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Bush Trying To Get Out Of The Hole He Dug
Topic Started: Oct 11 2005, 12:53 PM (83 Views)
cruiser
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I can see it all now, The prez in his hard hat, pounding a few nails into a sheet of plywood with the cameras running to show the country what kind of man he is.

And they used to make fun of Clinton for doing photo ops.



Bush's motorcade wended its way through the pitch dark down Covington's largely unscathed streets to the brightly lit Habitat site _ a small patch of land amid a still-sleeping, modest neighborhood turned into a makeshift TV set. Dressed for the occasion in hard hat, work gloves and a large wraparound tool belt, the president joined other volunteers hammering nails into a sheet of plywood. The first lady, a cloth nail pouch around her waist, accompanied him. Bush spent most of his time chatting, signing autographs and posing for pictures.

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5thwheeler
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Are you talking about the set of "Desperate Presidents" starring GW, George the first, Barbara, Laura, the two dead beat alcoholic twins, Jeb, Neil, Tricky Dick Chaney, and a slew of other CON artists? :floorrollin: :floorrollin:
History 101: When a popular myth is believed to be factual, teach the myth.

Its not possible to underestimate the intelligence of the voting populous.

Hummm, after seeing the results of the 06 election, I may have to modify my perception of the voting populous and refer to them as "Late Bloomers".

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roz
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Did he have the hammer upside down? :floorrollin:
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Surprising is that more and more conservatives agree with you all.

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With the nomination of Harriet Miers, FEMA’s absence in New Orleans, the galloping incontinence of the federal budget, and the continuing insurgency in Iraq, President Bush has seemingly entered a time of troubles. His opinion-poll ratings are falling and there are faint signs that Republican congressmen are distancing themselves from him in preparation for the November 2006 elections. The specter of a failed presidency looms.

George W. Bush has presented himself as a strong and principled conservative. Mutual enemies such as conservatives and the media originally accepted his self-portraiture, but conservatives now complain that over-spending, federalizing emergency services, and another Souter is not what they voted for. They cry treason or at least timidity. Is Bush now letting the conservative side down? And does he deserve its criticism and even hostility?

Such questions are rarely answered honestly by partisans. They tend to pick and choose the criteria for judging success or failure. If they like the president, they tend to choose those issues — the John Roberts nomination, the tax cuts — on which he has done well or at least not badly. If they hold him in low regard, they highlight those issues — see the first sentence above — on which his performance has been, ah, mixed.

Let me confess that I, alas, am no different. My reason is, as Macaulay said of Burke, the slave of my passions. On the topic of the Bush presidency, however, I labor under a difficulty that prevents me from simply selecting my criteria to suit the conclusions I want. Rashly, never thinking that this would come back to haunt me, I laid down my standards for judging the success or failure of the Bush presidency in advance. A month or so before September 11, I wrote an NR commentary in which I suggested that all presidencies succeed or fail on a handful of big issues.

What were the big things that Bush 43 had to get right? I suggested three: halting the advance of the regulatory state; restoring national unity to an increasingly balkanized America; and preventing the rise of an anti-American united Europe that would divide the West
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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pentax
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roz
Oct 11 2005, 04:49 PM
Did he have the hammer upside down? :floorrollin:

No, but he was holding it about 2 inches from the head, the way a little kid does. Tapped a nail into a sheet of chip-board a couple times, the nail fell (because he wasn't hold the sheet tight to the stud), and he quickly whipped another out of his left palm.

But having pounded more than a few cases of nails in my life (unlike him, evidently), I caught it.

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