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COMMENTS:
Voted : Too few to mention, IMO.
And I had high hopes after the 7-year nightmare I, and others who are like-minded, have been suffering.
Would like to see a similar ballot about good things we've seen happen since Bush was 'elected.' Anyone?
by mojo on Mon Mar 03, 08 9:10am
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'Too few to mention'
But, please share some of them.
Minimum wage increase.
Firing Gonzales.
by mojo on Mon Mar 03, 08 9:20am
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Good ballot, btw.
by mojo on Mon Mar 03, 08 9:21am
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Just, fyi: President Bush
banned partial-birth abortion,
disarmed Libya of its WMDs (chemical, nuclear and bio),
killed USA involvement in the International Criminal Court,
turned around a recession (while dealing with 9/11),
increased Small Business incentives to expand and hire new people,
killed the 'ergonomic' rules that would have shut down every home business in USA,
passed new tough laws to hold corporate criminals to account,
provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home (and more),
pushed through three raises for military pay
and prohibited putting USA troops under UN command.
Now, let the redirect begin.
Few reasons I dislike him:
1) The environment is most important of all issues to me, and George has really dropped the ball on environmental issues. This is largely due to his ties in oil, which I think are also sketchy.
2) Patriot Act.
3) No matter how you try to spin it, he's not fiscally savvy.
4) We're still in Iraq. Why? Does he think he can still sneakily build an oil sharing government? Does he think Osama is still hanging out and laughing at him? It seems like he got into this war for the wrong reasons and is just waiting for his term to end so someone else can deal with it.
5) Oratory skills of a shoe. A country can't unify behind a man who wants people to 'unificate' behind him.
Voted : Too few to mention, IMO.
They were mostly blocked by Republicans.
Turned around recession??
HUH??
My opinions about GWBush are still unchanged from ballot #36134.
by mojo on Mon Mar 03, 08 12:07pm
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Honestly, people. I respect your opinions and thoughts. Noone has said that this president is magnifico, but many are so quick to gloss over any accomplishments (by a Republican).
His 'countrified' dialect is of major importance to some of you. Has no other president mispronounced words ?
As for the recession I mentioned, it is verifiable in many documents and records. People just donot want to think that this president inherited less than stellar situations from the former president.
Please, donot misunderstand me. I 'take up' for noone and ask noone to 'take up' for me, ever. Some on this site are free to attack me on assumed and incorrect beliefs of mine. It bothers me not, keep doing it because it is amusing and for certain users shows their ignorance.
I love my country, with all its warts.
Well I'm glad you're happy B_L  However, I won't let you call it a countrified dialect. Personal opinions on Bush aside, no president should make up words on a regular basis. That's no dialectic difference, that's piss poor speech skills. And, being that the president is on the biggest stage in the world by himself, I would like to think he could form a proper sentence.
Seriously, I applaud your patriotism, but people who still think George Bush is smart enough to run this country baffle me. I could do no better myself, but I'd wager there are many thousands who could if they had the opportunity to do so.
I'm going to do the impossible on B&W and stay on topic for at least one paragraph. The democrat majority congress is suffering the same gridlock that kept the republican majority congress from progressing when we had a Democrat president. Add to that the fact that this is an election year and you know damn well we won't see shit happen until November.
Black Lava the kindest way I can put this is to say you shouldn't start a fight you can't win.
George W. Bush
-has given more money in corporate Welfare than any President in history. This directly hurts small businesses since it gives advantages to corporate giants that don't need it and undermines the competitive elements that make capitalism work.
-hasn't turned around a recession.
Pop quiz: what is the current national debt? If you guess upward of $6.84 quadrillion you'd be correct. This year's deficit will be the biggest in U.S. history
-'s administration is well on its way to being the first since Herbert Hoover's to preside over an overall loss of jobs during its complete term in office. For Bush to avoid this fate, the economy would have to create jobs over the next 13 months at a rate unprecedented outside of World War II.
-Presided over the loss of approximately three million American jobs in his first two-and-a-half years in office, the worst record since Herbert Hoover.
-Oversaw an economy in which the stock market suffered its worst decline in the first two years of any administration since Hoover’s.
-Taken, in the wake of the terrorist attacks two years ago, the greatest worldwide outpouring of goodwill the United States has enjoyed at least since World War II and squandered it by insisting on pursuing a foolish go-it-almost-alone invasion of Iraq, thereby transforming almost universal support for the United States into worldwide condemnation. (One historian made this point particularly well: “After inadvertently gaining the sympathies of the world 's citizens when terrorists attacked New York and Washington, Bush has deliberately turned the country into the most hated in the world by a policy of breaking all major international agreements, declaring it our right to invade any country that we wish, proving that he’ll manipulate facts to justify anything he wishes to do, and bull-headedly charging into a quagmire.”)
-Misled (to use the most charitable word and interpretation) the American public about weapons of mass destruction and supposed ties to Al Qaeda in Iraq and so into a war that has plainly (and entirely predictably) made us less secure, caused a boom in the recruitment of terrorists, is killing American military personnel needlessly, and is threatening to suck up all our available military forces and be a bottomless pit for the money of American taxpayers for years to come.
-Failed to follow through in Afghanistan, where the Taliban and Al Qaeda are regrouping, once more increasing the threat to our people.
-Insulted and ridiculed other nations and international organizations and now has to go, hat in hand, to those nations and organizations begging for their assistance.
-Completely miscalculated or failed to plan for the personnel and monetary needs in Iraq after the war, so that he sought and obtained an $87 billion appropriation for Iraq, a sizable chunk of which is going, without competitive bidding to Haliburton, the company formerly headed by his vice president.
-Inherited an annual federal budget surplus of $230 billion and transformed it into a $500+ billion deficit in less than three years. This negative turnaround of three-quarters of a trillion dollars is totally without precedent in our history. The ballooning deficit for fiscal 2004 was twice the dollar size of the previous record deficit, $290 billion, set in 1992, the last year of the administration of President Bush’s father and, at almost 5 percent of GDP, is closing in on the percentage record set by Ronald Reagan in 1986.
-Cut taxes multiple times, sharply reducing the burden on the rich, reclassified money obtained through stock ownership as more deserving than money earned through work. The idea that dividend income should not be taxed—what might accurately be termed the unearned income tax credit—can be stated succinctly: “If you had to work for your money, we’ll tax it; if you didn’t have to work for it, you can keep it all.”
-Severely curtailed the very American freedoms that our military people are supposed to be fighting to defend. (“The Patriot Act,” one of the historians noted, “is the worst since the Alien and Sedition Acts under John Adams.”)
-Called upon American armed service people, including Reserve forces, to sacrifice for ever-lengthening tours of duty in a hostile and dangerous environment while he rewards the rich at home with lower taxes and legislative giveaways and gives lucrative no-bid contracts to American corporations linked with the administration.
-Given an opportunity to begin to change the consumption-oriented values of the nation after September 11, 2001, when people were prepared to make a sacrifice for the common good, called instead of Americans to ‘sacrifice’ by going out and buying things.
-Proclaimed himself to be a conservative while maintaining that big government should be able to run roughshod over the Bill of Rights, and that the government must have all sorts of secrets from the people, but the people can be allowed no privacy from the government. (As one of the historians said, “this is not a conservative administration; it is a reckless and arrogant one, beholden to a mix of right-wing ideologues, neo-con fanatics, and social Darwinian elitists.”)
Anyone who defends Bush as a President is going to find themselves in a remarkably brittle glass house.
This was meant as a positive ballot. It turned into a bashing, instead. Never once did I state my position on party or President, yet you, again, assume.
Even a ballot which starts out with the word, 'Good', is quickly redirected to a bashing of the 'other' party.
Nate: I merely quoted documented facts.
Robin: Where did I say I 'support' anyone ??
The only reason I added some achievements by this current president is because the first comment asked for it.
Nowhere did I say who I support.
Many of you need to read through a ballot before commenting. Many of you need to think for yourselves.
You may not like me for whatever reason, but play fair on ballot comments.
Yes, I am guilty of loving my country. Would you rather live in Liberia, Colombia, Mexico or India or . . . ?
Obviously, if you defend a criminal you can be said to support them. If you tell me you never voted for George W. Bush I will appologize.
^ I love my country too. That's why I hate George Bush.
by mojo on Mon Mar 03, 08 2:38pm
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Well, sorry if my comment somehow sounded like an attack on you. I used the word 'baffled' as in 'confused,' as in 'it confuses me how any can still support him,' which I don't think is in any way an attack, but whatever.
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