duckfan78
Looking back, fifty years from now, don’t you want
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Its as if people care more about the party they support than whether this country has competent leadership. I think most people are like myself. We may have a political point of view, but that point of view does not interfere with our ability to recognize obvious facts. Just because someone is from Ohio does not mean they can't recognize that Orlando is generally warmer than Columbus.
You believe Carter was incompetent and I agree with your contention. But the very skills that allow me to recognize Carter's incompetence also allows me to recognize those traits in Bush.
Imagine a doctor. Lets say the doctor examines a Democrat and concludes the Democrat has an infection. So the Doctor prescribes medicine to fix the infection. Then the doctor examines a Republican using exactly the same techniques and skills he used to examine the Democrat. The doctor finds exactly the same symptoms in Republican as he does in the Democrat. But since the Doctor is a Republican himself, he tells his Republican patient that he is healthy and needs no medicine.
That is not the doctor I would want looking after me. But this is exactly what so many people do when it comes to their chosen political parties. Even on anonymous message boards, they will contend that everything their candidate does is right while everything the other candidate does is wrong.
I often read wonderful political analysis of the other guys candidate on this board. But this analytical ability is never applied to their own candidate.
Democrats need to finally admit Carter was a failure. He was a nice guy, but a failure as a president. And they need to figure why he was such a failure.
Republicans need to man-up when it comes to Bush. Republicans can keep acting like Democrats and pretend a horrible president was somehow a good one. But in so doing Republican are going to be demolished the same way Democrats were demolished after Carter. If you pretend hard enough this may seem like reality.
But then I may be wrong. Maybe Bush will leave the White House for the last time on the back of a turquoise unicorn raised by all the children who were not left behind. This can only happen, though, if the children can keep the the unicorn hidden from Cheney who would surely slaughter it in an effort to find the secrets of eternal life.
Did you even read my quote? I did not say Carter was incompetent. I am no longer going to argue my point then.
