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Originally Posted by Locobot
How is this both a "myth" and the "one thing [you] love about Bush"? You might want to rethink what you're saying here. Personally I have a higher standard for president than just someone who will make aceventura3's mother happy through comparison.
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My poor attempt at sarcasm. Actually, I think Bush is smart. I think I am smart (eventhough a bit Tilted). And, I have accomplished a few things that have made my mother proud.
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That's a nice fairy tale but the reality is that he purposefully avoided any semblance of coalition building. A few moderate appointments would have eased the shakey ground on which he entered the Whitehouse, but he did nothing of the sort.
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Perhaps you are correct. Given the tone at the time, I don't think I would have been able to appease the left. Takes a "big man" to do that, I admit imperfection, I bet Bush would also.
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From day one he's been a divider. He siezed power by dividing the nation and during his presidency we've only seen that division widen.
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I thought he was elected inaccordance with our constitution. I also think the nation was divided before he was elected.
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Well we've certainly learned exactly what the president is able to do without the approval of congress from GWBush who has sought the absolute limits of his power, only to be occasionally reigned in by congress or the courts. And it has been a very seldom occasion. The problem of course is that the majority of both houses of congress can be included in Bush's cadre of yesmen.
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The bubble expands. I guess it also included the Iraq war coalition, the one that doesn't exist. And perhaps even the UN.
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If we didn't have a free press in this country there would probably be another 5000 hurricane Katrina dead. "Don't you guys watch television? Don't you guys listen to the radio?" -Ted Koppel to (then) FEMA director Michael Brown. It's too bad no one in the Federal government had the guts to tell their superiors what was actually happening.
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Perhaps Bush should have flown to New Orlean and put his thumb in the levy.
Or, he could have taken control of the State using the military. Well actually no, its not Constitutional. Do you remeber Brown got fired. Noone at the state or local level got fired.