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Old 04-13-2008, 11:13 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Old 04-14-2008, 03:56 AM   #17 (permalink)
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I'll just skip the parts about the economy.
Please don't. It'll be a lot easier to tell you are full of $hit if you try.

If you think he did a bad job, perfectly reasonable. But I don't think he's a moron by any of our standards [what college did you go to again?] you better have a little better argument or else you look like the moron, and a whiny one at that.

The president isn't responsible for 1% of what the general public [this includes you] thinks he is. The fact that you even think that his specific actions have contributed as a major factor in our current economic standing says a lot, and it's not stuff that helps your case. Most of his actions are simply reactions and he doesn't have a magic "redo" button.

I don't think he did anything very impressive but I'm also not going to judge him when I don't really know $hit about the alternatives he even had to choose from apart from his 'final' and visible choices. If you don't like him you shouldn't have voted for him or persuaded your neighbors not to or something. Even then he's gone in a little while anyways, focus your energy on the controllables. You might as well whine about gas prices, wait you probably think that's his fault too huh? People consistently blow my mind.
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Old 04-14-2008, 10:03 AM   #18 (permalink)
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The president isn't responsible for 1% of what the general public [this includes you] thinks he is.
The pro-big-business, anti-regulation, laisse faire captialism policies, massive military spending, and tax cuts are of no consequence I suppose. It's fair enough if you believe the President has no impact, even when his inaction or indifference impacts market confidence, except I suspect on a different day we could hear you preaching the virtues of Reaganomics.
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....and a fcuking moron to boot.

He's a murderer for killing millions of Iraq's and thousands of American troops.

And he's lined his buddies pockets with gold while doing it.

I'll just skip the parts about the economy.

I guess that makes him about average in terms of Presidents in a war time, or terrorist situation then.
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It is hard for me to make comments about just one President who happened to be in office at one of the worst times for the U.S. and he is looked to fix it.

How would some other person handle it? How would a Democrat handle it except for running away from the bad guys or avoid fighting them? How would a different President make oil prices lower without being buddy buddy to some Arab.

The ecomony is run by a bunch of anal retentive scaredy cat investors. As soon as a bullet is shot in an oil producing country, the oil prices rise, people panic and sell, interest rates go up and OPEC is making a 300% profit.

...and this is the fault of one President? No it is because the whole world is full of retards and assholes.

If there was no terrorism and the rest of the world was doing fine, where Bush didn't have to make decisions that could turn out bad, then it would be so easy for everyone to call him a great President than the worst.

If some Democrat like Hillary or Obama are President and bring our troops home, they will be considered the greatest President because they brought everyone's loved one home back from Iraq, but is the problem solved? NO
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I guess that makes him about average in terms of Presidents in a war time, or terrorist situation then.
Not hardly. It's not the killing that differentiates these leaders, its the purpose and the reasoning and the pointlessness or not.
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If some Democrat like Hillary or Obama are President and bring our troops home, they will be considered the greatest President because they brought everyone's loved one home back from Iraq, but is the problem solved? NO

We'd likely be sending them back in short order to much worse conditions.
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We'd likely be sending them back in short order to much worse conditions.
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Didn't the helmet law get repealed when he was governor of Texas?

At least he's done something...
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While this is the general message in many of your posts, never have you benn so succinct
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Yes, in fact they have already admitted they would.
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While this is the general message in many of your posts, never have you benn so succinct
Yes, but his rebuttals can be summarized in one word: Bullschmidt.
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The pro-big-business, anti-regulation, laisse faire captialism policies, massive military spending, and tax cuts are of no consequence I suppose. It's fair enough if you believe the President has no impact, even when his inaction or indifference impacts market confidence, except I suspect on a different day we could hear you preaching the virtues of Reaganomics.
I'm just a lowly peon but I have an inkling that any 'pro-big-business', anti-regulation, laise fair policies, military spending, and or tax cut policies of consequence little Bushy didn't do all by himself.

I never said he didn't have any impact, only you did. Just by him having an impact doesn't necessarily mean there was choice a) and choice b) and one is "good" and one is "bad". Last time I checked Bush doesn't run the entire government, even if he did extend some of powers and tighten the reins a little. I don't like the guy nor did I vote for him, but that doesn't mean I have to listen to people blame him for the sky falling every 3 seconds of their lives.
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