I am very glad that my fellow Americans now feel the way I have been feeling for years. I wish it hadn't taken this long but....
I am very glad that my fellow Americans now feel the way I have been feeling for years. I wish it hadn't taken this long but....
Amen.
Not all of them. And remember, Gen, that if you dislike Bush, reading the New York Times is nothing but an intellectual echo chamber. If you don't review a balanced collection of news sources - and analysis - then your feeling is just that - a perception, woven in large part by people playing political games with a specific agenda that has nothing to do with the prosperity or safety of American citizens.
Most of the rhetoric around Bush effectively personalizes issues that were handled imperfectly, but for which viable alternatives in kind (if not degree) were never proposed. And much of the criticism is either fabricated or inconsistent with demonstrable facts.
The things of substance for which he should rightly be criticized, however, are usually blatantly ignored: steel tarriffs, illegal immigration enforcement, medicare spending, backing down on social security reform, alternative energy policy (I mean nukes here, the only scalable alternative energy source with manageable enviro. consequences unlike everything else which at scale are destructive), UN reform / abandonment etc.
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