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""""If people hate us so much, why are they climbing over fences and running in circles just to get here and have the privilege of living in our country?""""
Same old, same old but.....people in other countries don't hate US , they hate bush and his policies.
AND I don't see any great rush here from Germans, French, Swiss, the Danes, Italians, Spaniards, Norwegians, British, Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians,or a lot of other countries.
We do look better to people too poor to care about our politics.
Yes, goodwill from other countries is important, we need allies. And under Clinton we HAD goodwill...and after 9/11 we had even more ....and bush destroyed it with his lust for power and arrogance.
Both men are intellectuals who have incredible technical knowledge of the issues. Both are like College Professors.
Both men have no real friends. They are aloof and distant to aides and reporters.
Both men are Washington outsiders who promoted change
Both men have no record of accomplishment before becoming President but because popular based on unique public speaking skills
Both men want to bring in mostly Washington outsiders to take over the government but choose an insider to be VP (Mondale for Carter and Biden for Obama)
""""If people hate us so much, why are they climbing over fences and running in circles just to get here and have the privilege of living in our country?""""
Same old, same old but.....people in other countries don't hate US , they hate bush and his policies.
Who is "they", these "people in other countries"? Please be specific.
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AND I don't see any great rush here from Germans, French, Swiss, the Danes, Italians, Spaniards, Norwegians, British, Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians,or a lot of other countries.
Yeah, because that happened in the late 1800's, and those people are our grandparents and great-grandparents who built this country up to what it is today. When have we had a rush since then? Lame argument, sorry.
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We do look better to people too poor to care about our politics.
Wow. I wish you could see the look on my face. You think Mexicans with La Raza are too poor to care about our politics when they're holding their signs about "reconquista"? How about just ordinary, hard working Mexicans that came here 20, 30 years ago to give their kids a better life? You think Indians and Chinese and Vietnamese are too poor to care? Come on down to Houston. You will think otherwise.
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Yes, goodwill from other countries is important, we need allies. And under Clinton we HAD goodwill...and after 9/11 we had even more ....and bush destroyed it with his lust for power and arrogance.
Uh...last time I checked, we have the same allies that we did under Clinton. It's understandable to mistake Bush's confidence for arrogance or stupidity. People said the same thing about Reagan. Remember him?
Why would ANYONE in this forum want to listen to ANYTHING SAID by Republicans, who gave us EIGHT YEARS of George W. Bush?
That to me is SCARY!!!
Our entire economy is in the toilet ... and Republicans are still pushing to elect another one of their own into the White House !!!
Bush borrowed so much money from foreign countries like China, that he increased our National Debt from around 6 trillion dollars when he took office in 2001, to over 10 trillion today !!! Bush borrowed and spent almost as much in only 8 years as the combined total of all 42 presidents before him did in 200+ years !!! Think about that ???
Bush gave us an endlessand unnecessary war in Iraq which killed over 4000 Americans, and killed more than 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians. Now he is passing his Iraqi mess to the next president.
During Bush, gasoline prices have more than TRIPLED!
It's a real shame that so many Republican voters are too young to remember how great the Clinton years were, when the worst thing you could say about Clinton was he had sex with someone other than his wife, and then lied about it. Who cares? When Clinton left office in 2001, we had a HUGE budget surplus (which is a great thing!), and gasoline was selling for around $1.25 a gallon !!! The stock market had a HUGE run-up during the Clinton years, and it was in the middle of a correction due to the Internet bubble bursting. Clinton did not start any wars, and the entire world admired and respected the United States of America!
Today America is one of the most hated countries on the planet.
Do we want ANOTHER REPUBLICAN in charge ???
Remember the Republican chant from 2004 .... "FOUR MORE YEARS" ?
Here's a new chant for Republicans ..... "FORE-closure More Years".
I think the Obama/Carter analogy is a good one. The social engineering policies that Obama will enact would be horrible for our country. We also would be perceived as weak around the world as Obama is an appeaser and the terrorists and countries that oppose us like Russia, China and Iran know this fact.
Governor Palin is like President Carter - they both instituted policies for windfall profits taxes on Oil companies.
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When Clinton left office in 2001, we had a HUGE budget surplus (which is a great thing!), and gasoline was selling for around $1.25 a gallon !!! The stock market had a HUGE run-up during the Clinton years, and it was in the middle of a correction due to the Internet bubble bursting. Clinton did not start any wars, and the entire world admired and respected the United States of America! 
