Compassionate Conservatism is an OxyMoron

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Neither word deserves to be married to the other. I guess this administration has a "passion" for handing out tax breaks to corporate "pirates". They must be literally "incensed" for destroying our environment for oil to fight their "war". They must be down right "emotional" when it comes to dropping ordinance on people to "kill" them friend or foe. Compassion has to do with showing mercy Mr. Bush, not with how many money clips can be kissed in a day. Putting people out of work with a 6% unemployment rate is hardly compassion. I guess the church soup kitchen can dish out compassion for folks who had something under Bill Clinton's "watch", but have nothing but "debt" with you. Like "1000 Points of Light" this is just another canned and coined concept that gets this country absolutely nowhere. Bush Administrations have to reduce everything down to easy slogans in order to adequately "brainwash" people into to thinking something is actually being done. Bill Clinton & Al Gore didn't have to resort to cheap media based snake oil sales techniques in order to get their programs moving with the people because their proposals actually had "substance" and everyone knew it. COME TO TRUE COMPASSION WITH AL GORE! HE CARES MORE ABOUT PEOPLE THAN DOLLARS & CENTS! VOTE FOR GORE IN 2004 & IT WILL BE DIGNITY FOR ALL!



-- Mr. T (workingstiff6198@yahoo.com), May 04, 2002

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What about CRUSADER Mr. White?

When one of the actually SENSIBLE cabinet member, Mr. Rumsfeld can't even get people IN HIS OWN DEPARTMENT TO LISTEN TO HIM then you KNOW things just aren't KOSHER AT THE RANCH.
Mr. White, did you think Mr. Rumsfeld was JUST KIDDING when he said to kill off the CRUSADER HOWITZER? Or was it JUST ANOTHER PET PROJECT THAT DUBYA WANTED MONEY BLOWN ON? THAT IS LIKE SAYING THE MISSLE DEFENSE SHIELD WILL ACTUALLY PROTECT US FROM FALLOUT FROM AN ATOMIC BOMB THAT EXPLODES IN THE ATMOSPHERE!
WHEN DONALD RUMSFELD & COLIN POWELL THE SMARTEST MEN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION PICKED FOR POPULARITY REASONS OF COURSE THEN YOU KNOW THE CORE OF THIS APPLE IS TRULY ROTTEN!
Who was to gain on THIS? THE CARLYLE GROUP?

-- COWBOY CRUSADER (floridacowrustler@hotmail.com), May 04, 2002.

Odd Men Out

Like I said Rumsfeld & Powell came later, and that's why they aren't tainted by the core Bush Administration ENRON money gorged inner circle. The people who make fools out of these intelligent men spend their time hiding in "bunkers" and running the "shadow" government.
By the way Mr. Bush, what makes you think the population of this nation would actually follow orders from 70 people that you handpicked after the enemy blew up or otherwise destroyed the nation's capital? I would say that would be 70 people with targets on their backs if something that absolutely horrible was to happen.
You presume way to much sir. If such a tradgedy was to take place then I am sure all 50 individual states would want to choose who is running this country along with the people left who would probably not have a high regard for you or anyone you picked.
You can do something productive if that is possible by doing something about the 6% unemployment rate. Listening to Rumsfeld & Powell is a much better idea than sitting around plotting with Dick Cheney.



-- Mr. T. (workingstiff6198@yahoo.com), May 04, 2002.


Thank You Senator Hollings!

In paying Mr. Rumsfeld a compliment that he really didn't want to accept even though he "deserves" it, Senator Fritz Hollings of South Carolina made a point we have known since this administration took office. NONE of them save for Mr. Rumsfeld and Mr. Powell have any idea or even the slightest "clue" as to what they are doing. Where was Tom Ridge? Is the Office of Homeland Security an actual working "entity" or just another "political plum" that GW Bush came up with just to give his friend "Tommy" Ridge a big salary along with a small office in the White House? Mr. Rumsfeld should not have to make excuses to the Congressional Appropriations Committee for a Bush functionary who doesn't HAVE to show up for the American people & be accountable because he isn't "really" a cabinet officer but just an "advisor". This is as big a load of pure "cow manure" as the Office of the Drug Czar, a "black hole" we keep throwing money into to disappear. I guess FEMA just didn't have enough "political plum" positions so GW Bush just had to make more to make us "feel good" while he picks the pockets of our parents & children to help his "rich" ENRON friends. When they make a "new" office then it is time to put on those "hip waders" and start shoveling before the pile smothers us. WHEN AL GORE WAS WORKING FOR US WE HAD PLENTY OF "SURPLUS" MONEY....ENOUGH TO REBUILD NEW YORK CITY....WAGE A WAR ON TERROR.....AND BUILD A "TRUE" HOMELAND SECURITY FORCE!.....TO BAD BUSH GAVE IT ALL TO HIS RICH "ENRON" FRIENDS....IT IS TIME TO GIVE OUR GOVERNMENT BACK TO THE PEOPLE AND GET RID OF THE BIG CORPORATION FAT CATS.....IT IS TIME TO BRING BACK AL GORE!....GO WITH GORE IN 2004!



-- Mr. T (workingstiff6198@yahoo.com), May 11, 2002.


A "Simple" man.......

Is what I constantly hear about G. W. Bush....it is like they are trying to tell me that I should accept the job he is doing because he is a "simple" man, but "compassionate"...my cousin's best friend had hydroencephalitis and is profoundly "retarded"...he is the happiest, most compassionate and most loving person I know, and he can pick a "banjo" better than anyone I ever heard, but I still wouldn't make him President of the United States...

-- Mr. Frost Proof (floridasnowman7811@yahoo.com), May 11, 2002.

THEN YOU PROBABLY AREN'T REPUBLICAN!

You simply have to understand they had to find a "puppet" that Cheney would not have TROUBLE PULLING THE STRINGS ON. That is the REPUBLICAN WAY! Get yourself in then HIRE A PACK OF SUBSTANDARD IDIOTS TO SCREW UP UNDERNEATH YOU THAT YOU CAN PUT THE BLAME ON SO YOU DON'T LOSE "YOUR" JOB TO AN UNDERLING WHO IS SMARTER THAN YOU! BETWEEN SUBSTANDARD CLUELESS WORKERS & SYCOPHANT MANAGERS WHO SIT AROUND ALL DAY PLAYING SOLITAIRE INSTEAD OF DOING THEIR JOBS IT IS A NATURAL WONDER THAT THIS NATION EVEN RUNS AT ALL! God knows between that and poorly running automation that no one can seem to fix LOCAL MEDIA HAS BASICALLY GONE TO THE DOGS! Where I worked before I was let go along with 18 other employees the QUALITY has dropped so ALARMINGLY that the audience is literally going TO OTHER SOURCES FOR INFORMATION, BUT AS LONG AS THE ADVERTISERS KEEP PAYING THEN NOTHING WILL BE DONE! THE CONSUMER IS NO LONGER KING! AS A MATTER OF FACT UNLESS YOU MAKE A SIX FIGURE SALARY OR HAVE A MILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS THEN THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU AT ALL!

-- COWBOY! (floridacowrustler@hotmail.com), May 11, 2002.


HEY 8000 OUT OF WORK IBM EMPLOYEES!!

GO OUT AND VOTE FOR BUSH AGAIN! NOW YOU CAN COMPETE WITH ME & HIGH SCHOOL KIDS FOR A JOB FLIPPING BURGERS! AFTER ALL ACCORDING TO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION THAT IS ALL YOU ARE "GOOD" FOR ANYWAY DESPITE YOUR EXPERIENCE & WHAT YOU SPENT ON A COLLEGE EDUCATION!


AL GORE WANTS TO GIVE YOU BACK YOUR DIGNITY! JOIN THE AL GORE ARMY! HE WILL BRING BACK THE TECHNOLOGY JOBS BY "PROMOTING" BUSINESSES THAT DO WELL INSTEAD OF SHILLING CORPORATE HANDOUTS!!! AL GORE SAYS LET THE KIDS HAVE THEIR JOBS BACK TOO! WHY SHOULD EXPERIENCED, EDUCATED, TECHNICIANS BE WORKING JOBS THAT ARE REALLY FOR OUR "YOUNG" FOLKS?...AL GORE WILL RESTORE ALL OF OUR JOBS!...GO WITH GORE IN 2004!



-- Florida Cowboy (floridacowrustler@hotmail.com), May 11, 2002.


And they blame the kids.......

for loitering on street corners, getting involved in "drugs", and just being "lazy"....of the two people who served me in a local restaurant yesterday the waitress was a "laid-off" factory worker making about half what she used to make, and the buss boy was a communications worker who got "axed" in 2001 after 3 years of loyal service to his company...these were the only "jobs" that they could secure to make a living...to college students I say this...stay in school until we take Bush out of office unless you want to make $5.15 an hour doing an unskilled job that you didn't need training for anyway to start paying that "big" student loan off...to those thinking of going in debt to go to college I say forget it until we get rid of Bush...for the jobs "this" administration "laughingly" provides the last thing you need is a Ph.D......

-- Jack Frost (floridasnowman7811@yahoo.com), May 11, 2002.

What's the Real Joke? This Board or GW Bush?

Hey! come on ditto-heads! Why aren't you defending your "boy"? Seems like when he does a perfectly "bad" job that you all go and hide under your "rocks". When even Limbaugh starts criticizing the way Bush does things then you know there is a problem in this nation. I have been listening to Rush lately, and it seems that he has just as many complaints as we do on our side. Well you put him in, now live with him. In my estimation, if you voted for Bush, then you have "no right to complain". That's why you all have "shut up" & "gone away" like you wanted us to do. Guess what? We are all still here & we are all still telling the "truth"! IF YOU VOTED FOR JOHN MCAIN THEN YOU HAVE A "RIGHT" TO COMPLAIN! WE ARE "HEAR" TO LISTEN TO YOU!(it's a pun not a typo).....IF YOU VOTED FOR NADER THEN YOU VOTED FOR BUSH SO "LIVE" WITH IT! BUT WE WILL LISTEN TO YOU UNLIKE BUSH!....WE MEMBERS OF THE AL GORE ARMY SAY THE TIME FOR "ACTION" HAS COME!...JOIN US! WE WILL LISTEN TO YOU! YOUR VOICE IS "IMPORTANT" TO US! WELCOME! WELCOME!......GO WITH GORE IN 2004!"


P.S. Sorry for putting an 'e' at the end of your name all this time Senator McCain....You and all of your friends are indeed welcome here! I think we should end all the "partisan" politics and run Bob McCain as Vice President with Mr. Gore.

-- Mr. T (workingstiff6198@yahoo.com), May 11, 2002.


THAT'S JOHN MCAIN DUM! DUM!

How in God's name can you apologize then SCREW UP AGAIN? The problem is you KEEP THINKING ABOUT BOB DOLE! It's JOHN MCCAIN WITH NO 'E' NOT BOB MCCAINE! FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!

-- FLORIDA CORRECT-BOY! (floridacowrustler@hotmail.com), May 11, 2002.

Sorry Again, OKAY?!

I can't help it. I want Bob Dole back again. I want Bill Clinton back. I want John McCain calling the shots in Congress & Al Gore in the White House. I want this administration of "pinheads" out. we put up with enough of this "garbage" 10 years ago. I want responsible people back in the White House. The Bush family stands for "corporate" excess, and "war" mongering. I will not rest until our federal government is restored to what it was before GW Bush!

I LIKE BOB DOLE!....I LIKE BILL CLINTON!....I LIKE JOHN MCAIN!....I HATE BUSH & ANYONE WHO WOULD LET THIS NATION GO TO HELL IN A HAND BASKET WHILE THEY FEATHER THEIR BEDS & PROMOTE THEIR OWN SELFISH "ENRON" AGENDA!.....JOIN THE AL GORE ARMY!.....AL WILL GET ALL OF OUR OLD "FRIENDS" BACK! BOB, JOHN, & BILL GET READY TO BE ENLISTED AGAIN!....IT WILL TAKE ALL OF US TO REPAIR THE NATION & THE WORLD AFTER BUSH GETS FINISHED WITH IT!....GO WITH GORE IN 2004!





-- Mr. T (workingstiff6198@yahoo.com), May 11, 2002.




Hey I can fix the color problems...you guys should quit changing the color if you can't set it back...But I am not here to complain of course.....seems to me that too many of "our" folks are still too afraid to say anything about GW Bush & his "Rogue's Gallery" he calls a cabinet....I think we should call a "truce" with the ditto-heads....after all they have just as many complaints about Bush as we do....it doesn't matter who we put in...conservative Republican or liberal Democrat... as long as it isn't a Bush...Gore is MY choice, & I would accept anyone but a Bush.....even Ross Perot......

-- Jack Frost (floridasnowman7811@yahoo.com), May 11, 2002.

Sick & Tired of It?

Tired of an administration that panders to the "lowest common denominator" in public opinion? Come see us. Mr. Gore will treat you like you have a brain in your head because you do. Tired of waging a "war" where none of the ringleaders get caught? Join the Al Gore Army. We are on your side. Tired of a pack of "hypocritical" pundits that play up to rock stars that have "good" TV ratings when years ago these same people were calling that same rock star "satanic", and wanted his music taken off of the shelves completely? Join us. We won't take you for a "fool" here. Tired of watching the unemployment rate go up while the money in your pocket goes down? Join us. We believe in "peace" & "prosperity" for all, not just a few corporate raiders that rob their employees while making big political contributions to an administration that takes anything they want by hook or by crook. Unlike the FAA we will not wait until "your greatest nightmare has been realized" before we stop terrorists from killing thousands of people. You see, WE LISTEN THEN WE ACT! AL GORE WANTS YOU!.....JOIN THE AL GORE ARMY!....WE WILL GET YOU BACK YOUR DIGNITY!....WE WILL GET YOU BACK TO WORK AT A "GOOD" JOB!....WE WILL FIGHT TERRORISM THE RIGHT WAY!......GO WITH GORE IN 2004! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!



-- Mr. T (workingstiff6198@yahoo.com), May 11, 2002.


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