Comments on The Unpopular Truth: Why I Think George W. Bush Is Doing a Great Job

i love you man :)

2008-10-10T05:39:00.000-07:00

i love you man :)

I have several issues here... First of all, I find...

2008-10-09T16:00:00.000-07:00

I have several issues here...

First of all, I find the original post problematic; not only the rant-like quality of how the author relates his or her point-of-view, but the attempt at creating a 'subversive' message directed at-what appears to be-mainstream/liberal commentators who 'mind-bomb' each other...

Except that it isn’t subversive, nor is it original thought. It seems merely a half-hearted regurgitation of excuses for or in defense of a lame duck president. However, reading it, I wasn't even offended by the idiotic excuses put forth, rather that this someone, who is clearly not particularly bright, has misunderstood, and therefore misrepresented the idea of 'the other.'

Forgive me for my rant... but… the ‘Other' is NOT something people trust. Rather, a person's definition of the 'Other' is part of what defines or even constitutes the self, and other phenomena and cultural units. The concept has been used to understand the processes by which societies and groups exclude 'Others' who they want to subordinate or who do not fit into their society.

The concept of the ‘Other' is something that we do not understand, and therefore distrust, fear, judge and/or exclude.

The author effectively disproved any merit he or she may have projected to possess in the fifth sentence. There was no real point in moving past that point... If you are going to going to insist on verbal diarrhea, make sure the basis of your argument isn't fundamentally faulty.

Oh. And Fj?
You've REALLY demonstrated your value in this society... 'junk loans to junk people'?!?!?

If only expressing my disgust for you - through a blog - could convey how little you are worth in this society.

I agree with you on your points of groupthink but ...

2008-10-09T13:52:00.000-07:00

I agree with you on your points of groupthink but your 21 lines of why Bush isn't responsible for those messes are something I cannot agree with.

Iraq: This place had nothing to do with 9/11 and didn't have any of the weapons the administration said they had. When all of this became glaringly obvious it suddenly turned into a humanitarian mission to rid the world of an evil dictator. Unfortunately for us, all those civilians we killed in the bombings are going to hate us for the rest of our lives and some will probably try to kill us. Good thinking. I think you're spot-on with the oil assessment but still, payback is a bitch.

Katrina: this is the greatest failure of a federal agency I have ever had the great misfortune of witnessing. The feds knew days beforehand that the greatest shitstorm to hit the gulf coast in decades was about to smash N.O. and they did nothing. Why? Because we had a Horse Show organizer running FEMA, appointed by W. The result? Thousands of people died. Good thinking.

The Economy: we've been monetizing the debt over the past few decades and now the market forces are too strong to push back with more valueless currency. It's time we paid the piper. You can blame every president since Kennedy for that one.

Paranoia: there's a lot to be afraid of. All of our life savings are evaporating before our eyes due to the greed of a privileged few, we have experienced the greatest erosion of civil liberties in the past seven years that this country has ever seen, and now we've got two presidential candidates that are swearing allegiance to Israel and are doing everything they can to stir things up with Iran. Don't believe me about the civil liberties? Take a look at the washington post article about what happened in Maryland.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100703245.html

If that doesn't scare you I submit that you don't deserve to be a citizen of this great country.

Like I said, I agree with your assessment of our collective, willful ignorance but please don't excuse Bush for the wrongs he has done this country. You don't need to...he's just going to pardon himself :)

What you forget is that you have to look at this i...

2008-10-09T12:50:00.000-07:00

What you forget is that you have to look at this issue from a historical point of view; to 76% of the people in America, and most people across the world, George Bush is the worst president in history. You can try to reason your way out of it, but for a guy who who has a minimal grasp on the English language, I think it's a fair shake. You can even look into his own life history and see that if it wasn't for his father he would be face down in a toilet at some southern Texas strip joint. You don't have to listen to other people's ideas, but when you have the type of argument you have, my advice is to start.

Jared - you're a moron if you think clinton had no...

2008-10-09T12:17:00.000-07:00

Jared - you're a moron if you think clinton had nothing to do with the subprime lending crisis. Clinton helped open the flood gates of junk loans to junk people, and then left with a budget surplus proclaiming his years as President were the best we'd ever had. His loose loan policies and encouraging the Fed to feed fiat money into a banking system that needed to then lend out that fake money to increasingly bad credit risks is what caused this mess, and it started in 93 under Clinton.

You prove the author's point by saying, "why are you so in love with the guy?", when all he's doing is looking at the issue objectively and trying to prove a point. You proved it for him; good work.

jared m johnson summed it up.his comment was actua...

2008-10-09T11:22:00.000-07:00

jared m johnson summed it up.

his comment was actually worth the read, unlike your article.

Dude, I have no idea what you've been smoking, but...

2008-10-09T11:17:00.000-07:00

Dude, I have no idea what you've been smoking, but you really, really need to stop.

I think most people blame bush because he is a ret...

2008-10-09T11:10:00.000-07:00

I think most people blame bush because he is a retard who has mismanaged the government for the past 8 years.

He hasn't done any real work, or tried to solve any real problems. Why exactly are you so in love with the guy?

The subprime crisis did not happen under Clinton. It happened under Bush. The subprime crisis is what caused this mess. Clinton had nothing to do with it.

The war in Iraq has nothing to do with Terrorism. Even if it was about oil, it was a stupid investment. The 1 trillion dollars and thousands of lives we have spent were not a good investment. The same money could have bought so much research on alternative fuels, could have built so much public transportation infrastructure, or done so much good in so many other places. Instead we blew up Iraq's infrastructure, and a lot of their population. It was not a smart move by any measure, even if the government doesn't collapse after we leave.