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Originally posted by ktsnake
No one said anyone should worship him. However, admitting he's doing a decent job would be a start
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But for a lot of us, he's NOT doing a decent job. And there are a lot of Republicans out there who seem to want to throw him a parade every time he does something that he should have been doing in the first place.
Okay, so we caught Saddam. (Okay, in actuality WE didn't catch Saddam. But he's in our custody, which is the important part.) Yay! Now wait: shouldn't this have been a given? To me, catching Saddam is not a "reward," it's a necessity that should have been accomplished a while ago. Not to mention that bin Laden is still missing, the WMDs (our entire justification for going to war!) are still missing, and even if Bush fixes those two, it doesn't excuse the fact that it's now clear that he blatantly lied to the American people to justify this war.
Okay, so the economy is improving. But wait -- weren't Republicans the same ones that were just telling us that the crappy economy wasn't Bush's fault? That the economy was Clinton's fault? But now the fact that the economy is improving IS because of Bush? Talk about having our cake and eating it . . . Let's just pretend this one isn't even an issue.
Okay, so Bush managed to pull the country together after 9/11. Even I will give him that. But did anyone read the reports that said that the White House received warnings in August 2001 that the attacks on the WTC might happen in September, and that they were ignored? Possibly because Bush was on vacation for the vast majority of August? Now granted this is probably a nonissue. Chances are that even if Bush was semi-competent and not the laziest president we've ever had, the attacks still would have happened. But the fact of the matter is that if Bush hadn't spent all of August on vacation, there wouldn't even be the possibility of suggesting a link between the two.
Not to mention that even if 9/11 and the war on Iraq had never happened and the economy was still in great shape with unemployment levels hovering around 4 percent -- that is, even if Bush was doing an unarguably decent job at being president -- he has passed a number of laws that I don't in any way agree with that would make it tough for me to subjectively call him a "good president."