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To: TimF who wrote (3461)	10/24/2006 1:53:38 PM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (2) of 10087

Republicans are people too. :-) I prefer not to tag people with labels such as "conservative", "liberal", "Democrat" or "Republican". I thought Bush 41 was a good man and a good president except for his Clarance Thomas appointment. John McCain fits my style. Pat Buchannan and Newt Gingrich have some good ideas. I like Barrak Obama but I'm leery of Hilary. What irked me from the beginning of this administration 6 years ago was the tax cut. We have debated here the reality of Clinton's surplus... was it a fact or myth... but Bush pushed his tax cut as a means of "returning the surplus to the American people." There was NEVER any consideration given to using the surplus to pay down the debt - the interest on that debt is 30% of our budget now. That's irresponsible. The second watershed moment for me was listening to Colin Powell make the case for war against Iraq before the UN. I watched it live and was shocked. I expected a Cuban Missile type presentation - absolute proof that Iraq was a danger to America. Instead, Powell presented drawings of a mobile chemical lab. Drawings! A 5th grader could have done that! Then there were the intercepted phone conversations of an Iraqi supervisor telling his underling to make certain nothing was missed when the old WMD were removed. That seemed reasonable. On a sprawling military base stuff gets misplaced - the supervisor wasn't instructing his subordinate to hide stuff or lie - just make sure everything that was supposed to be gone was in fact gone. I remember telling my wife "There's nothing there." We're going to war for nothing." There are many other examples: Bush firing his budget director who stated the war would cost $200 billion. The Joint Chief who said 250,000 troops would be required to secure Iraq - he was shelved. I could go on and on - the evidence that the prescription drug plan cost was understated. The lack of a single veto by Bush in 6 years. The injection of religion into politics sucks... who's running this country, us or the religious right? I could go on, but you have better things to do. I'm not anti-republican, but I share Newt Gingrich's notion that the campaign slogan for the Democrats in 2006 could be simply stated: "Had Enough?"

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