[lit-ideas] FW: RE: Re: Historians & Bush
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:06:11 -0500
Okay, you're right. The idea that he's worse than both Buchanan and Johnson is
not a fact per se. That's a conclusion. But, all his actions as president
have been severely deleterious to the country. While it's true nothing lasts
forever and eventually the U.S. would have lost its supremacy, Bush propelled
the loss forward, compressed it into one presidential term. He bankrupted us.
He proved to the world that militarily we can't win over a bunch of rag tag
insurgents. He galvanized the Muslim world against us and created an elite
breed of terrorists in the process. He did absolutely nothing to prevent
(strengthen levies) Katrina. He turned FEMA into a joke and even added the
punch line, Good Job, Brownie. The borders are a shambles. We're broke and
live on $2 billion a day worth of credit. Without it, the country will shut
down. These are facts. But, that he's worse than Buchanan and Johnson is a
conclusion, albeit one based on facts. We forget that a bunch of
rag tag insurgents called the American colonies also defeated the greatest
power in the world at the time. Leaders are sometimes very bad, as George V?
of England and Stalin and others have proven over and over.
----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Amago
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 12/5/2005 9:48:10 AM
Subject: RE: [lit-ideas] Re: Historians & Bush
Prove me wrong. Do it by looking at Bush's record.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Geary
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 12/5/2005 9:31:52 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Historians & Bush
AA:
> These are not opinions. These are facts.
Here's an instance where I long for icons -- is Andy being serious or ironic?
I can't tell from the context and I don't know him or his style well enough to
judge. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt, as Brother Nietzsche said:
there are no facts, only interpretations.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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