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Originally Posted by Truly Blessed
I honestly believe that history will treat Bill Clinton very well and George Bush will be listed among the worse presidents in US history. When you compare their accomplishments Clinton clearly outshines Bush. Clinton is the most intelligent president in many years.
I have been a Republican all my life, but I can't stand Bush. I cringe every time he speaks wondering what stupid statement he'll make next. IMO he's an embarrassment to the the USA. His adminstration will be most remembered for his stupidity and for being so headstrong he would rather live a lie than to do what is in the best interest of the country and the world in general. The day Colin Powell resigned as Secretary of State represents for me the beginning of the end of any hope for a successful Bush presidency.
It's too bad that Clinton will also be remembered as well for his moral failures. Apparently his attendance at those UPC campmeetings didn't impact him as they should have!  |
I know you are shocked that I disagree vehomoently with you! Bush may not be any good at public speaking but he is the first President with a Masters degree in Business AND had better grades in college than John Kerry.
Being inarticulate does not equal stupidity. GWB is much better one on one and in small groups that in speeches. I agree that being inarticulate is a great handicap as a President. Especially in this day and age of mass communication and a public with a very short attention span or loyalty.
The Nation had 8 years of Reagan and 8 years of Clinton as great communicators who "connected" with an audience so people were used to someone skilled in that arena for 16 of the last 20 years of the Presidency before GWB came to office.
I still believe he is a good, honest, intelligent man. He has had some terrible luck in that the intelligence about WMD in Iraq was wrong and in the fact that the Iraqi people and government does not have the will to stand up on it's own it appears. If those two t hings had been different GWB would be being praised right now as a genius.
The American people (and in your case a Canadian) have way too little patience. If everythign doesn't go just smoothly and if all problems are not solved in a short period of time they lose patience and faith. That is a shame.
I think it is a disgrace that the American people lost faith in the President and elected a bunch of yellow belly pacifist Democrats to control both houses of Congress.
The other thing that irks me is that the fact that the economy has been great gets totally ingored by the critics of the President and the mainstream media.
Our unemployment rate has been the lowest just about ever, stock market high, etc. Of course there are problems in the economy as there will always be but overall we have a strong economy right now despite it being talked down by Democrats and media. The American people never hear the good stuff.
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