The only things missing in the responses so far, are questions about me misplacing my tin foil hat and references to the X-Files.
I think differently than Bush supporters. I am aware that ninety-four percent of
the people in the world are not Americans. Of the six percent who are American,
I'm guessing that less than a third, (under 2 percent of the people in the world),
dismiss perceptions and reactively defend Bush and his governemt and it's policies. They do this to such a degree that they see no need to debate, or
defend. They think that they hold a mainstream view, and that, if they repeat the same reaction often enough, "get over it", "move on", that the substance
of the criticism of Bush and the damage to worldwide perceptions that it does,
will disappear.
No Bushvolk.....read the observations about the 2004 election in Ohio. Most
people will find them to be measured, reasonable, and substantative. It isn't
"over", because the stench caused by electronic voting with software that is
not open to examination for integrity and votes that cannot be physically recounted, with machines provided mostly by two companies that are headed by partisan relatives, makes Bush and the U.S. an easy target for the following, and divides voters in the U.S. and thus erodes Bush's potential support:
Quote:
<a href="http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/12/23/uselections.shtml">http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/12/23/uselections.shtml</a>
Elections in U.S. and Ukraine Equally Bad — Putin
Created: 23.12.2004 15:38 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 15:38 MSK
MosNews
Russia has every reason to criticize the United States, President Vladimir Putin said at a Kremlin press conference.
“We’re also not too happy about what’s going on in the United States,” the Russian Information Agency Novosti quoted him as saying. “Do you think that the electoral system in the United States is without problems? Is it necessary to recall how the elections went this time and the previous time?”
The president also noted that OSCE observers described elections in the Ukraine and the United States in practically the same terms.
“They mentioned that not all voters were permitted into the polling stations, some were even intimidated; that candidates did not have equal access to the media,” Putin said.
The comments were made in response to criticism from the West about the struggling status of democracy in Russia.
“Whenever the criticism is constructive, we always pay attention,” Putin said, while ignoring criticism that is repetitive and unfounded.
In the same press conference, the president, however, said that he completely trusted President George W. Bush despite disagreements.
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NCB, Jose Padilla is a U.S. citizen who has not been charged with anything, but is in his third year of confinement. Has the Bush administration been correct about enough in it's tenure to cede to it the determination of who is
a non-citizen detainee who is ineligible to exercise legal rights? If that were
the case, why is the main prison for the questionably detained, located outside U.S. borders.
Can;t you see that the world now prejudges Bush in a similar way to your
reaction to me ? You first react to my authorship of a post or a thread, and
then, you are disposed to either dismiss entirely the reference material that I post, or you skim it lightly before dismissing it more quickly than you would if someone else....say, a newcomer to TFP Politics, posted it.
And so it is with Bush. Isolated, marginalized, defended by a very small number who mistakenly believe that theu and their president are mainstream in their thinking, and that the rest of us belong under pointed metal, hats.