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Yeah, I've gotten used to him for 8 years now. lol Plus he made the independence of my country (Kosovo) possible, and signed the deal so that Albania can enter NATO. Pretty significant for our history out there in the Balkans.
Just once if I have to put up with someone preaching morality from the Oval Office, they could shrink government.
^ Well of course, it's mostly Liberal posters in this part of the site. Which is nice though, since we can debate all the time and bring political activity to S2.
Yep. That's one reason. Another one is that Bush isn't very popular right now. He is a very likeable guy and I bet that if the economy was ok his perception would be a bit different.
'ell no! Are you kidding me? Unilateralism, the Infiltration of Federal government by Religious extremists, Unlawful and misdirected war, The Increasing privatization of military efforts and unchecked growth of the military industrial complex, a largely unintelligible figurehead, squandered moral authority... shall I go on? I am fairly certain that 10 years down the road, Bush will be remembered as one of the worst 3-5 presidents ever.
President Bush has managed to anger two wings of American politics--the socially laissez-faire and the small government folks--one on the Democratic side and one on the Republican side. When you have a 51%/49% split in the country, you can't afford to piss off people who are at least partially sympathetic to your aims. I've been heretofore content (although not happy) to make the tradeoff to be morally legislated in exchange for keeping my taxes low and staying out of my business. President Bush broke that deal that married the social conservatives with the economic conservatives with this bullshit "compassionate conservatism". It's nothing more than big-government liberalism combined with dictated morality.
I had a Brittany spaniel growing up named Joe. Joe liked to jump up on countertops, tear through trash cans, run away as soon as you opened the door, hump your date's leg the minute she entered the house (along with furniture, jackets, couches, chairs, toys and the lawn), pissed on my favorite coat just for the hell of it (even after dry cleaning it smelled like urine every time it rained) and got into at least three separate incidences with skunks, which led to him stinking like goddamned burnt rubber and peanut butter for a a year and a half of his obnoxious life. We called him Skunky Joe. He was truly the most revolting pet I've ever seen. Skunky Joe lived to 16 just on sheer obnoxiousness. He died in mid-January when the temperature was around 20 degrees, and I had to drive 60 miles out to my parent's farm to dig a hole in the half-frozen ground for him. The final insult. Funny thing is that I kind of miss him now in a "What the fuck is that son of a bitch gonna do next?" kind of way. I've got rational, well-behaved pets now, and they actually care what I think and want. I'd never want Skunky Joe back permanently, but sometimes I think it'd be nice to just have him around for a half hour. If only because he'd do one of his revolting, crazy things and I could mercilessly pummel his head with a shovel.
