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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory
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To: GST who wrote (78489)2/5/2007 11:25:20 AM
From: Tommaso  Read Replies (2) of 110194
 
Most administrations manage to accomplish at least a few good things, or at least try to resist bad things. Is there anything whatever that we can praise that Bush has done or has tried to do?

With Nixon, we did have his diplomatic overtures with China that did a lot to reduce the likelihood of conflict in Asia. Lyndon Johnson was sincerely concerned to improve the conditions of the poorest Americans.

The only thing good I can think of about Bush is that he has not tried as hard as he might to suppress criticism of his administration or intimidate those who criticize him. I guess for maybe 15% of the public, it's wonderful to have a president who is not having sex with a White House intern and who appears to be an average family man. For maybe 30% of the public, it's wonderful to have someone who seems pugnaciously pro-American and contemptuous of the United Nations. I guess what maybe 25% of Americans want in a president is a Sunday School teacher who packs a gun.

Your predictions for the economy probably sound grim, negative, and excessively pessimistic to a lot of people. To me, they sound like an accurate assessment of what the Bush administration has made inevitable.
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