(to inquest) Then you never answered my question- you expected Bush to solve 8 years of problems in 8 months?
Not that I'm dumping on you, rintense...I appreciate your efforts to reason with the unreasonable...but it was more than 8 years...it was 26 years, as the President pointed out. The hostage situation, Beirut, et.al.
The point that you are making, as are those who are not getting ideological bj's from the Clintonistas, and the Carterista's, is that we had a history of allowing terrorists to hit us, and to hit us hard. And harder. And harder yet.
If the Democrats are going to sit there and say that it's all the Republicans' fault, then "truth in advertising" mandates that we make a list of the root causes of why we were attacked. Some happened during a Republican administration, but the overwhelming majority of them happened under Democratic administrations - the same Democrats who say that George W. Bush is evil, unilateral, a cowboy, etc.
I might also add, none of those events happened in the first eight months of the President's administration. When something did happen (9-11), George W. Bush acted. And it was not just a "law enforcement" operation. He laid it out in his address to the nation on September 20 of that year: "Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done." He then backed it up, with the use of force. And more force.
This was a good move by the President today, if what he said was intended to be "a response to Clinton". I'm not terribly sure that's why he said what he said, when he said it. Sure, we would love to have W just wipe the floor with these leftists, including all of the people on the Left side of the aisle who said much more (and much earlier) about Saddam and WMD than Bush ever did.
There are some who are going to back the Clintons no matter what. BJ and She Who Must Not Be Named can do no wrong, and no Republican can do anything right. Many of them exist on this thread, and on this forum. And so long as they keep it clean, their posts have remained available to read. So do ours.
For all of the leftists that continue to say "the only poll that matters is the one on Election Day" (until they lose), I say that the U.S.A. Ten Months ago (my fictional newspaper) held a nationwide poll. Over 120 million people were questioned. A popular and electoral vote majority...over 62 million people...either agreed enough with George W. Bush (or disagreed with John Kerry) to keep him in office for another four years.
And "that's the way it is." /end rant