tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6711646595673778226.post4424955249502019586..comments2024-01-17T16:21:25.350-08:00Comments on Live, from the Catacombs...: Obama vs Bush. Again. But maybe that's a good thing...Ginny Krutahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189832964166135033noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6711646595673778226.post-19381205312416508142012-11-05T14:34:56.921-08:002012-11-05T14:34:56.921-08:00Clearly, there's no third party presidential c...Clearly, there's no third party presidential candidate this election who can win. But where I vote (Massachusetts) and where I think you vote (Illinois) and where a majority of other Americans vote (California, Texas, NY, Alabama, etc) there's not a second party candidate who can win either. So why not use your vote to take a principaled stand and perhaps help build a third party in the future?<br /><br />Reminder: there's only one candidate (Gary Johnson) who has proposed a balanced budget for NEXT YEAR. Under budgets proposed by both Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney, the debt will keep growing in each of the next four years.<br /><br /><br />As for the comparison to Bush, you made your points using quite a bit of false information (eg. it is not true that gas was under $1 "for years during the Clinton Administration " -- that's not even true if you don't account for inflation, which you should to be fair). My points were all factually correct. And your best reply is a school yard insult?Wesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6711646595673778226.post-52042009953432747682012-11-05T13:16:58.770-08:002012-11-05T13:16:58.770-08:00Great. Find a third party candidate who can win, a...Great. Find a third party candidate who can win, and that will work. For now you have two options: you can play the hand you're dealt or you can throw a tantrum. But remember that no matter how much you scream about how this country really needs a 180 (and I agree, we do), no one will take you seriously if you're not at least willing to apply the brakes before we go over the edge of the cliff.<br /><br />I'd love to address the points you made concerning George W. Bush, but the fact that you suggest that he was a WORSE President than Barack Obama leads me to only one possible conclusion: that you have yet to touch down in reality long enough to divorce yourself from it.Ginny Krutahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01189832964166135033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6711646595673778226.post-3557087065498791712012-11-02T06:37:24.970-07:002012-11-02T06:37:24.970-07:00Mr Obama has been a bad president. Mr Bush was an ...Mr Obama has been a bad president. Mr Bush was an absolutely dreadful one. <br /><br />Sure you can cherry pick examples of how Mr. Bush was better (your point about the golf games was a really good one) but on arguably the two biggest issues, the war and the economy, your points seem divorced from reality.<br /><br />President Bush (George W, that is) made a horrible mistake getting us into Iraq. He mismanaged the war to what could be called an immoral extent. You could make a good case that he was dishonest in the lead up to the war. And it is fact that he was dishonest about funding the war, putting the entire thing off the budget and having it stealthfully add to the debt. President Obama opposed the Iraq war from the start and wound it down in a way that seems to have worked as well as possible. (To his credit, Mr. Bush helped with that winding down).<br /><br />On the economy, the unemployment rate went up during Mr. Bush's term in office. As he was leaving office we were loosing huge numbers of jobs. The unemployment rate went down during Mr. Obama's term and we've been adding small numbers of jobs. <br /><br />Asking Mr Romney whether he'd be as terrible as the last Republican president was a totally legitimate question. His answer, I thought, was okay, not great.<br /><br />Really, all this points out why we need a strong third party in this country. In far too many races (eg. Romney-Obama, McCaskill-Akin) the main choices are between two unacceptably bad candidates.Wesnoreply@blogger.com