<vino> As a new guy, and not overly informed, I doubt my 0.02 matters much. But since I have a keyboard in front of me, a glass of wine, and ten working digits I might as well state it anyway.
I'm normally with Gruss with most things anti-bush, but I have to agree with Michael Dino a lot here. Firstly with the family analogy. Unless you are perhaps of the old way of thinking that men are the head of the family and women raise kids, it is indeed a partnership with equal roles and where cheers and jeers are both shared. If my daughter were to do something bad, steal, beat up another child, invade a mulim country...(ok that last one's a little extravagant) the responsiblity lands on all of us. Not just my daughter, and not just me as the dad. It's my wife, myself and my daughter that are responsible. Secondly, this is Bush we're talking about. That man is much too squishy brained to be responsible for all the ills that have happenned over the last eight years. I personally wouldn't even put him in charge of taking out the garbage on Tuesdays. In my opinion this isn't really about Bush or Obama. It's a combination of a lot of things, all of which I probably don't even understand, that led to the shiticane that's hovered over the US for the last 7 years. I say seven because I remember when he was judged to be (not elected) the President. After the media had declared him the loser. For the first year it was all jokes about him. SNL and MadTV had a field day. Every comedian in the world was at an all you can eat buffet of comedy. Remember when GWB puked while meeting with some world leader. I don't remember who, maybe in China? Then 9/11 hits. It's bad for America but probably the best thing to ever happen to Bush. As a non-American I remember the 180 turn that happenned with the media and the tv/movie stars. You don't say ANYTHING bad about Bush. Jokes stopped. The free flowing criticism of the music industry stopped. (Madonna changing her album and pulling her video which mocked Bush.) Or you stuck to your guns and had your career ended. (Dixie Chicks... or ChixWithDix as I like to call them.) All of a sudden Bush is the Teflon Don when it comes to criticism. As I remember it it was only in late 2007 that criticism started again. What's my point? That's a good question. I'm not sure. I guess it's that the problems of the last 8 years aren't all because of Bush. Is he part of the problem? Absolutely. But he's more the figurehead of a way of thinking that's landed America where it is right now. So it's more (in my opinion) what he reperesents than what he is. Obama seems to represent the opposite. A more intelligent and measured way of getting back to what America prides itself on, being a leader in the world rather than a conquerer. Who know's if he'll come through. I doubt he can. Only because the people and the media have raised the bar to an almost impossible standard. Onw which has been lowered to an almost impossible standard the last 8 years. So ya, there's my Sunday dinner with the all the family and too much vino with the roast beef rant. </vino> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:285390 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
