> All of your economics are purely partisan. Your views on global warming, stem cell research. In fact, other than your taste in music, just about everything you post has a partisan bend to it.
My views on GW are straightforward. Prove it exists, prove we can do anything about it at reasonable cost, and I'll be on board. Over time the facts will come out, but a group of people who are determined to find a particular outcome aren't what is necessary. Even then, the proposition that we start dumping trillions into it is untenable. You don't just throw money arbitrarily at perceived problems and expect a decent outcome.
I doubt my views on stem cell research are materially different from your own, although I did support Bush's decision as a reasonable compromise under difficult circumstances, and one which, in the end was vindicated.
>> You were virtually in lockstep with Smirk until the very end.
I think Bush was a great president, but I did not agree with a lot of his spending. In fairness, however, it was nothing compared with Obama's, and for the most part, it made more sense. And I believed Saddam should have been removed from power during the 90s, after he refused to comply with the terms of the cease fire agreement (this is more of a practical consideration than a political one; if you're going to have the UN "lay down the law", someone has to enforce it or it is worse than a wasted effort). So, I did (and still do) support the Iraq War, although I thought Clinton should have done it.
But I'm rational. I recognize that you can't, without being a hypocrite, support the Iraq War before it starts and then when it turns out to be tougher than expected say, "Oh, I opposed it all along" -- which is what practically every Democrat did on the issue.
I can, of course, point to any number of areas where I disagreed with Bush just as I do with Obama -- e.g., abortion, drug policy, some of the education measures, etc. But he was a highly competent individual who did not use the tactic of further dividing the country, which the current president routinely does and I find personally disgusting.
And GWB had sufficient business background to understand economics. I cannot remember a president who was a shallow as Barack Obama on the topic of economics, and on many others. I do believe the educational system failed him, as the idea that he may have gotten high marks in any law school curriculum is astonishing to me. I don't believe he could have been a successful attorney as he lacks some of the basic skills any good attorney needs. |
