Your feelings on Bush

[JustRobert]

Originally Posted by tickler

Well they somehow just elected a bush-clone up here.

Had this discussion recently with a buddy, his wife and in-laws all from Canada, about this. In-laws still live in Canada and they all believe he has to tread lightly as well and that he has already pissed off some that voted him in. Not sure how true that is, but they also agreed that your not stuck with someone for 4 years if ya made a mistake.

[Mr. Blue]

The main problem I see with Bush is kind of simple...why was he re-elected? If he sucked completely as a President and I think he was a pretty bad President the first 4 years...why on earth would he get re-elected?

• Democrats put up a weak candidate in Kerry
• Democrats didn't have a message of their own - their message was, Bush sucks. Yeah, that's great, now what's your platform?
• All the people that hate Bush with a passion didn't go to vote. WTF!!!??? Our system of government only works when you participate in it.
• The Democrats picked a candidate that would only play well in the Northern liberals states...they need a moderate like Bill Clinton to carry some of the south.

That's just the brief list, there's a lot more, but basically the white monkey aka Bush, would have never been elected if people actually gave a damn about the political process. If more people voted in the primaries people like Gore and Kerry would have never been the Democratic candidate for President.

I personally dislike both Republicans and Democrats equally, they basically are just different flavors of stupid. I'm an independent and I'm hoping there's some good candidates for the next election, but looking at who might run in 2008...I'm not holding out much hope.

[tickler]

Originally Posted by JustRobert

...... they all believe he has to tread lightly as well and that he has already pissed off some that voted him in.

The refusing to lower flags for dead Canadian soldiers from Afghanistan(one was local) did not play well here. The local MP(read congressman for those US folks) protested about it, and almost got fired from some senior party positions.

Originally Posted by JustRobert

Not sure how true that is, but they also agreed that your not stuck with someone for 4 years if ya made a mistake.

Yeah, he wants to go to fixed election dates like the USA to save taxpayers money on election costs, (and so the government can't be voted out earlier).