[billbears]

He is a good man, a very good man.

Jimmy Carter was a good man, a very good man with a good heart. That doesn't mean he was the best President. Ah, well, it's just another 87 billion down the drain right? With the other quarter of a trillion dollars Bush has introduced in programs who cares? BTW, how's that WMD hunt going? Or has the RNC changed its talking points of late

And no I will probably not vote for President Bush in 2004 and unless something serious changes I will cast my vote for a third party candidate or more than likely stay at home. Call me names, call me liberal, I could care less what you call me. I still vote my conscience and not the alphabet

[roses of sharon]

Sad.

[cajungirl]

I gotta take issue with you. I unlike alot of people do not think Jimmie Carter is a good man. I think he is an angry, supercilious, hateful little weasel who hates, hates this country.

[carton253]

Fine...you are a man of conscience. You get the prize tonight.

[Howlin]

And no I will probably not vote for President Bush in 2004 and unless something serious changes I will cast my vote for a third party candidate or more than likely stay at home.

So you've told us over and over.

I wish you'd just realize that we don't need to keep hearing it over and over.

[mass55th]

Would you rather have to pay untold billions to repair this country from future terrorist attacks, or would you rather send billions overseas in an attempt to prevent those attacks from happening on our shores? You can either send the money overseas, or you can spend the money here...but one way or the other, you're going to have to pay.

[StriperSniper]

I will cast my vote for a third party candidate or more than likely stay at home.

Whatever you do, staying home is the worst option. If everybody who loves freedom, would just cast a vote for a third party who shares their views instead of staying home, we would have a viable third party today.

(And Dick Armey would probably be President ;-)

[LS]

Personally, I'd rather spend $87 billion stabilizing Iraq and Afghanistan, to PREVENT another 9/11, than to pour money into tariffs to allow fatcat union jerks to get richer. At least the money in the Middle East may protect me and my family.

[Lx]

<< Jimmy Carter was a good man, a very good man with a good heart. >>

I used to think the same thing, that he was just a bumbling incompetent but basically a good person.

Now I think he is not only incompetent, he's devious and a back stabbing mean spirited loser along the lines of Hillary.

Examples:

1) Before the first Gulf war he lobbied other countries to stay out of the coalition going against US policy, can you say treason?

2) His self appointed trip to North Korea where he managed to make sure they wouldn't produce any nukes. What a success that turned out to be.

3) The Panama Canal lease was ours in perpetuity. Not the 99 year lease they tried to foist on us as a reason to give it back, now who controls the canal? Hell, Panama wasn't even a country.

I've got more respect for Billy.

[alnick]

And no I will probably not vote for President Bush in 2004

Stop the presses!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I had no idea you felt that way about the war in Iraq. Thanks for letting us know. I won't ping you.

[CyberAnt]

You're inviting name calling .. if you hadn't told anybody you we're voting for Bush, nobody would be wanting to call you names.

[AFPhys]

Ah, well, it's just another 87 billion down the drain right?

My man, rather you choose to recognize it or not, 9/11 cost us far more than 87B$. I understand that for most of us, numbers with six or seven digits are incomprehensible, but you really must attempt to challenge that disability.

At a minimum, 9/11 cost us in excess of 80B$ in clean-up and rebuilding cost alone. It has cost us more in additional attempts at security, some of which will certainly go awry as we try several approaches to discover what will work. Indirect costs to the US economy for the past 2 years are greater than 500B$ and probably amount to paring 3+% off the growth rate of the economy. This economy could well have been screaming along without the drag from 9/11, but nobody wishes to admit that, apparently because in a real sense, that is admitting that BinLadin and his fanatics succeeded.

We must work as hard as we can in efforts to prevent this type of thing from happening again, and it will cost us several hundred billion dollars, at least, to secure our country, our economy, and our way of life. I still believe it is inevitable that there will be another major terrorist attack on this country which will succeed, and will cost us dearly. It will again not bring us to our knees (I disagree with you, Peach, for once, I guess I'm not one of your triplets - LOL), but it will only put more steel in our spineless class.

Oh, by the way, if any of you have a more cost effective method --- feel free to run for president --- or let Kerry or another Demodog know --- they can sure use some ideas right now.

MM, Howlin, Mo1, et.al ... I loved reading your commentary as I read the president's speech this morning on whitehouse.gov.