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Re: A small rant...
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Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:12:53 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Stefan Garcia wrote:
> > Hi all,
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> Hi Stephan, welcome to the show that never ends!
Glad to be here! :^p
> I'm sure that this stuff I just snipped has been addressed elsewhere in o.t-d,
> and I'm sure some will bring it up again... so I'll leave that
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> if he could. He is a bit of a klutz though, but that's a personality trait.
> > Everyone seems to have conveniently forgotten that he helped lead the country
> > through one of the toughest days in recent American history (9-11) <*>.
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> From what I remember of Dubya's 'leadership' right after 9-11 is that he ran and
> hid in an 'undisclosed location'.
It was necessary to protect the chain of command, remember. They didn't know if
there'd be a follow-up attack of some sort.
> I don't recall too much leadership going on by him--his form of 'leadership'
> could have been done by any third rank politician at the time. No, true
> leadership would have taken all that goodwill from basically the entire world
> and used it for something better, instead of say, for example, 'leading' the
> world to distrust and hate Americans in less than 2 years.
The world has hated and distrusted Americans for a lot longer than 2 years.
> Look at his current mess that he wants to ignore.
You mean with the economy? He is an idiot, IMO, for the tax cuts.
> Look at the monies spent on 'whitewater/lewinskigate' compared to the
> investigation into 9/11.
Yeah, that one I don't understand.
> A true leader would want to get 'to the bottom' of what happened on 9/11. Dubya
> shows no such interest at all.
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> To sum--you have a president who doesn't have any good leadership abilities at
> all.
I was thinking more of the PR stuff he did for the country in the days after
9-11. Now though, he could do a bit more in the leadership area, I'll agree.
-Stefan-
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Stefan Garcia wrote: ¦ The world has hated and distrusted Americans for a lot longer than 2 years. I disagree with you here. The world doesn't necessarily "hate" the US, and even the distrust you mention is not universal. (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Hi Stephan, welcome to the show that never ends! <snip> I'm sure that this stuff I just snipped has been addressed elsewhere in o.t-d, and I'm sure some will bring it up again... so I'll leave that if he could. He is a bit of a klutz though, (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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