But only after it blew up in their faces with the public. :lol2:
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Like working on his NCAA bracket, lavish parties, Jay Leno, and of course signing off on a Children's version of his book (to which he was pre-paid $500,000)
I just love the double standard. Bush would go to the Crawford ranch and the press would lambast him. "Bush vacations while U. S. soldiers die!" But Obama can do no wrong. The Golden Child. Teflon King II.
We are witnesses to the world's greatest tragicomedy; it is funnier than hell, but it ends with the death of America.
I thought the same thing when Bush was elected. Guess what the American people and political process are more robust than any of us give them credit for!
I despised the Bush administration, you guys now despise the Obama administration.
I think it's amazing that while we have differences that every 4 years there is an opportunity to change the direction of the country peacefully and it humbles me.
So can administrations do things we hate and despise Absolutely! (Although we will dispute what things etc...) The political process however is stronger than either party and I have tremendous faith in us as a people. The actual political process always humbles and amazes me.
I agree with you, Beaker. One question, though: What was it about Bush's platform that made you think that he would destroy our nation as we know it? Tax cuts and raising the Earned Income Tax Credit? Drilling ANWR to decrease our dependence on foreign oil? No Child Left Behind? Opposition to abortion? Increasing defense spending to repair damage caused by the massive cuts under Clinton? Missile defense? Subsidizing private health insurance? Supporting gun rights, as opposed to Gore, who campaigned on banning handguns? What?
Here is what worried me about Bush, his attitude toward the strong presidency, the fact that he believed that the president could have broad powers without congressional approval and seemed unconcerned about using such power.
Of course nothing I say on this topic will be "right" or "acceptable" to many of you but in answer to your platform questions.
In particular YES I disagreed with his tax cuts we went from having budget surplus to 1 trillion in debt when he left office.
Anwar- I am neutral about, I don't think it would solve any of our dependence on foreign oil and I don't think it would really kill all that many cariboo either. I'll let the extremist nuts on both sides fight that one out.
No Child Left Behind- I have a sister that is a teacher and I have to say while it was a boost to the test taking agencies it did little to improve education and MOST of it was enforced through unfunded mandates.
opposing Abortion- I think you know pretty clearly that I don't believe in criminalizing abortion, nor do I think that it should be the first line birth control option. (No one who wants to tell me what to do with my womb will ever get my vote.)
Increasing defense pending- I didn't feel this was "necessary" but at the same time understand that different people have different priorities so fine if you want to increase spending just don't do it while slashing taxes.
Missile defense- See Anwar I don't care I am unconvinced we have the technology to make it work but at the same time don't see anything wrong with going ahead and trying it.
Subsidizing private healthcare- I think there are many problems with the healthcare system and I won't bore you with them here. Some of the policies in healthcare were good some were bad, just like I am sure I'll like some of the current administrations policies and cringe at others.
Gun Rights- All for em
None of these policies scared me as much as the attitude on power, he just seemed power hungry to me and those people make me nervous. Just like right now you have a fundamental uneasiness with Obama beyond his specific policies.
Again what I put the most faith in is the American public, they are broad and strange and don't always agree with my individual views, sometimes they swing more right than I like and sometimes they swing more left than you are comfortable with but within all of these swings somehow we seem to get it more "correct" than any other country that I know of.
Obama doesn't seem power hungry to you at all?
So you are against INCREASING tax revenue? It seems alot of people on the left, or those that lean that way, don't understand the concept. When you cut the tax rate, economic activity increases. Thus, more economic activity results in more taxation and Tax revenues go up. It was no different this time. Tax revenues went up. So obviously tax cuts had nothing to do with the deficit. It was his horrible fiscal spending that was the problem.
Agree. The first step to improving our education system is by destroying the teachers unions.Quote:
No Child Left Behind- I have a sister that is a teacher and I have to say while it was a boost to the test taking agencies it did little to improve education and MOST of it was enforced through unfunded mandates.
I watched a PBS special ( I know, I know.. PBS?) about how the NCLB is actually making bad citizens. Social Studies courses do help students pass standardized testings, so schools are scrapping the classes and focusing only on those subjects that are required to pass the tests. This results in kids that simply practice memorization without comprehension. It's all crappy.
"Free" obviously doesn't mean better. This taken from the Richardson tragedy:
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Richardson left Mont Tremblant for Centre Hospitalier Laurentain in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts at 3:47 pm where the actress' condition was stabilized.
After being stabilized, Natasha was rushed to the trauma center of the Sacre-Coeur hospital in Montreal. Richardson did not arrive to the trauma center until 7:00 pm due to the 52 mile trek between the two hospitals.
The Sacre-Coeur hospital was unable to provide helicopter transportation to the late actress because Montreal is unequipped with helicopters for medical transport.
"Our system isn't set up for traumas and doesn't match what's available in other Canadian cities, let alone in the States," said Tarek Razek, the director of trauma services for the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal.
Even the tiny town in which I was born (pop. ~2,800) has CareFlight. Canada. What a joke.
By the way, Beaker, I wasn't expecting you to explain why you disagree with any or all of the campaign platform items I posted. My point was that Bush's agenda, whether you agreed with it or not, was relatively innocuous. For example, No Child Left Behind--admittedly a waste of time--is not the kind of thing that had any chance of significantly screwing up the country. Obama's policies do and will; he wants to throw out the wisdom of the Founders, which has brought us unprecedented freedom and prosperity, in favor of the idiocy of the radical Left, which, as history abundantly demonstrates, brings only death and destruction. Finally, I agree that you ought not vote for anyone who tells you what you can or cannot do with your uterus--so long as it does not contain an unborn human being who, to paraphrase Jefferson, is endowed by God with an unalienable right to life.
By that logic every childbirth that results in death or harm to the mother should be charged with murder since it took away the mother's "right to life".