Whatever Cam. You've been bitching about Bush forever. Get over it. The people like him. He won't be impeached, thrown out, or voted out. Sorry, Cam.

Brandon, it makes no sense for me to stop pointing out the Bush administration's mistakes in policy decisions and their corporate favoritism. If I did that then the push to silence the dissenters and critics would be successful.

Just because a majority of people like Bush doesn't mean that I have to. Do you think I'm a sheep? The differing opinions of the people of America are one of the things that makes this country great.

Some people love him: the ones that stand to profit from him. The rest of us would love to see him impeached, and replaced by someone with the general American public in mind, not just those who can afford the cost of entry into politics. I'm not a big fan of any republicrat but I'd rather see a guy get a hummer from an intern in office, than a fear mongerer who sends my friends to die in a war without clear purpose.

People are starting to wake up to the threat that Bush poses to America.

He's a one-termer, just like his dad.

Cam, it's not that people object to you expressing your views, especially since criticizing Bush for his foreign policies has been old hat for ages. It's that you dramatize everything to extremes.

Chicken Little syndrome.

It's just like citizen Able's post about the "threat that Bush poses to America" leading to his not getting elected next term.

What planet are you living on? Sadly, there's no competition against Bush. And of course rabid critics like those who post political commentary on their web sites online are doing nothing about it except talking and disconnecting themselves with reality.

How about the Democrats work on putting some competent leaders in the forefront?

Ben, you make some good points. However, short of running for office myself or volunteering to work for a political opponent's election campaign, there is little the average American can do.

Politicians have increasingly become out-of-reach to the Americans they are supposed to be representing. For people like me who have high expectations from the politicians who make the laws that govern them, politicians like Bush (who himself claimed he is the "master of low expectations") is decidely one of the worst people we can have in the office of Commander-in-Chief.

In my opinion, not everything that Bush does is bad, just the majority of it. I agree with his "no child left behind" education policy, even though his administration has not met their own promises in that regard.

And that's my main concern: people seem alienated from the government and the mechanisms which allow them to find representation. While Friedman may have pointed out simply that other countries feel frustrated because the US affects them and they have no vote in US politics, what's more insidious is that there's generations of Americans who feel like they have no way to influence their representatives either.

Which means those who really care need to come up with ways to fix this instead of just talking.

I'd like to give it a shot later in my life, for example, but I'm too inexperienced right now. But I decided to spend some time in the defense of those who are ready now, which is part of the reason I enlisted.

I saw Vermont governor and democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean speak in Austin, Texas tonight.

He had some good fiery rhetoric...a strong emphasis on his health-care and budget achievements in Vermont. Otherwise a little short on policy, but his site more than makes up for that.

I was very impressed with the enthusiasm of the crowd. This is a pretty liberal town for Texas. They ended up bringing in more than their goal of $10k in donations.

I'm not sold on voting for him and I'm not trying to prosletyze. My point is that viable democratic candidates and the voters are there.

Bush will not be impeached. If they haven't found WMD, they have found mass graves of children buried alive.

-More than 80 mass graves have been found.
-"Torture, mutilation, and widespread confinement were standard under Hussein. " *
-Several terrorist training camps have been uncovered and or destroyed.
-The oil for food money was being diverted to Baathist Party loyalists while millions starved.
-Most Iraqis are happy to have the regime removed.

There were several reasons mentioned besides WMD for going into Iraq in the president's speeches...the media chooses to concentrate on WMD.

Cam's always been extreme in his criticism of Bush. It reminds me of the Bill and Hillary Clinton haters of the 90's. Nothing they could do, even if they found a cure for cancer, could redeem themselves for these people. Cam, as is his right, will never give Bush credit for anything...except "No Child Left Behind". I used to say, "at least Bill Clinton signed wefare reform". I was just as bad then as Cam is now.
--scott

*Murdock, NR

Bush won't be impeached, but only because the Republicans control the House, which issues articles of impeachment.

Not to say that Bush doesn't deserve impeachment. The Bush administration chose to focus on WMD because Congress only authorized the use of force if Saddam posed an imminent threat to the United States. Intentionally misleading Congress on an imminent threat that leads to war probably qualifies as "high crimes and misdemeanors."

You'll get no argument from me that Saddam was (is?) an evil f*ckhead who deserves to be tried and punished for crimes against humanity. I've got a problem with the method that Bush chose to deal with Saddam. Bush has wasted US lives, treasure, and credibility by invading Iraq at the same time Republicans have cut funds for first-responders and port security. The goal is security for the United States. The invasion of Iraq didn't help and has arguably made the matter worse.

I think you're projecting when you equate criticism of Bush's policies with the vicious, mindless "Clinton haters of the 90's" who wasted more than $70 million on the Whitewater investigation and peddled slurs and innuendo about the Clintons' involvement in murders, drug-smuggling, rape, and sexual harrassment to the "liberal media." On the one hand, there is legitimate criticism, and on the other, there is hate-spawned bullsh*t.

Judge Bush by his record. He's incompetent. He's bad for America, and he deserves to be voted out of office in 2004.

It's just very difficult to come up with positive things that the Bush Administration has done that work for the good of the country and not just for the good of those with depe pockets who just happen to be involved in the oil industry.

When Bush deserves good credit, I give it out freely. I don't disagree that Saddam Hussein was an evil man who deserved to be removed from power but I do disagree with the method used. Bush has pissed away more of this country's credibility and goodwill in less than a year than it took numerous Presidents over 50 years of hard work to build.

Every time I turn around the Bush Administration is doing something else that is bad for the people but good for corporations. Bad for the environment, but good for the corporations. Bad for dissenters and free thinkers, but good for the sheep. Bad for schools, but good for the religious right. The pattern is really disturbing and a lot of people (not just me) want it to stop.