Quote Originally Posted by maladroit
are you saying i can't whine about bush because he was popular 6 years ago? or because some democrats have low ratings too? how does that work?

if i whine about bush for as long as the right wing noise machine has been bleating about bill clinton (36%), jimmy carter (28%), and even FDR (48%), then i will probably stop whining before the US gov't pays off the national debt bush created

george bush is the worst president in history...the effects of his disasterous administration will be felt for generations...that's worth talking about for a LOOOOOONG time!
I'm saying you seem to be whining just to whine. Yes Bush has a low approval rating; but the Senate and Congress which are controlled by the democratic party have a single digit approval rating. Harry Reid has a 27% approval rating as of July in 2007; which is just as low as Bush; Nancy Pelosi has a 40% approval rating as of July 2007 and i'm sure her approval rating is much lower now.

So I ask you what is the point you're trying to make. We have 3 levels of government for a reason. The president doesn't make everything happen, neither does the Congress/Senate.

It's all tied together so if you're going to point your finger at Bush you also need to look at the legislative branch and to a degree the Judicial branches of government.

Your persistent attacks calling for the President being the source of all our problems is not true and I'm not sure who you're convincing because you're very much one sided.

It's almost like you post this stuff just so you can read your own posts, but by all means go for it. I'll just rebuttal every time i see something that is not necessarily correct.

edit: And popular approval is a good indicator of how well you served the citizens of the Nation at the time; but it is not a reflection of how good a president you were. Just as the name suggests it's simply a measure of how popular you were in the country at the time. Sometimes it may correlate to how good a president you were, but often times not.

The two are not 1 in the same. I don't think Bill Clinton was horrible.. but at the same time I don't think he did much of anything either (although i do think a number of issues we see today have stemmed from *some* things that came from this administration), Jimmy Carter was a pretty cruddy president; and I think FDR had many good policies that we still see today.

Continue on your agenda.