Quote from drjekyllus:
I think you missed the point. BO ran a campaign where he said over and over that he was going to stop the partisan bickering and he was going to sweep in a new era of post-partisan politics then he gets into office and he is the biggest partisan of them all.
as opposed to the other presidents, who worked closely with the other side, and kept their campaign promises?
I cannot remember the last president I personally liked. They have a huge impact on us, and I try to be a good citizen. But the level of lying, misrepresentation, scandals, empty promises and hands in the til makes me wonder.
I still remember Yassir Arafat with Bill Clinton at a press conference. Yassir looked really embarrassed as the press focused on Clinton's Talk about making us look like fools... I supported Bush going into Afghanistan due to 9/11, but Iraq? We should have been in and out of both countries in 3 months, mostly using air power to send the Taliban and Saddam military, party buildings and strong supporters back to the stone age. And then LEFT.
What makes us think you can win the hearts and minds of any Islamic country you invade, regardless of how "good-intentioned" it looks? Any non-Islamic occupier will push together competing Islamic factions, just because you are "infidels."
I am no Dem, but Clinton did a thing or two I thought courageous, like enacting NAFTA in league with Republicans, as his own Dems in Congress opposed him. All the union whiners about sucking sound of jobs, fail to realize that Americans will always consume X amount of goods - foreign or domestic. The question is, whether we want to sell ANY goods in other countries. That is what NAFTA was about.
But again, a good man is hard to find...
