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Bush's Approval Ratings slump to record low 29% ....
Zaxx99
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Bush's approval ratings are now down to a record low 29%...
And the question that I must ask here is this: "What the hell is wrong with the 29% of Americans who vote in favor of the job he is doing !!?"
I swear, some people would worship a toilet filled with maggot infested poop.
- Zaxx
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I swear, some people would bash anything. just because it is the cool thing to do. All they need is system of a down and green day to sing about it and your set.
Yeh, well I actually voted both times thank you. So I have the right to speak my mind I would think. Oh yeh, and just to set my record strait.. Neither time did "Retardo Bush" get my vote. Trust me on that.
- Zaxx
Right, as in DICK Cheney. And I didn't know that Bush had a dick btw. Isn't a "bush" kinda the opposite of a dick.
Oh btw, speaking of musicians, I am and always have been 110% behind the Dixie Chicks. Anyone who stopped listening to a great musical group because they bashed Bush in March of 2003 should be ashamed of your selves. They certainly have as much freedom of speech as you and I.. expecially at their own friggin' concert. I feel badly for the abuse, loss of sales because of radio stations refusing to play their music and mostly for all their letters of death and hatred they recieved for only voicing their freedom of speech.
- Zaxx
Wish we elected a better canidate in the primaries. But, would vote for him again against any Democrat canidate.
However, if you knew my father, your mouth would be gaping.
I used to be a Republican. Now, after President G. W. Bush, I am not. And I never will be again.
He belongs amongst the ranks of you, or you amongst the ranks of him. Wait, now I'm confused.
I think. Wait, now I know. I'm not confused, because I think.
Ta, ta.
Cartman has a big fat ass!
Also,out of curiousity what was bushes highest approval rating?
90%, right after 9/11. The highest rating ever.
Wars and such always initially give a nice boost to the approval ratings - I guess he should start an another one ASAP.
What matters is his demise.
Looks like the SS (Secret Service) will be coming my way.
Isn't it funny... SS, Nazi Germany. SS, U.S. Secret Service?
Hey, Secret Service... Kiss my American Ass! You bastards.
Revolution is close... You bastards. Kiss my ass U.S. Secret Service!!!!!
Bring it on...
Cartman has a big fat ass!
and you call me the fool?
Why don't you just save your self the trouble and get the (Finwe Edit) out of the country then? I mean if you don't like this president, you won't like the next one, and the one after that and if you don't like the president, your probably not liking the way the country is run. If you don't like the way the country is run, then you must not like the country. Because you know what? They are all polititians are the same. Go take that "my college professor told me" political views crap out of these forums.
(Mod note by Finwe: It seems that this may be getting a little out of hand. Everyone take a step back, and chill down. Or there will be action taken - Be it in the form of deletions/warnings/bans, or a thread lock.)
I thought that this stat was incorrect and wrong and that it was never above about 75%, but it is right on. His highest approval ratings since taking office in 2000 was 90%. The timing mentioned is correct as well, a month after 9/11 in October of 2001 his approval ratings hit a ridiculous 90%. By the time we invaded Iraq.. April of '03 that approval rating was down to about 70%. By June of 03 however, it dropped to 60%, and was down to 50% by March of 2004. it continued to drop overall, hitting 40% by September of 2005, and now has hit under 30% for his first time since taking office. This is indeed interesting statistics for a president that I think should have already been impeached from office.
Source: Here.
- Zaxx
Australia, in my opinion should become a Nationalist Social Democracy, like Nazi except with a democratic constitutional decree; a Nationalist Central Social Empire would also be good. Comunism just deteriorates because the proleteriat contradicts itself to all ends.
IMO? Empires under strict imperial rule always work. Monarchical Empires FTW. Like pre-Cold War Arabia.
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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Game On!
Originally posted by sidebuster
This is the typical extreme right viewpoint. The viewpoint that hates ALL views or angles that even slightly asks what the hell is our president doing even when he is screwing up everything. That anyone who asks "What's up" of our president regardless of his direction should stop asking questions and simply get out of our country. The viewpoint that any republican president is perfect no matter what he does. Any questions asked.. get the hell out of the country you blankety blank. lol.
Sidebuster... there have been a few good conservative presidents over time. But neither of the Bushs have been one. Clinton wasn't a great democrat president, but he definately took this country in the right direction. Never mind his personal life and choices which most wanna bash and harp on. The fact is that he took one of the largest national debts ever at the time he took office and turned it into a major surplus. He signed many great bills into office to protect our woodlands from constant logging and so much more. He passed the first minimum wage increases from $3.35 to $4.25 and then $5.15 for the first time in almost 20 damn years. (GW Bush on the otherhand has veto'd raising the minimum wage now several times, even when it has been passed congress) Bush now has by far the largest federal defecit our great country has ever seen. In my mind, he is basically a mass murderer as well. Mass murderer you ask? Well yes. For sending so many of our great soldiers into a senseless and ill-rationed war in Iraq. Look at how many of our own have now died as a result. Not to mention the thousands upon thousands of INNOCENT Iraq natives that we have killed. I understand people die in wars sure. But this was a war that was a mistake. The first reason we invaded if you recall was because Saddam was telling us he didn't have any WMDs for our inspectors to check out. Bush didn't believe him and insisted he had them and to let our inspectors check em out. Saddam kept saying he didn't have any WMD's. Bush finally got pissed enough to invade Iraq. Soon after when we discovered Saddam in fact was telling the truth and didnt have any WMDs, and then magically we had invaded Iraq for um... the purpose of "Taking out an evil empire and saving Iraq from Saddam". Funny how our purpose suddenly changed, hehe. Now that Iraq is still in as much chaos, if not more chaos then ever over there due to our invasion, I suppose that our purpose was only to show them who was boss or some BS huh? We never intended to "liberate" Iraq. Naw, ofcourse not. Bush knew the result would be as it is the whole time.
Sidebuster, Bush is not a good president. Face it dude. 90% of our country embraced him and even some hard core liberals put their trust into him right after 9/11. Now, even the most extreme right are realizing how much harm he has indeed done to our country with so many mistakes as that his approval rating has dropped to 29%. And it will continue to drop as Iraq chaos continues and our federal defecit increases and our borders remain open to all and gas prices hover over $3.00 a gallon and on and on and on...
But not you huh Sidebuster? You'll just tell us all to get the F out of your and Bushs country huh? I got news for you pal. It's ALL of our country. Every one of ours and we have the right to express our concerns or doubts in our leader when we feel he may be making mistakes. The only truly harmful attitude is to NEVER doubt our leader regardless of where he takes us.
- Zaxx
This is the typical extreme right viewpoint. The viewpoint that hates ALL views or angles that even slightly asks what the hell is our president doing even when he is screwing up everything. That anyone who asks "What's up" of our president regardless of his direction should stop asking questions and simply get out of our country. The viewpoint that any republican president is perfect no matter what he does. Any questions asked.. get the hell out of the country you blankety blank. lol.
Sidebuster... there have been a few good conservative presidents over time. But neither of the Bushs have been one. Clinton wasn't a great democrat president, but he definately took this country in the right direction. Never mind his personal life and choices which most wanna bash and harp on. The fact is that he took one of the largest national debts ever at the time he took office and turned it into a major surplus. He signed many great bills into office to protect our woodlands from constant logging and so much more. He passed the first minimum wage increases from $3.35 to $4.25 and then $5.15 for the first time in almost 20 damn years. (GW Bush on the otherhand has veto'd raising the minimum wage now several times, even when it has been passed congress) Bush now has by far the largest federal defecit our great country has ever seen. In my mind, he is basically a mass murderer as well. Mass murderer you ask? Well yes. For sending so many of our great soldiers into a senseless and ill-rationed war in Iraq. Look at how many many of our own have no died as a result. Not to mention the thousands upon thousands of INNOCENT Iraq natives that we have killed. I understand people die in wars sure. But this was a war that was a mistake. The first reason we invaded if you recall was because Saddam was telling us he didn't have any WMDs for our inspectors to check out. Bush didn't believe him and insisted he had them and to let our inspectors check em out. Saddam kept saying he didn't have any WMD's. Bush finally got pissed enough to invade Iraq. Soon after when we discovered Saddam in fact was telling the truth and didnt have any WMDs, we suddenly has invaded Iraq for the purpose of "Taking out an evil empire and saving Iraq from Saddam". Funny how our purpose suddenly changed, hehe. Now that Iraq is still in as much chaos, if not more chaos then ever over there due to our invasion, I suppose that our purpose was only to show them who was boss or some BS huh? We never intended to "liberate" Iraq. Naw, ofcourse not. Bush knew the result would be as it is the whole time.
Sidebuster, Bush is not a good president. Face it dude. 90% of our country embraced him and even some hard core liberals put their trust into him right after 9/11. Now, even the most extreme right are realizing how much harm he has indeed done to our country with so many mistakes as that has dropped to 29%. And it will continue to drop as Iraq chaos continues and our federal defecit increases and our borders remain open to all and gas prices hover over $3.00 a gallon and on and on and on...
But not you huh Sidebuster? You'll just tell us all to get the F out of your and Bushs country huh? I got news for you pal. It's ALL of our country. Every one of ours and we have the right to express our concerns or doubts in our leader when we feel he may be making mistakes. The only truly harmful attitude is to NEVER doubt our leader regardless of where he takes us.
- Zaxx
No one challenges Bush because they are afraid of radical change. No other government has ideologies based on the Bush government's ideologies. Without strct guidelines to follow, no system can survive.
The Bush government has positioned itself in such a way that in any event of eing prorogued, the assembly replacing it will be an automatonic representation of what it was prorogueing in the first place: a republic with corrupt policies. Face it. The USA is screwed. Thank god I live in Australia.
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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Game On!
and you call me the fool?
Why don't you just save your self the trouble and get the fuck out of the country then? I mean if you don't like this president, you won't like the next one, and the one after that and if you don't like the president, your probably not liking the way the country is run. If you don't like the way the country is run, then you must not like the country. Because you know what? They are all polititians are the same. Go take that "my college professor told me" political views crap out of these forums.
Thats why you cant argue or even discuss anything with people like this. They only see their view which they then attribute to being the epitome of patriotism, and so if you disagree with them your not patriotic. Real human marvels.
Zaxx, we both know, if it was a liberal, democrat, or any political party he didnt agree with he'd bash them religiously. People like him try to rush to the high ground on defending "The President" because thats the only ground you can defend this president on because his policy's and governance are undefendable.
If Gore, Hillary, Dean, etc were President and you spoke out against them, i bet you his rightous indignation would miraculously vanish in in thin air.
<<Oh btw, speaking of musicians, I am and always have been 110% behind the Dixie Chicks. Anyone who stopped listening to a great musical group because they bashed Bush in March of 2003 should be ashamed of your selves. They certainly have as much freedom of speech as you and I.. expecially at their own friggin' concert. I feel badly for the abuse, loss of sales because of radio stations refusing to play their music and mostly for all their letters of death and hatred they recieved for only voicing their freedom of speech.>>
And I am tired of hearing about the Dixie Chicks. Every time they want some free publicity, Natalie Maines goes on TV and brings up G-Dub. It has gotten ridiculous. You are correct, the Dixie Chicks have freedom of speech the same as you and I. But while we have free speech, we do not have 'Freedom from Consequences'. You are entitled to say whatever you want, but you are not guaranteed a forum, and you are not guaranteed that people will accept you. People have a right to decide not to buy their albums because they find youdistasteful. People have a right to cal their radio stations and as customers request that they play or not play certain artists. Radio startions have a right to run their businesses as the see fit, and not offend their customers. At the same time, there is no call for anyone to make death threats to these girls. That's obviously wrong, and we all know that. But to choose not to buy their albums and listen to their music is a choice we all have as free people.
Freedom of Speech cuts both ways. The KKK has the freedom of speech to make their views known. We as average americans have the freedom to relegate them to insignificance in society. they are outcasts and will remain that way, and deservedly so. It's a similar situation to the Dixie Chicks current one. You could also compare Michael Jackson's situation to this one, in that he has turned a lot of his former audience through his own personal freakshow. Same with Tom Cruise.
They have made a choice that their views on political figures are more important than their fans and their business of music. The least they could do is quit whining about it. If you want to make a stand, at least have the guts to make that stand and not turn around and complain like a little baby when you have to face consequences of your actions. Once again, death threats are a different story, and I hope whoever threatened them with that is caught and prosecuted.
Natalie Maines' original statement at her concert was juvenile, that's all. But it bothered a significant portion of her audience. That's just the way it goes. The funny thing to me is that G-Dub is not even from Texas originally.
Originally posted by honzolo
You are correct sir in stating people have a choice to not buy or listen to the Dixie Chicks because of what they might say. I honestly think it to be very silly to not support or to choose not to listen to a group you may have loved for years all of a sudden because you find out that their political stance differs from yours. I can understand people choosing to not listen to them and trashing their CDs if they never really liked their music, but for someone to love the Dixie Chicks music and then suddenly stop listening to something they love over their stance is really silly imo. I think they have paid dearly to express them selves just in revenues. I am a democrat for the most part, however I will still listen to a group (especially if I like their music) even if I find out they are staunch Bush supporters. Same with a game. If I find out ravid Bush supporters make a great mmo, I am not about to not play that game based on political differences, heh. But that is indeed what most of the country has done simply because Natalie Maines said at her own London concert that she is embarrassed to be from the same state as GW Bush. I can understand radio stations not playing their music for maybe one year. But 3+ years and counting now? It's a little ubsurd is just my thinking.
Just to test out the waters, I called my areas most popular radio station now three times and made a request to hear the Dixie Chicks newest hit "Not Ready to Make Nice". All three times I made the request at different times of the day with likely different DJs. And all three times the DJ told me something to the effect of "not a problem, we'll be happy to play that for you and told me to have a good day or thanks for calling them". But all three times, I listened to the radio station for about 3 or 4 hours and not once did they play my request like they promised. I think that is a lame way to take their non-Dixie Chick playing stance. They could atleast have some class and let me know that they won't play it rather then saying "Okay, no problem we'll get that on the air for you!" and then simply not doing it.
Funny that I just heard about the Dixie Chicks on the radio last night. And ofcourse it wasn't on a country station here, but on a local hard rock station. The DJ there was saying that he supported them and would love to play them if only their music style would blend with the hard rock stations music style. But he also went on to say that he had seen their interview with some talk show recently and that the Dixie Chicks now say they are taking back their 2003 apologies made about bashing Bush. They say they originally apologized to the public and to Bush for bashing him, but now are taking those apologies back and still believe the way they always have and are not afraid to express it. They also said that they no longer want anyone who believes different then they do to buy their music. They say that they'd much rather have the loyal support of a handful of die hard fans who will walk thru the fire with them then to have fans who will put them in the same CD changer with the likes of artists like Toby Keith.
I honestly bow in respect to Natalie Maines and to the Dixie Chicks for standing their ground, not wilting to the publics backfire and for playing and expressing what they truly believe.. even though it will cost them millions of dollars. Most Hollywood artists will do just the opposite and tell fans what the fans want to hear just to make an extra buck. And actually yes, I would do the exact same thing and bow in respect to them if it was just the opposite and they were Bush lovers and supporting him. I respect honesty, integrity, and expressing passion in what you believe in, regardless of what that might be.
The Dixie Chicks have earned a huge amount of respect from me, and I am glad that Walmart and other stores have the common sense to sell their albums in this highly republican state that I live in and not base what they sell on their own agendas or what they think the public wants. Heh, imagine if Walmart did what most radio stations have done.. and decided not to even sell Dixie Chicks albums anymore because they were afraid people would be offended at seeing their albums and refuse to shop there anymore, lol. It really wouldn't be much different then all the radio stations refusing to play one of their songs being afraid they might lose a listener.
- Zaxx
Of course, talking politics on a gamers forum is like telling my 2 year old girl about the theory of relativity.
Hmmm, interesting.
So you are trying to say people that play mmorpgs are complete political dopes and know nothing about our president or politics huh? Maybe you play WoW too much and group up with too many 6 year olds, but I personally prefer a little deeper, more complex mmo with deeper, more sophisticated players to play with. Hehe.
- Zaxx