Collarspace Discussion Forums


Home  Login  Search 

What did you think of President Bush's speech on the economy tonight?


View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
 
All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> What did you think of President Bush's speech on the economy tonight? Page: [1] 2 3 4   next >   >>
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
What did you think of President Bush's speech on the ec... - 9/24/2008 7:41:44 PM   
MzMia


Posts: 5333
Joined: 7/30/2004
Status: offline 		What did you think of President Bush's speech on the economy tonight?
President Bush was very somber and seemed to make an effort to explain
the gravity of our current economic COLLAPSE.

Bush Calls Bailout Vital to Economy, Will Meet With McCain and Obama - washingtonpost.com

I did listen to a few commentaries on the speech, and a few have characterized
President Bush's speech tonight as pleading and desperate.
 
Any opinions on President Bush's speech tonight?
 

< Message edited by MzMia -- 9/24/2008 7:55:04 PM >

_____________________________

Namaste'
To Each His/Her Own
"DENIAL ain't just a river in Egypt." Mark Twain


What's your favorite fetish?
"My partner's whisper"--bloomswell
Profile   Post #: 1
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 7:48:36 PM   
Roselaure


Posts: 672
Joined: 4/12/2008
Status: offline 		Completely and totally irrelevant.  He is the lamest of lame ducks

_____________________________

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.
-Virginia Woolf

(in reply to MzMia)
Profile   Post #: 2
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 7:55:16 PM   
kittinSol


Posts: 16926
Status: offline 		I can honestly say that the man is desperate - a true sad case of inadequacy.

_____________________________



(in reply to MzMia)
Profile   Post #: 3
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 7:59:41 PM   
BKSir


Posts: 4037
Joined: 4/8/2008
From: Salt Lake City, UT
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Roselaure

Completely and totally irrelevant.  He is the lamest of lame ducks


OY!  Leave ducks out of this!  They're at least useful for eating and quite tasty!


_____________________________

We'll begin with a spin, traveling in a world of my creation. What we'll see will defy explanation.

I am the voices in your head.

BiggKatt Studios

(in reply to Roselaure)
Profile   Post #: 4
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 8:04:46 PM   
MzMia


Posts: 5333
Joined: 7/30/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: kittinSol

I can honestly say that the man is desperate - a true sad case of inadequacy.


Well, kittin, President Bush scared me!
The end is near and the sky is falling!
kittin, if you are the last one out, will you carry the flag for us?


< Message edited by MzMia -- 9/24/2008 8:06:03 PM >

_____________________________

Namaste'
To Each His/Her Own
"DENIAL ain't just a river in Egypt." Mark Twain


What's your favorite fetish?
"My partner's whisper"--bloomswell

(in reply to kittinSol)
Profile   Post #: 5
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 8:13:58 PM   
DarkSteven


Posts: 28072
Joined: 5/2/2008
Status: offline 		He burned through his credibility years ago.

His speech said nothing new. 

There's a chance the bill will fail altogether.  There's also a good chance that the bill will be a lot less than $700 bil.  The GOP is bucking it strongly and is demanding to have some assurance that Paulson and Bernanke have a clue, and so far they haven't gotten a reply.


_____________________________

"You women....

The small-breasted ones want larger breasts. The large-breasted ones want smaller ones. The straight-haired ones curl their hair, and the curly-haired ones straighten theirs...

Quit fretting. We men love you."

(in reply to MzMia)
Profile   Post #: 6
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 8:16:08 PM   
kittinSol


Posts: 16926
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: MzMia

quote:

ORIGINAL: kittinSol

I can honestly say that the man is desperate - a true sad case of inadequacy.


Well, kittin, President Bush scared me!
The end is near and the sky is falling!
kittin, if you are the last one out, will you carry the flag for us?



It won't ever come to that, Mia - it may seem like the sky's falling now, but it will pick up again. The good news though: Bush won't be able to do any more damage much longer :-). (But what a pathetic dickwad doubled with a coward. He doesn't even have the balls to own up to the mess he's left us with .)

_____________________________



(in reply to MzMia)
Profile   Post #: 7
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 8:17:19 PM   
caitlyn


Posts: 3473
Joined: 12/22/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: DarkSteven
He burned through his credibility years ago.


I can't improve on that.  

_____________________________

I wish I could buy back ...
the woman you stole.

(in reply to DarkSteven)
Profile   Post #: 8
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 8:17:35 PM   
MistressNew


Posts: 112
Joined: 5/5/2007
Status: offline 		What baffles me is how they came up with the number $700 billion.  But now I have the answer:

""It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number.""



(in reply to DarkSteven)
Profile   Post #: 9
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 8:21:13 PM   
MzMia


Posts: 5333
Joined: 7/30/2004
Status: offline 		kittin, you must have read my mind.
The first 4 years they blamed Clinton for everything except
toxic waste.
I could actually have a shred of respect for Bush, if he would
just admit and take the blame for some damn thing.
8 years in, and he won't take the blame for anything under
his administration.
He will go down as one of the worse President's in US history, no doubt.

_____________________________

Namaste'
To Each His/Her Own
"DENIAL ain't just a river in Egypt." Mark Twain


What's your favorite fetish?
"My partner's whisper"--bloomswell

(in reply to kittinSol)
Profile   Post #: 10
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 8:23:55 PM   
NeedToUseYou


Posts: 2297
Joined: 12/24/2005
From: None of your business
Status: offline 		I thought the speech was good enough, but like others have mentioned, I simply disregard him, as he's proven he is either a liar, or easily manipulated. 

(in reply to MzMia)
Profile   Post #: 11
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 8:27:43 PM   
slvemike4u


Posts: 17896
Joined: 1/15/2008
From: United States
Status: offline 		I keep thinking of CL's thread a couple of weeks ago "Bush's legacy" ,methinks we should run that one again..
As far as the speech tonight,the one point that struck me is he insists the bailout is necessary and must be done now,than we can look at regulations needed to avoid this sort of disaster,shouldn't the regulations be tied to the bailout?

_____________________________

If we want things to stay as they are,things will have to change...Tancredi from "the Leopard"

Forget Guns-----Ban the pools

Funny stuff....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwFf991d-4


(in reply to MzMia)
Profile   Post #: 12
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 8:33:29 PM   
Marc2b


Posts: 6660
Joined: 8/7/2006
Status: offline 		I could only take a couple of minutes of that glum, I know you don’t really want to look at me but I’m kinda required to do this so let’s both just bear with it, expression – so I popped one of my Babylon 5 DVDs into the player.

God that Claudia Christian is hot.

_____________________________

Do you know what the most awesome thing about being an Atheist is? You're not required to hate anybody!

(in reply to MzMia)
Profile   Post #: 13
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 8:34:04 PM   
MzMia


Posts: 5333
Joined: 7/30/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

I keep thinking of CL's thread a couple of weeks ago "Bush's legacy" ,methinks we should run that one again..
As far as the speech tonight,the one point that struck me is he insists the bailout is necessary and must be done now,than we can look at regulations needed to avoid this sort of disaster,shouldn't the regulations be tied to the bailout?


Mike? I hope you didn't vote for President Bush.
If so, you have my sympathy.
Now, if the regulations were created FIRST, than there would be more accountability.
This Administration is not good at accountability, just give them the money.
I would have loved to see President Bush say, "Where de money at?"
lol

< Message edited by MzMia -- 9/24/2008 9:15:41 PM >

_____________________________

Namaste'
To Each His/Her Own
"DENIAL ain't just a river in Egypt." Mark Twain


What's your favorite fetish?
"My partner's whisper"--bloomswell

(in reply to slvemike4u)
Profile   Post #: 14
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 8:37:59 PM   
MissSCD


Posts: 1185
Joined: 3/10/2007
Status: offline 		I thought he looked very pale and thin.   How is the US government going to hold these funds and suddenly release them when they are right?
That just does not make any since whatsoever, and we need to take care of the real problem that got us here.  
When a country is at war, it goes from butter to guns.   When the economy is in guns, it drains resources from butter (business). 
We cannot have our cake and eat it as well.
Something has to give, and someone has to lose.  Why should it be the people?  I needs to be the CEOs and President Bush's war policies.
He has financially destroyed us with this war.
 
I think this is post 1000!. 
 
Regards, MissSCD

(in reply to MzMia)
Profile   Post #: 15
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 8:38:01 PM   
slvemike4u


Posts: 17896
Joined: 1/15/2008
From: United States
Status: offline 		Now MzMia what makes you think I voted for him?

_____________________________

If we want things to stay as they are,things will have to change...Tancredi from "the Leopard"

Forget Guns-----Ban the pools

Funny stuff....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwFf991d-4


(in reply to MzMia)
Profile   Post #: 16
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 8:41:10 PM   
MissSCD


Posts: 1185
Joined: 3/10/2007
Status: offline 		I voted for Daddy Bush.  I was in the military. I knew I wanted a Bush as commander and chief then.
I actually voted for GWB against Al Gore.   Don't know why to this day except I did not feel comfortable with Gore.  Gore can make a good speach.
I didn't vote for GWB during the last election.
I won't know who I am going to vote for until the last minute.    That is just the way I am.
 
Regards, MissSCD

(in reply to slvemike4u)
Profile   Post #: 17
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 8:41:55 PM   
DarkSteven


Posts: 28072
Joined: 5/2/2008
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

As far as the speech tonight,the one point that struck me is he insists the bailout is necessary and must be done now,than we can look at regulations needed to avoid this sort of disaster,shouldn't the regulations be tied to the bailout?


Of course they should be.

Bush has destroyed a lot of what the GOP stands for.  They used to be fiscal conservatives, and he's blown through money ridiculously, after Clinton handled the economy well.  They used to be isolationists, and he's attacked countries and threatened them willy-nilly.

About all left is deregulation.  Reagan promoted it and consequently it's almost a sacred precept.  If Bush allowed deregulation to die, the GOP will be left almost without an identity.

That said, the public is howling furiously now.  If a bill went through giving $700 bil to fix the finance companies' mistakes without some kind of pain for the top execs who engineered this mess, incumbent pols' heads will roll.  And regulation will be imposed, and not later either.




_____________________________

"You women....

The small-breasted ones want larger breasts. The large-breasted ones want smaller ones. The straight-haired ones curl their hair, and the curly-haired ones straighten theirs...

Quit fretting. We men love you."

(in reply to slvemike4u)
Profile   Post #: 18
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 8:47:16 PM   
MzMia


Posts: 5333
Joined: 7/30/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

quote:

ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

As far as the speech tonight,the one point that struck me is he insists the bailout is necessary and must be done now,than we can look at regulations needed to avoid this sort of disaster,shouldn't the regulations be tied to the bailout?


Of course they should be.

Bush has destroyed a lot of what the GOP stands for.  They used to be fiscal conservatives, and he's blown through money ridiculously, after Clinton handled the economy well.  They used to be isolationists, and he's attacked countries and threatened them willy-nilly.

About all left is deregulation.  Reagan promoted it and consequently it's almost a sacred precept.  If Bush allowed deregulation to die, the GOP will be left almost without an identity.

That said, the public is howling furiously now.  If a bill went through giving $700 bil to fix the finance companies' mistakes without some kind of pain for the top execs who engineered this mess, incumbent pols' heads will roll.  And regulation will be imposed, and not later either.




President Bush/Dick Cheney legacy?
pillage and steal
If Obama attempted to do half the things these 2 have done in the past 8 years,
he would have been run out of town.
Oh, I digress, let them em cake!
I love reading Crooks and Liars.com.

At this point, why not just give President Bush/Dick Cheney all the money they and
their Administration can carry and let them leave early as an early severance package?

Crooks and Liars » Isn’t it interesting that President Paulson asks for $700 billion at the end of Bush’s term

< Message edited by MzMia -- 9/24/2008 9:16:44 PM >

_____________________________

Namaste'
To Each His/Her Own
"DENIAL ain't just a river in Egypt." Mark Twain


What's your favorite fetish?
"My partner's whisper"--bloomswell

(in reply to DarkSteven)
Profile   Post #: 19
RE: What did you think of President Bush's speech on th... - 9/24/2008 8:58:24 PM   
Thadius


Posts: 5091
Joined: 10/11/2005
Status: offline 		Mia,

If you missed it. Here is the transcript of the speech.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/president_bushs_address_to_the_1.html

_____________________________

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." ~ Japanese Proverb

(in reply to MzMia)
Profile   Post #: 20
Page:   [1] 2 3 4   next >   >>
All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> What did you think of President Bush's speech on the economy tonight? Page: [1] 2 3 4   next >   >>
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts




Collarchat.com © 2025
Terms of Service Privacy Policy Spam Policy

0.094