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Monday, November 19, 2007 03:59 AM

Anonymous

Okay, you won the presidential elections and had six years of total power. There is more to running a government then winning elections though, you have to produce results.

Lets see your results shall we?

Two wars, 9/11, Katrina, what looks to be the beginings of a second recession after the recession that came in when Bush took power, a deficit that is historically comparable only to two years of WWII, because unlike WWII the wars aren't on the budget. Note: that I am referring inflation adjusted data to say this.

Average wages are stagnant and you are undergoing a financial crisis that threatens to close down banks all around the world. Your levels of support outside of America haven't been this low since, well, ever with most of your allies pulling out of Iraq, including Poland.

Your environmental policy appears to be leading to massive droughts all across the world, with record fires being recorded in Africa, Europe and America. Your fiscal responsibility (Or, in other words, your real plan to deal with the debt) ammounts to hoping nobody collects on it. The debt itself has doubled.

Your healthcare system is the most expensive in the world and ranks 37th in the world. Your education system, for all the money that has been pumped into it by Monkey-Boy Mc-Doesn't-Believe-In-Internal-Controls has resulted in declining levels of scientific knowledge in your average graduates.

Scientifically you are being controlled by a bunch of people the rest of the world considers to be on a par with the flat earth movement, and the latest medical advances being recorded in Stem Cell research are coming out of China and Europe.

Speaking of China, China evidently no longer feels the need to vet the products it sells you, with the toys, toothpaste, tyres, and dog food scandals you have gone through recently.

Japan's Toyota Corp. has overtaken GM as the world's top supplier of cars, and unlike its American counterpart, is actually making reliable profits.

Your human rights record has plunged to being comparable to the human rights records of states like Zimbabwe, and your legal system has been raped to the point where going on precedent, your president determines what the law is.

You have a president who has yet to take responsibility for a single mistake, instead you end up with a bunch of "Responsible" conservatives trying to blame the prior administration while doing absolutely nothing to correct their errors. Indeed to have a real political movement centered on repeating the same errors you made back when you invaded Iraq.

Of your current crop of political leaders, not one is willing to really speak up for secularism in your government, despite the poor example set by other states with religious governments. In fact, the president before Clinton defined citizenship along religious lines.

You count as one of your few allies, a nation which funded 9/11 and has recently sentenced a rape victim to 300 lashes for being a victim of rape. Your other allies include a nation which has descended into being a dictatorship in a desperate bid to keep its nukes out of the hands of religious extremists.

Your war in Afghanistan has resulted in a new world's biggest supplier of heroin, and your war in Iraq has resulted in instability in Turkey.

Relations with South America are chilly to freezing, not the least bit because you guys can't tell Venezuela from Peru.

Somehow, I doubt that a particularly retarded garden slug could do as badly as you guys have managed to do over the last six years.

Monday, November 19, 2007 05:07 AM

Diane B, if that was the case...

You could vote for new politicians. The problem isn't the politicians, they are just the result of the problem, a symptom.

The problem is a population that thinks that voting for anybody other then the two biggest parties is a waste of your vote - no matter how badly the two biggest parties do at running your country.

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