posted November 08, 2006 05:53 PM              

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"WHATEVER the soul longs for, WILL be attained by the spirit"-Khalil Gibran

posted November 08, 2006 05:56 PM              

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"WHATEVER the soul longs for, WILL be attained by the spirit"-Khalil Gibran

posted November 08, 2006 05:57 PM              

What are your thoughts on why such a large proportion of the American people have voted this way now? It looked as if there was growing unrest but nothing that could have predicted such a huge and quite frankly dramatic display of opposition to the present administration; but it's difficult to tell from the outside.

What's been the general mood in America running up to the midterms and what do you see as having had an influence on that mood? To put it another way, what's tipped the balance?

posted November 08, 2006 06:12 PM            

"and" yes, I am, because it demonstrates how idiotic you are. The fact that your response is yet ANOTHER cartoon is demonstrative of your intellectual shortcomings.

It is not my fault you are only good for cartoons and sound bites. Maybe if you spend less time posting about your fetish for hamburgers and more time in reality, you would be more effective. Then again, most of California has gone down the tubes and seems like a good place for you to reside.

I do hope you are clearly out of Orange County, most of us didn't tolerate such foolishness- then again we had our fair share of empty-headed morons that basked in the sun at the beach, waiting for someone to notice them (or burn to death waiting) LMAO.....

posted November 08, 2006 06:20 PM              

and bumping all the threads? can we say BITTER?

and theyre both from FFA, but that doesnt matter, coz youre a dumb-ss, and people can clearly see that.

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"WHATEVER the soul longs for, WILL be attained by the spirit"-Khalil Gibran

posted November 08, 2006 06:33 PM              

Actually I don't feel my question hasn't been covered on the last few pages or on the Rumsfeld thread which is why I asked it. I pre-empted it with "stupid sounding" because obviously I anticipated a vociferous response from both sides detailing their feelings on the whole situation. Some Democrats have offered their thoughts on why Americans have attempted to redress the political balance but I seem to have missed any Republican explanations/theories on why people have voted this way now. Feelings on the matter and projections of the possible outcomes yes, but answers to my question, no.

posted November 08, 2006 06:48 PM            

I merely brought up the last round of threads started or continued as a result of the 2004 elections. Comments such as "America's dignity is flying out the door" "the election was rigged we want another recount" and more abound throughout those threads.

I have yet to see any of the Conservative here scream recount, the Democrats stole the election, OMG we are all going to die...etc...

Instead, you take specific comments concerning our views on potential outcomes and act as though we are being angry and bitter.

Me bumping up threads with your fellow Libbies hateful, bitter words is a better example.

posted November 08, 2006 07:01 PM            

Republicans lost 2 Senate seats by a total of 10,000 votes. One by less than 2900 votes. Either one falling into the Republican column and Republicans still control the Senate.

I congratulated Democrats, they won, they're proud, happy and elated, rightfully so. But let's not attempt to suggest a Democrat mandate which isn't.

Dewine of Ohio and Chaffee of Rhode Island lost because they were Republicans in name only, RINO'S...opposed the President on some very key issues and lost their base voters. If voters wanted a democrat why elect one in a Republican suit?

Rick Santorum lost because democrats ran a conservative democrat against him with a well recognized name in Pennsylvania. Santorum also had his base voters not turn out for him and mainly because he went to the wall for RINO Arlen Specter, endorsed and campaigned for him when there was a real conservative Republican in the primary race..Toomey. Abandoning principle, as Bush and Santorum did in backing RINO'S over real conservatives has a cumulative effect on elections and that's not the only example. Abandoning conservative principles for expediency is fatal with the conservative base.

The key to understanding why democrats took over the House and Senate..(uncertain)..is understanding that many moderate and most conservative democrats and independents STILL voted for conservatives. Had the democrats run wild eyed leftist radicals in those races across the country, they would have lost.

Those newly elected conservatives have 2 years to prove to their constituents they really are conservatives. Republicans have 2 years to find real conservatives to run in primary races 2 years from now...because there's another crop of RINO Senators who will be up for reelection.

Now, democrats have to govern, write legislation, record votes and deal with those democrat conservatives in the newly elected Congress. You're welcome to join Pid and I on the couch to watch the circus. BYOPC

Bush Policies Will Not Change
Ronald Kessler
Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006

Now that voters have voted for change, President Bush will surely recognize the error of his ways and change direction, or so the media spin goes.

Wrong.

If you were president on 9/11 and wished you had done more to prevent the deaths of almost 3,000 people, would you change direction if you believed your policies were helping prevent the next terrorist attack?

That is at the heart of Bush's approach — and at the heart of the public's misunderstanding about the man.

Straightforward Leadership

To be sure, Bush will do what he can to accommodate the other side. Behind the scenes, he has had breakfast with Rep. Nancy Pelosi and has invited her to White House functions. But in many ways, Bush is an anti-politician. He loves being with people; he loves campaigning; and he loves to win. But like Harry Truman, he has an aversion to the acting and pretense of politics.

"He dislikes snobs, hypocrites, the glitterati, and the so-called intelligentsia," Collister "Terry" Johnson Jr., one of Bush's roommates at Yale, told me. "He dislikes all that stuff because he thinks it's phony."

In the opinion of Clay Johnson III, another Yale roommate who is deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, Bush's distaste for pretense is why he makes his trademark smirks or half smiles, a gesture that many interpret as arrogance. When responding to loaded questions from reporters, Bush signals, ever so subtly, what he really thinks.

The smirk is not a sign of arrogance but rather an effort to convey his feeling that he is participating in a charade.

'What You See Is What You Get'

"He's a bad actor, a bad pretender," Johnson said. "He doesn't get up and say, ‘One and one is two,' unless he really knows it's two. What you see is what you get. So when you see him working that lip or showing discomfort, he can't act that away. It means he's bored or perturbed. A real actor would not show that."

As Bush's approval ratings started to plunge over the Iraq war, the media depicted the White House as distraught and distracted. But they never got what Bush is all about. He did not seek office to win popularity.

He ran to achieve long-term fundamental change that would leave the country and the world a better, safer place.

Like Warren Buffett, Bush keeps his eyes on the horizon. Buffett invests in companies he believes have long-term growth potential and holds on to those stocks regardless of short-term price fluctuations, negative media coverage, and downgrades by stock analysts. Today, Buffett is the second richest American with $40 billion in assets.

Bush isn't particularly interested in his place in history, either. Like any good CEO, he simply wants results and views challenges as opportunities. But he is also aware of how transitory opinion polls can be.

When Truman left office, his approval rating stood at 25 percent. Yet today, because of his firm approach to national security, Truman — whom the press portrayed as a simpleton — is viewed as one of the great presidents.

Similarly, the media have portrayed Bush as a buffoon, a religious fanatic, or a monster with the temerity to topple a man who had killed 300,000 people, not to mention liberating 50 million people.

In the same way, Democratic papers and critics disparaged Abraham Lincoln as a "dictator, ridiculed him as a baboon, damned him as stupid and incompetent . . ." according to Stephen B. Oates' book, "With Malice Toward None."

Ronald Reagan was portrayed by the media as a bellicose fool. When Reagan appealed to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," liberals cringed. Yet Reagan's policy of dramatically increasing defense spending eventually convinced the Soviets essentially to give up, leading to a Russian democracy.

Righteous Leaders Always Stay The Course

Ultimately, the distortions in the media rub off on voters. But despite the criticism, these leaders stayed the course. They understood, as country music singer Toby Keith sang in "American Soldier," that "freedom don't come free."

"Instead of approaching each day saying, ‘How do I get through the day?' the president approaches problems by saying, ‘How do we solve the problem?'" Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee and a former director of White House political affairs, told me. "Franklin Roosevelt did the same thing for the country. Ronald Reagan did that for the country."

Thus, when it comes to national security, Bush is not about to cut and run in Iraq, confirming Osama bin Laden's portrayal of the U.S. as a "paper tiger." He is not about to stop listening to calls between al-Qaida and U.S. operatives as they order the next 9/11 attack.

He is not about to cave on the USA Patriot Act. Doing so would prevent FBI agents from talking to each other about the same case and prevent the CIA from sharing clues to impending terrorist plots with the FBI.

Bush's policies have paid off.

They have enabled the FBI and CIA, often with the help of foreign partners, to roll up some 5,000 terrorists since 9/11. That success story, in turn, is a major reason we have not been attacked since 9/11. But you will never see the headline "5,000 Terrorists Rolled Up Since 9/11" in The New York Times or The Washington Post.

"The fact is that he does compromise," Nick Calio, Bush's top legislative aide in the first term, told me. "He just waits to do it until it's the right time to maximize what we got out of it. We compromised on each tax bill. On No Child Left Behind, there were compromises. On forming a 9/11 commission, we compromised, for good reason."

At the same time, Bush really does not care about polls, said Calio, now senior vice president for global government affairs at Citigroup.

"He used to say when we were talking about an issue and going down the recommendations, even if the issue was highly politically charged, ‘Look, we've only got a short period of time here. If that turns out to be four years instead of eight, if we do what we think is right, then so be it,'" Calio said. "I would say, ‘We can't do that. We're going to be killed.' But he would not wobble. He has the courage of his own convictions. He will say, ‘That's why I was elected.'"

Bush's Mantra: Keep America Safe

Thus, on key issues like national security, Bush's goal is not to win approval from Nancy Pelosi, Paul Krugman, or Keith Olbermann.

posted November 08, 2006 07:50 PM            

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this is not the tidal wave of voter revolt some are attempting to portray.

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Reminds me of your attempts to boost the meaning of the 2004 election even months after it happened (after I arrived here).

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But let's not attempt to suggest a Democrat mandate which isn't.

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Another 2004 flashback.

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Had the democrats run wild eyed leftist radicals in those races across the country, they would have lost.

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Apparently, we couldn't find any.

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Now, democrats have to govern, write legislation, record votes and deal with those democrat conservatives in the newly elected Congress.

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posted November 08, 2006 09:11 PM              

I told you once before and will repeat it again, I am not going to get drawn into these unreasonable arguments here at GU. It's childish and serves no productive purpose except for you and Jwhop and some others here to release your hate and venom on anyone who does not think exactly as you do about the world and politics. It's childish at your age, Pidaua and really sick at Jwhop's age to be resorting to name calling as a form of communication.

Calling me, Rainbow or any other liberal here names does not help in getting your point across one bit. It just turns people off to anything you have to say.

posted November 09, 2006 12:22 PM            

You are SUCH a freaking liar and I am getting damn sick of your allegations. Here is the article I posted

pidaua
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Posts: 5892
From: Arizona - Moving to Germany to be with Bear the Leo
Registered: May 2002
posted November 01, 2006 04:20 PM
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This guy wins the dumb-a$$ award of 2006 -
Maine lawyer arrested after dressing as bin Laden
Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:59 PM ET

BOSTON (Reuters) - A Maine attorney who released information in 2000 about President George W. Bush's drunken driving conviction was arrested on Tuesday after he dressed up as al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and waved a fake gun at traffic.

Police in South Portland, Maine, arrested Thomas Connolly, 49, of Scarborough, Maine, and charged him with criminal threatening. He was released on bail, local officials said.

Lt. Todd Bernard said the police department received calls about a man wearing Middle Eastern garb and a bin Laden mask and carrying fake dynamite standing along an interstate highway. When police arrived, they saw Connolly holding a gun.

"They ordered him to drop the weapon several times and he eventually complied," Bernard said.

It turned out the gun was fake, Bernard said.

In a phone interview, Connolly said he'd been trying to protest a planned change in local tax rules.

"I didn't expect to be arrested," he said. "Obviously I touched a post-9/11 nerve."

Days before the 2000 presidential election, Connolly released information about Bush's 1976 drunken driving conviction.

The Bush campaign said Democratic "dirty tricks" were behind the disclosure that at age 30 Bush had been arrested for drunken driving in Kennebunkport, Maine, pleaded guilty, paid a fine and had his license suspended for 30 days.

Connolly, a Democrat, ran for governor in Maine in 1998.

South Portland, Maine, is located about 100 miles northeast of Boston.

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Here is article you posted - WILL SOMEONE PLEASE COMPARE THEM FOR THE MENTALLY INCOMPETENT MIRANDEE?????

Mirandee
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Registered: Sep 2004
posted November 07, 2006 01:45 AM
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I don't agree at all with this man's tactics. It was a stupid thing to do. There are more productive ways of protesting.
However, I noticed that either you, Pidaua, or your Republican source edited the original news article.

This is the "unedited" version of the news article from Reuters:

BOSTON (Reuters) - A Maine attorney who released information in 2000 about President George W. Bush's drunken driving conviction was arrested on Tuesday after he dressed up as al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and waved a fake gun at traffic.

Police in South Portland, Maine, arrested Thomas Connolly, 49, of Scarborough, Maine, and charged him with criminal threatening. He was released on bail, local officials said.

Lt. Todd Bernard said the police department received calls about a man wearing Middle Eastern garb and a bin Laden mask and carrying fake dynamite standing along an interstate highway. When police arrived, they saw Connolly holding a gun.

"They ordered him to drop the weapon several times and he eventually complied," Bernard said.

It turned out the gun was fake, Bernard said.
In a phone interview, Connolly said he'd been trying to protest a planned change in local tax rules.

"I didn't expect to be arrested," he said. "Obviously I touched a post-9/11 nerve."

Days before the 2000 presidential election, Connolly released information about Bush's 1976 drunken driving conviction.

The Bush campaign said Democratic "dirty tricks" were behind the disclosure that at age 30 Bush had been arrested for drunken driving in Kennebunkport, Maine, pleaded guilty, paid a fine and had his license suspended for 30 days.

Connolly, a Democrat, ran for governor in Maine in 1998.

South Portland, Maine, is located about 100 miles northeast of Boston.

© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved

Just wanted to clarify that it was the Bush campaign that stated it was Democratic "dirty tricks." You edited that part out of the article to make it appear as a fact when really it was just an unsubstantiated accusation on the part of the Bush campaign. Something I have noticed that you have done before on more than one occasion.

NOW Mirandee,

It is time for you to PUT UP OR SHUT UP.... Tell me what is different? Nothing has changed and unless you have proof that I edited it, which I did NOT (Randall can provide that for you if you ask about my editing history on that page) then you need to apologize for calling me a liar, stating I editing an article and I was up to my "dirty tricks"

Prove it or you have just proven what a lying, scheming shrew you really are- I believe the latter will be the case you sicko!!!

posted November 09, 2006 12:52 PM            

Qoute
'..most of the people that join the military want to get out of poverty in which some have came from...have you ever seen a recuiter in beverly hills?'-AND

Just for your information yes there is a recruiter station in Beverly Hills. Here is the information for you.

12113 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 447-0883

Hollywood Recruiting Station Enjoys Brisk Business
By Steven Donald Smith
American Forces Press Service

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 22, 2006 -- Hollywood Boulevard may be better known for its glitzy Walk of Fame and seedy nightlife than as a place to recruit servicemembers, but the Armed Forced Career Center here is signing up recruits aplenty.

Sgt. 1st Class Bryan Williams, the Army station commander of the recruiting center in Hollywood, Calif., poses for a photo in his office. Photo by Steven Donald Smith '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available.

“Wherever there’s a lot of foot traffic, it’s good for a recruiting station,” said Sgt. 1st Class Bryan Williams, the Army’s station commander here.

People who never previously thought about joining the military see the Hollywood recruiting station and stroll in with questions, Williams said. Since the station is located in a high tourist and transient area, about 40 percent of its recruits reside outside of California.

The station also generates untold numbers of recruits for other stations, he said

“What this office does is embed the Army in tourists’ minds. They may stop in on vacation and go home and think about it more,” Williams said. “The person might not join at this station, but they may join at another station in another state just by visiting here.”

As an example, he referred to a young Farsi-speaking couple at the station Aug. 18 talking to a recruiter about enlisting. Linguists are in high demand, especially Farsi and Arabic speakers, Williams said. “They’re looking to make a difference with their life,” he said. “They haven’t made a decision yet, but we’re showing them what the Army has to offer.”

Contrary to media reports, recruiting remains high, Williams said. “If people walk into recruiting stations they’ll see people joining, just like that couple. It hasn’t stopped at all,” he said.

He said people have different reasons for joining, and his recruiters go out of their way to determine potential recruits’ goals and interests. “Everyone has different needs,” he said.

Williams said recruits at his station come from all walks of life. “Not everyone who graduates from (the University of California at Los Angeles) has a job. Not everyone who graduates from (the University of Southern California) has a job,” he said. “We’ve had plenty of people from UCLA and USC join the Army at this office.”

Potential recruits are given a five-year projection comparison between life in the private sector and the Army. “What company can you go to who will pay back your student loan or pay you while you go to school?” he asked. “I’ll tell you: nobody.”

Williams, a 16-year veteran who’s done two tours in Iraq, said his job is to make sure applicants are satisfied with what they get. “The recruiting station is their first taste of the Army,” he said.

Every two weeks, the Hollywood station holds preparation classes for recruits so they’ll know what to expect when they arrive at basic training. “We just don’t send them off to training without teaching them a little about the Army, so they can adapt to their new environment,” Williams said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688303/posts

Next time do your research before you post an incorrect statement. Then you wont have to pull your foot out of your mouth.

posted November 09, 2006 01:14 PM              

**edit santa monica blv does run thru beverly hills

the district of hollywood http://www.allncs.org/hollywoodmap.htm

the picture from that article is clearly on the walk of fame in hollywood....not in beverly hills....

yet the address you gave is clear across the other side of beverly hills in another zip code entirely, not beverly hills or hollywood
its a coast guard recruiting office....
http://www.uscg.mil/jobs/offices/Los_Angeles.HTM