A mandate is in the eye of the beholder. Just ask Mr. 43%:
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He was off to a good start - tax cuts, pro-gun, willing to fight communists...
A mandate is in the eye of the beholder. Just ask Mr. 43%:
i agree.
dubya, who has a purpose, and makes his stands known, will rise into the upper tier of presidents.
clinton will eventually sink to the bottom as time passes on and newer generations of historians without ties to them evaluate him fairly.
dubya will rank above the elder bush.
Perhaps if Clinton had paid attention to these earlier attacks, 9/11 might have been averted.
The more think about it, Bush is more like Teddy Roosevelt.
And don't be surprised if he doesn't. He's done some great things; but, he's also propped up economic policies that are destroying the economy from the ground up. If he doesn't get his head out of his behind, that will define him. Saving a guy from an enemy bullet while impaling him with your own sword don't make you a hero.
The great Presidents are the ones who defy the conventional wisdom at the time. They are willing to take some risks your average politician would never dream of. In other words, everything Bill Clinton wasn't.
By "George" I think he's got it!
(That is a funny saying, I wonder where it comes from, anyone know?)
At the end of this century, while few of us will be around to witness it, don't be surprised if Bush, too, doesn't rank as one of the great presidents of the century.
It is very possible. If President succeeds in any or all of major tax reform, reform of Social Security, or in cutting the budget back, then along with his foreign policy successes, a high rating among our Presidents is a distinct possibility.
And even more than President Reagan, he has the tools he needs in a Republican House and Senate, and the strong popular rejection of the leftist Senator Kerry. Now it is time for vision and hard work.
Let us hope that it might be so.
Flights of idle speculation masking a mean-minded taunt at Liberal election losers is a total waste of time and reveals a unbecoming mean streak that many of us want nothing to do with.
I predict President Bush will go into history as one of the best presidents of this century if not the best
I am not sure that telling the destitute that the government will take care of them is a great thing. Far too many people now believe the government has a bigger role in their lives than it should.
President Bush rules!