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Bush 43 may be packing his bags to return to Texas but his team is doing their best to rewrite all sorts of environmental regulations . Many of these will be very hard for the Obama administration to roll back. Similar to a Category 5 hurricane the Bush administration is leaving behind destructive tornadoes to wreck havoc. I was listening to people at Thanksgiving dinner talk afterwards about how Bush is getting the all of the blame and it is really the fault of the Democratic Congress. I kept my mouth shut because why start a with room full of Republicans who apparently have read some of Corsi's book about Obama . When someone tells me that Obama is really a Muslim and not a Christian I know what they are reading w/o having to ask them. I also know that a president can make a difference regarding the economy by being present, paying attention and looking like they know which end is up I would like to think that Bush is burnt out but I know that it is his style of management to give a job to someone and have them go do it. I also heard amongst the after dinner discussion that Obama will be a one term president because he cannot create all of those jobs he has "promised" and the white voters of Ohio and middle America will turn against him. I do not know whether Obama will be regarded as another Lincoln or FDR by future historians but I have a feeling that he will do very well. He is very engaged and aware of the world around him. He seems eager to participate and not phone it in. I think that he is going to surprise everyone . I think that he is going to be a two term president. BTW- the environment isn t the only area where the Bush administration is attempting to push through more negative destructive regulations. You have to hand it to Bush-he is consistent which in the end is unfortunate for us.
One more point- There isn't an Obama cult contrary to what I heard after dinner. The curtain
was pulled back on the Bush administration after Katrina. Once people saw how incompetent the response was at the Federal level, {regardless of state & local efforts}, everything else came to light. As more & more information came out on the Iraq con job that in addition to Katrina was the beginning of many people losing both trust & respect for President Bush. Once the trust & respect began to go it was hard to get it back especially as the total record of choosing ideology over competency was becoming clear. To quote the old TV cop show Hawaii 5-0, " we been had brother".. What happened in Grant Park, Chicago was in my opinion the realization as President Gerald R Ford said,"our long national nightmare is over with"
