Wow, Mick, that's quite a tirade!

You criticize ME for being partisan? Partisan?? Of course I'm partisan, I've never tried to conceal that.

But you're are not, right?

You and your fellow Bush haters are so fond of comparing President Bush's economic record with your guy (note I not say "boy" as you did in your post). The Wall Street Journal had a very interesting op-ed piece in yesterday's edition. Since it's the WSJ, you may not have read it. I quote: "From Jan. 2o, 2001, to Jan. 20, 2009, the debt held by the public grew $3 trillion under Mr. Bush - to $6.3 trillion from $3.3 trillion at a time when the national economy grew as well.
    By comparison, from the day Mr. Obama took office last year to the end of the current fiscal year, according to the Office of Management and the Budget, the debt held by the public will grow by $3.3 trillion. In 20 months Mr. Obama will add as much debt as Mr. Bush ran up in EIGHT YEARS (My emphasis).
    Mr. Obama's spending plan approved by Congress last February calls for DOUBLING (My emphasis)the national debt in five years and nearly tripling it in 10.
    Mr. Bush's deficits ran an average of 3.2% of GDP, slightly above the post World War II average of 2.7% Mr. Obama's plan calls for deficits that will average 4.2% over the next decade.
    Team Obama has been on history's biggest spending spree, which has included a $787 billion stimulus, a $30 billion expansion of a child health-care program, and a $410 billion federal spending bill that increased nondefense discretionary spending 10% for the last half of fiscal year 2009. Mr. Obama also hiked nondefense discretionary spending another 12% for fiscal year 2010."

So the financial facts based on figures from the Office of Management and the Budget do not support Obama's supporters who claim that it was Bush who got him into the mess he now rules over, he did it to himself (and the American people).

As to my well being, well I certainly am neither hopeless or bitter. Actually I'm a pretty positive person and I'm even confident that better days will be ahead of us just as soon as Mr. Obama has served his one term as president.

You speak of "respect for the office of the president?" Are you referring to the kind of respect members of this forum who hated George Bush showed during his eight years in the presidency? I would include you in that group.

Cool down, Mick, as is often the case you and I simply do not agree. Were there no "freedom of speech" guaranteed by our Constitution, one of us probably would be running now from the government secret police.

DougR