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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 10:36 AM
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Are people REALLY this STUPID? Man expresses dismay that Bush can not run again
I mean where the f**k do they find these morons? Are they really out there living among us? I don't know any. Maybe they have them hidden away just to bring out when poor dubya needs an ego boost. Maybe its a cult that will follow George to some island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean when he finally leaves office, where they can all live happily ever after and continue to be totally oblivious to any sense of reality.
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Low in Polls, Bush Makes More Time for Friendly Crowds
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: October 16, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/washington/16bush.html?_r=1&ex=1350273600&en=128118c9669776f2&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin


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ROGERS, Ark., Oct. 15 — Out there in the rest of America, polls show that about twice as many people disapprove of President Bush as approve of him. But here in a cavernous convention center hall, Mr. Bush found nothing but admirers Monday when he answered questions during a town-hall-style meeting.

One man began by commending Mr. Bush “on your steadfastness and your faith.” Another concluded by saying, “Thank you for being my president for the last seven years,” with an emphasis on the word “my.” A third expressed dismay that Mr. Bush could not run for president again.

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The friendly audience in northwest Arkansas — not a single questioner criticized Mr. Bush — is typical of such let-Bush-be-Bush events, which the White House is staging with increasing frequency. Mr. Bush’s aides like them because the president is much better in an informal setting, especially one where he can get his message across, conversation-style, without pesky reporters asking the questions.

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They were. Outside the hall, after lunch at a barbecue restaurant, Mr. Bush and his motorcade passed a few onlookers carrying “impeachment now” signs and antiwar signs. Inside the hall, the war in Iraq came up only when Mr. Bush talked about it himself.

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The kicker came from a girl who asked when he thought there would be “a girl president” — from the Republican Party.

“You took my line,” the president replied, apparently thinking for a moment that he was being asked about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York. “I think there will — a lady will be president, you know, and she’ll be a Republican.”
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 10:39 AM
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1. why, yes, they are, unfortunately
:-(
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wake.up.america Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 10:43 AM
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3. There are reasons for people supporting the "Moron", but we are speaking..
of abnormal psychology.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 10:43 AM
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2. Coulter? Dole? Malkin? Katherine Harris?
:rofl:
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 09:56 AM
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25. Motley crew



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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 10:45 AM
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4. I like this post:
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 10:52 AM
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10. "I think we have a huge credibility problem"
That's the least of it.
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beberocks Donating Member (219 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 10:46 AM
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5. That's why the GOP hates education.
They hate to learn anything, they just want to be told what to think by "daddy." They are a sick bunch.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 10:48 AM
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6. I've seen W'08 stickers. n/t
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 11:05 AM
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12. You mean these . . .


I had a photo of that sticker once on, fittingly, a gas-guzzler.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 10:48 AM
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7. Some are
I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said:
Proud to have voted for Bush
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CrispyQ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 10:49 AM
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8. "...without pesky reporters asking the questions."
Yeah, those softball questions they lob at you are a bit too much for your pea brain.

Colbert nailed it when he called these guys the backwash.
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QueenOfCalifornia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 10:51 AM
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9. Elvis has left the building....
and yes, people are that damned stupid. I know some and it is like having my IQ lowered by 50% when I have to talk to them.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 10:54 AM
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No, but they were mostly Wal-Mart execs or the presidents of Wal-Mart 'suppliers', so that
should tell you something.
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 10:54 AM
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11. unfortunately
Come to Ohio sometime and drive around, especially in some of the burbs of Cinci. I still see them far too often. Were I less scrupulous, I would put "I support Torture" and "Down with Democracy" bumper stickers on their cars when they aren't paying attention. But I won't.
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 03:21 PM
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27. I get it...
And I wouldn't either, but you know if it was the opposite, our windows would be smashed. I'm not saying ALL repubs would do that, but there are enough to make it a good bet.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 11:11 AM
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13. Baaaaaa. Sheeple.
My grandma always did say: "There's nothin' dumber than a damned sheep." And she was right, you know.

Grandma would know. She and Grandpa had more than a thousand head back in the day.
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 11:24 AM
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14. Bush addresses audience in Rogers, AR


ROGERS, AR (AP)—In an experiment to prove that there truly is a fool born every minute, a large group of fools was assembled this week in Arkansas to hear pResident Bush talk about Fiscal Responsibility - a topic he knows nothing about judging from the sorry state of America's financial affairs, and Bush's own personal business history, in which every company he's owned has failed.

The audience pictured above is one of the largest groups of fools assembled in recent history. The majority of them when asked after the speech what they thought about it, responded they really didn't get it but wasn't George a nice man?
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 11:53 AM
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15. Thank you for that...
TRUTHFUL analysis. I wonder how many more Rogers, AR's are out there. I think I'd be afraid to know.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 11:56 AM
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16. His answer there does not necessarily disqualify Hillary. nt
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BootinUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 11:56 AM
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17. He is sporting that "Yeah I'm bad" smirk
He should have been a comic performer.
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 12:09 PM
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19. I always said that also...
he's a natural, wouldn't even have to write jokes, just go on stage and be stupid.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 11:57 AM
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18. Bush supporters are dumber than Bush, do the math.
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Semper_FiFi Donating Member (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 12:28 PM
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20. F*CK THEM!!! F*CK THEM ALL!!!
I hate every single one of those motherf*ck*ng *ssholes! I'd like to kick the smug supercilious smiles out of each and every one of them. I hope they are proud of the f*cked up state the country is in.:grr:
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Pool Hall Ace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 12:54 PM
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21. Unbelievable.
How stupid can people be?
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 02:25 PM
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22. There appears to be no limit n/t
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SergeyDovlatov Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 02:56 PM
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23. It is increadible that the most fiscally irresponsible president ever would
choose "Fiscal Responsibility" for himself as a backdrop
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 09:59 PM
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24. "Mission Accomplished"...
They love their little slogans.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 09:57 AM
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26. Anyone who believes
Bush is fiscally responsible is truly stupid.

Mz Pip
:dem:
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 03:29 PM
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28. I'd like to know where the magical Republican health insurance
company is that apparently provides cheap, good coverage so they're all happy as deranged clams. It would also be nice to know why arms and legs don't mean much to them. I assume their Republican soldiers are blown to hell as often as Democratic soldiers. I bet among the whole lot of them in this audience they couldn't name the Supreme Court justices or tell you what FISA stands for.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 03:34 PM
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29. That audience in the background is not representative of America. n/t
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Kool Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-19-07 01:14 AM
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45. They don't even look real.
Look at the picture again, and look closely at the people on the right side (I guess it is the left side as you are looking at it-on Bush's right-hand side). What are those people looking at? They aren't looking at him. Maybe it is a computer-generated audience, like the crowd scenes from the film, "Gladiator". I just can't believe they could find this many people in one town that liked him.
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-19-07 10:22 AM
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48. I agree...
Looks fake. And as far as finding so many people that like him, that is the point of my thread. I don't think there are that many, unless, like I questioned: Are people really this STUPID?
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rufus dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 04:04 PM
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30. sixty million (maybe a couple million less) voted for him in 04
So the answer is yes people are that stupid. And they are living amoung us!
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-19-07 12:19 AM
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42. I'm hoping that at least...
some of those sixty million people learned something in the last three years. But what they learned, I have no idea.
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codjh9 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 04:04 PM
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31. His 'FAITH'!?!?!?! He's about as truly religious as Godzilla.
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rufus dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 04:09 PM
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32. In Orange County, CA
I hardly ever see a W sticker, and the Support our Troops on the gas guzzlers are a rare occurance. I am sure these people have run into too many people like me who directly ask them, How Dumb are you?
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madmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 04:32 PM
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33. half the sheeple are looking in a different direction, not at him, curious!
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codjh9 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 04:34 PM
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34. I like that - 'sheeple' - how appropriate, and more polite than 'f-ing idiots' :^)
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 10:24 PM
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39. Looking all over the place...
like waiting to be told what to do.:shrug:
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 04:36 PM
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35. funny how they think those background signs will make their deficit
ballooning spending style go away.

It's Orwell, all the time!
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Mike03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 05:02 PM
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36. Incredible as it may sound,
There is some guy named "Happy" in Seattle, WA who calls up nearly every talk show on KGO in San Francisco saying exactly this same thing. He calls day after day, night after night. It's unfathomable, but these people do exist. They are obsessive and dangerously misled.
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 05:40 PM
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37. Crystal meth. It's a hell of a drug.
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Yavapai Donating Member (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 07:18 PM
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38. After studying the photo


Don't see any Oxi's but there seems to be lots of of Morons
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-19-07 08:38 AM
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46. No black people...
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 10:54 PM
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40. you obviously don't live in Texas
or else you'd KNOW people can be that stupid
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ThoughtCriminal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 10:58 PM
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41. Well if they can repeal the term limit in time
Bill can run against Hillary.
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-19-07 12:38 AM
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43. The banner behind Bush proves that Americans do get irony.
Record deficit, tax-cuts and the looney is still beating the drum for more war spending.

Dear Mr. Bush, raise taxes on rich crony capitalists, you innumerate ape. Draft Blackwater and the rest of the overpriced mercenaries. Medicaid for ALL Americans. Get the fuck out of Iraq. This should save the US a lot of money.
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-19-07 12:42 AM
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44. "not a single questioner criticized Mr. Bush"
Well what do you expect from such a diverse crowd? :eyes:
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NewYorkerfromMass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-19-07 09:15 AM
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47. Bush is the first “girl president”
as far as I am concerned. Apologies to the ladies for my sexist comment, but Mr. AWOL from TANG, have daddy steal an election for me Bush, qualifies as the first “girl president” (or boy for that matter, given the childish nature of this beast).
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-19-07 10:37 AM
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49. Your post segways perfectly into...
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