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timepiececlock) wrote2003-03-06 07:28 pm
timepiececlock) wrote2003-03-06 07:28 pm
argh.
I fell asleep during Bush's press conference.
It was a comfy couch! And he's a lousy speaker.
Before I fell asleep (I was only out for about 10 minutes), the second question from the reporter had been asked, inquiring into why Bush thinks that there is so much opinion against the war around the world. It was very similar to part of the question before him, about why so many of the UN countries disagree with Bush on Iraq, considering that they share all the intelligence information.
Bush, in response, blather on about how "nobody wants war", and how this is the way Iraq chose to make it by not disarming, etc.
Me: He's not answering this guy's question. It's the same as the last guy's, about the other countries opposing, and he still didn't answer it.
'rent: He doesn't know why they don't.
Me: Then why doesn't he say that?
'rent: He can't say that.
Me: Yes he can. He should-- nevermind.
It was a comfy couch! And he's a lousy speaker.
Before I fell asleep (I was only out for about 10 minutes), the second question from the reporter had been asked, inquiring into why Bush thinks that there is so much opinion against the war around the world. It was very similar to part of the question before him, about why so many of the UN countries disagree with Bush on Iraq, considering that they share all the intelligence information.
Bush, in response, blather on about how "nobody wants war", and how this is the way Iraq chose to make it by not disarming, etc.
Me: He's not answering this guy's question. It's the same as the last guy's, about the other countries opposing, and he still didn't answer it.
'rent: He doesn't know why they don't.
Me: Then why doesn't he say that?
'rent: He can't say that.
Me: Yes he can. He should-- nevermind.
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You know what I don't get? A vast majority of the people I talk to hate him -- so how the hell did he ever get elected? ::Grumbles:: I suppose it could be that I only talk to smart people... ;)
Dubbya embarrasses me. There should be a law against politicians using the word "evil." This is the real world, not Batman (or Buffy) and the idea that US foreign policy is ever in any sense altruistic - bah.
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WORD. It's fucking annoying too.
You know what I don't get? A vast majority of the people I talk to hate him -- so how the hell did he ever get elected? ::Grumbles::
He didn't get elected. He lost the national population vote. The complexities of the out-of-date electoral college system employed by our voting government happened to fall so that he got the office. Usually the electoral college vote coincides with the popular vote. He's only the second president to ever come to office this way. And because our supreme court is now too fucking embroiled in party lines, they supported this, against mass opublic consternation.
You see, a lot of the reasons people resent Bush is that he wasn't popularly elected. I mean, I wouldn't like him much anyway, but I know that even two years later, when he's established in his role, a part of me still resents that he wasn't elected. My possible support of him-- at least, the chance that I could come to embrace him as my country's leader-- will always be slightly tarnished by that.
Not that I would anyway. His politics suck and he's driving the economy into the ground. And he has beady eyes.