[quote name='Survivor Charlie']Holy hyperbole Batman!
I'm a liberal but statements like this are akin to those that claim Bush is just like Hitler. Which he is NOT... for one thing, Hitler was a decorated frontline combatant.
Anyway, Bush did a lot of bad things, but his actions didn't lead to a civil war... well... at least not one on American turf...
Read a little history. Guys like Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan (our first and only homosexual president, but I have faith that Mitt Romney will get elected in 2016), US Grant, and especially Warren Harding were awful or worse. And trust me, as bad as Bush was, if those guys had access to modern technology, there would have been scandals that would put Watergate to shame.
It goes along that line that if you're a democrat, every Republican since afterLincoln must have sucked. And likewise if you're a Republican, only you hate on the Democrats.
I think I'm enlightened in the sense that I can look at things in perspective. Was Nixon a bad president? No way... he was a great president who had one major screwup. In the same vain, Kennedy wasn't that good as the commander and chief. He gets credit for the Cuban Missile Crisis, which somehow undoes the fact that he actually accomplished very little in office.
This is why internet debates on this shit are insufferable. Because everyone is a moron but me... and the select few who understand that every president is the worst president at that time. The funny thing about history is we're not around to see it written. So maybe in a 100 years Bush will be remembered as a great leader. I don't know. It might take that much time or longer for the Iraq situation to play itself out. But we're an instant-gratification society anymore. We want a payoff and we want it NOW to go with our instant mocca-lattes and instant-jackpot lottery tickets.
I feel bad for Obama and I feel bad for George W. Bush. Americans are
ing morons. They think change will happen instantly. You know, Reagan gets credit for ending the cold war because it... kinda happened shortly after he was president. Instead of giving credit to... say... Nixon, who was the first president to visit the USSR and the first to have a working agreement with the Soviet Union. It was under his watch that the national mentality of the Russians began to change. Nobody wants to cast Nixon as the hero so they give credit to the guy who did very, very little in the grand scheme of things to make it happen.
People have no patience. They want answers and they want them now. Was going to Iraq the right thing to do? Likely not, but we're there now and there's no turning back. I do believe there is hope there for some kind of stability and civility, but it will take a long time. We might not be here to see it play out. When John McCain said we would have troops there for 100 years, people got pissed because they're morons. I didn't vote for McCain (I voted for Barack Obama), but I understood his point. He got screwed because politics is nothing but an endless series of soundbites and buzzwords played ad-nauseum on talking head shows. Obama is a pretty smart guy, but our best and brightest really can't be presidents because we don't have time for articulate guys who need more then two minutes to explain their policies. Red necks don't get what they're saying and city folk don't have time to listen to it.[/quote]
It is a joke from the Simpsons movie.
