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Originally posted by Gar A huge majority of American voters will opt for the candidate who appeals to them on those issues.

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Sorry to derail the thread further, but, er, "huge majority"?

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Originally posted by Gar
Jmc105, where you getting this info that Bush fooled 62 million people into voting for him? Yes, Florida was rigged in his favour but he was still in the race right up to that last state. And when he went up against John Kerry in the most recent election, he won fair and square. It's not about him fooling the American citizens - they wanted to vote for him (those that did vote at least) in the two elections that he stood in. Back to this thread though......Is no-one here looking forward to Damien Rice's new album?

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the bould revlon reckoned that damien rice has achieved his level of success in spite of a lack of talent, not because he is talented. and that reminded me of bush. i don't consider the man competent to manage a starbucks franchise, let alone the united states of america. i was in denver during the 2004 election and watched the presidential debates. the contrast between kerry, who was able to address the issues he was asked about with intelligence, and bush, who ignored the questions in favour of saying what suited him (a familiar enough tactic round here incidentally) and still failed to construct meaningful sentences, was shocking. regardless of what your political or moral beliefs may be, how any sane, thinking person could entrust the running of their country to george w. bush is beyond me. just over 62 million people voted for bush in total, and i reckon that if they believe he is the best man for the job that somewhere along the line somebody must have brainwashed them. i am looking forward to the new album, but having heard some of his new material i'm not expecting it to be as good as 'o'. in spite of my lack of a sense of humour, and thanks for clearing that up it's such a relief just to finally know, i'll see your ferrell and raise you a black bush. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DprRG8uitwA

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Originally posted by jmc105
ah in fairness now, i mentioned bush in passing, i had no interest in getting into a debate about the man. fair enough, you think he's playing a role, and he does have certain amount of charm, which he uses to good effect. i think his lack of intelligence is painfully obvious, and that without a combination of his ex-president daddy, his brilliant campaign managers, a seriously dodgy election in 2000, the war in iraq, a poor 2004 campaign by the democrats and a willingness on the part of millions of americans to vote for along party lines, he wouldn't be president today. i wouldn't go so far as to call him stupid, but compared to someone like clinton, (wasn't he a rhode's scholar?), he ain't smart. came across an interesting report on the iq's of the last twelve american presidents recently, which places george w last with an iq of 91. clinton was top with 182. http://www.lovenstein.org/report/

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I dont think that proves anything, c'mon now, quoting an anti-bush website which has no real evidence for their claims. As for the new album, well Gar, in the absence of any tracks to listen to, I'd say it proves that being able to count is not one of Ricecake's skills, there are 10 songs listed and the album is called '9'?

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Originally posted by jmc105
gar - it's hard to talk for very long about an album that hasn't come out yet and no-one has heard anything from. rj - first read about that report in "de paper", then came across it online, had a closer look today and you'll be happy to hear that it's all a hoax. or rather, it started as an email joke which sounded real enough to fool some journalists, who published it, the silly things. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/lovenstein.html maybe i'm misunderestimating the poor man, maybe there's really a keen intellect hiding in there somewhere, but i've watched him say and do so many things that remind me of homer simpson that i really don't think so. surely damien rice's counting skills, going by your logic anyway, were shown up years ago, when "o" turned out to have any tracks at all on it?

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Classic, I knew it was dodgy if jmc105 was using it to back himself up. Now, is 'O' or '0', a numeral or a letter, i haven't explored ricecakes enough to know, but if it was indeed a numeral then the album should have been blank, which would have made it much better to listen to indeed

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Originally posted by Una
where will this thread go next?! f**kin hell, my head is melted

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Here are my favourite top three songs about bears 'Bear Necessities' - The Jungle Book '(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear' - Elvis Presley 'Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear' - Randy Newman