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John Anderson: "hooray let's demonize Bush some more.
he had plenty of supporters...so are we still at war with ourselves, or has Obama just magically made all that disappear?"
Obviously Obama didn't make it all disappear, as the election of Chambliss makes clear.
There is a very good reason to continue demonizing Bush -- because people have a short memory. There is actually some goofball in here who said, "let Bush move on," or something.
The problem is most people aren't paying any attention to the things the government has done under their names. There is a reason terrorists want to attack civilians: Because as a democracy, we are all ostensibly responsible for what our leaders do.
So how's about we keep on demonizing Bush until 46% of the U.S. starts waking the hell up?
Now, I do realize that Bush kind of HAS to say the idiotic stuff he has said in this interview. It's because there's no way he could come out and say, "I totally blew it." Then he'd have to answer to all the families of dead soldiers -- all the fathers, brothers, mothers, sisters, sons, daughters, friends, husbands, wives, lovers, family members and coworkers of all the thousands of people who died based on his decisions. One suspects they might be looking for a little payback.
