Elroy Willis <elroywillis@swbell.net> wrote in message

I'm just left wondering what you think is so great about Bush, and why
you support him...

Thanks for asking.
I like him for a number of reasons. He is a leader, who is more interested
in advancing the interests of our country than in following popular opinion.
I consider him to be an honest person who has the interests of our nation
first and foremost in his mind. I admire the way he responded to 9/11,
going on the offense to remove the cause of terrorism that seeks to destroy
us. That being, the existence of totalitarian regimes in the ME that
deprive their people of opportunity and continually use their power to
propagandize the US and Israel as scapegoats for their own failings.. I
like the way he's managed the economy, particularly his policy of cutting
taxes, implementing tort reform, and most recently taking a stab at
increasing our energy independance. I admire the appoiintments he has
made to our appellate courts and am eager to learn who his choice for
the recent SCOTUS vacancy will be.
Does he have his failings as a President? Of course. I don't think that he
does a good job of communicating. For example, he allowed the Iraqi war to
be defined by the left solely in terms of Saddam's possession of WMD, when
the issue was broader than that. He has not done enough to communicate what
we know about Saddam's active support of terrorist organizations and the
threat that those involvements combined with WMD technology transfer posed
to us. He has not expressed the reason for why and how the 9/11 attacks
changed our defensive posture so that we could no longer give our foes the
benefit of the doubt, but rather had to be proactive in removing the threats
of terror-sponsoring dicatators. He has allowed a needed Social Security
reform plan to wither on the vine. He has not done nearly enough to cut
government spending. He has not done enough to communicate and preserve
those aspects of the PATRIOT act which are useful and to recommend
droppng those measures which have not proven useful. I'm also critical of
his stance on medical research, especially his removal of Federal support
on stem cell research..
All in all, he has performed magnificently well in his most important
duties. His failings have mostly been the result of being a poor
communicator, and of allowing his political opposition to define and distort
the facts. I admire him for not giong out and challenging every bogus
slander that the Libs throw at him, but I think that his agenda would be
much better off if he would devote a little more time to keeping Americans
informed and managing public opinion.
Having composed this reply, I am sure that every swinging ***** of a Lib will
want to dispute my opinions point by point with nasty rhetoric. These are
my honest opinions, and I couldn't care less about Usenet flames.

"Elroy Willis" <elroywillis@swbell.net> wrote in message
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Fester <not@home.com> wrote in alt.atheism

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I replied to the original message, and haven't felt the need to repeat
myself, until now. What's more, I wouldn't care if I were the only
atheist
in the world who did like our President.

That's admirable, I suppose, sticking up for someone, no matter what
other people think. :)

I'm just left wondering what you think is so great about Bush, and why
you support him...

Thanks for asking.

I like him for a number of reasons. He is a leader, who is more interested
in advancing the interests of our country than in following popular opinion.

On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:44:37 -0700, Uncle Buck <UncleBuck@SpamMeNot.com>

On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:51:01 GMT, "Fester" <not@home.com> wrote:

"Elroy Willis" <elroywillis@swbell.net> wrote in message
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Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in alt.atheism

Elroy Willis <elroywillis@swbell.net> wrote in

Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in alt.atheism

Uncle Buck <UncleBuck@SpamMeNot.com> wrote in

Was "Are there any atheists who actually like George Bush?" I
thought the question could be put to a more "official" vote. :-)
So...

Out of curiosity, who among the readership (lurkers included) are
atheists that like and/or approve of George W. Bush (no problemo

lurkers wish to re-lurk after expressing their approval)?

If at all possible, I request that this thread be limited to
affirmative responses from atheistic Bush-supporters. To those

wish to respond to affirmative votes rather than making one, I
politely request that you do so in a new thread if at all

No big reason, it would just make it easier to tally the

responses, that's all. Thanks either way... :-)

I assume you're already counting me as an affirmative. That is if

don't still have me killfiled.

You're a fake Bush supporter, admit it!

Shhhhh!

No one besides you has replied to the question as far as I can tell...

Do you feel all alone over there, or what? :)

I replied to the original message, and haven't felt the need to repeat
myself, until now. What's more, I wouldn't care if I were the only

in the world who did like our President.

Ah, I didn't see your original reply. So thanks for repeating
yourself. ;-) And that, I respect - not caring what others think of
your views or worrying about whether they're "unpopular".

So that's two so far. If anyone's seen any other replies that I
appear to have missed (I've only got Fred & Fester so far), please let
me know. Merci. :-)

And that's about all you'll get. <G>