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To: DieHard the Hunter
The war was his key, defining issue, and it is arbitrary and wrong to exclude that when evaluating his overall performance. It should receive most of his performance weighting. All else — quite rightly — is small stuff by way of comparison.

Well, that raises a point since all the other stuff, according to you is "small stuff". What would legacy be without the war? Take that away and what would you have had? A president who wants open borders. A president who, apparently picked mostly turncoats for his cabinet. A president who picked a lot of inept people for his cabinet.

As to the “small stuff”, the Illegal Aliens issue would be tops, followed by this current Financial Crisis. He would have scored a near perfect mark had he nailed these bonus points.

The invasion of the United States by over 15 million foreigners is not "small stuff". How would New Zeelanders react to an invasion of millions of foreigners? Would you call it small stuff and let your president have a pass?

40 posted on 12/24/2008 6:57:09 PM PST by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: raybbr

> Well, that raises a point since all the other stuff, according to you is “small stuff”. What would legacy be without the war? Take that away and what would you have had? A president who wants open borders. A president who, apparently picked mostly turncoats for his cabinet. A president who picked a lot of inept people for his cabinet.

Granted, but the War gazzumps everything else — as so it should.

For example, if you’ve got liver cancer, you are not going to much mind having an ingrown toenail, a wonky knee and three rotten molars — each of which, without the liver cancer are jolly uncomfortable and reason enough to complain. You will instead focus on getting the liver cancer treated and under control because it gazzumps all other of your illnesses.

> The invasion of the United States by over 15 million foreigners is not “small stuff”. How would New Zeelanders react to an invasion of millions of foreigners? Would you call it small stuff and let your president have a pass?

During peacetime I would call it an intolerable situation and demand it be fixed immediately.

But during war-time, I would demand our Prime Minister focus on winning the war, because we can deport the illegal aliens later. Or we can put them into uniform and send them off to fight the enemy. Or whe can put them to work making war materials. Or we can ignore them because in the context of war they are small stuff.


46 posted on 12/24/2008 7:09:16 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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