The Last EIght Years in Eight Minutes

EIGHT YEARS IN EIGHT MINUTES
Did he do a good job? Did he make things better or worse? How was your life in 1999 compared to your life in 2009? Sure, things changed, everything changed, the world changed... things always change. I hear all the blahgging about Obama being the antichrist, but how well did your man, Gee Dub, do? Really? Overall?
We weren't attacked by terrorists on American soil over the last eight years, if you don’t count those Anthrax letters from December of 2001. But, there were attacks elsewhere by militant Islamists. England, Spain, Africa, India... Do you really feel safer having nearly a decade of this War on Terror?
As for the War on Terror, that’s silly. How do you wage a war against a tool used by the ideologues of hate? That is just as ridiculous as LBJ's War on Poverty, neither worked, nor could they have! It is just too broad a term, too loosely defined, too hard to pin down. And our actions in this W.O.T.? What are we Rambo? "To survive a war, you must become war." (Rambo II) So, to survive terrorism, we ourselves must become terrorists? We lost our position as moral authorities when we ourselves became proponents of terror and violence abroad; see water-boarding & Abu Graib.
Bush on the Economy? Sure, it isn't all his fault, most of the policies and pervasive group-think of de-regulation in D.C. had been around since the early eighties. But he was at the helm of the ship of state. The Buck Stops Here... remember that one? He allowed ineptitude, nepotism and greed to further bankrupt America. His tax cuts removed $300 billion in tax revenue away from public needs annually. Iraq and Afghanistan have cost about $700 billion. Well, there's that trillion dollar package Obama is pushing for right now!
Veterans' Affairs? The American Journal of Public Health found that in 2004 nearly 1.8 million veterans were uninsured and unable to get care in veterans' facilities. An additional 3.8 million members of their households were also uninsured and ineligible for VA care. Since then... don't know, no new studies have been done.
The Patriot Act? Good god! Habeas Corpus is one of the safeguards guaranteed in the Constitution. The Constitution, “that little piece of paper,” is sacrosanct!
No Child Left Behind? Well, that proved to be the near inverse corollary... No Child Moved Ahead. Ask the teachers around here if they think it was a help or a hindrance. The Pell grants that so many relied on for secondary education were shifted from public institutions to mainly private (and Christian) ones.
New Orleans? Bush FEMA buddy "Brownie" really screwed the pooch on that one. “Over 30,000 were rescued by helicopter,” over 100,000 were left homeless. Most still are! over three and a half years later.
Most Republicans are beginning to throw stones at a guy who’s been on the job less than a week, (and already accomplished more than you or I will in our lifetimes), then they should be prepared to defend the man that got us here. Here: broke, divided, and distanced from the world. And stop asking how Obama is going to unify this country, it ain't his job... it's ours. "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
I'll give Bush credit where credit is due. Peace talks in Northern Ireland and unprecedented funding to fight AIDS in Africa. Other'n that, he’s done dude.
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