I forgot about that <.< He doesn't even know old RIA. And we should do something about Fierce

Cocks is what we should do....

What akky said some >_> <_< action...

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yeah...one president changed the entire culture of the united states. WE CLEARLY weren't a bunch of self-pleasing, out sourcing, arrogant, stubborn, selfish bastards BEFORE him. noooooo....it was all the fault of one politician with less than average intelligence.  

It's actually hard to tell whether or not the current President (and by extension his administration, policies, and party mates) are sympotmatic of the problem or whether they have them selves served to help create the problem. The way I see it, it's some of both. Though the American people did in fact elect Mr. Bush to the presidency, he ran on a dramatically different platform than what he ever followed, both pre and post 9/11. Many people forget, or weren't old enough in the first place, to recall that Bush ran on a very fiscally responsible domestic policy based platform, but abandoned it very soon after entering office. What many also don't recall is that while campaigning and, even more telling, as governor of Texas Bush was a very eloquent and well rehersed speaker. It is only over time that his public speaking has degraded in such and obvious and, I would argue, purposeful manner.

What you have to see is that when elected, he came off just as well educated as Gore (Though both paled to Nader...) if only more conservative, so at the time there was not such a dramatic groundswell of anti-intellectualism as we see today. I believe it was only after the feeling of anti-intellectualism became more prevelent that the President, in an attempt to connect to the far extreme of his base, also began his gradual dumbing down. When that started of course it became more acceptable for others who, though not as extreme, saught to emulate him and follow 'the party'. Hence the current atmoshphere we have today where exists a highly pervasive sense of anti-intellectualism and an ever larger emphasis on materialism and conspicuous consumption the likes of which we haven't seen since the dawn of yuppieism in the 80's and 90's. During those decades however, while materialism did reign king, so too did intellectual thought. Today it seems we've kept the money-lust and lost the thouht process that helped to check it socially.

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ya my girlfriend is a freakin rediculous cross country runner. Made State and everything. She is always tellin me how she ran 3 miles today and im like awesome. I sat RIGHT here ALLLL day

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What state/who is she....

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