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Old 06-18-2003, 10:37 AM   #21 (permalink)
Scipio
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The last great president was Bill Clinton. I really mean that.

Gee, where to start?

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This is what we are to expect after congressional rule by the Democratic Party for the last 40 years.
The GOP has controlled the House for almost 10 years.

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Their Socialist lackeys in Europe are flabbergasted that the American people have had enough of the Democrat's destruction of the American Dream.
What American Dream are you talking about? The one where everyone has equal opportunity, affordable health care, safe streets, a foreign policy that keeps America safe, a government that stays out of our bedrooms, a protected environment, and a budget that doesn't make our grand children pay trillions of dollars in debt?

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It took a great man, a Republican named Ronald Reagan, to bring world communism to it's knees, but communism didn't die. It just moved to America and joined the Democratic Party.
I thought red-baiting died with the Iron Curtain, but I guess in the days of Michael Savage and John Podhoretz, calling someone a communist still counts as an argument. If you think the Democratic party is a socialist party, then West Germany has been living under communism for 50 years, Canada is Marx's utopia, and Bill Gates just put $80 million in my checking account.

For what it's worth, Reagan was a pretty good president. I'm not going to bash him. He was the last "good" conservative, back when the GOP meant something besides opposing abortion and taxes.

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Now another great Republican, George W. Bush has brought it to it's knees again, and has tried to restore the ideals that made America great to begin with.
What values? Invading other countries? Pissing off our allies? Care to elaborate?

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We don't elect a President to make the Europeans happy, just as they obviously don't elect their government to make us happy.
Geez, lay off on the Europeans.

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The Europeans didn't like Reagan, but sure cashed in on his accomplishments. They like Bush even less because they can't cash in on his leadership.
Saying the Europeans did nothing to end the Cold War is fallacious and ignorant. Saying they just cashed in on Reagan's accomplishments is just plain mean. Germany, France, and the UK have some of the best and most sophisticated militaries in the world. They aren't big offensive juggernauts like the US, but they know how to fight.

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They don't understand so they criticize. This is the same liberal tactic that Americans have rebelled against in their ousting of the Democrats from power.
Criticism is what opposition parties are for. I suppose the 49% of Americans that vote Democrat don't matter to you?

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I don't always agree with Mr. Bush but I do respect him. He doesn't hide his agenda, like so many Democrats before him, so even if I do disagree at least I know what to expect.
I don't always disagree with what Bush does, but I almost always take issue with how he goes about it, and I do respect him. However, saying he never hides his agenda is preposterous. He said he was going to put a new government in Afghanistan, and get rid of the Taliban forever, but his real intention was to invade and forget.

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