Y'all keep insisting (as does Bush himself) that he kept us from being attacked again - if you believe that, with no evidence except the fact that we haven't been attacked (again), then have I got a deal for you: an anti-lightning suit of my own invention, which I can prove is effective, as I've never been struck.
Heheheh .... excellent point ..... it's kinda like goin' to the track with a buddy .... and your buddy wins the long odds .... and you claim that you caused it .... simply 'cause you were there, standing next to him ..... afterall .....
it's just so obvious ....
I'm utterly amazed at how easily people will assign a
source of causation to something or someone ..... all without the benefit of
direct observation ...... "Bush did this ..." ..... and "Clinton did that ..."
Quite likely what kept us from being attacked
again was not anything that Bush or Cheney did .... but things done by many folks whose names we'll never know .... in the intelligence community, the armed forces, and Homeland Security, among others ..... (it's to some extent, like a machine ... it runs on automatic to a degree)
Just as
what got us attacked in the first place was not anything that Bush (II) or Cheney did specifically .... but things done (in our name) by many folks whose names we'll never know (and a few we do) .... in the intelligence community, the armed forces, and Homeland Security, among others .....
Bush failed miserably - to find the real villain (Bin Laden),
Strike one ......
to persuade most of our allies that Iraq presented a convincing threat to us,
Strike two ....
to prevent the financial meltdown we're now trying to avoid,
Not only did he fail to prevent it - but he's actually made it worse - much, much worse.
But then I would say the financial mess didn't
just happen ....
it was caused .... same as the Great Depression ..... same players for the most part .... sometimes under different names ....
Anybody noticing that some major financial entities (Chase, Bank of America) are picking up these
supposedly bankrupt firms for a pittance ?
And
being given your tax dollars to do it ...... wake up folks .....
Osama, while a real threat, ain't but a fly ..... Hamas ..... last time I looked, they weren't able to even mount an effective attack on their neighbor next door - let alone an ocean away ....
No, the
real enemies are much closer to home ..... but the above, and others like them, make real good devices
to fixate your attention ..... lest you look around
other places
He "wasn't impeached" - glory be, what an accolade!
Yes indeed .... like he was really going to be .... given that his party for the most part controlled both Houses ...
The logic of that point is like
"I've never gotten a ticket ... or been in a wreck ... so that means I'm a great driver !" ..... yeah .... sure it does .....
Bush was (so far) the worst president ever, IMO, leaving America in much worse shape than he found it.
Hard to argue against statistics .... ain't it ? .... happened on his watch ....
He's the dimwit that brought in Hank Paulson as Treasury Sec ... the head of a Wall Street firm .....
that gave away $700 billion of YOUR MONEY .... well ... your's .... and your children's ..... and their children's ..... ad nauseam .....
And he wanted to do it with literally no strings or oversight ..... (
"Just trust us .... it's bad - but we can fix it .... but it's so bad that we can't even tell you the details ..... just trust us - you really don't want to know ... and besides it's too complex for you to understand ....")
Most folks really don't understand the magnitude of the financial crimes that have been committed by Bush & his cronies against the American people ...... between Iraq (which some are getting rich off of), the bailouts, .... and the rest of the profligate spending that took place on his watch (while having both Houses of Congress controlled by his party ......)
You (meaning people generally) have been sold into
economic slavery (not only that - but your children - and their children, as well) ..... and yet you still believe you are free .... it would almost be hilarious ... if it weren't so sad ....
The biggest thing that Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress could have done to preserve Freedom and Liberty in the United States would have been to abolish the income tax and eliminate the IRS - because it is thru that mechanism that we are, and will be, enslaved - and it is the
single biggest thing which makes us, as a country, uncompetitive. Forget the UAW and the unions - while they don't help matters, they aren't as big of a problem as some would make them out to be - mostly a red herring. The biggest thing is that the cost of the income tax (and the all the compliance costs) and the regulatory burdens that companies have to live under here in the US
are incorporated into the price of everything we produce ...
and are not in the price of foreign produced goods that we have to compete against ....
They actually floated some trial balloons on eliminating the tax code and the IRS right after he took office ..... I was there (in DC) at the time ..... fighting that fight. ...... it ended up going nowhere .... the sheeple were too busy watching American Idol and Survivor to demand change .... and various "interests" had no interest in changing the status quo ...... why change anything - if you have already rigged the playing field to your (sometimes exclusive) advantage thru the law and the tax code ?
The recovery will not be easy, and I only hope Obama can get a good start on rebuilding the trust that Bush has lost, both at home and abroad. On that score, only time will tell.
One can always hope .... but I ain't holding my breathe ....
Sometimes when confronted with situations of magnitude, a rather common man may rise to the occasion and do great things ....
But my bet is Obama is just another pol ..... like the many that have passed before him .....
I hope that government "of, by, and FOR the people" hasn't already perished from the Earth, entirely, because it hasn't been seen here for a long time.
At least 50 years .... really, more like close to 100 .....
BTW, my views are not based on "the regular news" ..... rarely, if ever watch it - like Cheri, I get my info from many places ..... including from a few sources "inside the Beltway" .... (I could post some really cute candid photos of the shrub at the wh - they're at home on the desktop - but it might get in me in hotwater ......
)
Grade by the way is:
F
