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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Reading the total cost of the Bush Administration's serial debacles is sobering stuff.
What further beggars the imagination is that the American Public voted this man in not once but TWICE. Mostly on the basis that he was the kinda guy you would want to have a beer with. Kerry in '04 wasn't perfect sure, we rejected him 'cos he was a "flip-flopper". In hindsight, seems to me the willigness to change one's mind was exactly what we needed. But nope, Americans love someone who is a "decider" who is determined to "stay the course" until we can declare "mission accomplished"!
George Bernard Shaw wrote that "There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” In Bush, the American public got exactly what they wanted. A resolute man in uncertain times. And it has cost America dearly.
"President Bush inherited a peaceful, prosperous America." But that a faction of Islamic extremists were plotting to attack for several years and successfully did. How can you possibly try to gloss over that?? That such an enormous cataclysm such as 9/11 occurred eight months into his presidency. That teaser line to this essay is now well-acknowledged as a myth.
So...when will some scrappy celebrity journalist sit Jug Ears down and get him to admit that "mistakes were made"?
and 9-11 didn't force bush to invade iraq, ignore climate change, etc. etc. I'll give Bush one mitigating factor though, almost half the country is as stupid, incompetent and malevolent as he is, so he can't take all the blame.
C'mon Carmina and all you other increasingly desperate right wingnuts. As has been accurately testified to, PresBush and his regime were so dismissive of everything "Clinton," everything "progressive," everything "Democratic," that they threw into the proverbial dumpster everything the Clinton administration had been trying to do to guard against Al-Qaida and ignored several months of CIA warnings about Al-Qaida. They seemed to have thought that Clinton had to worry about Al-Qaida because he was such a wimp, but no terrorist group would ever DARE attack the US now that the Bushies were in charge. Perhaps it's possible that Bushco could not have prevented the 09/11/01 attacks, but WE'LL NEVER KNOW, WILL WE? BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T EVEN TRY SINCE THAT WOULD HAVE MEANT CONTINUING WHAT CLINTON HAD BEEN DOING!
George W. Bush will go down in history as one of the worst three presidents in the history of the United States. He deserves it.
I'm looking forward to January 20, 2009 when he and his inept administration leaves Washington D.C. The last eight years have been miserable and it's clear he doesn't consider himself responsible for any of it.
During the Clinton years:
-The bombings of the World Trade Center in 1993
-The bombings of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_United_States_embassy_bombings
-The Air Force Khobar Towers barracks in Saudi Arabia: http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/062696binladen.html
-The USS Cole: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing
-The Blackhawk Down retreat from Somalia
Again, the teaser line of this story "President Bush inherited a peaceful, prosperous America." I'm just pointing out that it is an utter fallacy and to make an assesment of the past eight years without a mention of 9/11 is just ludicrous. Elephant in the room??
Now of course are going to come pages and pages of right wing trolls trying to gloss over Bush's failures by blaming everything on Clinton and the democrats and making excuses for why the Iraq war is somehow not Bush's fault.
Bush failed because he was never qualified in the first place. Even if 9/11 had never happened this frat boy would have run America into the ground. He was elected for all the wrong reasons in 2000 so it shouldn't come as any surprise he doesn't know how to do anything. The only reason anyone voted for him was because he said Jesus a bunch of times or they thought they were going to get back a bunch of money they never made in the first place.
George W. Bush said more about the state of America in the late twentieth century then we were ever willing to acknowledge on our own. He is the end result of a society that is so successful we can afford to elect our leaders based on nothing more then who someone else wants to marry or some other trait that has nothing to do with fixing actual problems. And that is exactly what we got, someone who can't fix any problems. Because he was never elected to in the first place. He was elected to overturn Roe or make it easier for people to buy assault rifles they never needed or cut taxes you never really paid but think you did because you listened to some guy on the radio who knew you didn't in the first place tell you you did. Distraction and selfish ignorance got Bush elected and we the world as a whole paid the price.
Those of us who never fell for this stupidity have paid more dearly then most because we realized early on this man was never qualified but still had to live through him anyway. Let's hope society as a whole has learned something too.
and with competent sane governance it wouldn't have. Of course with competent sane governanace it wouldn't have happened in the first place. Funny how the small attacks that didn't wreck the country because they were responded to sanely are somehow supposed to absolve bush of responsiblity for allowing the big one that due to his insane response did. More faith based logic at work.
Interesting. You know you are right because:
Clinton was the WORST president US ever had, apart from FDR who had the Galls to introduce new deal and the damned social security which invested the suckers' money in Treasury Bonds instead of the high returns stock market.
Second by producing a budget surplus, Clinton prevented many an stock broker from earning honest money and thus directly contributed to the Madoff affair.
Thirdly by continuing to keep terrorist attacks off the US mainland, clinton failed to raise awareness of the real problem terror amongst US citizens by refusing any terrorists to attack US mainland through his stupid, stoid listening to his moronic intelligence chiefs.
Fourthly by introducing medicare for the poor and elderly he stole money away from highly qualified and well paid doctors who could have provided better, high-priced medical care to those elderly who could have been treated faster by pledging their homes or heirlooms or borrowing from credit cards.
Fifthly by forcing Freddie & Fannie Mae to extend loans to middle and low income groups to buy their first homes, he deprived the high income group from buying those properties thus practicing racial discrimination.
Lastly his reduction of military budget steadily eroded US competitiveness in military action thus contributing to our spectacular defeat in Iraq. In a way Clinton was responsible for our defeat in Iraq as he had refused the military to buy its latest M1-Abrams and armor-proofed humvees.
NOTE: For the rest of the majority who are NOT republicans, please note the above post was sarcasm. For Carmina it is bible as Carmina really believes God spoke through her to trust Bush as the only disciple of Jesus and that Katrina was god-sent to clean up the wicked people just like God sent Sodom and Gomorrah into ruins.
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