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I have lost confidence in Bush. He's a spendthrift people-pleaser without the intellectual firepower to handle the job he's in. I admit to never having been too enamored from the beginning with the prospect of another Bush presidency and the verbal malapropisms galore that would bring (and Bush has fulfilled my fears in spades in that department), but at least I expected to get a fiscal conservative in the WH when he arrived. Instead we find that he's a big spender of historical proportions who won't even trim the pork-barreled highway bill to generate funds for Katrina victims.

Iraq is a mess, and a great part of the reason we're stuck there is because Bush failed to wring the real facts out of his bureaucracy about Saddam's true capabilities, a sign of a second rate leader. Either that, or, more ominously, he knew the truth about Saddam's weakness but wanted to knock him out anyway for going after his Daddy, and 911 gave him the chance. But he knew he couldn't be honest with the people about his motivations, so the WMD myth was born. And in the process he all too readily and foolishly accepted the rosy scenario endgame predictions of Rumsfeld, Cheney and Wolfowitz.

He's a nice guy in over his head. He's got no real political philosophy at all to speak of (appallingly, he's read very few, if any, of the great books of the western canon -- Condi Rice had to explain to him what Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment was!). And, as one would expect from a not-too-bright guy, he's a captive of his aides. I've had it with him.

[Happy2BMe]

Myths and lies of illegal immigration

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"This is disturbing, because, like you, I am against illegal immigration.