“He was one of the least popular Presidents in the last days of office because he alienated his base and American Independents. He was marginally more intelligent than Kerry and Gore - which is why the election results with those two were so close.”
Running with the herd is not a sign of intelligence ZULU. President Bush, Kerry and Gore are undoubtedly more intelligent than most. You may disagree with them, but implying they lack intelligence is foolish at best...sure, I can defend President Bush with facts much easier than you can deride him with crap. You can start by countering the first post I made...all you have done so far is thrown out insulting rhetoric, but in truth, I don’t expect much else from you.
I read an interesting article several months ago in which Cheney describes what happened during the second term. He stated that Bush began ignoring his advice and began drifting further and further left. Cheney offered several examples, but I can’t recall them now.
At anyrate, the drift paralled the decline of Bush’s popularity.
Bush and Kerry flunked two and three college courses respectively. Their cumulative averages were an unimpressive ranking in the mid 70s.
Bush could barely string together a coherent paragraph. His lack of vocabulary was embarrassing.
Bush DID lower taxes. He DID keep us safe from more terror attacks. He did appoint conservative justices to the Federal Courts.
BUT
Bush allowed Mexico to dump millions of illegal aliens into America. More than that, he aided and abetted them in doing so.
His administration persecuted American border guards and American citizens who endeavored to do what his administration FAILED to do - defend our borders.
He said he would not support any laws making English the Official Language of America.
He attempted to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens along with Ted Kennedy and John McCain.
He tried to appoint a family hack - Harriet Miers - to the Supreme Court until his own party pressured him to select a qualified justice.
He attempted to contract out with an ARAB MUSLIM STATE - Dubai - to handle our Port security.
He appointed another family hack to head FEMA which is one of the reasons the Katrina disaster was so terrible.
He waited until the last minute to lift the ban his Daddy imposed on drilling on the coast of America and on the Alaskan North Slope while gasoline and energy prices were screwing Americans and the economy into the ground.
He did nothing to try and stem the catastrophic rise in energy prices which contributed to the current recession.
He went through with his damn bail program at the end of his term when all the polls indicated Americans were dead set against it.
He got us bogged down in FRUITLESS nation-building in Iraq and Afghanistan. It cost us and continues to cost us a fortune in American lives and dollars and we are getting NOTHING out of it.
He allowed idiotic rules of engagement to once again hamstring our troops - just like Johnson did in Viet Nam.
He said he would sign into law an assault rifle ban renewal.
He appointed nitwits like Chrissy Whitman to his administration. Remember Norman Minetta and his no guns for pilots and frisking little old Swedish American ladies from Minnesota at airports????
He really DID believe Islam was a “religion of peace” and failed to take adequate steps to reduce or eliminate Islamic immigration and travel into the U.S after 9-11.
He appointed that pompous bag of wind, Tom Kean Senior as chairman of the 9-11 commission, along with Jamie Goreleck who should have been a TARGET of the commission.
He stopped the military’s planned attack on Falujah after the Fallujans butchered those American contractors and strung their bodies up.
Bush RECOGNIZED the problem created by Democrat manipulation of Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae and failed to press them on it.
Bush did NOTING to stop the unfair trade practices of the Red Chinese or the continued erosion of our manufacturing base and American jobs overseas.
He did nothing to stop the flow of dangerous food products, consumer goods and medicines from Communist China into America.
I’m sick and tired of Bushbots attempting to whitewash his term of office.