Obama mess, Bush the Janitor
Where should we start? Foreign policy? They were asleep at the wheel. They ignored outside threats, made a joke of the Middle East peace process, and within 9 months of being in office, hte country was bombed on September 11, 2001. Right before this bombing, evidence had been received that strongly suggested the mother of all terrorist attacks was imminent. Bush and his employees ignored it. The economy? They ruined it. They also allowed the financial markets to become like Las Vegas casinos. No one was accountable. Kill or be killed. The housing market collapsed as a result of this recklessness. Throw in an insane giveaway of a tax cut and here we are in the throes of insolvency. New Orleans. Katrina. FEMA. Need I say anything else. Government failure. Criminal justice, and civil liberties. Madness. A complete disregard for over 200 years of constitutional protections and due process guarantees. Torturing. Denial of basic rights, a mockery was made of a system that is the envy of the world, as far as due process protections. Simple ideas like you can get a lawyer were tossed aside. This is just some of the mess Mr. Obama inherited. While I don't agree with Mr. Obama on some of his policies, it is silly to think people oppose him so adamantly. They have probably forgot the craziness he inherited. He is trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Mr. Bush left a ridiculous mess of the government. People complain about the bailout to the banks and the economic stimulus. Should Mr. Obama just let the economy wither away and die and not signed the stimulus? And the bailout, remember, was passed into law with Mr. Bush in charge. As for complaints about closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (aka "GITMO), this is a good thing. The place is an insult to decency. It should be closed. Due process must be supported. The rights of even the worse criminals has to be respected. Mr. Obama is seeking to make the world and the nation understand that. This is not the 16th century England or 18th century France. We are not ruled by kings who want to chop off heads. We are ruled by laws executed by men and women, of many different racial and ethnic backgrounds. This is, considering the record of the human race, a pretty serious deal and must be maintained. Mr. Bush, as I stated, left a mess of things. Mr. Obama is seeking to clean it up. He is doing a fairly decent job. Just call him the janitor. |
Basically, President Barack Obama is doing a mop-up job for the nation on the administration of George W. Bush. The Bush administration rolled into town in 2001, on the heels of a disputed election, and made of mess of things.