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     Straw's world Citizen Username: Strawberry Post Number: 4163 Registered: 10-2001 |
An honor Bush43 clearly deserves. I must say I am just soooo happy this man was once again elected by the American people. MOL SAYS THANK YOU TIME MAGAZINE AND THANK YOU GWB! | ||
| susan1014 Supporter Username: Susan1014 Post Number: 277 Registered: 3-2002 |
Yawn...if you check the historical list, every president makes the list, roughly once per term. So do various dictators and despots...it is a vote of importance, not necessarily of honor. http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/archive/stories/ You can say thank you for yourself, but not for all of MOL. | ||
| Dr. Winston O'Boogie Citizen Username: Casey Post Number: 907 Registered: 8-2003  |
Consider me removed from the MOL "thank you list" as well. | ||
| Straw's world Citizen Username: Strawberry Post Number: 4164 Registered: 10-2001 |
nope, I speak for our entire on line community. I can say for certain that this site has led 100's into the Bush camp. Nothing better then a bunch of angry confused libs helping smart Americans make the right decision. (and let's face it folks, Bush fails to kick Kerry's ••• he's not winning Person of the year. Either Kerry or Saddam in all likelyhood wins. This since most Dems love both of them.) | ||
| Mustt_mustt Citizen Username: Mustt_mustt Post Number: 168 Registered: 8-2003 |
boring | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 3672 Registered: 12-2001  |
Sorry but I have to agree. he was the person of the year. He deserves it to. He doesnt deserve to be president but thats not something a magazine doles out. | ||
| Dr. Winston O'Boogie Citizen Username: Casey Post Number: 908 Registered: 8-2003 |
BFD. 85% of the voters in town voted for Kerry. Obviously the wingers' rants on MOL did nothing to change the mind of about 10,000 Kerry voters. | ||
| llama Citizen Username: Llama Post Number: 655 Registered: 5-2001  |
This is an excellent example of how out of touch with reality folks like Strawberry are. | ||
| Straw's world Supporter Username: Strawberry Post Number: 4167 Registered: 10-2001 |
"Time chose Bush “for sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his 10-gallon-hat leadership style and for persuading a majority of voters this time around that he deserved to be in the White House for another four years,” Jim Kelly wrote in the magazine. Bush was also Time’s choice to appear on the cover in 2000 after winning the presidential election despite losing the popular vote. His father, President George H. W. Bush, was named “Man of the Year” in 1990 for what Time called his mastery of foreign policy and his wavering domestic record. Last year the magazine picked “The American Soldier.” Some will be pleased, others will sigh “Obviously many supporters of the president will be pleased, many people who do not support the president will probably sigh,” Kelly said. “But even those who may not have voted for him will acknowledge that this is one of the more influential presidents of the last 50 years.” Kelly said he and his staff debated giving the award to others including Karl Rove, the president’s influential political adviser, and filmmakers Michael Moore and Mel Gibson." Straw concludes: Lucky for America, it was Bush and not Michael Moore who won the 2004 election. Afterall, Moore now runs the Democratic party. | ||
| Nohero Citizen Username: Nohero Post Number: 4212 Registered: 10-1999  |
FBI memos indicating that the "Man of the Year" signed off on torture techniques: http://www.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/fbi.html  Source. | ||
| Dr. Winston O'Boogie Citizen Username: Casey Post Number: 909 Registered: 8-2003 |
he's not the first Time "Man of the Year" who's done that. While not a prerequisite for the award, it certainly doesn't hurt your chances. | ||
| SoOrLady Citizen Username: Soorlady Post Number: 1608 Registered: 9-2003 |
"reshaping the rules of politics to fit his 10-gallon-hat leadership style" yep - I'd go along with that... not in the way you intend of course... | ||
| Bobkat Supporter Username: Bobk Post Number: 7060 Registered: 5-2001 |
The other major candidate this year was Karl Rove. I am not sure he wouldn't have been the better choice.  | ||
| Nohero Citizen Username: Nohero Post Number: 4213 Registered: 10-1999 |
And speaking of 10-gallon-hats, check out the outfit:  Cite: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/041218/ids_photos_ts/r2911462546.jpg | ||
| notehead Citizen Username: Notehead Post Number: 1823 Registered: 5-2001  |
I'm glad some of you realize that TIME is in no way endorsing or honoring Bush. They are recognizing the huge impact this individual has had -- for better or for worse. Apparently, the nuances of this are lost on certain posters (not that anyone is surprised by this). | ||
| Straw's world Supporter Username: Strawberry Post Number: 4168 Registered: 10-2001 |
Gotta love distraught libs who still haven't figured out that proud intelligent Americans no longer care what they have to say. Their anti-American propaganda no longer matters. They've been silenced. | ||
| Rastro Citizen Username: Rastro Post Number: 516 Registered: 5-2004  |
It's interesting that some equate disagreeing with, or disliking the President, with being un-American. It's actually more American to question authority than to simply acquiesce to it. You want good little automatons who follow unquestioningly. While I will agree the country is moving in that direction, I disagree that it's a good thing. We do it to ourselves. And what's ironic is that the same machine that many Conservatives love to hate (Hollywood) is what is creating this country of zombies. BTW, look back at who else has been person of the year. Bill Clinton and the Ayatollah (among others). Does that mean Time was thanking them when they were named person of the year? Good company for a "Compassionate Conservative." | ||
| Straw's world Supporter Username: Strawberry Post Number: 4169 Registered: 10-2001 |
Rastro, You confuse Anti-American attitudes with freedom of speech. Saying you disagree with the President's war policies is one thing, calling him a war criminal is something else. | ||
| Parkbench87 Citizen Username: Parkbench87 Post Number: 1638 Registered: 7-2001 |
Nohero, I love that picture of Bush. He looks alot like Truman Capote | ||
| Rastro Citizen Username: Rastro Post Number: 517 Registered: 5-2004 |
Well, two things... 1-Very few people (only a radical segment of the Democratic party that think Democrats have moved too far right, not mainstream Democrats) have called him a war criminal. 2-It is just as much an expression of Free Speech to call him a war criminal, and just as much anti-Bush rather than anti-American. I will not sit here and say that there are not people here who hate what America has become. But you seem to think that that is the mainstream of the Democratic party, which it is not. At least not from my vantage point. Perhaps if I drank some kool aid... The problems I have seen in our politics is that both side have moved further to the polar ends. There are few real centrists anymore. At least not any that won't get villified as being traitors to the country of hte party. |
