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05.21.2007

Presidential Idiots.

Carter’s irrel­e­vant and Bush is a retard. There, I set­tled it.

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14 comments on “Presidential Idiots.”

  1. Posted by mike l. on Monday, May 21st, 2007.

    Let’s see.… What did Carter establish.…

    1) fuel effe­ciency stan­dards that would have cut our cur­rent oil con­sump­tion in half by now. HIs plan which was IN PLACE when he left office would have increased the aver­age effe­ciency to 48 mpg by 1995 and well over 50 by now(it is cur­rently 27 which is exactly what it was when Rea­gan came in and shut down the stan­dards. FYI it was 12 a decade prior to Carter and we import just over half our oil so a dou­ble of the stan­dards would mean NO FOREIGN OIL IMPORTED!!! Euro­pean nations have these stan­dards and that is why they are so far ahead of us in stan­dards, Mean­while, we give peo­ple huge tax incen­tives to buy over­sized SUVs. Now we will have to spend bil­lions to bailout the big 3 auto US automak­ers because they are 3 decades behind and nearly bank­rupt and our nation is hooked on gas guz­zlers. What else do you expect when you lead­ers are all oil indus­try exec­u­tives and lobbyists?

    2) Uni­ver­sal health­care was passed and ready for imple­men­ta­tion under his watch until it was wiped out after he left office.

    3) Peace for Israel made great strides under Carter’s watch. He took great pride in peace through nego­ti­a­tions and we have suf­fered because those val­ues were not taken up by the lead­ers that fol­lowed. George W. Bush has been by far the worst. We are a joke in Europe now and hated every­where else.

    4) Giv­ing up on a los­ing war on drugs. We spend 40 BILLION dol­lars a year to fight a war that is lost. Nancy Reagan’s “just say no” pol­icy and the fear of end­ing pro­hi­bi­tion is tak­ing bil­lions out of our pock­ets and giv­ing it to the drug lords around the world. We need to “just say no” to the war on drugs. Alco­hol pro­hi­bi­tion didn’t work (unless you count cre­at­ing a strong maf­fia) and it doesn’t work for drugs either.

    You are right that Carter is irrel­e­vant in pol­i­tics today, but it is because the repub­li­cans that fol­lowed him have given away all the progress that he made and sug­gested we con­tinue. Carter was a God inspired prophet that we chose to ignore. I wish we could go back and listen.

    Carter’s legacy was harmed because of a hand­ful of hostages that even­tu­ally came home alive. He lost an elec­tion because he spent time work­ing to get them home instead of cam­paign­ing for re-election. George Bush has caused the death of thou­sands of amer­i­cans. Which is worse?

  2. Posted by Chris Harrison on Monday, May 21st, 2007.

    I love it when you get all riled up, Mike. All that from call­ing Carter irrel­e­vant. *lol* I think you missed where I called Bush a retard, but I digress.

    Pres­i­den­tial lega­cies are always plagued by what they did or did not do while in office. I don’t care if you’re Carter, Rea­gan, Bush, Clin­ton, Dubya or any other Pres­i­dent. Carter was a man ahead of his time, there is no doubt about it. Hell, he was a frickin’ genius, but chose to let peo­ple see more as a “peanut farmer”, an “every man” if you will. But his legacy will be plagued by the Iran sit­u­a­tion and the oil cri­sis. Dubya’s legacy will be plagued by Iraq and Afghanistan for decades to come. To quote Win­ston Churchill: “His­tory is writ­ten by the victors.”

    One prob­lem we have right now is that the checks and bal­ances the Con­sti­tu­tion set in place are being ignored. This admin­is­tra­tion has over­stepped its Con­sti­tu­tional author­ity and no one’s doing a damn thing about it. Why hasn’t Bush been impeached yet? How the heck has Con­gress allowed troops to be in-theatre for as long as they have with­out a for­mal dec­la­ra­tion of war? You can blame the Repub­li­cans all day long, but ask your­self: is either side really doing any­thing to improve the sit­u­a­tion we’re in right now?

    I don’t believe in con­gres­sional oversight/laws gov­ern­ing every lit­tle thing. The mar­ket usu­ally rights itself over time. We’re see­ing that now with the auto­mo­tive indus­try: for­eign auto mak­ers are build­ing cars that are more reli­able, have bet­ter fuel effi­ciency and/or hybrid tech­nol­ogy, and are cheaper for con­sumers. Detroit’s scram­bling to catch up. GM’s gam­bling that Hydrogren-powered vehi­cles are the next step in auto­mo­tive tech­nolo­gies, but they’re not going to see the light of day until at least 2010.

    Uni­ver­sal health­care prob­a­bly isn’t that far off. There’s been suc­cess with it in Europe and Canada and its only a mat­ter of time before it comes here, but not until the cur­rent sys­tem fails.

    I don’t believe there will ever be peace in the Mid­dle East. Regard­less of Carter’s strides, the real­ity is both sides want the other erased from the planet. Until that hap­pens, the bat­tle for the Holy land will rage on.

    The War on Drugs is silly and more impor­tantly, a drain on soci­ety. Pro­hi­bi­tion doesn’t work. It only makes the prob­lem worse, but I don’t know that com­pletely legal­iz­ing drugs is the answer. I used to think it was, but I’m not sure any­more. Peo­ple should be respon­si­ble for their actions, but the real­ity is most of them aren’t. They’re going to do the wrong thing whether or not the gov­ern­ment is there to pro­tect them from themselves.

  3. Posted by mike l. on Monday, May 21st, 2007.

    I don’t think we would have seat belts and air bags with­out gov­ern­ment over­sight. I also don’t think we will get REAL solu­tions to fuel effe­ciency until the gov­ern­ment gets involved. We need a huge gas tax and we need to be told the truth about energy. Right now we are held hostage by an admin­is­tra­tion that is in debt to the oil indus­try. The war will not end unless Dick Chen­ney is empeached. He will not allow the war to end while he sits on mil­lions in Hal­ibur­ton stock options. He needs the war to still be going so the stock price stays high until he leaves office and cashes in those options. His stock options have gone up 400% while he has been in office. No won­der they also don’t want the cap­i­tal gains tax to go back to where it was before they took office. Do you real­ize he will sell those stock options and pay a lower tax rate than you and I pay on our small salaries? Hal­libur­ton charges the army $100 per load of lanudry to wash the sol­diers clothes in Iraq and under the Bush tax cuts, Chenney’s cap­i­tal gains tax on all those prof­its will be just 15%. That is sinful!

  4. Posted by mike l. on Monday, May 21st, 2007.

    Let’s see.… What did Carter establish.…

    1) fuel effe­ciency stan­dards that would have cut our cur­rent oil con­sump­tion in half by now. HIs plan which was IN PLACE when he left office would have increased the aver­age effe­ciency to 48 mpg by 1995 and well over 50 by now(it is cur­rently 27 which is exactly what it was when Rea­gan came in and shut down the stan­dards. FYI it was 12 a decade prior to Carter and we import just over half our oil so a dou­ble of the stan­dards would mean NO FOREIGN OIL IMPORTED!!! Euro­pean nations have these stan­dards and that is why they are so far ahead of us in stan­dards, Mean­while, we give peo­ple huge tax incen­tives to buy over­sized SUVs. Now we will have to spend bil­lions to bailout the big 3 auto US automak­ers because they are 3 decades behind and nearly bank­rupt and our nation is hooked on gas guz­zlers. What else do you expect when you lead­ers are all oil indus­try exec­u­tives and lobbyists?

    2) Uni­ver­sal health­care was passed and ready for imple­men­ta­tion under his watch until it was wiped out after he left office.

    3) Peace for Israel made great strides under Carter’s watch. He took great pride in peace through nego­ti­a­tions and we have suf­fered because those val­ues were not taken up by the lead­ers that fol­lowed. George W. Bush has been by far the worst. We are a joke in Europe now and hated every­where else.

    4) Giv­ing up on a los­ing war on drugs. We spend 40 BILLION dol­lars a year to fight a war that is lost. Nancy Reagan’s “just say no” pol­icy and the fear of end­ing pro­hi­bi­tion is tak­ing bil­lions out of our pock­ets and giv­ing it to the drug lords around the world. We need to “just say no” to the war on drugs. Alco­hol pro­hi­bi­tion didn’t work (unless you count cre­at­ing a strong maf­fia) and it doesn’t work for drugs either.

    You are right that Carter is irrel­e­vant in pol­i­tics today, but it is because the repub­li­cans that fol­lowed him have given away all the progress that he made and sug­gested we con­tinue. Carter was a God inspired prophet that we chose to ignore. I wish we could go back and listen.

    Carter’s legacy was harmed because of a hand­ful of hostages that even­tu­ally came home alive. He lost an elec­tion because he spent time work­ing to get them home instead of cam­paign­ing for re-election. George Bush has caused the death of thou­sands of amer­i­cans. Which is worse?

  5. Posted by Chris Harrison on Monday, May 21st, 2007.

    I love it when you get all riled up, Mike. All that from call­ing Carter irrel­e­vant. *lol* I think you missed where I called Bush a retard, but I digress.

    Pres­i­den­tial lega­cies are always plagued by what they did or did not do while in office. I don’t care if you’re Carter, Rea­gan, Bush, Clin­ton, Dubya or any other Pres­i­dent. Carter was a man ahead of his time, there is no doubt about it. Hell, he was a frickin’ genius, but chose to let peo­ple see more as a “peanut farmer”, an “every man” if you will. But his legacy will be plagued by the Iran sit­u­a­tion and the oil cri­sis. Dubya’s legacy will be plagued by Iraq and Afghanistan for decades to come. To quote Win­ston Churchill: “His­tory is writ­ten by the victors.”

    One prob­lem we have right now is that the checks and bal­ances the Con­sti­tu­tion set in place are being ignored. This admin­is­tra­tion has over­stepped its Con­sti­tu­tional author­ity and no one’s doing a damn thing about it. Why hasn’t Bush been impeached yet? How the heck has Con­gress allowed troops to be in-theatre for as long as they have with­out a for­mal dec­la­ra­tion of war? You can blame the Repub­li­cans all day long, but ask your­self: is either side really doing any­thing to improve the sit­u­a­tion we’re in right now?

    I don’t believe in con­gres­sional oversight/laws gov­ern­ing every lit­tle thing. The mar­ket usu­ally rights itself over time. We’re see­ing that now with the auto­mo­tive indus­try: for­eign auto mak­ers are build­ing cars that are more reli­able, have bet­ter fuel effi­ciency and/or hybrid tech­nol­ogy, and are cheaper for con­sumers. Detroit’s scram­bling to catch up. GM’s gam­bling that Hydrogren-powered vehi­cles are the next step in auto­mo­tive tech­nolo­gies, but they’re not going to see the light of day until at least 2010.

    Uni­ver­sal health­care prob­a­bly isn’t that far off. There’s been suc­cess with it in Europe and Canada and its only a mat­ter of time before it comes here, but not until the cur­rent sys­tem fails.

    I don’t believe there will ever be peace in the Mid­dle East. Regard­less of Carter’s strides, the real­ity is both sides want the other erased from the planet. Until that hap­pens, the bat­tle for the Holy land will rage on.

    The War on Drugs is silly and more impor­tantly, a drain on soci­ety. Pro­hi­bi­tion doesn’t work. It only makes the prob­lem worse, but I don’t know that com­pletely legal­iz­ing drugs is the answer. I used to think it was, but I’m not sure any­more. Peo­ple should be respon­si­ble for their actions, but the real­ity is most of them aren’t. They’re going to do the wrong thing whether or not the gov­ern­ment is there to pro­tect them from themselves.

  6. Posted by Chris Harrison on Monday, May 21st, 2007.

    fast. I’ll save you some time and just point to more talk­ing points on why Cheney and Bush should be impeached. We don’t live in Mother Rus­sia. All things aren’t equal, and that’s just a fact of life. If your accu­sa­tions are true, then so be it. No one is above the law. No one is above reproach.

  7. Posted by mike l. on Monday, May 21st, 2007.

    I don’t think we would have seat belts and air bags with­out gov­ern­ment over­sight. I also don’t think we will get REAL solu­tions to fuel effe­ciency until the gov­ern­ment gets involved. We need a huge gas tax and we need to be told the truth about energy. Right now we are held hostage by an admin­is­tra­tion that is in debt to the oil indus­try. The war will not end unless Dick Chen­ney is empeached. He will not allow the war to end while he sits on mil­lions in Hal­ibur­ton stock options. He needs the war to still be going so the stock price stays high until he leaves office and cashes in those options. His stock options have gone up 400% while he has been in office. No won­der they also don’t want the cap­i­tal gains tax to go back to where it was before they took office. Do you real­ize he will sell those stock options and pay a lower tax rate than you and I pay on our small salaries? Hal­libur­ton charges the army $100 per load of lanudry to wash the sol­diers clothes in Iraq and under the Bush tax cuts, Chenney’s cap­i­tal gains tax on all those prof­its will be just 15%. That is sinful!

  8. Posted by Vigilante on Monday, May 21st, 2007.

    Too bad Carter felt intim­i­dated into back­ing off his state­ment because it’s absolutely true. Bush is the worse pres­i­dent in Amer­i­can his­tory. I would go fur­ther and say I hope he is the worse pos­si­ble pres­i­dent, because I would hate to think that some­one could be elected who would be even worse. But Carter backed off. He is, after all, 80 or more. Right? A lit­tle frail, per­haps. But his judg­ment is still more sound than most Repub­li­cans half his age.

  9. Posted by Chris Harrison on Monday, May 21st, 2007.

    We’re going nowhere fast. I’ll save you some time and just point to more talk­ing points on why Cheney and Bush should be impeached. We don’t live in Mother Rus­sia. All things aren’t equal, and that’s just a fact of life. If your accu­sa­tions are true, then so be it. No one is above the law. No one is above reproach.

  10. Posted by Vigilante on Monday, May 21st, 2007.

    Too bad Carter felt intim­i­dated into back­ing off his state­ment because it’s absolutely true. Bush is the worse pres­i­dent in Amer­i­can his­tory. I would go fur­ther and say I hope he is the worse pos­si­ble pres­i­dent, because I would hate to think that some­one could be elected who would be even worse. But Carter backed off. He is, after all, 80 or more. Right? A lit­tle frail, per­haps. But his judg­ment is still more sound than most Repub­li­cans half his age.

  11. Posted by tgpo on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007.

    Bab­ba­booie Bab­ba­booie Howard Stern’s Penis.

  12. Posted by Chris Harrison on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007.

    Yeah… ummm.…

  13. Posted by tgpo on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007.

    Bab­ba­booie Bab­ba­booie Howard Stern’s Penis.

  14. Posted by Chris Harrison on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007.

    Yeah… ummm.…