Bush's Successes
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| Mon, 07-19-2004 - 3:25pm |
Dear Reader,
I'm getting sick and tired of my fellow Americans
saying that the presidency of George W. Bush is a
failure. With the string of successes he's had,
nothing could be further from the truth. Let me list a
few:
1. He has successfully rid America of that troubling
budget surplus and turned it into a $500 billion
deficit.
2. He has successfully helped America's trading
partners have the highest trade surplus with us in
America's history.
3. He has successfully lowered the taxes for the
richest Americans and corporations at the expense of
99% of the American population.
4. He has successfully started another Viet Nam in
Iraq after lying to the whole world.
5. He has successfully pushed the price of gas up to
the highest level ever here in America.
6. He has successfully allowed American corporations
to dramatically increase their pollution.
7. He has successfully thrown about 10% of the
population out of work.
8. He has successfully allowed corporations to export
our best middle-class jobs.
9. He has successfully divided our country as never
before.
10. He has successfully driven our oldest allies away.
11. He has successfully united the terrorists as never
before (he said all along he was a uniter, not a
divider).
12. He has successfully broken his oath to uphold the
constitution of the United States of America.
13. He has successfully united Democrats (yay!) as
they haven't been for years (I told you he was a
uniter).
14. He has successfully driven me out of the
Republican party for the rest of my life.
You know, with a string of successes like that, it's a
wonder America is still standing.

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I think alot of people want this, the problem I see is how to get the majority to agree on what changes are needed and which way to change them. I also have hears some ideas brought up that sound good at first but then when an opposing view comes out I start to see problems with my original thoughts. I tend to be quite sceptical that any politician is going to do something to help most of our people, rather then their special intrists. Makes me want to look for the "catch" in almost everything.
Venus
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"he gets out there and tells the people what they want to hear..."
and
"I want a President who says what he is going to do and actually does it (even if I don't completely agree), has morals, and I know will put us first in his mind through out his term..."
^^^^
You can't possibly believe Bush does what he says he will do. You seem like one of the people who has been misled by Republican 'Talking Points.' Karl Rove is manipulating you. Just so you know. I wish you a higher set of standards, for your own sake. Don't settle for dishonesty when making the important decision of who should be president -- you deserve better.
Check it out:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43093-2004Sep22.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41145-2004Aug4.html
http://www.independentsforkerry.org/uploads/media/bush-flip-flops.html
http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docid=187
http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docid=209
http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docid=177
The opposite of being firm & consistent, Bush continuously does what he promises us he will NOT do: engage in "nation builing", create a new branch of government for "Homeland" security, form a Commission/Panel to investigate 9/11, bow to the U.N. regarding Iraq (he just ate humble pie after dissing them before the invasion -- GREAT foreign relations tactic endearing us further to nations we need!). He also promised, as a candidate trying to get elected, that he did NOT believe in "big government interfering in people's lives." Of course he believes his administration should interfere with our lives. See http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,109766,00.html
Either he is a flat-out liar, or an indecisive flip flopper who says whatever is politically expedient. Blind allegiance to someone leads to believing anything they say at face value. Please don't be that naiive.
As far as Bush's morals, wow, I see it totally differently. I am impressed with Senator Kerry's family, his experience in elected office, his valor in Vietnam, and his belief in calling a spade a spade when he returned from dangerous combat and felt the need to object to plans for increased deployment of drafted troops - he went out on a limb to make a heartfelt point from the standpoint of a man who was THERE. Wouldn't life have been easier for him if he had stayed quiet & rode the momentum of those medals into a political career-- is that what you would have preferred he do? Bush was a draft dodger and a drunkard for much of his adult life, failing upward in various careers only because his father's connections kept bailing him out. Sorry to Bush-bash, that's just really obvious to me. (A related article: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/20/politics/campaign/20bama.html)
I believe Bush was ultimately groomed for office in the 1990's because of his famous name, his willingness to condone corruption, and because his LACK of experience made him beholden to the agenda of the very clear-eyed, very decisive neoconservatives (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, etc.) -- I hope you will do yourself a favor and study what "neoconservative" means. That's the context needed to understand all the contradictory behavior Bush demonstrates. Oh and I would also call him "Orwellian" when it comes to distorting language to manipulate you. Leaders use Orwellian doublespeak when their positions are actually very weak, encouraging you NOT to question or investigate what's really happening behind the language.
How is this Bush's fault?
Bev
It is all very well to say what people should and should not do but the reality is they do all sorts of things, whether we like it or not. Men have sex with anyone who lets them pretty much and they suffer no consequences at all many times. Women are the ones who have to carry a baby to term and make decisions about what to do then. Women are the ones whose lives change by having a baby and keeping it. Women are the ones who suffer the consequences of their actions, no matter what the choice, but it is theirs to make since it is the woman who is pregnant, it is she who must decide how it will affect her life forever and how she will handle it. Even if a man wants the baby, he can't carry that baby or give birth to it so he has no say in the decision about it. You say why not adopt? It is very hard to carry a baby to term and give birth to it and then give it away. Only a completel unselfish mother could do that and most young self involved women are not able to be that unselfish.
The most important thing in my opinion is to teach sex education and birth control methods to both men and women, before they reach puberty and continue right on through, making birth control available to them because we know most of them WILL have sex, no matter what our opinion is on if they should or should not. Children raising children is not good for anyone.
"Patriotism means to stand by the Country. It does not mean to stand by the President." -- Theodore Roosevelt.
Bev
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