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Bush Shrugs Off Slump in Polls; Jokes about Second-Term "Quagmire"
AP ^ | June 24, 2005

Posted on 06/24/2005 11:52:17 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative

WHITE HOUSE President Bush is shrugging off the polls showing his job approval rating at low ebb. At a news conference with Iraq's visiting prime minister, Bush jokingly suggested the word "quagmire" to a reporter asking about a possible "second-term slump."

The president says he knows U-S troops have a difficult mission in Iraq against a bloodthirsty and determined enemy.

And he says on domestic issues, he's asking Congress to "take on some big tasks." He says he's not surprised his idea for a Social Security overhaul has met stiff resistance from lawmakers.

Bush added: "This is a time of testing. It's a critical time."


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bush; bush43; congress; polls; quagmire; secondterm; socialsecurity; term2; texasflowerlies; wariniraq; whatmelaugh
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To: Soul Seeker

"And you evidently have no interest in preventing the Liberals from turning this war into Vietnam which would have a devastating effect far more dire than open borders on our troops and our country. If you DID, you'd be focused on the subject of the thread and the subject of the conference and supporting the comments instead of usurping the thread for your own personal venting forum on an unrelated issue that already has thousands of threads."


I care more about America and our borders than I do Iraq, traitor. I don't give a $hit about liberals. Why the hell would I be here for > 2 years if I did?!


41 posted on 06/24/2005 1:12:30 PM PDT by Blzbba (Let them hate us as long as they fear us - Caligula)
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To: Howlin

Come take a trip through my state and make a casual estimate. I think a million is an understatement. They've even taken up a dozen units of Section VIII welfare housing a few blocks from my home. Packs of them are everywhere, in the city, in the little towns, out in the country. We now have two television stations catering to them, with a third on the way.

You can't run interference for W from reality forever.


42 posted on 06/24/2005 1:13:43 PM PDT by warchild9
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To: warchild9

I live in YOUR state; and you're lying about the figures.


43 posted on 06/24/2005 1:15:08 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Blzbba
I care more about America and our borders than I do Iraq, traitor.

There's no need for that kind of crap.

Unless, of course, you have nothing else to debate with.

44 posted on 06/24/2005 1:16:45 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Blzbba

That is the best you can do in response to the FACT this thread isn't about illegal immigration but about the WOT and the support our troops need to conduct it?? Call me a Traitor?

Pathetic.


45 posted on 06/24/2005 1:17:20 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: warchild9

"You can't run interference for W from reality forever."


Careful - the Bushbots are getting angry!!


46 posted on 06/24/2005 1:19:52 PM PDT by Blzbba (Let them hate us as long as they fear us - Caligula)
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To: Howlin

"There's no need for that kind of crap.

Unless, of course, you have nothing else to debate with."



Sorry, but as long as Bush doesn't take the border security issue seriously, I see no reason to take anything else he says re:WOT seriously.


47 posted on 06/24/2005 1:21:14 PM PDT by Blzbba (Let them hate us as long as they fear us - Caligula)
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To: Blzbba

And that has WHAT to do with you calling Soul Seeker a traitor?


48 posted on 06/24/2005 1:22:39 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Howlin

I'm waiting for the official release of the statistics. I socialize with those paid to put these reports together.


49 posted on 06/24/2005 1:23:19 PM PDT by warchild9
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To: Blzbba
Careful - the Bushbots are getting angry!!

People on FR always get mad when people LIE; no matter who they support.

His fact was a FLAT OUT LIE.

50 posted on 06/24/2005 1:23:40 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Blzbba

I'm used to the irrational. I married a Cuban with the stereotyped temper.


51 posted on 06/24/2005 1:24:11 PM PDT by warchild9
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To: warchild9
I'm waiting for the official release of the statistics.

What the hell kind of answer is that? Are you admitting you pulled a figure out of your butt to try to make your argument sounds better?

I socialize with those paid to put these reports together.

I surely hope they're more honest than you are.

52 posted on 06/24/2005 1:25:16 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Soul Seeker

"That is the best you can do in response to the FACT this thread isn't about illegal immigration but about the WOT and the support our troops need to conduct it?? Call me a Traitor? "


OK, I apologize for calling you a traitor.

BUT, if you fail to see a connection between our open Mexican and Canadian borders and the WOT, you need glasses for your short-sightedness. I.E. What good is it to defeat them in Iraq if we're allowing them to stream across our own borders?

As far as supporting the troops goes, my wife & I help a Marine who's serving in the WOT with care for his family. Wife helped his family move into a new home last week and I email him regularly. It ain't much, but he's appreciative of it. I'd happily sacrifice in other ways for this WOT, but our President doesn't put much priority in self-sacrifice during this WOT. What are you doing to 'support the troops'? Just putting that temporary yellow magnet ribbon on one's car is doing nothing to actually "support the troops".


53 posted on 06/24/2005 1:25:40 PM PDT by Blzbba (Let them hate us as long as they fear us - Caligula)
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To: Howlin

Even after the release of the official numbers, you bots would just complain about "liberal" academics attacking Saint W, and how "liberals" are working with the "MSM" to undercut our red/white/blue efforts at yak yak yak and how Clinton is responsible for whatever.

Fact is, Mexicans have overrun us and W sucks as President. We haven't had a decent man in the White House since Reagan, who brought down the Evil Empire.

For all: look at Howlin, and witness "cognitive dissonance" personified.


54 posted on 06/24/2005 1:28:55 PM PDT by warchild9
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To: warchild9

Well, that's four posts from you and you STILL haven't admited you lied.

Nice rant though.


55 posted on 06/24/2005 1:30:12 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: warchild9
We haven't had a decent man in the White House since Reagan, who brought down the Evil Empire.

OMG, I missed this before.

You loved Reagan's amnesty policy????

56 posted on 06/24/2005 1:32:27 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Howlin

Reagan brought down Soviet communism.

You do live in angry botville, don't you? Do you EVER talk to anyone who disagrees with you? Have you EVER spent any time out in the world around real people? Do you get your information from actual people, and not Rush or Fox News?


57 posted on 06/24/2005 1:34:51 PM PDT by warchild9
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To: Howlin

And, no, Reagan screwed up in a lot of ways. Still, there is no Soviet Union aiming missles at us. Under Saint W, there is a communist China that is.


58 posted on 06/24/2005 1:35:44 PM PDT by warchild9
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To: warchild9
Reagan gave 3 million illegals Green Cards.

You do live in angry botville, don't you? Do you EVER talk to anyone who disagrees with you? Have you EVER spent any time out in the world around real people? Do you get your information from actual people, and not Rush or Fox News?

Funny, coming from you; you're the one who is the picture of anger and bad information.

59 posted on 06/24/2005 1:36:45 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: West Coast Conservative

Two words for Bush the elitist, who had better wake up or watch his legacy be smashed by not only the libs but conservatives as well, he had better start getting tough on:

Border

Judges


60 posted on 06/24/2005 1:38:25 PM PDT by sasafras (Enforce the border, take away all the benefits and penalize employers who hire illegals)
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