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mommabear
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 Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:29 pm Post subject: Ponder this |
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bern
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 8:40 am Post subject: Re: Ponder this [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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Fareed Zakaria a clearly non right wing and generally anti-Bush columnist for Newsweek just published an article entitled "What Bush got Right". The gist of the article is that Bush has been moderating his views toward the center in the past years, and points out some Bush initiatives that even Mommabear might like. It seems that McCain's increasing propensity toward voting for Bush has more to do with Bush changing than with McCain changing.
Read the Zakaria article.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/151731
Think about it. |
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kenmabmcc
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 6:26 am Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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I was reading the Zakaria article
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And then there is the administration's record outside of foreign policy. Bush 43 has surely been the most fiscally irresponsible president in American history, taking surpluses that equaled 2.5 percent of GDP and turning them into deficits that are 3 percent. This is a $4 trillion hit on the country's balance sheet. On the central issue of energy policy—the greatest economic challenge and opportunity of our times—Bush has been utterly obstructionist, recycling the self-serving arguments of industry lobbyists. On the whole, Bush's record remains one of failure and missed opportunities.
So why offer this corrective? Because we cannot go back to 2001. The next president will inherit the world as it is in 2009. He will have to examine the Bush administration's policies as they stand in January 2009—not as they were in 2001 or 2002 or 2003—and decide how to accept, modify and alter them. There was a U.S. president who came into office convinced that everything his predecessor had done was feckless, stupid, ill-informed and venal. He rejected and tried to reverse everything that he could, almost as an article of faith. Before he had even examined the policies carefully, he knew that they had to be changed. The base of his party was delighted by his clarity and fighting spirit.
That president, of course, was George W. Bush. His decision to blindly repudiate anything associated with Bill Clinton is what got us into this mess in the first place. Let's hope that the next president, no matter how much he despises Bush, will take a careful look at his administration's policies, America's interests, and the world beyond and do the right thing for the country and its future. |
Let us hope the next President is not such a slow learner as bush has proved to be.
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xavierx
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:28 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| Hmm. Those bolded items sound exactly like Obama. You're right, Ken, hope our next President isn't like that! |
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kenmabmcc
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:13 am Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| xavierx wrote: |
| Hmm. Those bolded items sound exactly like Obama. |
Don't think Obama is anything like bush...
McCain is another matter...
but as he is not going to win...he doesn't matter...
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