For those that were following politics 20 years ago: If the crazy negative bias in the media (news, late night shows, Hollywood, etc) against Trump is a 97 out of 100... then what number would you give the treatment George W Bush received at the time?
I remember a lot of George W Bush jokes and hatred during the early part of this century, but I literally did not follow politics AT ALL until the day after the 2016 election when I started to look into it. ONE of the things that I found strange right off the bat was the over the top, nonsensical and hysterical hatred for our new president. It made me intuit, even before Q or anything else, that something weird was going on. But, some argue that Bush was treated the same way by the media (the legal system is another story). For those that paid attention, how different is this?
I always thought Dole was a decent man. Boring, and lower energy for sure. But not (as?) evil as the Bushes, Clintons, NoName etc.
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The intelligence agencies have run our country for a very long time. At least since JFK said he would dismantle the CIA. The CIA said, we'll show you.
George H.W. Bush was a CIA director.
The Patriot Act, allowing the intelligence agencies to Spy on Americans, was passed under George W. Bush's watch in the fall out of the faked 9-11.
Dole exemplified the adage, "All that evil needs to triumph, is for good men to do nothing." It would be like voting for an armchair. I can't remember if I even voted in that election.
So your voting decision is based on how entertaining the candidate is/was?
You can ask that question of someone else and get an answer. No candidate was "entertaining." Dole was going to be a do-nothing, just like an armchair. To borrow a phrase used often around here, "expand your mind."
I am not the fuckwit who votes for the most entertaining candidate, that's you.
I respected the fact that when he ran for POTUS, he stepped down from his position in the Senate as the majority leader. Lot of power in that role He didn't keep it as, a backup. I also remember reading at the time that the majority of Congress preferred him over Clinton because he did command respect, but they had to toe the party line.
Here are some links that changed my mind. Chinese lobbyist, nice article from a Chinese paper, and his wife was a president of the Red Cross.
https://www.axios.com/2020/05/13/bob-dole-registers-lobbyist-chinese-chemical-company https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3158846/bob-doles-long-influence-washingtons-china-policy-remembered https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1999-02-07/thanks-to-elizabeth-dole-the-red-cross-is-in-the-pink
Wait. Is he related to the Dole fruit company?