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Do you think that Bush will be voted in for a second term? Last round was extremely close. I just love these ABC Nightline reviews... this is where I got the below one from:

When President Clinton went out to an aircraft carrier for the first time,
there were reports that the crew was told that they could not heckle the
president.  Clinton was still dogged by allegations of draft dodging.
President Bush's service in the National Guard was questioned, it's
unclear if he actually showed up for some of the time, but that never
really became a major issue.  And now, as a war-time commander-in-chief,
the president's standing with the military, and as a military leader, seem
assured.

Which brings us to that famous event on board the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln.
Originally, the White House said that he had to fly by jet because the
ship was too far out at sea for a helicopter, the normal way to go, to
reach it.  However, the ship was actually some thirty miles off the coast
at the time.  Then the White House said that the president wanted to make
the landing in a jet anyway, and the cost was virtually the same.  Now
there are charges that the ship, which had been at sea for ten months, was
kept out at sea longer just to allow the president to hold this event.
There are plenty of charges and counter charges.  Let's face it, the next
presidential campaign has begun.

And the Democrats really don't know what to do.  National security has
always been a strong issue for the Republican Party.  There was a famous
memo from presidential advisor Karl Rove a while back telling Republican
candidates how to run on that issue in the 2002 election.  Virtually every
issue now is somehow linked to national security.  The president gave an
economic speech a few days ago.  The first fifteen minutes or so were all
about Iraq and terrorism.  It's a potent weapon.  Presidential spokesman
Ari Fleischer said yesterday that anyone who questions the president's
actions is doing a disservice to the men and women of the military.  
Democratic Senator Robert Byrd said to use the military as a backdrop was
doing a disservice to the memory of those killed in the war in Iraq.  No
political charge is more effective than the charge that a candidate is
somehow unpatriotic.  Governor Dukakis' campaign was virtually ended by
that ill-fated photo op of him in a tank.

So we want to move past the controversy over the event on the carrier,
which continues to simmer, and look at the larger issue and what it means
for the coming campaign, and for the nation.  After all, we are in a war
against terrorism, a war that may last for the foreseeable future.  That
will be the background against which every issue plays out.  Nightline
correspondent Michel Martin will report on the controversy and the
competing claims and counter-claims.  Chris Bury will anchor.  It may seem
a little early to be talking about the presidential campaign, I think we
feel that way, but let's face it, it's already started.

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No, I don't think he will win for a next term. The war against Iraq will not allow him to do that. Even though the people agree that something needed to be done about it, the way he approached it, the UN issue and the fact that they could not found solid evidence of weapons of mass destructions, will definetly play against it. Although I doubt he wants to be re-elected...

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"No, I don't think he will win for a next term. The war against Iraq will not allow him to do that. Even though the people agree that something needed to be done about it, the way he approached it, the UN issue and the fact that they could not found solid evidence of weapons of mass destructions, will definetly play against it. Although I doubt he wants to be re-elected... "

Bush is very likely to win the next election.  I don't know where you get your information, fortunatly American's for the most part are not as Anti Bush as the rest of the world.  He has already started his re-election bid.  

I seriously don't understand where you get your ideas about America from.  The only candidates on the Democrat side that are even likely to sting him are Joseph Liberman and Dick Gephart.  Neither one of them has disagreed with Bush in regards to the war either in Afganistan nor in Iraq.  The ant war democrat candidates don't even have a chance, I mean, one anti war democrat planned a conference to announce she was running for president and one person showed up.  

The war on terrorism and Bush's foreing policy is not what will decide the election in 2004 at all.  Like his father, if Bush loses, it will be because of lying and deciet of democrats and communist, however, no one really thinks Bush will be gone in 2004 not by a long shot.  Keep in mind that those Dixie Chicks have been run out of the country music awards shows because of their anti Bush comments.  The last country music awards show was last week, upon mention of the Dixie Chicks there was a loud BOOOO.  The Clinton's get booed off stages too these days.

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Oh and it is after all the American people, not the world dictators of the UN that determine if Bush is re-elected.

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Bush is very likely to win the next election.  I don't know where you get your information, fortunatly American's for the most part are not as Anti Bush as the rest of the world.  He has already started his re-election bid.   I seriously don't understand where you get your ideas about America from.  The only candidates on the Democrat side that are even likely to sting him are Joseph Liberman and Dick Gephart.  Neither one of them has disagreed with Bush in regards to the war either in Afganistan nor in Iraq.  The ant war democrat candidates don't even have a chance, I mean, one anti war democrat planned a conference to announce she was running for president and one person showed up.   The war on terrorism and Bush's foreing policy is not what will decide the election in 2004 at all.  Like his father, if Bush loses, it will be because of lying and deciet of democrats and communist,

Sometimes I wonder if YOU are the one living in the USA?. : Listen, let's see if Bush is ready to launch an attack against another country...let's see how much support he gets again....now you're saying if he loses is because of the deceit of democrats and communist. That's such a lame excuse. If he loses is because people are saying 'We don't want your freaky war-mind in here'. If he wins, then I will have to go to leave to the North Pole...I will be afraid to even live here in Trinidad where he may say we have weapons of mass destructions in our coconut trees. LOL That was a joke!!! ;D (you get too serious sometimes boy).

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eep in mind that those Dixie Chicks have been run out of the country music awards shows because of their anti Bush comments.  The last country music awards show was last week, upon mention of the Dixie Chicks there was a loud BOOOO.

Yeah that's so true...particularly in how freedom of speech is supported in your country :

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I don't know if George Bush will be elected president for a second term or not.  It sounds bad, but I didn't vote for him the first time.  (I voted for the other fella).  I don't think I will be voting for him a second time.  Bush has handled some pretty big things since he was elected president.  But he somewhat falls short, in my book, as far as what's going on in the US.   George Bush reminds me too much of when his father was in office.  More focused on wars and less forcus on some of the political platforms he was voted into office for.

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That is the thing about the US that has always amazed me, there are so many inside the US that are on drugs, having abortions, hungry, abused, without work, etc, but the US is always busy trying to 'manage' other nations and tell them how to develop? Pres. Bush needed to take care of terrorism, but not at the cost of his own people, BUT in his defense I will say ONE thing (And this is discussed in another thread), war results in bigger economies and more jobs (Yes, it does, see WWII, etc.), so maybe Bush thought he would kill two birds with one stone?

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I just hope whoever will be the next US President that he can really do his job properly, meaning govern his own country and helping his own people. The USA is one of the most strongest and developed countries in the world but let's not be blind and think is everything is okay in there...5 million kids go hungry every year in the USA. 1 out of 5 kids are suffering some kind of abuse. I don't mind for them to want to help other countries with supplies and stuff, I personally think is great but when the help comes only ''if' they have to give something in exchange (political leaders etc) then is not help, but a very low way to take advantage of the need of the people.