ROTFL! OH My God! Unbelievable

http://www.georgewbush.com/Compassion/

The President’s Compassion Agenda

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In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. The President believes that as Americans, we have responsibilities. There are millions of men and women across the nation who want to end their dependence on government and improve their lives. The Administration is committed to applying the best and most innovative ideas to the task of helping our fellow citizens in need.

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I guess they just don;t take responsibility for the decisions they make as president.

And how about ending Dick "Halliburton" Cheney's dependency on the government?

"compassionate conservative" really means "one who conserves compassion."

I want to end my dependence on Social Security. I want to work until I drop over dead at the age of 95 and I want to drop dead on the job, too, if I can live that long without health care. I wonder how he can read my mind so well?

if they want to take responsibility that's where they can start with the corporate welfare queens.
I'm in need of the corporate welfare queens to stop polluting my air, water, and getting government hand outs from my tax dollars. After all fair is fair and if they want us little people to take responsibility for paving our own roads and putting out fires they can start with not bailing out the corporate welfare queens.

The Administration is committed to applying the best and most innovative ideas to the task of helping our fellow citizens in need.
That line should read 'The Administration is committed to milking the peoples treasury dry and turning us into a 3rd world country.

...unless your the president of an S & L that needs a federal bailout, because your crooked CEO just fled to Bermuda with a hundred and fifty mil in a suitcase, or you're Delta and your CEO is so corrupt and incompetent that you are in the middle of filing bankruptcy, and will be getting millions in government aid soon.

Everyone knows it's those damn Cadillac driving welfare moms that are REALLY destroying the country.

</sarcasm>

Here's the definition:

"1. Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful."

What does that definition have to do with respect or responsibility?

Don't you just love how they take a beautiful word with a beautiful meaning and completely twist it around to fit THEIR agenda?

Respect and responsibility, while positive concepts themselves, actually have nothing to do with compassion. Compassion just is compassion. Mercy. Sympathy. Pity. A synonym for compassion is HUMANE.

So according to the rest of that Shrub definition of compassion, compassion means making sure we can end people's dependence on the government?

I'd love to see everyone living independently, making their own way, never needing any help, but that just isn't reality and it has nothing to do with compassion.

(Edited to add link.)

Anybody remember this?

http://www.georgewbush.com/Compassion/PhotoAlbum.aspx?gallery=29

I wrote my thesis in college on propaganda of the Third Reich. Guys, you have no idea how closely this statement of Bush's mimicks Nazi propaganda.

maybe a direct comparison would make for a good thread

Here's Hitler's take on Germany "freeing" Austria:
12 March: The Freeing of Austria

"I have therefore decided to place the help of the Reich at the disposal of the millions of Germans in Austria.

Since this morning, soldiers of the German army are crossing the border at every point into German-Austria."

Or this one:
12 March: The Führer in Linz

"Providence once called me from this city to lead the Reich. There must have been a reason, and it could only have been to return my beloved homeland to the German Reich!"

Or this one on Hitler freeing the people of Europe:
"And they are closely bound together by their world views. A block of 120 million people has sprung up in Europe. They are determined to defend their eternal right to life and to resist all forces that attempt to resist their natural development."

This is probably my favorite (again that darned compassionate Hitler helping the helpless):
12 February: Schuschnigg in Berchtesgaden.

"In the long term, it is intolerable for a confident great power to know that its comrades are suffering nearby, that they are suffering the gravest sorrows, if it sympathetic to the whole people." (From a speech on 20.2.38)

In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life.

If he truly believes that. And according to so many on the religious right, and republican idiots, homosexuality is a choice. Hence a decision us "evil queers" have made, so tell me, how is banning our right to marry respecting our decision to sleep with someone of the same sex?

And please, don't jump on me. I'm a lesbian who is merely pointing our the hypocrisy of Bush* yet again.

If you "evil queers" are denied the right to marry each other, you'll be praying to the Republican "Jesus" to make you straight, and be properly married to the opposite sex the way God intended.

See, our beloved pResident is only looking out for your best interests.

/end sarcasm. begin puking :puke:

He might be looking out for our "best interests" but the bastard isn't standing by his own words and supporting our decision to be queer. ;)

for the link to Lavender Liberal! Some of those bumperstickers are damned funny!! :D :D :D

I particularly like
"BUSH - CHENEY in '04 - One Nation Under Surveillance!"

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I'm glad you liked it. Sapph and I spent many hours coming up with those. :)

--IMM

by their bootstraps.

Leadership begins with example, Dimson. Show us one example where you have taken responsibility for anything of import, you lying sack of --

Twist the definition of a word entirely around to agree with a preconceived idea that is diametrically opposed. Only to a nitwit right winger would "responsibility for decisions" be a central part of compassion.

Just amazing that they can get away with this type of crap. But this is the United States of Ignorance.

In a compassionate society, UNLIKE OUR OWN, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life, UNLESS THEY ARE RICH AND POWERFUL LIKE ME: WE DON'T HAVE TO :hi:
The President believes that as Americans, we have responsibilities, MOST OF WHICH, WE AVOID AND DENY :nopity:
There are millions of men and women across the nation who want to end their dependence on government and improve their lives, SO WE USE THEM TO SCAPEGOATS AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE :thumbsdown:
The MISAdministration is MOST DEFINITELY NOT committed to applying the best and most innovative ideas to the task of helping our fellow citizens in need, AS YOU ALL SHOULD KNOW BY NOW :evilgrin:

:hippie: :thumbsup:

With their Cadillacs.