Well there is the small issue in the first section.  Gore was winning in the polls and those polls were corect in so far as he did get more votes. 

 

Innocent people also protest their innocence but without a trial it is rather hard to tell who is guilty and who  isn't.

Tell me would you support the US lauching a missile attack on the UK to kill somebody they thought was a terroist but were unable to prove it? 

Shut up, Jesse. Just, stop. You have no idea what you are talking about and are the LAST person to be talking about what is or is not wrong with America. Become a citizen first, then you can talk.

This post is so spectacularly uninformed that it makes my head hurt.

On Bush's watch, during his administration:

The United States has suffered the most successful terrorist attack in history, partly, perhaps, because the Administration ignored its own anti-terrorist experts, specifically Richard Clarke. If there has ever been a more stark example of failed leadership than Bush sitting in a second-grade classroom for seven minutes after being informed by Andy Card that "the country is under attack", I can't think of it.

The United States has suffered from the "permanent political campaign" philosophy embodied by Mssrs. Bush and Cheney and pointed out by Scott McClellan in his recently released book, of which Jesse probably has not heard and will not read. The entire Bush Administration has been one long series of violations of the Hatch Act, of which Jesse has not heard and will most likely not bother to find out about.

The Federal government agency FEMA, staffed entirely by sycophants and campaign-contributors to Bush, executed the most spectacularly failed response to a natural disaster in history. Ironically enough, it was probably the response to Katrina that exposed Bush and the Republicans as the inept creatures that they are and cost them control of Congress in 2006. They couldn't protect America from standing water, for God's sake. Anyone who thinks they are protecting us from terrorist attacks is ignoring our open borders and almost total lack of port security.

The votes weren't all counted in Florida in 2000 or Ohio in 2004. There was massive voter-disenfranchisement practiced by the Republicans in both elections. A republican political operator in New Hampshire was actually tried, found guilty, and served time for tampering with the last election, wrote a book about it that makes very interesting reading and that indicates that his instructions came directly from the highest levels of the campaign, possibly from the White House itself. Jesse doesn't know about this person or his book and will not read it.

The American economy is in the worst shape it has been in quite a while because of this administration's policies. Gasoline was about a buck and a quarter a gallon when Bush took office. We had an economic surplus from Clinton when Bush took office. Now, even Jesse probably knows that gasoline is over $5.00 a gallon in some parts of the country. We also have the biggest deficit in history, because Bush, who ran as a fiscal conservative, has been as fiscally responsible as a teenager with a stolen credit card. He has paid for the entire Iraq War on borrowed money, the first time in history that a president has not raised taxes in time of war. Why did he do this? For the same reason he wouldn't put in a draft. If he tried to pay for the war with higher taxes, his Republican base wouldn't support it. If he was going to possibly draft their children to fight the war, they wouldn't support it. Instead, you had the back-door draft of stop-loss.

Bush, who never misses a chance to be photographed in front of soldiers, allowed them to receive absolutely shameful medical attention when they were wounded. Rather than allowing the nation to honor its war dead by even seeing them, he has not allowed their coffins to be photographed. Recently, at Arlington Cemetery, when the family of one of the fallen actually invited the press to attend his funeral, they were not allowed within 50 yards of the ceremony.

People have been unjustly imprisoned and tortured under our flag and in our name. Bush has broken laws (the Nuremberg Principles) that the United States helped write afer World War II. By the very definition of those principles, Bush, Cheney, Condi, Colin, and Rummy may well be war-criminals. Bush's policies have been denounced by a virtual parade of people, some civilian, some military, who left either his administration or the military. The attitude yesterday of one Republican congressman to Scott McClellan was typical. Responding to McClellan's book, which states that the Bush Administration regularly fed false information to America, was in permanent campaign mode instead of governing, and other allegations of impropriety, the congressman said that it would have been more patriotic for McClellan to not reveal the pattern of Bush Admin lies and deceptions, but rather to "carry them to your grave".

Here'a an open question to the writer of this post and all others in the GOP? Why are you so hot to defend Bush? He ran as a conservative, yet has done nothing according to conservative policies. He specifically scorned what he called "nation-building", yet engaged in what might very well be an illegal war of aggression in Iraq and is now engaged in nation-building, with about as much success as you can imagine. He ran as a fiscal conservative, and has turned out to be a fiscal radical, running up a mountain of debt that staggers the imagination. The man's entire life story is one long history of failures. He is to failure what Ted Bundy was to murder, yet you seem to worship the ground he walks on. I don't get it.

One of you, can't remember if it was ParaTed2k or Dr. Guy, said Clinton was the worst president in history (loathesome man, yes - worst president, not even close). Just what criteria were used? I have no idea, as no evidence was presented. Clinton created more jobs, kept the country safer (no 9/11 on his watch), did a better job responding to various natural disasters because under him FEMA was actually run by people with a background in disaster-management who knew what they were doing (no Katrina on his watch), and managed the economy better, leaving a record suplus after having paid back the deficits of the Reagan/Bush I years. He also won his war without many casualties, while the Iraq War has now gone on longer than World War II. It is now almost 1900 days since your "I like to play dress up" President told us that major combat operations in Iraq were over from the deck of the USS Lincoln.

Oh, let's talk about that. The official White House line was that Bush flew out to see and met the Lincoln, which was on her way home after a long deployment in the Middle East. Its crew had not seen their families for almost a year. Surprise, surprise, the story turned out not to be true. The Lincoln was in fact put into a holding pattern off the coast of San Diego, while the crew was kept from seeing their families so Bush could give his speech in front of the now-infamous "Mission Accomplished" banner. The coastline was actually in sight, but Bush's PR folks made sure that only the open ocean was visible to the television audience. If a Democratic President had done such a thing, you would be livid, just at the fact that he was using the crew of the Lincoln as props for his speech and was prolonging their time away from their loved ones. But when Bush does it, you just don't care. I don't get it.

There is an Africa proverb that is more generally applicable here than I would like. "To not know is bad, but to not wish to know is worse." There's not a lot of substance or fact coming from the right here. I've encountered a whole lot of people who have very strong opinions built on vapor. When asked to talk about the Nuremberg Principles, torture committed in our name, Bush's economic policy and why they like it, they either obfuscate, deflect, or talk about the good old days of Reagan. They are happy to talk about the Bible, how much they hated Clinton, or how much they hate Obama, but they will not attempt to mount a concrete, fact-based defense of Bush because they can't.

The modern Republican Party has long known that you mobilize people to vote based on their emotions, not on their knowledge or understanding. Some of their operatives have even stated that in print, knowing their words would never be read by the Republican faithful. That pretty much reflects my experience here, as exemplified by Jesse's post.

Well, I just started my summer vacation from teaching 7th-grade history. I think I'll go donate money to Obama and find other ways to become more politically active. It's time the grown-ups were back in charge, and I have to do my part.

Did I read this right? Al Qaeda moved it's operations to Iraq to fight Americans? It sounds like you are saying that was Bush's strategy in the first place. Lets attack a country and bring the enemy to us. Are you on crack?

Further more, I don't know if you are a citizen or not according to Cedarbird. If you are not, i agree with him/her. If you are, you are wrong in that: Bush didn't win the election against Kerry, he was appointed by the Supreme Court (or did you forget that one?). Secondly you made a mistake in voting for him (if you are able to vote).

I suppose you still support Bush? Now that's a mistake. B/c of his policies (or lack therof):
1. He has the lowest approval rating of any President in history.
2. We're spending billions rebuilding a place that isn't even ours b/c of a war that never should have been allowed to take place searching for something that wasn't even there while New Orleans is still in ruins.
WHere are the WMD's by the way? (You don't here THAT blurted out on the "Liberal Media" ((which happens to be dominated in the South btw by right wing idiots like Neil Boortz and Sean Hannity who sound more like fascists)))

3. He wants to bend or break the Constitution with human rights abuses in places like Abu Graib and Gitmo (and don't give me the cop out: what the military does he has no knowledge of...he's the CIC, he sets the standard for crying out loud!)

4. And again if you did vote for him you didn't do your research. While he was gov of Texas "Houston overtook LA as America's smoggiets city, ranked 1st in toxic releases to the environment, 1st in total toxic air emissions from industrialized facilities, 1st in toxic chemical accidnets, and 1st in cancer-causing pollution. 15 of the nation's 30 highest smog readings were all taken in Texas, and every major urban area either failed to meet the EPA's minimum air quality standards, or was on the verge of failing" (EPA Toxics Release Inventory Database; Crimes Against Nature by RFK, Jr).

Al Gore won an Oscar and the Nobel Price for his pro-environment attitude and I voted for him. Sounds like you made a mistake