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I don't agree with your spin on this (in my view) and would invite you to read back for yourself.
What I said was that I didn't think it was mindless, even though I don't agree with much of what he said (post 14). There is a difference in my mind between agreement, and something being mindless. I don't agree with creationism, but don't find it mindless. I don't agree with the goals of Christopher Columbus, but don't find his goal, based on the information he had at the time, to be mindless.
You asked in post twenty, what I thought wasn't mindless. You did not ask me what I agreed with. You have never asked that question in this thread, that I have seen. Perhaps you can point out where you have.
I responded in post twenty-seven with a few points that I thought were important (meaning, not mindless). Please note again, that because I don't agree with something, that doesn't make it mindless, to my thinking.
You are now asking for clarification on questions you never asked. Nothing I can do about that.
Perhaps that is our communication difference. Perhaps (and I don't know this to be the case), you find anything you don't agree with to be mindless. Nothing I can do about that either.
Well, to go back to post 27. One of the examples you gave was the No Child Left Behind act. What is mindless about this assertion on his part is that every year since he initiated that act, the Republican congress never funded it with enough money to actually make it work. While it is theoretically possible that this was not his fault, I tend to think he made the act to appear to look good, knowing that the Republican congress would never fund it.
Another example was his assertion that balancing the budget was a good idea. This is mindless because the numbers do not add up any more now than they have in the past. His idiotic policies have given the US budget a sucking chest wound of debt, from a surplus he was given by the previous administration, so his comments seem particularly mindless to me.
The idea that putting more money and troops on the ground in Iraq might solve the problem over there fails to stand up to the reality of past intercessions into conflicts. The general rule for being able to quell urban violence calls for 1 troop on the ground for every 40 civilians in the country. This was proven in Kosovo, Bosnia, etc., and is considered reasonable. To adequately police Iraq and the 40 million people who live there would require a million soldiers. And since George W. Bush has mindlessly squandered any good will that the rest of the world has during his time in office, the United States is forced to go it alone fixing the problem. His assertion that 20k more US soldiers would somehow fix the problem strikes me as being mindless, uneducated, obtuse, and myopic.
A five-fold increase in research in alternative fuels. This is up to Congress to approve. I would like to point out that the mindless part of him making this statement is when the Republicans ran the show, they cut the budget for this research each and every time they had the opportunity to do so. So it is rather mindless for Monkeyboy to come out and say "Gee, we should do all this now."
Now that we have had the "Yer fired" election, perhaps Congress can get some work done despite the Simian In Chief's idiocy.
Just me, etc.
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