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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (175969)10/4/2003 1:14:08 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1579774
 
In most of his actions Bush has been far from radical. The best case for calling him that is the Iraq invasion, but Iraq has been a country we have had troubleing and violent interactions with for years. If the action was radical it is not so radical as to justify calling Bush or his presidency or his administration radical. If Bush just invaded another country out of the blue, that would be radical.

I don't agree with you that a pre emptive attack on Iraq was not a radical move. Whenever something is a first, no matter the prior history, it usually is considered a radical move. The attack on Iraq brought to the surface the belief that Bush's presidency is a radical one.

The truth is is that its his ideas/suggestions that give rise to that label. However, many of those ideas don't get implemented. Case in point, Bush wanted Amtrak dismantled. That would have been a radical move. His argument was that if the states wanted train service, then they need to pay for it themselves. That would have spelled the end for national train service, maybe the Metroliner or the Coaster in CA........a radical move. However, it looks like that move may have been stopped by the intervention of the honorable Senator from the great state of Washington. <g>

His attempts to incorporate religious elements like prayer into the White House and Congress are considered radical by some. Most of our modern presidents have been secular in their approach to the job. Few have tried to combine religion with the inner workings of the gov't.

Its stuff like that that is upsetting to non GOP members, causing them to coin his administration as radical.

ted
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