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Originally posted by apechild
Naive? Because we don't blindly accept your baseless, cynical speculations as plausible?
The only thing you have offered to support your fantasy is that "it wouldn't surprise me if..."
You too have yet to convince me that any of your above ideas have any rational basis.
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Not as plausible, just as possible. With little devils like karl rove and paul wolfowitz whispering in his ear, how can you pretend that bush only does what he thinks is right. Your denial of the possibility that bush may actively decieve us seems to lack a certain amount of rational thought as well.
Speculation is fantasy only in that it hasn't panned out as reality. Another fantasy that many of you don't seem to mind buying into- WMD's in iraq, or even the idea that we are safer in by some quantifyable, demonstrable level since 9/11.
Ustwo,
Forgive me for not living up to your assumptions, but i am no democrat. I don't hate bush, sometimes he even makes me smile. The man has got cojones.
despite that
I could also come up with rationalized situations to justify my position, but you'd no doubt discount them as the bitter musings of a democrat.
Besides, all my position really boils down to is
1. The tendency for sitting presidents to decieve the public.
and
2. The tendency of sitting presidents to maximise their political gain whenever possible.
Allow me to pre-emptivley question your ability to think in a rational manner if you decide to question those two statements.
While i'm "happily assigning the worst possible motives to the presidents actions" you seem content to close your eyes, plug your ears, and scream "LALALALALA" whenever anyone questions the president's integrity.
I think that the dems need to pull a rabbit out of the hat to win the next election, but bush is by no means bulletproof and if he does lose, it will be partly the result of the current attitude of his laypeople that he is unstoppable.