An experiment on partisanship

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
I addressed the issue brought up in the OP.

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Oh, you mean you wrote a post expanding on the strengths of the Obama presidency?

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HEY KPO! I gotta question!

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So you want this to be sincere? Or should I just repeat the rightwing talking points?

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'Cause I could do either.

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They both could have been a lot worse?

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
HEY KPO! I gotta question!

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So you want this to be sincere? Or should I just repeat the rightwing talking points?

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'Cause I could do either.

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It doesn't have to be heartfelt, but it shouldn't be sarcastic. George Bush is on trial, you're his lawyer; make the best case that you can that he was a good president. Talking points is fine, any sincerity you can add to it the better.

It's not personal. It's just war.

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George Bush is on trial, you're his lawyer; make the best case that you can that he was a good president.

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no please his dog would miss him and he has a wife and children or something

Instead of an overt death sentence, send them to colonize ehhhhhh maybe Australia/Antartica/the Atlantic Abyssal Plain/Whatever.

Hey Magons, you guys want an Obama or a Bush 43? I can guarantee freshness! I'll even poke airholes in the box!

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To try the original post's challenge:

George W Bush was elected as a caretaker President - Clinton's Presidency delivered prosperity but the sleeze factor drove enough voters towards Bush rather than Gore. Bush clearly envisaged himself as a hands-off President but one single day forced the most dramatic shift required of a President in decades: 9/11. For the past fifty years, the almost absurd level of American defence spending projected an almost untouchable status on the United States and in little over an hour, that invincibility was shattered.

Suddenly a do-nothing President had to do something and despite a shaky start, the new coalition of the willing took Afghanistan in a matter of weeks. This however presented Bush with a new problem - simply conquering a tinpot nation like Afghanistan didn't offer nearly enough catharsis to the American people. So a new target had to be found and it also offered Bush the opportunity to right a previous wrong - the removal of Saddam Hussein. There's little doubt that Hussein was a truly evil man and in many ways, the war in Iraq was a good choice.

Bush had to entrust the war to his generals and advisers but he was misled in many ways - the idea that all Iraqis would greet US troops as liberators was absurdly optimistic and the hope that the Taliban could be defeated quickly soon disappeared. Bush was now trapped in two wars, draining the country's resources and continually dragging away his focus from domestic policies.

So before you hate Bush, pity him. He was the wrong man, in the wrong job, in the wrong circumstances - his best wasn't good enough but very few Presidents would have been able to play the hand he was dealt.

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So before you hate Bush, pity him. He was the wrong man, in the wrong job, in the wrong circumstances - his best wasn't good enough but very few Presidents would have been able to play the hand he was dealt.

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Good thing he never had to go it alone! :D

#oops #lolnope #hatersgonnahate

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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
I addressed the issue brought up in the OP.

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Oh, you mean you wrote a post expanding on the strengths of the Obama presidency?

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" If you are conservative, to write a short essay arguing why Obama has been a good president . "



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