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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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My gods, why didn't the Republicans just sleeze an orangutan into office and have done with it? We'd probably have gotten better governance, or at least better speechs. (CBS) This story was written by CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller.
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There are many ways to assess President Bush's eight years in office. Countless hours of broadcast time and tons of newsprint are being consumed in that pursuit these days.
And you can agree or not with what's being said and written.
It's difficult for any of us to convey an objective assessment of the Bush presidency - but numbers come close to offering a bit of unbiased insight.
So here - in no particular order - are some of the numbers that mark the record of the 43rd President of the United States. When no source is cited, the numbers are from the tallies I maintained during day-to-day coverage of President Bush. |
Edit: Thought I'd throw this in, for no really good reason: It's one week into President Obama's term and his arch nemesis isn't Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) or even one of the myriad candidates interested in challenging him in 2012.
It's conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh.
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Here's the part I liked: Then on Monday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs offered another sly provocation of Limbaugh; asked to expand on Obama's comments about the talk show host, Gibbs demurred and then added: "Tell [Rush] I said hi."
Not surprisingly, Limbaugh took the bait. Of Obama, he said: "He's obviously more frightened of me than he is Mitch McConnell. He's more frightened of me, then he is of say, John Boehner, which doesn't say much about our party."
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The sad part about it is that people actually are afraid of this bloated windbag, but I rather doubt if Obama is one of them.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Edited by - filthy on 01/28/2009 04:12:21
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 01/28/2009 : 08:44:03 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Edit: Thought I'd throw this in, for no really good reason: It's one week into President Obama's term and his arch nemesis isn't Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) or even one of the myriad candidates interested in challenging him in 2012.
It's conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh.
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Here's the part I liked: Then on Monday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs offered another sly provocation of Limbaugh; asked to expand on Obama's comments about the talk show host, Gibbs demurred and then added: "Tell [Rush] I said hi."
Not surprisingly, Limbaugh took the bait. Of Obama, he said: "He's obviously more frightened of me than he is Mitch McConnell. He's more frightened of me, then he is of say, John Boehner, which doesn't say much about our party."
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The sad part about it is that people actually are afraid of this bloated windbag, but I rather doubt if Obama is one of them.
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If only it was that easy.
John Weaver, a former senior aide to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), said that Republicans must be careful not to allow their Democratic rivals to paint them all with the brush of Limbaugh.
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While Rush basks in the attention and grows full of himself, most Americans are just fed up. |
Life is good
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous |
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 01/28/2009 : 14:17:38 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by moakley...While Rush basks in the attention and grows full of himself, most Americans are just fed up.
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The difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg:
One is a flaming Nazi gasbag. The other is a German airship.
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Diversity, independence, innovation and imagination are progressive concepts ultimately alien to the conservative mind.
"TAX AND SPEND" IS GOOD! (TAX: Wealthy corporations who won't go poor even after taxes. SPEND: On public works programs, education, the environment, improvements.) |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 01/28/2009 : 16:47:39 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Chippewa
Originally posted by moakley...While Rush basks in the attention and grows full of himself, most Americans are just fed up.
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The difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg:
One is a flaming Nazi gasbag. The other is a German airship.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
Posted - 01/29/2009 : 09:44:56 [Permalink]
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| The Army has long cited personal stress -- including financial, relationship and substance-abuse problems -- as the major reason for suicides, but it is also studying the extent to which deployments to a war zone may play a role. |
The Army is still pushing "personal stress" as the cause for most cases.
That's their out clause. Deployments to a war zone may play a roll? I wonder who is conducting the study? If it's completely internal, I am willing to bet that the results will point to mostly preexisting conditions that the Army has no control over. Call my cynical.
With the number of tours of duty some of these guys have had to endure, the suicides are really the tip of the PTSD iceberg. Oh boy, are there going to be a lot of PTSD cases. Obviously there already are and in some undiagnosed cases, it presents as suicide.
This means big money from the military for treatment. I think they will keep trying to weasel their way out of having to pay. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Bush by the numbers
