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I forget how long confidential presidential and executive documents take to be declassified.
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To this, I look forward.
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Until that time, a shroud of mystery will hang over the events of Bush's presidency. But after that time, it will likely be clear who is responsible for all the scandals that have transpired during his terms in office.
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Tons on non-scandals. Yep. Can't wait for the juicy details. There is no mystery to me...well, only the particulars that are currently [rightfully] classified for national security reasons. That's what the History Channel is for.
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History will actually 20/20 hindsight at that point, and Bush will be judged accordingly.
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In the previous media culture, I'd argue with you. But now, and especially later, the media won't be able to treat future unclassified knowledge like a Chinese Buffet - picking only the "damaging" stuff while leaving the positive buried.
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But really, I don't have to wait until that time to render my verdict.
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Yes, Bush Derangement Syndrome allows one to get around all that ticky-tacky stuff like evidence.
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The piss-poor appointments of incompetents, the amount of spending, the blocking of legislation, the misguided threats and rhetoric, the soiling of America's reputation around the world.....
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You be sure to point out an administration that has made perfect appointments...
Additionally, it is a 100% fact that
career Federal Government employees are typically
Democrats...why do you think Pelosi was so hot on unionizing the Dept of Homeland Security? You could put Abraham Lincoln or Vince Lombardi in charge of any number of federal agencies and have them fail because - at least - from middle-management-on-down, they're lefties. Not satisfied with the inherent incompetence of themselves and big government, in general, they have been known to seize an opportunity to undermine a GOP administration. State Department is probably the worst in this regard.
Spending...yep...it is out of control. I'll say it again:
highest tax revenues in history and
your people and mine have managed to piss it away.
"Blocked legislation"? Thank God. At least
some pork was blocked. At least the legislation that was an attempt to assure defeat in Iraq was blocked. At least stupid legislation that was nothing but a [giant] baby-step towards socialized healthcare was blocked.
"Misguided threats and rhetoric"? You mean stuff like "Evil Empire"? Oh, that was Reagan. "Axis of Evil"? Show me where that is inaccurate. Yeah, if you support or participate in terror, you will be punished. Doesn't matter if you are France, Libya, or Iraq. Sure beats the shit out of Albright playing basketball with Kim Jong Il.
When "the world" is wrong, I don't really care what they think of us for not going along with them. Here's to us continually and forever not getting involved in that hoax knowns as "man-made global warming".
4/28/1975:
Newsweek - The Cooling World
And, certainly, by 4/2005 the
sky was falling in the other direction... (Have yet to see any of
those eggheads come forth an apologize for the false alarm).
Thirty years elapsed. The Earth is 4,500,000,000 years old. So, within the span of 1/150,000,000th (one one-hundred-fifty-millionth) of the Earth's age, the eggheads have totally reversed themselves, substituting "consensus" for hard science. They pretend to understand unfathomably long and complicated
natural Earth/Solar climate cycles. Forget about the fact that our short stay on Earth -
statistically speaking - likely does
not represent Earth's "normal" climate. Ain't buying any of it, sorry.
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All of these are enough to me to draw the conclusion that Bush is/was a horrible president.
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Assuming that you'll take every non-scandal (i.e. "Plame" bullshit) and pump it up to ridiculous proportions and somehow conveniently, also, regard as "false propaganda" the future declassified information detailing terror tragedies averted because of our efforts...yeah, your mind will stay unchanged.
I do know that none of these "scandals" will turn out to be worth a spit. I also know that our economy is great, our War on Terror is progressing, taxes have been cut, employment is outstanding...
Good President.