Bush Jr.'s next move?

[Alec]

There´s stupid people all over the world, in every country, in every race. I think we can try to laugh at our defects, and you, Gurm, although I pointed out that was a humorous moment (that joke was taken from an american site) you still were affected negatively by it. You shouldn´t have a problem with it.

As an european, I disagree with lots of aspects of the american society, their foreign policies and culture. But that doesn´t mean that I don´t want to know the USA and maybe even end up living there. I can´t understand how America elected Bush. I saw him comment today that thing about the FBI guy that had been allegedly spying for the russians for years. That holier-that-thou attitude got on my nerves. He makes people believe that the Russia is the only country with spies...
Also, he talked about how he regretted that not everyone on the world shared the american values - THANK GOD THAT´S TRUE!!! He should be so lucky.

[Kaj]

He really did say that, did he? Sheesh.. And some people in TSB wonder why some Europeans don't think highly of him.

[Guru]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Alec:
He makes people believe that the Russia is the only country with spies...
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One was caught in Sweden yesterday!

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[Barbarella]

well,

very interesting post. It seems we will have a big ideological war in the coming years between Europe / USA

Just one more word. Usualy when American say 'Europe' they are talking about the continent. While most European (or more and more) are thinking about that :



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[Gurm]

You can't understand how we elected Bush? This simply illustrates your complete lack of understanding of not only the American political system but also the American mindset.

Maybe we as a country were SO sick of Bill "I want my dick sucked" Clinton that we were willing to elect ANYONE with opposing values, even if that person was perhaps not the most qualified for the job.

And maybe we WANTED someone who wasn't steeped in Washington politics and who wasn't a bleeding heart liberal. Maybe we WANTED someone with the guts to drop bombs on the bad guys, instead of trying to "talk out our differences" with a bunch of crazy extremists from the desert who have called for "death to all Americans, down to the last child".

But the point in fact is that we legally elected Bush. You obviously don't understand how, and maybe you should go read up on it.

I know this is the soap box. But all the Europeans in here get offended when we make blanket generalizations about Europe, so is it not ok for us to get offended when you make blanket generalizations about the US?

- Gurm

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[Alec]

Good point, Joel.

And now, for a little bit of a humorous break (and not completely off-topic):


****10 reasons why it´s great to be an american*****

1. You can have a woman president without electing her

2. You can spell colour wrong and get away with it

3. You can call Budweiser beer

4. You can be a crook and still be president

5. If you've got enough money you can get elected to do anything

6. If you can breathe you can get a gun

7. You can invent a new public holiday every year

8. You can play golf in the most hideous clothes ever made and nobody seems to care.

9. You get to call everyone you've never met "buddy"

10. You can think you're the greatest nation on earth.

[Rags]

Gurm,

You really expect these narrow-minded individuals to really see that they are being hypocrites? They tell us we are being improper by stereotyping yet they just got done doing it.

You also expect them to understand why GW Bush is president even though they don't like him? You expect them to understand that they are incorrect when they say that Al Gore got the majority of the votes in the presidential election, when this is clearly not true? Headline scholars are pretty tough cases, you know.

Rags

[cjolley]

As one who has lived in both Europe and the US, I would just like to say....
This is a lovers quarrel that will be forgotten in a short while when China points a gun at us and asks us both for our wallets.
chuck

[paulcs]

Personally, I think the waving of flags in this context is needlessly provocative and an insult to old friends and allies. Shame on you.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

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[Greebe]

Thank you Chuck!

[impact]

Prologue:

And what exactly do you want us to do Rags? Sit here and stare at each other? If you are not enjoying this thread, there's nothing that's holding you here.

Let us poor, dumb, narrow-minded ones - who will never be able to achieve the omnicognoscant (gotta love Terry and his books ) demigod status of yours, not even come close to you in your greatest glory and allknowing, allhearing, allrseeing and allunderstanding status, the kind of mind that operates at 100% efficiency; you may still pay us a visit now and then if you see it fit to talk to such a lowly creature that european is and inform us of our mistakes and ignorance and show us the light, we shall follow where ever you go, praise anything that you touch and never question anything you say - just let us go on with our useless ranting.

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China, eh? That's far away... wait when NATO expands up to the russian border, then there will be some serious trouble.

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How to become a President of the USA, one step program:
> Work off of the anger, resentment, and hatred of Clinton and anything/everything associated to him! That easy!

You do not need ANY other qualifications.

Well,...your father being rich, connected, and a prior president SURE helps! Not to forget to mention the Christian Right. (which is NEITHER)

[impact]

Cheer up people, and take it easy... this is why certain americans like Bush so much...

Republican lifestyle

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So, if you're a Republican, tell me - what's the Republican lifestyle really like? What is it that you people, you know, do? I mean, no offense, but I just don't get you people...
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Well, generally, I wake up in the morning and have breakfast, and then spend ten minutes genuflecting before my life-sized poster of Ronald Reagan. I get dressed (always in suit, tie, American Flag pin, and socks with garters, even if I'm just going to be hanging around the house) and go off to work, though usually I take a few minutes out of the morning routine to hawk a large loogie on the poor black family that lives next door.

At work, I leave Christian literature in the chairs of all of my colleagues, and conspire with my fellow white Republicans as to which minority co-workers we'll bombard with hate e-mail during the day. Thankfully, as a Republican, I've been promoted into middle management quite easily with my 'old-boy' network, and generally I spend the afternoons subtly inquiring into my subordinates' lifestyles and political views so as to decide who to fire and who to keep. Needless to say, godless Commie Democrats are the first to go. I'd say gays and pagans first, but we burned all of them at the last company picnic.

I come home from work in my '57 deSoto modified into an SUV, just to rub in it the faces of those who think that there's some sort of energy crisis or global warming crap. It's expensive, but I make more than enough money stealing food from poor families, medicine from the elderly, and candy from babies in order to afford it.

Once I get home, I start cooking dinner- although occasionally I'll take a few minutes out to go kill the black neighbor's pets or set fire to his house- and beat my wife with the crucifix we have on the wall. Luckily, usually she's barefoot and pregnant when I get home, so she's pretty submissive about the whole thing. Then I'll have a few martinis, sexually abuse the kids, and write a letter of support for Rush Limbaugh. Then it's off to bed, force a little sex on the wife, and sleep easily, dreaming of tax shelters.

[impact]

and an interesting link

http://www.roevbush.com/

[Alec]

Gurm,
Why do you keep underestimating what the other people in these forums know about the world? Are you the only one that knows how the american political system works? Are the other people blind by any chance? What about some real argumentation?
(Now I know why Jorden has quit talking to you in this thread)

As for you, Rags,
Be careful with who you call narrow-minded and hypocryte. This ends up showing more of what you are that the ones you´re accusing… You don´t have a f*cking clue about who I am, what I do and what I could end up doing to you if I met you.

What a couple of nice people, Gurm and Rags.
I think I´ll stop here to prevent a intercontinental war. Hope you stop as well. Thread closed for me.

[Rags]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">If you are not enjoying this thread, there's nothing that's holding you here.
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I am enjoying this thread fine, I was talking to Gurm about some of you people's hypocrisy and having a snicker at your expense. Just like you do to us.

I don't think the US is the be-all end-all. I just don't like people lying about us, that's all. And I have been seeing flat out lies. If you want to have a serious discussion, then fine. Leave out the hip shots and let's have a discussion. You don't see me degrading your country of origin, do you? It's not because I don't have ammo, either.

But that's fine. Just keep on stating lies as matter of fact statements, it just makes you look even more silly .

Rags