For some reason, a lot of conservatives seem to mix up fiscal conservatism with social conservatism. The truth is, Republicans have historically ruined the economy, sending the national debt skyrocketing, as is shown here - http://www.lafn.org/gvdc/Natl_Debt_Chart...
I don't have complete confidence with the stimulus bill, but from what I've read by economists, they're pretty impressed, so I'll have to accept that for now.
And I have far more confidence with an actually smart, hard-working president like Obama, when compared to Bush, who truly did get us into this mess.
Annarondac and sgtwarbucks- There is a huge difference between the Iraq and Afghani wars. In Afghanistan, the party in power, the Taliban, was protecting Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, who was responsible for the attacks on 9/11. We invaded Iraq because Bush had daddy issues and wanted to divert the attention away from the failing Afghan invasion. So yes, you can be damn sure Americans can pick and choose which wars they believe are just. Ideally there would be no wars anywhere, but you have to start somewhere... start with the idiotic ones.
We had such a good economy for the first part of Bush's term thanks to forward thinking by Bill Clinton... but it could only last so long before Bush's policies and out of control spending caught up to reality.
Annarondac and MinniePearlJam... maybe you didn't read the article... it's about people who are against the Iraq War, they never said anything about being against Afghanistan (which makes a lot more sense than the unprovoked Iraq war).
Posted on July 30 at 11:19 a.m. (Suggest removal)
You have a college degree but can't spell "you're"? Guess I'm just a stickler for those things.
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