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themp
Supporter
Username: Themp
Post Number: 2871
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, May 8, 2006 - 10:48 am: | 
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/07/AR2006050700898_ pf.html |
Hoops
Citizen
Username: Hoops
Post Number: 1301
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 8, 2006 - 11:03 am: |
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LOL. - but very sad.
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ina
Citizen
Username: Ina
Post Number: 353
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, May 8, 2006 - 12:14 pm: |
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Honestly, it's like an SNL skit:
[from the article]
Let's say you're talking about U.S. agricultural productivity. Try this: "I'd like to take a moment to talk about a nation that is just now beginning to rebuild its own agricultural production.
"Iraq is part to the 'fertile crescent' of Mesopotamia," the sample script says. "It is there, in around 8,500 to 8,000 B.C., that mankind first domesticated wheat, there that agriculture was born. In recent years, however, the birthplace of farming has been in trouble."
We had been hoping Iraqis would revel being returned to the methods used thousands of years ago by their revered ancestors, unfettered by innovations such as electricity, clean water and safe roads. We honestly thought they'd be grateful for our bombing campaign 3 years ago......
Methinks Harry's gonna get a lot of emails - not necessarily from fellow bureaucrats. Serves him right. |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 4872
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, May 8, 2006 - 1:47 pm: |
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Do they have to call him "The President" or can they use "Dear Leader" instead? |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 3035
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 8, 2006 - 1:49 pm: |
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"All your base are belong to us" |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 4875
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 8:45 am: |
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lower .... lower .... ..... lower .....
Quote:Here's something that keeps popping into my head and popped with an extra burst with the news this morning that the latest Gallup poll -- generally friendly to Bush -- has him at an anemic 31% approval rating.
Given that pretty much all the polls now show the president mired in the mid- to low 30s, simple statistical probability would suggest that at one point in the not too distant future some poll will catch the president under 30% in the Dante-esque public opinion nether region of the 20s.
Mind you, I'm not saying that the president's popularity will continue to fall into the 20s. The continuing descent is something like a mathematical limit. Each point lower digs deeper into the base of truly committed partisans and unquestioning hacks. So knocking off each new point on the way down requires ever greater displays of incompetence, failure and general infamy. And even for President Bush that's a challenge.
--tpm |
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