"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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Duh, my point exactly. So why place the blame on GBW unless you can
definitively state
what things Al Gore would have done differently.

That standard would exempt all presidents from criticism for all time.

I dislike GWB as much as anybody, but in spite of your trolled assertion,
as a
liberal I don't "blame" him diorectly for 9-11 or the recession. I do hold
him
responsible for the decisions he has made so far and the consequences of
those
decisions......that's fair.

The standard should be: How do Bush's decisions compare to decisions that
would
have predictably different outcomes? Not: How do Bush's decisions compare
to
the decisions that somebody else was never called upon to make.

For all we know things would have been much worse under his *leadership*.

Jim, we may well agree on this. Gore was no prize. The only thing I though
he
had going for him was a higher IQ than Bush.
Neither candidate was an obvious choice.
I don't hold Bush responsible for merely doing a better job than Gore
*might*
have done (in his worst moments?)........I hold Bush responsible for
effectively leading, or failing to lead, the country. That wouldn't change
if
he ran *unopposed*

That's like some woman telling her husband "Gee, dear, I'm glad you only
beat
me once a week. That other guy I thought about marrying? I bet if I
married him
he'd beat me up every two or three days."

The standard is based on individual, effective, responsible performance-
not
just being slightly (debatedly) better than some other guy who didn't get
the
job.



The majority of the Left Wing Trash posts do blame GMB for causing 9/11
(look at Harry's Post above). Blame GMB for every other thing related to
the economy, even though it was dying before the election and AGores actions
started a huge slide. Investors do not like uncertainty. As to AGore
having a higher IQ. I nearly ruined my keyboard. AGore probably does not
score higher than 110-115. He is not very smart, and no personality to
boot. And the worse part is we would have a rather unintelligent
micromanager. Sure sign of failure.
Bill