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My president

by STA
Tue May 2nd, 2006 at 11:02:09 AM EST

A small political riddle

My president is a conservative among conservatives
My president's politics heavily depend on oil
My president is a constant worry for Iraqis
My president is a constant worry for the world in general
My president is very religious
My president thinks that God is guiding him
My president thinks about Armageddon
My president likes nuclear weapons
My president never apologizes
My president defies international institutions
My president is fanatically supported by a religious minority
My president thinks he is persecuted by the rest of the world
My president likes to provoke
My president does not care about what other people think of him
My president has supporters that love his carelessness
My president has supporters that think that the rest of the world doesn't get him
My president speaks poorly his own language
My president likes to come off as an average guy
My president is a populist
My president has strange economic ideas
My president makes strange promises
My president does not keep his promises
My president likes war
My president is nationalist
My president thinks he's always right
My president thinks he is more ethical than other people
My president listens to advisors that don't (dare) contradict him
My president thinks he is a revolutionary man.

I am an Iranian-American. Who is my president?

(Also posted at DailyKos)

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My president | 13 comments (13 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: My president (none / 0)

One question: Is your president at the head of the world's Super-power nation, one of the two most heavily armed nuclear-weapons powers and, the world's only nation to have actually used a weapon of atomic fission and the head of the nation which appears also to be currently the most likely to be the first to use a weapon of nuclear fission ?

If the answer to the above is "yes", then I stumped-- go on, tell me, who is your president?

Oh! Wait, is it the "I'm a uniter, not a divider, I'm the Decider" President ?

Ronald Reagan ??

Bill Clinton ???

"In the interest of democracy, repressive actions were taken; In order to preserve democracy, repressive actions were taken"

by proximity1 (proximity1-at-free-dot-fr---end-o'adresss) on Tue May 2nd, 2006 at 02:43:58 PM EST

Re: My president (none / 1)

A small matter of terminology: In English, the two types of nuclear bombs are usually called atomic bombs, which use fission reactions, and hydrogen bombs, which use fusion reactions.

by asdf on Tue May 2nd, 2006 at 10:47:43 PM EST
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Re: My president (none / 0)

Thank you for that correction. From now on, I'll use the simpler "atomic bomb" for either A-Bomb or N-Bomb.

"In the interest of democracy, repressive actions were taken; In order to preserve democracy, repressive actions were taken"

by proximity1 (proximity1-at-free-dot-fr---end-o'adresss) on Thu May 4th, 2006 at 03:15:10 PM EST
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Re: My president (none / 1)

George Mahmoud Bahmadinedjush

"Ne te courbe que pour aimer..." René Char

by Melanchthon on Tue May 2nd, 2006 at 04:47:57 PM EST

Re: My president (none / 0)

I know, I know! Blair! No, Chirac? Or Berlusconi, no. Maybe Merkel?

I give up.

by asdf on Tue May 2nd, 2006 at 10:45:57 PM EST

Re: My president (none / 0)

Nice guesses! In the original version of this little post, on my own blog in French, I did say that given my life Chirac could be one of my presidents. But as a hint I did say that it was not him!

I cannot claim Berlusconi though...

Thanks

by STA (sta.blog@gmail.com) on Tue May 2nd, 2006 at 10:54:15 PM EST
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Re: My president (4.00 / 2)

You're reading Eurotrib too much if you think bad things of these people.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Wed May 3rd, 2006 at 07:49:57 AM EST
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Re: My president (none / 0)

Keyes is right...but my president is trying to make it faster for some people

by STA (sta.blog@gmail.com) on Wed May 3rd, 2006 at 08:45:31 AM EST
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Re: My president (4.00 / 4)

The entire "average guy" competition never made sense to me. I remember, during the '04 campaign, Chris Matthews praising Bush as "the kind of guy you'd like to have a beer with." Why would I want to have a beer with the president? Why would I want an "aveerage guy" in office? I don't want to be more intelligent than my president. I want my president to be able to run circles around me, intellectually.

Bah. Fucking Red States and their Budweiser-drinking, deer-hunting, "I-wanna-avrij-Joe-fer-ma-president" nonsense.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Wed May 3rd, 2006 at 01:22:16 AM EST

Re: My president (4.00 / 2)

And how is fortunate son Bush an "average guy" anyway? He's "of average intelligence", ok, or at least he was before he suffered permanent brain damage from cocaine and alcohol abuse, but beyond that?

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed May 3rd, 2006 at 07:56:26 AM EST
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Re: My president (4.00 / 2)

Oh, I know. He does put on quite a performance, though. I'll give him credit for that. It's a hallmark of recent Republican presidents that they're all great B-movie-level actors.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Wed May 3rd, 2006 at 11:44:04 AM EST
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Re: My president (none / 0)

Maybe you have heard about GW Bush's first campaign, running for Congressman. His opponent framed him as a spoiled Northeastern intellectual yuppie, and he lost big time. Rumor has it that after the election he swore he would never again be taken as being too smart, and adopted the dumb rancher personna to compensate.

One may take this theory or leave it... Here's an old writeup of his campaign...
http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=1175

by asdf on Wed May 3rd, 2006 at 10:27:49 PM EST
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Re: My president (none / 1)

Good thing you didn't add "my president sucks at riding bicycles", it would then have been a giveaway.

by Alex in Toulouse on Wed May 3rd, 2006 at 11:58:30 AM EST

My president | 13 comments (13 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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