Letters to the Editor
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Does anyone still listen to Bush?
Mr. 19%, hello.
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Why?
he withdrew from every OTHER treaty to score political points and make money for his business buddies. Why should one more make any difference?
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Earth to Bush! Paging, paging...
I think we need to pass the hat so we can buy Mr. Bush a Clue Junior game for his birthday...at least then he'd have one...a "clue" that is..
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Bush in Ohio
"...do you feel like you could win in a state like Ohio if you were running again for President?"
"Landslide," Bush replied, to laughs from the press. "They're still using Diebold voting machines!"
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Landslide?
Wow. This is the guy who... wait, has he EVER won ANYTHING by anything resembling a landslide? Maybe that's why it's so (har dee har har) funny.
Almost as funny as him searching under his desk for Saddam's WMDs. Oh yeah. So damn funny.
(Just to think: we were THIS close to not having him as President. Oh, the pain!)
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Wha?
I'm in shock at this statement:
"the idea of just unilaterally withdrawing from a trade treaty because of trying to score political points is not good policy. It's not good policy on the merits, and it's not good policy as a message to send to our -- people who have, in good faith, signed a treaty and worked with us on a treaty."
I'm just at a loss for words. Is he really that stupid? Does he really believe the words he says, even at the moment they come from his lips?
It boggles the mind
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It guess it depends on the treaty.
"the idea of just unilaterally withdrawing from a trade treaty because of trying to score political points is not good policy. It's not good policy on the merits, and it's not good policy as a message to send to our -- people who have, in good faith, signed a treaty and worked with us on a treaty."
Kyoto anyone?
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No Clue Suekzoo
Dubya ain't a game player, he's a recreater. He wouldn't play Clue Jr. Once he's done gulping down his PB&J, he wants to get outside for a couple rounds of T-Ball.
Know your facts!
As to NAFTA? They're both pandering on that one for Ohio. The stakes are getting higher. Clinton's trying to avoid one and Obama's trying to drive one through her heart.
Union Workers are going the way of the agricultural worker as our economy shifts from a manufacturing base to a services/knowledge base. Rather than crawl INTO the tar pits with these dinosaurs, we should seek to find a way to convince them of an exit strategy, as those auto jobs are not coming back no matter how much policy legislation gets enacted to try to make it so.
Protectionism does not work.
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Exactly...
Why anybody still takes this gibbering lunatic seriously is beyond me.
And I apologize to any lunatics, gibbering or otherwise, I may have offended by using the term.
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GWB = Idiot
Frat boy GW. Worst president EVER. The only people who support him are either extremely wealthy or religous extremists or idiots. I don't understand why whenever idiot boy opens his mouth the MSM treats it us a newsworthy event. I don't understand. This guy is a complete moron. He is a mean spirited Jethro Bodine. Enough already. God help us if we elect another republican. Whe cares what idiot boy thinks?
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How Dare You Help the Middle Class
The Whore Usurper is appalled by anyone wishing to ring in bad legislation, especially if it helps bring legal and possibly decent paying jobs BACK into the country. How will his friends be able to afford this year's crop of truffles or fuel up the jet? Help the Middle Classes? Don't be absurd.
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Bush is still president? Who knew?
Wow, Bush wants to comment on a debate issue... Awww, look at wittle Dubya trying to make himself semi-relevant.
Somebody needs to find a way to move up the November elections to April.
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Not Exactly a Fit Judge
"The idea of just unilaterally withdrawing from a trade treaty because of trying to score political points is not good policy. It's not good policy on the merits, and it's not good policy as a message to send to our -- people who have, in good faith, signed a treaty and worked with us on a treaty."
My confidence in Junior's ability to recognize "good policy" is comment dit-on non-existent? And don't get me started on Bush and "good faith". This is an administration that judged policy by one metric only: did it help them retain power by helping the "haves and have-mores" have still more.
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What do you mean "again"?
Question to the reporter who asked the question. Don't you have to win once in order to win "again"? Of course, in Bush World, a landslide is defined as "a narrow enough loss that we can steal it".
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pandering on NAFTA
Never thought I'd find myself agreeing with the substance of a GWB comment. (Never thought I'd find myself typing the word "substance" when referring to a GWB comment). But he's right that they are both pandering on NAFTA for political gain. Both candidates, whose positions are identical btw, understand that trade liberalization is the better economic orthodoxy, that it improves all parties in the big picture, and that it causes suffering in the small picture, as in the 67-year-old steel worker from Ohio, who's told to train for a new "career." It's a real conundrum and calls for much more than sound-bite politics. Hillary and Barack are doing the best they can, but it didn't surprise me in the least to read about the rumors that both campaigns had called Canada before their Ohio stint and asked that trading partner to please ignore their upcoming threats to withdraw from NAFTA.
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Correct me if I'm wrong...
But wasn't it a speaker for Bush who claimed there is an "unwritten rule" that former presidents shouldn't criticize sitting ones? Tsk tsk tsk. ;D :p ;D
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@lateagain
I agree that Hillary and Obama deserve to be smacked down for simplistic anti-NAFTA rhetoric, but I find it impossible to take the "substance" of such a degraded message seriously in any way. There's a point in there somewhere, but the idiocy of "landslide" and "No unilateral treaty breaking" make it look accidental.
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What?
I can't believe some of you people. You're either pathological in your Bush hatred, ignorant, stupid or all three. (I suspect many of you are college students of little accomplishment, no wisdom, and who didn't pay attention in economics class). NAFTA is essential to the future prosperity of out continent its passage was hard fought by George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. It may well stand as one of Bill Clinton's greatest accomplishments in office.
Mexico continues to develop economically and prosper under the agreement, which should mean in the future fewer illegal immigrants streaming accross our borders to find a way to feed their families. Likewise our neighbors in Candada agreed to drop many trade barriers.
I listened to Bush's comments today. He was in top form and delivered a well-deserved ear boxing to Obama, who has of late shown himself naive and willing to say anything to further his political campaign.