I sense an attitude of general despise for America from democrats. G Bush being your scapegoat?
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You answered your second question with your first...DEMOCRATS!  Remember the movie: "the decline of western civilization"?  Well, replace Heavy Metal music with Liberals and you have a true story!
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Bush's standing with American peopel is SO bad he CANNOT campaign in four tight Senate races in swing states.He had to go to Georgia to rally his far-right base(who remember his broken promises) and Bash Democrats.\n\n\nThat the President has to bark and yell on a platform in Georgia that voting for Democrats is like voting for terrorists is a DISGRACE.\n\nSick but true.\nLike the fact we are "stuck in" Iraq.\nThanks George. Brainiac.
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You hit the nail on the head.\n\nThe problem with Democrats is that they have no cohesive strategy.  The more liberal the democrat, the more true that statement is.  On the far left, you have Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan who offer nothing positive to the politcal debate.  They are cynics, who don't realize they are just playing a zero sum game.\n\nHere are the brilliant words of Stephen Colbert, someone ALL you liberal readers will know.  He hosts his own show on Comedy Central.  This is what Stephen said about cynicism at a graduation ceremony at Knox College:\n\n"people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.  Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it.  Because cynics don't learn anything.  Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.\n\nCynics always say no.  But saying "yes" begins things.  Saying "yes" is how things grow.  Saying "yes" leads to knowledge.  "Yes" is for young people.  So, for as long as you have the strength to, say 'yes'."\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nSee his point?  I apply it to liberal democrats.  They are just negative about everything, playing that same old zero sum game.  They don't think the No Child Left Behind Act is good, but they've never come up with anything better.  They don't like the progress on the war in Iraq, but they don't pay attention to the real progress being made.  It just goes on and on.\n\nLiberals:  you want to win an election?  Come up with some ideas!  Don't just idly whine like some old, bitter granny rocking on her deteriorating front porch.\n\nCome up with some real plans for combatting global warming.  Tackle the nightmarish situation that is our public school system.  Figure out a way for the U.S. to come up with alternative energy sources.  Do something other than criticize Bush............ who is actually DOING something.
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Democrats don't have to worry about Bush looking bad. It's inevitable. They're more concerned how bush's screw-ups affect this country.\n\nNot that I'm defending democrats. they're just as useless as republicans
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I agree with your general statement. I am a self-proclaimed democrat. However, I find that I agree with many republican political views. I wish that things weren't so black and white and people were more receptive to others views. I really feel badly when republicans say how they hate "liberal whiners" because even though I consider myself liberal, I'm not so liberal and open minded that my brains have fallen out. I can see when the democrat reps are in the wrong. I can admit when republicans may have a better idea. We all need to reach our hand out to each other and embrace our differences and also our similarities.
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I've been to war & lost friends, & I like the guy. What's he ever done to any of you. Why is your rhetoric always so hateful? Are you so bitter as that? Run a moderate already. Swing voters won't vote for a liberal. Conservatives never liked how liberal Bush was, but they wanted to win so compromised on someone that could appeal to the middle. Why is this always so advesarial though? Why can't people have arguments on reason & logic & do so with mutual respect. You can dislike everything about the President, but grow up alreay with the tone & behavior, why do you think you can't break into the rest of the country.
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OK, first of all, a lot of republicans name call and point fingers too.  That aside, there does seem to be a lot of Dem's on here that whine and cry and view the world through tiny little peep hole.  It really bothers me how they like to take things like G.W. having problems with word usage and make that the focal point of their arguments.  When Billy "hide the cigar" Clinton perjured himself in a federal court all the Dem's were like "its just sex"  when that wasn't even the point of Clinton's impeachment.  In fact Clinton was only the second president in U.S. History to be impeached.  All you Dem's out there that love to call Bush an idiot are so full of shizz that their eyes are brown.\n\nAnd cantcu George bush was not awol, he was national Guard.  Bill clinton on the other hand went to russia to avoid the draft.  Mr. money bags Kerry shot himself in the a$$ to get his medals and spent the remander of the war at home being a "Consiencious objector" there were tons of bonafied war heros to come out of Nam but John Kerry was not one of them.  His own unit from nam told how he really was over there and that even back then he was posturing for a political future.  So stick that in your crack pipe and smoke it.
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Conservatives are not only bitter towards Democrats, but they’re angry at them.  They really thought they had a plan when they manipulated the Florida elections in their direction only to find out their leaders didn’t have clue on how to run this country.\n\nIn June of 2001 Cheney requested a study of Iraqi oil fields and began planning his attack on Iraq three months before 9/11.  The plan for the attack was linked to boosting the profits Halliburton who without a war doesn’t make nearly the money they make during peace.\n\nAlmost immediately after taking office, the economy started going south and unemployment went from a record low to a record high.  Then the administration ignored warnings from the CIA and FBI about a planned attack on the US which allowed 9/11 to happen. \n\nFor seven minutes, while thousand of Americans were dying, their wonderful leader sat mouthing the words to a children’s book.  Bush said he didn’t want to upset the children.  I’m not the brightest bulb on the tree, but couldn’t he have said, “Boys and Girls Uncle George has to take an important phone call.”\n\nThe blundering and mishandling of America spiraled out of control. Ignoring all the options, Bush started bombing Afghanistan.   Bombing Afghanistan was like blowing up a house to catch a rat; the house is destroyed, but the rat simply runs down another hole.  Now the battle front in Afghanistan is warming up again. \n\nUsing a mandate built on patriotism and a sense of duty, Congress enacted the Patriot Act which was a tool for conservatives to stifle American liberties.  Liberties which the Democratic Party still believes should exist for all Americans.  \n\nIn an attempt to divert attention from his failures on the domestic front as well as his inability to catch Osama, Bush and Cheney ordered the CIA to leak misinformation about Iraq.  When Bush was asked about these leaks, he deplored them.\n\nBush used this misinformation to form a coalition of Democrats, Republicans and countries from around the world who believed his lies and deceptions about weapons of mass destruction.  Not yet completing our mission in Afghanistan, Bush started the war in Iraq.\n\nIn the meantime, America’s economy plummeted and our national surplus which he had inherited from his predecessor became an ever growing deficit.   Domestic issues which both parties agreed needed to be addressed fell to the floor.  Healthcare which President Clinton fought so hard for was abandoned; school districts around the country were closed and caught up in court battles, poverty grew, crime rose and all the while American soldiers were being killed because he lied to the American public.\n\nIn an attempt to line the pockets of his corporate friends, he attempted to privatize Social Security which would have left thousand of Americans in a black hole.\n\nHis closest buddies, “Kenny boy” of Enron and Tom DeLay are crooks; my mother told me, “You are the company you keep.”  Donald Rumsfeld is a failure and what happened to Colin Powell?\n\nFor the eight years former President Clinton was in office, Republicans refused to join the call for bi-partisanship and used their time in office to do their best to discredit the Clinton administration.   Unable to discredit Clinton on his political achievements, they began attacking Mrs. Clinton and former President Clinton’s personal life.\n\nThese days we hear no calls for bi-partisanship.\n\nThey appointed a “special prosecutor” and began one of the most deplorable witch hunts in American history.  In the end and millions of dollars later, White Water was nothing more than a Republican whitewash and yes they caught former President Clinton with his pants down.  He lied, but his lies didn’t cost this country thousands of lives.\n\nRepublicans refuse to acknowledge the facts and statistics of the Clinton White House successes, but those achievements are already forever embedded in the history of our country.\n
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I feel very angry about what Bush has done to our reputation around the world.  It is something that really concerns me.  But, and this is a big but, I believe you are wrong about the American people and our government.  The American people ARE the government, in a very real sense.  We elect and we reject.  We are free to speak out and criticize our government and our President if we feel they are screwing up, and thankfully can effect change fairly easily compared to most governments.  You can see from our polls (yes, polls are notorious but when they all agree it's good to pay attention to them) that the majority of the American people do not approve of the job that Bush is doing.  We can support our troops and still be unhappy about the reasons they are there.  \n\nWe will change the tide by voting, it is our most precious freedom, IMO.  Apathy keeps many Americans at home during the mid-term elections, but I feel this time around we will see a big surge at the polls in the Democratic favor.  I have to say, as unhappy as I am with the Bush Administration, I bristled when I read your opening statement.  It just isn't true, we are the sum of all of our parts in this democratic republic.  We will continue to respond harshly to terrorists and their threats, whether our government is headed by a Republican or a Democrat.  Guantanomo Bay?  It's unfortunate and there's house cleaning to be done, but we have a right to detain those who are a threat to our national security.  We learned on 9/11 what it means to remain complacent and have a false sense of security.  We won't make that mistake again.
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I disagree with his war and I can't stand him. I am Democratic and proud of it! I vote straight Democrat in every election. This past May in my voting district, all the Republicans switch to a Democrat ticket. They were running out of Democrat Ballots and had to call for more. Americans are tired of seeing our military being killed for his stupid war!!
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Honestly it makes me want to barf... sorry but that's how it feels that our nation has people who side with terrorists against our nation.. It really doesn't surprise me though... they cheered when Carter won office and when Clinton got elected.. see  it proves that dems are against us or the infidels in east wouldn't be cheering them.
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Bush has already tried to blame the Democrats for his failed Immigration reform, despite his party having control of both houses of congress.\nI think they will try to blame it on any Democrat that is handy: Governors, Mayors, Congress, and if all else fails: Clinton.
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Well, Bush has repeatedly said that everyone who disagree with him is a terrorist who hates America.\n\nI just clicked the Politics link above, and found this\n\n  Why Are Liberals So Stupid and Hypocritical?\n\nThis is relatively mild, compared to a lot of the attacks I've seen on this site.
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You must be a liberal idot, and a Bush hater, sorry for your brain disorder.
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I dislike the man because he is a dishonest, greedy man hiding behind the veil of indignation. in reality he isn't a true conservative because actions speak louder than words, and  his actions are quite the contrary to what  the conservatives are supposed to represent. our deficit has ballooned under his watch and our individual liberty has eroded. these are core values of a true conservative(bush is not one people) BUSH IS A WARMONGERING NEO-CON PUPPET. HIS stupidity and lack of diplomacy could possibly lead to WW111 before he is out of office!! this is why i hate the guy!!!!!!
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Another liberal American hater. Instead of just being haters how about come up with some ideas that would help make this world a better place. The democrats have not worked with this President or this congress at all. During the Clinton administration the Republicans crossed party lines and approved all of his judicial nominees and passed many pieces of legislation because they want to be a part of the solution and not the problem. Liberals are the most despicable people on earth. I rate them right up there with the French.
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I find that frustrating as well. They seem to behave like spoiled bad-sports about everything, and they just argue the surface points with as much justification as they can muster (even to the extent of bringing in conspiracy theory) rather than adding depth by getting to the deeper causitive details. Very Immature!\n\nI really don't understand why they hate Bush so much PERSONALLY. You could hate all his policies & so much of what he's done, but why is it personal? And, just for the sake of argument lets say a Republican wins in 08, are they then going to hate that guy like this too? Why all the hate? Is it about not being able to win an election? That might have something to do with running liberal candidates that swing voters won't go for, or the fact that most of America doesn't agree with their agenda. At some point they have to accept reality and shift their party closer to the center. In the meantime, how many elections do they have to lose before they realize they aren't the mainstream? Those are all serious questions by the way.