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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (3745)	2/23/2004 10:01:14 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Examiner View Bush service record is not the point THE HUBBUB OVER PRESIDENT George W. Bush's time in the National Guard 30 years ago isn't without significance, but the attention it is garnering is out of proportion with its importance. This nation faces a formidable set of challenges in the next four years. As highlighted in Florida Monday by Bush's pains to put a happy face on the national jobs picture, as well as by recent polls, the economy remains one of the most important -- and worrisome -- issues for American voters. The U.S. involvement in Iraq is in danger of becoming an unmanageable morass with unclear or unrealistic objectives. There also is the matter of how we will go forward with preventing terrorism and protecting ourselves against it, and how to reconcile safety and liberty. As for the question of whether the way Bush conducted himself in the National Guard in the early 1970s says anything significant about how he would lead the country in a second term as president, the answer is maybe, but probably not. For one thing, it's not logical to expect that his behavior and judgments as just one of many pilots would be the same as those as nation's top leader. And the reality is that the official records often don't say much of importance about military members' service careers. The fellow who slouches through his time in the service by saluting anything that moves and painting anything that doesn't can look just the same on paper as someone who puts a lot more effort into the enterprise. When it comes down to it, Americans' decision about whether to retain Bush for another term shouldn't be based on what he did or didn't do three decades ago in the National Guard -- it ought to be based on what he's done in the past four years in the Oval Office. examiner.com