On 2/19/08 12:03 PM, in article 13rm2uahgnf55a0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"T.J.
Higgins" <ernest.p.worrell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <C3E06BA9.22DDE%kw4z@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Gary KW4Z wrote:
>> To continue to be a functional country
>> we can't have our government fractured to the point of anarchy which is
>> close to what some seemingly want by their venomous hatred of President
Bush
>> not seen to such a degree since even the Nixon era.
>
> You have conveniently forgotten the 8-year campaign of
> "venomous hatred" that the righties conducted against
> Clinton.
No I didn't forget about it, I do acknowledge that many, on the right, did
just that, after all there was an impeachment initiative, and we have that
going on almost any administration but like with Nixon, Reagan, it's old
news and I was trying, all be it maybe failingly so, to shorten the
response.
I don't though, even back to Nixon (who justly deserved and earned much of
his), or any president in my memory feel that such a level of hatred and
animosity has characterized a congress, media, or political party as the
George Bush administration has invoked and received. Could be due to the
election of 2000 where the popular vote was against Bush yet he won
because
of the electoral college leaving many to feel the Republicans stole the
election. Maybe it's because it was his administration that started an
now
unpopular war with Iraq that was based upon what later was discovered and
proven to be bad intelligence yet a great number of Democrats were also
taken in by that same intelligence and voted to allow the war to proceed.
Sadam was partly responsible for that very bad intelligence as he wanted
Iran, and others, to think he possessed those weapons so there was
justification for some people in the intelligence community to actually
think he did have them. The "if it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck,
etc argument)
I'm not trying to justify the Bush Administration or President Bush
himself
but with a lot of the criticism that his administration, and the
Republicans, deserve there is some that is not recognized such as his
administration, President Bush, put far more minorities in high level
positions than Clinton's or Carter's ever did yet the Democrats try to
paint
Republicans constantly as racist. They often use the Katrina response as
an
indicator yet I don't think Katrina revealed a bias as much as it did an
inept Government's ability to respond to such a level of disaster partly
account people put friends and big donors into positions of authority that
never should have been there. Republicans & Democrats have their biased
people and faults and have their heroes as well. Contrast the response
from
the Louisiana Governor to that of the Mississippi Governor to the same
disaster, putting aside the federal Government's response which was bad
across the board, equally bad in Louisiana as it was in Mississippi but
the
difference was in the State and Local Government's as well as the people
in
those area's response to the storm. New Orleans was more highlighted due
to
a more profound local and state failure to act and failure to plan. It's
the same inept government response that happens in Florida, South & North
Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi storms and disasters but the difference
was in the Local and Sate people not the Government and even worse that
that
the attempt to place it solely on one person, the President. The Buck
does
stop there, in his office, and it was Him or his people that placed the
inept people, like Mr. Brown, in a position that they never should have
been
in. In my opinion Bush's biggest failure, after the event, was to go down
to the scene and pronounce that Brown was "doing a good job" when
everything
to the contrary was blaringly obvious. Sorry I'm off the point again.
Unlike the Rightwing talk radio circuit who like to constantly go back and
resurrect the Clinton administration, to bash it, (maybe because Hillary
is
on the current menu) I cared not to address but the current administration
but I do agree with you I did leave that out.
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