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I’ll take ‘em one at a time.

No child left behind was meant to inject ACADEMIC TESTING AND REMEDIATION into the public schools. It also was meant to have vouchers. It did inject testing which was badly, badly needed, but the tests ARE NOT FEDERALLY CHOSEN TESTS BUT LOCALLY CHOSEN. Vouchers got in there but they had to be public school vouchers not private school or Kennedy would have stopped everything dead in its tracks. It was modeled on what Bush did in Texas by injecting ACADEMIC TESTING AND REMEDIATION into the public schools. To call it socialism is stupid. Look up socialism in the dictionary.

Medicare expansion was to provide drugs before people got so sick they required radical and expensive treatments. Nothing about Medicare is perfect or as it should be and it would have been best if never started. But to deny drugs while continuing to fund the radical and expensive treatments that become necessary because drugs weren’t used when needed, would be the most stupid Medicare of all.

Americorps is voluntary. I don’t mean that money isn’t spent on the program. I mean it asks for people to help others domestically if they chose to do so. It doesn’t impose itself on me. It isn’t any more socialist than a state or local program that does the same thing. I would take a look at how the program is managed and how effective it is before I judged it. But that’s just me.

Bush’s spending targets were met by the Congressional Republicans. Look it up. That’s why he didn’t veto. He has a much better record than given credit for when you combine his spending targets with his growing economy due to tax cuts. The deficit has gone down a staggering amount and far more than anybody dared hope. It has fallen like a rock. True the debt has increased but is shrinking compared to the size of our economy and budget.

The PA and PLO is not Hamas led. I don’t support any of the Palestinians or their leaders. But it is Fatah, not Hamas, that is leading the PA. Fatah and Hamas are at each others throats and have had several pitched battles between them.

“More socialsim”? Isn’t that redundant by your standards? Everything is socialism if you don’t like it, apparently. Not to mention very ill defined to just accuse Bush of “more socialism”. It’s almost put in very childish terms.

I support Duncan Hunter. Reluctantly I would support Fred Thompson. The only way I would vote for any of the others would be to stop Hillary or the Democrats including Obama, Edwards etc from literally destroying this nation virtually overnight.

But I think a lot of the stuff flung about concerning President Bush - imperfect as he is - is utter hogwash.