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Re: W
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Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:14:46 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> I don't care how much of the Bill of Rights he's trashed,
> I don't care if he engaged in insider trading at Harken,
> I don't care that he's wholly in the pocket of corporate interests,
> I don't care if he sorted coke,
>        or drove while under the influence
>        or was arrested for it,
> I don't care that he didn't answer any questions about the above,
> I don't care that he's an imperialist hegemon,
> I don't care that he's pursuing a convenient vendetta
>   while simultaneously ignoring an actual diplomatic crisis,
> I don't care that he's using inconclusive data to fabricate a
>   link between two philsophically opposed Arab groups
> I don't care that, in so doing, he's sending the tacit message that
>   "All Arabs are the same," which is distressingly racist,
> I don't care that Karl Rove operates him like a ventriloquist's dummy,
> I don't care that the press corp treats him very gently despite the
>   savage zeal with which the scoured the previous (ie, most recently
>   elected) President's personal life to bolster false claims of perjury
>   and criminal misconduct,
> I don't care that he ignores the public's opinion in all things
>        including the environment
>        and including corporate accountability
>        and including the economy
>        and including the 2000 election.
> I don't even care that he's cementing the international perception of the
> United States as a nation of war-crazy, trigger-happy, diplomatically
>   primitive cowboys.
> 
> What really bothers me is that he *STILL* says "nukuler."
> 
>     Dave!

I have to stop watching CNN....

Yeah, that 45 minute 'Infomercial' last night...

Ah, he wasn't the first peresident who wasn't an eloquent spokesperson, and
it's probably a given that he won't be the last...

We've been coddled since Carter--he was a very eloquent speaker; Reagan, an
actor who can say lines like the best of them; George Sr, who could actually
construct a sentence in his head and speak it without fumbling it; and
Bubba, who was very charming...

What can I say, we have Jean--he can't speak well in either of our two
official languages ;)

So there you are.

Dave K



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(...) But Carter, if memory serves, said "nukuler". Even more amazing considering his job in the navy as a nuclear power plant technician/engineer (I forget the exact title). W. fumbles and bumbles pretty much the same as his Dad, who was not the (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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I don't care how much of the Bill of Rights he's trashed, I don't care if he engaged in insider trading at Harken, I don't care that he's wholly in the pocket of corporate interests, I don't care if he sorted coke, or drove while under the influence (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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