*Sigh* If only Clinton would have had the support to go after him and if only Bush 2 would have gone after him in Tora Bora when he actually did have the support.

President Bush has really disgusted me his six years in office.

I keep thinking, "Are we any better now than we were in 2000?" I honestly cannot think of a way in which we, as a nation, are doing better. I suppose I will first bring up two of many problems I have with the President and later on bring up more.

Foreign Policy. President Bush has managed to take unprecidented worldwide support for American policies and turn it into us being one of the least respected. More importantly, our legitimacy as a world superpower has been tarnished and we have little international leeway. The Bush Doctrine of preemption has emboldened the enemies of the United States, traditional as well as modern ones.

Art of Governing. After Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush had upwards of an 90% approval rating. It is now hovering just above 30%. While Iraq, Katrina, and various economic issues are primarily responsible for that drop, I am convinced that the Bush way of governing from the far right rather from the center like his father and Clinton, has really hurt his image. Congress ruling on the "you are either with us or against us" idea and the attempt to weed out moderates such as Chafee and Lieberman, has forced absolutely nothing constructive to be done.


There will be more to come later...