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"Harry Hope" |
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08 Aug 2007 03:05:45 PM |
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Finding good in the worst president ever |
From The Catoosa County News, 8/8/07:
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?show=localnews&pnpID=724&NewsID=828112&CategoryID=16783&on=1
Finding good in the worst president ever
By Jeannie Babb Taylor
Leading historians, professors, Nobel Prize laureates and even
President Carter (who rarely denounces anyone) have all granted George
W. Bush the title “Worst President Ever.”
Even the Republican candidates who hope to succeed Bush are trying to
distance and differentiate themselves from this president.
Surely GWB can’t be all bad.
How could he be a worse president than Nixon, whose behind-the-scenes
actions caused him to bail out prior to impeachment?
Come to think of it, Nixon’s sins were in the arena of illegal
surveillance – an activity in which GWB has engaged with gusto.
Some say GWB makes Nixon look like a civil libertarian.
One professional historian, responding to a survey by George Mason
University’s History News Network, put it like this, “Indeed, Bush
puts Nixon into a more favorable light.
He has trashed the image and reputation of the United States
throughout the world;
he has offended many of our previously close allies;
he has burdened future generations with incredible debt;
he has created an unnecessary war to further his domestic political
objectives;
he has suborned the civil rights of our citizens;
he has destroyed previous environmental efforts by government in favor
of his coterie of exploiters;
he has surrounded himself with a cabal ideological adventurers . . .
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However, there have been no student protestors shot during this war,
as happened at Kent State on Nixon’s watch.
That may be because so few are protesting.
Some experts say a lot more protest is warranted.
George A. Akerlof, Nobel Prize laureate for Economics, is one of those
people.
According to Akerlof, GWB’s economic policy is as irresponsible as his
foreign policy and his environmental policy.
Akerlof, who says positive things about the older Bush, sums up GWB’s
economic policy as “a form of looting.”
Akerlof says civil disobedience is in order for a president who
overshadows Herbert Hoover (and his resulting Great Depression) in
terms of bad economic policy.
So maybe George W. Bush is the worst president in modern history or
even, say, the worst since the Civil War era.
He could not possibly be worse than Andrew Johnson, who campaigned
against the 14th Amendment and vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 –
though there are many who also see racism behind Bush’s Katrina
debacle.
And surely GWB is a better president than Buchanan, who allowed the
discord between the states to simmer to the point of no return.
Yet Buchanan did not launch ill-conceived wars on nations halfway
across the world with no winning strategy.
Grant, another notoriously corrupt president, did at least serve in
the military.
By contrast, GWB went AWOL from the National Guard, opening himself to
charges of “chicken hawk” as he deploys more and more young people
into hostile territory with no personal concept of the dangers they
face.
Neither Grant nor any other US president attempted to invade other
countries without declaring war.
No other US president ever sought to normalize torture.
But enough people are writing terrible things (and terribly true
things) about GWB.
I decided to write some nice things about the current presidency.
After a few days pondering, I was able to come up with three
positives.
First of all, he cannot run again.
After a terribly long six and a half years, the end is in sight.
GWB is on the way out.
The rest of the world may laugh (or curse) at America for giving this
man a second term.
Mercifully, we are saved from a third term by the 22nd Amendment.
Another good thing about GWB is that even if he could run again, he
could not be elected again.
With the national deficit now mushrooming at over a billion a day,
thousands of American deaths in Iraq after “mission accomplished,” and
an Iraq body count in the hundreds of thousands, even Republicans have
had their fill.
Maybe they’re tired of the scandals and cover-ups, the mishandled
funds, the lying officials, the military abuses, the outings and the
firings.
For a myriad of reasons, polls show that Americans are more
dissatisfied with the presidency of George W. Bush than with any man
who preceded him.
The third good thing is that by his deplorable actions, GWB has opened
wide the White House door to whomever wins the Democratic nomination.
In fact, GWB has made such a mess of the American presidency, one
wonders if any Republican has an honest shot at the White House in
2008.
Maybe the Republicans are just throwing this election.
Perhaps no candidate of quality dares to pick up the soiled mantle of
George W. Bush.
That could be why the Republican Party is putting forth such a strange
crop of oddball candidates that no true Conservative could vote for
any one of them.
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Nope. They're all the Repugs have got. Pathetic, eh?
Harry
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| User: "zzpat" |
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08 Aug 2007 04:56:27 PM |
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Harry Hope wrote:
That could be why the Republican Party is putting forth such a strange
crop of oddball candidates that no true Conservative could vote for
any one of them.
The nice part of all this is that there are no real conservatives left
in the country. They supported Reagan long after he created more debt
than any president in history and they supported Bush long after he
created more debt than Reagan. Conservatism doesn't exist. It is and
always has been a delusion.
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| User: "penwise" |
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09 Aug 2007 02:20:25 AM |
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On Aug 8, 2:05 pm, Harry Hope <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From The Catoosa County News, 8/8/07:http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?show=localnews&pnpID=724&Ne...
Finding good in the worst president ever
He's too stupid to be REALLY harmful?
Seems to like decent BBQ. Barbra prolly cooks it.
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Nope. They're all the Repugs have got. Pathetic, eh?
Harry
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