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Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
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by Darrin Drda
Email: d_drda (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified!) |
28 May 2004
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Happy Memorial weekend, yall. |
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See also:
http://www.zmag.org/cartoons/by_artist.cfm?artist=20
http://www.darrindrda.org
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Re: Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
by Darrin
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28 May 2004
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Webmaster, can we get the "click to enlarge image" option? ThanX! |
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Re: Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
by Jack Ryan
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28 May 2004
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Hey Darrin, I enlarged it as you suggested and I still did not find it the least bit funny.
Let's see, as a result of the tax cuts, we have had three quarters of monstrous growth in the GNP. Secondly, inflation remains flat. Job growth is reaching new highs, and over 1 million more Americans are working now than ever before.
It has been said that all humor needs to be founded in truth. Perhaps you need to do more research.
Jack |
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Re: Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
by Darrin
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28 May 2004
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Jack,
I don't usually bother responding to negative feedback, but it's worth noting (firstly) that there's widespread disagreement about the extent and even the reality of the so-called economic recovery. The more important point, however, is that the cartoon is not about that. It's about Dubya's flaccid approval rating, about which there seems to be little disagreement. Even if he pulls Bin Laden out of his ass on international TV, the worst president in US history WILL lose the election, and the citizens of earth will rejoice. Amen.
Peace,
-Darrin |
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Re: Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
by gehrig
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29 May 2004
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I'm not sure I'd award Dubya "worst president" -- unfortunately, the competition is pretty stiff. But he's certainly flirting with that exclusive circle, and a second term would help him immeasurably.
I never thought I'd see another administration as cynical, fiscally irresponsible, and ideologically corrupt as Reagan's, but it's starting to look like Dubya is getting ready to flank him on the borrow-from-your-own-grandchildren side and take on Nixon on the when-the-President-does-it-it's-not-illegal side.
@%< |
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Re: Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
by Wayne D. Pickette
waynedougpick (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified) |
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29 May 2004
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Jack.
Yes Jack a lot of Americans are now working.....at jobs that pay nowhere near what they could make if the were employed at their professions. Working for temporary companies without benefits or paid holidays! That is where the majority of the growth has been, it is almost like being on unemployment! |
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Re: Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
by NRA4Freedom
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29 May 2004
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Memorial Day is to honor those who paid the ultimate price to keep America free, not to draw attention to silly political cartoons. Thank God for the brave men and women who are willing to fight for their Country, and to heck with politics while they are being honored and remembered... |
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Re: Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
by Anna Epelbaum
aepelbaum (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified) |
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30 May 2004
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NRA/FREEDOM, you sound ridiculous. what kind of freedom are bringing are those , who are right now staying and dying in Iraq, ah?
Bush sent them there to die for oil, but, because of his proffisional disability (for the job of president, and, probably, any leader of anything) he failed the task, though great profit for his family's company, and some others has been made. For now the "freedomm which is brought by this war' is the freedom to live without cars, boats, etc., as regular people can't now afford gasoline prices. So, shup up with your empty slogans, and get a grip of REALITY!!! |
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Hybrids in Causality Concerns |
by Tom
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30 May 2004
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This is nothing more than a Transit to economics welfare of abitrary junktions in alerted times of misconcerned diability. The racist smack down another symbol, called electoral home conceiled war on peoples freedom. |
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Re: Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
by Dragon
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30 May 2004
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Jack said, "Our country has absorbed a reccession and a brutal attack and is now the fastest growing economy in the world among the industrialized nations. Much of this should be attributed to Bush's leadership and allowing all American's who pay taxes to keep more of what they earn."
You've got to be kidding dude! Do you know that many of those currently in the Bush Administration (or should I say regime) authored a report called "Rebuilding America's Defenses." It was published in Sept. of 2000. Guess what! The report says that the only way that American's could accept the neocons policies of world domination would be to have "another Pearl Harbor."
Guess what else! Newspapers around the world, including some of Great Britain's leading papers were reporting back in the spring of 2001 that the U.S. was quietly telling it's allies that it intended to invade Afghanistan in October of that year. And then....BINGO! Another Pearl Harbor (9/11) came right on schedule and just in time to frighten everyone into supporting that pre-arranged invasion of Afghanistan.
Jack said, "As for high gas prices, yes they are indeed expensive. If the government would allow more domestic drilling (environmental suicide) and the building of more refineries, I suspect that this problem would be dealt with as well. I believe that this will be done in the second term of the Bush Adminstration."
Well lets see here now...hmmm....oh yeah. They are planning on drilling on national monuments, in national forests which Republican President Teddy Rosevelt set aside to be preserved for all time, and just about every place else they can find. All of the places where people can go to commune with God will become oil drilling fields and/or refineries. By the way, you really ought to look at the cancer rates of people living and working at your wonderful refineries.
Then of course, they are planning on drilling all over the Alaskan coast except for ANWAR, which only contains a six-month supply of oil anyway.
Let's not think about recent scientific reports (including one from our own Pentagon) which points out that global climate change threatens to be a more de-stabilizing problem and threat to national security than terrorism. The report mentions that the ocean currents, because of melting glaciers around polar land masses, are slowing and changing direction; a potentially disasterous
situation that could cause mass starvation all over the planet.
But hey, I bet you drive a hummer or a bad-ass pickup truck. Got a Yosimite Sam sticker on the back of your gas guzzler with his guns pulled saying "BACK OFF?" Hell, no wonder you want every pristine piece of Earth drilled and exploited! You must be one of those with a need to show what a tough 'merican you are.
That's okay, but the reality is that people like you don't seem to have what it takes to confront the new challenges of the times. So just stay in denial, and drive your big bad vehicle, if that's what you've got. At least you'll feel tough, even if you're actually a scaredy cat.
Oh, bye the way, Bush's good leadership my ass! |
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Re: Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
by Joe Futrelle
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30 May 2004
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W's approval ratings are indeed falling, but more significantly, his disapproval rating is above the 50% mark for the first time in his presidency, having risen sharply since the prison abuse scandal story broke. If the election were held today, Kerry would win a narrow majority and electoral landslide, according to Zogby's tracking polls. Zogby could be a little off about the current situation, and the numbers are certain to change significantly as events and the campaigns unfold. But unless the *trends* in Bush's numbers change, he's at great risk of losing the election.
No one can predict the future, but the mood in Washington has been described by many observers as "panic," as the Bush administration's legendary ability to stay on message has fallen apart, and different groups (the Pentagon, the State Department, the CIA and FBI, and Bush's inner circle of advisers) are pointing fingers at each other under the scrutiny of multiple criminal investigations and a no-longer docile Washington press corps. More damaging information about the administration is likely to come out of these investigations in coming months, right when Bush is going to need help turning those numbers around.
Many conservatives are beginning to wonder if Bush is a conservative at all--they didn't sign up for huge deficits, massive new government bureaucracies (e.g., the Dept. of Homeland Security), or nation-building. And even people who think it's OK to torture insurgents in Iraq are wondering how the media was able to release those pictures before Rumsfeld and Bush even saw them. No one, conservative or liberal, wants an administration that is asleep at the wheel. |
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Re: Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
by A. Epelbaum
aepelbaum (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified) |
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30 May 2004
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This is for Tom. I was trying to understant what you have written, and failed. Would you, please, translate, into plain English what you were writing about, ah? |
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Re: Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
by ijustkrushalot
uiuc.edu (unverified) |
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30 May 2004
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the worst president in US history
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USA under clinton:
1. Somalia
2. Waco
3. Oklahoma City
4. 1st World Trade Center Bombing
5. Kosovo
6. Embassy Bombings
7. Retalitory attacks in Afghanistan and Sudan
8. USS Cole
9. Numerous encounters with Iraq
10. Taliban takes control of Afghanistan
11. President Clinton announces a halt to all U.S. trade and investment with Iran (august 1995)
12. Israeli PM Rabin Assassinated
and you say that the wars were all invented by bush to get oil? |
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Re: Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
by A. Epelbaum
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31 May 2004
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Clinton's presidency wasn't good, especially. after 1997 and the start of impeachment when Hillary began to be the real Chief Executive. She cleaned up with impeachment the road to White House for Bush. But it all don't change the fact that Bush started oil wars, invaded Iraq without legitimate reason, disgrace the world image of USA, severely decrease Americans citizens safety all over the world, and already practically faile by now Iraqi war. The fact that Clinton wasn't good is irrelevant to the fact that Bush id BAD! |
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Re: Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
by James Mortland
mortland1976 (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified) |
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31 May 2004
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Leave politics alone for a day...
Soldiers don't make policy, they do their darndest to make it happen.
They must have an unwaivering faith in the leaders and politicians appointed over them - the luxury of political criticism does not exist in their world.
Although they are required by the UCMJ to disobey and report blatantly illegal orders to higher or an outside interested party, orders are by default considered to be lawful, and soldiers disobey orders at their own peril.
Soldiers must endure the burden of guilt for the unethical actions of a few, a guilt by association of the same uniform, and yet they'd do it all again in a heartbeat.
Some do it for family and friends, some do it for the country, some do it because they believe in something greater, hoping and praying that their superiors will make wise decisions to use them to the greatest benefit of the US, and mankind as a whole.
Although the tactical actions of the US in Iraq and Afghansitan don't reasonably directly contribute to the freedom to create and maintain sites such as UCIMC.org, the political and strategic implications of the strength and stamina of the US Armed Forces over the years as a whole allows such a site to operate in an atmosphere free of government persecution, in the true spirit of the First Amendment.
http://www.usaforever.org/flash/WeSupportU.htm |
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Re: Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
by Dragon
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01 Jun 2004
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James, you are making that age-old assertion that the soldiers are fighting for our freedom. At this point in time, it must be pointed out that those in Afghanistan and Iraq are not. This entire war on terror has been designed to ERODE our freedom here at home. It is simply and excuse use by this corrupt administration to frighten Americans and the world into submission.
If the soldiers need to have unwavering faith in those who lead them into war, than those who do so must be of unwavering integrity. This is not the case with the Bush/Cheney White House. They are liars who have put the sons and daughters of this country into harms war for their own selfish purposes. How can the military personnel have any faith in people like this? It is not those who opposed the U.S's illegal actions who are destroying that faith. It's Bush and his criminal regime that is doing so. They don't need any help from the anti-war group. |
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Re: Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
by Joe Futrelle
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01 Jun 2004
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> the political and strategic implications of the strength and stamina of the US Armed Forces over the years as a whole allows such a site to operate in an atmosphere free of government persecution, in the true spirit of the First Amendment.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/post-hoc.html |
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Re: Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
by Dragon
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02 Jun 2004
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Joe said: "> the political and strategic implications of the strength and stamina of the US Armed Forces over the years as a whole allows such a site to operate in an atmosphere free of government persecution, in the true spirit of the First Amendment."
The armed forces have indeed protected the freedom of Americans from outside forces. But in John Ashcroft's America, who will protect our rights to free speech against U.S. Government intrusion? Remember Sherman Austin? |
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by NRA4Freedom
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03 Jun 2004
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You said..."who will protect our rights to free speech..."
Stop! You're making me laugh! |
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Re: Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
by Joe Futrelle
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03 Jun 2004
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Dragon, I was quoting James Mortland; I don't agree with him. |
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Re: Dubya's Electoral Dysfunction |
by Dragon
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04 Jun 2004
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"Dragon, I was quoting James Mortland; I don't agree with him. "
Okay, gotcha! That fact escaped me somehow.
Hey, NRA Freedom, what are you laughing at? We have free speech here at Indymedia, but stand along any place where King Dubya is going with a sign that disagrees with him and see where your "supposed" free speech will lead you.
Minimum, you'll be removed to a so-called First Amendment zone where it is impossible to voice your concerns to the king.
Maximum, you'll be taken to jail and perhaps tortured there. In George Bush's new America free speech is seen as a criminal act. Wake up and smell the coffee. |
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