Funny how both Johnson and Bush are Texans. Oil must get mixed in with the drinking water down there. It's funny the biggest deal that Bill is remembered over is getting his willy basted at some one else's bar-b-q. Hell, in Japan, France, Italy and Detroit, you are pretty much expected to have some action on the side (I am serious). If you had Hilary for a wife, you would take your business elsewhere also.
Negative - not as President of the USA. That's my opinion. You're holding the highest office of government there is in our country and are walking in the footsteps of some of the greatest leaders this world has ever known, I
expect that any President will act accordingly and respect his own position and maintain an utter sense of professionalism while on the job. He is remembered for this act more than any else, because it's the one act that he could in no way defend in terms of 'trying to act in the interest of our country', good or bad. As such, he disgraced the office and in my opinion, his own name among those who preceded him.
As far as 911 goes it was going to happen one way or the other, republican or democrat. Entire swaths of government failed her people in this regard. Yes Clinton should have and could have sent a much bigger message when the towers were bombed the first time, it was needed. What is going on in Iraq could have and would have all been done in Afghanistan.
If we were still concentrating our efforts in Afghanistan, the terrorists would already be several steps ahead of us - as you may or may not recall, we abolished the Taliban (who were terror supporters), and soon after, most of the terrorists fled the country in search of refuge elsewhere (Osama is believed to be in Pakistan for example). We have them on the run, and as long we we continue this, they will be less likely to organize, train and plan the next big attack. Al Qaeda is firmly entrenched within the Iraqi borders, and we continue to find and either capture or kill their top leaders to this day.
We are now looming on the edge of recession that has to be squarely put on the Bush administration. Your civil rights mean less because of the last eight years. Your right to privacy is a mere shadow of what it once was. We now face a deficit that has seen no equal at anytime in our history. All this in less than eight years. How anyone can think this a good thing is beyond me.
Our economy has always been a fragile one, and continues to be so in this rapidly shrinking global economic juggernaut. I don't blame the Bush administration entirely for this, but I don't withhold him from responsibility either, in our ability to compete in the global market. For one, I blame corporate outsourcing and too much importing of goods and services - fewer American workers are getting paid the wages they deserve, unemployment continues to rise, and less money is being spent at the average cash register. Further complications result from the mortgage foreclosure crisis, but who is to blame for that? The banks, not Bush. All told, we're sending more money and resources outside of our country than we're bringing in or making on our own, and that's a problem that started long before Bush took office.
Civil liberties... well, I wish you could be more specific on that one. I'm assuming you're referring to the Patriot Act again?
Well, let me just say that we're in the process (as a nation) of once again turning our cheek on the terrorists, which is going to put us in exactly the same position we were in when we were caught with our pants down on 9/11. You remember the public outcry on "how could we have avoided this???", right? People would have done anything to prevent the attacks, but suddenly everyone has amnesia and thinks maybe 9/11 was just a movie they saw once, and that we're in fact safe, when in fact we're not - these monsters (among other things), are some of the worst enemies this country has ever faced because a.) they are extremely cunning and ruthless, b.) they are extremely
patient, and c.) they have no regard for life, even their own. Yes, they are smart - and they know that all they have to do is wait for America to lower her guard again, and wait for Obama or Hillary to get into office, then it's open season on American citizens again - you watch.
