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Originally posted by Djinn Raffo:
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Originally posted by John D Harris:
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Originally posted by Djinn Raffo:
Remember one of Bushes campaign slogans 4 years ago was the he was a 'Uniter not a divider'. I think that one has gone over as well as Dad's 'Read my lips..' It seems Americans are as divided on the issues of the day as I can recall in my lifetime.
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"It seems Americans are as divided on the issues of the day as I can recall in my lifetime." Americans are divided and dividing for their own reasons not because President Bush is trying to divide them. [/QUOTE]I never suggested President Bush was the cause of the dividing.
I suggested President Bush was a failure for not being a Uniter as he projected in his original Presidential campaign.
You acknowledge in your post that Americans are as divided as ever. Do you agree then that President Bush has failed to live up to his campaign pledge of being a UNITER and NOT a DIVIDER? [/QUOTE]He can't unite people that don't wish to unite, Look at the no child left behind's first education budget. It was writen by Sen. Ted Kennedy, the dem. Sr. Senator from Mass. But President Bush gets blamed for it, when President Bush gave almost a freehand to the opposition to comeup with a solution they both could work with. Look at the number of people still saying President Bush "stole" the election even though every news orginization that went to Florida to count the vote said the same thing Bush won Florida.
Do you remember a few months ago when the prison photos came out some of President Bush's critics went so far as to blame him personally, saying he was personally responsible for the atrocities. Therefore unworthy of their vote, yet the vast majority of those critics will end up voting for a man that admitted to committing, burning of villages, firing in free fire zones(violation of GC) and the like, Witnessing other "atrocities". How can anyone unite somebody that will do that. Hold President Bush responsible for something that happened 7,000 mile away from him and 6-8 degrees fo seperation from him, yet not hold things that are much worse against a man that was there and comitted the act by his own hand.
So no I don't agree that he didn't live up to his pledge, he tried but he can't be held responible for people that don't wish to work with him.
EDIT: I forgot Stem cell research, until President Bush funded the research there was no federal funding for it, the President before him did not fund SCR. President Bush worked out a compromise so funding and work could go ahead. Yet if you listened to the Dems at and after their convention you'd never know President Bush was the first to fund SCR. Not his predicessor(sp?) President Bush found middle ground that allowed the research to be funded. Now which sounds like a uniter to you, the man that found middle ground or the side that ignors presenting the facts to make it look like their opposition din't do what he did, you make the call?
[ 08-23-2004, 10:27 AM: Message edited by: John D Harris ]