He should have been President for the last 8 years.
He was never elected President. This fellow would have lost to Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004 -- and that's before I even discuss Clinton or Obama.
Tell me how different his policies would have been from those of Dubya.
By the way -- what is the difference between a "great leap ahead" and a "Great Leap Forward" (the economic catastrophe that Mao Zedong inflicted upon China)?
"Complete free rein" entails a redundancy... and "free rein" in politics suggests
dictatorship, which our Constitution seems to preclude.
To a lesser extent than any prior VP -- not that I dissent with the President allowing the VP to exercise the powers that the President can lawfully devolve to the VP so that the President need not get caught up in details. Of course, Dubya wanted many questionable things done, so therein lies the rub.
Yeah, sure, he will be remembered among Cyrus the Great, Pericles, Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, Saladin, Washington, Bolivar, Lincoln, Disraeli, Garibaldi, Juarez, Gandhi, Churchill, Adenauer, Sun Yat Sen, FDR, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, Mandela... (irony intended)
Dubya did far less good in his eight years as President than did his father in four.
I'll take Bill Clinton's surpluses over Dubya's wasteful spending and reckless commitments any day.
Whenever I see praise for toughness in dishing out hard measures I think of the words
cruel or
harsh. Repeated words in all-caps are bad form.
Will we ever elect a
cat as President of the United States? Any other meaning for that word is sexist if not pornographic.
Do you see conical ears, retractible claws, and razor-sharp canine teeth on him?
Cats are brutal killers -- arguably the nastiest predators on Earth. Domestic cats are no less predatory than tigers -- and they seem to kill for the fun of it. That is a very nasty thing to say about Jimmy Carter.
Oh -- unlike Dubya, Carter met his military obligation. Obama would have made a fine officer had he chosen a military career.
What do you think of Ronald Reagan? Obama's political techniques are much the same, and I expect similar results if in the service of a different agenda.
Obama won the 2008 election fair, square, and decisively, which contradicts your idea that he is a loser, and his approval ratings are very good without some event that has caused his popularity to balloon.
The hunting accident would have been laughable except that someone got hurt. He used the F-bomb against Senator Pat Leahy.
Spelling error: it's
caricature. I excuse typos on the web.
He got a fair shake, and he mishandled it badly.
Yes, the GOP needs a fresh start in which it rebuilds its credibility at the grass-roots level with people who have no connection to the Rove/Cheney/Dubya clique..
At least one correction per sentence -- that's one way to flunk Freshman Composition. Besides, you get reported to the PC committee specializing in male chauvinism. Penance begins tomorrow with learning ways to avoid sexism in speech and writing.
