W.R.T.: Don't go blaming President Bush for the War on Terror when we were clearly attacked by the forces of terrorism on September 11th, 2001...
L.S.A.: You know, you are right. And Bush was just as much a victim as anyone else – a depressing person leading a depressing life who just wanted to go home to his depressing family at the end of a depressing day. He couldn't truly have been expected to seriously consider all of his options before choosing the path that he did. Decision making in these kinds of circumstances is fast and usually based on instincts and inherent values – a quality the nation voted for in overwhelming numbers in 2000.
W.R.T.: That's true, although I do have to question the logic of some of his policies in the second term, to be honest. Bush got very unpopular near the end there and I think there is a pretty universal consensus that this was largely caused by dissatisfaction with what appeared to be his willingness to employ socialist techniques to manipulate the markets. By straying from his fiscally conservative principles, he lost the confidence of the general public.
L.S.A.: Yes, and he facilitated the culture of Obama bail-outs.
W.R.T.: Such as the Troubled Asset Relief Program, where Obama was bailing out banks and insurance companies left and right because they were “too big to fail.”
L.S.A.: That's absolutely correct, and there is quite a lot of confusion as to who is technically responsible for TARP. Communists tend to point to the fact that Bush's Treasury Department requested the relief package, that it was championed by Bush and passed in a bipartisan vote (with Obama, Biden, and McCain in favor). Realists note that Obama is currently the President and thus must be responsible for everything bad that has happened in recent memory, and as far as bad things go, bailing out the world's largest banks is pretty horrendous.
W.R.T.: It's no surprise to me, Leo; no surprise at all, that Obama has shown reluctance to consider bringing back the registration of communists. Instead, he wants you to register your rifle collection. I don't know anyone, personally, who doesn't own at least five guns. Around here, well, heh, I'd just like to see them try to show up with a clipboard, asking to have a look around.
L.S.A.: Another thing Obama doesn't want to register is the ever growing cohort of illegal aliens, unless it is by giving them all citizenship, so that they can start draining the welfare system and vote Democrat in monolithic numbers. It makes me sick when liberal communists try to grant people extra rights just so that they can increase their voting prowess.
W.R.T.: Yes – you can see it repeatedly throughout this nation's history. Whenever a group claims to be oppressed, the Democrats jump in and make them ideological martyrs before passing a bunch of over-reaching civil rights and voting rights bills that make it illegal for minorities not to vote. This is the only way the Democrats can win, because, and I don't want to put it like this, exactly, but they simply don't represent the will of the American electorate unless they alter its make-up.
L.S.A.: Be careful, Thomas. If Obama manages to force his fairness doctrine down our throats, you might just get arrested for saying stuff like that!
W.R.T.: I'm not sure that's how the fairness doctrine works, but actually, you're probably right. The over caffeinated generation of government dependent, amoral deadbeats that swept Obama into office are only just beginning to think that maybe they should have given John McCain a more reasoned look in 2008... So many people voted their emotions in that election, and this year we will only be able to slightly repair some of the damage.
L.S.A.: Couldn't agree more. I think the public is not distracted by phony diversions like Iraq, so we are in a very good position for these midterms. People are catching onto the fact that their vote matters, and that we need to vote the foreign born Muslim's enablers out if we are to make any progress in instituting a fundamentalist theocracy and free market paradise.
W.R.T.: Yes; perhaps we could follow the Vatican model.
L.S.A.: We probably aren't ready for that, but I like where you are going there. Forward thinking, Thomas!
