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SusanofO -> RE: The Right Wing Republicans (12/9/2006 6:16:24 PM)
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Well, there are screwed up Democrats, too. I really do think so (that's why I am an Independent).
But - I remember when Bush was nominated for President. He had that "deer caught in the head-lights" look for months. The Republicans couldn't find anyone else to run for President that year who was likely to win.
Sometimes I feel sorry for him. I don't think he really wanted to be President (but who ever turns down a nomination for President? Almost nobody). Too bad over US 2,000 soldiers (and countless Iraqis) lost their lives because he just wasn't very competent. I really think someone should be accountable for that - and the "buck supposedly stops" with Bush, as he is in the highest electable office in the nation, and therefore presumably the one who is "most accountable." Whether anyone in the Bush Administration will be held accountable remains to be seen, of course).
It's mostly the financial mis-management stuff that bothers me, because I do think Bush's heart was in the right place after 9-11, and he felt he had to react, and think he got loads of bad advice (plus, for whatever reason, I do think he wanted to go to war. Personally, I think it was an over-reaction to 9-11, emotionally, maybe). Still, 2000 US soldiers are dead (or more) and countless Iraqi civilians, and he could have just not followed that bad advice (he is President), and I think his judgment is off. And I don't want someone in the top job in the country whose judgment is off on that large a scale.
But as far as thinking it's his job to keep the US safe from terrorists - that is, actually his job, I think. Maybe he honestly tried to do it - I am not inside his head, so can't judge that altogether. But, if you accept the top-dog job, you accept the accountability that goes with it, and (to me) he doesn't appear to be doing a whole lot of that).
He just seems to have so many greedy slime-balls working for him too, sometimes (although I do like Condoleeza Rice, and not because she is a woman, either) - I can't believe some of the people he appointed to cabinet positions (of course I was a little surprised when Clinton appointed George Stephanopolus because he was something like 30 years old at the time, w/little experience, and I just thought it was stupid). And I still (sorry) can't believe that someone would start an entire war based on faulty information. This is the real world, for heaven's sake - not a game of Monopoly or "Risk" . Donald Rumseld really scared me - his whole attitude was so adolescent any time I read an interview. He thought more about his own ego, it seemed to me, than anything else. I get scared when people like that have lots of power (but now he's gone, thank God).
- Susan
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