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Originally Posted by host
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:
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.
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Your article mentions remarks by Vladamir Putin. He also thought that Bush had executives fired by CBS. That is clearly wrong-the CBS investigation and subsequent firings/resignings were an internal affair. Why would he have any more grasp on the American election process?
You also reference one article, then extrapolate that as the world opinion. This is one article refering to the remarks of certain officials who certainly have an agenda. How is that showing that "the world prejudges Bush"?
The reason that many people may prejudge your posts and links is because they are all about the same thing-how Bush/America is bad. You make conjectures that are not logically supported by what links you might post. You post opinion pieces as fact, then complain when they are questioned. Why should any who disagree give you any credibility? It is clear you have an agenda, and it is also clear you have no respect for any who oppose your beliefs.
Seriously, who is your target audience? You don't think that those with differing opinions are intelligent enough to change opinion based on facts/logic, so that can't be your audience. And you also don't have any respect for what those opinions might be, so debate cannot be the reason. Is it just to expose more supposed evils of Bush to people who already disagree with you? Is it just to prove how correct you are to everyone else?