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Although you pretend to be a scholar, you still can't get your facts right. In your rush to impugn the character of George W. Bush you claimed he vomited on the Japanese Prime Ministers lap - wrong - that was his father. So much for your historical knowledge. As for all those scholars who rated Bush so lowly, it is like having a group of Jewish scholars critiquing Hitler during the Second World War. Remember, after more than three years of Obama, Jimmy Carter used to be considered the worst president, Obama has surpassed him. Malcolm, I think you are drinking too much Kool-Aid.

Malcolm, people say you are the perfect idiot, I say that you are not perfect, but you're doing all right. It looks like your I.Q. is lower than your shoe size.

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Chuck Lehmann

Chuck, once again your ignorance is showing. Apparently you have a reading disorder, since you failed to read my previous letters which broke out the budget deficit for you in detail, and the part where 200+ presidential scholars have just ranked George W. Bush as one of the worst presidents in history - 39 out of 43! I especially enjoyed some of his more presidential moments, like when he vomited in the Japanese prime minister's lap, or when he exhorted a group of OBGYN's to "share the love with their female patients"! Or perhaps his comments on Education: "Rarely is the question asked: Is the children learning", Domestic Policy: "I don't feel like I've got all that much to say on the kind of big nation issues", International Relations: "Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment". While Obama may not have had much previous experience, as a graduate of Columbia University, Harvard Law School, and president of the Harvard Law Review, he certainly has more in common with Ronald Reagan, the Great Communicator, than Dubya the Dunce.
Phil, my concerns with Willard M. Romney is his experience at Bain Capital. He made an enormous amount of money by bankrupting corporations, looting their pension funds, and then letting the US Government's Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp bail out the workers. You can't even call him a vulture capitalist, since vultures will only eat dead things! His approach to budget management seems to be to lower wealthy individuals' tax brackets, cut welfare, cut social security, cut health care, cut education, but spend, spend, spend on the Military Industrial Complex. In 2011, out of a $3.8 trillion budget, we spent almost $1 trillion on Defense. A list of the top 15 countries in the world (including the US) showed that they spent a total of $1.63 trillion on defense. Our next closest competitor was China, at $115 billion, and the UK, at $59.6 billion. Why can't we be a little more like Costa Rica and cut back on our foreign wars?

The next president of the USA should have a strong business sense and run the country like an well oiled corporation making money. Not rewarding company's like Obama did that were going belly up and still are, even after they got billions of dollars handed to them. Rewarding the floundering companies was his first mistake. The mistake of all mistakes out of any president in my book.

Malcolm, so you want to have a battle of the wits? If you think you are a wit, you're only half right. At least we know what Bush's grades were (by the way, they were higher than Kerry's), we're still waiting to see what Obama's grades were in H.S., and the colleges he attended? If he had good grades he'd have presented them by now, which probably means he was an "affirmative action" student. What is he hiding? Also, where are his medical records? He admitted to smoking cocaine, maybe he had a problem? Prove me wrong. Bush graduated Harvard with a M.B.A. and he was a certified jet pilot, which sort of blows your snide comments about his brain power out the window. Why try to denigrate someone who is your superior just because you didn't like his politics. That's a common trait with most all liberals.

Malcolm, you can't polish horse manure. Obama came into office with a deficit of $458 billion, the last year of Bush. Every year that Obummer has been president we've averaged $1.3 trillion. Our national debt was $9.8 trillion when he was sworn in and it is now $15.3 trillion and rising. You can't claim that is Bush's fault. Obummer owns it, the buck stops at his desk (when he's there on occasion in between golf and his vacations).
Your comments Malcolm, show me you are a person of rare intelligence, it's rare when you show any.

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Chuck Lehmann

Actually, I apologize for having assumed that you were a neocon reactionary like our friend Chuck Lehman. I certainly agree with you about both Obama and Bush, but for the life of me I can't see any rational alternative to Obama in the current slate of GOP candidates. I was actually hoping for an intelligent discourse. Concerning the debt problem, it's not quite as cut and dried as you portray. According to the Pew Institute, the reasons for the increase in the budget deficit can be broken down as follows:
• Revenue declines due to the recession, separate from the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003: 28%
• Defense spending increases: 15%
• Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003: 13%
• Increases in net interest: 11%
• Other non-defense spending: 10%
• Other tax cuts: 8%
• Obama Stimulus: 6%
• Medicare Part D: 2%
• Other reasons: 7%[37]
In other words, both Bush and Obama both share the blame for our current situation, but if you look at the latest federal budget, military and military-related expenditures add up to about $1 trillion per annum, roughly equivalent to what the next 20 countriesin the world spend, combined! Perhaps we should take a cue from Costa Rica concerning military expenditures and remember what Eisenhower said about the dangers of the military-industrial complex.
Concerning so-called social expenditures, the so-called Social Security deficit is a smokescree. There is enough money in the SS budget to keep it solvent for 25 years. By merely eliminating the exemption for wage earners who earn more than $106,800 per year, it would make SS solvent for the next 75 years. This is such a logical solution, I cannot imagine why this has not passed in Congress. Perhaps it is because more than half of our Congressmen are millionaires?
What do you think?

Malcolm, what's that have to do with Obama? Did I say I liked Bush or supported him? I'm sure the same rules applies to Bush as to Obama. I'm sure Bush was voted in because of his father and that's about it. Americans just like the fact that he is the son of an x president. Yes, lets keep blaming Bush for all of Obama's mistakes.


I'm not a democrat, but I did like Clinton. I look past the republican Vs democrat BS and just want the right man for the job.

Did you Know that Obama has spent more money than all the X presidents put together? Go ahead a blame that on Bush also, but I know better. I'm not worried about Obama, he won't be returning, because he couldn't live up to what he tried to promise. Nor dose he care, he's got what he wanted. A presidents pension with bodyguards, free housing and so on for the rest of his life.

Here's an even bigger fact: George Bush pulled down a straight "C" average at Yale, partied his way through school, never held a real job (unless you count Daddy buying him a baseball team), and has just been ranked as one of the worst presidents in history by over 200 presidential scholars - 39 out of 43! Plus, his grandaddy never got charged with treason for his role in the Business Plot of 1943 to overthrow FDR.

Here's a fact, Obama went to college, then went into community work, then to senate where he voted in 22% of voting then presidency, he has never held a real job and has never done a good job. If he was applying for a CEO job against any of the current candidates? He would never get the job, lack of experience would keep him at bottom of list, yet half of our people think he can do the job, our problem is not our president, our problem is we like the idea of him as president, and as we all know making decisions on that basis never work out, its like asking a volunteer cafeteria worker take over hospital administration.

Mr. Lehman, I would love to engage you in a battle of wits, but I refuse to fight an unarmed man!
Perhaps you are unaware of the Business Plot of 1934, in which Major General Smedley Butler, the most decorated marine in US history, testified before Congress that he had been approached by a group of wealthy businessmen (including George Bush's grandfather) to organize a fascist revolution in order to overthrow FDR. I wouldn't be surprised if you and your right wing cronies are trying to recreate history. Certainly there are no shortage of loons in your presidential candidates.

Mr. Lehman, what really, is your issue with, as you state, the trillion dollar boondoggle called ObamaCare?
- The banning of Insurance firms putting lifetime limits on your healthcare?
- The banning of Insurance firms from dropping your healthcare as they could now for any reason?
- Allowing young adults to stay on their parent's healthcare plan, up to age 26?
- The prevention of Insurance firms from denying children insurance due to pre-existing illness?

or, are you still wearing your Bush/Cheney blinders, of what they did to cause our economy to suffer so that those who get big tax breaks, what, what is it they do......invest in America? Really, you believe that? How many jobs has Mitt created with his millions, after his career?

We need to invest in Americans, not just the few Mitt's , Bush's....well, there are more than a few of them! There are many Americans....both Republican and Democratic, whom will benefit from that dreaded Obama Care. Maybe you do or will? Maybe your friends and family?
U.S. citizens. All of them.