Clarification/Follow-up by excon on 11/01/06 4:33 pm:

Hello again, labdude:

The Republicans are going down because they failed in everything they attempted to do. People aren’t going to forget that just because Kerry is a dufus.

excon

PS> In all your responses to me, you accuse me of doing so, because I hate Bush and love the Democrats. That’s of course, the knee jerk response you hear from your friends Limprod or Hannity. Pretty simplistic, and that's cool if all you want to do is throw around platitudes. You don’t have to delve deeper, or pay attention to whom you are having a conversation with.

You don’t really know that I'm not a Democrat - or you aren’t interested in REAL dialogue. I don't care which. But you bore me. I love to argue. I hate to call names. But with you, it's names.....

excon

Clarification/Follow-up by ETWolverine on 11/01/06 5:18 pm:
Y'know excon, you keep telling us how Bush failed. I'm still waiting for you to tell us HOW he failed.

Because when I look at the economy, I see it chugging along quite nicely, with a 4% inflation rate, a 4.6% unemployment rate, average salaries that are higher than before he took office, and national tax income that is the highest in history, despite being lower on a per-capita basis. The budget deficit has been nearly halved, three years ahead of shcedule. Oh... and the stock market hit a new high yesterday. So he hasn't failed on the economy. This despite all the cries of "national debt", "tax cuts for the rich" and "taxcut rollbacks" from the left.

In terms of national security, I see that we haven't been attacked on our own soil in 1877 days. I see that we've made arrests and busted up several "sleeper cells" of terrorists throughout the country. I see that the government has stopped several attacks from taking place. I also see that it is the left-wing that is trying to stop Bush from continuing to do those things... trying to stop his interrogation of terrorist POWs, trying to stop the NSA wiretapping program, trying to stop the SWIFT financial tracking program, and leaking top-secret information that makes it easier for the enemy to avoid being caught. So on national security, Bush has been 100% successful at stopping attacks against the USA, despite those who have been trying to hinder him... like you.

On foreign policy, I see two countries who's terrist-supporting regimes have been toppled, and 25 million people who now have the chance to create their own futures. I see a third country that has voluntarily stopped its attempts to obtain WMDs (Libya). I see 30,000 dead and/or captured terrorists, many of whom have provided information to find other terrorists. I see documentation from Saddam Hussein's own records that prove that he DID have WMDs, did hide them from the UN inspection teams, and that he DID have ongoing contact with OBL and al Qaeda prior to 9-11. I see that Bush's policies have been dead on target in every case... its the lack of support from the libs in Congress that have hindered the war in Iraq, by accusing soldiers of war crimes when no such ocured, by questioning their treatment of POWs and by forcing them to use kid gloves against an enemy that doesn't understand the use of kid gloves.

So in fact, Bush has been right on every major issue (with one lone exception of border security), whereas the libs have been wrong on every issue, and have hindered the President, who has successfully managed to muddle along without their support.

So, for all your talk of Bush "failing at everything they attempted to do", the facts don't seem to bear out your claim, and you have yet to show me anything that does bear it out.

Elliot

Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 11/01/06 5:42 pm:

Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 11/01/06 7:14 pm:
Oh my, that may be the funniest picture I've ever seen, LOL.

Ahem, let me regain my composure here...Kerry 'apologized' on Imus this morning. Tom, you'll appreciate this (especially since I borrowed it from you):

Kerry Then : "at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Ghengis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country."

Kerry now: "it’s just a disgraceful thing when people try to assert that somebody like me, who has spent 35 years of my life fighting for veterans, standing up for veterans, fighting for their combat pay, fighting for Agent Orange recognition, fighting for their armor, fighting for their up-armored Humvees, fighting for them to have a strategy that wins, fighting to honor them that the notion that this comment was directed at them is an insult by these guys, and they know it."

His apology?

IMUS: "Well, why not apologize for the misunderstanding?"

KERRY: "Well, I did. I said it was a botched joke. Of course, I’m sorry about a botched joke. You think I love botched jokes? I mean, it’s pretty stupid."

"This was directed at the people who didn’t do their homework, didn’t listen to history, didn’t listen to their own advice, and they owe the American people an apology."

"Now, I’m coming back to Washington today so that I’m not a distraction, because I don’t want to be a distraction to these campaigns. And the point is simply: They owe America an apology for this disaster in Iraq. And I hope they’re going to provide it."

"And these guys owe America an apology. That’s what ought to be the issue."

"These guys have failed America. The people who owe an apology are people like Donald Rumsfeld, who didn’t send enough troops, who didn’t listen to the generals, who has made every mistake in the book."

"But I’m telling you, I’m not going to let these guys lie and smear. And they’ve put their whole machine out to do it. And they ought to apologize to the American people."