<p>I just glanced Time’s most influential 100 list. I did not see my dear George.</p>
<p>(It is entirely possible that I could have missed him)</p>
<p>100 most influential in the last century or last decade? Either way, how can he be among the most influential when he’s just a puppet of Cheney?</p>
<p>That’s because, since 9/11, we’ve only seen his “body double”. (I probably shouldn’t make fun of lame animals.)</p>
<p>Lol!!!..</p>
<p>“I probably shouldn’t make fun of lame animals.”</p>
<p>That was funny.</p>
<p>I thought this was a college discussion board?</p>
<p>You thought wrongly. This is the Parents Cafe, where we discuss everything except college.</p>
<p>oh, I thought you meant he was lost… lol i was almost happy…</p>
<p>Well, he sorta IS “lost”. Out of touch with what America has said it wants.</p>
<p>Depends what you mean by America. The America George Bush cares about is happy to stay in in Iraq as long as it takes to get the oil law enacted…a profit sharing law that will give US oil companies profits that dwarf their Saudi fixed-price contract revenues.</p>
<p>I can’t believe I have posted on a political thread! :D</p>
<p>Here I go getting sucked in…</p>
<p>The America I meant was the voting public in the last election which voted then as well as in subsequent polls about wanting to get our servicemen/women out of Iraq. But…what does he do right after that? Increase the troops!</p>
<p>“Geroge”?
(10 char)</p>
<p>If you look at the breakdown of the polls on Iraq, you can see the bind the Republicans are in. They are, literally, damned if they do, damned if they don’t. If they break from the President, they lose the base constituency that supports them financially. If they don’t break from the President, they lose in November.</p>
<p>So, it’s not that they are blind to the polls. But rather, they are forced to march to a different polling drummer. You’ve got two Republican Senators up for re-election in neighboring states (Sununu in NH and Susan Collins in Maine) who are caught between a rock and a hard place. They can’t break from the party (I’m sure that Rove and the RNC is not shy with threats). So they end up paying lip service to concern about the Iraq strategy, but voting in lockstep on the floor of the Senate. That Independent number will kill them in November 2008.</p>
<p>CBS News/New York Times Poll.
April 20-24, 2007. N=1,052 adults nationwide.
MoE ± 3 (for all adults). RV = registered voters</p>
<p>“Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling the situation with Iraq?”</p>
<p>
Approve Disapprove </p>
<p>24 71 ALL adults</p>
<p>58 34 Republicans
5 93 Democrats
19 74 Independents
</p>
<p>I can’t decide if Time is making a political statement by ignoring George or a marketing statement by including more celebrities instead of people who actually make a difference.</p>
<p>Time is a lot like People magazine these days. So is Reader’s Digest, if anybody cares. (I have to think back to my CHILDHOOD to remember when that one was a good read.)</p>
<p>It depends on your political inclination. Brit Hume on fax gossip was fumming too.</p>
<p>If you look objectively, W has brought nothing but pain and shame to this country. Lots of misery in foreign country. When I talk to my foreign collegues, they all despise him.</p>
<p>For those who didn’t quite make it into the top 100, I am considering them for my Kato Kaelin Wax Museum. The latest nominee is Vergie Arthur. There are occasional one-term Congresspeople who get nominated, but unless they believe in the landings at Roswell, it is hard to get traction.</p>
<p>don’t look hard to find him, you might and that can’t be good for anyone.</p>
<p>It just dawned on me, is the title of the thread like a fill in the blank sorta thing:</p>
<p>George W Bush - missing …</p>
<ol>
<li>a brain</li>
<li>a heart</li>
<li>a soul</li>
<li>any sense whatsover</li>
<li>any exit strategy in Iraq</li>
<li>any plan whatsoever for Iraq</li>
<li>any plan for rebuilding the gulf states</li>
<li>any plan for anything</li>
<li>see 1 through 8</li>
</ol>
<p>I hadn’t thought like that, but one can be creative.</p>
<p>Bullwinkle, long time no see… Thanks for the sad giggle, if you follow me… Alas, Bush is not missing a constituency who apparently plans to follow him to the River Styx.</p>