"Once a punk, always a punk..." - Democratic Underground

kentuck

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Thu Dec-21-06 09:04 PM
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"Once a punk, always a punk..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/walter-c-uhler/put-on-the-spot-our-punk_b_36920.html

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Tsurumi concluded: "Behind his smile and his smirk...he was a very insecure, cunning and vengeful guy." "He was just badly brought up, with no discipline, and no compassion." In conservative Lebanon, Pennsylvania, where I grew up during the 1950s and 1960s, such people were called "punks."

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Yet, worse was to come. On October 2, 2002, Bush lied when he told Congressional leaders: "None of us here today desire to see a military conflict." How do we know he lied? Because in March 2003, in the moments "before he gave his national address announcing that the war had just begun, a camera caught Bush pumping his fist as though instead of initiating a war he had kicked a winning field goal or hit a home run. 'Feels good,' he said." Once a punk, always a punk?

In December 2003, months after the Bush administration's reckless assertions about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction proved to be false, ABC's Diane Sawyer pressed Bush about justifying a war to the American public by stating "as a hard fact, that there were weapons of mass destruction as opposed to the possibility that he could move to acquire those weapons." Put on the spot, Bush resorted to his punk college ways by responding: "So what's the difference?"

Two months later, Bush weaseled again. When put on the spot by Tim Russert, of Meet the Press, Bush justified his illegal, immoral invasion of Iraq by asserting: "Saddam Hussein was dangerous, and so I'm not going leave him in power and trust a madman...He had the ability to make weapons, at the very minimum." Such a snotty and infantile excuse for sending thousands to their deaths should have persuaded even the most brain-dead of Bush supporters that he had wasted his vote on a reckless punk.

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CatWoman

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Thu Dec-21-06 09:37 PM
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1. K&R

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Swede

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Thu Dec-21-06 10:03 PM
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2. He's beyond incompetent,he's dangerous.

He'll pull everyone down with him.

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MadMaddie

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Thu Dec-21-06 11:12 PM
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7. Just like all of the successful businesses his daddy handed to him..

they all ended up in the red and bankrupt...and so to shall our country if we don't remove him from office..

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HCE SuiGeneris

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Thu Dec-21-06 10:08 PM
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3. I love a good long-term memory

Great post -- and Abramoff's e-mail is further damning evidence.

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Octafish

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Thu Dec-21-06 11:02 PM
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4. Tsurumi also reported Bush said his connected Poppy kept him out of draft.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/13/bush.professor/

Wish Dan Rather had interviewed Professor Tsurumi. We the People might've learned something.

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Fridays Child

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Thu Dec-21-06 11:05 PM
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5. He's right. It's the punkification of the presidency.

And it has reflected shamefully on this country. :(

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Straight Shooter

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Thu Dec-21-06 11:08 PM
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6. At the time of the invasion, 50% of the population of Baghdad was under 15.

Edited on Thu Dec-21-06 11:09 PM by Straight Shooter

I'm relying on memory here as to the exact number. Little Boots, instead of praying for those children, that God might aid them in their suffering, he pumps his fist and with a self-satisfied smirk, he says, "Feels good!"

Oh, booyah, touchdown, Little Boots, you scored big-time, he-man :sarcasm:

Did anyone make a copy of that video? Or did the BFEE seize it and destroy it, like all the rest of the evidence against their chosen fool.

edit spelling

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stevedeshazer

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Thu Dec-21-06 11:32 PM
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8. Respectfully, that's not what 'punk' is...Bush is the 'Anti-Punk'.

Edited on Thu Dec-21-06 11:35 PM by Steve_DeShazer

Punk embodies the anti-establishment.

This HuffPo ster doesn't get what punk is.

I am a punk. I resist the establishment. The establishment isn't punk; it's criminal.

Bush is the criminal. Does that make him a punk?

No. It makes him a criminal. Do I resist him?

Yeah. I'm the punk.

kentuck, you're a punk, too. :)

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Lilith Velkor

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Fri Dec-22-06 01:02 AM
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9. He's what we in modern times call

a punk-ass biach.

That's totally different from being a punk. Punks are a tribe of the vast Freak Nation. :headbang:

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