Herodotus wrote:
Things been pretty bad for you though, eh? Why do you think the president
can change things for you?

Stephen

Wrong again Stephen. Things have been very, very good for me and mine.
That's not the point. Do you think Bush and Company had nothing to do with
the last seven years?

Stephen
It seems that in history, a society or country is judged by its
actions and impact upon and relationships with those around it. If you
are personally very happy with the US role and actions in the world
and with the performance and end state of the US economy as it is
today, regardless of its impact upon you and your pocket, then for you
the Bush government must be a good one.

Well, what I said is that things have been good for me. I'm not looking
at forced regime change in Iraq or a president getting a blow job for
answers on how my life is.

Then there is morality and the judgment of history. Maybe it may take
a different view. What did the Bush government do to improve the lot
of its citizens? War on drugs? - drug use is increasing. War on
terror? citizens now seem more paranoid and afraid yet they are no
safer. More jobs? No, unemployment is constantly on the rise.
Housing?, Welfare safety net improved? Education? Less taxes?
initiatives for greener, less polluting technology? Morality? What is
moral about invading another sovereign state on a trumped up litany of
lies without the given consent of the other member states of the UN to
make your mates rich?

You do know that Congress makes the laws, right? And why are you blaming
the President for all of those things? Do US presidents really have that
much power? The blaming makes no sense and the lynch mob mentality
holding Bush responsible for all of it is nothing more than mass hysteria.

I can't personally think of anything they did do excepting kill off a
few more of its disadvantaged youth and discredit the USA in the eyes
of the rest of the world. Its citizenry abroad are now far less safer
than they were under Bill Clinton.

I wouldn't worry too much about the "discrediting." The US has been
saving the world's asses for about a hundred years now and that doesn't
appear to be about to change anytime soon. When they see how much better
off Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East are ten years from now, along
with whatever else we happen to have to do to stand up for freedom,
they'll be singing a different tune. Or, the good people will anyway.
There will still be tyrants trying to drum up hate against the leader of
the free world though. Careful you don't let them fool you.

Stephen