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panzerfaust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 04:10 AM
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That oddly simian face is ashen, the eyes leaden ...

A great read from an opinion piece in a mainstream newspaper in Oz.

Fair dinkum mates!
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AussieDave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 04:23 AM
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1. Gool ol' Mike Carlton - hits all the right notes
The only way all our dreams can come true is for the Dems to take BOTH Houses of Congress in November - then watch steady parade of perp walks.......

Thanks for posting this !!!!
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ClintonTyree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 04:25 AM
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2. "I'm the Decider"....
"I'm the decider and I decide what's best," he squawked to reporters in the White House rose garden the other day, as the screws turned tighter on his disastrous Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. Can you imagine Roosevelt, Eisenhower or Kennedy blurting something like that?

No, I can't imagine ANY past U.S. President blurting out something as insipid as that. The most hated man in the world is our pResident. I don't know about the rest of you but that bothers me to no end. That spoiled, petulant, self absorbed little cretin represents our country on the world stage. What must the world think of us? :shrug:
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panzerfaust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 04:44 AM
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4. "What must the world think of us?"
Sadly, the truth.
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 04:35 AM
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3. Good summation.
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Talismom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 05:24 AM
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5. Love the article! Thanks for posting! n/t
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Random_Australian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 05:27 AM
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6. bewdy! Bleedin oath if that weren't all wool and a yard wide;
True blue dinky-di fair dinkum Aussie media.

Lucky you, if it weren't for DU I'd think Americans were ALL like that.

Which many, many people do.
Sorry, but it is the truth x(.

Anyway, good to see the free press is still alive in my corner of Bazzaland.

Cheers mate, thanks your the heads up! :toast:
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panzerfaust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 07:06 AM
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8. We aren't all Hoffman bricks
Ta muchly
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 06:49 AM
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7. A trash presidency, founded on lies and knavery, fraud and ignorant
political crackpottery.

Really excellent article - everyone should read the whole thing. I'm saving it to pass along.
Thanks for the post.

Tide turns on Dubya's wreck

April 22, 2006

"SYDNEY, NSW, is a long way from Washington DC but, even at this distance, it is clear that the Bush Administration is falling to pieces.In recent weeks, scanning the political coverage in the mainstream US media and sampling the blogs has been to watch a flood tide ebbing to reveal a rotting, skeletal hulk. It is the George W. Bush ship of fools, stuck in the mud for the world to see in all its mendacity, its incompetence, its faith-based stupidity.

It is possible, at this late stage, that even Bush himself has begun to realise something is wrong. That oddly simian face is ashen, the eyes leaden. The voice is shrill and its tone defensive."I'm the decider and I decide what's best," he squawked to reporters in the White House rose garden the other day, as the screws turned tighter on his disastrous Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. Can you imagine Roosevelt, Eisenhower or Kennedy blurting something like that?
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But This is a trash presidency, founded on lies and knavery, fraud and ignorant ideological crackpottery.If the Democrats regain control of Congress, there would be a good chance of them moving to impeach Bush for high crimes and misdemeanours.The famous Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein raised just that possibility in a recent article in Vanity Fair magazine. "We have never had a presidency in which the single unifying thread that flows through its major decision-making was incompetence stitched together with hubris and mendacity on a Nixonian scale," he wrote.Exactly. Compared to this lot, Bill Clinton was John the Baptist."

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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 08:00 AM
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9. George W. Bush's ship of fools (just what I have said since 2001)

The Ship of Fools (1494) by Hieronymous Bosch
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marions ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 09:18 AM
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10. Aussies not under any delusions
(quote) "This is a trash presidency, founded on lies and knavery, fraud and ignorant ideological crackpottery."

The Sydney Morning Herald is not pulling any punches....
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AussieDave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 07:45 AM
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11. The SMH and the Melbourne Age aren't owned by Murdoch
so they can say what they like. You sure as hell wouldn't find this in any Murdoch-owned papers........
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