- “Regime change” is a neocon concept - not mine.
Putin is in the driver’s seat in Georgia and Bush II
helped to put him there with many innocent people
being run over even is we blog.

- The next President will need to walk far softer
and get a much larger stick.

Referring to a sitting president as a “twerp” really tells a lot about your feelings toward our country and the office of the president.

You have a point about there being no large deployments while Clinton was in the White House, I’ll give you that. But since the mid ’70’s we have been an all volunteer armed services. Nobody was forced to join. Being in the military means that you could be deployed and sent to nasty places. If you married a military person you would have to take that into consideration. We were all volunteers and the services are still that way. I agree with ‘Che that if we didn’t have our forces in the middle east that there would have been many more attacks on our soil.

Clinton also cut our intel services to shreds, specifically the HUMINT part of it which might have ferretted out the 9/11 attack before it happened, might not have, we’ll never know because the “slickster” cut many intel jobs so he could balance the budget.

But enough about Clinton, what’s done is done. My vote is for Lou Dobbs for President.

Clinton couldn’t handle the terrorist attacks that happened on his watch; what do you think he would have done if he had to deal with September 11th? The I-95 corridor from DC to Boston would be clicking on the Geiger counter while he was on Air Force One, introducing another teenage intern into the Mile High Club.

Taliban resurgence? They went from running a country to fighting out of caves! Clinton’s only contribution towards getting rid of the Taliban was making jokes about them at the National Press Club dinner. Clinton couldn’t get Bin Laden either, even though he “came close” a couple of times. So I guess OSB has really been on the loose for 15 years.

Obama looked into Putin’s eyes and said ” surf’s up dude”.

- McCain looked into the same eyes and saw “KGB”.

Mark one down for Little John.

- The Democrats respond that a McCain vote will
mean a third term for Bush II. Scream. Scream!

- Bin Laden still free - 9/11 unavenged after
nearly seven years, the original naive politized “plans”
for Iraq - thousands more Americans dead and
billions spent, the Taliban resurgence, the total
failure “Good job, Brownie” after Katrina, etc.

- Even a flawed sleazer like Clinton looks good compared
to the failed US presidency of the past eight years.

Marcie Harris said on 14 Aug 2008 at 6:05 pm:
I didn’t specifically say that I was “OK with Clinton’s moral transgressions
because I was OK economically”….

Sorry Marcie, but that is EXACTLY what you said.

The media did aid and abet the Clinton scandals. From demonizing Ken Starr(sp), failing to investigate the dozens of claims of marital infidelity, the cattle futures scam, the Buddist monk fundraising scandal, and the White House fundraising teas, the media took eight years off. I get equally nauseated by Chris Matthews as well as the writer who said once that “power crackled” from Clinton’s jeans.

Since you are a military wife, you no doubt remember the two acts of war committed against the US during the Clinton era when the WTC and the USS Cole were both bombed. Clinton’s inaction showed the softness of the US, and set the table for 9/11 and the ensuing deployments that we had to make. We can debate the war all we want, but everyone needs to think where the next terrorist strike on our soil would have been had the US not gone into Afghanistan and Iraq, taking the fight to the terrorists. God bless people like your husband, who are willing to sacrifice their lives for the sake of us and our country.

People giving former President Bill Clinton credit for the economy of the 90s. Newsflash, anyone could have been President during the 90s and we still would have had a booming economy. Between the tax cuts of the 80s and the Republican takeover in ‘94 and the lessening of government that brought, combined with the take-off of at least three new industries (internet service provision, internet retail, and the computer manufacturing boom those encouraged) oh, and the general feel good time with the end of the Cold War, everything was in perfect place for an economic boom… as well as the economic bubble that the feelings and new tech lead to. All Clinton had to do was sit back and watch the show.

Likewise, President W. Bush inherited a economy that was in a downturn starting in about ‘99 because the tech bubble burst, I know first hand, my family is heavily involved in technology and telecom. Let me repeat, the economic downturn started in 1999, while Clinton was still in office. People’s attitudes were still generally positive though, after all, it was a bubble, bubbles happen, things recover and life is good. It had started to recover by ‘01, but then something happened that had never happened before: Wall Street shut down for a week… why? Nothing significant, just some terrorist attack.

Suddenly the feel good feelings of the 90s were totally gone, which made economic growth that much weaker. The international stability that soon followed, combined with a sudden massive increase in demand for oil by China and India increased base energy costs. Considering how many things are affected by oil, this led to a ripple effect on the economy, more than anything else.

Oh, and then the Housing bubble burst, people who had been getting loans, shouldn’t have been, and that’s still causing problems. You know something funny though, the rules that should have kept folks from getting those loans in the first place were rescinded back in the, wait for it, 1990s, under Clinton.

Then oil prices continued to rise, and after ‘06, when the Democrats took control of the House and Senate, to present day, GAS PRICES DOUBLED. It had taken from about 2001 to 2006 for gas to go from ~$1/gallon to ~$2/gallon, a five year time frame, in less than half that time it doubled again. Why? More instability in the world, more demand from other countries, and oh, right, lack of domestic drilling, which is being prevented not by the President, who has lifted the Presidential ban on drilling, but by the Democratically controlled congress.

Let me review: the 90s’ economy had nothing to do with Clinton, and the 00s’ economy had nothing to do with Bush. In point of fact, there’s about jack, jack, more jack and s**t that a President can do to directly and immediately effect and economy.

BG, I know how you feel. Let’s let Marcie answer, if she will.