Right. So you reject all the hard evidence of his capability, and choose to believe he’s a boob, because you think he has poor speaking skills. Got it.
He didn’t win the presidency…he became the president. Are you admitting to him being appointed Sam?
And as for point 7 about the creation of the Homeland Security czar…I won’t even go into how he fought creating it tooth and nail.
8.0 Has seen unemployment reach the highest levels since the Great Depression.
9.0 Has zipped through an enormous budget surplus and has now plunged us into record budget deficits.
10.0 Has misrepresented “facts” in order to lead the nation into a senseless, unwarranted war.
11.0 Has appointed an attorney general who couldn’t win an election with a dead man as opponent and who is, IMHO, the most dangerous man to hold high public office in the history of this nation.
12.0 Has pushed through tax cuts that do not benefit the majority of American citizens, in spite of his claims to the contrary.
13.0 Has reduced funding to public education.
14.0 Has taken funding away from any family planning organization that happens to deal, however tenuously, with abortion. The lack of funding has caused the closure of several medical clinics in areas that need them the most, leaving large numbers of people without any scientific medical care at all.
15.0 Favors a Constitutional Amendment to officially deprive a portion of American citizens of what should be a fundamental right; such an Amendment would bar them from ever obtaining that right.
16.0 Will spend billions of dollars implementing a missile defense system that hasn’t been adequately tested, hasn’t performed during its few tests, and will (probably) never perform as advertised.
17.0 Has personally alienated large numbers of our (former) Allies, along with large numbers of the world’s population.
I haven’t noticed, incidentally, the removal of 2/3 of Al Queda’s leadership—how do we know what or who constitutes that leadership and on what is your figure based?
Do you have any evidence that his money and social connections are what got him into these universities? Or that these are what allowed him to graduate?
It sounds to me as though you’re making some very serious insinuations here. Can you back them up?
Bush was admitted to Yale under something called Legacy.
Look it up.
You don’t think having (nearly) the same name of a previous president might have placed his name recognition higher than McCain’s?
What hard evidence? Nothing you cited rules out that he’s just along for the ride. I would be skeptical of any official that couldn’t speak knowledgeably to his office.
Prove it. Prove that this was indeed the reason he got into Yale.
And while you’re at it, explain Harvard. Then explain how he managed to graduate from these fine institutions, since mere admission is no guarantee of graduation.
Mind you, I expect you to provide substantial evidence for your claims. “Proof by assertion” is not a valid debating technique.
This one isn’t correct. What you probably meant to say is that, unless job growth is really steller in the next 6 months, he will be the first President since the Great Depression (Hoover) to preside over net job loss during his term.
For good measure, I’ll throw a few more into the mix:
18.0 Has presided over the rollback and attempted rollback of countless environmental regulations and an unprecedented era of letting regulated industries essentially write (in a few cases, apparently literally write portions of) the regulations.
19.0 Has distorted, suppressed, and abused science in the formation of public policy to a degree that even some former appointees in the Nixon and Ford Administration have criticized him for this. See here.
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2003/01/dreier-p-01-27.html
That’s what you were referring to, Reeder? That’s what you mean by “legacy”? Oh, for pity’s sake.
That simply means that his parentage influenced his admission. This is nothing new, and it does not mean that Bush was unqualified for admission. Being the child of an alumnus can increase your chances, but it does not give you a free pass into an Ivy League school.
Moreover, what of the other challenges that I leveled? How did he get into graduate school at Harvard, without the benefit of a legacy system? How did he complete his degrees at both of these venerable institutions, since mere admission is a far cry from completion.
Oh, and if you say, “Well, his money helped him graduate,” or “His father helped him get those degrees,” then I expect you to provide some pretty serious evidence to prove those claims.
There are none so blind as those that do not see.
Or read linked articles.
People doubt my sanity when I speak to my office…
Again, I ask: Explain how he got into Harvard graduate school, and graduated. Likewise, explain how he completed his degree at Yale. Your reply failed to address those issues, so please stop dancing around them.
I answered the only thing I responded to.
Do you admit he didn’t get into Yale on his own?
We had a high-powered boob of our own in the Democratic nomination race this time.
For an Army General and Rhodes Scholar who graduated from West Point first in his class, I certainly wouldn’t have trusted Wesley Clark to get through curves and around corners. He was a poor speaker and, while he didn’t get put in the hot seat like Bush has been lately, I can’t imagine him performing any better.
Why no, I don’t have anything constructive to add. I just thought I’d point out that even the most yellow-dog partisans are probably aware of their candidate’s shortcomings.
You mean all the hard evidence that his family is politically connected and loaded? Is that what’s meant by “capability” in conservative circles nowadays?
C’mon, JThunder, give it up. Reeder’s cite bitch-slapped the hell out of your notion that Dubya got through Yale on his own recognizance. Anyone can see that, yet you think you can stand you ground and say, “Did SO!” You’re not doing your credibility any good here.
You’re not paying attention. Captor. In case you didn’t notice, I never claimed that Bush got into Yale entirely on his own recognizance. Rather, I’m pointing out that this does not demonstrate Bush to be unqualified, or unintelligent in any way. Indeed, even if we take Reeder’s claim at face value, it still does not explain how Bush accomplished the even greater feats of completing his Yale degree, or completing graduate school at Harvard.
In other words, Reeder’s claim proves nothing. If anything, it underscores that fact that Bush DID complete graduate school at Harvard, without any legacy system to fall back on.
How many years does it take to get a masters as a graduate student?