My confidence isn't shaken

For a lot of us the war has gone pretty much how we thought it would. Also most of us are pretty confident the president doesn't see anything. While we see constant bad news, we are pretty sure the people around the president pump him so full of BS he has no clue what is going on. We are also pretty sure he has no interest in finding out whats happening himself.


"The situation on the ground remains tense," the president told the audience in this heavily Democratic city. "I understand how some Americans have had their confidence shaken." ..."They wonder what I see that they don't," Bush said.

... we all know THAT .... :freak:

not that it takes any great intelligence to have seen this coming three years ago

If we have several more presidencies like this, it would only mean the people inheriting a shattered nation. Economic woes would be the order of the day from budget busting deficits to the awesome size of the national debt and the decades old trade deficit that nobody in power has adequately addressed in the last 30 years.

Of course, we all know Bush is driven either by blind, willful ignorance or incompetence. That is not the question. The question I see looming large is what price we will pay for having somebody like that man at the helm of our nation. It is the pricetag that worries me, and it will be measured not just in dollars reckoned but also lives lost.

Unless you want to grow up in a nation that isn't any better off than Russia is today, you should be shaken to the core. There has got to be a new course found soon, or the damage could prove irreparable.

The country has rebounded from some pretty bad things. The environmental impact from the Bush presidency may be long lasting, but his economic and social impact need not be.

but I do wonder. And no, my confidence isn't shaken at all.

I can see where his confidence wouldn't be shaken....Because if he were directly impacted he would be cowering under the oval office desk on his fancy presidential rug pissing his pants and screaming for his mommy and daddy to save him.

<snip>He understands how some Americans have had their confidence shaken<snip>

Those Americans have loved ones that were in the military killed, or maimed and the VA continues to inflict more hurt on the soldiers......

NO he doesn't understand because if he did he would admit his mistake and try to correct it...And we all know this will never happen because of his pride!!

I mean it took him three days to figure out New Orleans might not be in good shape. I willing to believe he has no idea what is happening in Iraq nor any interest in knowing. If Cheney and Rummy and Rice tell him things are ok I bet he's just happy as can be. It's hard work to be president, but it's easy to be a talking head.

He is unaware of anything around him....This is the person who is in the WH!!

in the whitehouse is bad enough, but don't forget, this is the idiot with his finger on the bomb button!

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