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

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (745542)	7/18/2006 12:52:36 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Oh yes...and no one on this thread has ever acted as if they know it all...<g>. Your own words have proven my point precisely... You very aptly point out that there may be one or two posters who do that on this thread on occasion, but they are indeed the single exception... I very aptly point out that on that other thread every single poster is like that all the time, there is no exception... can't you distinguish the difference? Did you have difficulty on the analogy section on your SAT's? I did fine on the SATs. One of the things the SATs were supposed to do was test critical reasoning. I do think this thread, and many others, have lots of people who think they know it all and have some straight line on the truth, sometimes right to God. The inability to question one's own presumptions and periodically test our basis for stating an opinion is a weakness, in my view. A hypothetical question: If George W. Bush and William J. Clnton acting as Commander in Chief took exactly the same course of action on the same set of facts, would your opinion on that course of action be the same? You feel Clinton was a traitor and Mr. Bush a great patriot. I have pointed out in the past that the same people on this thread who feel Mr. Bush should not be criticized for his actions directing our foreign policy were critical of Mr. Clinton on Kosovo. Why is that different, if the principle of rallying around the Commander in Chief is the issue? My personal gripe with the Republicans has not been foreign policy. It has been their lying claim to be small government, fiscal conservatives while spending domestic funds at an unprecedented rate. And yet so-called conservatives won't call them to task because the "demo-hacks" would be worse. (supposedly). Well, the demohacks would have to go some to spend more than the republican congress and president have done in the past six years. New medicare benefits, new highways, etc. etc. At least tax and spend demohacks are up front. The Republicans spend and borrow while claiming to be fiscal conservatives. The President has gotten in the habit of overestimating the size of the deficit expected, then claiming "progress" when it comes in at ONLY 270 billion dollars! Come on. Are we that stupid. Let's all take the blinders off and at least admit that on fiscal integrity the republicans (conservatives?...NO) have nothing to stand behind..and yet we let them get away with it.