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I ran across this post on a wrestling forum of all places, and I will to pass it along. His forum name is LightsOut514

Looks like straight idiotic partisanship to me. Bush took a gamble on Iraq and it hasn't paid off. He was talked into it by the Cheneys and the Rumsfeld's and the Wolfowitz's of the world, convinced that we could turn Iraq into a "shining beacon of democracy" and that we'd be greeted as liberators. The whole idea of trying to spread democracy was very 20th century... The Cold War was done, democracy was spreading itself. Along the way he used American's fear after 9/11 to gain popular support for something that had been in the works long before 9/11 ever happened, talking about WMDs in Iraq and connections to Al-Qaeda, neither of which were legit. We weren't greeted as liberators and almost 6 years and thousands of Americans lives later, we're still trying to make it work. And it's a project that has cost billions and the American people have really seen no return on it (oil still extremely expensive). Meanwhile the head that the American people really wanted is Osama Bin Laden's after he killed thousands of innocent civilians, and it hasn't happened yet. Not to say that's ENTIRELY Bush's fault, but people are going to assign the blame for that failure somewhere, and a lot of people think Bush made a big mistake by concentrating so much of our forces on Iraq rather than on Afghanistan, the unquestioned safe haven for Al-Qaeda and a country governed by a completely sadistic regime, even worse than Saddam Hussein's.

On the economy... eh. President's don't play nearly as big of a role in the economy as politicians want you to think. When the economy is doing well presidents love to take credit for it, but the flip side of that is that when things aren't going so well, you shoulder a lot of the blame even if it's not really your fault. It's kind of like in the NBA, when a team wins a title, everybody praises the coach. But when a team has a bad year, it's the coach who ends up getting fired. Really it's the players that matter, they're the ones out there executing and that's what decides the game. The coaching isn't totally irrelevant, but really it's not as big of a factor as most people make it out to be. That's kind of like the President as it pertains to economics. When things aren't going well, people are looking for somebody to point the finger at, and the President is usually the guy. You can say it's unfair if you want because to some extent it is, but it's the reality of politics and always has been. The whole "tax cuts for the wealthy, and the jobs trickle down" thing is still really passe though. Again, trying to apply Reagan era thinking in the 21st century and it's unsuccessful. The whole idea behind Bush/Reagan economics is that if you give tax breaks to the wealthy they will invest in new companies and that will in turn create more jobs for the American people.... that's great and all, except the economy is completely global now, and all the jobs that a new company might create aren't going to Americans but to India, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, or to Latin America for manual labor. The jobs don't go to Americans anymore. The whole concept of supply side/trickle down/Reaganomics is asinine, but amazingly a large portion of the American public swallows it.

Which brings me to the one thing written there that I DO agree with--Americans are fucking retarded on the whole. It's funny to me to see a Conservative saying that after hearing Liberals saying it for the past 8 years when the majority of America's morons were voting Republican. As sad as it is to say, that's the reality of 21st century America and winning elections is all about dumbing your message down enough that the plebeians can wrap their tiny minds around it and like it better than the other guys.

Now if a guy who's posting on a wrestling forum can have something that intelligent to say, why can't most of the people on so called "good blog sites" have something half as decent. He didn't bash the left or right sides. He just bashed.

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