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[hoppy]

An email I got this AM.

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a TelePrompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how he inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?



If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?



If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?



If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?



If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?



If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?



If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the nonexistent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?



If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?



If George W. Bush had stated that there were 57 states in the United States , would you have said that he is clueless.





If George W. Bush would have flown all the way to Denmark to make a five minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit him walking out his front door in Texas, would you have thought he was a self important, conceited, egotistical jerk.







If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?



If George W. Bush had misspelled the word "advice" would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoes as proof of what a dunce he is?



If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?



If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?



If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America, would you have approved.



If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?



If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?



If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?







If George Bush had his attorney general looking for someone to blame for the Gulf oil spill, instead of working with BP to solve the problem, would you have approved?



So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in one year and 5 months -- so you'll have two years and seven months to come up with an answer.

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hoppy;1319161 wrote: So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive?That's easy. He's not George W. Bush.

[Mark Aspam]

hoppy;1319161 wrote: So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in one year and 5 months -- so you'll have two years and seven months to come up with an answer.

Some of the items on the list are bogus, it seems to me that most of those which are not are rather trivial.

Compare that with the eight years of calamity, catastrophe and disaster under Bush, the results of which were dumped in Obama's lap to sort out.



I would have preferred Hillary, but the American people chose Obama, he has my full support. As poster spot implied, anyone at all would be better than Bush.

[littleCJelkton]

hoppy;1319161 wrote:





So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in one year and 5 months -- so you'll have two years and seven months to come up with an answer.




As the episode Southpark pointed out We have the choice of a turd sandwich, or a giant douche so which one was Bush and which one is Obama that's up for anyone to decide.

[Accountable]

Here's one from the so-called "other side", just to balance things:

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I came across this and thought I'd pass it on:



We had eight years of Bush and Cheney, Now you get mad!?

You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and

appointed a President.

You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate

energy policy.

You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.

You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.

You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.

You didn't get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war.

You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.

You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.

You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.

You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden.

You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.

You didn't get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.

You didn't get mad when we gave a 900 billion tax break to the rich.

You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.

You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans...oh hell no.



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They're both crap! When will people realize that both parties are bent on destroying the American Ideal and picking the bones of her carcass? I swear sometimes it must be willful ignorance! :-5

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Accountable;1319382 wrote: They're both crap! When will people realize that both parties are bent on destroying the American Ideal and picking the bones of her carcass? I swear sometimes it must be willful ignorance! :-5


I'm surprised that in all these years you never felt we shared any common ground.