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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dalin who wrote (65284)	11/9/2000 3:23:30 AM
From: chic_hearne	Respond to of 769669

But at this point, Both candidates might not be thinking in the party's best interest. <g> One thing both parties have shown me over the last few years is their lack of skill at quick decision making. For example, look at the cuban boy. Forget about what should be done and look at damage control, this is the way a government that has the best interest of its millions of citizens should look at things. By keeping the boy here, what good could come of it? It doesn't take a genius to figure out that what happened over the following months was going to happen. Of course there would be the father wanting the kid back, Cuba wanting him back, and the Cuban Americans wanting him to stay. I would've shipped him back the first day and made a strong message that I'm not going to take the boy away from his father regardless of the circumstances and it would've been swept under the rug. Instead, these morons just gave Cuba another reason to continue to hate us just at the point when our relationship with them was getting better (this may be a stretch, but it ain't the cold war anymore so this is better). Of course, I'm not saying a damn thing about the boys interests, but on an issue like this you have to make the tough decisions for millions of people and dragging that crap out for months was the wrong thing to do. Both sides are guilty of this crap, so therefore I don't expect either party to actually consider backing out given the state of the economy even though both sides know how fragile things are and the likely hood of a crash and the consequences for 2004.