and his ten point plan failed because he would not sacrifice another goal to secure the others.... Wilson would not go along with his own plan unless all ten points went threw ... 😬
I know about the massive set of alliances but Willson actually put a trade embargo up which prevented the US from helping the allies at first... he was so anti-war he actually inflamed the conflict... and when he repealed that embargo he made the US look like an arms dealer... we were actually selling weapons to both sides. 😐
War is probably the greatest boom in any economy you can do... but unfourtunetly for Hitler's economic system he put all industry under the governments control... of course the economy will boom when all resources and industry and workers are in direct control and your secret police take anyone who stands against you away. And more then just a tad... 😛
Yes indeed the Napoleanic code was a grand idea and France was great for about 20 years... but afterwards his rule actually turned France back into a Monarchy 😐 ... he hid under the guise of republic while he proclaimed himself Emperor... 😖
I know estensively about all these periods in history. 😐 i would not say anything if i didn't 😐 so don't insult my intelligence.
No i do believe France has done far bloodier... thier colonization of Southeast asia and North America and the caribean was VERY brutal. even though England and Spain did worse things in North America 😖 France actually had good relations there due to the fur trade. trully when talking brutality all i have to say is Barbados 😖 slave island trade point owned by France... they sold us our slaves in the US 😬
Originally posted by RaventheOnly
not that Bush is an idiot... the guy got into Harvard Buisness school and Yale (father conection) ... he turned 3 companies from scratch to multi-million dollar oranizations on his own... 😐
He had a low C average and all of "his" companies failed miserably. 🤪
THE MAN WAVED AT STEVIE WONDER FOR CHRISTS SAKE! dunce
HE'S AN IDIOT!
YOU'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION! 🤪