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Denis,
I will take a stab at this. I am a conservative, but I am NOT a republican. I don't think that GWBush is that great of a president, but I don't necessarily agree with your reasoning.
I'm afraid I can't say much about your first point, I think our government should consist of the military, the mint and tha post office. You would think he would veto something just because he CAN. I am interested in seeing how this privitazation(sp?) of these federal jobs goes. That would be a good step.
I like the concept of homeland security, but I can't agree with it's implementation.
Congress passed the Patriot Acts (he could have vetoed them I guess......).
The economy was already on a downward spiral before he got here and the 9/11 situation didn't help any.
Being rich is a GOOD thing something most people aspire to, even democrats.
Clinton DODGED the draft, GWBush joined the guard. I guess if you had his opportunity, you would have signed up for the infantry right? My old man enlisted in the army even though he met the requirements that enabled him to avoid the draft (college, 2 kids)but he was assigned as a full track mechanic stationed at Fort Richardson in Anchorage. Just because the government sent him to Alaska and not SE Asia, you don't consider him a "draft dodger" do you? BTW Algore used his family influence to keep his sorry ass out of combat too. But thats different right.......
By "playing dress-up" I guess you took offense to when he went out to visit our troops where THEY work. Nobody rides in a military aircraft without a jumpsuit (ever seen a reporter take a ride with the Blue Angels?) and his visit didn't cost any more than a helicopter lift would have been. Ever consider that this might have been a boost to our sailors morale? I think they enjoyed meeting their commander in chief (one who didn't "loathe" them at least). As long as we're on this topic, when do you think the clintons are going to release the travel expenses for hillary and chelsea's trip to Africa on my dime? And they went.....why? So far they have refused to detail their expenses which is legal (for the time being, there is a statute of limitations on those things).
But of course I have missed the point right? I may not be a huge Bush fan (Jr or Sr), but he is a far and away a better president than Clinton was. Unfortunately he's no Reagan.
Since you are no big fan of Bush's war on terror, what would you do? I would have done things differently myself but I am always curious to the alternatives out there. It's easy to condemn someone's actions, but not so easy to come up with a better solution. BTW using Clintons theory of ignoring it and hoping it goes away doesn't count (and don't suggest getting rid of all those nasty aspirin factories, that didn't work last time).
BTW I was only kidding at feeling insulted when you compared my philosophies to that of an Iranian extremist.
Pete
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