Who here wanted George Bush to fail

[Kimberly]

Read it and scream or have the urge to punch a DUmmie in the face

malaise  (1000+ posts)      Mon Mar-02-09 06:02 PM
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Who here wanted George Bush to fail
 Advertisements [?]He was failing on his own and needed no help. **** that fat pig Rush.

Warren Stupidity  (1000+ posts)        Mon Mar-02-09 06:04 PM
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2. I did.
 I'll be honest about it. I wanted him and his gang and their plans to fail miserably.

malaise  (1000+ posts)      Mon Mar-02-09 06:09 PM
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8. But he was failing from day one
 I knew he was going to fail and laughed when he did.

Bonn1997  (714 posts)      Mon Mar-02-09 06:12 PM
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11. This is not the kind of thing most people will admit too. BUT 
 I think this whole media obsession with Limbaugh's comments are disingenuous and that most Republicans want the Democratic Pres and most Dems want the Republican Pres to fail. 

derby378 (1000+ posts)        Mon Mar-02-09 06:04 PM
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3. For America to succeed, George Walker Bush had to fail
 Edited on Mon Mar-02-09 06:04 PM by derby378
So yes, I damn sure wanted him to fail. But our nation failed instead, and Obama's left to clean up the mess that Herr Decider made.

 

Incitatus  (774 posts)      Mon Mar-02-09 06:06 PM
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5. I wanted him to fail in many ways
 Edited on Mon Mar-02-09 06:08 PM by Incitatus
I wanted him to fail in privatizing social security, in starting two wars, and in destroying the Constitution, to name a few.

How do Republicans want Obama to fail, in saving the economy, in providing health care for all Americans?

Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts)        Mon Mar-02-09 06:08 PM
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7. Saw that everything he was doing was destine to fail, so wanted him to stop that and do things
 that would succeed

Hey THAT'S how I feel about Obama.

Fuzz (1000+ posts)      Mon Mar-02-09 06:13 PM
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12. In the first 100 days? We were calling him a failure, not hoping he fails.

TahitiNut  (1000+ posts)        Mon Mar-02-09 06:14 PM
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13. Smirky McCodpiece has never done anything BUT fail. Everyone voting for him voted for FAILURE.

Jack Rabbit  (1000+ posts)        Mon Mar-02-09 06:15 PM
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14. I did.
 The war against Iraq was an imperialist war, and I wanted that to fail.

Torture is both inhumane and impractical, and I wanted that to fail.

His power grabs upset the system of check and balances and several provisions of the Bill of Rights and constitutional due process, and I wanted all of that to fail.

His privatization scheme would have deformed rather than reformed Social Security, and since I am now living on disability, I am absolutely delighted that it failed.

His war on terror, however, is something I wanted to succeed. I think it would have had a better chance if it had modest goals that could be measured for success and had been a war against specific terrorists, rather than becoming, as it quickly did, a total war on something called terrorism, a word that denotes a set of tactics, which cannot be defeated, rather than a specific adversary, who can be.

denverbill (1000+ posts)      Mon Mar-02-09 06:15 PM
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15. I wanted him to succeed, but was pretty sure he'd fail.
 Economically, I hoped his stupid tax cuts and deregulation would actually succeed and we continue the growth we had under Clinton, but I knew the massive deficits he created would stifle us eventually. I would personally rather have the market at 20,000 and economy strong today. I would have not even minded that it would have made the election much tougher. Instead, we have a fricking mess that may take years to fix.

On the Iraq war, I strongly opposed it, but once he started it, I felt I had to hope for him to succeed. I even posted that at the time, and got a lot of grief for it. But once 3000 soldiers are already dead and god-only-knows how many innocent civilians, you have to hope that their deaths actually meant something and that Iraq would be better off ultimately. That remains to be seen, but seems unlikely to me.

azmouse  (1000+ posts)      Mon Mar-02-09 06:15 PM
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16. I wanted him to wake up and smell the shit he was shoveling.
 Failure was not an option. A President's failure is a failure for the country.

JSK  (731 posts)      Mon Mar-02-09 06:22 PM
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19. I wanted him to be hated
 as much as I hated him. I wanted the sheeple to wake up and see Bushco for the Fascist killing machine that it was.

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine he could do to the country (and the world) what he did.

liberalmuse  (1000+ posts)      Mon Mar-02-09 06:23 PM
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20. I didn't, and never said as much.
 I did want some checks and balances on his colossal failure of a Presidency. Any idiot knew he was putting this country in the toilet.

scarletwoman  (1000+ posts)      Mon Mar-02-09 06:47 PM
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30. I just wanted him stopped. I wanted the Dems in Congress to STOP failing
 in upholding the Constitution and the principle of checks and balances.

I never had any illusion that Bush was anything but bad news, so it wasn't exactly wanting him to "fail", I just wanted to see some principled opposition to what he was doing.

sw

onethatcares  (1000+ posts)      Mon Mar-02-09 06:54 PM
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32. not me, I never wanted him to fail, but
 I was looking forward to the day he started crying at the podium or ran headlong into one of the Whitehouse columns.

OK, I have to confess, I wanted him to fail at Iraq, at enforcing the Patriot Act, at climbing the steps of AF1, but that's just me. 

[Mike220]

So, this is what I read: "We wish Bush would fail... blah, blah, blah... Don't you dare wish Obambi to fail or you're a racist... blah, blah, blah..."

[The Village Idiot]

remember that dissent was patriotic in those days.

they are the Orwellian ant hill

[Carl]

This is the same kind of mindset that would rationalize away the evil of loading the trains.

[Mike220]

remember that dissent was patriotic in those days.

they are the Orwellian ant hill

Orwell couldn't have imagined these fools.

[The Village Idiot]

Orwell couldn't have imagined these fools.

these are the happy brownshirts. these are the trustee's on the plantation whom the master could trust with a pistol and a whip to keep his own people down.

[TheSarge]

Anything short of a unanimous yes from the Hive is a dishonest response to the OP

[Mike220]

these are the happy brownshirts. these are the trustee's on the plantation whom the master could trust with a pistol and a whip to keep his own people down.

Very true. The similarities to the SA are quite disturbing.

[dandi]

Bit of a difference here.

Conservatives, for the most part, want The Obamessiah to fail in the sense that his socialist economic policies are repudiated by the American people and he is forced by political pressure to retract or moderate them and compromise with Republicans. We don't want the country itself to fail just to prove a point. We're trying to avoid that.

Moonbats, on the other hand, wanted Bush to fail in Iraq even after we had troops on the ground there, even though that would have meant the death of more U.S. servicemen and -women, innocent civilians, and would have strengthened the sworn enemies of this country.

One forces a change in method to accomplish a commonly desired end, the other calls for the outright death of fellow citzens in order to score political points.

[jukin]

This is the same kind of mindset that would rationalize away the evil of loading the trains.

HI5

I know for a fact that they would have local Gestapo or NVDK phone number in muscle memory.

[LC EFA]

Orwell couldn't have imagined these fools.

I'd actually say these were the fools that Orwell was talking about.

[Zathras]

Incitatus  (774 posts)      Mon Mar-02-09 06:06 PM
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5. I wanted him to fail in many ways
 Edited on Mon Mar-02-09 06:08 PM by Incitatus
I wanted him to fail in privatizing social security, in starting two wars, and in destroying the Constitution, to name a few.

So you should be happy DUmbass because...

1: SS did not get privatized.
2: The GWoT was not started by President Bush and Iraq and Afghanistan are part of the same war.
3: The Constitution is alive and well, proven by the fact you were able to post this stupidity unfettered.

[BlueStateSaint]

I'd actually say these were the fools that Orwell was talking about.

I agree, LC, but I think that Orwell didn't think they'd actually exist in such high places, or that the people would put them there.

[The Village Idiot]

I'd actually say these were the fools that Orwell was talking about.

Ayn Rands fools were pretty close