Is there anything GOOD about BUSH?

[jku]

I know we're all here in our 20s, and came of age under Clinton - but even in everything I've read about Reagan and Bush-1, there seems to have been no worse leader for this nation than GW Bush. Just sitting here at work today going through the papers with the producers, it got me really hopeless for the future of this great country.

Whether it's the issue of tax write-offs going towards super-HUGE SUVs, $4 trillion deficits, our relationships with once-friendly nations, our job market, our intelligence, our security as a nation, the trust we have in government to be fair in giving out contracts (Halliburton), our intentions to go to war, our Administrations seeming corruption to oil and TNCs, the truth we have about what is happening in our government (9/11 Report) - there has been lies and more lies. When something that sounds plausible comes to light, its shouted down by a media that has its hands in the same big money pot Bush does!

Where is the good in Bush and this administration - in the following articles/editorials from various newspapers that came out today - there is nothing but doubt and lingering questions - not one shred of hope! Is there hope for the future of this country with this man in office? Can we trust him to put the safety and economic security of this country first?

So far, when you look at the truth and not the Administration SPIN, the answer is a booming NO.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/opinion/30KRUG.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/opinion/30KRIS.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/business/30HALL.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/oped/chi-0305300385may30,1,4420694.story?coll=chi%2Dnewsopi nioncommentary%2Dhed

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/150/editorials/Iran_s_nuclear_risk+.shtml

http://images.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/photo/2003-05/8000756.jpg

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-tax30may30,1,2614801.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcommen t%2Deditorials

[Benwa]

He's still alive. Can you imagine if Cheney took over!!!

there's always something good about someone. Maybe he has a good sense of humor. He might have been a decent dad to his kids. I don't know. He just really awful at his job. And really, that isn't too uncommon, someone whose bad at their job. It just so happens his job puts so many ripples in the pond. Thats probably why I don't trust anyone who is president. If I have a bad day, no real harm. If he has a bad day, the world collapses. Imagine a bad day you have had, then think if you had your finger on the button!

[pisces2473]

As Michael Moore once wrote, "Whomever Bush turns to for support when he's feeling the pull of the bottle, let's hope it's not Dick Cheney. HE'S had 2 DUI's." (or something like that)

[jku]

Benwa inadvertently makes an interesting point in that many Americans look at the job of the President as a "job." That HE'S the guy doing the work - yes, the results do rest on his shoulders. But if he has a bad day, which there have been a lot of since he got in office, it doesn't mean much. You and I may be judged on a daily/weekly/monthly basis, but a President is evaluated pretty much every 3-6 months - that's the trend I've noticed in polls at least.

However, when looking at politicians, one has to suspend any personal fondness for the character of the said individual. I like to drink, goof around, make jokes, act like an Frat-asshole - so I'd probably love to sit around with Bush, talk baseball, have some fine-aged whiskey - but the President not-so-secretly represents an ideology and agenda that is often times totally contrary to what Americans believe in - or what is GOOD for America.

The problem with America and politics is that we vote with our "gut" instead of our "brains." Just because Bush acts like a "regular guy," doesn't mean he has any idea what average Americans go through. If more Americans looked at him for his policies and agenda - I'd imagine they'd come to same conclusion I have:

This is right man to go have a drink with - the wrong man to represent this great nation and lead us towards a seemingly dark and uncertain future.

[Benwa]

I agree jku.

I read even a more disturbing fact today. In the sunday paper in most areas, a publication called "USA weekend" is distributed. It's from the USA today folks but is very soft news. Usually some celebrity stories and the likes. In the front there's a question section where someone this week asked about air force one. The gave some little facts like how many people work on it and how it changes with each president. Clintons was very active while Bush is a sort of sit around thing. Here's the disturbing part, they like to sit around and play the board game Risk. Its all coming together, our administration likes to play a game based on world domination.

[pisces2473]

I also read something in today's paper about the president and exercise. This guy wrote a book with the main message that if the president, who is the busiest man in the world, can find one hour of his day to work out, then we can't have any excuses either. Well, if I had a treadmill in my office and my co-workers and I could have meetings while I ran and they watched, then I guess I would be in better shape too. Bush has a treadmill on Air Force One, by the way.