Who here will miss Bush?

[LordTheNightKnight]

cdude1034 said:

Snesboy said:
Yes I will.

1) All the media did was attack him and his policies (read: No Child Left Behind proposed by Ted Kennedy (D), he did it to shut the guy up and the media still attacked him anyways)

2) About hurricane Katrina, people attacked him saying he didn't help. Guess what? We have state governments for a reason. Just because a natural disaster happens doesn't mean that the federal government has to come running to help.

3) Obama only won the election because he wasn't running against McCain, he was running against Bush's "failed policies".

4) And lastly, the bit on the economy, the government does not control businesses, so they are free to do whatever they when it comes to shipping jobs overseas.

Here we go:

1) No Child Left behind was the reason why I was not given a full accelerated education. It singlehandedly destroyed the Gifted/Talented program in my school district and forced me to take classes with people with half my motivation and drive to learn.

2) "You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie" I think that's all that needs to be said.

3) Don't forget Palin He lost at least one vote because of that. McCain's campaign was full of gimmicks, like Palin, and all of his ads were attack ads on Obama rather than the issues. Yes Obama had attack ads too, but at least he made an attempt to let the people know what his policies were gonna be.

"We're not here to talk about an old washed up terrorist" During that third debate I think it was really summed up McCain's campaign. If he was serious, he wouldn't have even brought it up.

4) Ok? I don't think anyone was arguing that Bush was the reason the jobs were shipped overseas. I could be wrong, but didn't Bush actually push for tax incentives to businesses that kept jobs here? That was cool of him.

 

That's a lie. McCain made his policies clear. He'd been making them clear for months. Obama was actually less clear in his positions, unless directly asked.

I'm a democrat, but I paid attention to what they were saying. Obama gave more rhetoric than anyone else. It was just that people chose to pay more attention to that than anything of substance.

This isn't anything on whether he'll be any good (that remains to be seen), just that still doesn't excuse people pretending Obama told you more when he didn't.