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What Do You Think? Ep. 4
January 29th, 2007, 1:00 am
By John

It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these, so perhaps we should bring it back for another run.

It’s the fourth installment of What Do You Think?


WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THE PRESIDENCY (US)?

Please note: The Presidency, not the President.

I think being the President of the United States has to be one of the most difficult jobs any one person could ever have. Much like any president of a company, you are overall responsible for the workings of an entire country.

This one just happens to have over 300 million people.

Some of which are in a foreign country right now in a war that some people may think is useless for us to be in and we should just leave. Now.

I’ve heard that people want to impeach President Bush for killing Americans. What Americans did he kill? He sent us to war to weed out WMDs in Iraq based on (false) intelligence he was supplied to and verified by not just our own government agencies but by other government agencies. While we were there, we found Saddam Hussein, captured him, and let an Iraqi court decide the justice for their former president.

So maybe we were mislead to go in. But we shouldn’t leave when the new country’s military and police are clearly not ready to maintain order and peace. In fact, as part of the Geneva Conventions, we CAN’T leave, not until the new country is able to maintain their own law and order (though I may be wrong on this).

Perhaps the bleeding heart liberals who sit there with their paws on their chins while drooling at the TV watching an idiot like Rosie O’Donnell say how we should ship him off to another country and let him handle things there his way need to understand that if we were to leave now, then we would probably, by international law, be war criminals. And if you think us going to Iraq in 2003 was the wrong thing to do, imagine how it would be if we were to pull out. we’d only be at war with.. oh.. EVERYONE.

There’s the talk of impeachment. He lied to this and that and the other. Really? When he told the American people about us going to war, the information he received was as he thought at the time valid information. When we went to war, and were already in Iraq, and the conflict had escalated, is when we found out that intel was false. There’s no “oopsies” in war, you don’t call “no backs!” when there’s an M-16 on your shoulder.

As far as the office of the President is concerned, I think it’s a difficult job. This is proof. The President is doing a job he simply has to do, despite the fact that his approval ratings are going down month after month.

Yes, the people have spoken. They voted out Republicans. But the President still has two more years to go. And until he’s out of office, he will continue to do the job he was sworn in to do.

Do I like him? Definitely not as much as I liked him in 2000, but he is still the President of the United States. I didn’t like Bill Clinton when he was President, but he received no less respect than any President I did like.

And if you don’t like it, cast your vote in 21 months. Or run for President yourself, big mouth.


This is where you come in. Instead of directly replying to my thought, answer the original question yourself.

And feel free to spread the word of the What Do You Think? series. It could make you famous. Or something.


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[ Comments: 1 ]

One Response to “What Do You Think? Ep. 4”


  1. ranee
    Posted:
    Jan 29th, 2007
    9:50 am
    1

    Being president would be the hardest job in the world, except maybe puppy killer or something.
    I agree that in 2000 when all the world trade center stuff happened he seemed like a really good guy. Going to ground zero and actually shaking people’s hands and not eve dressed in cheesy suit and tie, but like a normal Joe.
    Now, he just seems clueless to me. It’s almost as if I’m president and I have no clue, he seems that way. I could care less about all political issues, and neither could he.
    His ability to sound like porky pig never amazes me either.