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Originally Posted by MaggieL
As I've mentioned here before, I voted for Gore...but realized on 9/11 that I'm glad he didn't win. He doesn't have the chops to be commander-in-chief and certainly neither does Kerry. With the Cold War over a lot of us--me included--indulged in the wishful thinking that the CinC role had become a much less important part of the presidency.
We were wrong.
I think the Bush administrations policies suck on a number of issues, including among other things immigration and gay rights. Bush himself certainly doesn't come off well on TV. But...
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Being able to start wars does not require any special intelligence, especially after Congress gave him blanket authorization. By every other measure, he has failed so far in Iraq.
As for immigration and gay rights, I wouldn't go around mentioning those two in the same sentence or else someone in the White House will get the bright idea to offer the conservatives in Congress a deal - amnesty for the 11 million in illegals in exchange for shipping an equal number of gays to Mexico.
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