Is President Carter right? (Page 5)

I don’t think it was only his policies.  I think there are lots of people who hated Bush because he is the wealthy son of a powerful man who hadn’t necessarily had to work as hard as most Americans to get where he got.  I think people hated him for his poor grammar and for what some perceived as ignorance or at least inarticulateness (is that a word?). I think Bush’s strong religious beliefs, about which he was particularly outspoken at times, infuriated some people who didn’t share those beliefs.   

I think those things were magnified once he started enacting policies that people didn’t like, much as I believe they are now with Obama.  It’s true that had his policies been more popular, they might have been more able to see past those traits of his that bothered them, but it’s undoubtedly true that what drove the intense dislike of Bush as his presidency ended was not simply his policies.

1 : consisting of or amounting to a large but indefinite number <worked for many years>
2 : being one of a large but indefinite number <many a man> <many another student>

Actually, now that you mention it, I disliked Bush both for his policy and for the fact that he was a rich Yale-educated Yankee Brahmin masquarading as a dumb Texas redneck.

mrbbrad - 2009-09-16 10:49 AM Hey, how come nobody refers to Jimmy Carter as JC?

I did! But just because I was lazy, not because he has any sort of God-like quality.

jimbo - 2009-09-16 3:36 PM

Pector55 - 2009-09-16 4:28 PM

jimbo - 2009-09-16 4:22 PM many rectangles are squares. now please spend the next 5 pages debating whether i was right or wrong in saying that all polygons are squares. for the metaphorically challenged: rectangles : people displaying intense animosity toward barack obama as a person squares : racists polygons : critics of obama

It would be much more interesting to debate what that monkey is doing (or going to do) to that cat. 

Ready... set... go! 

heh. you're probably right. now here, go watch a monkey washing a cat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9wAqNN-Dic and let's all be sure to congratulate ChrisM for his impressive feat of mightily swinging a bat at a hornet's nest and then quietly backing away. you should see his pantry. nothing but cans of worms and an arsenal of can-openers

Yay Chris!

BTW, a civil political debate that goes on for 6 pages is a thing of beauty.

• Main Entry: ¹many
• Pronunciation: \'me-ne\
• Function: adjective
• Inflected Form(s): more \'mo?r\; most \'most\
• Etymology: Middle English, from Old English manig; akin to Old High German manag many, Old Church Slavic munogu much
• Date: before 12th century

Edited to add ,,,, you can look up the word large, you may want to interpret what he said differently, I don't see how using the English language and it's common definitions you can come to that conclusion. If you still do I'll agree to disagree with you.

Too much dictionary, not enough name-calling

Does the collective wisdom of CoJ think that the issue of race in the news lately is:

A. A natural occurrence given the nature of the history of racism in the US.

B. The misguided personal opinions of a few public personalities.

C. A political strategy orchestrated by Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod to help push through legislation.

I honestly don't know myself, but I'm not naive to how power politics works.

Until now!