I'm not sure. The only thing I can hold out hope for is this:
GWB: HBS MBA -- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1070924/posts -- The American Thinker February 3, 2004 | Thomas Lifson
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.... "One final note on George W. Bush’s management style and his Harvard Business School background does not derive from the classroom, per se. One feature of life there is that a subculture of poker players exists. Poker is a natural fit with the inclinations, talents, and skills of many future entrepreneurs. A close reading of the odds, combined with the ability to out-psych the opposition, leads to capital accumulation in many fields, aside from the poker table.
By reputation, the President was a very avid and skillful poker player when he was an MBA student. One of the secrets of a successful poker player is to encourage your opponent to bet a lot of chips on a losing hand. This is a pattern of behavior one sees repeatedly in George W. Bush’s political career. He is not one to loudly proclaim his strengths at the beginning of a campaign. Instead, he bides his time, does not respond forcefully, a least at first, to critiques from his enemies, no matter how loud and annoying they get. If anything, this apparent passivity only goads them into making their case more emphatically.
Only time will tell, whether Saddam ever had any WMDs. Their non-existence has not been proven. Only time will tell whether or not Osama bin Laden (or his corpse) will be taken into custody by American Troops. Only time will tell whether or not Iraq will continue to make progress toward a transition toward a peaceful democratic government. George W. Bush knows much more information about these topics than his domestic political opponents do. At the moment, they are betting a lot of their chips on one side of these questions.
We will see by November who has the winning hand.
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I hope G.W. and the Republicans have cards to play, because as you said very well, they are responding very poorly now. I think Bush has plenty of cards to play........ and is holding them until around the first week of October. I pray he has the cards. If he doesn't this country dies ...... even more than it already has!
Be well, Mia T. You are a luminous star.
The mainstream media is the most destructive force in this country. Each one of those movers and shakers involved in all the deception of the American people deserve an afterlife in the hot spot!
Mia, just wanted to mention to you today that we may have just seen one of those early "Bush poker cards" played. In the ridiculous '9/11 Commission Report' today is reported verification by the French (one of three sources) that Bush told the truth about the yellow cake, and that all the claims of his lying is bull. Now, who knows how much the "press" will cover this, but it's a start.
I'm thinking Bush knew we had the goods on the French and the rest of the scoundrels all along on the "Oil for Food" ripoff. I think Bush may have used that info as leverage to get the a**hole French to come forward with that report!
One card played, but perhaps about eight more to go!
But, we still will need the American people to learn of these things. I do not trust them to be interested enough to learn them, and I certainly do not trust the lamestream media liars to tell them.
The mainstream media is the greatest enemy of this nation.
Both of you make the most well-arranged, informative, eloquent posts, with a wisdom and intelligence I admire, and could only wish I had! Good job, and God bless!