Bush is the best president since 1992. Bill Clinton was a failure, and his wife Hillary will be too

Bush is absolutely a horrific president: - He has been an impediment to the 9/11 panel at at every stage. Most recently the CIA was found to have withheld tapes. Bush prevented his staff from being allowed to testify before the panel or if they wanted them to testify Bush insisted it be in a closed session and not under oath. He initially wanted Kissinger to run it and needed to be pressured into it. - Bush has taken a step backwards with regard to Global Warming, not only pulling out of Kyoto but also denying California the ability to do so on their own. - The labor department has been the friend big business only serving to undermine labor unions. - Bush cut funding to health and education programs. A recent example was the veto of S-chip which provided low income parents health care for their children. - Torture. Far from being the beacon of hope for the world. We're now the guys who abduct you in the middle of the night and waterboard you until you make up something. - Bush has completely neglected the infrastructure in order to fight his worthless little war (for no good reason) which lead to the collapse of the I35 bridge in August. Other infrastructure is in equally bad shape. - Bush's rhetoric against Iran is eerily similar to his lies about Iraq. Last month he said that a nuclear Iran would be the start of WWIII though, he had by the time long since seen the intelligence which suggests that Iran shut down it's nuclear program in 2003. - Bush's EPA, much like the Labor department, FEMA, Justice Department is doing very little to actually do their jobs. The number of criminal cases brought by the EPA has dropped off by more than a third. - Bush has pushed the national debt to 9.3 trillion dollars. Clinton had paid it down. This has caused the US dollar to become less valued even reaching parity with the Canadian dollar. - The Department of Homeland security is an utter failure. It has proved to be yet another bureaucracy on top of a bureaucracy. Even after the staggeringly poor job after Katrina, Bush has failed to get any progress on it. - The illegal Wiretapping program to listen in on phone calls without warrants in violation of 4th amendment rights. - Allowing No-bid contracts to Haliburton (Cheney's old company) for everything from doing everything in Iraq to cleaning up Katrina. Many of these contracts were cost plus: which is to say that even if you get overcharged and pay a few extra million, that only means you get paid more. - Bush vetoed stem-cell research / initially stopped the research. The most promising research in recent decades promising cures for pretty much anything caused by some collection of broken cells. - Bush nominates idiots. Horse lawyers to run FEMA, anti-homosexual bigots for surgeon general, some lady down the hall for the supreme court, worst offenders of some sector to regulate sector. - Guantanamo Bay. The Government paid people a good chunk of money to blame somebody for something and largely arrested harmless unliked neighbors in tribal skirmishes and has kept them in prison for half a decade *WITHOUT* charges, and largely with them being innocent (though without charges that doesn't mean much). - Katrina. Beyond the completely incompetent handling of the crisis, even after the initial crisis Bush has failed to follow through on the promises made at a photo op a week after the event standing on some rubble. ... Wiretaps Outing of Valerie Plame. Lying us into a war. Getting into this stupid war. Stealing the 2000 election. Running the debt to 9 trillion. Attempting to run out the clock and stay in Iraq as long as he can. Failed to capture Osama Bin Laden Staunch opposition to fighting global warming. Politicizing the Justice Department. ... Crap, I'm having a hard time remember them all there are so many. I'm sure the readers can probably add more than a few additions. What did Clinton do: - Got a BJ? --Good for him! --------- And, to address your statements. - You don't even know what a circular argument is if you think stats and facts qualify as circular. - You seem to think that the military is simply one thing and can't be transformed. Clinton took the military from a cold war mentality of building up enough nukes to destroy the planet a couple dozen times to a working armed forces. Clinton recognized the threat of Al Qaida, and in fact during the transition period in 2000 briefed the incoming administration about the group repeatedly. Rather than respond properly, they cut funding to counterterrorism. - Any wasted time due to Monica Lewinsky was due to the Republicans who impeached Clinton even though they had no good evidence that he had committed an impeachable offense. Honestly, they tied up the government over personal matters. If the Republicans believing lying about sex is a crime, they have a lot of explaining to do. There was ample warming in August and September that something was going on, the intelligence agencies were flashing red and rather than respond to them, Bush went on vacation. - Clinton converted the military from a stockpile of nukes to an actual fighting force. Unless you were planning on fighting terrorists with nuclear weapons, Clinton's military revamping was absolutely required. - There was no Al Qaida in Iraq. Saddam, for all his faults, was a secular dictator and didn't want a relationship with an extremist religious group. - At present we have terrorist attacks every week or so in Iraq. The pentagon has stopped releasing the figures because it looks so bad. Under Bush terrorism has sky rocketed. - The WTC attack in 1993 took place 1 month after Clinton took office. Let me get this right? An attack on the WTC 9 months after you take office is the fault of the previous administration, but an attack on the WTC 1 month after you take office is the fault of the current administration? - How about the attacks Clinton foiled, the Millennium plot, Bojinka, etc? Clinton would have invaded Afghanistan if the FBI and CIA agreed at the time that Al Qaida was responsible for the Cole. I don't know exactly what that invasion might have uncovered or revealed but it would have been different. Had we had a president at the time focused on terrorism rather than one who in July of 2001 gave the Afgans a large amount of money rather than the invasion they deserved in Feb. 2001 (when the FBI and CIA agreed about the Cole). - The "Sandy Berger" scandal? Yes. To prepare for his testimony before the 9/11 commission Sandy Berger took printed copies of notes from the National Archive. These notes were copies, not originals, and they originally belonged to Berger during his tenure. He mishandled copies (a computer printout) of his own notes from during his own tenure. The official report stated "There were not any handwritten notes on the documents Mr. Berger removed from the archives. Mr. Berger did not believe there was unique information in the three documents he destroyed. Mr. Berger never made any copies of these documents." In the end, according to the report, "[Mr. Berger] substituted his sense of sensitivity instead of thinking of classification" in deciding to remove the documents. - If some country invaded the US, I'd be an insurgent. I don't exactly see how you can properly suggest that dead insurgents make us safer, frankly it seems to just give that dead insurgent's family a reason to hate the US. The point is that they are now becoming part of terrorist groups rather than just living their life as they were prior to the invasion. I seem to recall Bin Laden accomplished a lot from a cave. Bin Laden, where is that guy again? Oh, yeah, Bush let him go. ------------------ You might as well tried to make this debate Bush isn't the worst president ever. You would do about as well.