I guess so (although I haven't tried to click the "Report Abuse"; I hate doing that unless it's completely over the top. I think I clicked it once in my 6 years here, on myself)
Bush deserves heat for his amnisty travesty, and it was perfectly acceptable to criticize him on that. But I still think he's an honest man, he says what he means and means what he says. So it disturbs me when the common DU/KOS type trashy words are permitted here, on FR, about a man I voted twice for, and helped campaign for, in MARYLAND of all places.
It was funny, before this, the conspiracy theorists were all in a lather about Bush and Co. never answering the question of a North American union directly. Now he has and is getting castigated for it.
He's honest almost to a fault. So if he says that there aren't any grand schemes to make a "superhighway" or some "North American Union", I BELIEVE him. The conspiracy nuts need to take the foil off their heads, wake up, and smell reality. The real world really isn't as nasty as it appears from the back of a tin-foil lined trailer.
On immigration:
“Bush: The president called for a “temporary worker card” to allow employers to hire foreign workers legally. He said he strongly opposed a plan for amnesty, favored by Kerry, which would grant citizenship to illegal immigrants who have been in the country for many years.
Kerry: He said the Mexican border was less protected today than before Sept. 11. He said he supported amnesty for illegal immigrants who “have been here for a long time, stayed out of trouble, got a job, paid their taxes, and their kids are American.”
Above from a 2004 presidential debate:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/14/ISSUES.TMP
Many seem to have forgotten that W was against amnesty for illegals, and Kerry was in favor. Still want to say about W:
“He’s honest almost to a fault. So if he says that there aren’t any grand schemes to make a “superhighway” or some “North American Union”, I BELIEVE him.”
It’d be just as easy to sort of mix up and confuse the meaning of “superhighway” and “North American Union” just like old W sort of mixed up what amnesty meant once he’d won reelection and met with Vicente again.
Yes, W ran OPPOSED to amnesty in 2004.
He said that before this SPP thing came along, the fear was of "one world government," and that the "o.w.g." folks have merely adjusted their focus.