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You've still got to distinguish your good candidates ( like Obama ) from your really bad candidates ( like George W. Bush ). Everyone has their own reasons for wanting to do stuff, I can see one motive might be to prevent Archambault from winning. Another might be, it might look good on your resume.
The CFC has all sorts of similar dilemma's right now. Is running the Canadian Closed not a "thankless" task at times ? The CFC has always been a highly charged political envoronment with a lot of secrecy, and these aspects are by choice. Not everyone supports these choices. One of the costs of such an approach is you lose most of the young people, this is not the world they live in ( a much more dynamic social media approach ).
Duncan: I think if you look you will see that Bob G and myself have been very active on the the Chess Forums this year. Whatever secrets you think might exist were swept away last July .......
And how is that Good Candidate working out for the American economy?
Oops! I forgot, It's still Bush's fault!!
Looks like a decently good job to me. Only so much you can ask for when you take over from an incompetant like Bush. Recession ended, US companies making record profits ... who would have predicted that March 2009 ?
Looks like a decently good job to me. Only so much you can ask for when you take over from an incompetant like Bush. Recession ended, US companies making record profits ... who would have predicted that March 2009 ?
Good Job??
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Obama will go down as one of the worst Presidents the USA ever had. IMHO! Of course, I am a very humble person.
He surrounds himself with Socialists, Communists, Progressives who want to give everything to everyone, he attacks business with regulation, he is so thin skinned, it is almost laughable...
Oops! There my Conservative side goes popping off.
Well.. That should elicit a "few" responses anyway!
Duncan: I think if you look you will see that Bob G and myself have been very active on the the Chess Forums this year. Whatever secrets you think might exist were swept away last July .......
It is possible that the last year has seen some positive changes, I'm not really following closely. But if so, then I can't see Bob retiring as President after one year, followed by ( for example ) Serge, as being confidance boosting for the CFC.
... Obama will go down as one of the worst Presidents the USA ever had. IMHO! Of course, I am a very humble person. ...
Possibly, but he should still finish comfortably ahead of such all-time losers as George "Mission Accomplished" Bush, Andrew "How do these impeachment trials work?" Johnson, Franklin "What do you mean there might be a civil war?" Pierce, and Warren "I'm not big enough for this job" Harding.
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
Possibly, but he should still finish comfortably ahead of such all-time losers as George "Mission Accomplished" Bush, Andrew "How do these impeachment trials work?" Johnson, Franklin "What do you mean there might be a civil war?" Pierce, and Warren "I'm not big enough for this job" Harding.
You might be correct, but Barack "Spend $1,000,000,000,000 and I guarantee unemployment won't go above 8%" Obama might match some of that. I did say "one of..." And, yes, I know those weren't his exact words!
Quite frankly the George W. Bush days will will be looked upon as the good old days in the future. To blame the present economy on W is frankly dumb. The precipitating events (financial crisis) which sealed McCain's fate in the election were set in motion by the Democrats for the most part. Saturday Night Live did a surprisingly accurate skit on the subject that featured caricatures of W., Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and others. The G.W. Bush administration tried to fix the problems before everything came to a head at least on the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac front but were thwarted in their attempts by the Dems who were very large recipients of campaign financing from the two entities.
I am not sure if Obama will lose or not but he won't be able to run against Bush again in 2012. If the Republicans nominate someone credible they will win in a cakewalk. At the moment, I'm not sure that they will. The U.S. president has a veto over what the legislators do. That is a significant power.
You must be joking. GW Bush is lucky that he avoided jail for violating the Geneva Convention. All the present day leaders that do not deal with climate change will be viewed as idiotic in the near future.
What Republican is credible in your view. Sarah Palin or Donald Trump? You really think a Bush will run in 2012; which one?
Why am I not surprised to see no evaluation on CMA ChessTalk of the two declared candidates for the CFC Presidency.
Bob
"People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see."
You must be joking. GW Bush is lucky that he avoided jail for violating the Geneva Convention. ...
Even if the U.S. had ratified all of the treaties that make up the Geneva Conventions, I doubt that W would ever be prosecuted. Another case of might makes right.
P.S. I guess the trick for people like you, Paul, is to follow your moral compass while staying out of harm's way. The Ws of this world, and their legions of psychopaths and sycophants, will have no compunction about 'waterboarding' you, or worse.
Last edited by Peter McKillop; Monday, 13th June, 2011, 01:44 PM.
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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
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