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Originally Posted by Ustwo
....Because quite frankly host you don't have a clue what is done where, by who when. Maybe hes out pulling his pud on the ranch, maybe hes in constant meetings, but you don't know, you just want something else to bitch about incessantly.
And yes presidents campaign, its part of the job, its part of the system, its sadly unavoidable. As far as I know the only president in recent history that tried to get involved in every detail was Carter. You might recall how well that worked out  |
Ustwo, I owned and managed a service business. I analyzed and responded to customer complaints. I worked mightily to avoid receiving repetitive complaints over the same or similar deficiency. Mr. Bush already received his 2007 wake up call about neglect of the wounded....the reports of wounded at Walter Reed living in squalor and maggots, urine and feces:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...033000200.html
At Walter Reed, Bush Offers an Apology
After Touring Hospital and Visiting Patients, He Vows to 'Fix the Problem'
By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 31, 2007; Page A01
.....The president inspected new accommodations for patients who had been living in squalid quarters and visited a physical therapy room to talk with soldiers who lost arms or legs in Iraq only to find themselves lost in a broken system back home. The stories they told him about their frustrations at Walter Reed, he said later, left him troubled and reinforced his commitment to resolve their grievances. "I was disturbed by their accounts of what went wrong," he said in a speech to hospital staff members after the tour. "It is not right to have someone volunteer to wear our uniform and not get the best possible care. I apologize for what they went through, and we're going to fix the problem."
The visit provoked more emotional responses on an issue that has stirred deep anger across the country, triggered congressional hearings, and resulted in the dismissal of the Army secretary and two generals. Some derided Bush's tour as a political stunt, while others expressed appreciation for the symbolism as long as it will be accompanied by real change at Walter Reed and throughout the system of medical care for veterans.
<h3>"What they don't want is another photo op,"</h3> Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who visited the facility on Wednesday, said in an interview. "They are very angry and frustrated with that. We all go up and stand with them and get back in our vans and go away. They stay behind, angry in their wheelchairs."....
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Bush took "another photo op" from the two wounded troops that he jogged with at the white house in july, even as the pentagon was hitting up other wounded soldiers for money due to the unserved portion of the period specified in their enlistment contracts.
This time, docking bonuses of wounded by DOD is inexcusable. All the absentee president had to do to avoid this was to appoint a staff member to monitor how the wounded and their families are treated. A legislative liason with this as a priority would have been aware of the proposed legislation to end this practice.
Clearly, we know enough to credibly say that the president is not committed enough to his responsibilities of official office. Just as in the issue of how the DOD repsonds to the combat wounded troops, even after all the reporting about he spends his time, in between doing what is billed as one of the most important and challenging jobs in the entire world,
Bush and his staff have done nothing to strengthen his commitement to his work. His stint as US president is a carbon copy of his stint at TANG in the early 70's...job performance below the minimum required, absent from duty much of the time....
This is not "about Clinton". Clinton was not in office in the midst of a two front war and chanllenged by a dramatic currency and debt deterioration. Clinton had a reputation as the brightest one in any room that he was present in, and as a workaholic. Bush has no commitment to a government problem solving role. Bush, as Reagan did, believes in a diminished role for government, professing little positive faith in the effectiveness of, or the potential for government to improve society, so they both have set records for time spent away from Washington, spent on personal pursuits during their presidencies.
Do you have the slightest idea how you come off, criticizing me in response to my pointing out a well supported glimpse of Bush's abysmal record. It doesn't change his record when you respond to information about it by shooting the messenger...it just makes you appear like you do on this forum.
<h2>3-1/2 Years Ago:</h2>
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...¬Found=true
Powell Calls U.S. Casualties 'Disquieting'
By Dana Milbank and Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, April 9, 2004; Page A16
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell yesterday gave the administration's most sober assessment yet of the uprising in Iraq, calling the recent rise in U.S. casualties "disquieting" and acknowledging that coalition allies are "under the most difficult set of circumstances."
Powell served as the administration's point man while President Bush spent the second straight day out of public view on his ranch in Crawford, Tex. In congressional testimony, Powell said that despite the troubles in Iraq, the U.S. military will be able to quell both the new Shiite unrest and the Sunni insurgency within "the next few days and weeks." ....
.... Bush spent the morning watching national security adviser Condoleezza Rice's televised testimony to the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, then toured his ranch with Wayne LaPierre Jr., chief executive of the National Rifle Association, and other leaders of hunting groups and gave an interview to Ladies' Home Journal. On Sunday, he is to appear in public at nearby Fort Hood, the home base for seven soldiers recently killed in Baghdad.
Democrats criticized Bush for taking the Easter-week vacation while U.S. forces are struggling to put down an uprising in Iraq. Campaigning in Milwaukee, Sen. John F. Kerry, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, said: "I notice President Bush is taking some days off down at Crawford, Texas, and I'm told that when he takes days off, you know, he totally relaxes: He doesn't watch television, he doesn't read the newspapers, he doesn't make long-term plans, doesn't worry about the economy. I thought about that for a moment. I said, sounds to me like it's just like life in Washington, doesn't it?"
White House communications director Dan Bartlett retorted that Bush is "not skiing" in Texas, as Kerry did on a recent vacation in Idaho. He said Bush remains in contact with his military advisers and is spending Easter weekend with his family. "Most Americans will understand that," Bartlett said.
This is Bush's 33rd visit to his ranch since becoming president. He has spent all or part of 233 days on his Texas ranch since taking office, according to a tally by CBS News. Adding his 78 visits to Camp David and his five visits to Kennebunkport, Maine, Bush has spent all or part of 500 days in office at one of his three retreats, <h3>or more than 40 percent of his presidency. .....</h3>
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<h2>23 Months Ago:</h2>
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...123001326.html
Down on the Ranch, President Wages War on the Underbrush
Bush Conscripts Aides in Tireless Pursuit of Clearing Ground
By Lisa Rein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 31, 2005; Page A03
CRAWFORD, Tex., Dec. 30 -- On most of the 365 days he has enjoyed at his secluded ranch here, President Bush's idea of paradise is to hop in his white Ford pickup truck in jeans and work boots, drive to a stand of cedars, and whack the trees to the ground.
If the soil is moist enough, he will light a match and burn the wood. If it is parched, as it is across Texas now, the wood will sit in piles scattered over the 1,600-acre spread until it is safe for a ranch hand to torch -- or until the president can come home and do the honors himself.
Sometimes this activity is the only official news to come out of what aides call the Western White House. For five straight days since Monday, when Bush retreated to the ranch for his Christmas sojourn, a spokesman has announced that the president, in between intelligence briefings, calls to advisers and bicycling, has spent much of his day clearing brush.
This might strike many Washingtonians as a curious pastime. It does burn a lot of calories. But brush clearing is dusty, it is exhausting (the president goes at it in 100 degree-plus heat), and it is earsplitting, requiring earplugs to dull the chain saw's buzz.
For Bush, who is known to spend early-morning hours hacking at unwanted mesquite, cocklebur weeds, hanging limbs and underbrush only to go back for more after lunch, it borders on obsession.
Aides are corralled to help, although Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a frequent guest, has escaped brush duty. "The tradecraft she uses to get out of it is highly confidential, and I can't discuss it," said national security adviser Steven J. Hadley. To date, no visiting foreign leaders have been conscripted.
The president "clears brush like he rides his bike," said deputy press secretary Trent Duffy, who has sawed beside Bush. "He goes at it."....
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