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GW Bush and Gang have amply demonstrated time and time again ever since 9/11 that they have total contempt for the rule of law (even the laws by which they had sworn to govern the USA!)
So just what have US citizens done about any of that?
-- Did they prevent their pusillanimous Congress from handing over $ 500-odd billions to fund that war founded on those famous "WMD lies"?
-- Did US citizens force Congress to impeach GW Bush, Dick Cheney and others of that Gang of war criminals?
-- Have they properly try to throw these war criminals out of power who've been leading the world's sole superpower since 2000?
-- Have they put GW Bush and Gang into jail where they belong?
(There's plenty of other stuff available from the shameful record of GW Bush and Gang).
No! No!! No!!! No!!!! No!!!!... ...NO!!!!!! (Ah yes, but GW Bush's 'approval ratings' have dropped to the lowest ever for any President since -------who?? Moses??)!
Great! Wonderful!! That is really HEROIC!!! All war criminals must be sh*tting themselves in fear and trembling!!!!
So now let's break out those chilled six-packs, bring out the barbecue, have some real good FUN!!!
As GW Bush, War Criminal, would say, "Yippididooyay!" (I know I do not quite have the idiom right. Sorry about that, but surely that can be fixed quite easily. What can't be fixed is the fact that these war criminals seems to be getting away with their crimes).
GSC
John McCain should just drop his pants, turn around and bend over and nicely display his rump to show his contempt for common sense and decency, for those he wishes to lead as POTUS come January 2009 - they will surely vote him in if US history is any guide.
So that is precisely what he is doing - because that is what his mentor, GW Bush, did right along:
-- GW Bush did it in 2000 to win the election in the first place; the US sheeple in their 'wisdom' elected him over Al Gore (or didn't elect him, as some claim - but the US sheeple just accepted it all, hanging chads and phony election results and mooning and all!)
-- he did it right along through his first session as POTUS, when he lied to US citizens about WMD; lied to US Congress to get that gathering of the wisest minds in the USA, the CONG-US to get the funding he wanted for his dirty little war;
-- he did it every day in every way he could, (remember his claim that all he did was on the daily instructions that Jesus Christ gave him?). And he has kept on doing it every day in every way he can.
-- he did it when he strode aboard USS Abraham Lincoln after a phoney flight all of .25 miles in his bright yellow pilot suit with five handkerchiefs stuffed in his crotch to demonstrate his manhood to announce "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!"
-- he did it again in 2004, and he got himself re-elected (of course, there was some small extra assistance from Karl Rove and the Swift Boat Veterans) - but GW Bush's main plank was 'mooning the US sheeple'. (Obviouslly Jesus Christ was watching over him ever so carefully, for He ensured his victory over John Kerry and John Edwards).
-- and he affirmed his basic policy (i.e., of dropping the pants, mooning US citizens, be it figuratively) in his victory speech - remember his words about the 'Capital he had gained, which he now intended to capitalize on'?
-- he did it right again after Hurricane Katrina - remember "You're doing' a great job, Brownie!" (or words to that effect)? Here is the Wikipedia link to the disgraceful behaviour at that juncture of the most disgraceful leader the world has seen since Nero:
(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_W._Bush:_Hurricane_Katrina
-- he's kept doing it right along ever since. (Only thing, now the US sheeple may be catching on a bit, as evidence check out the steep fall in GW Bush's current popularity ratings - or maybe it is just that they are now a bit bored of seeing the same old rump, they want something new now).
(But do remember: Just one serious 'Tonkin Bay-type of incident' in the Persian Gulf against that member of the 'Axis of Evil', Eye-Ran, and the US sheeple will fall in love with that GW Bush rump once again!)
So now, all that John McCain has to do to the US sheeple who will be voting in a few months' time is to drop his pants, turn around and display his rump - and for sure the sheeple will vote him in! (Or so he apparently figures, to judge by the various statements that have been coming out from him and his camp).
(I do so sincerely hope that I am wrong in the above assessment of "Successful Presidential Politics in the US").
-- GSC
LW:
Cary's advice is ALL WRONG!
1) Tell her this: "I was just thinking the same myself. I need to move on, too".
2) Leave her.
3) Let her go.
4) Sometimes the "short haul" is as good as it gets.
5) Do NOT think in terms of getting back together.
6) Find someone else.
Any other way will only mean greater pain for you than you can now imagine.
Best wishes.
-- GSC