Eric wrote:
Granted, Iraq's well being is a long-term type of thing, and there are arguably ways that quality of life is worse is some respects. I will say - we have not been attacked again. If thats because Al Qaeda is focused on fighting in Iraq - then so be it. I by no means give the admin a passing grade.....but I do have the opinion that history books will give W a C to a C+...
For many years the history books told us George Washington was the symbol of honesty because he admitted cutting down his father's cherry tree and that he threw a dollar across the Potomac. We know now that neither thing happened.
The history books however, didn't tell us, and still don't, about all of the presidents since the inception of this government(including the cherry chopper) who have had extra-marital affairs while in office. To hear some people talk Bill was the first and the worst simply because more information is available now than it was in the past.
Before I have to go for the day, let me touch on this "liberal media" bullshit that some have thrown around in this thread.
For the entire 8 years that Bill Clinton was in office every main stream media newscast of everyday was all about everything that the right wing propaganda machine was trying to dig up to pin on him. They spent billions of taxpayer dollars for 8 solid years (some of which I'm sure went to Linda Tripp) on a witch hunt and all they could find was a blow job. Still, even though they found nothing, we heard about everything they suspected constantly.
We hardly hear more than a blurb or two about Bush's involvement in Enron, or all those savings and loans in Texas that he was involved in, or his being awol from the military. If Bill Clinton had tried manipulating the check and balance functions of the three bodies of our governement and the information that was given to congress and the people of this country the way Bush has with this war and his cabinet, advisory and court appointments(his regime) and the military budget we'd have heard every detail of it every day, but Bush gets away with it. Do you know why? Because the main stream media in now owned big corporations and is all about ratings and popularity that generate ad revenue. They thought it was in their best interest to wave the flag and suppress any information than may smack of being unpatriotic in a time of war.