Bush decided to combine his vacation time with his trip to New Orleans....

I see the typical sloganeering of the mentally challenged, where President Bush is a racist, blah blah blah. Never mind that so many "people of color" (pardon me while I retch at more sloganeering) have been in New Orleans for generations, that "people of color" chose to remain in the Strike Zone for generations, and as far as looking to protectors, even their very own Mayor, a "people of color" (sic) told the police to go to Vegas on the taxpayers' (re: "people of color") dime during the crisis! "Hey, New Orleans is a party town. Get over it".

What wasn't being chanted was who the true Enemy really was, and still is: Mother Gaia

Glad I could set the record straight.... :rolleyes:

You folks got it all wrong. President Bush wasn't down there on a fishin vacation, he and dear old dad were trying to feed the hungry. You gotta feel for him(and dear old dad)it ain't easy fishin the streets of the Big easy all day long for stripers. :)

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I really get tired of this left, right, rep., dem. As long as we run the party line like all dems are angels and all reps are evil or vise versa. All the arguing and manipulating by the media. Just tell me the news!!! dont give me spin or the news station or news papers take on a story. Thay kinda add there own lil agendas over tones on a story...Its bad for America. We voted he won! like it or not. Rep. or Dem. I wish thay would do away with the party stuff and we just vote on whos ideas we like the best. Thanks Pie.

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I really get tired of this left, right, rep., dem.

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Totally Agreed!

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All the arguing and manipulating by the media.

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Media does the most damage.

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Just tell me the news!!! dont give me spin or the news station or news papers take on a story. Thay kinda add there own lil agendas over tones on a story...Its bad for America.

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Well Said!!!

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We voted he won! like it or not. Rep. or Dem. I wish thay would do away with the party stuff and we just vote on whos ideas we like the best.

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In my opinion, you got the best reply in this thread.

I am not a Republican or a Democrat either. As long as the elected person do the job right. Sometime, they will do good, sometime they will do bad. When you pick one side of anything (Race, Religion, Politics, etc...), you will no longer be objective and it becomes a form of brainwash. Not trying to OFFEND anyone! :cool:

I support Clinton as much as I support Bush and vice versa as long as they do their job.

Separation and Difference are major cause of hatred and weakens the base structure of the root. I totally agreed with you Piesgood. They should do away with the political parties. It cause more damage to our country than good. It is just in the nature of human to cause separation so they can feel special.

Bush made many good decisions but, I think he is an idiot the way he handled the interview with Diane Sawyer after Katrina. He was laughing/smirking in the interview when thousands of people were suffering/dying.

The last two posts struck a chord. It really disturbs me that one cannot be "in the middle" to any degree at all these days. You are either 100% for something or 100% against it and you cannot permit anyone to hold their own opinion, you have to call them names and hate them if they disagree with you. What happened to cililized discussion of issues and actually listening to the other person's point?

On just about every issue I can see two sides. I will be on one side, and may even be strongly "in the camp" of that side, but I can still see that the other side has valid arguements which I can respect. Disagree with, perhaps, but respect.

I can remember when my father and I used to talk politics and sometimes differed. We would argue points and actually be smiling the whole time, and sometimes one of us would persuade the other to his point of view. Because we respected each other and we listened to each other.

It used to be we could say to each other "I'm in this camp for these reasons. I hear the reasons you give me for why you are in your camp, I respect those reasons and I agree with some of them, but my reasons keep me in my camp."

Now when you are in a gathering you had best avoid politics as a topic, or fists will be flying. How did this happen? Why?

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Now when you are in a gathering you had best aviod politics as a topic, or fists will be flying. How did this happen? Why?

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Morning Bill, I hate to break it to you but this kinda thing has been going on since I was a child, there is nothing new about it. BJ

I have to disagree. It didn't start with Bush, certainly, but it is relatively new.

Part of it is lobbyists; the "single issue" problem. A lobby runs a huge campaign on a politician on one issue, say gun control, and he stands or falls based on the one issue. Now he may have a lot to offer his constituency on roads, hospitals, schools... But because he voted for a gun control bill the lobby gets him voted out of office.

I have read a number of editorials and aricles about how divisive politics has become and that the split exists not so much in the halls of politics as at the "grass roots" level.

The culprit to a large degree, imho, is all the negative campaigning. Casting the other guy as the "bad guy." Katrina wasn't even down to a breeze yet before politicians were calling each other "bad guys."

This thread was never meant to turn into an in depth political discussion, it was only meant to be some light hearted humor. BJ

Feel free to delete my posts. Didn't mean to be out of line.

Not a problem Bill, just dont want this to be derailed into something that will get people upset as that was not my intention when I originally posted it. BJ

Big John im sorry as well, I prolly had the most to do we it turning this way.
Pie.

I was debating whether to post an honest opinion and view just like anyone else. Big John, you are free to delete my post if you like.

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Not a problem Bill, just dont want this to be derailed into something that will get people upset as that was not my intention when I originally posted it. BJ

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Well, I'm also the kind of man who tires of all the insanity. But a man of conscience can't just sit there while the typical kneejerks throw "racist" around at such a time like this. As distasteful as it may be, you have to balance out all the illogic and propaganda.

I instantly knew the picture was just a joke, so there's no need to regret it in the least. A pity that others either didn't, or wanted to believe it was real, however.

Off my soapbox.... :D