Actually I think he's an idiot after watching and hearing him for the past 8 years. His record of mistake after mistake after mistake coupled with too numerous remarks that he made convinced me that he truly is an idiot. Comparing his intellect to President Clinton is a perfect example of smart brilliant (Clinton) versus stupid inept.
Clinton had plenty of mistakes, but he wasn't stupid, neither was Bush. You fail to see that you are practicing what we like to call Kool-aid drinking, you say Bush made "mistake after mistake after mistake" without giving one example, same with your "stupid remark" comment, you sound like you just picked up a sound bite of Kennedy and Kerry and passed it along as fact. I can tell you what I don't like about a politician and political party trying to silence a private citizen(Rush, Joe the Plumber, Hannity, talk radio), which is what we are discussing in this thread. Here's a hint, it has something to do with freedom of speech and right to petition.
I do not understand how you can compare 5 days in office to 8 years. To suggest that the GOP are opposing Democrats less vehemently in the first week of the Obama Administration is truly not a fair comparison.
That is the same thing Democrats said about the "rubber stamp" Bush administration, from week one Bush was under a microscope, so don't complain when your guy is up for criticism.
Are you unable to see the public relations advantage of closing Gitmo?
**** public relations, we are talking about murderers and terrorists here.
Surely you do not believe that closing it means that we're releasing the prisoners there?
Where are they going to go? and what is the strategic advantage over being on an island in maximum security?
When I read the arguments here for keeping Gitmo open most posters are stating that this means we're opening the gates and letting everyone go which is completely inaccurate.
What are the advantages over being surrounded by an ocean in a maximum security prison then?
Carter was not a good President BUT he was far superior to Bush in almost every way.
Bull, Carter was double digit in everything bad and single digit in everything good, even with a democrat friendly media he looked like an idiot. They had to create the misery index because of his presidency.
Bush humiliated America in the eyes of the world and we will probably never know how many Americans have died and will die directly because of the amazing recruiting job that Bush did for Al Qaeda through his cowboy mentality.
I don't care what the world thinks, because they don't run
THIS country, and don't have a say over our security, sovreignity, or constitution, Carter humiliated us internally and externally, neither foreign nor domestic policy were worth a damn.