I have yet to meet the perfect President.
RE-ELECT !
There seems to be a lot of people who rush to judgement on him, but I'm a very patient person. I think there is a LOT going on behind the scenes. Oh, I know, there are plenty of people here who think they should know everything that is going on, but we're in the middle of a war. That makes things a little different. Our lives, and the lives of our families are at stake and we have to make a decision on whether we trust the man and his administration. I've made my decision. I'll trust the man.
I have yet to meet the perfect President.
RE-ELECT !
I realize the strategy to deny the dems their "key" issues but I was hoping for "our side" to run the ball forward offense for awhile rather than give up only a few yards on defense.
Are my expectations unrealistic? Possibly, but these still reflect my position.
has anyone in Oklahoma heard any news of the supposed UFO crash near Henrietta Oklahoma tonight? Heard on the radio coming home that it was cylyndrical and the ground shook for 30 seconds.
Bush has taken a rough hand and played it well. There was no precedent for 9/11, and he dealt well with it at nearly all levels during the first days of crisis.
He endured the Dems jabbering denial at having lost the White House and emerged relatively unscathed.
The current economic climate was not fostered by Bush, and although p/e ratios corrected to historical levels (pre 1980) will mean a market correction of unprecedented proportions, the situation was created under his predecessor's watch.
Nor can I view Bush as being responsible for accounting practices in private firms.
All in all, his administration has nothing near the opening scandal of the Clintons'--despite the media doing their best to find a hook.
These thoughts are not without caveat.
"Homeland Security" has a phraseology reminiscent of the bad old days of Soviet Communism, or in extremis, of National Socialism.
We teeter at the precipice of a slippery slope where many are willing to cast away what rights remain for the illusion of being secure. Will Bush and his minions have the character to resist the lure of such power consolidated? Time will tell.
I am gravely concerned by statements about global warming--as a professional geologist, I can not agree that anthropogenic global warming is even occuring, much less a threat to the world as we know it. Nor could the presence thereof, were it to exist, justify impoverishing a wealthy nation to permit poorer countries to generate far more pollution to achieve similar productive results. There are alreay signs of weakness on this front.
Am I concerned that the UN will gain more power? U bet. It (the UN) has become a Socialist mutual back patting association. But I cannot assume that our absence from the forum will make that any better.
I want our military serving our legitimate national interests, within Constitutional constraints, and properly equipped and trained to do so. It will take more than two terms to rectify the Clinton-era neglect. But deployment within our borders as a police force is questionable, suspending Habeas Corpus dangerous, especially in an ill defined war against a highly fluid enemy.
There is no Dem poised to take the field who would get a vote from me. Few Republicans. Keyes and I disagree on one vital issue, that of slavery reparations. I feel there is no fair way to conduct these, even if the slaves' descendents could be specifically identified. This cannot be done on a basis of race alone; not all blacks in the US are the descendants of slaves, some were owners, others' ancestors were not present to be involved. Not all whites owned slaves, some blacks did, numerous whites are unrelated to anyone present while slavery was permitted. Will the American Indians have to pay too? Forget it, get on with the program.
Keyes has vocally supported reparations in the past. I cannot.
Much remains to be seen, but before we worry about Dubya, let's regain control of the Congress and ditch a few more Clinton appointees who set policy in administrative rulings. There are numerous 'true believers' lurking in the ranks, Clinton holdovers who will take time to winnow out.
13. He's allowing the War on Terror to be orchestrated by career-oriented chickens.
I'd also have to agree somewhat with Item #8, too.
3- Not a gun grabber but a double speaker. He agrees it's an individual right, but not a right that cannot be infringed. He needs to recognize our rights are granted from God and not whomever is in the whitehouse at the time. For instance, the struggle over arming pilots should be an unquestionable given.
4- Patriot Act, maybe not where you live, but in a local paper here, someone has already been labeled a domestic terrorist. Watch tonights fox news on mutiple police abuse and tell me giving them that much power it wont be abused. Also see 8 below
8- I've said it before on here and I'll say it again, if this administration believed a weapon of mass destruction were going to be smuggled into this country, then you would see the military on the borders yesterday. And if they had one, it would go off in Israel, not here. So, let's have open borders and constantly say the threat exists so we can pass any law we want, the majority just goes right along with the illogic of it. My family will no longer vote to block someone, ie. as in Gore. From now on, we will vote for what we feel is right, and our lean now is toward the constitution party over the others. It will be the first time I haven't voted republican.
Finally, yes, I'm glad Bush is in at the moment over Clinton or Gore.
That could change, of course.
I think George W Bush needs to get reelected. Not just because the other side gets elected if not- but because I believe Dubya is a strong leader and he is slowly getting this ship turned around and going in the right direction. We're not going to undo all of Clinton's mischief in four years because it's more than a matter of just changing laws- it's changing the people's attitudes.
A lot of young people in America today have only ever known Clinton for a President for their whole lives (that they really remember or cared about). They were told this entire time that the GOP were a bunch of racists and Nazis and all kinds of other vile crap. It's going to take some time for us to turn that around and it's going to take a strong Republican to do that, and a clever one. People like Bush, that's a start. We need to get him reelected and America will have time to grow a new generation of teens/young adults that have only ever known Bush and then his Vice President (Condi hopefully) when she gets elected. We need to control the future of the Supreme Court (that is a huge bastion to keep and hold) and we need to take back the Senate and we NEED to reelect this President.
Bottom line, we're not going to be able to go straight to a land that most conservatives would be happy with overnight- it's going to be an arduous journey filled with many long battles that will wear us down- but we can never let up if we want to get where we want to be. People should be patient.
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I have to read this over coffee later in the morning.
I have to answer #12. I respect the President as he has the HARDEST JOB IN THE WORLD.
From what I've seen and heard, there's a LOT of armchair politicians on FR. They expound their theories and pound the pulpit of self-righteousness; reality and the process of law do not concern them.
Sure, I don't always agree with the President, but hey, I don't always agree with hubby poorman, mom, my co-workers, or you for that matter. It isn't a character flaw in a person that they don't march exclusively to MY drum.
When are the naysayers going to admit how close we came to disaster in November 2000? Imagine the hell this country would be with an Al Gore at the helm.
Placating terrorists still.
Blaming Americans for others' evil deeds.
Forced moves of those living in "sensitive" forest areas.
Punitive emission laws.
Total dependence on foreign oil.
The Kyoto Treaty signed and our future mortgaged.
The UN Commission trying US soldiers as war criminals.
A severe energy crisis.
Socialized medicine.
Total crackdown on gun ownership.
You could add a LOT more.
I couldn't handle my distant cousin's 14-hour-a-day workload; much less the pressure, media attacks (d@mn them), recalcitrant "allies", backbiting RINOs, backstabbing Dems (pond scum), disasters, world crises, security issues, terror threats, and "glass fishbowl" existence.