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Question of the day

Q: How many crises situations has President Bush faced during his Presidency? Military, Foreign Policy, Natural Disasters, Economic, Political, if you stop and think about what this President and this country has faced in the last eight years, its pretty staggering.

"Ah but Frank, does matter to you that he caused most of them?"

Well, I think that blaming the President for Hurricaines is like blaming the fire department for house fires. You might complain about how slow there were in getting there, but the fire itself is not the fault of the guys who come to put it out. Military? I see a military that has been transformed from a post cold war machine that was still addicted to big weapons systems like the Crusader artillery system into one where Air Force systems like UAV's and GPS guided weapons have transformed the battlefield. Economic? We went into the Bush years with the meltdown from the "Dot Com" years, and we are going out with a meltdown of housing, both are more alike than we care to realize. Ken Lay and Franklin Raines are more alike than folks on the left will ever admit. Political? Bush took office in 2001 with what can only be called a near insurrection and except for occasional periods of quiet which can only be described as the political oppostion in the act of re-arming, he's managed the office of the executive branch. Managing when you have a majority is hard but managing when you have a revolt on your hands is damned difficult. President Bush has faced a crises after crises since the first day of his Presidency without any sizeable let up.

So the question of the day is based on this. President Bush going away will not lower the amount of activity in the world. The next President will face at least the same amount if not more than President Bush has faced. Having lived through the last eight years and knowing what we know about this most recent period of time, what do you want your next President to take into office with him? Remember, Presidents are simply the leader of the executive branch of Government. In that position, they fill a large amount of the executive branch with people that, in their experience, will do a good job.

I'm trying to figure out a way to graph those situations along with how President Bush responded to them. I have to say that there are a lot of situations that happened over the last eight years that I had simply forgotten about. Remember the Crisis with the Chinese when they shot down one of our aircraft and held the crew? I had forgotten about that and I had forgotten about the whole ENRON show with Ken Lay as well. The number of Hurricaines and wildfires that have happened over the past eight years. Its also amazing the things you forget about. One thing I've noticed is that President Bush has been through a lot of things over the past eight years but there is no way that he has been bored in office, even for a minute.

Posted @ September 21, 2008 10:28 AM | Current Affairs

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