He couldn’t deliver two sentences of assurance and instilled no confidence in our mission in Iraq.

Really? Have you seen the pictures, especially with the troops, in Raven’s post “Thank You, President Bush”? I’d say he inspired quite a bit more confidence than you give him credit for.

He tapped our computers and phones

He NEVER tapped “our” phones. We only listened to conversations of FOREIGN-based TERRORISTS. The only computers that were searched were in libraries, and only when a warrant was issued.

Barack Obama has done more good in the last two days than Bush in the last two years.

ADMIT IT!

NOT ON YOUR LIFE!! If I were to say that, I would be lying. But I realize that for you it’s not a lie, because you are sincerely mistaken. You see, unlike so many who lambaste President Bush, I can tell the difference between a lie and a mistake.

I don’t know your son’s experience in the USMC, but I know from those I served with in the USAF that he was generally liked and well-respected. In fact out of every squadron I was a part of, you might have one or two out of 150 that might have voiced negative opinions of him. In fact, many polls done of service members show that he was liked and respected. And your laundry list of his “grievances” reads like it came from the Huffington Post of DKos.

Your praise of Obama’s two days sounds like a “true believer” as well…

Oh, and let me know when Obama gets Bin Laden, will you?

Barack Obama has done more good in the last two days than Bush in the last two years.

ADMIT IT!

Remember Sandy, almost 60 million of us did not vote for Obama. That’s not a small amount of people…and it certainly debunks this maligned party chatter. As in the 2004 elections, it is wise to not forget, nor dismiss, the voices of those who voted against.

I learned a lot about the human spirit over the past 8 yrs…and it’s not a good reflection on liberals, who are, the most petty, most bottomed out, depressed, miserable, lazy lot of people on Earth.

What goes around does indeed come around. People like you take away my desire to see unity and peace in this country. Instead of using smart arguments, you use talking points. Instead of checking facts, you chose to believe the hype.
Guess what? I shall do the same.

I believe history will be better to the President, than most think now. Also better than most hope…

The fact that the evidence for Bush being absent from TANG was forged seems to have gone over your head.

Not only did our CIA honestly believe that Saddam had WMD, as evidenced by Director Tenet’s “slam dunk” remark, but so did other countries, including some who opposed our invading Iraq. Could our president have misled their intelligence agencies?

Valerie Plame was not outed by Bush, but by Richard Armitage, who disagreed with our invasion.

While Abu Ghraib was indeed a disgusting episode, there is no evidence that the higher-ups in the Bush administration knew about it and condoned it, much less ordered it. The perpetrators were rightfully court-martialled and punished. Did you know that, Sandy?

If the “torture” of waterboarding has brought shame on our country, then there are a lot of countries in the world who deserve far more shame than we do.

The deregulation of banks, where commercial and investment banks could go into each other’s type of business, was done in 1999, when Bill Clinton was president. When Fannie and Freddie created and sold irresponsible mortgage-based securities, Republicans such as Bush tried to rein them in, while Democrats prevented them from doing so, while taking large amounts of campaign cash from their workers.

No one in the Bush administration to my knowledge blamed ordinary workers for the economic problems we’re now facing. While the rich enjoyed a mild tax cut (39% down to 35%), they did not get taxed less than the working class, most of whom also saw their taxes reduced under Bush. And a tax cut does not “give” anyone any money, but merely reduces what the government takes from them.

It appears that you have confused the Republican party with a “philosophy”. There is nothing greedy or selfish about letting people keep more of what they’ve earned, or hateful or destructive about the philosophy of conservatism. But false accusations and blaming someone without justification truly are hateful and destructive.

It goes on and on and on. Bush isn’t being maligned. The entire Republican Party is being maligned, and rightly so, because it is a hateful, selfish, greedy, destructive philosophy.