Many Americans Are Simply Dumber Than Bush

[Miss Green]

Americans are so dumb that LordBushler played a joke by looking for WMDs in his office..Wasnt the issue of WMDs one of the reasons we are in Iraq and this dumbfuck jokes about not finding them and all the right-wing nutz clapped and laugh..What a joke....

Too all you dumbfucks who thinks bushit is a godsend-- Go Fuck yourself:thumbsup:

Polls Show
Many Americans Are
Simply Dumber Than Bush

By Paul Craig Roberts
2-6-6

Two recent polls, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll and a New York Times/CBS News poll, indicate why Bush is getting away with impeachable offenses. Half of the US population is incapable of acquiring, processing and understanding information.

Much of the problem is the media itself, which serves as a disinformation agency for the Bush administration. Fox "News" and right-wing talk radio are the worst, but with propagandistic outlets setting the standard for truth and patriotism, all of the media is affected to some degree.

Despite the media's failure, about half the population has managed to discern that the US invasion of Iraq has not made them safer and that the Bush administration's assault on civil liberties is not a necessary component of the war on terror. The problem, thus, lies with the absence of due diligence on the part of the other half of the population.

Consider the New York Times/CBS poll. Sixty-four percent of the respondents have concerns about losing civil liberties as a result of anti-terrorism measures put in place by President Bush. Yet, 53 percent approve of spying without obtaining court warrants "in order to reduce the threat of terrorism."

Why does any American think that spying without a warrant has any more effect in reducing the threat of terrorism than spying with a warrant? The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which Bush is disobeying, requires the executive to obtain from a secret panel of federal judges a warrant for spying on Americans. The purpose of the law is to prevent a president from spying for partisan political reasons. The law permits the president to spy first (for 72 hours) and then come to the court for permission. As the court meets in secret, spying without a warrant is no more effective in reducing the threat of terrorism than spying with a warrant.

Instead of explaining this basic truth, the media has played along with the Bush administration and formulated the question as a trade-off between civil liberties and protection from terrorists. This formulation is false and nonsensical. Why does the media enable the Bush administration to escape accountability for illegal behavior by putting false and misleading choices before the people?

The LA Times/Bloomberg poll has equally striking anomalies. Only 43 percent said they approved of Bush's performance as president. But a majority believe Bush's policies have made the US more secure.

It is extraordinary that anyone would think Americans are safer as a result of Bush invading two Muslim countries and constantly threatening two more with military attack. The invasions and threats have caused a dramatic swing in Muslim sentiment away from the US. Prior to Bush's invasion of Iraq, a large majority of Muslims had a favorable opinion of America. Now only about 5 percent do.

A number of US commanders in Iraq and many Middle East experts have told the American public that the three year-old war in Iraq is serving both to recruit and to train terrorists for al Qaeda, which has grown many times its former size. Moreover, the US military has concluded that al Qaeda has succeeded in having its members elected to the new Iraqi government.

We have seen similar developments both in Egypt and in Pakistan. In the recent Egyptian elections, the radical Muslim Brotherhood, despite being suppressed by the Egyptian government, won a large number of seats. In Pakistan elements friendly or neutral toward al Qaeda control about half of the government. In Iraq, Bush's invasion has replaced secular Sunnis with Islamist Shia allied with Iran.

And now with the triumph of Hamas in the Palestinian election, we see the total failure of Bush's Middle Eastern policy. Bush has succeeded in displacing secular moderates from Middle Eastern governments and replacing them with Islamic extremists. It boggles the mind that this disastrous result makes Americans feel safer!

What does it say for democracy that half of the American population is unable to draw a rational conclusion from unambiguous facts?

Americans share this disability with the Bush administration. According to news reports, the Bush administration is stunned by the election victory of the radical Islamist Hamas Party, which swept the US-financed Fatah Party from office. Why is the Bush administration astonished?

The Bush administration is astonished because it stupidly believes that hundreds of millions of Muslims should be grateful that the US has interfered in their internal affairs for 60 years, setting up colonies and puppet rulers to suppress their aspirations and to achieve, instead, purposes of the US government.

Americans need desperately to understand that 95 percent of all Muslim terrorists in the world were created in the past three years by Bush's invasion of Iraq.

Americans need desperately to comprehend that if Bush attacks Iran and Syria, as he intends, terrorism will explode, and American civil liberties will disappear into a thirty year war that will bankrupt the United States.

The total lack of rationality and competence in the White House and the inability of half of the US population to acquire and understand information are far larger threats to Americans than terrorism.

America has become a rogue nation, flying blind, guided only by ignorance and hubris. A terrible catastrophe awaits.

Well said. I just wish these people would wake up and realise that bush is a thick head can't think for himself can't write for himself and most importantly can't make decisions for himself and if that's the case than these americans that think bush is the bees knees than they are just of a thick head and I don't think those kind of people can be help.

[CocaCola]

I believe Bush to be a complete moron and liability for the US, and man am I glad I don't live there.
He has certainly made some monumental fuck ups and yet to outsiders it would appear that he is still supported by the majority of Americans, I will never forget his speach including the gem of " terrorists will never stop thinking of ways to harm the american people and neither will we" not an exact quote but it sums up the mans grasp of his own language.

Yeah, he likes to contradict himself alot and he always slips up confusing "US" with "The Terrorists". But it's not how he talks... No one was insulting the way he talked, gtrman, so why did you bring it up? We're saying he is an idiot and he is fucking everything up, you people included. Yale? What difference does that make? LOOK AT HOW HE ACTS AND WHAT HE SAYS. He's fucking stupid and he doesn't know what is good for world, he is only concerned about American National Security and Economy plus he's the leader of a superpower above all else, so that influences other retarded politians littering this planet to try and catch up. No one really cares about the state of the world or the state of the people, because really, WHAT HAS HE DONE?

[psychocat]

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm

http://politicalhumor.about.com/libr...dumbquotes.htm

40. "Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties." â??discussing the Iraq war with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson, as quoted by Robertson

Says it all really.

[lemonboy]

While I may disagree with you, I will stand with you, hand in hand, and scream from the highest mountain for your right to say the very things that I do not believe. That is what patriotism means to me.

Never did I once question your right to shout whatever the heck you want from wherever the heck you want. Please don't mistake my lack of warm fuzzies for President Bush as anything but what it is. Pawning it off as a lack of patriotism only serves to cheapen patriotism.

[intangible child]

Yep, Democrats are the only smart ones in the country. Yea right, if that was true, they would be in control of Congress...but they arent.

Diebold makes voting machines that are used in 37 states, but they provide no verifiable record and lack even basic protection against fraud.

http://scdc.sccs.swarthmore.edu/diebold/

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thingâ?� ---Karl Rove

â??If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemyâ?� ---James Madison 4th U.S. president (1809 -1817), and one of the founding fathers of this country. (1751- 1836)

[midlifecrisis]

EG....get a job.....get a life....

[midlifecrisis]

By the way...if it were 200 years ago and you all were in charge, this would be West England....yeah I know you think that would be good.


thank you for your time, yours truly, the old bastard!!!!

[eg420ne]

EG....get a job.....get a life....

WoW!!!! thanks for that real intelligence advice man:thumbsup:--Well im off to go smoke sum dank and hit up jose- ----Americans simply are dumber then bush:thumbsup:

[intangible child]

By the way...if it were 200 years ago and you all were in charge, this would be West England....yeah I know you think that would be good.


thank you for your time, yours truly, the old bastard!!!!

No It's not good!
http://www.thehollywoodliberal.com/170.htm

[newactivist]

All this Bush bashing is well and good but let's deal with something constructive, shall we?

Sometimes I see my government as Windows XP. It has been better than just about any other form of government in the world over the last couple hundred years. However, there are too many people and groups that have learned to hijack the system and I believe it is time for us to apply a service pack.

IMHO, there are just a couple things we need to do to clean up most of the problems. These are things that I picked up on from listening to other activists. Please allow me to list them.

1) Campaign Finance- We need to have polititions go onto at least 75% campaign funds from public dole. Right now they are going into office beholden to everyone else but us for their money to get elected. We need to seperate them from that cash or otherwise they will never truly be working for us.

2) Voting- Right now there is no way for us to check and see how our representatives vote on any issue. How are we supposed to make sure that we even want to vote for them again? That we agree with their vote or that they are voting the same way they said they would to get elected? We can't tell what they are doing and that is why we end up with a pork laden highway bill, as an example. There needs to be more accountability and this would provide it.

3) Voters Initiative- We need a better mechanism for activists to state their views and have more open debate. Often important issues never get any attention and should be brought forward for thought and debate by the general public as well as in Congress.

I'm sure others have their own ideas of other changes and I honestly would love to hear them. I like my government and have no interest in switching to a different form. I do believe we need a few changes though.