compiler opened this issue on Nov 21, 2004 ยท 56 posts
Armorbeast posted Tue, 23 November 2004 at 4:33 AM
Well,the difference there is that Reagan pursued many different programs that benefitted the economy...Bush has been widely criticised for having done next to nothing for us domestically.Reagan did cut taxes,but he also spent a hell of a lot of money as well...it was his ability to focus on domestic issues that helped.Reagan also was able to accomplish much of what he did without sticking to a strictly republican agenda and he was one to sit back and listen to his advisors or even to change course to adapt to changing circumstances...Bush has none of this going in his favor as many of his own advisors warned him not to take the actions overseas in the way he chose to do...he ignored them.He also point blank stated over and over during the campaign that he intended to stay the course no matter what...that means he intends to do in these four years what he did in his first four years.
The thing with Clinton was that after winning office he stopped being a party politician...in fact,time and again the democrats felt betrayed because he sided with the republicans.It wasn't that the republicans held power in congress,it was that Clinton wasn't thinking party politics...he was thinking of himself and doing the right thing so he goes down in history as a great leader.Bush is strictly a Republican and thats the problem as even Reagan sided with democratic ideas and legislation if it was the best thing for the nation...Bush won't.This sets the stage for conflict because the democrats won't keep giving blind support to this man because of 9/11...and I honestly think most Americans won't either.
So why did we re elect Bush?Because that idiot Kerry totally ignored entire regions of the nation to focus on only a few states that combined would give him many of the votes he needed...unlike Clinton who was wishy washy on the issues,Kerry lacked Clintons charisma and even after winning all three debates failed to capitalise on Bush's mistakes.Bush didn't win...Kerry lost!Ask a Bush supporter to name three things he's accomplished for us that don't have to do with Afghanistan,Iraq,terrorism or the military...make them focus domestically and they're clueless.
The reason the World Trade Center was targetted wasn't to kill people,it was a symbol of western capitalism...they thought that bringing it down would somehow cripple us financially and ruin the western world economically.This could not happen but they believed it could...but the actions of George Bush jr could very well achieve the objective these people sought,he could very well cripple our economy with his actions as well as those nations dependent on the strength of the American dollar.You must understand,if they just wanted to kill people,there were countless soft targets that could have killed millions of Americans ranging from nuclear power plants to a huge chemical waste dump in the midwest...it was never about killing Americans which is what most Americans thought.
The Euro dollar is indeed inflated...just needs a sharp pin to pop it and Bush has a very sharp pointy head;P
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