I think President Bush did really well at the UN, showing a lot of humility, unlike the the leaders of Iran and Venezuela
http://www.yahoo.com/s/396027 How can Hugo Chavez claim to be a friend of the American people, when 85% of Venezuela is in poverty. The unemployment rate in the US is about 4.8% which is considered close to being full employment. So the fact remains that the US is in touch with reality. The ones who seem to be out of touch are the ones supporting the Venezuelan President at that meeting. And why can't Hugo Chavez give free oil to the people of his own country? The fact remains that the US is at war, and President Bush is the commander-in-chief. So to show such tolerance on US soil, by a thug Hugo Chavez, just shows how great president Bush is.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...p22,1,2554573.story?coll=chi-opinionfront-hed pretty good commentary. At least I tend to agree with him.
Do you remember how "bolshevic media scum" reported last presidential election? If you remember no more needs to be said.
I still don't understand what turning Ohio into a "green" state really achieved. A bit like President Putin telling his people to go to Fiji to find out about the "liberation" of Iraq. Anyway, the getting together, this week, of the Russian, German and French heads of state, is rather reminiscent of the time before the Iraq war. Maybe that Osama bin Laden story is really true!
Hugo Chavez sells gas for 12 cents a gallon in his own country. http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/ Sure, he's a socialist thug, maybe he knows how to buy popularity, he could be in power for a long, long time. Russian and Chinese communists used to insult us via the UN, they were all the biggest thieves on the planet, living way, way better than all the people they were supposedly helping while their economies were headed for the stone age.
The percentage of South American's living in poverty has fallen VERY dramatically in the past three years. Including Venezuela. Because so many nations in SA with such a wide diversity of political ideology representing them have all improved simultaneously, I'm more apt to believe changes in demographics and higher than normal commodity prices are the causation of economic improvement rather than any individual goverments policy.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060924/ap_on_re_us/clinton_fox_news I think former President Clinton did a good job. But with the Clinton's possibly the only hope for the Dems to pull of a Dem victory, I think it is still going to be an up hill task.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060926/ap_on_go_co/iraq_democrats Again it is the easiest to play the blame game, and the same Ex-Generals would have said the same thing had the result been different. Fact is that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld is a politician, not a General. I believe that whether or not one is a Retired General, where are their leadership qualities, and may be they should be looking at solutions rather than focussing on problems, because the enemy does not distinguish between Republican or Democrat.