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Re:Lame Duck President! Anyone Praises Him today?? 2 Months, 3 Weeks ago Karma: 0  
Well, history will reveal itself one day about George W.
IT would be a sad case if Bush does NOT see his legacy unfold .... History tends to reveal itself AFTER the person dies (unfortunately).
Therefore - Bush probably does not care.

Let see what he does in the next 4.5 months as his term ends.
He might commit some cowboy diplomacy and really screw up this country and just leave the mess to the next President.
I'm thinking sending troops and military into battle against - RUSSIA!



If he does it - his legacy will come even faster!
 
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All you Christians know that handsign at the end of the clip????
 
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Re:Lame Duck President! Anyone Praises Him today?? 1 Month ago Karma: 0  
History of the word lame Duck;

The description of 'lame duck' is often applied to politicians who are known to be in their final term of office, when colleagues and electors look toward a successor. It is also sometimes used to describe office-holders who have lost an election but have not yet left office.

In recent years (as of 2006) both George W. Bush and Tony Blair, unable to see out further electoral victories, have been faced with such mutterings, for example:

In May 2006, The Washington Post ran an article entitled 'Bush's Political Capital Spent', including the opinion:

"Such weakness has unleashed the first mutterings of those dreaded second-term words, 'lame duck'."

In April 2006, The [London] Times ran an article entitled:

"Is Blair a 'lame-duck' Prime Minister?"

US presidents have long suffered this fate, partly due to the electoral rules in America, which limit the number of terms that a president may serve, and the USA is where the phrase originates when applied to politicians. The Congressional Globe entry for 14 January 1863 has:

In no event could it be justly obnoxious to the charge of being a receptacle of ‘lame ducks’ or broken down politicians.

Historians now describe various 19th century US presidents as 'lame ducks'. The first such description of a US president I can find which was written while he was still in office isn't until 1926 though, and relates to Calvin Coolidge. The Wisconsin newspaper, the Appleton Post-Crescent ran a piece entitled, 'Making a lame duck of Coolidge', in May 1926:

"... the voting in other Republican states should hinge pretty largely on the issue whether Mr. Coolidge shall be permitted to become a lame duck president for the final two years of his term."

The actual origin of the term is nothing to do with politics though and is quite specific in meaning. It comes from the London Stock Market and referred to investors who were unable to pay their debts. In Horace Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Mann, 1761, we have:

"Do you know what a Bull, and a Bear, and a Lame Duck are?"

In 1771, David Garrick, in Prologue to Foote's Maid of Bath wrote:

"Change-Alley bankrupts waddle out lame ducks!"

In 1772, the Edinburgh Advertiser included:

"Yesterday being the settling day for India stock, the bulls had a balance to pay to the bears to the amount of 23 per cent. Only one lame duck waddled out of the alley, and that for no greater a sum than 20,000."

We are still familiar with the terms 'bull market' and 'bear market', referring to rising and falling markets respectively, but 'lame duck' in the specifically stock trading context is now little used.

Why should someone who has no assets be called a 'duck'? Could it be related to the cricketing term, 'out for a duck' - used when a batman is out without scoring any runs? It seems not. That term is much later and refers to the zero on the scoreboard being similar to a duck's egg. First used in 1867, in G. H. Selkirk's Guide to Cricket Grounds:

"If he makes one run he has 'broken his duck's egg'."



The Lame Bush will leave office in 3 months!
Patience!
 
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Re:Lame Duck President! Anyone Praises Him today?? 1 Week, 5 Days ago Karma: 0  
Bush has so damaged his own party that the country is now moved away from the R.
So - my praise is that he made this a Democratic country!
Bye Bye Bush!
 
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Re:Lame Duck President! Anyone Praises Him today?? 1 Week, 2 Days ago Karma: 0  
Yeah - the only victory and praise I give Bush is that he crippled this country so bad that America became color-blind to vote for the first Black Democratic President who is competent and willing to bring change. Good job Bush!
 
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