List one good thing Bush did in office? How about that tax cut? We loved it when the check arrived but now it’s critcized as being part of our economic struggling and budget concerns. That move was made before 9/11 and the events of that tragic day only added to an already deflating economic status. The presidents…….. HELLO! Get this……. do NOT control the economy. Congress controls interest rates and investors react in kind to this, but the rest is in business operation. We can talk about jobs overseas and yadda, yadda, yadda……. but congress has WAY more influence in economic issues than the actual president does. I don’t blame Bush for this economy because I can’t. I can’t do that anymore than I can credit Billy for the booming 90’s! Who set up that economic growth? If you cling to political control, it was set up by a 12 year run of Republicans running the Oval office. If that’s what gave Billy an easy economy, why aren’t we begging the Republicans to get us back on track? Wasted breath.
As for religion in politics, this country was founded on those principles and if you want that thrown out the window, throw your flag in the trash. Both are equally unpatriotic and here’s why: If you observe any religion at all, no matter the style or god, you base your life upon something greater than this physical realm. If you observe nothing, you must borrow all of history’s values from those that do believe in something greater….. it’s ABSOLUTE truth. You can be an atheist if you want, but it’s still true. Humanism is foundationless and is without direction. It has no solutions or answers but wants to resist all entities of established order. Be an individual, do as you see fit, live and let live. Where there is no order, there is chaos. Period.
Order was established for the freedom of the people. We said in the beginning that if you do not agree with these things, you were free to not observe them. But today, we’re being told we can’t exercise them. THAT is the most BOGUS definition of freedom I’ve ever heard! The minute you can’t exercise what you believe in, you’re no longer free and slavery begins again. I don’t want anyone in the presidency who’s personal belief or cabinet’s values agree in the making of more laws to PROHIBIT exercise. To take away my freedom to exercise my personal beliefs is persecution. Atheists, humanists, any non-Christian faith, even cults…… benefit in this prohibition because it enslaves me. By taking my exercise, the exercises of the unbelieving are being forced upon me. How is it proper for a people who professed the Holy God first and formost, to establish a country where those who were unlike them were welcomed to exercise their own choices, only to have future generations proclaim that it’s wrong, improper, and unbecoming to be like those who originally brought this to the entire world?
A religious sect founded the very pillars of this free world, and those who still cling to that establishment are being targeted as being offensive, unfair, and even foolish.
I’d rather work for peanuts and live FREE than have material riches under the ever growing socialistic practices that are being jammed down my throat and ever choking my freedom in it’s grip. My God died and rose again to give EVERYONE a free world, to accept or deny, in a definitive age of grace. In other words, I want you all to have the choice to believe or not to believe as I do, but don’t take away my right to practice my belief just because I’m different or part of a national “majority”. This is all I defend first and formost and why I’m behind our current president. Bush opened the doors for faith based groups….. not just mine, yours too. Who else has done this? I beg for answer! WHO?
I have but one question… more freedom or less freedom? Some think that the abandonment of religious practices is the establishment of freedom…….. but it’s constrictive law making, that continues to drive our country into the ground. These decisions effect business, which effects economy, which effects the moral of the people, which effects the involvement of government, which leads to mandated restriction, which leads to effecting business, that effects economy…….. and round and round we go. The greater the government, the lesser the freedom. This is true in every country, in every economic system, that EVER was established throughout history.
If we don’t preserve this, this precious gem called freedom, that we’ve been given to preserve and protect, we will only add our country’s name to that historic list. Do a Google search on this guys…….. find something different. Show me I’m wrong here.
The issues over in Iraq……. I had the priviledge of talking with a serving vet in this war last week as I was getting 2 new tires placed on my vehicle. He was in the waiting room with me. As we began to small talk, it became quickly evident that he knows something about this whole ordeal. I didn’t pry too much because I knew he wouldn’t tell me everything, but I learned that he’s disgusted with the Americans who think Iraq was a waste of time. He claimed that just because we didn’t find the WMD, doesn’t mean they didn’t exist. We gave them too much to time bury the stockpiles in the desert sands. He said we should’ve just finished it back in ’91. We should’ve ousted Saddam then. Saddam used, without question of evidence, the products he produced on some Iraqi peoples. He invaded a country once, what guaranty did ANYONE have that he’d never attack people beyond his borders again? None.
I’ve grown tired of watching us send soldiers over there, only to have us crying over conditions at home. What if someone was bombing your town, your city, on a daily basis? Would you be concerned about the future? The Iraqi’s want what we’re trying to give them, but there are those who oppose this with hatred and it’s confusing the people about the value of freedom, because it is coming at a very high price. This is also taking place on our own soils. There are those who oppose my beliefs with the same hatred, and it confuses the value over price that demands to be paid. No one said it’d be easy, but those founding leaders have asked all future generations to pay any price necessary for the preservation of this republic. My beliefs support that, so they’re going to be intertwined with my reasoning. My president is willing to do this at the cost of being popular.
Kerry has to make himself popular and it’s an easy target because when you know where somebody stands, you know what buttons you can push.
To say that these are the worst two candidates history, I ask this: Which of us…….. any of us…… are truly fit to run that office? Certainly not me because I would base everything on the preservation and expansion of freedom, the way it given, the way it was intended. The man we have now is closer to that than conviction, committment, and devotion than his challenger is. I need no other issues. I need no other hoopla. The media is wasting their time with me because the records show clearly who carries my interest. That’s not a blind action or decision. That’s a very focused one. That’s not lemming cliff diving. It’s not a monkey see, monkey do. I’m actually bucking a very ferocious wind and I feel alone more often than I feel part of any majority or company. But I’ve learned not to confuse the issues. Economies cycle. How’s our freedom doing? Everyone has flaw, makes a mistake, gets misrepresented, misinterpreted, and so on, and so on……. how’s our freedom doing?
I’d like for anyone, anywhere, to show how my freedom is growing in this country. How will it grow under this new leardership, if elected? Freedom is not always prosperity. How is my freedom growing? Last I checked, and it just checked this morning, it’s still on the decline and I’m facing a candidacy of future representation who doesn’t even address this real and historic position. He’s too busy criticizing things that were put in place long before Bush or his administration ever took office and laying the blame for purposes of popularity. That’s the politcal game in a nutshell. I don’t care what slop the Republicans find on Kerry. That’s just part of the game, practiced and forced by both sides. But when I consider the man, his core, and the one thing dearer to us than anything else, it’s not in alignment with history’s examples, experiences, recommendations, or my interests for a future America. The fact that there’s even argument over war service says that that duping is working. Either they’ll force you to choose one of two over exposed nothingness, or they’ll get you to become so disgusted that you won’t do anything at all.
Somebody has to run for office. It’s the way it is. But to say that “this is the best America can come up with” only supports that the PROBLEM isn’t in the leadership, it’s in the values of the PEOPLE.
So here it is again. Today’s question, to get at the heart of it all, how’s our freedom doing?
by the way who was our president at that time. 
thats right Bush.
No wonder politics is so messed up 