JMJ

1) He made no attempt to reach out to the 49% of the population he didn’t convince to work together. A President who “gets” it would have done more to find common ground. Ideologies are different, but there seems to be such an emphasis on polarization…Once again, Bush follows the public thought instead of leading it…..Shrub’s main flaw here is that he, I think, viewed compromise as a bad thing but then went onto demonstrate how being out of touch can be so much worse. The reality is that it takes a stronger person to get a roomful of government officials to work towards a solution. Instead, he shrugs his shoulders, trying for the life of him to get a solid sound bite out without mangling it, and sits back to demonstrate his lack of leadership skills.

2) He is under the impression that he’s made the right decision EVERY time. Remarkably, he looks back at every choice he’s ever made and has no revisions. Not only him, mind you, but his administration hasn’t made any faulty decisions. Which leads us to two conclusions - there will either be a whole lot of people eligible for being crucified next Easter or Bush and his administration have been tokin’ on some major doobage.Could be the same stuff he smoked while being stationed in that Alabama Military base during ‘Nam.

3) Harriet Myers. Case & point. Why not appoint his driving instructor from high school? Oh wait, he had his drivers license in Texas reissued to wipe his troubled past off the books when he was governor of TX. That’s right, silly me.

4) His decision to go to war. Every single aspect of this was half-baked, including the reasons to go to war…which subsequently, a reason has yet to be identified. Knocking out Saddam was a good thing, but the cost of the war is going way over any good playing political whack-a-mole with leaders in the Middle East. Maybe he was banking at the general effect of strengthening the economy and building some unity with fighting a common enemy….Oh wait, that would require some leadership skills and ability to take time to discern who the enemies are and the best way to address them. Granted, terrorists are without a country and not a unified, easily identified targer. However, Gitmo seems to be fertile ground for recruiting more people to hate the U.S. By not even contemplating keeping the Geneva Convention, Bush has helped lower our standards on how we treat people…including our own. The enemy combatant was just another end run around rules already in place. Let’s see….striking out with England was a spendidly effective move to allow any type of unity among other countries to allow terrorists to essentially play “split the parent” so they can continue their hellraising. Hmmmm….taking away our rights as citizens…sneaking around…collecting secret files…..violating laws put in place in the 1970s BECAUSE rights were found to be violated. He is a dangerous man…especially because he doesn’t get it.

-sj

p.s. Don’t get me wrong. The Dems seem to be comfortable with the “Hey, look what he’s doing wrong” as a political platform. That tells me NOTHING on how they would handle it. An interesting note, however, is when a liberal changes positions - it’s waffling. If a conservative changes his position, he’s reconsidered the facts.

p.p.s There doesn’t appear to be any one strong candidate from any party who will unify us, it seems. Anyone who shows any moderacy in thought will get picked apart by both sides. The only people who can run in the first place are billionaires which is depressing…or worse still, famous people. Why does it have to be choose the lesser of two evils?!?!!?

JMJ

JMJ

#2: If you really believe that a bunch of mad, Muslim hashassins, gallloping on their Arabian steeds, uluating while waving their scimitars in the air are a genuine threat to America, you are a paranoid dellusional.

#3: George Bush is a failure, everything he has done has failed, he is extremely unpopular even among about a third of people who voted for him, history will remember him as a failure, he’s an incompetent surrounded by incompetents like the 150 goofballs he brought in from American University (from a class in which 40% failed the bar!), poverty is up, crime is up, joblessness is up, the debt and deficits are up, corruption is up, the wars are lost for all intents and puposes, etc. Get used to it. Someday, when your grandkids ask you who you voted for, you’ll have to lie for the sake of their respect.

JMJ

And yeah, after reading some of my previous posting, I realized it was mostly emotion speaking than intelligence (I swear I got some in here… somewhere). But hey, thanks for letting me evolve my opinion and argument into something a little more bearable to read - and not something you’ve all seen millions of times before.

My tendency is to play Devil’s Advocate and question most of what is said, regardless. Hell, I take time to support Bush when I can because, I mean, he can’t possibly be AS BAD as some say - plus it shows how undesirable a position President can be.

But hey, it’s everyone’s (even mine tee hee) duty to point out mistakes and flaws in arguments, or else we all kinda never learn. I know I still am at the stage of learning about the REAL real world, and my stubborn-ness can get in the way from time to time.

While this comment really offers nothing towards the debate, just another post appreciative that I haven’t been sent to the spam bin yet.

And thanks for the spelling correction Carole
Oh, and thanks Tygrrrr for offering a great place for communication.

Well, J….I thought you were bein’ sarcastic when you complimented my post the other day…and since you weren’t…[blush] garsh! Thanks!

And sorry to jump your case…but as someone else said in the sea of replies since yesterday, I am tired of the same ole’ same ole’ garbage when it comes to Bush. When I skimmed your earlier, it seemed you were doing the same….and I was disappointed. However, after having skimmed what has followed, my faith is restored. Maybe if I have the time, I’ll really read and jump in. In the meantime…looks like you and the Mickster are doing fine with out me. ;->