Dumb leaders abound...

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Napalm

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For some reason, many of the current leaders around the world are dumb-asses. Nationally we have boobs like Bush (former coke head and current dyslexic) and Chrétien (garbles his words in two languages). At the state and provincial levels we have guys like Jesse "the Body" Ventura (former steroid-monkey) and Mike Harris (former golf-pro) and here in Toronto we have a short, fat, hair-plugged, former furniture sales man Mel Lastman.

Judging from this gang, perhaps democracy is a crock...

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forgot the one who was playing hide the cigars with interns, selling China secrets and turning the white house in to the holiday inn when he was not selling pardons.
 
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Wow, if you spent a tenth of the energy you use to knock leaders(see past posts) you could maybe do something useful with your life. Then again, you could continue to be a armchair politician.
 
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Chrétien's speech is "garbled" because he suffered frostbite as a child. It caused damage to facial nerves resulting in permanent muscle paralysis to the left side of his face.
 
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But coming from a native minnesnotan like myself, I have to say that I thought that Ventura's 38DD comment was extremely insightful.
 
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Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Wow, if you spent a tenth of the energy you use to knock leaders(see past posts) you could maybe do something useful with your life. Then again, you could continue to be a armchair politician.
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Nail. Head. Winner.
 
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AlienCraft

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I'm assuming you voted, albeit for someone else?
If not, DON't BITCH!
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Moonbeam

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I hear in Saudi Arabia President Bush is known as President Bosh, or President Nobody.
 
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Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I hear in Saudi Arabia President Bush is known as President Bosh, or President Nobody.
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They trace that money back to the goverment and they'll be calling him something else entirely.
 
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Originally posted by: her209
Originally posted by: Gr1mL0cK
You forgot Gray Davis! :D:p:eek:
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I will take Davis over Superman or Terminator any day.
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bill simon sucked too...us californians were really stuck...we had to choose the lesser of the two evils...sigh...freakin a... only if a real qualified person like richard riodon won the primary..then we would have a decent govorner...
 
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Napalm

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Wow, if you spent a tenth of the energy you use to knock leaders(see past posts) you could maybe do something useful with your life. Then again, you could continue to be a armchair politician.
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LOL... Do something useful with my life? Have all of your 10,000 posts been this inspirational...
 
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Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I hear in Saudi Arabia President Bush is known as President Bosh, or President Nobody.
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I hear in Saudi Arabia terrorists are known as citizens and/or freedom fighters.
 
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knocking these politicians for errors that usually has nothing to do with their leadership ability is truly sad. Trying governing a state and see if the world doesn't have a microscope over you. The fact is these people are human and allowed to make personal mistakes. If they made errors that compromised national security, then that's another story.

BTW, what I find amazing about those that attack Bush is that his weakness is his strength. People see him as dumb and a moron, yet he has one of the smartest administration this country has ever seen and he looks after Americans, not the world. Call him all you want, but if he put my interest as an American first, then I wouldn't give a rat's ass what others think.
 
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Napalm

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knocking these politicians for errors that usually has nothing to do with their leadership ability is truly sad. Trying governing a state and see if the world doesn't have a microscope over you. The fact is these people are human and allowed to make personal mistakes. If they made errors that compromised national security, then that's another story.
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I think you have missed the point. The point is not that these politicians are dumb - the point is that the public feels safer in the hands of the duller tools in the shed. Why is this? Gore was criticized for seeming too professorial, Clinton was criticized for debating policy with his policy wonks, here in Canada we have had several extremely intelligent leaders who are not remembered kindly - Rhodes Scholars such as Bob Rae and John Turner come to mind. Why is it that people are more comfortable with inept leaders who have "folksy charm" (i.e., Ronald Reagan and George Bush) than they are with people with serious intellect. The reason is likely two-fold: Most truly intelligent people are not stupid enough to go into politics, and there has been a dummy-ing down of the public through TV, movies, advertising, poor schooling, etc... The latter is the reason that people vote with their gut - "ah, I think he is cool", " ah- I think that person is charming/good-looking", etc... People should be voting with their minds - this starts with figuring out what issues are truly important to them (not what the media has told them is important to them) and then voting for leaders that will support those issues. Ask yourself what kind of voter you think the average American and Canadian really is - the former or the latter...
 
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Originally posted by: DaveSohmer
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I hear in Saudi Arabia President Bush is known as President Bosh, or President Nobody.
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They trace that money back to the goverment and they'll be calling him something else entirely.
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President Bash?
 
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