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- CrazedLeper, on 07/25/2008, -10/+124So he regards himself as "no regime"?
- Ponzo, on 07/25/2008, -8/+74There is no contradiction here. Bush always listens to the will of his people. It's just that "his people" are not the citizens of the United States.
- notque, on 07/25/2008, -6/+62"Popular opinion in the United States has been very well studied, mainly because the business classes, who run the country, want to have their finger on the public pulse - for the purpose of control and propaganda. You can only hope to control people's attitudes and opinions if you know a lot about them, so we know a lot about public opinion. In the last election, 2004, most Bush voters were mistaken about his views on major issues - not because they're stupid or uninterested, but because the elections are a marketing system. This is a business-run society: you market commodities, you market candidates. The public are the victims and they know it, and that's why 80% think, more or less accurately, that the country is run by a few big interests looking after themselves. So people are not deluded, they just don't really see any choices." - Noam Chomsky on the topic of the people's will.
http://zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18257 - pnunn, on 07/25/2008, -14/+41Our glorious leader: "This is George W. 'The Kettle' Bush. Can you put me through to 'The Pot.'"
Zimbabwe telephone operator: "We're sorry, but the Pot's line is down until later today- he's having renovations and someone cut the line."
Our glorious leader: "That's no problem darlin'- but could ya do me a tiny favor? Will you leave that sumbitch a message sayin' how black he is?"
Zimbabwe telephone operator: "No problem, President Kettle- er Bush."
Our glorious leader: "Thanks, sugartits."
Zimbabwe telephone operator: "I'm a man sir."
Our glorious leader: "What'd ya say there honeybritches?- oh- no time- I gotta go- got my hand stuck in the desk again... (click)" - Insightful, on 07/25/2008, -6/+29Cheney: So?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Pgw-zAuDU - notque, on 07/25/2008, -1/+17You're making a guess based on what you'd like to see happen. It's a blank slate, because you're unaware of what his real goals are. You could guess at a lot of things, and likely be wrong unless you study his policy.
He enunciates the issue. His job is to increase the percentage of the money flowing to the correct people, and to lower it to the incorrect people. - MortalynFlux, on 07/26/2008, -8/+24This is right up there with Bush telling Cuba that they need to respect human rights when we're torturing political prisoners on their own soil.
Or telling the Russian president that he has derailed democratic reforms when Bush himself has been signing executive orders that trample on the powers of the other two branches of government, along with using illegal means to restructure the Justice department and putting political opponents in danger by revealing their spouse's secret identity.... not to mention his underlinks putting powerful political opponents under scrutiny and having them arrested for common political practices that they have been guitly of one thousand fold. - TobiasParker, on 07/26/2008, -3/+19Great disasters maybe.
- napk, on 07/26/2008, -4/+20That's pretty rich Mr. President.
- razorsharpwit, on 07/25/2008, -4/+15When People compare GeorgeW to Honest Abe it's no joke, in fact it's eerily approriate.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/w-williams1.html - atomicbang13, on 07/25/2008, -6/+16Moron.
- zdiggler, on 07/26/2008, -1/+10NO,
Batman said that. - SchmuckofNI, on 07/26/2008, -9/+18Three words: hypocrite and impeachment.
- inactive, on 07/26/2008, -6/+14He's the Decider. He does the deciding so the American sheeple don't have to.
- inactive, on 07/26/2008, -4/+10O RLY?
- inactive, on 07/26/2008, -5/+11Hmmm... "will of the people" vs "public opinion". Do I seriously have to spell out the difference? Governing by public opinion is what I'd expect someone at the class president level to do. Public opinion is as fickle as the wind and is founded on far less susbstance much of the time.
I hate to break it to some of you all, but unless public opinion gets the force and backing needed to become law of the land, then it's not worth the salary the pollsters are being paid. "Empty suits" are led by the mere opinion of SOME of the people they are supposed to be leading. The phrase "public opinion" is a misleading vaguery used by those on the losing side of ideological competition, as if to imply that there can be no mutually opposing opinions in said public.
Of course, the premise of MakiMaki's response to the headline isn't even valid since it compares apples to walnuts.
Don't worry folks, I'm sure the universal healthcare that public opinion desires will yield you some medication for the Bush-Derangement-Syndrome you are suffering. **rolls eyes** - appleseed1234, on 07/26/2008, -1/+7Or 11, for those of us who can actually count to twenty.
- Sicarius, on 07/26/2008, -2/+8I'm pretty sure he is talking about small stuff like rigging elections, murdering opposition voters, and deliberately starving citizens to death. If you don't like Bush then vote Obama in November and there will be a change in government. That is the will of the people. If Zimbabweans don't like Mugabe? Well they already voted, twice, and they're still completely *****. Trying to equate the two situations is not just empty rhetoric and cheap politics. It trivializes human suffering in Zimbabwe.
- inactive, on 07/26/2008, -7/+13MakiMaki didn't force George Bush to say something embarrassingly stupid again this week, he merely pointed it out.
From my American perspective, you are the one being a douchebag. - sonic911, on 07/26/2008, -3/+9This has to be sarcasm. It just has to be. Please tell me you forgot to put the "/sarcasm" for the sake of my opinion on your rationality, which of course, probably makes no difference to you, as an opinion to an irrational person would be all for not, considering such a person would have no preconceived notion of the concept of irrationality, or rationality, for that matter.
But here I go anyway. You sir, if you were not sarcastic in your statement, are highly irrational. - dcbebop, on 07/26/2008, -1/+6To everyone before me who obviously missed the sarcasm in Ponso's comment. "His people" = societies' elitist 1% of the population.
- zyklon, on 07/26/2008, -2/+7I dugg you down so I could digg you up twice.
- twiztidsinz, on 07/26/2008, -3/+8Check his other comments...
He's not being sarcastic.. he's not joking. He's a troll. - Hangly, on 07/26/2008, -0/+5Error: internet full. Please install more tubes.
- JHB800, on 07/26/2008, -0/+4Mattay, that is perhaps the most articulate and thoughtful response I've ever seen on Digg. More than that though, its spot on.
- beth1970, on 07/26/2008, -1/+5how is McCain's wife scary?? I think the America hating (Obama's) wife is scariest.
- trolleyfan, on 07/26/2008, -3/+7"Did not lead by opinion polls, something unheard of by Democrats" But heard of by 3rd World dictators the world over...
- PhilLesh69, on 07/26/2008, -0/+4And the correct people are a small, wealthy, politically empowered group. The top 1% of the wealthy, basically.
- mayra1201, on 07/26/2008, -7/+11Wow, talk about hypocrisy
- hmunkey, on 07/26/2008, -3/+6The whole point of a democracy is for the leaders to follow the will of the people. A government by the people, for the people.
- matttay, on 07/26/2008, -6/+9The will of the people spoke when they elected Bush. And then it spoke again when they re-elected Bush.
We do not go into wars or drop out of wars based on polls. The founding fathers realized the general population was way too susceptable to be permitted that power. The population got tired of the revolution, and the population got tired of WWII and every other war we've been in. Think about this war--first everyone would have voted to nuke the middle east. That would have passed easily on 9/12. Then we would have started a humanitarian mission, because everyone felt bad. Then our caregivers would have been shot at, because we've been hated by the middle east since Thomas Jefferson's time, and then we would have sent the military, and then we'd have yanked them back once it got hard. Rediculous? No--it mirrors public opinion. And that's why public opinion doesn't decide policy. We elect officials to an office, and they make the decisions.
If you think Obama is cleaning up in this race, think about this. He's outcovered by the media about 11 to 1. Teh media gives $ to the dem party 100 to 1. McCain has near zero charisma, Obama oozes charisma. McCain's wife is scary, Obama's wife is probably pretty cool to hang out with. Obama just completed a world tour to fainting crowds and gushing media.
And after all this, they are still pretty much neck and neck.
How can that be? If you understand that, then you understand the majority in the country. They aren't racist by any stretch, as they voted for Obama in numbers (albeit over a woman) that you just haven't seen before. They just aren't comfortable wiht his lack of experience, his refusal to talk to the press, the quality of the company he keeps (and the number of people has has to "regret" knowing).
This race should easily be in the bag. It's not. Something's up. - JHB800, on 07/26/2008, -9/+12The United States is not governed by Public opinion and never will be. To do so would be against what the very founding of this nation is about.
Just because you don't agree with Bush and don't like his policies doesn't mean that you should sell what the founders intended for us to have down the river. - walshgopher, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3I bet you bush was thinking the exact same thing
- Eezyville, on 07/26/2008, -4/+7Irony?
- jayfish, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3Now, I'm no Bush supporter but it's just a little different. The will of the American people (as far as the President goes) is expressed every four years. We can rage against the machine and try to effect policy but at the end of the day; we elected him we got him.
- paulmer2003, on 07/26/2008, -2/+5OMG, LOL, OH, THE IRONY! AMIRITE!
And seriously, if you think Bush is a tryrant, look to North Korea, Zimbabwe and China. Those are real regimes. Bush was twice elected, by the people.
And no, I'm no Bush fan or republican. Just want you people to get real. - PhilLesh69, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3He does the deciding so the 28% who support him can go on watching Nascar, consuming, and cheering for how great America is because we can blow up terrorists anywhere in the world.
GO AMERICA!
America, ***** Yeah! - 919kwjc, on 07/26/2008, -8/+11You anti-American's had your 8 years of poll driven policy with Clinton. For me, I'll take a man of conviction and courage instead of one who is driven by which way the wind blows.
- liuite, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3Mr. SilveradoSandL failed to safeguard our nation against bank failures...the failure for him to learn from his own mistake is inexcusable. Else it could be that none of this was a "mistake" but simply a plan to rob the country blind.
- denizen42, on 07/26/2008, -4/+7Only those whose irony allows the truth to shine.
- tehknotte, on 07/26/2008, -3/+6Is every sentence of every one of Bush's public statements going to come on digg now?
- JHB800, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3The US system was never meant to be a direct democracy. Changing the electoral college in that manner moves our system uncomfortably and perilously close to being one.
- moontime, on 07/26/2008, -5/+8What I find amusing is you think you represent the rest of the country and that you are not a fringe lunatic.
- inactive, on 07/26/2008, -2/+5If I remember right ....it was cheney who said he doesn't care about polls...
- inactive, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3In the spirit of Mr. Bush's statement...
Please check out, and join, DownsizeDC.org. It's purpose is to give us ordinary citizens a collective voice so that our "representatives" at least acknowledge what it is we want before they sell their influence to the lobbyists offering the biggest bribe.
Here are two great campaigns they're currently presenting (though there are many other excellent ones)...
The "One Subject at a Time Act";
http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/83
...&, of course, the ever popular "Read the Bills Act" (cause the don't currently, folks);
http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/27
This is a brilliant idea, and it's worth supporting. Please check it out @ http://www.downsizedc.org - duggdowncatisad, on 07/26/2008, -1/+4Quit comparing America and Zimbabwe. In America, if you want to become a billionaire, you work hard to build a company, sell a useful product, establish a monopoly, abuse it like crazy, and pay off politicians to keep the government off your back. It's the American way. In Zimbabwe, if you want to become a billionaire, you look under your couch cushions.
- inactive, on 07/26/2008, -2/+5You retards make me worried/sad/angry/disgusted/frustrated/jaded...
- PhilLesh69, on 07/26/2008, -0/+2It is still for the people.
It is for the people who own defense contractors. It is for the people who own private security contracting companies. It is for the people who own the private banking system, and the families of the large corporations (sure, apologists will say it's for the shareholders, which are all of us, but good luck being taken seriously if you don't own 51% of a corporation, all you are getting is the crumbs.)
If you're not of the Huntsman family, or the Rockefeller, or Ford, or an heir to the GM or GE fortunes, or one of the heirs to the other dozen large corporations, you are expendable, and they only wish to keep you complacent enough to not demand your own God given right as an American Citizen to what you truly deserve.
Welcome to Corporatism. - inactive, on 07/26/2008, -2/+4Bush does precisely as ordered. The US isn't a democracy, the ordinary US vote doesn't count. Only those who pay a million or more income tax have a say in US politics, the rest is white trash, mexicans or *****. I.e. people who go to prison if they complain too loudly.
- regtroye, on 07/26/2008, -1/+3Have any 'haters' stopped to think that they have become haters? Have they stopped to think that everything they know about our President has been spoon fed to them by the media and their partners the Democrats? Do you think at all or do you just 'FEEL?"
No president has been perfect. But for so many to have imputed malicious motives to this man it just goes to show you how powerful the mass influence techniques are that are being used on the masses each day. -
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