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Not that I want to re-argue Bush's record with any Liberal (you guys have gone way, WAY off the deep end on this subject), but you should probably know some facts:
1. Saddam: Dead. Taliban: Neutralized. Not really seeing the failure.
2. Gas price when Obama took office: $1.79. Now: 3.59. More than double. Obama increased gas prices more than Carter did, ffs.
3. The housing crisis was Bush's fault? Really? How do arrive at that “logic”?
4. A repeat of #1, and you're forgetting that the wars were approved by the vast majority of Democrats as well as the American People.
5. That's Bush's fault too, eh? Seven (7) months into his Presidency? Does Clinton share any of the blame for dismantling our intelligence services during his term? One last question, is Bush STILL to blame for Obama's failures, almost four years later? I thought so.
6. Hahahahahahaha. Yeah, Kagan and the Sotomayor are legal rock stars. SCOTUS insiders say that The Wise Latina can barely write. Yay, affirmative action.
7. Plame affair? Really? Obama's White House is leaking classified information like a sieve, according to Diane Fienstein. So.
8. Yes, we all know Bush created Katrina (and Rita) with his super-secret hurricane gun that Dick Cheney made in his laboratory. We also know that welfare recipients have no responsibility or obligation to get off the effing couch and get the hell out of the way when a natural disaster is on the way.
9. The Patriot Act came up for renewal, didn't it? How did that turn out? Obama vetoed it because it was so wrong and heinous and eeevil, didn't he? Didn't he?
All this is irrelevant, though, because Bush isn't on the ballot. Neither are his policies. Obama had four full years (half of them with a majority in both houses and a near monopoloy on the propaganda machine that USED to be the news). How's he doing?
Obama had his chance, and failed miserably. We all saw it, although some choose not to.
A. Most of this isn't fact, it is your own biased opinion.
B.
Obama has little to no effect on gas prices. Opec and the speculation markets control gas prices, and if I'm not mistaken, the president isn't one of them.
The housing crisis was a direct result of not enough regulation on the banks and wallstreet. Glass Steagall was killed under the Clinton administration with strong support from Allan Greenspan. (who later said he regretted it)
Bush is at fault for 9:11 for ignoring every single major ally that was sending us giant red flags months before 9:11, saying that there was an eminent attack going to happen on or around 9:11. Instead he ignored it and went on Vacation.
Bush's failure under Katrina is quite obvious. He did was he has always done, stood there with a stupid look on his face when he should have been taking action... At least act like you give a ****.. seriously.
I believe that Obama reauthorizing the Patriot act is directly related to the fact that we are still at war with the enemy that we created it for. Or it has just become so much of the status-quo that there is no hope of ever getting rid of it.
There is a beauty in a second term, You don't have to worry about reelection.