I voted for W twice. I wasn't too excited the first time, but he was better than Al Gore. The second time, I thought better of him because of his actions right after 9/11.
Since then, his hubris and incompetence have come out in spades. He pretended to be a conservative, and ended up being something else. He followed the neo-conservative Bush Doctrine of preemptive strikes, and then bungled Iraq until last year when he finally listened to Collin Powell and others, who had insisted on more troops in Iraq.
He has worn our military out. He allowed Congress and himself to spend like drunken sailors, not vetoing hardly anything at all. He tried to foist upon us Harriett Meyers as Justice. He promised a reformed education system with vouchers, and then turned it over to Ted Kennedy to create a monstrosity that has gotten our kids further behind the world in science and math. He had 8 years to get us drilling and developing alternative energies. Instead of a new national driving goal to accomplish that, he chose to take us back to the moon and Mars. Should I go on?
IMO, he rates in the bottom group of presidents with Jimmy Carter. Both were extremely incompetent and uninspiring. Both have led us into huge economic problems by not being able to aptly lead our nation. Both could have prevented some of the economic issues of their day by using some good sense and by guiding the nation in proper directions. Now, it is too late. No one is listening to Bush without a sense of suspicion.
I'm not too excited about the two candidates we have before us now. But I do know that neither could do much worse than W has to our country.
Hmmmm. Did that sound bitter?
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