[bitkahuna]

Originally posted by lex400sc
You are all horribly off-topic in pointing the finger back at Clinton and the big bad liberals.

I don't think ANY President deserves all the credit or all the blame.

The problem I'm pointing out with George Bush is his idiotic supply-side delusion in his obviously failed economic policy. If tax cuts didn't work in 2001, didn't work in 2002, didn't work in 2003, what the hell makes you think they will work in 2004?

What is your solution?

An uncertainty that Bush breeds on a weekly basis. Bit, you remember the message of fear in media from Bowling, right? I can relate if all back to Bush's Orange Alerts, and all the July 4th press conferences warning of ominous attacks and imminent threats.

I agree that completely nebulous alerts and warnings do no one any good. The message is something like this: "You should be very scared because there's lots of bad people out there who want to hurt you. But hey! Don't worry, go shopping!!!"

Then there was the overblown threat of Anthrax.

When a Senator gets sent anthrax that's very serious. I'd say that situation was more overblown by the media than by the government.

And how dare whichever jackass said "you're just lazy if you're unemployeed"?! Riiiight wise guy! People have been steadily losing jobs for more than three years non-stop and by some fuzzy logic there exists a bunch of phantom jobs for the millions of unemployeed, but they are just too lazy to apply for them?

Here I disagree with you. Look in any paper in the nation, or online, and there's THOUSANDS of positions to fill. Unemployed people are too lazy to do something in a field they're not currently in, instead waiting for a job at the inflated pay rate they had before, which doesn't appear. The longer they wait in denial, the staler their skills become in many cases, and the less employable they are in the field they were in. People who are unemployed for more than a few weeks should take ANY job.

However, we have a president who has undone years of international and environmental progress.

On Iraq of course we disagree. But do you believe he shouldn't have gone into Afghanistan either?

On the Middle East, another favorite topic, Abbas has resigned and the situation is back to square zero. Clinton 'failed' also with Camp David accords, but I don't blame either Bush or Clinton. Unless these yoyos really want to work it out nothing proposed over here is going to make any difference. And I'm convinced that neither side really wants peace yet.