Is it possible that Dubya will go down as one of the most inept presidents in the history of this nation?
I mean...look a the score card for this eight-year doubleheader, folks. Dubya's wake is filled with:
- Lies to the American people (and anyone else he had to) in attempting to justify the unilateral invasion of a sovereign nation
- Prosecuted a failed war that killed hundreds of thousands (many of them innocents)
- Institutionalized torture (at Guantanamo)
- Suspends fundamental constitutional rights (did he listen to any of your phone calls?)
- A bankrupted Treasury and record "contributions" to the national debt
- Scandal after scandal caused by blatant partisan politicizing of government institutions (Dept.of Justice leads the parade)
- A record number of people and nations consider the US government to be a danger to world peace
- More time in the cellar of job approval polls than any president in the last century (28% of Americans think he's doing a great job...boggles the mind, doesn't it?)
- And now, as the finale...the biggest economic fraud/bailout/meltdown in the world, one that will cost generations of taxpayers billions of dollars
All on his watch.
How can the next president possibly top that? (Yeah, I know...scary thought.) Now, ask yourself...of the two current candidates for president, which one's thought processes most resemble those of George Bush?
Think about it.
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The thing that gets me is that everyone quotes Bush's low approval rating, but the Democrat-led Congress also has very low approval ratings. According to Fox News and CNN, the overall disapproval rating is between 72 and 78 percent (www.pollingreport.com). I won't even talk about the objectivity of exit polls, phone polls and the people who stand in front of Wal-Mart asking for public opinion other than to ask whom is more likely to answer a few questions when pollsters call at dinnertime.
In the interest of objectivity and fairness, it's not right to entirely blame one person for all the country's ills, especially since the three branches are meant to check and balance each other. And, we were already on a path towards the current state of affairs before Dubya took office. Is he to blame? Sure. But, many others deserve some finger pointing, too. Just my two cents (that admittedly doesn't buy much right now).
Of course Congress deserves their share of the blame. But people forget that for nearly all of Bush's eight years in power, Republicans controlled the Congress.
Moreover...my original comment was couched in historical terms. When you think about our presidents through history, you tend to quickly judge them by their big accomplishments or failures, rather than analyzing all the details of what they had to go through to achieve them. For most people, only the big broad strokes of history stick, and that is the background for my comment.
For example, Lincoln will be forever remembered for freeing the slaves and the Emancipation Proclamation. But few remember that his initial position on slavery during the war had nothing to do with freeing slaves. Nor do they remember all the political squabbling that went on. They just remember Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
The American people view their President as the ultimate place where "the buck stops". So, if it happened on his watch, good or bad, he gets the credit or blame for it.
Fair? You decide. :)
A very wise man once told me there is no such thing as "fair". The older I get, the more I believe him. :)
Regardless of the job Bush has or hasn't done, I'm truly frightened for the future. As my dad aptly said, we have three billion people in this country (or some other huge number) and these two candidates are the best we have to offer?! The writing is on the wall, I suppose. It has to get worse before it can get better in the long right, right?
For quite a while, I felt the same as your father about the quality of the candidates. Both are politicians, which means they lie sometimes, they scheme, and they collect debts instead of doing favors. Nevertheless, having studied this election assiduously, I remain convinced that one candidate is, BY FAR, the lesser of two evils. If asked, I believe I could present a persuasive case for my position.
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