What one does in their private life is just that...PRIVATE. Compare that one mistake to the many good things Clinton did for the U.S., and it doesn't even come CLOSE to balancing out...remember how they tried to impeach him on that, but it was decided that there wasn't enough wrongdoing in that one act to throw him out of office?
As far as Bush getting stuck with the recession, that's bullshit. Bush, for the most part, CAUSED the recession by all the outsourcing. Fact: When Bush entered office, the U.S. had a $5 trillion SURPLUS, from 8 years of Clinton. In 4 years of Bush, he's SPENT $8 trillion. On what? A "war on terror" that got practically forgot about when we decided to link it to Hussein, whose country we invaded under the pretense of "World Safety", yet the whole bloody thing wasn't sanctioned by ANY other (relatively) major country aside from Great Brittain...
The WTC attacks were tragic...AT THE TIME!! It's been 3 years for Christ's sake, let the damn thing go. The reason it still strikes a chord with so many Americans, is because CERTAIN politicians keep using it as a reason for EVERYTHING we're doing right now.
As for Iraq's "WMD's", there was never any positive evidence of Sadam having any, or even developing them, like Bush and Co. said. More and more evidence comes out saying there hasn't been any weapons R&D in Iraq since THE EARLY 90's!! Also, how many times have we heard from various sources, that there's NO evidence of Hussein being linked to any "terrorist faction" aside from his own twisted government.
While I think, like many others, that Hussein wasn't running his country "properly", this is coming from a Judeo-Christian (probably didn't spell that right...), western, "American" school of thought, where we have to put our nose in everyone else's business. Did it ever occur that one reason why a large portion of the world thinks so poorly of us, is for just that fact? For some reason, we feel that our way's the right way, and there shouldn't be ANY other way of doing it. Democracy WILL NOT work in some countries. We keep trying to force our ideals onto everyone else, trying to make more United States of whatever, and in the meantime, piss off those we're, "trying to help"...
Personally, I think the U.S. should just worry about itself, build the economy back up, only deal with "evil doers" who DIRECTLY threaten us, or one of our allies (which we seem to be running out of...hmmmm...). Maybe then, we wouldn't be quite possibly the most hated country in the world. And when we do have to deal with a hostile situation, perhaps we shold try to use DIPLOMACY for a change, and try it seriously, not the U.N bullshit we went through.
"Okay, we'll wait for you all to make up your mi-....wait no, we'll just go now. Who wants to kick some ass!! ...Anyone? ...any...one? Oh well, HER WE GO U.S., HERE WE GO!!"
This is just how I feel, while I'm cognizant, and not posting when dead tired like my earlier, "america sucks" post...that wasn't coherent thought on my part, so I apologize for that.
lol, so much for "a lighter note", huh?
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Then again, that's politics for ya...