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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

W. and the damage done

President Bush inherited a peaceful, prosperous America. As he exits, Salon consults experts in seven fields to try to assess the devastation.

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  • Friday, January 9, 2009 05:08 AM

    W. and the Damage Done Comment

    My problem is not with this article. Mr. W. Bush's handling of the of the economy was pretty bad we believe. He ws not helped by the horrible relationship he appears to have with the press (media) because he was a Republican and the MEDIA said it would never let up on Mr. Bush; they had a vendetta against him and they have, apparently, destroyed him in the public's eyes. They said they would.

    Evidence has it on video tape, if it still exists. Several on the air commentators said he was an illegitimate president; a slogan I've heard many times since then. Gore had filed for the Supreme Court to get him the Presidency. The court fooled him. This embarrassed Gore who has never let up to find something to bankrupt the United States. He found it, but sombody else beat him to it.

    My real problem with the economy and this article is with the under and unreported laws made with the approval of President Clinton, during his administration that made it legal to invest money and impliment the financial standards (hot derivitives which I've heard about since 1999) which have led our banking system to this disaster.

    I'm sure that I will be castigated or not published because of what I say over this. But, Mr. Clinton is a Democrat and appears to be in full control of the Democrat Party. Anyway, it is his administration that brought this catastrophie upon this nation.

    Media has not spoken or is it that media has already said the final word on this? Perhaps we shall be like lambs before the slaughter. Shall we walk happily forward chatting and laugghing to the butcher?

    The soon to be MR. President Obama appears to be an agent of real CHANGe. This is the truth and he's most correct about that. No matter what he is saying in his recent speeches and no matter what he promises in them and no matter how many times he says it's gonna be a tough road we have to travel (which is also true). It is becoming more and more clear to me that this is a coordinated swindle being perpetrated on the American people. Somebody or country from outside our borders is calling the shots. Do I know who? No! I can and everybody else can just rock back in those nice Work Camp rockin' chairs. This all looks to be a cheme to suck up what real money there is in the country and among the people by taxing us to death and stripping us of every thing any of us ever worked for. Congress wanted to do this during the Great Depression. No body calls this a depression because it is way beyond that. The media lies to us and is hiding it until MR Obama is fully in control.

    Mr. Bush is not wuithout guilt. It appears to be that he lied too. If you put the Democrat PArty along side moderate or liberal side of the Reopublican Party the spit would be a part of th3e same string.

    Dmmage to the economy??? No, but destruction to America. Where the Hell have I heard that phrase before? No don't give up on that country, but we'll have to work hard and it cannot be an already bankrupt government that the Democrats KNEW TWO YEARS OUT that it was coming. What did they do? They sat on their hands.

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