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Next President
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 8:52 am
by fuel4soul
Not trying to start a political war or anything, but how do you rate Bush's job in the office? Will you vote for him again? Who else is running. I for one wanted Bush to win the last time, but now I'm not gonig to vote for him next year. The economy sucks and I'm tired of republicans and war lately. Whether or not that's anyone's fault, I doubt I will vote for him again.
Re: Next President (silverawd26)
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:29 am
by joatmon
He should be 18 in time to vote.A political discussion can get ugly quickly. However, regardless of your opinions, tendencies, loyalties, affiliations, etc, it is important that each of us be educated on the candidates, and then vote intelligently. Don't wait until next October to start paying attention to the issues and candidates. There is too much at stake.
Re: Next President (silverawd26)
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:35 am
by joatmon
I didn't pick up on that. Oh well, vote early and often
Re: Next President (silverawd26)
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:51 am
by Geo
Just want to see Bush out of power.Liked what he did with Iraq, and wholly supported him, however in finding out that there were in fact no WMDs, and basically telling lies to the American population, if not the world, I don't like that all.Also don't care for his environmental attitudes, thoughts on abortion, and he has a bad haircut as well.That being said, I'm not swinging towards any single political party, as I can take views from both sides - I just would like to see conservatives have less power with most things.Oh a side note, bring our troops back. Let the Iraquis have their government, they are so quick to hate us and kill our troops. Lets leave and let hell break loose. I'm personally sick of this country going out to help out all others, and getting nothing but flak and dead soldiers brought back to us.
Re: Next President (Geo)
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 11:49 am
by redlava
quote:Liked what he did with Iraq, and wholly supported him, however in finding out that there were in fact no WMDs, and basically telling lies to the American population, if not the world, I don't like that all.Oh a side note, bring our troops back. Let the Iraquis have their government, they are so quick to hate us and kill our troops. Lets leave and let hell break loose. I'm personally sick of this country going out to help out all others, and getting nothing but flak and dead soldiers brought back to us. Totally agree, but part of me says let those people be, if they wanted to be free from a tyrannical dictator they would have rose up and overthrew him like we did with the British. Trying to help those people and removing a political leader in that way just made us look worse in the eyes of Muslims and terrorists. We had more pressing problems than some dip**** in the dessert rattling his sabre at everybody. Osama Bin Laden is still loose we should have concintrated all our efforts on him until he was caught or dead. Hussein wasn't going nowhere, and he is to smart to try and attack us in anyway. I tend to lean more towards isolationism, we can't even fix the problems in our country, what makes us think we can do any better for another nation.
Re: Next President (fuel4soul)
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 1:14 am
by yank dini
I didn't vote for him then and I wont for him now. What I expected to happen in 2000 in fact happened. People out of work.... Me and my dad always talked about this when the election scandal was going on back in 2000 We both agreed that the country was still comfortable under the Clinton and wasn't paying attention on what was going on. The only thing that I didn't expect to happend was of course 9-11. But if you ask me I think the whole event is suspect to begin with (but that's another debate). I think Bush Jr. is the worst president I have ever witnessed in my lifetime. I dont care if people think that Im unpatriotic in fact those that just sit and say or do nothing are infact unpatriotic themselves because they dont care what he does or what may become of this country based on the decision that he alone makes. This man can't be re-elected. Too many Americans are dying for no legitimate reason whatsoever and it must end in 2004.
Re: Next President (yank dini)
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 2:24 pm
by Kangaroooski
I will vote for anyone BUT Bush jr. But what I would really like is a president that will focus on our country and our problems instead of patrolling the globe for everybody else's problems.
Re: Next President (Kangaroooski)
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 9:51 pm
by joatmon
I would like to see more emphasis on alternatives to petroleum. If we didn't have such a big dependency on oil, maybe we wouldn't have to be so involved in the middle east. I am glad that Saddam is ousted, not sure if the Iraquis really could have done it themselves, but wish there had been more effort to build a wider coalition. Not sure what the big hurry was, probably will never become public knowledge, but I doubt the real reason was WMD.I tend to distrust all politicians. I figure if a person really wants to be president, that alone makes them unfit for the job. I hope that the campaigns can focus on issues and plans instead of the usual partisan crap. I'd be more likely to vote for someone who says "this is what I'll do because its the right thing to do and I don't care how popluar it is" than for someone who says "I will do this because that is the liberal/conservative thing to do" but I don't think I could vote for Bush regardless of who the other candidates are.