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<DIV>While I am happy, along with probably the majority of Americans, that this particular form of health care reform will most likely be stopped, I think comparing Obama and Bush you have forgotten the major reasons why people like Obama, and why they dislike, or distrust Bush; Bush started and created the recession started a pointless war, and prolonged another one unnecessarily. </DIV>
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<DIV>Bush created the problems with Gitmo, with Iraq, and the need for the US Taxpayer to bail out the financial institutions which he failed to regulate and monitor. </DIV>
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<DIV>Bush did about as good of a job as he could to fix all the things he messed up in the first three years of his administration, and Obama is doing the best he can to fix the problems created in the first three years of the Bush administration, which consequently seem to be the same courses of action. </DIV>
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<DIV>Your Friend,</DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan Arnold</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 1/20/10, g. <SPAN><SPAN>crabtree</SPAN></SPAN> <I><jampot@roadrunner.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: g. <SPAN>crabtree</SPAN> <jampot@roadrunner.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] tribute<BR>To: "Paul Rumelhart" <godshatter@yahoo.com>, "the lockshop" <lockshop@pull.twcbc.com><BR>Cc: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><BR>Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 5:12 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>I take issue with your contention that "this years model" at least isn't <BR>Bush.<BR><BR>Bush wanted us to whup taliban and al-qaida ass in Iran and Afghanistan. Are <BR>we out or have we just thrown 30,000 more into a situation in which, due to <BR>strangling rules of engagement we have no hope of success?<BR><BR>Bush wanted to have Guantanamo remain open. Has it been shut down?<BR><BR>The previous administration was vilified for it's allowing far too much pork <BR>to flow in the form of earmarks. Have we got that problem under control?<BR><BR>Bush wanted to bail out the banking industry. TYM wants to bail out <BR>everything in sight.<BR><BR>Bush (in a burst of bipartisanship) wanted to create a huge new entitlement <BR>that the country couldn't afford. TYM (with no input from the other side) <BR>wants to create an even larger and even more expensive one.<BR><BR>The Bush administration was roundly criticized for its lack of
transparency. <BR>Everything done by TYM is done behind closed doors.<BR><BR>Etc, etc, etc...<BR><BR>What we seem to have is Bush on progressive steroids.<BR><BR>g<BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Paul Rumelhart" <<A href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=godshatter@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</A>><BR>To: "the lockshop" <<A href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=lockshop@pull.twcbc.com" ymailto="mailto:lockshop@pull.twcbc.com">lockshop@pull.twcbc.com</A>><BR>Cc: "Moscow Vision 2020" <<A href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A>><BR>Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 5:21 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] tribute<BR><BR><BR>>I am experiencing a bit of buyer's remorse with respect to the<BR>> President. However, he's still overwhelmingly meeting one of
the<BR>> criteria that led me to choose him in the first place. He is still not<BR>> George W. Bush.<BR>><BR>> I know, I know, neither was the other guy - but the bar has been set<BR>> pretty low these days.<BR>><BR>> Paul<BR>><BR>> the lockshop wrote:<BR>>> I can think of no more fitting tribute to to former "Lion of the Senate"<BR>>> than to see his seat filled by a Republican for the first time since <BR>>> Henry<BR>>> Cabot Lodge lost in 1953. This combined with the results of last years<BR>>> elections points toward some major buyers remorse with regard to the <BR>>> current<BR>>> administration and a tough row to hoe for the upcoming mid terms. Also, <BR>>> one<BR>>> can reasonably let glow a glimmer of hope for the demise of the current<BR>>> "health care reform" debacle, cap and tax, and amnesty for illeagals. <BR>>> 2010<BR>>> is shaping up
to be a better than expected year.<BR>>><BR>>> g<BR>>><BR>>> =======================================================<BR>>> List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<BR>>> <A href="http://www.fsr.net/" target=_blank>http://www.fsr.net</A><BR>>> mailto:<A href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>>> =======================================================<BR>>><BR>>><BR>><BR>><BR>> =======================================================<BR>> List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<BR>>
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