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   rikoshayrabbit said, 6 months ago

   Delightful! We’ll be kicking the Bush administration in the groin for ever after. Humor aside, I want to see some indictments.

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   HOWGOZIT said, 6 months ago

   Lame

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   Kylop said, 6 months ago

   I can easily see this being true. It was probably considered part of how Gonzalez determined “Loyal Bushies”

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   Wraithkin said, 6 months ago

   I have to wonder how long we’re going to rail on a prior administration? No prior presidency has looked backward so hard and for so long so as to make themselves look better than the Obama administration. It’s what? May? 4 months nearly? Instead of focusing on what was done and trying to crucify people, why don’t we look at the crimes our current congress is committing (throwing spending through the halls without even reading the bills, against the citizens’ desires, for example)?

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   danielsangeo said, 6 months ago

   “I have to wonder how long we’re going to rail on a prior administration? No prior presidency has looked backward so hard and for so long so as to make themselves look better than the Obama administration.”

   False.

   “When I took office, our economy was beginning a recession.” — Bush, 8/7/02

   “The president inherited a Clinton recession and turned it into the early stages of Bush prosperity.” — Secretary of Commerce Don Evans, 9/2/04

   “In terms of the economy, look, I inherited a recession, I am ending on a recession.” — Bush, 1/12/09

   There are many more, but that’s just a taste of the “looking back”.

   “Looking backward” is actually smart. It allows you to learn from mistakes made so you don’t make them in the future. If you don’t “look backward”, you’ll never move forward because you’ll make the same mistakes over and over again.

   Now, if you want to talk about railing on a previous administration, go to any Republican party meeting and mention the name “Jimmy Carter”.

   After that, tell me about railing against a previous administration.

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   fritzoid said, 6 months ago

   And the prior administration has been gone, what, twice two months already? And we haven’t “gotten over it” YET?

   Imagine that! Why, I hear there are some people who haven’t “gotten over” the Holocaust! Don’t they know that most of those Jews would be dead by now anyway? I simply can’t be bothered thinking about anything that happened in the distant past of 2008! Let bygones be bygones, that’s MY watchword.

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   M Henri Day said, 6 months ago

   Not bad, Mr Beattie - in one fell swoop, it sums up the Bush/Cheney administration’s view of scientific research and of keeping the eye on everyone. We know that Mr Obama is far more scientifically literate - but recent events seem to show, alas, that that his attitude towards surveillance does not differ materially from that of his predecessor….

   Henri

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   Jimathai said, 5 months ago

   thats funny