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I'm cutting out the personal insults from the comments I'm quoting...
@hawkpsd:
"Clinton did nothing of any import his last 4 months. And so on. Don't you remember ?"
Perhaps you don't notice the huge difference here - which is that today the economy is collapsing and everbody's panicking.
@billh:
"And if Bush was currently being very visible and implementing even more drastic measures to help the economy, does anyone actually believe that Madden wouldn't be writing an article exactly opposite of this one lambasting Bush for NOT being a lame duck?"
Bill. Read what you are writing. You're willing to insult a perfect stranger for the article they MIGHT have written in a different world with a more competent President.
When it comes down to it, both of you are implying that the President is right to do nothing and to be absent from the American people in their hour of need. Is this what you actually mean.
Do you remember that Bush vanished for six hours after the 9/11 attacks and it was left to the odious Giuliani to address a terrified nation? Do you remember how Bush also failed to act in the *five days* before Katrina when all the news media were screaming about the risk?
He's never been willing to act before, why should he start now?!
