[Triggerhippie]

That was a GREAT article!

[Waco]

Well, you don't like Bush, how would you like perusing the FBI files with Hillary?

[ChessExpert]

Smart, very smart. Thanks for the post.

[claptrap]

China "economic powerhouse" of the future? Being a CEO
one can only worship at the divine altar of "The Bottom-Line". Slave labor is attractive to this guy, the rest of him seems ok but this part is repugnant.

[Cognoscenti247]

What a great and pragmatic essay.

[nopardons]

bttt

[Fruitbat]

What bothers me about Bush's position is this; today, regarding the DPW deal, he said that he wouldn't do anything that would bring harm to the nation or something to that effect.

Well, and this just in, WTH's he been doing with the borders and can any sane person say that the issue there is not harmful to our nation? Home and property values have practically vaporized in some border towns and regions, illegals pour over the borders like water over Niagara Falls, who knows who is coming in, criminals, terrorists, etc.

W says something like he said today, but IMO he doesn't have any credibility, but here's everyone just lopping up the slop as if it's going out of style. Politics at it's finest.

Now I'm tempted to believe that this DPW deal is fine. But until we get some information we just don't know. We've trusted many, many, many nations in many, many, many situations over the decades to our shame. The Soviet Union, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, China, Russia (after the USSR), and many others.

Yet, we continue to behave as if everyone's honest in diplomacy.

If W wouldn't do anything to allow harm to come to our nation, then is he blind on the border issue? Apparently so.

Call me crazy, but he has little credibility in this department. Again, it may be fine, then again, it may not be, and my credibility with Bush pretty much ended since the last election. He's neglecting a good chunk of his responsibilities as President including learning how to handle the media, and he's certainly not the conservative leaning president that he appears to have been moreso in the first term.

[Fruitbat]

P.S. He's done fine in the WOT overseas, but his grades at home are average at best, flunking at worst.

[Just A Nobody]

Great article from India about our President!

As we prepare to welcome the leader of the world’s most powerful republic, it behooves us to make sure that we grapple with facts, not just biased opinions.

[montag813]

Let us take a look at the facts. The Bush family is as elitist as they get in America.

That wouldn't bother me so much if they didn't bend over constantly for the Arab elite.

[scratcher]

"Don’t mis-underestimate Dubya"

[Christian4Bush]

bump

[jwh_Denver]

2 years after Bush got elected I quit voting Republican.

[MikeHu]

This is what world-class journalism (writing ) looks like -- and why China and India will rise.

The level of thinking is powerful and clear -- unlike the sorry example of thinking offered by the United States mainstream press -- that is totally puerile and dysfunctional. That's where America has fallen behind the most as a global competitor and why the newspapers (mainstream media) are failing. They're pure crap and worthless.

[Cronos]

The images of Bush they have succeeded in planting internationally are that Bush is dim-witted, a simple-minded religious fanatic, a supporter of a rapacious plutocracy. None of these are based on facts. But like all propaganda, there is a feeling that repeated often enough, loudly enough, it’ll become the accepted truth.

Nazi philosophy. DUmmies follow it too.

[Cronos]

His ability to re-fashion himself as a “non-elitist” or to convert a marginal first term victory into a decisive one in the second round are not acts of the politically inept. Those who think of him that way seriously “mis-underestimate” him!

Amen...

[Cronos]

He has maintained a clear distance from ecology fundamentalists who would deny India nuclear fuel and at the same time hector us not to burn high-sulphur coal. How exactly are we supposed to provide for an energy-starved population who do not aspire to remain permanently poor?

Another zinger to the envirowackos...

[Moorings]

Great article. Thanks for posting it.

This Rao is quite sharp, and has excellent insight that could shame a lot of elite journalists in this country, who deliberately or blindly propagate lies, half-truths, myths and propaganda.

[Moorings]

Bush has shown a broad-mindedness and inclusiveness in his appointm-ents that completely demolishes the argument that he is merely a mouthpiece for evangelical Christians.

He would not be a good evangelical christian if he was prejudiced and excluded talented people. .

[Miss Marple]

Thanks for posting this, bayourant! This is a very interesting article, with a take I haven't seen before (pointing out how often the entire family has anticipated demographic trends).

I pinged a few folks too this article. I suggest they also ignore most of the replies on the thread, since it was taken off-topic most of last evening.