Posted on 09/17/2005 1:21:06 PM PDT by RWR8189
Apparently no one believes in 'the buck stops here' anymore. I can't imagine a Truman or an Eisenhower being paralyzed by a bunch of lawyers afraid to act to rescue a city.
I can imagine it, but at the same time, I must admit that decisions were involved. I get to evaluate them on scales such as bad/good, weak/strong, ignorant/insightful, etc.
The decision not to override the Louisianna governor (1 low and 10 high):
a.) bad/good- 7
b.) weak/strong - 5
c.) ignorant/insightful - 6
The LA Governor's decision not to call in the Fed?
a. 1
b. 1
c. 0-
I agree with you. I think Fred was trying to explain something that didn't need explaining and it didn't work too well. He has not been a Bush basher and I don't think he was trying to harm the President in this case.
Sometimes the chatterers work too hard to make chatter, and don't make sense.
Try again, Fred. You're not usually this wrong.
It has nothing to do with it's not being 'an adoration' of the President.
It has everything to do with the fact that this time, Fred is just wrong.
btw you were right about the President at the funeral, and clearly have lost your way since......
Carter?? ROFLOL!! Surely you jest!
You have got to be kidding? How old are you? Do you not remember double digit unemployment, inflation, interest rates, long gas lines. Do you not remember Carter's stupid fire side chats in a sweater, doing nothing during 444 days of America held hostage? Do you not remember Carter doing nothing when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan except boycotting the Moscow Olympics?
Watch the movie Miracle about the 1980 Olympic hockey team and the references to how America had lost its confidence and how that 'miracle on ice' helped our self esteem. Please. President Bush has had to deal with more than most presidents have or ever will have too. If you don't like him, well that's your business but comparing him to Carter is just plain ignorance.
Thank you for your informative post. It is wonderful to read it like that and it gave me a few laughs too.
can anything happen without someone taking a poll? Can't they just give it a rest ??
Excellent points!
I'm old enough that I write with meaning and expect that readers are literate enough to comprehend.
I have utter contempt for Carter and both his Presidency and his post Presidency.
I wrote specifically of the mess he "left". Much of the World's problems today can be traced to and blamed on Carter.
I now believe Bush will leave a similar mess that will have bad long term repercussions. Starting in the Mideast but not ending there.
I hope Bush surprises me, proves me wrong. He doesn't have much time.
We were lucky after Carter that we had Reagan or it may not have been the Soviets that fell.
I hope we are as lucky this time.
The La Governor is either a complete fool or was frozen like a deer in headlights. Probably both. But this should have been evident to Washington once the flooding began and she didn't call for aid.
At that point Washington should have acted. Restoring order and saving flood victims isn't some sort of power grab that violates federalism and the intent of posse commitatus- and since when has Washington failed to impose its decisions on the States anyway? Only in the breach. What were they afraid of? That Blanco was going to sue them for arresting looters and hauling people off rooftops? Sometimes I wonder if common sense exists in any politician.
bttt
I am 'literate' to comprehend you, believe me, but I still think you are ignorant if you make any comparison whatsoever of President Bush to Carter. I comprehend what you wrote, even when it makes no sense at all.
And it doesn't seem to matter if one talking point is the polar opposite in essence of another........they still use them.
In this case, in the interest of bashing the President no matter what he does, these small government, keep your hands off my stuff rightists are criticizing the President for not illegally invading a U.S. city without the state's approval.
It'd be funny stuff if they weren't serious about it. Scary....
You're making a fool of yourself by the comparison, so break it down and tell us what you are referring to.
How exactly, is giving freedom to 50 million people and starting two democracies in the Middle East messing it up?
(We all know what a joke Carter was..........please enlighten us as to how that has anything to do with a visionary, pro-active, courageous President like George W. Bush. And please DO tell us how this magically changed for you since Reagan's funeral).
To anyone who acknowledges the real news from the Mideast yet continues to believe this Bush Arabian tale even Scheherazade wouldn't dare, I must seem the fool.
A nuclear North Korea allied with a nuclear Iran which is dominating both a civil war torn Iraq and the world's oil- with their ally Chavez in South America- is just a start.
A weakened Israel surrounded on all sides by heavily armed confident Islamic fundamentalists who simultaneously are causing instability in Egypt and Jordan.
If at home the high energy bills have not driven the economy into the ground, then the massive deficits caused by Bush's wild spending certainly will. One of Bush's true accomplishments, tax cuts- unfortunately with expiration dates-, expire.
House prices collapse as interest rates shoot up to finance the debt, and then take a second hit as inflation hits everything.
When I think of a President leaving a mess I automatically think of Jimmy Carter. Maybe here I should also give a nod in the direction of LBJ.
I think worse can happen. I'm trying to remain cheerful. Maybe if you guys would lend me your rose colored glasses and your pom poms.
I get my information from the U.S. military. You don't seem 'the fool'...........more like the ignorant dupe of MSM bias.
Other than that, you're just dealing in doom and gloom speculation based on your own political bias (and ignorance), so your Carter/Bush parallel falls flat.
No rose colored glasses and pom poms here, son. Just fact based reality, and not leftist lies.....
If the Administration were to select a candidate, or President Bush were to endorse someone, given the nature of Republican politics, that person would practically have the nomination in hand.
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