You may argue with Bush's decisions, but the one thing he doesn't do is stick his finger in the wind and do whatever the public tells him to do (a la Clinton).
Just like the time he stood his ground on opposing a department of homeland security in face of public opinion?
Or the time he opposed the creation of a commission to investigate 9/11 in face of public opinion?
Or refused to allow Rice to testify in face of public opinion?
Or refused to testify before the commission in fact of public opinion?
Or stood his ground on campaign finance reform in fact of public opinion?
The Bush administration has collapsed on numerous issues when public opinion has turned against it.
Say I'm taking a whirlwind tour of Europe, visiting a variety of historical sites and countries. Are you saying I'm obligated to learn French, German, Italian, and possibly more? That's a bit unreasonable (though Italian shouldn't be too much of a stretch for someone who already knows Spanish).
Why is it unreasonable? When I was on the train during my whirlwind tour of Europe, I'd learn a few local phrases for my destination. I'd get at least the basics like Yes, No, Please, Thank You and "One beer please" plus whatever else I thought might be necessary.
But if you're worried about a Manchurian Candidate option... don't you think those evil other countries could find some American-born patsy?
They already did and he's already President.
Bush has been a wet dream for Osama Bin Laden. Lets OBL get away, turns the focus to Iraq where he deposes an 'apostate' gov't that OBL loathed, lets the country descend into anarchy, guaranteeing that an islamic fundamentalist gov't will rise in its place, supports Palestinian statehood, gets US troops out of Saudi Arabia and inflames the muslims of the world into hatred against the US.
Bush couldn't have carried out Bin Laden's agenda any better.
Try... the fact that there was NO conclusive evidence that there was forgery involved with those memos that DIDN'T come from people with a pro-Bush stance?
One trick that Karl Rove pulled for a race early in his career was to print up a ton of fliers with a horribly defamatory attack upon his *own* candidate's family. Then his campaign distributed them to houses in the middle of the night. When it becomes a story, Rove blames the other candidate's campaign for dirty tricks.
On the duplication algorithm. The worker bees may die but the queen bee might be able to replace them fast enough and with the benefit of pooling resources, grow faster than competing algorithms.
SO fastforward to what we have today, a strategy where we create 500bazillion smaller firms all for the purpose of going bankraupt, so that one parent firm makes all the money. Huh? Right, that doesn't make any sense.
Billions of people work themselves to death so that the wealthiest top 0.1% can become even wealthier.
You see the same thing happen constantly in games like Magic the Gathering. There'll be a "hot new deck" archetype out there dominating the tournaments. Then, out of the blue, someone with an otherwise lousy deck designed specifically to beat that dominant deck takes a few high profile tournaments.
Everyone scrambles to retool their decks to beat the counter-deck and the process begins anew. Usually, a format will eventually reach some sort of equilibrium...
It's basically evolution. Adapt your deck to the environment or lose.
One of those "no chance" games. My gaming group loved it. I hated it. The game takes forever, games inevitably saw any aggressive players getting squashed and then the rest declaring a 4-way joint victory because no one wanted to take any risks. Stopped playing with them after watching 3 games in a row play out exactly the same way.
"Broke" the story? LOL. More like introduced a conspiracy theory. I watched the whole thing live and there were well more than "half a dozen" Iraqis there. IM's "proof" were pictures *after* the statue fell when most of the were busy dragging saddam's head down the street.
and most people who were watching them thought so as well.
Unfortunately, Bush won the post-debate spin contest. Gore mixes up a trip he made with a cabinet secretary and the media beats the hell out of him for it. Bush takes credit for a bill he first vetoed and then later(when it passed again with a veto-proof majority) refused to sign, not a peep from the "liberal media".
He handed it over to the Bush administration because he was out of office by that point.
Yeah cause having a fleet deployed into the Indian Ocean is only something that we do all the time.
Well, it wasn't something we did after Bush took office because he removed the ships.
"Hey UBL! We got ships in the Indian Ocean!"
Which can launch cruise missiles to target him.
Which is Clinton, and liberals, taking credit for what a Customs officer did. Here's a clue for you. The Customs agent did all the work and there was NOTHING done by the Clinton administration. Go check the agent's quotes. Clinton did jack-all.
He was connected to Al Quaeda because of the law enforcement environment Clinton fostered. They shook trees and got agencies to connect dots.
It's pretty funny. Up until 9/2001, the conservatives' cry was that Clinton "paid too much attention" to Bin Laden and terrorism and what we really needed to focus on was a Star Wars missile defense shield. Now it's all "Clinton didn't do *enough*." Maybe not. But it's obvious Bush did *nothing*.
In California alone, Gore won by such a margin that even if every absentee ballot was cast for Bush it wouldn't have changed the result of that state's election. But, it is possible that the uncounted absentee ballots would have been enough to cause a swing in the popular vote. We'll never know.
From a statement from Sec of State Bill Jones office...
"There have been several erroneous reports on talk radio, the Internet and elsewhere that California does not count all absentee ballots or that absentee ballots are only counted in races where they would make a difference in the outcome.
"For the record, ALL ABSENTEE BALLOTS ARE COUNTED IN CALIFORNIA. All absentee ballots must be received by the county elections official by the time the polls close at 8 p.m. on Election Day. All absentee ballot envelopes must be signed by the voter and that signature must be verified by the county elections official against the signature of the registered voter that is on file in the county elections office.
"Following the November 7th election, more than 1.1 million absentee ballots needed to be verified and counted. The rare instances an absentee ballot would not be counted are specified in statute and include: no signature on the envelope; the ballot was received after the 8 p.m. Election Day deadline; or the signature on the envelope did not match the signature of the registered voter on file with the county elections official."
continued the focus on terrorism that Clinton acquired towards the end of his term. A Gore administration would have continued to foster the law enforcement environment that would have connected the dots that could've prevented 9/11.
There were a wide variety of anti-terrorism and anti-Al Quaeda initiatives started under Clinton that Bush put on the back burner.
I guess we'll never know.
Really though, it's difficult to *seriously* envision any scenario where Gore screws up more than Bush has.
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can we claim to be "better" than the terrorists if we start acting just like them?
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Do you reproduce asexually or something?
You may argue with Bush's decisions, but the one thing he doesn't do is stick his finger in the wind and do whatever the public tells him to do (a la Clinton).
Just like the time he stood his ground on opposing a department of homeland security in face of public opinion?
Or the time he opposed the creation of a commission to investigate 9/11 in face of public opinion?
Or refused to allow Rice to testify in face of public opinion?
Or refused to testify before the commission in fact of public opinion?
Or stood his ground on campaign finance reform in fact of public opinion?
The Bush administration has collapsed on numerous issues when public opinion has turned against it.
That's because Gore was foolish, and only demanded a recount in counties where he expected to do well. That's a dubious strategy anyway,
Gore had to follow state law that limited in the numbers of counties he could request a recount.
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That's also how they'll do the cavity search.
There're still border checks.
Border checks don't exist within the EU anymore than they exist within the US now. Withdraw a bunch of cash and you can travel around anonymously.
Say I'm taking a whirlwind tour of Europe, visiting a variety of historical sites and countries. Are you saying I'm obligated to learn French, German, Italian, and possibly more? That's a bit unreasonable (though Italian shouldn't be too much of a stretch for someone who already knows Spanish).
Why is it unreasonable? When I was on the train during my whirlwind tour of Europe, I'd learn a few local phrases for my destination. I'd get at least the basics like Yes, No, Please, Thank You and "One beer please" plus whatever else I thought might be necessary.
But if you're worried about a Manchurian Candidate option ... don't you think those evil other countries could find some American-born patsy?
They already did and he's already President.
Bush has been a wet dream for Osama Bin Laden. Lets OBL get away, turns the focus to Iraq where he deposes an 'apostate' gov't that OBL loathed, lets the country descend into anarchy, guaranteeing that an islamic fundamentalist gov't will rise in its place, supports Palestinian statehood, gets US troops out of Saudi Arabia and inflames the muslims of the world into hatred against the US.
Bush couldn't have carried out Bin Laden's agenda any better.
Try... the fact that there was NO conclusive evidence that there was forgery involved with those memos that DIDN'T come from people with a pro-Bush stance?
One trick that Karl Rove pulled for a race early in his career was to print up a ton of fliers with a horribly defamatory attack upon his *own* candidate's family. Then his campaign distributed them to houses in the middle of the night. When it becomes a story, Rove blames the other candidate's campaign for dirty tricks.
On the duplication algorithm. The worker bees may die but the queen bee might be able to replace them fast enough and with the benefit of pooling resources, grow faster than competing algorithms.
SO fastforward to what we have today, a strategy where we create 500bazillion smaller firms all for the purpose of going bankraupt, so that one parent firm makes all the money. Huh? Right, that doesn't make any sense.
Billions of people work themselves to death so that the wealthiest top 0.1% can become even wealthier.
I know! It's absurd!
You see the same thing happen constantly in games like Magic the Gathering. There'll be a "hot new deck" archetype out there dominating the tournaments. Then, out of the blue, someone with an otherwise lousy deck designed specifically to beat that dominant deck takes a few high profile tournaments.
Everyone scrambles to retool their decks to beat the counter-deck and the process begins anew. Usually, a format will eventually reach some sort of equilibrium...
It's basically evolution. Adapt your deck to the environment or lose.
One of those "no chance" games. My gaming group loved it. I hated it. The game takes forever, games inevitably saw any aggressive players getting squashed and then the rest declaring a 4-way joint victory because no one wanted to take any risks. Stopped playing with them after watching 3 games in a row play out exactly the same way.
If I failed, I was successful.
It was a catastrophic success?
Unbreakable?
There was also this little known art-house flick.
Roger Ebert seemed to like this film.
than by removing the very reason they hate us!
It's a brilliant move on President Bush's part and I for one support him 100%!
"Broke" the story? LOL. More like introduced a conspiracy theory. I watched the whole thing live and there were well more than "half a dozen" Iraqis there. IM's "proof" were pictures *after* the statue fell when most of the were busy dragging saddam's head down the street.
Is it a conspiracy theory when an army report confirms it was staged by the US military?
Not to mention broad shots of the plaza showed it to be surrounded by US tanks and practically empty, save for the small crowd around the statue.
Admit it: you got played by the Bush administration.
is that it requires virtually no effort to implement.
All the elections offices have to do is simply stop discarding overvotes.
on the bizarre camera instructions for example.
and most people who were watching them thought so as well.
Unfortunately, Bush won the post-debate spin contest. Gore mixes up a trip he made with a cabinet secretary and the media beats the hell out of him for it. Bush takes credit for a bill he first vetoed and then later(when it passed again with a veto-proof majority) refused to sign, not a peep from the "liberal media".
So what did Clinton DO with this plan?
He handed it over to the Bush administration because he was out of office by that point.
Yeah cause having a fleet deployed into the Indian Ocean is only something that we do all the time.
Well, it wasn't something we did after Bush took office because he removed the ships.
"Hey UBL! We got ships in the Indian Ocean!"
Which can launch cruise missiles to target him.
Which is Clinton, and liberals, taking credit for what a Customs officer did. Here's a clue for you. The Customs agent did all the work and there was NOTHING done by the Clinton administration. Go check the agent's quotes. Clinton did jack-all.
He was connected to Al Quaeda because of the law enforcement environment Clinton fostered. They shook trees and got agencies to connect dots.
It's pretty funny. Up until 9/2001, the conservatives' cry was that Clinton "paid too much attention" to Bin Laden and terrorism and what we really needed to focus on was a Star Wars missile defense shield. Now it's all "Clinton didn't do *enough*." Maybe not. But it's obvious Bush did *nothing*.
In California alone, Gore won by such a margin that even if every absentee ballot was cast for Bush it wouldn't have changed the result of that state's election. But, it is possible that the uncounted absentee ballots would have been enough to cause a swing in the popular vote. We'll never know.
From a statement from Sec of State Bill Jones office...
"There have been several erroneous reports on talk radio, the Internet and elsewhere that California does not count all absentee ballots or that absentee ballots are only counted in races where they would make a difference in the outcome.
"For the record, ALL ABSENTEE BALLOTS ARE COUNTED IN CALIFORNIA. All absentee ballots must be received by the county elections official by the time the polls close at 8 p.m. on Election Day. All absentee ballot envelopes must be signed by the voter and that signature must be verified by the county elections official against the signature of the registered voter that is on file in the county elections office.
"Following the November 7th election, more than 1.1 million absentee ballots needed to be verified and counted. The rare instances an absentee ballot would not be counted are specified in statute and include: no signature on the envelope; the ballot was received after the 8 p.m. Election Day deadline; or the signature on the envelope did not match the signature of the registered voter on file with the county elections official."
continued the focus on terrorism that Clinton acquired towards the end of his term. A Gore administration would have continued to foster the law enforcement environment that would have connected the dots that could've prevented 9/11.
There were a wide variety of anti-terrorism and anti-Al Quaeda initiatives started under Clinton that Bush put on the back burner.
I guess we'll never know.
Really though, it's difficult to *seriously* envision any scenario where Gore screws up more than Bush has.