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rpannier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 08:40 AM
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Well you gotta give credit to scrub for one honest thing he said
He said he was gonna run the government like a business. And he has. Every business he's run has been a dismal failure, including now.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 08:41 AM
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1. Yeah, remember the great reign the Texas Rangers had
under him?

Oh, wait . . .
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 08:46 AM
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2. True. He's got that un-Midas touch.
The man is a lifelong loser, and he knows it.
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 08:57 AM
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6. The dreaded reverse midas touch
Also known as the Sadim touch, everything you touch turns to shit.
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:04 AM
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7. The Fecal Touch.
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 08:47 AM
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3. Wait a minute...
Bush had that successful oil company in Texas, Harken Energy. It made...well, it lost...oh, never mind.

Oh! He had that sports team - they built a new stadium by claiming eminent domain and throwing a bunch of people out of their homes...hmmm...that wasn't really a very nice thing to do...

As Texas Governor, he was very successful and popular! He had his records purged so the dirty deeds he'd done in the past could never be made public, and a lot of prisoners were executed which made room for more prisoners in Texas prisons! Hmmm...I guess that's not so successful...

When he became President, he had a huge budget surplus and great relations with other countries, and now, 5 years later...

Never mind, you were right...dismal failure! :(
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:16 AM
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9. A hugely successful failure!
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OneTwentyoNine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 08:41 PM
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14. Bush and his cronies built that Stadium with taxpayer money....
Didn't cost them a freakin dime,tossed out home owners in a land grab but they later sued and won. By then I think Bush had cashed out and hit the road.

That fucker is a real piece of work......
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niallmac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 08:53 AM
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4. Hows about running it like a household instead?
No credit cards would be a good goal to shoot for.

Don't kill the neighbors just so you can siphon their gas.

Don't agree with the neighbors to give your tax money to the rich guy in town.

Don't spend half your budget on guns and ammo because now your paranoid
about the neighbors who don't look like you.

Get to know your neighbors. Treat them like you would like them to treat you.
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:04 AM
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8. Deserves its own thread so I could kick and nominate it n/t
:toast:
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Squeech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 08:54 AM
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5. Other times he's told the truth
They never stop thinking of ways to harm our country, and neither do we.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, if I was the dictator.

Basically I'm just a media creation.
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EST Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:23 AM
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10. Actually, he told the truth once again, recently, when he said,
"If I had any concern at all for national security, this deal would not go through." He's right!
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A Simple Game Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:57 AM
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11. His running of the government has not been a failure.
Except for Social Security he has accomplished almost everything he has wanted to.

In other words, his reign, so far, has been successful.

We may not agree with it, but he has succeeded in what he wanted to do.
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rpannier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 07:12 PM
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12. Actually it has
In the sense that the results he's produced have been disastrous. When he ran the other companies, including the Texas Rangers, he got what he wanted there too. And everyone of those businesses tanked in one form or another. Getting your way does not equate to success. The end result is what equates to success. So...his presidency has NOT been successful.
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A Simple Game Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 07:43 PM
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13. His presidency has not been successful for you or me, but
has it been successful for his base(the haves and the have mores)? I think it has.

The thing is, he doesn't care what we think, we are just a focus group, not his true constituents.
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Nutmegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 08:42 PM
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15. Amen to that!!!
Drove this country right into the ground.
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