Second thoughts about Bush
 

I'm starting to think if having him in office will really be good for our country. I'm not saying that he wont do a better job than john kerry, but I am saying that I have a fear that he might lead us into another war somewhere. Anyone else get that feeling too? The more I watch him in the media and see the things he is doing, Condi's nomination, the more I think he might be leading us down the war path again all in the name of stopping terrorism. It seems to me that the president does have a bit of arrogance to him and could be the ego swelled soft taco with extra hot sauce that the leaders of europe say he is. Maybe its just all the new fighting going on in Iraq and then Bush's comments on North Korea....or maybe it's just all of it together, but I'm wondering how many people are seeing whats going on and if you reckonize this same sort of scenario from any other point in history and more importantly...Europe?

Cashmoney, your signature:

is completely uncalled for.

It sounds like an Ann Coulter quote to me.

What does this have to do with George Bush?

Yeah, Cash, Bush does seem to appreciate both the power of the presidency as well as his moment in history.

Scary combination.

Come to our side, Cash. ;)

This is something that I think many Americans (well, 48% :) ) have feared for a while. Every great empire eventually falls (Russian, British, Spanish, Roman) and I worry that we may be heading for this.

My sig is true....women have to have compliments and they like to hear them often.....and they have to hear more than "You look good." If you ask me, its like pepping up a retarded kid. Remember that retarded kid in your high school that everyone always told "Good Job" or "wow, thats awesome you did that" or if its a retarded girl you'd say "You look very pretty" or "your dress looks really nice on you" or "I am so proud of you." Women love hearing each comment I just mentioned. In fact, they get a little b!tchy/sad acting when they don't hear those things. Could it be that because you 're probably one of those girls I just described you find my sig uncalled for? Well, good. Its girls like you that drive me up the freaking wall.

Some people think I'm already on your side. :D Within the past 2 weeks I've been told by several people that I'm a democrat disguised as a republican, I just havent come to accept it. :rolleyes:

Don't do it Cash, be strong!! Don't go over to the evil side!!! :D JK

If anyone were that interested (I'm not, btw), they could go back a year or so and read my concerns about The President and the arrogance of he and his administration as a whole.

The problem for me in the past election, is that I had concerns about Senator Kerry as well.

How I ended up voting is nobody's business but mine.

However, I am concerned that with four years with basically nothing to lose in terms of re-election, that arrogance may take us down some roads that worry me. Among those are the deficit, expansion of the Patriot Act and thus loss of civil liberties, the move to the right from the moderate values I hold, what I consider the blurring of the separation of church and state and the basic type of dishonesty and cynicism on the part of the administration that got us into Iraq in the first place.

The fact is, though, that even though this election certainly can't be called a mandate, we have President Bush for another four years and I will support him to the extent that I can while maintaining my personal beliefs, morals and attitudes.

Its funny, the weekend before the election I was having breakfast with my father and we were discussing politics as usual. Make a long story short, he thinks I'm a democrat mainly because he says I like to spend other people's money. :rolleyes:

The differences between the United States as a world power, and those empires you mentioned outweighs any similarities. You could draw parallels between the failures of any great empires and civilizations. however, i see nothing that would indicate that we, as a nation, are pointed toward a catastrophic collapse in government because President Bush was re-elected.

Our social, governmental, and economic structures, as a whole, are unlike anything seen in the recorded history of the world. And still we have had the hindsight to learn from their failures (and ours), and the foresight to at least try to affect change in the Middle East. The British, Soviet/Russian, Persian, Ottoman, Spanish, Roman, Mayan, Incan, Egyptian are ALL fallen empires, but rabble rabble rabble....[cleans glasses]...blah blah blah...[cross legs and lean in]...dar dar dar...[puffs on old pipe]....chuckle chuckle period.

Generally its a slipper slope that leads to the collapse of an empire. It rarely happens over night.

What we are doing as the a matter of policy now is to firmly grasp imperial world power with both hands and in full view of the world-public.

When you seize the reins in a strong grip it makes you even more of a target to everyone.

Or, to use another tired analogy: Once you decide to ride the Tiger, getting off becomes a major problem.