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In fact there has not been a more pro-business President, especially pro-Big Business, since Calvin Coolidge.

Well that is true. But, lets spell that correctly, what you refer to as "big business" is international business. Now the President is certainly growing international business; what he has failed to do is to grow domestic business, or to make us products more competitive abroad. That $770,000,000,000 deficit we have been running in our current account is a pretty clear indication of that. Unfortunately for Bush, he was hired to manage the affairs of this nation. So while he may he may think he has been elected to head a New World Order, and he may be the best thing on the global business stage since sliced cheese; his domestic results are enough to earn him a conviction for treason. What he has done is nothing less then to sell his country to the highest bidder.

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what you refer to as "big business" is international business.

Well, all big businesses are international businesses, so that goes without saying. Also, small businesses are growing substantially, and have been for the past decade or so, both under Clinton and under Bush.

what he has failed to do is ... make us products more competitive abroad.

Since when is he supposed to do that? Also, while it is true that American businesses have been losing their competitive edge on traditional products, they are, at the same time, unsurpassed when it comes to innovative technological advances. I would point you to two companies which have profited immensely under Bush - Google and Apple. In the process, hundreds of their American employees have become millionaires, and thousands of their shareholders here have reaped enormous wealth. Would you give Bush credit for Google (went public in 2004) and Apple (skyrocketed after iPOD launch last year)?

Microsoft has over 1200 openings right now, most in the Redmond, WA area. That is another innovative American company prospering, and in the process, enriching Americans. Would you give Bush credit for that also?