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Originally posted by MagiK:
Oh please not this old and tired and irrelevant "Lead the troops from the front" schtick.  that is such a lame thing to say. As for cowboy in the white house, I would rather a cowboy than a sissyboy.
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Just a quick jab at Bush...I can't resist. This is a quote from an admittedly very anti-Bush website, but it's appropriate:
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From the ActiveOpposition website:
(Concerning Bush's much vaunted aircraft carrier landing) And nobody seemed bothered that Mr. Bush, who appears to have skipped more than a year of the National Guard service that kept him out of Vietnam, is now emphasizing his flying experience. (Spare me the hate mail. An exhaustive study by The Boston Globe found no evidence that Mr. Bush fulfilled any of his duties during that missing year. And since Mr. Bush has chosen to play up his National Guard career, this can't be shrugged off as old news.)
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For a man who obviously got a "get out of Vietnam free" card, Bush's bravado (with other people's lives) seems kind of...hypocritical.
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Originally posted by skywalker:
I don't know about you MagiK, but I was doing alot better when Clinton was in office than right now.
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But, to play devil's advocate, you could rest some of the blame for America's economic woes on the Clinton administration. Much of the economic growth of the 90's was due to socialogicals effect, like End of the Century (Millenium) syndrome and the tech market bubble. And I doubt all of America's current problems have occurred since 9/11 etc. Though given Bush's ideas about "economic reform", the U.S. may never get back in shape.
And, to be fair, Clinton skipped the war too...though he never seemed macho about throwing away other people's lives.