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Originally Posted by ijusluvit
Bucco, as sincere and thoughtful as you are about politics, I think it's time you stopped using comparisons of George Bush to Barack Obama as a way of defending the former and attacking the later.
This latest litany of criticism sounds credible when you mention what Bush did not do, but falls apart due to the fact that your list is a mere fraction of what Bush DID NOT DO.
Your criticism of what Obama has done is contrived. It is a collection of trivialities or generalities which will have no historical significance.
Obama is thankfully an active, passionate President. With every statement or action he leaves his critics an opportunity to once again demand, "Why is he not perfect? Why can't he do everything exactly like I thought I heard him PROMISE he would?".
The Constitution establishes the Executive as a leader who can influence decisions by his attention and arm-twisting, but who cannot make what people would like to think are promises. 'Promises' are the term the media uses to dramatize and attach more importance to the statements the Executive makes. Critics elevate statements of preference and support to 'promises' to attack the Executive for not doing what they wanted him to do.
The things already accomplished by this administration are historically significant. Based on the record to date, Obama will be given a high grade for effort as an active President. Partly because of the luck of how things turn out, the future evaluation of that effort will range somewhere between 'Nice try', to 'Brilliant, the best that could have been done in the circumstances".
Why nit pick and jump to final conclusions? We are a long way from a verdict on how well the big problems: Afghanistan, the economy, the spill, national security, health care, and immigration are going to change us for better or worse. And a little farther from a verdict on the role of the President in the result.
But while we wait, history has already decided, so clearly that it will not entertain revision, that the absence of effective leadership in the Bush administration, combined with the outrageous mistake of attacking Iraq, left America in it's most difficult state in the last seventy years.
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With all due respect, my rant and I readily admit it was such.....was generated by every comment that was critical of this President in this forum is greeted by anti Bush comments.
The rest of your defense of this President I will leave be, as history will serve to judge him. I have, obviously, a much much different opinion of this man and thus far his history and training and lack of ANY experience is showing in a short time.
You seem to be also afflicted with the Blame Bush...defend Obama against anything mode and that is your right. I DO know what he and this congress have done thus far and if you are happy with that, then we will have to disagree on where we want this country to be in the future. You and your children and grandchildren will pay for years for the Health bill that solved NOTHING but pre existing conditions and that could have been done without the blackmail and backroom deals. I would hope that you do some reading on the fiscal calamaties facing both states and corporations as a result of that ill fated bill.
I apologize to you for my rant if it offended you, but I am equally offended, not as a Republican, not as anything but an american at the constant stream of Bush bashing to explain everything this administration does. Someday come on here and tell us what this President has done so positive !!