When in the Course of Human Events...
Can there be any doubt that the Bush Administration is the most incompetent and corrupt administration in the history of the country?
Can we finally stop calling him a "popular" leader?
Save me a seat at the Tennis Court.
And grease the wheels of the tumbril, please. It's time to get these criminals to the scaffolds.
I'm sitting with les tricoteuses.
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Most corrupt? WJ Clinton might contest that title. Motel White House? Chinese DNC contributions for nuclear missile guidance technology? Hmmm.....oh well, hate Bush, hate Bush, hate Bush...repeat ad nauseum.
It seems like we're veering into objective territory in terms of Bush's incompetence. I understand how it can sound like a broken record, but that's because it's the truth, and some of us have seen it for a long time.
I'm not a huge fan of Clinton, although it seems clear that his economic and foreign policies were much more in line with the interest of the country that those of the current administration.
For the record, I never voted for him. A lot of the "scandals" associated with Clinton seem to come from the depths of the Right Wing media machine run by folks like Roger Ailes and Richard Mellon-Scaife, however, so the "truth" of the matter is fairly obscure. Was Clinton involved in some dirty dealing? Perhaps. Was he guilty of monumental lapses of judgement when the opposite sex is concerned? Yeah, clearly.
But do any of his scandals equate any of these:
Chalabi
Plame
Katrina
Iraq
That's a serious question. I'm not even getting into Halliburton, Cheyney's top secret "executive privilege" energy meetings where policy was decided by Ken Lay and the boys from Enron. I'm not even talking about the disastrous bankruptcy bill (supported by many Democrats). I'm not talking nuance. I'm talking about major, major scandals and fuck-ups.
I'm more than willing to concede that Clinton wasn't perfect. But do any of his scandals _really_ match the stuff I've quoted above?
Really?
It might not surprise you to know that I'm not fully plugged into the right-wing talking points, so I concede that there are probably Clintonian scandals about which I know very little.
Can you list any of them as egregious as the stuff I've listed above?
Politics aside, I think it's becoming increasingly clear that George W. Bush is the worst American president in our lifetimes, if not in the history of the country. If anyone has evidence to the contrary or would like to suggest links I can read that will convince me otherwise, I am all ears.
But I refuse to believe that, like Brownie, Bush is going "a heck of a job."
The conspiracy stuff about Clinton is about as credible as the conspiracy stuff about Bush. It just seems to me that Bush gets blamed for more stuff than any other president in history. I'll totally accept that he has major problems and that he's not the greatest president in the world. Cripes, if Kerry had played his cards better, he might have even gotten my vote. For the record, I voted 2/3 Democrat in the last election.
However, your blog entry suggests that Bush is lining his pockets personally with this tragedy. The link you have suggests that all these contributors' companies get all these big reconstruction contracts.
Do you honestly think that a consortium of enlightened minority small business entrepeneurs with no political ambitions could pull off something of that magnitude?
The Clinton administration did a ton of business with Haliburton as well.
No doubt the fat cats in big business are well connected and totally in bed with the government....but to suggest that the Bush administration is the first one that this has happened to is just ludicrous.
Also, Clinton pardoned a bunch of political contributors a few days before he left office...so he got some pretty good overt corruption in himself...and it's not disputed because no one really cares any more.
..and Erik, I'm not suggesting that your blog opinion is ludicrous, you make some very good points...the kool-aid extremism on both sides of this issue is just getting old.
I agree, except I don't think the lefties are drinking the kool aid... ;)
You make some excellent points about big companies like Halliburton, and the spirit of corruption is definitely alive and kicking in all sectors of our government, to be sure.
I also fully agree that a lot of the "dirt" on Bush is just sour grapes (a good example of this is probably the "bulge" under Bush's jacket at the second debate, although I wouldn't put it past him to be wearing an earpiece--he is pretty stupid).
I think part of the "rage" of the Left has to do with the fact that since no one seems to care too much about the serious outrages these bums have committed, critics glom onto every little quasi-scandal in hopes that it will be "the one."
I mean, really, when you see how much trouble Clinton got into over lying about a blowjob, it's just remarkable what Bush has been able to get away with.
And that pisses a lot of us off, and sometimes makes us say stupid things.
Cool, I can totally see that. The kool aid right just swallows everything the right wing hardliners tell them is gospel and the hard-line leftists grabbing a hold of every whacko conspiracy theory hoping that something, anything--will stick to him.
They both look foolish in the end. I do think that a lot of Bush's "incompetence" comes from him trusting his subordinates too much. Clinton didn't trust too many people and thus micromanaged a lot of things. No doubt Clinton was the better politician and his Charisma score blows Bush's out of the water.
I enjoyed the discussion, Erik.
well your're one hell of an editor and have brought something really special to the gaming mags lately...kudos...just don't let yer doom and gloom dip too far into the shrinking stagnant wading pool of liberal rhetoric, my man. P.S. Love the Worms...a conservative gamer
I'll try not to get in too deep. Like Marat.
Thanks for the kudos, and thanks for reading the mags and the blog! All are welcome here.
I think the only satisfaction we will get is 15-20 years from now when historians comb over Bush's presidency (and they most definitely will) Bush will finally be held solely responsible for some incredibly poor decisions and ill-informed policy making, the war in Iraq being the biggest. You can be forgiven for a lot of errors but getting young Americans killed isn't one of them.
I respect Colin Powell a lot (and I served during the first Gulf War - on the ground I might add) so when he calls out the administration it certainly speaks volumes in my opinion.
Erik, I'll understand if you don't want to answer this, but if you didn't vote for Clinton, who did you vote for?
Let me take a shot at this...
The Nadster!
I voted for Ralph too.
I think the first time I voted for Perot, because I thought the other two candidates were pretty wretched, and I fell for the infomercials.
The last time I voted for Nader. I voted for him again in the Gore v. Bush election, because although I've come to respect Al Gore _since_ that election, he did damn little to earn my vote.
This last time I voted for Kerry, but I would have rather voted for almost any of the other Democrats who ran, especially Howard Dean, whom I greatly respect.
--Erik
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