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>Bush has never been proven a liar, Clinton has.
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May 29, 2003, George W Bush:

We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two.



Bush said that they had laboratories. You just said that they found two. What am I missing?



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Sept 21 Gallup/CNN poll:

Clark 49
Bush 46

Kerry 48
Bush 47

Lieberman 47
Bush 48

Dean 45
Bush 49



Bill, You hold onto those numbers if it will help you sleep at night. Reagan and Clinton were in the same position at their mid-term elections.

As I said, I cannot predict what will happen in the next year. But presently, the Democratic Party can't seem to produce a formidable challenge to GWB. This is happening deliberately. The DNC must not have much confidence in winning the next election if they are rolling out their weak links. They are saving their stronger candidates for '08. Think Mondale in 1984, Dukakis in 1988 and Dole in 1996.

Face it, it's 5 more years of Bush/Cheney. But don't worry, I survived 8 years of Clinton/Gore. You'll survive.

Chris



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Perfectly understandable to lie and claim Saddam was an imminent threat to the world to get support for a war.



He didn't lie. He made decisions based on the information that was available to him. The previous president believed that he had these weapons also. Just because we haven't found them doesn't prove that the weapons don't exist.



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After all else had failed, one gun shot nearby a guy with information during wartime? Huh, that aint all that was done over there. This one was written about.




I'm sure glad you were voted to speak for everyone. Are you really Grey Davis :P



It's Gray, and are you misquoting me?

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Outgoing Clinton administration: Trashes White House and all their computers.



Awww come on, that was hilarious! when i heard they took all the W's off the keyboards i was giggling like a kid for days...



I wonder what that cost the taxpayers?



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But presently, the Democratic Party can't seem to produce a formidable challenge to GWB.



Interestingly enough, the Republican Party can: GWB. He is his own biggest challenge. While you are right that some Democrats will vote for him, his actions have also angered some Republicans enough to vote for anyone but him. He has made an incredible number of major blunders so far.

Personally, I'm hoping for a president that will be honest, effective and work dilligently to represent the interests of the United States while improving relationships with other countries. I haven't seen it in my lifetime. Maybe someday I will. But I know it didn't happen in the Clinton era or either of the Bush presidencies.

Perhaps it is time for something entirely different.

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>Reagan and Clinton were in the same position at their mid-term
>elections.

Oh, I agree. Just pointing out that he's currently not quite as popular as some here might think.

>As I said, I cannot predict what will happen in the next year. But
>presently, the Democratic Party can't seem to produce a formidable
> challenge to GWB.

I agree - there are no outstanding candidates.

>Face it, it's 5 more years of Bush/Cheney.

I thought that was a slam-dunk until this summer, when I spent an hour talking to the wife of a Rantoul FBO. She was a staunch republican, and for a while we talked about the boogie, running an FBO, etc. Then Amy started talking about Iraq. She was uncomfortable for a while, then started saying things like "I don't know, but it seems like he doesn't know what he's doing over there. I mean, I supported the war, but I don't see how this will end well. I sure hope it does." If Middle America can see that (and this family was pure Middle America) I think his reelection might not be a sure thing.

For the most part I think it will depend on the economy. If it gets better he'll get reelected. If it doesn't he won't.

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Interesting, but nobody will reply to your post since they don't agree with your political views. If they did, it would have that bandwagoning effect that is common between a lot of threads. One good troll thread and everyone jumps in with the same opinion, then blasts all that counter that view, regardless if of political leanings.



Or it could have been that the post was made later than most people are at work.

By the looks of it it has grown just a bit during the day.
I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
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>He didn't lie.

You mean other than claiming we know exactly where the weapons are. And that we found the weapons. And that Niger sold uranium to Iraq.

>Just because we haven't found them doesn't prove that the weapons
>don't exist.

Oh, I'm sure we'll find them eventually. Heck, the next regime will build them at some point, or we'll sell them some. That doesn't change the fact that we went into the last Iraq war based on misleading information.

Face it - "weapons of mass destruction" was the most convenient excuse they could find. Wolfowitz admitted this:

"For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could agree on."

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Bill,

Do you agree that there are much more formidable candidates in the Democratic Party that are waiting for '08 and skipping '04?

I agree with you in regard to the economy. If it goes south, GWB is out of there. But, the economy is not as bad as it was when his dad was running for re-election.

GWB may also benefit from the "I feel safer" vote due to the events of 9/11. Whether anyone likes it or not, 9/11 will be on the minds of many an American when they go to the polls a year from now. It should be interesting to see which way New York goes. As you know, New Yorkers are still quite traumatized and pissed over 9/11.

Another question is, can Schwarzenegger deliver California to the Republicans?

I truly do not know what the results of the '04 election will be. I do agree that GWB is slipping and his PR better get busy.

Either way, I'm sure it will be an interesting election.

Chris

Edited to add: Right now I see numbskulls running for the Democratic nomination. But if you think I am being partisan here, I am not. Because in '96, I saw numbskulls running for the Republican nomination.



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>Do you agree that there are much more formidable candidates in the
>Democratic Party that are waiting for '08 and skipping '04?

It would be hard to imagine that there would be _less_ formidable candidates in '08.

>GWB may also benefit from the "I feel safer" vote due to the events
>of 9/11.

I think a lot of that depends on what happens over the next year. There _will_ be more terrorist attacks. If they worry people, more people may get on the "Iraq war made us less safe" thing. If they are minor and confined to places like the Middle East, Russia, Europe etc then you're probably right.

>Right now I see numbskulls running for the Democratic nomination.
>But if you think I am being partisan here, I am not.

I agree with you. I wish we had a candidate for the next election who was _not_ a numbskull. If we could only talk Powell into running . . .

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I agree with you. I wish we had a candidate for the next election who was _not_ a numbskull.



Smart people with a shred of common sense know enough not to want to be president. So how do we get any decent candidates, in any party? That is the conundrum. :S

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Bill and Justin,

I agree with you both 100%.

I don't care what their party is, I just want a damned good, honest, kick ass president. One that refuses to be a puppet of their party and has the balls (or breasts;)) to preside for what is right.

Unfortunately, I don't think I will see this in my lifetime.:(

Chris



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