Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [MLUG][Politics] State of the Union

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> I'm listening to a rerun of Tim Kaine's speech.  His main point seems to 
> be that the Bush government is running the country in an incompetent 
> fashion.
>
> I think that this is a rather difficult accusation to make.  The problem 
> is to know whether the fault for mistakes can be laid at Bush's foot, or 
> whether they can be laid at others getting in the way, or whether the 
> problems are so difficult that mistakes are impossible to avoid and 
> no-one else could do much better.


The usual accusation is that Bush doesn't listen to people and he appoints 
friends, and their friends, to important positions they are not prepared 
for.  The FEMA director "Brownie" and the Katrina disaster are what really 
hurt him.  I don't know if Bush is incompetent, but it seems like it.

Mike

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