What's amazing to me is that more and more people are coming to this conclusion every day,and you can see them doing this right here on FR. Someone will be a full-race Bush-Bot 2000 one week,and the next week they are starting to get critical of him. Within a couple of weeks he disgusts them as much as he disgusts me. Just wait until he signs the bill to keep the Assault Weapons Ban in place,and people will be dropping like flies.
What we are seeing here folks,is the evolution of a 1-term president.
The whole problem is he never said he wouldn't. Much of the so called Bush legacy or platform did not actually come from him. It came from wishfull thinkers who thought he was pro-second ammendment and Joe Conservative. Had they turned off the tv for five minutes and read his stands on those issues then they would know. I see the excuse we are at war and must support him. Yet what does he do? Uses the 9/11 attack to promote Fast Track Trade Authority. Not many even blinked an eye on that one.
I didn't like the Clinton family doing work in China and I don't like the Bush family being involved there either. It raises doubts about events such as the recon plane going down. All is forgiven it seems and MFNTS is a reality. I look back on simple things and how they were mismanaged from the word go. The Beret issues is an example. The S.O.D. acted like he had never recinded an order before. They studied the issue till it quiety went into policy.
Our military readiness despite the past 5 months is in need of some serious help. The policies of Pappy Bush and Clinton have taken their toll. The most recent example of that neglect is the carrier Kennedy. Yea the Captain is responsible for the ship but higher ups from all indicitations defunded it to that level.
Federal agencies are being empowered with ridiclous powers still at an alarming rate under the pretense of national security. There is sufficent laws to put any terrorist in jail without violating others rights doing so. Instead of good old fashioned police detective work we now are getting Big Brothers watchfull eye literally on our street corners. National ID's cards are being bellowed for also. It's not Dem vs GOP issues anymore that era is past. It's right vs wrong constitutional laws vs unconstitutional laws and acts.
We have become the MTV nation. An attention span on important issues lasting till the next crisis. politicans know this about human nature all to well and exploit it to every extreme possible. Either we turn from it or become as the Romans 70 AD.
Dang it, I guess I'm keeping company on the wrong threads--I'm contantly banging heads with the Bush Butt Boyz n Gurls! Oh, I hear the "well, I really don't like this _______ that he did, but overall he's the greatest thing since apple pie, Motherhood, and Chevrolets!"
..."Just wait until he signs the bill to keep the Assault Weapons Ban in place,and people will be dropping like flies"...
Y'know, sneakypete....I don't even know if the average Joe will have a clue--who is going to do the spoon-feeding of the truth to them?
One term.....oh I hope so--but if something doesn't happen in 3 years to get the people stirred up enough that 'they aren't gonna take it anymore', we'll just get another Shrub maybe dressed up as an Elizabeth Dole or whatnot.