But when a majority voted for him they were stupid and ignorant, but now a majority is correct?
I'm not even arguing your politics, just questioning using public opinion, one way or the other, as a measure of greatness. (especially selectively) I think it is one of the problems with politics as entertainment or the politics of emotion.
>Silly me. Millions of people make up a Majority:
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>This isn's an issue of popularity. It's clarity. Most people see him for what he is - a failure.
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>>>This statement shows someone who's really out of touch. Bush had the lowest presidential rating EVER. Millions upon millions share my feelings on the guy.
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>>>>>The 8 year nightmare is over. Now Obama can put America back together again.
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>>>>Gimme a break. Bush wasn't all that bad given the cards dealt him and Obama is a cypher - we don't know what he'll do. Temper your unwarranted enthusiasm.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
