queenie wrote in
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On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:24:33 -0500, "RD (The Sandman)"
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queenie wrote in
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On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:00:10 GMT, KK wrote:

In other words, hats off to Obama for honestly talking about his
past (unlike W who said some cop-out bull****, or Clinton with the
oh-so- clintony "didn't break the laws of my country" and later "I
didn't inhale") ... but F him for dismissing serious questions about
decriminialization and F him for ignoring the waste, expense, and
injustice of the 60% of federal prisoners who are non-violent drug
offenders.

He's been in office TEN months and he already has a lot on his plate
due to the disastrous policies of the previous administration. Give
him time. Right now, the wars, health care reform and the economy
come first. Geez!!

Bush's war was Iraq. Both the Democrats and Obama have been saying
that the right war was Afghanistan.....well, now he has it. Don't
blame Bush for the war that the liberals wanted and felt was the right
one.

Was Bush president when those wars started or not? And were both wars
still going on when he left? I believe both answers are "Yes".

How quickly you forget all the talk from Democrats about Afghanistan
being the right war.

And I
think if Bush stayed in Afghanistan and didn't veer off to Iraq, there
might not be any war going on now.

Perhaps, but one doesn't really know.

The economy faltered due to errors, lack of oversight and failures on
both sides of the aisle, not to mention greed on the part of real
estate, financial houses and many CEOs.

All under Bush's watch and his stupid tax cuts. He even gave a tax
credit to people who bought the gas-guzzling Hummer.

With errors from both sides of the aisle. After all, the biggest
collapse in real estate financing was Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae....under
oversight from Barney Frank and Chris Dodd as the House and Senate
Finance Committee chairmen respectively.

The bottom line is there are problems Obama inherited and he has to
resolve them. And he cannot fix EVERYTHING in TEN fricking months!!!

And not all of them are due to Bush. Until folks understand that there
were errors in regulation and oversight from both sides of the aisle, we
will never fully recover. All people will be too busy trying to place
blame on the other side.

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Sleep well tonight,

RD (The Sandman)

Let's see if I have this healthcare thingy right. Congress is to pass
a plan written by a committee whose head has said he doesn't understand
it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it, signed by a president who
hasn't read it, with funding administered by a Treasury chief who didn't
pay his taxes because he didn't understand TurboTax, overseen by an obese
Surgeon General and financed by a country that's nearly broke.
What could possibly go wrong?