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| Vacationing Bush Poised to Set a Record; OR "Is Fox News Biased?" | |
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| Minuet | Aug 3 2005, 12:54 PM Post #61 |
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Administrative Response Gee - I attempted to bring this back on topic. But my comments were ignored and a few of you started arguing again. No more discussion of whose fault it was that the thread went off topic. Those comments have been removed and I now expect this thread to go back on topic or it will be closed. End Administrative Response |
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| psyfi | Aug 3 2005, 01:46 PM Post #62 |
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Since when is reporting exactly what was said OP-ED? Hume took 15 seconds to describe what was written, not comment on it. Of course, I do have to admit that the bias is so clear in what was "reported" by the AP, that there is no need to comment on it. |
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| Hoss | Aug 4 2005, 07:12 AM Post #63 |
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Made in response to gvok's post "Sounds like a good day for a Presidential vacation." You know this post is just disgusting. Trying to exploit an event like the deaths of soldiers to score some point in a psuedo-political discussion by making a smart-assed remark. I half wanted to delete it yesterday, but I decided to leave it as it shows everyone the depths to which you'll stoop. |
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| Dr. Noah | Aug 4 2005, 08:33 AM Post #64 |
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Um, that post was in response to someone's comment about it being a slow news day. |
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| Hoss | Aug 4 2005, 09:49 AM Post #65 |
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First, I don't believe you. Second, you didn't quote or mention anyone and posted it right after gvok. |
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| Dr. Noah | Aug 4 2005, 09:51 AM Post #66 |
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I really don't care if you don't believe me. It's the truth. Believe what you like. |
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| Dandandat | Aug 4 2005, 10:00 AM Post #67 |
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I believe him on this. But I think your comment would be better suited for these smart-assed remarks he made:
To which I would say (paraphrasing you): You know these posts are just disgusting. Trying to exploit an event like the deaths of countless innocent men, woman and children to score some point in a pseudo-political discussion by making a smart-assed remark. |
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| Dr. Noah | Aug 4 2005, 10:04 AM Post #68 |
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My comments regarding the president's vacation has nothing to do with the war. I don't understand the connection you are making Dan.
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| Dandandat | Aug 4 2005, 10:27 AM Post #69 |
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What war are you talking about? It is 9/11 you exploited to score some point in a pseudo-political discussion by making a smart-assed remark. I guess you can say that was the opening salvo in the war on terror, but it can stand apart in the remarks you made. |
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| Dr. Noah | Aug 4 2005, 10:30 AM Post #70 |
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Oh, I see. I didn't make that connection. I'm sorry my stating the fact that the president took the second longest vacation in presidential history just prior to 9/11 offends you. It is a fact nonetheless. His not taking the CIA report regarding an imminent Al Qaeda attack in the US using airplanes seriously and continuing his vacation offends me. |
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| Dandandat | Aug 4 2005, 11:08 AM Post #71 |
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No I never said it offended me I said it disgusted me - there is a difference. but that said its not the fact that you are simply stating the fact that the president took a long vacation in 2001 that disgusts me. What disgusts me is your use of 9/11 against someone you do not politlcly (and personally) like. You could have easily related the fact that in 2001 the president took a long vacation with out referring to 9/11 and 9/11 had nothing to do with that vacation. So to place the two together in one thought as you did, you deliberately make is sound as if because the president was on vacation we where attacked. The only reason I can think that you would do this is to use 9/11 as a talking point to dislike the president and that disgust me.
It would seem most everything Bush does offends you, it makes me wonder how much of that comes form being offended by the differing ideologies between you as opposed to genuine dislike of the actions. Its hard to tell these days where most every one is playing the game to win for their teem rather then to win for America. As to his not taking CIA reports that may have had to do with 9/11, implying that he is indirectly responsible for the attacks, I believe its important to remind you yet again that the 9/11 commission, a body I would have to believe is much much more cognizant of the events then you or I are, found President Bush unaccountable for any wrong doing that may have lead to the events of 9/11. To me this means that the short comings that lead to 9/11 where indicative of the mind set of most Americans (complacency) and would have occurred no matter who held the position of the presidency of the untied states. Even further proof I have to back up this notion is the fact that Senator Kerry, the man the democratic part would have liked to be our president and so by extension the best the opposition has to offer, also succumbed to this complacency when was warned that his states prominent airport was in danger of terrorist activates and did nothing about it. All this makes me disappointed in all of us and not specifically offended by the actions of one of us, but then again I do not have an underlining motive to be offended by everything the president does for the sake of opposing him. As for vacations, It has been pointed out to you by connectives and liberals alike in this thread that a presidential vacation does not mean that the work of the president is not accomplished, it just means it is not accomplished in the oval office but in another location. You continually ignore this fact and choosing rather make ignorant quips just to bad mouth the president. |
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| Dr. Noah | Aug 4 2005, 11:22 AM Post #72 |
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The man is the commander in chief and his primary function is to protect this country. He failed. I am sorry that you don't like that I point that out from time to time, but it's the truth. It's hard not to be offended when the man lies to start a war and gets almost 2000 brave Americans killed, not to mention allows one of his staff to leak a CIA agent's name and get away with it, along with several other things that are offensive regardless of political affiliation. Please stop assuming that I have underlying motives. You don't know that and I have already been made and ass of by assumptions made by other posters this morning. And we don't really know what he's doing on his vacation. He might be working, but we don't know that. I'm sorry you find my comments ignorant. I am just having some fun, I thought that's why we're here. |
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| Dandandat | Aug 4 2005, 11:40 AM Post #73 |
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According to the legislative body designed to come to the bottom of this issue this is absolutely not the truth. So with that in mind I should say I do not like that you from time to time point out a false hood and make it sound like the truth. What I find odd is that you are offended by a man who has not been shown to do any of those things. That’s why I can not tell whether you are offend simply by ideologies or genuinely of actions. If you had proof that the president lied, or that he leaked the name of a CIA agent, I would certainly understand why you where offended - I would even join you in those emotions. But since you do not have this proof it leaves me uncertain and looks as if you are fixing the evidence to fit the emotions. I never questioned your motives, I said I don’t have any. I think 24 linked to an article showing some of the things he will be doing on his vacation. And if you truly believe that we don’t really know what he’s doing on his vacation, why then assume he will not be performing his presidential duties? And for that matter how do you know he is doing anything when he is in the white house? You see that’s why I am disgusted, I do not think 9/11 is something to have fun about. I certainly was not having fun when I couldn’t go home and had to sleep on the floor of a bar that night unable to talk to my family, and if I felt the way I did I am most defiantly sure the families who’s fathers and mothers did come home at all the next day where not having fun, or the rescue workings pulling body parts out of the rubble in the hopes of finding any someone alive where having fun. |
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| Dr. Noah | Aug 4 2005, 11:44 AM Post #74 |
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Oy. I somehow knew my having some fun with the fact that the president is taking more vacation time than any other president in history would be used against me. I am not having fun with 9/11. I am having fun with the fact that GWB thinks it's okay to take regular month long vacations. If you're going to make me into some kind of monster over this, I'm going to have to stop talking to you. I stated that his last month long vacation took place just prior to 9/11. That is a fact. Tough cookies if you don't like it and that I stated it. |
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| Dandandat | Aug 4 2005, 11:47 AM Post #75 |
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You may be making fun of the president but you are using 9/11 to do and I do not think you are being a monster, I think you are being human and are making a mistake. I am just pointing it out so you may correct it. |
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