is it right for european media classing g.bush as a lame turkey?

Question

i just been watching the news and they said if george bush loses the november elections he will be seen by many in the world as a lame duck .what do americans think?

Answer 1

People have a right to express their opinion.

Answer 2

The problem is that republicans and democrats alike are all cut from the same cloth. The current administration has done quite a lot of damage. Should they lose control of the house, they can sit back for a couple of years and watch everyone scramble doing damage control. I can see it now. They will pose in front of the camera with their sleeves rolled up. They will wear military uniforms and stand in front of huge pictures of themselves and wave the flag a lot and then, after the day is done, they will all sit around and drink cognac marvelling at how foolish the American people were to allow all of this crap to go down.

Answer 3

GWB is a lame Duck! More and more Americans are speaking out against the war. Even some of the Republicans are turning their backs to GWB. We went in, kick butt: now it is time to get out. We have laid the foundation for one bloody Civil War and there is little that can be done to stop it now. If we stay it will be another Vietnam!

Answer 4

GWB is not up for re-election, and by standard US political nomenclature, he's as lame a duck as Clinton was in 98.

Calling him a lame turkey is a variation on the term, indicating his is a failed presidency.

Answer 5

George Bush is not standing for election in the 2006 cycle - in fact that is part of the essence of a "lame duck". The entire House of Representatives, 1/3 of the Senate and many state elections are on the ballot, but not the Presidency (which is elected only once in four years).

"Lame duck" is a quaint American euphamism for a politician who, though still in office, has been rendered powerless to advance his or her agenda. Reasonable people could differ I suppose on whether Bush could be called a "turkey," but no one should call him a "lame duck" until the elections have happened.

Some characterize these "mid-term" elections as referrenda on the President, but the issues in voters' minds may be more complex than a simple choice to support the President or join with the terrorists who hate our freedom (IT'S A JOKE PEOPLE!).

This year, the Congress is facing scandalous allegations involving corruption (the lobbying scandal of the "K Street Project"), sexual improprieties (Mark Foley's alleged conduct with Congressional pages), and substance abuse (Patrick Kennedy's mishaps among them). Looming large over all of these issues is the ongoing war in Iraq and an economy that - despite data which makes it appear robust - many Americans feel is underperforming.

As a result of voter dissatisfaction with Congress, many people are speculating that the Democratic Party could win a majority in one or both houses of Congress. A loss of either house would be a major blow to President Bush since he would not be able to push his legislative agenda through without dealing with the Democrats. More troubling for the President is the fact that only the majority party in a house of Congress has subpoena power - the power to force witnesses to appear at Congressional hearings and give testimony. Many people believe that if the Democrats capture one or both houses of Congress that there may be Congressional investigations into, among other things,

* whether Osama Bin Laden was "allowed to escape" from Tora Bora,
* pre-war intelligence regarding Iraq,
* the conduct of the Iraqi occupation and the role of private "contractors" there,
* the competence of Donald Rumsfeld to serve as Secretary of Defense,
* the 2004 Presidential election (and specifically the results in Ohio),
*the federal government's response (or, more accurately, lack thereof) to Hurricane Katrina,
* the disclosure of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to the media,
* Jack Abramoff and his role in the K Street Project,
* etc., etc., etc.

Of course if the Democrats were to win both houses of Congress then impeachment and possibly conviction looms large for Bush and others. An impeachment and conviction would result in Bush being removed from office.

All that said, there is a feeling that if the Republican party loses one or both houses of Congress the President will be besieged for the next two years, unable to advance a legislative agenda and stuck in a cycle of responding to multiple Congressional investigations. This would be the very essence of a "Lame Duck" a politician so badly wounded politicially that he is unable to save himself. The Republicans have made attempts to trade on this point to woo voters by asking whether they want the next two years to be devoted to a positive agenda or to rehashing the mistakes of the past in a game of political "gotcha." We will see in November who the voters want.

All that said, I do not think the Democrats would be well served by opening the floodgates on Bush if they win one or both houses. A few select Congressional investigations may be called for (Hurricane Katrina leaps to mind), but in order for the Democrats to make gains in the voters' minds they need to be seen as advancing a positive agenda, not just Bush bashing. If they seize a little power and abuse it they will almost certainly pay a high price in 2008.

Answer 6

How would Bush lose the Nov. elections? Now I am hungry for turkey.

Answer 7

Any president is always a lame duck the last few years.
But if Bush loses, the whole world loses, especially Europe.
Muslims are set to take over Europe if we lose in Iraq.
The whole world should be praying that the Democrats don't take over Congress.

Answer 8

Yes. In fact, I could've come up with something better than a lame turkey. SCREW GEORGE BUSH. He let my hometown,New Orleans, get destroyed in Katrina. Now, instead of using America's money to help Katrina victims, he is using it to try to dig up oil that he knows isn't there.

Answer 9

i hate bush and i hope he doesnt win ...he is a lame duck whatever that means and we need a new president hes not doin his job right and its very unconstitutional

Answer 10

Lame turkey...
Lame monkey...
Same thing.

To answer your question...
Yes it is right for European media
to say this...
Bush is pushing
DEMOCRACY & FREEDOM OF SPEECH
RIGHT???

Answer 11

dude, george bush can't win the election!!!! he's already been president for 2 terms. This just goes to show how ignorant some countries are towards America.