When was the last time you helmed the free world? Can you imagine the multitude of issues Bush is hit with, each demanding solving? You cannot possibly be so naive as to think he could get everything fixed IF ONLY HE WOULD.
I don't believe in government in the first place, but if I did, I wouldn't look to it as a problem-fixing entity. On the other hand, Dubyah has proved to be exactly the man I thought he would be. He has many faults [as do we all], but I'll highlight a few:
1) He lied to us about being pro-life. Like his mother, his father, and his wife, Dubyah is pro-abortion. I knew this two years ago [scratch a Bush, get an abortionist], but now I can say, "I told you so."Granted, the guy hasn't turned the White House into a Motel 6 for cocaine traffickers, and maybe he doesn't accept sexual favors from the unpaid interns, but if that's all we can ask from our government officials, then I must return to my original point: Why bother to have a government in the first place?2) Like Bill Clinton, Dubyah uses a facile pseudo-Christianity on the campaign trail that is truly abominable. [Slick - off to church on Easter Sunday, bible in hand, only to come home to blow jobs from Monica that very afternoon. Dubyah - Christ was the philosopher that most influenced me, and, oh, by the way, I'm gonna violate my campaign pledge on ESCR.]
3) 15 of the 19 September Eleventh assassins were carrying Saudi Arabian passports. Rather than convene Congress to demand a declaration of war on Saudi Arabia, we get a war on what's left of our own federal constitution: endless lines at airports with little old ladies from Des Moines being strip-searched as though they were Islamists, expanded wiretap and email filtering powers granted to the FBI, a new Homeland Security bureaucracy [as though the existing Department of Defense bureaucracy didn't house enough bureaucrats for the next millennium], and now a nationwide legion of informers that will dwarf the network created by the Stasi in the old DDR.
3) As much as I want to like the guy, his business history has Good Ol' Boy Network written all over it. Granted, he's not as bad as Terry McAuliffe, or even Hillary!, with her cattle futures, but I really cringe when I read some of the stories about his behavior at Harken. As far as I can tell, there's not a dime's worth of difference between him and Martha Stewart [and that includes the gray matter department]. Oh, and the reason we can't declare war on the Saudi Arabians who attacked us is because a large part of that Good Ol' Bush Network consists of big, fat, polygamous, pagan murderers from - you guessed it - the kingdom of one Fahd bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud.
4) He's abandoned just about every other campaign promise he made. Even his tax cut, the only domestic accomplishment he can properly tout, is fazed in over A TEN YEAR PERIOD!!! If John Edwards or Hillary Clinton becomes president in 2004, or 2008, then either the tax cut will remain the fiction that it is now, or it will proceed, and a Democrat will take credit for the resulting economic expansion. Granted, most of this domestic failure is due to the betrayal by Jeffords of VT, but, then again, Dubyah betrayed us on ESCR just one month before 9-11.