Well, as much as I love him, I still can’t make the excuse for him that he ‘was busy protecting us’. I’m a legal immigrant, and there is no way that I can see to forgive him for his stance on illegal immigration. I can’t see it because it isn’t there. No child left behind also poses a problem for me, but if it put Elizabeth Edwards (who inspires in me the same amt. of malevolence as does that slug she married) in the position of addressing the NEA and saying “John Kerry and John Edwards voted for No child left behind,” then I ask myself if he did it to take a political card away from the dummycrats. The problem with that thesis, though, is that the dummycrats are not capable of reason. Therefore, they would never think to say, “Yes, but how come they never had either a clue or an idea between them?”
And my fabulous President George W. Bush is also a very, very bright man. A man who can manipulate things so that the Assault Weapons Ban bill never exits committee could’ve outsmarted our Congressional enemies on other things as well.
Let’s try to stay objective ;-)
Actually, there's a very good reason...and the financial meltdown highlights it.
America is getting near the brink of having to face the fact that we as a nation are living far beyond our means. The only way to prop up that illusion is to get cheaper labor, else American wages would have to drop down to a reasonable level, to allow American firms to be competitive in a global economy.
Not many people wanted to have that happen, just like few wanted bankruptcies to go through, so he has punted by propping up corporations and workers who can't compete in the global market. It's merely buying time before America crashes.