<li>Hardcore Bush supporters would still support him if he ate a baby live on national television. Academic Performance Cult members would eat a baby in order to gain even a tiny advantage for admission to Harvard, MIT, Duke, and other ultra-prestigious schools.</li>
<li>Hardcore Bush supporters think anyone who questions Bush is unpatriotic, no matter how extremist his agenda. Academic Performance Cult members think anyone who questions the realism of the extremist agenda of straight A’s in 20 AP courses AND leadership experience in multiple state champion varsity sports teams AND enough community service to be the next Mother Theresa AND a Nobel Prize is an unpatriotic, lazy, shortsighted, misbehaving, drug-dealing, lawless, immoral, and corrupt slacker.</li>
<li>Hardcore Bush supporters think Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction no matter how many facts are presented showing otherwise. Academic Performance Cult members think being the perfect student in terms of academics, athletics, community service, AND prestigious awards will guarantee future success and anything less than perfection on ALL of these fronts guarantees failure, no matter how many facts are presented showing otherwise.</li>
<li>Hardcore Bush supporters believe in doctrines (like pre-emptive wars) that were inconceivable just a few years ago. Academc Performance Cult members believe in doctrines (like summer homework and doping up on Ritalin in the absence of an ADD diagnosis) that were inconceivable just a few years ago.</li>
<li>Hardcore Bush supporters and Academic Performance Cult members are seen as kooks by everyone else, even those who are kooky in other ways.</li>
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<p>Liberal much? I don't agree with you, but whatever floats your boat.</p>
<p>.-_-.</p>
<p>I am a liberal. I find it ironic that many people on CC are liberal (just look at the long anti-Bush threads) but have bought into the Academic Performance Cult. They're just as hypocritical as conservatives who watch kinky porn and have affairs.</p>
<p>wow, what an excellent, apt and thought provoking analogy.</p>
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<p>Well said my friend, well said indeed.</p>
<p>.-_-.</p>
<p>Why is everyone on CC like "Why is everyone on CC overacheievers who have no life?"</p>
<p>Did I punctuate/grammar that right?</p>
<p>jhsu, get a frickin life. Thats it. simply, get a life.</p>
<p>"Hardcore Bush supporters think Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction no matter how many facts are presented showing otherwise."</p>
<p>Time for you to learn what is considered a weapon of mass destruction. Evidence has shown the US Military <sarcasm> ONLY </sarcasm> 500 missiles and other items containing bio-chemical weapons.</p>
<p>Ya. Ya. Surreezz. They also had nuclei inside atoms in their knifes, what a bunch of bastards!</p>
<p>OP, good analogy :))</p>
<p>Hey..how about you do your research before coming on CC and posting something that is slanderous, false, and childish? </p>
<p>“Iraq’s search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.”
Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002</p>
<p>“We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.”
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002</p>
<p>“There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years … We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction.”
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002</p>
<p>“If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program.”
President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998</p>
<p>Where are your facts?? I hate how liberals keep saying that there were no WMDs in Iraq and yet their leaders have even acknowledged there were, just like President Bush. You're probably one of those kids who thinks they know everything about politics just because you watch the Colbert Report and The Daily Report with Jon Stewart every night. I highly doubt you read the newspaper everyday, watch the news every night, and watch C-Span without falling asleep.</p>
<p>You say that like I care.</p>
<p>I believe very much in hard work and excellence in school and extracurriculars, though I would not eat a baby. I got into Harvard without that. And I support Bush. I don't care if people think I'm kooky.</p>
<p>So think on that. People can have strong views and not give a darn (that looks so stupid censored...) what others think about them. You have your views, I have mine. I don't care that you think differently or that I'm weird. It's more important in life to feel strong about who you are, not absorb ridicule from others.</p>