I blame Bush for his first 4 years in office. But the last 4 you kind of have to shift some blame to the voters and to some degree the Democratic party. Seriously, Kerry was the best they could come up with? I heard a lot of people say they voted for Bush because "I would rather have the devil I know than the devil I don't"
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Grant wrote: > > Hey Gruss, Robert said Obama sucks. > > Hey Robert, Gruss said Bush sucks. > > Those are positional vs. principled arguments and, if I was taking my > own advice, I wouldn't get into them. > > Because, as we all know, they rarely amount to anything. > > What should be done instead is to focus on the principles, but that > went by the way-side over the last number of years. > > Granted politics has been around forever, but it's vehicles are mostly > generational. I think you had a more collegial environment with The > Greatest Generation as they fought WWII and had a good comparative > basis. > > Things started to go off the rails with the baby-boomers who - in > general - are a whiny selfish narcissistic bunch which is why all of > their policies suck and why they've brought the country to the edge of > disaster. > > If you want blame someone for this crisis don't blame a party: go big. > Blame a generation. That's what I do. > > Starting with Clinton you had a selfish do-gooder with little control > over his appetites. Those traits are fundamentally offensive, > especially to the hypocritically moral; they like to pretend so they > don't like seeing reality, so he was polarizing. Plus, unrecognized > to many at the time, he dismantled the banking regulatory system > paving the way for the current global disaster. But he was a boomer. > > Then selfish do-gooder #2 comes along, Bush. He's just basically > tragic: too dumb to do anything right, it was basically like giving a > 16 year old a tricked out '68 GTO with a blower and 4 barrel carb that > had a case of cold beer in the trunk. > > The Clinton apologists will claim if someone responsible had been in > office blah blah blah. But: > > 1.) Clinton knew who he was turning over the key to, and > 2.) You didn't see him waving the red flag > > So don't blame the parties, blame the boomers. > > They're the ones that created this mess and the divisiveness that > helped create it. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:291521 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
