President Bush is planning to travel widely in 2008 to improve America’s image abroad.
He might do more good by staying home. Bush has cratered America’s standing abroad, even among our closest allies. Consider a recent Pew Center study of attitudes in 47 nations that found “extensive†anti-Americanism. The perception that America acts unilaterally is shared by 89 percent of the French, 83 percent of Canadians and 74 percent of Britons. In the Middle East, America’s reputation is at rock-bottom.
America’s tarnished image is partly caused by the “arrogant bunker mentality†(in Mike Huckabee’s words) Team Bush has shown in its post-Sept. 11 foreign policy.
Bush is going to turn that around in a few trips? Good luck.
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Or, is it to escape the unpopularity at home, Democratic majority Congress and GOP presidential race that tries to maintain a safe distance from him?
What is the deal with every president taking free trips around the world toward the end of their term?
He should really NOT go anywhere. Nothing good can come of it.
Bush can’t improve his or America’s image any where. He’s viewed by all the world as a bully and a fool.
America’s tarnished image is partly caused by the “arrogant bunker mentality” (in Mike Huckabee’s words) Team Bush has shown in its post-Sept. 11 foreign policy.Bush is going to turn that around in a few trips? Good luck.Posted by Randy Scholfield
Umm…So, President Bush is getting out to dialogue with other countries. Liberals in the press have been criticizing him for not doing more of that. They should be happy, right? Noooo. Scholfield thinks the president should stay home. Classic liberal pessimism.
Randy; how is Mr. Bush staying home in the old “bunker” is going to help? Or do you even want it to? If things don’t change you will be able to continue to point to low “approval” ratings for America from other countries and say shame, shame. As if…
Buck up. Your pink underwear is showing.
Bush has obviously lost his mind. Nothing he says or does is going to improve our image abroad short of tendering his resignation. I predict that the big news during his travels will be anti-Bush and anti-American demonstrations where ever he goes.
We have one more year to put up with this moron. We can only hope that it passes quickly.
Well, Randy is doing the usual liberal thing of talking out of both sides of his mouth simultaneously so as to blame Bush no matter what he does. If he stays home and doesn’t engage much with other countries he has an “arrogant bunker mentality.” If he travels, he does more harm than good. It looks like you have your opinion and you’ll make sure the facts are twisted to fit it, no matter what.
Fortunately, with the Internet we are no longer stuck with Randy’s liberal media spin on the news. Read the actual Pew Report! In all of the following countries, there are a majority of people with FAVORABLE than unfavorable views of the U.S., despite Randy’s assertion that Bush “has cratered America’s standing abroad”: Bangladesh, Britain, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Ethiopia, Ghana, Israel, Ivory Coast, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mali, Mexico!, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Senegal, South Korea, Uganda, Ukraine, South Africa, Venezuela!That would be 25 out of the 47 countries surveyed! That doesn’t make it unanimous but shows how distorted Randy’s analysis is.http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=256
Actually, it’s pretty likely Randy never did read the Pew Research study for himself. His own link is to the Yahoo News article that his ideas obviously come from directly, practically word for word at times, except he left out the parts about places where Bush is popular.
Ok. Someone list places where Bush IS popular.
“Conservatives” the ball is in your court. Create a platform to run on based on your record of success.
Read the actual Pew Report! … That would be 25 out of the 47 countries surveyed! That doesn’t make it unanimous but shows how distorted Randy’s analysis is.Posted by: JamesN | December 27, 2007 at 08:30 AM————————————In case you’re too lazy to scroll up and read Scholfield’s actual words, here you go:
Consider a recent Pew Center study of attitudes in 47 nations that found “extensive” anti-Americanism. The perception that America acts unilaterally is shared by 89 percent of the French, 83 percent of Canadians and 74 percent of Britons. In the Middle East, America’s reputation is at rock-bottom.America’s tarnished image is partly caused by the “arrogant bunker mentality” (in Mike Huckabee’s words) Team Bush has shown in its post-Sept. 11 foreign policy.Bush is going to turn that around in a few trips? Good luck.Posted by Randy Scholfield
Randy never wrote that a ROW majority holds unfavorable views of the US, according to Pew. He wrote that the poll reflects “extensive” anti-Americanism among certain historic and traditional US allies. And it does.
Of course, if you wish to discount or ignore signs of anti-Americanism among our traditional allies in order to prop up Augustus Stupidus (and I know you do!), then fine. But why not just be honest and say so? Why not just be upfront and admit that you’re prepared to lower American standards as low as wherever as long the MSM will report he’s a great president?
You guys just can’t take ANY valid criticism of Bush, can you? If BDS exists (non-justified or irrational BDS, that is), then you guys have the inverse: PBBNS.
PERNICIOUS BUSH BROWN NOSE SYNDROME.
Some of our more narrow minded..er conservative posters are confused. You know, like always?
Randy is not the origin of the idea that bush has an “arrogant bunker mentality”. That is Mike Hickabee’s line.
Bon Voyage georgie and don’t come back!
By the way, it will be very interesting to measure the effects of Bush’s world tour.
You think these numbers will improve, remain flat, or fall as a result of sending Augustus Stupidus out amongst the great anti-American masses?
The office of POTUS is pretty powerful, and the rest of the world generally holds it in high esteem. That said, Bush is truly a special case. I know an odd Canadian, and odd Australian, and now and again even an odd Brit who think he’s great stuff, but frankly everybody else I know won’t even begin to listen to Bush unless he speaks to audiences that are1) not hand picked, and2) able to ask questions freely, and3) for as long as it takes to get a straight answer.
If he can’t do that, then I doubt this tour will do much good.
My bet: flat at best.
I’m all for George WMD Bush and (The Big) Dick Cheney’s world tour.
Let’s start with an open-car motorcade in Pakistan!
Heard an interesting question on the radio while someone attempted to smear Ron Paul. If we pulled out of every country but our own, militarily, we would save around a trillion dollars per annum. That is a LOT of zeros folks.
The question was this, if we pulled out of South Korea and North Korea attacked what should we do?
Why are we the world’s police? Who decided that we are responsible? Exactly how many countries WANT our fingers in every damn pie there is?
The question was floated with the prejudgment that pulling out of the globe would diminish our ‘super power’ status. 1) Why do we have to be a super power? 2) We will still have the equipment and man power, how is our status diminished? We still have the tools and projection to devastate pretty much anywhere globally.
So, why do we have to police the world? Isn’t that the UN’s job? Why are we going broke, killing Americans and deploying American’s around the globe away from their families to “protect” a world that is clearly sick of our presence?
“Some of our more narrow minded..er conservative posters are confused. You know, like always?”
I know this is kinda off-topic, but:
Who’s calling WHO narrow minded? Pot, meet, not just kettle, the whole damn Franklin Stove. Arrived this am, catching up on the conversations, and caught this bit of wonder:—
Recommend many of us, on both sides of the aisle, read this and take it to heart.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-12-25-ginsburg-scalia_N.htm
It’s not personal, folks.
Posted by: GMC70 | December 26, 2007 at 11:54 AM
I read it and lost a lot of respect for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Of course, being comfortable in her life, she can stand on her principles AND hobnob with the enemy.
Thank you, no.
Posted by: J R | December 26, 2007 at 09:45 PM
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And JR has the audacity to call ANYONE else “narrow minded?!?!?!”
JR -
I pity you. You preach tolerance but practice none in the real world. You talk about openness, but close your mind to anyone or anything that challenges your world view.
You are a small, sad person. You seem to take your apparant inability to interact with others with whom you don’t necessarily see eye to eye with as a matter of pride; it isn’t, of course, it’s a character flaw.
What a closed, dull world you must live in.
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Oh, BTW: Bush getting out can be nothing but a good thing; he hasn’t done enough of that, and that is part of the problem. I just hope it’s more than just a “PR – feel good” campaign, and there is substance to it.
And why not Bush? He is – for the sixth year in a row, the most admired man in Gallup’s annual survey.
God Bless our American President!
Randy, the news media image is damaged far greater than Bush’s. How you going to improve that?
Geez GMC you were a dull scold on one thread and you want to repeat here?
Anyone you have interested (crickets chirping) can see my response over on the open.
Hey anything that gets bush out of America helps a little. What we really need is to get those behind him on a slow boat to Neptune.
Got a link AW?
YOU know? So I can blow your last post apart like I did when you made it yesterday?
h getting out can be nothing but a good thing…Posted by: GMC70 | December 27, 2007 at 09:49 AM
I disagree.
I can envision a case where Bush handpicks audiences, ignoring honest questions, throughout Europe. I think that’s quite likely to happen, and if it does it will just further entrench the already extensive anti-Americanism in western Europe.
To your point: if Bush can rise above whatever compels him to dodge talking relatively honestly and freely with the public, then yes it could only help. To the extent that Bush can convince Europeans and others that he’s not Mr. Authoritarian, and stereotypically secretive about it, it will help improve world opinion of the US.
But I disagree that the *only* outcome is positive.
Worst case — Bush gets assassinated. Cheney takes the reins. The world ends.
Our problem is that we have become wimps. When Allende became a problem, he was thrown out of office and before we became wussies we tried to assassinate Castro. Our decline started when we failed to support our allies, like the Shah and instead we wind up with the Ayatollah and now the little moron with nuclear ambitions.
The world is not a social event, it is a gathering of billies and they understand only one thing, power.
First, assassinate Chavez and the Iranian taxi driver and then let it be known that countries that screw with us will face a change of leadership every time. That would be a good start. Screw being loved. It hasn’t worked so far.
Sorry, that should have been Bullies, not Billies.
The second thing is to start prosecuting the traitors in this country. Jane Fonda should have been shot for her trip to Hanoi, and a retroactive trial and execution would also send a message that we’re back.
Global fascism. Outstanding RAG.
blah blah bluster platitude jingoistic rant blah kill the dissenters! would also send a message that we’re back.
Posted by: Restoring America’s greatness | December 27, 2007 at 10:14
Who is “we”? And do you get out of your bunker often enough to learn it is not 1959?
Most of the world is led by murderers, tyrants, Communists or Islamic radicals.
Among the true Democracies or Republics of the world, France just elected a Pro American President!
Also, according to Historian Walter Mead, Bush has “regained traditional ground in Europe” This of course means that Bush is back to where Clinton was, as far as Europe is concerned.(Europe is never completely pleased with America. That is mostly out of envy and competitive impulses)
http://www.cfr.org/publication/15080/
As far as Huckabee goes, I think the guy is toast.
He might win Iowa, a caucus state, but after that? A caucus is far different than a primary. In precincts where Huck does not get a clear majority, the other candidates will make a deal AGAINST Huck, IMHO.
It has become an “ABH” race, now.Anybody but Huckabee. Huck has only himself to blame.
Huck has become a Republican Jimmy Carter.
Especially on Foreign Policy.
You remember all that “respect” that Jimmy Carter earned, for America?
Still waiting for the Conservatives record of success.
Reagan defeated the Soviets in the Cold War.
Reagan got the Iranian hostages returned on the 1st day of his 1st term.
Libya gave up terrorism, after W. invaded Iraq.
W. removed Saddam. “Regime change” was the stated policy of Bill Clinton, but Clinton failed to carry out that policy.
The Taliban is largely defeated.
Al Quida is on the run.
We have functioning Democracies in Central America, most notably Nicaragua and El Salvador. Those countries might well be Communist dictatorships, had Carter been re-elected.
America has not been attacked, on our own soil, since 9-11.
Mead, speaking to that “right wing group” the CFR:
“He notes that the Democrats are having trouble coming up with a viable foreign policy alternative that will win the party votes.”
You’d vote for bush again wouldn’t you pauliecon.
Even though he is the most hated man on the face of the planet and the worst President in American history…STILL you defend him at every turn.
If he could run again, or if Cheney were running…
You’d vote for them again.
It’s good there are only about 17 people like you left!
Also good for our readers to see just how clearly out of the mainstream you are.
Nice stuff Econ101.
Reagan defeating European communism is in and of itself the greatest single victory this country had since FDR gave those countries to the communists to begin with.
Liberals are traitors. They defile any institution where they’re given a toehold. We desperately need another McCarthy era to clean the commies out of our government, although now they control the Democrat Party, so it will be more difficult.
Oh LOOK paulie has a fan!
Too bad it’s just another nut.
You all should arm yourselves against roving bands of squirrels!
Econ 101,
You know your liberal counterparts are going to hand you your hat on what is a very short list.
I agree with the Ronald Reagan defeating the Soviets in the Cold War. Be nice if Bush wasn’t snatching defeat from the jaws of victory with his missle defense initiative that is, basically, resetting the Cold War clock back to pre-Reagan.
Actually, I feel sorry for you that Conservatives can’t post wins on an ever-weakening dollar, trade imbalance, the credit crisis, the housing crisis, health care, (real)inflation (thanking Republicans for a $4 gallon of milk just seems silly, now doesn’t it?), jobs without benefits, national debt, no success on ending abortion or shipping gays to a desert island (too bad for the Republican “moral values” base), abstinence education doesn’t really work, crime in major cities is up under Republican leadership, faith-based initiatives don’t work if your cash-strapped church goers are struggling to produce their own holiday feasts, much less provide one for the “less fortunate.”
The Republican power grab isn’t looking like a success for America.
Reagan did not single-handedly defeat the Soviets; that had been a long time coming. However, he DID reach out at just the right moment to help them make a somewhat ’soft landing’ for which I respect him.
As for Bush’s trip I HOPE he can repair some of the damage he has caused. However, I do not hold out much hope. Dialog? That would be a nice change after 7 years of dictate.
ModI believe that we were asked to list foreign policy success stories.
By the way, Hillary is CLAIMING she had something to do with the Irish peace process.
She lied!
At least the list that I posted is real.
Citizens would have far more to donate to charity if we eliminated welfare. And, we could cut back on the trade imbalance and help secure our grandchildrens’ freedom if we’d stop building China’s missiles for them with the profits they make from building everything we buy.
Eliminate welfare and Chinese merchandise and you solve two major problems right there.
Sheep herding will soon become a requirement for President of the United States.
The Shepherd President will be called “Appeaser” and the sheep will be known as future slaughter animals.
“PERNICIOUS BUSH BROWN NOSE SYNDROME.”
“Augustus Stupidus”
Pedant is really cute in making up hateful names for the President and for those who don’t share his hatred for him. I wish I could come up with such cute and creative ideas.
The reason I didn’t focus specifically on Randy’s point is that it was a non sequitur. His stated “evidence” that Bush has destroyed America’s image abroad was that lots of people think the U.S. acts unilaterally sometimes. Well, guess what? The U.S. does act unilaterally sometimes. The fact that people think that is true hardly equates to hotility to the U.S. I took the trouble to look up in the Pew Survey itself what people really thought, rather than relying on Randy’s filter, actually expecting it to be pretty negative, and was surprised to find that in a majority of the 47 countries, the U.S. is actually viewed favorably by a majority. It’s something you would never know by reading Randy Scholfield.
Who cares whether people in other countries like us, fear gets you a lot farther down the road (and we’d have a lot cheaper gas). Every time you fill up and gas is over a dollar a gallon, thank a liberal.
Randy Scholfield says, “In the Middle East America’s reputation is at rock bottom.”
Is Israel in the Middle East? According to the Pew Report whose URL is cited in another post above, people there view the U.S. favorably by a 78-20 margin. In Lebanon it’s 52-47 unfavorable, hardly “rock bottom.” The only other two Middle Eastern locations in the survey were Egypt and the Palestinian Territories, where, indeed, the U.S. reputation is poor. So out of four Middle Eastern locations, one has a highly positive view, one is split down the middle, and two are negative. This is rock bottom? Another example of how the media filter the facts to make them conform to their own views.
I wish I could come up with such cute and creative ideas.Posted by: JamesN | December 27, 2007 at 11:29 AM
But as your previous post, and the paragraph that follows the sentence above, indicate, you can!
You can get REALLY creative when it comes to finding “reasons” to hate the dreaded MSM!
Who cares whether people in other countries like us, fear gets you a lot farther down the road (and we’d have a lot cheaper gas).
That’s right, Adolph.
That’s why WE were attacked on 9-11 instead of Canada or Sweden.
The terrorists FEAR Canada and Sweden.
I think that should be ESM, or Establishment Stalinist Media. That’s far more accurate, since the media hardly reflect the mainstream of what most Americans think, and usually represent more what our enemies think.
This is rock bottom?Posted by: Sam | December 27, 2007 at 11:39 AM
LOL
Uh, are Iraq and Iran in the ME? Tell me, I believe an American could attend university in Cairo safely, an American could live safely in parts of Palestine, but since 2003 has it been safe for an unarmed American to STROLL 10 FEET alone in Baghdad?
How about Iran?
Yeah, I’d say that since 2003 Middle Eastern opinions are at or near rock bottom — if, of course, you’ll allow me to define “rock bottom” as murderous.
LOL. You guys kill me.
If you lazy bastards are going to plagiarize someone else’s comments you could at least make the effort to use quotes.
The terrorists FEAR Canada and Sweden.
Posted by: CapnAmerica | December 27, 2007 at 11:43 AM
LMFAO !!!!!
YOU know? So I can blow your last post apart like I did when you made it yesterday?
Posted by: J R |
You are probably real good at blowing JR. But go find your own.It is a fact jack, and your blowing yesterday after I left didn’t change Gallup one iota.
God Bless President Bush.
Who cares what a pack of savages thinks? We’re kissing the ass of barbarians stuck in the 12th century thanks to the liberal wussies in this country.
Khadafi learned to love us after we showed that we’d gladly kill, or overthrow him. That’s what these pigs understand, not your leftist bootlicking.
Kill Ahmadinejhad and Chavez and our gas will drop at least a dollar a gallon. That’s worth it, and both countries will be better off.
Who cares what a pack of savages thinks?Posted by: Restoring America’s greatness | December 27, 2007 at 11:50 AM
LOL
Tell it to Augustus Stupidus, brother, he’s the one taking a strolling tour of the world. Also known as “taming the pack.”
LOL
RAG,
WTF, Kill em all. Let God or allah sort em out. The Religious Right knows what is best for everyone in the world. If gas goes over a buck, put one between a liberal’s eyes. If someone says they don’t love Bush-All-Mighty, nuke their ass until they glow.
Do you have any idea how you sound?
SolDevVB:
To you? Who cares? People like you are the reason we don’t have a cohesive foreign policy and why we’re getting shoved around by animals who think a tent is a marvelous invention.
Secondly, bigot, you haven’t a clue as to what my faith is, or isn’t, you just apparently hate Christians. Do you know what you sound like?
The motto of the MSM, “Walk softly and carry a limp d**k”
The America haters would love to see an impotent U.S.
Don’t listen to the syrup speaking, dung rats that want to make the U.S. into a land of lip serviced, blue flagged surrender-crats.
The only way to deal with the World’s thugs is to kick the dog-squeeze right out of them.
Anybody who thinks that world opinion doesn’t count, or that fear is more valuable than love when it comes to foreign policy, is delusional.
And “Info_Pipe,” is that you dipshit? Ain’t nobody writes prose as bad as Kansas…until Info_Pipe got here.
LOL. Busted!
“People like you are the reason we don’t have a cohesive foreign policy”Posted by: Restoring America’s greatness | December 27, 2007 at 11:59 AM
**********************************LMFAO !!!Oh that is too rich!!! You can’t even make this stuff up…
Wait, wait…*******************************************“Kill Ahmadinejhad and Chavez”Posted by: Restoring America’s greatness | December 27, 2007 at 11:52 AM
*********************************“Khadafi learned to love us after we showed that we’d gladly kill, or overthrow him.”Posted by: Restoring America’s greatness | December 27, 2007 at 11:50 AM
**********************************“fear gets you a lot farther down the road”Posted by: Restoring America’s greatness | December 27, 2007 at 11:38 AM
************************************************
Now THAT is some “cohesive foreign policy”
Bigot? Exactly where did I bring your religion or Christianity into this mix?
“The Religious Right knows what is best for everyone in the world.”
You aren’t even aware of your own bigoted comments and I should care what you think?
Check your history. Reagan rode in on the “Religious Right” gravy train. Now while I have great respect for Reagan, the Religious Right wrecked the GOP. If you stop and think about it, the RR has more to do with politics than religion. They just hold Christ and the Bible up in front of them to shield them from the crap they spew.
Reagan was the last Republican to hold office. If you sell your religion out to what the GOP has become, then as a fellow Christian, I have to tell you that you have sold your soul.
And how exactly does that make me a bigot? I keep my religion and my politics separate. You co-mingle them. And yet you call me the bigot. Pot, meet kettle.
Again, you have no idea what, if any, faith I have, and yet you want to categorize me based on your own ignorant stereotypes of who and what the “religious right” is. That’s how it makes you a bigot.
How sad, you don’t understand your posts and apparently don’t have the reading comprehension to understand mine to the point I have to repeat everything, and you want to set American foreign policy? How pathetic, that voices like yours actually have and are.
RAG…
Your idea of foreign policy…
*******************************************“Kill Ahmadinejhad and Chavez”Posted by: Restoring America’s greatness | December 27, 2007 at 11:52 AM
*********************************“Khadafi learned to love us after we showed that we’d gladly kill, or overthrow him.”Posted by: Restoring America’s greatness | December 27, 2007 at 11:50 AM
**********************************“fear gets you a lot farther down the road”Posted by: Restoring America’s greatness | December 27, 2007 at 11:38 AM
************************************************
Do you stand with the GOP?
Why, is there yet another set of stereotypes you’d like me to fit in so that you can dismiss my ideas without thinking about them?
Sorry, you’ll just have to crap can your hateful groupthink for the day, although I suspect that’s too much to ask for.
I am happy with the nifty summary though. Thanks.
To translate from the Republican “conservative” posts here:
“You don’t have to have a record of success. You just have to ramp up the name calling and put-downs to the point that it’s clear you’ve lost touch with reality.” Because, crazy people are scary and we give them their way so they won’t hurt us.
Still funny that a real NAZI stands while a spoof gets deleted.
“Sorry, you’ll just have to crap can your hateful groupthink”
Assassinations…“Kill Ahmadinejhad and Chavez”
Fear mongering…“Khadafi learned to love us after we showed that we’d gladly kill, or overthrow him.”“fear gets you a lot farther down the road”
I think the current term for these ideals is terrorism. So the RAG, you support terrorism? Exactly what religion do you follow that supports these ideologies?
Was something deleted? I should have thought it was your idiotic plagiarism, but it’s still there. heil yourself, Adolph.
Sorry there I’m no more subject to your goofy definitions than I am your bigoted stereotypes. If you want to call our troops terrorists, be my guest, you leftist pigs have always been traitors anyway.
Sol – so you’re a leftist now. Cool!
Assassinations…“Kill Ahmadinejhad and Chavez”
Fear mongering…“Khadafi learned to love us after we showed that we’d gladly kill, or overthrow him.”“fear gets you a lot farther down the road”
Don’t hear the troops saying that. Just you. So, again, you support terrorism? What religion do you follow that feels that same as you, that fear mongering and assassinations make for good foreign policy?
The troops? How vile of you. Own your own thoughts and terroristic ideals. Don’t tarnish American fighting men and women with your warped thoughts. Disgusting.
Ben,
Whodathunkit?
Not a leftist. Not a terrorist like RAG. Just a lil ole Libertarian.
Sol, you gotta love it Fascists calling you a bigot.
TP,
Grinnin from ear to ear. Now ‘he’ wants to bring the troops into it. Tuck tail and run…
I keep owning my thoughts, you’re the cracker that wants to put me in someone else’s box. Man you people are boring. It must be the “news” you get from The Eagle.
“Tuck tail and run”. Yes, I’m doing an imitation of a liberal conducting our foreign policy.
“If you want to call our troops terrorists, be my guest, “Posted by: Restoring America’s greatness | December 27, 2007 at 01:08 PM
Huh, and after several attempts, still no answer to the questions. Boring? Someone else’s box? You can’t seem to justify a single idiotic thing you’ve put forth here.
Good grief, here are three of you morons. Can’t you keep up with anything. Anxiety because your welfare checks haven’t shown up, or something?
“I’m doing an imitation of a liberal ”
Then answer the questions.
“Anxiety because your welfare checks haven’t shown up, or something?”
Anxiously awaiting your answer to how you can support terrorism and what religion shares those ideals.
What questions? What groups I belong to that you hate? Idiot, go put your sheets back on, you’re a waste of time.
See, still trying to justify your religious bigotry. Deal with the ideas, stupid, not the groups you think hold them.
Boring.
Time to go back to work, I’m sure the mailman will be here with your check soon.
“Anxiously awaiting your answer to how you can support terrorism and what religion shares those ideals. ”
” What groups I belong to that you hate? ”
Terrorism? Yup hate it. You nailed that one. Which group is it that you belong to?Fascism? Yup. Hate that one too. What’s the name of THAT group to which you belong?
_________________________________________“go put your sheets back on,”Posted by: Restoring America’s greatness | December 27, 2007 at 01:28 PM
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Could this be the answer? Kinda fits doesn’t it? Fascism, terrorism and sheets. You’re starting to come into focus for whom you are RAG
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Randy Scholfield and I were both writing in the context of the Pew Survey. Those two countries were not among the 47 in the survey. My comment pertained to the four Middle Eastern countries included in the survey. We can all make guesses about what the results would be elsewhere, but that’s speculation.
Iraq is in the Middle East, by the way, but not necessarily Iran. In the State Department groupings (and it makes sense to refer to those if the issue is US foreign policy) the Middle Eastern countries include all the Arabic-speaking nations of Asia, plus Israel and Egypt. There are other sources who would include such countries as Iran, Pakistan and Turkey, but there’s no consensus on that. Middle East is not a precise term like “South America”, for example. And, yes, all reports I’ve seen say that those Americans who venture to Iran are warmly received, despite the hostility between our respective governments.
Hey “AW”?
POST your little link to your little poll with less than stellar ratings for bush.
It was funny the first time. It might get another chuckle or two.
Improve our image Hell! He’s scouting for a nice place to retire without that nuisance of extradition.
Posted by: Jed | December 27, 2007 at 01:56 PM
LMFAO
Dubai?
I hear Haliburton is having some condos built…
May I suggest you send along the Little League World Champions with Mr. Bush? Pehaps you will recall that team from middle Georgia, seeing how the beaten Japanese kids broke down and were visibly upset, rushed to comfort their defeated opponents. That was seen in a lot of countries. PS: The kids played pretty good ball too.
“Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property
located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 4.9 percent in the third quarter of 2007,
according to final estimates released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the second quarter, real
GDP increased 3.8 percent.”
God Bless our American President!
NEW YORK, Dec 25 (Reuters) – U.S. retailers’ sales rose 3.6 percent in holiday shopping
God Bless our American President!
Go enjoy your last year touring jaunt. Like many presidents did before you, go see the world for the last time at taxpayer expense.
It is becoming a White House tradition.
“2007, U.S. exports of goods and services grew by 12.2% year-to-date”
God Bless our President.
Bad news is that imports grew by a much higher percentage in 2007.
People who already had money are making lots and lots more of it.
May bush rot.
“”"Ok. Someone list places where Bush IS popular.”"”
Maybe Austrailia but that is about it.
The recent election in Australia shows that Bush is not very popular there any more. His political ally got defeated.
Jerks for “Social Justice”:(Do as we say, not as we do, but for heavens sake, don’t talk hatefully, like we do)
Jerks for Peace:(Cant you idiots who we disagree with just shut up and surrender to us, since we are so much better and smarter at this “diplomacy” stuff than you? And, for Heavens sake, don’t talk to other world leaders the way we talk to you, and about you. It might start a war or something! Again, do as we say, not as we do. And Don’t SAY what we say, whatever you do!)
Somehow, Jerks for Peace, and Jerks for Social Justice, share the delusion that, by insulting everyone else, and telling us how stupid we are, they can somehow bring world peace and equality.
BenThat is like saying that the recent election in France proves the French all AGREE with Bush.A Pro-American just won there.
If he shot himself, he’d really improve are immage abroad.