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Thread #119159   Message #2816495
Posted By: mousethief
20-Jan-10 - 12:15 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Bush Years In Retrospect
Subject: RE: BS: The Bush Years In Retrospect
I'm disappointed with Obama. He could have done more, including dismantling the Patriot Act. On the other hand, the Repuglicans have stopped at nothing to oppose him at any point they possibly could. So while I am disappoined with Obama, I am disgusted with the Repuglicans who clearly care more for their party than they do for their nation.

As for Bush Jr, he was a disaster, the absolute worst president in the history of the Union. He had the whole world's attention and good will in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, and he pissed it away like so much cheap beer. Plus lying to get us into a war we had no business being in. Starting with a balanced budget and nearly doubling our debt. Further driving the wedge between the richest of us and the rest of us, moving more wealth from those who make it to those who have obscene amounts of it that they can never use. Money definitely trickles up, and anyone who says otherwise is either a liar or an idiot.

It's like he wanted to really prove Reagan's adage that the government is not the solution, it's the problem. We got 8 solid years of how very, very true that can be.