News Flash!! Bush Did Something GOOD!!

Amen to that. Nixon looks like a saint compared to Bush.

The right time of year, St. Nix. lol

Don't forgetwhat happended in the next election wehn the people voted for a new type of leader - President Carter. We got a fresh new person who was good and honest. We also got 18% inflation, higher taxes, we became the laughing stock when we spend 419 days in negoitaions with Iran over our embasy being taken over by "students" (one of whom is now the leader of Iran). He let the military go to ruin to the point that we could not get more than 6 helecopters together to try to rescue our Citizens. We elected a nice talking person to be President who wanted to get along with everyone and ended up with most of the world laughing at us.

Relax, I didn't say he did something right or good KNOWING he was doing it! I guess you could call it an "unintended consequence", considering that what he considers good many of us would consider not so good and vice versa. Annie

I still think it is more an anger at Bushy and Democrats out there pushing for folks to register than Bushy physically doing anything.

I'll go with that.

Even the experts are now admitting we're in or heading for a recession, which those of us who live in the "real" world have known for a long time. The dollar's worthless, people can't afford to put gas in their cars and heat their homes. There were no terror attacks on the U.S. of that scale BEFORE 9/11 either. The unemployment figures are skewered to make them look more favorable as are the inflation figures. Gas, heating costs, health care costs and food aren't figured in for inflation I heard a few days ago. So, what does count? I know many young families who never paid much attention to politics before but who thought things were pretty good during those "awful" Clinton years but now they're hurting badly. And NOW they're registered to vote! Annie

Not to mention what the rest of the world thinks of us. They think we're nuts for having such a corrupt administration in office for 8 years. Cronies let out of Federal jail time, spying on your own populace, you and your cronies getting rich from obscene oil profits that are artificially inflated -- as I said, it makes the illegalities of political shenanegans under Nixon and even the corruption of Iran-Contra during Reagan look like child's play. If you want corrupt government, look at us under Republican administrations. Except George the First -- he was merely incompetent which led to only one term for him. But his incompetence is a drop in the bucket compared to his son's. The world thinks we're nuts for putting these corruption riddled administations in office repeatedly -- and they're probably right.

PS - Surplus? There was one when W took over but since then there is the largest deficit ever due to the Iraq War. Which we are in because of being lied to, by the way. Reagan ran up the deficits, Clinton gave us the suplusses and W out did them both by eliminating all the surpluses and driving us deeper into debt than ever before. This war is being finaced off the backs of our grandchildren and great-grandkids. And that is practically criminal, too. There is no surplus under Bush -- only greater deficits than ever before. Being an ill-informed electorate could well be the reason we got Bush II twice. Hopefully thses new votoers won't let themselves be lied to --such as Bush surpluses!! There ARE no such things -- they are the weapons of mass destruction of the US economy.

Never give credit when you do not have to!! Especially to The "B" word. Now there is a word that Mylot could ban.

Remember that the Congress (democratically controlled) has a lower approval rating than the President... don't be so quick to use the word 'everyone' (and I see you didn't). Every president that is in the midst of a war is disliked to some degree, even if they are the best President that has ever held office. It is the presidents that get us out of war that we remember whether that is fair or not... case in point Jimmy Carter & Ronald Reagan.

If you didn't vote for Bush then I'd say your record is pretty good! You didn't contribute to this mess! Annie

I always get a kick out of that too Rowena. When an elected official turns out to be an idiot, all of a sudden nobody voted for him, especially the second term. Although legally he did not win the popular vote, he won in the electoral college, which is not right I say. I can honestly say, I have only once voted for a President that actually won in all the years I have been voting. So my record isn't very good.

"Yes, we may actually get a record number of people out voting for a change. Get them off their collective butts and get involved. Can I say that?" Yep, looks like you could say that...lol! It's great that there's been such a huge turnout for the first two states and I hope it continues. That's one way in which it's good that we've had different results so far, people often don't bother voting in the primaries further down the road because they feel it's already been decided so why bother. That's how it usually plays out in my state of Pennsylvania; our primary isn't until late April this year so it will probably be a done deal for both parties by then. I think the longer there's two or more candidates "still standing" in one or both parties there will hopefully be more issues and more views on these issues raised and that's a good thing. I'm very pleased that so far at least it appears the young people are stepping to the plate. I remember when I was first allowed to vote how excited I was and so were most of my friends. I was 20 when they lowered the age to 18 so I got an extra Presidential election in that I wouldn't have been eligible for if they hadn't lowered the age. I'm glad to see that kind of interest may be returning for the young. It IS their future that's being decided here after all! Annie

I Was 18 the first time I voted. And it was on my 18th birthday. I was able to register before my birthday because I would be 18 on election day. I have never missed an election since.

Yes, we may actually get a record number of people out voting for a change. Get them off their collective butts and get involved. Can I say that?