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Yadda yadda yadda. If only the "libs" wouldn't mention any problems, there wouldn't be any problems. You guys are soooooooooooooooo predictable. Stray off the reservation into the real world just once in a while and surprise me.
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Yadda Yadda Yadda what the hell are you talking about Markle. Just like your usual head in the sand mentality you remain clueless to the facts. I thought you would at least absorb something as the article was in the LA Times.

Schumer caused a depositor run on IndyMac Bank. After Schumer's statement 1.3 billion dollars was withdrawn from IndyMac. There is probably not a single small bank that could withstand such a withdrawal in such a short time.

This economic fear has always been a party tool for the Democrats. Right back to the great depression. As I have stated before FDR's first inaugural address he stated "We have nothing to fear but fear itself". He could make such a statement because he and the Democratic party created the fear in the first place.

Here we are 70 odd years later there is a senior member of the Democratic party in the US Senate creating the necessary fear to make people rush to IndyMac Bank to withdraw their money. The same thing happened to create the Great Depression.

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Watching George W. Bush pontificate about the economy is like watching the ape-men in "2001" hoot and stamp and hop around as they try to understand the black monolith that suddenly appeared in front of their sleeping shelter overnight.
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Watching George W. Bush pontificate about the economy is like watching the ape-men in "2001" hoot and stamp and hop around as they try to understand the black monolith that suddenly appeared in front of their sleeping shelter overnight.
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This is your ultra biased opinion which has nothing to do with facts or reality.

Watching George W. Bush pontificate about the economy is like watching the ape-men in "2001" hoot and stamp and hop around as they try to understand the black monolith that suddenly appeared in front of their sleeping shelter overnight.

Wow. Name calling, monkey-comparing, and this kind of childish stuff is what it must take for liberals to keep reality from seeping through. Ain't this the kind of monkey stereotyping the Nazis used for the Jews? End of discussion about anything as interesting, involved, and complex as an economy. It's just the monkey-boy shaking branches. This is low-brow, even for you, Markle. And this also ranges into the ugly.

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True, it wasn't reality. The ape-men were much more evolved than President Dumbass. I was trying to be nice.
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Ah, simultaneous posting. The American people have already rendered their judgment on this incompetent moron. You look silly trying to defend him. The heat of the feelings toward him are justified. People have unnecessarily died because of him. The country has been wrecked because of him.

I always said the one and only thing he ever did right was to take down the Taliban in Afghanistan. And now they're coming back. That's your reality.
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Here's a good representation of the sheer stupidity of the left and their mean-spirited, anit-intellectual, anti-truth, irresponsible demagoguery. If they have a lust for anything other than power and their deranged hatred of George Bush, I haven't seen it:

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, or as she is called on the Big Dogs blog, "the worst speaker in the history of Congress," explained the cause of high oil prices back in 2006: "We have two oilmen in the White House. The logical follow-up from that is $3-a-gallon gasoline. It is no accident. It is a cause and effect. A cause and effect."

Now, you'd suppose that with oilmen in the White House we'd have more oil. Lots and lots of oil. We wouldn't just be drilling safely in the Arctic and off the coast of Collyfornia but would be building new refineries and even taking advantage of shale oil -- everything that could be done to increase the supplies and thus the profits of energy-producing companies. But what we have instead is a loony, dishonest, obstructionist Democratic Congress that has gone so loony that soon they will be blaming George Bush for the fact that babies wet their diapers. We really need to vote these clowns out of office. They're bad for this country.

The heat of the feelings toward him are justified.

No, You just look like a foolish parishioner of the church of "I hate George Bush." You are, Markle, a nearly perfect example of how the disinformation and sheer lunacy of the Democrats works. It gets otherwise smart people to believe some very strange things. And, just like a zealous religious advocate will often do, you crank up the emotional energy and hysteria in order to keep not only different points of view from seeping in, but just so that rather plain and obvious facts are never in any danger of mussing your hair. In fact, I rank on religion all the time around here, and often they are deserving of it. But even Christian fanatics have nothing over you. You are a member in full of the church of "I hate George Bush" and that's pretty much reflective of the mindset of the Democrats who are in control of Congress. This is just loony. Your version of reality is so off base that it's nearly impossible to engage you in intelligent conversation anymore. All you have (like the Democrats) is invective.

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Yeah, yeah, whatever.....
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I agree the hatred of George W. Bush has taken on an almost surreal life of its own. I live in a state where you even wonder if Democrats hate Osama bin Laden as much as they hate Bush. Under the "STOP" on stop signs, they spraypaint "Bush."

They're calling him the worst president ever. And I don't really think it's at all true. I simply think the job got harder. I think anyone who didn't win the Iraq war in a weekend before football was going to be branded an imbecile.

People want our wars to be easy, video-game routs like Gulf War I. When they're not, the American people blamestorm. It ain't Bush they hate, it's war. They just confuse one with the other. And when Obama is president--and he will be barring a miracle--it'll be the same thing. If he doesn't stop the war in a month, he'll be a liar and an imbecile. He'll have to come up with some emotional rhetoric to keep the squirrel-attention-span dems at bay from blaming him. He'll probably have to blame it all on Bush.

The only thing that will get people not to hate an American president is QUICK RESULTS. Overnight results. You look at every major criticism of Bush or the government and it's always something like "why didn't you get there/do this/react to that... fast enough."

Instant gratification is all that will mollify the public and generate high approval ratings. And yet the war on terror, I'm pretty sure, is a brick-by-brick affair. Creating a foundation for liberty that might be painstakingly grindingly slow... but the groundwork has to be done so maybe in FIFTY YEARS things will be better.

But only IMMEDIATE results satisfy democrats. The educational system is in shambles. They'd never give NCLB a CHANCE, because it's a slow process. Instead, rhetoric gives the APPEARANCE of immediate results. As in, tell a kid we love you, we respect your culture, we cry and beat our breasts for your disadvantages... that FEELS immediate. Of course it's all bullshit.

Ann Coulter kind of called it perfectly when she said we need a car that runs on Democrat's lies. That's the kind of government that's gonna get voted in. Lies stand in for results. And results don't happen overnight. So like Mac OS X, you end up believing in lies... PRETENDING you have immediate results, even though no true progress is being made. Or what progress is occurring is just as slow as before.

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But only IMMEDIATE results satisfy democrats.

When a president gets disapproval ratings of 70+%, it's obvious that it goes way beyond Democrats and "lefties"--unless you think 70+% of the country is "left." This guy has been rejected by the country. It's almost nonpartisan.
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Markle those polls don't mean shit. Clinton is one of the worst President's this country has ever had but his approval ratings were high.

Look at Congress. Terrorist Harry Reed and Nancy Pelosi have hit the single digits in approval. Those numbers are never even mentioned so they mustn't mean anything. I mean single digits like 8 or 9 percent of the country approve of what they are doing. Terrorist Pelosi actually trumpeted her Bush is a failure speech again with less than 10% of the country thinking she has a clue of what she is doing.

Bush in the scope of history will be at the least within the top ten best President's this country has ever seen more likely though within the top five easy.

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Instant gratification is all that will mollify the public and generate high approval ratings. And yet the war on terror, I'm pretty sure, is a brick-by-brick affair.

Buh-buh-buh bingo.

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Creating a foundation for liberty that might be painstakingly grindingly slow... but the groundwork has to be done so maybe in FIFTY YEARS things will be better.

The Cold War was much like that. And a lot of people, rather than pitching in for the hard slog through the long haul, instead fantasied, deluded themselves, and pretended that, well, Communists weren't really all that bad. Freaking out over George Bush I see as much the same thing. It's a fanciful flight from the hard facts and the hard work that faces any president and Congress of any nation or political party. That's not to say that some strategies aren't better than others or that everything George Bush has done has been done perfectly. But the raw and hard facts are that, there are indeed people at war with us and we can't win by simply believing the problem is some fanciful, excuse-making notion. That's just like that fact that we can't produce more energy by saying that the problem is because we have two oilmen in the White House.

By the way, approval ratings mean squat. Often doing the right thing isn't immediately popular. That's what true leadership is about. And I do wish Bush (and especially McCain right now) would worry less about how something will look on the front pages of the New York Times and more on something just being the right thing to say and do.

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Bush in the scope of history will be at the least within the top ten best President's this country has ever seen more likely though within the top five easy.

I understand, Rico. They're still adjusting your meds.
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When a president gets disapproval ratings of 70+%, it's obvious that it goes way beyond Democrats and "lefties"--unless you think 70+% of the country is "left." This guy has been rejected by the country. It's almost nonpartisan.

Yeah, OK, I probably should have extended the immediate results thing to a greater percentage of the American public. I just hate to think that 70% of them are that clueless. It wounds me. But it also says Obama landslide.

And TRUST ME, I see how bad George W is on the TeeVee. It's painful to watch him stumble and smirk and lose his mind in front of the camera. But when I look at policy and the war on terror and some of the really serious decisions he's made... I'm hard pressed to imagine how I would have done things differently. As you have heard me say many times over, I think right now, we're exactly where we need to be overseas for the war on terror. Iraq and Afghanistan.

And it does need to be an offensive war. We had to lead. Even at the risk of being hated by Europeans. Actually, that hate is probably what's protecting THEM right now, from even worse Islamic extremism right now. It's cowardly, sure... but if say, the FRENCH for example, were to really show solidarity with us, they'd have way more bombs going off in Paris.

If in the media they say Bush is an idiot, and we hate America... terrorists will leave them alone.

I've never been one of those that sits around feeling hurt that other countries have very low opinions of us. I think that's the way it has to be for now. Until those guys are ready to really fight a war. We might have to let them badmouth us and sort of make weak lip-service to the war on terror. Because the alternative is to send coalition troops, fight the fight. And risk the wrath of extreme jihadists.

This is a ways off, but peace in the region has a key player that's kind of not on our radar right now: Turkey. While Iran continues to act up, baits Israel (all the earmarks of a diversion, as in their influence in Iraq is somehow being threatened right now), I think we may see Turkey start to take a stronger role.

Another secular Islamic country for Turkey to pal around with, not to mention one that's brimming with oil, is a match made in heaven.

Running through a bit of Jay Nordlinger's bits and pieces (love the info about the Che shirts), I ran into this quote:

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Socialism means social justice and equality, but equality of rights, of opportunities, not of income.

Who the hell said that? Joe Lieberman? Margaret Thatcher? Maybe even Ronald Reagan? No, it was Raúl Castro. I still don't understand why he said it. It's rather odd. But apparently this Communist dictator did say it.

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Yeah, Turkey and Iraq could serve as the backbone for a secularization of Islam, which is something that would make almost all but the power-schemers happy. After all, forgotten in the war against radical Islam is that innocent Muslims are the #1 target of this religious violence.

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I'm hard pressed to imagine how I would have done things differently.

Well, catching the actual perpetrator of 9/11 before skipping off on a side trip to Iraq comes to mind. Not saying "I don't know where he is, I don't think about him that much" comes to mind. Not having Osama out there nearly SEVEN YEARS after 9/11 still giving us the finger and issuing threats and tapes comes to mind. Having Osama's head on a pike comes to mind.
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Markle I think it is time you pull your fucking head out of your asshole.

What were those game shows you were on for the mentally challenged.

You repeat the same stupid comment about bin laden every time which only highlights how clueless you are on the issues. You sound like the interview Charlie Rose had with Neil Young last night. He was so misinformed about the facts it was painful to watch.

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He was so misinformed about the facts it was painful to watch.

This from someone who thinks that Skippy W. Dumbass will be considered one of our top five best presidents......
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