Quickly, Before We Leave….

Does this man not have a soul? I’ve stood up for President Bush for years against so-called Bush bashing. I know regret every single time that I have stood up for the man. It’s one thing to have a different point of view. In this case, he’s just being plain evil.

Eric, it is a pity that it took you so long to see the truth…

I can’t wait until Bush is out of the White House and Barack is in, so that he can repair all the damage done by Bush and the Republicans. America, are you better-off now than you were 8 years ago???

Funny. Lately I’ve read conservatives whine about corrupt Chicago politics. The Second City has nothing on Texas. I know, you think this is Bush bashing. Go back to LBJ and ballot box 13. Corruption has a long tradition in Texas. Republicans love to use Rove’s tactics to marginalize their critics. Once Bush had 80% approval. It’s 23% today. Most “Bush bashers” once liked Bush. Bush is like a cockapoo. You really want to like him. He always wets on the carpet, floor and you.

This man is an oil man and all he cares about is money no matter who or what is in his way and that is a fact.
I can’t stand him and never could ever he is thief and a liar like all the rest. Texas hated him for what he did there. While he was there their taxes went out of sight. He bankrupted one of their savings and loans and so much more that is why I never voted for him and I mean both times.

Bush and Cheney have hated the country’s environmental protection policies all these years. Now they are wasting no time harming as much as possible for the benefit of a few rich and powerful that these changes will benefit. No, Bush has no shame. He has not been a president for the people of this country. He has been the president for corporate interests, lobbyists and the chosen few greedy corrupt people who will profit.

Regarding his speech, I think it’s a bit scary how gushing (to the extreme) he is about his father on this and many other occasions. It does make one wonder about the theory that Sadaam’s removal was simply Dubyah’s revenge against his father’s assassination attempt. Who knows? Dubyah does seem like the kind of simple-minded dude that would do something like that.

What facts aren’t straight, Jon? Bush made his own bed.

Every single independent media count of the votes in Florida in the 2000 election, no matter which way they counted them, showed that Bush won the majority. I challenge “Dr. truth” to show a link to even one count of the vote by a non-partisan/non-biased organization that showed Bush lost the popular vote in Florida. He can’t and won’t.
But do not simply take my word for it, or the word of “Dr. Truth”…research it for yourself.

Bush has no pride, no soul, no sense of stewardship. Not only that, he doesn’t care that his name will be smeared and his legacy tarnished. He is a truly appalling person and I wish this country had never had to endure his blundering. Even after eight years, he is still creating havoc. Bush is totally despicable.

I don’t want to get into emotional ad hominem arguments, including against President Bush, whom I voted for in 2000 then decided to sit out the 2004 election because of doubts that were creeping up for me. And I voted for Obama this election — but my vote was *for* him, not *against* McCain, whom I admired (and still do) in many ways. I just felt Obama was the better choice. All that said, despite the long, sometimes-checkered history of departing Presidents signing off on a flurry of matters, President Bush does seem intent on erasing whatever goodwill remains for him with some of his ill-conceived, as I see it, moves. I hope Obama will be able to reverse the most damaging ones ASAP, especially those regarding which he doesn’t have to go through Congress.

Oh Obama is so much better with his razor thin resume and no experience what so ever.

Far-reaching, even. It’s late, sorry.

America may yet becoming a smoldering wasteland before Bush gets out of office. That on top of the wreckage of an economy, and god knows how many failed policies. There’s just no end to the mess he creates.

GOON –Obama may have a razor thin resume but he cant do a worse job than Bush PERIOD. A house cat could run the country better than Bush has.

And why should we look for this mental midget to change his ways with just weeks left in his presidency. He continues to give historians reason to rate him as the WORST president in the history of the USA. He and the Gov of IL have something in common: both are ill and out of touch with reality-this is truly a sad time for us.

Lets hope president Obama will expedite us into a paperless and oil free economy-that’s a nice slice of revenge towards George Bush. Hit him in his pockets but he has enough money to diversify into alternative energies. However, it will hurt his inflated ego harshly if President Obama is able to free the United States from oil. And for Big 3, they better get onto the drawing board for hydrogen cars before the Japanese beat them to it.

heavenislikethis: Yes cow farts do hurt the environment. It’s called methane gas.

Eric,
If it took you this long to ascertain Bush does not have a soul, stick with the Republicians.

It’s about time so one shoved it to the environmental whack jobs, who’s real goal is to attack capitalism and not save the environment. Environmental laws hurt the economy and right now is no time to kick the economy any further while it’s down.

First off – I believe Global Warming is a very serious “Very Real- Man Induced” problem.
However, I do not believe the US is to blame. All we did was develop technologies that the rest of the world would have, if they could have. We were, and are, simply more technologically advanced[ [and the world is very jealous of this, and therefore all the criticism, not to mention that we are the worlds only Superpower, and the world is also jealous of that. Kyoto is as much an attempt to undermine our economy as an attempt to solve Global Warming. Much of the world is just using it as an Economic Tool against us – and many people in the US see this for exactly what it is, Hypocrisy,….. and much of the world knows we know. Probably the main reason even Clinton and Gore would not truly support Kyoto]].
Having a degree in Natural Resources I think the evidence (about global warming) is very Clear and Convincing ‘today’. However, I was not really sure until about 1995, even though I started seeing strong evidence around about 1985. At that point a noticeable warm up started (at least where I was living, & others said they noticed it also, in my area & elsewhere). In my opinion the evidence gradually got stronger till 95, when I thought the evidence was strong enough (and has only gotten stronger, today it is downright scary – the Arctic Ice Cap Meltdown – not funny). So, I really don’t think you can blame us till then (95), and many still don’t (or don’t want to) see it, & not just in the US. However, since 95 the US has made many moves (on many fronts) to combat the problem, and many other countries are dragging their feet, or have been given a free pass (the main Kyoto problem). One of the biggest examples here is China…..but there are others.
The world says it is our Industry that caused the problem (they don’t talk about Britain, and other Industrialized nations as much), but it is also probably mostly ‘Our Technology’ that is going to solve it……………….[I could also throw in many examples of other countries stealing our technology on the international market (weak international patent protections, and many anti-US countries want it that way), the vast majority of SE Asian Industries are built on Appropriated US Technology……. Etc., Etc…………………….…
Our Technology and Industry also saved the world in WWI, WWII, and the Cold War (not to mention other situations). If we had not spent all those years developing various Industries, and Aircraft, & Jeeps, & Tanks, & Ships the afore-mentioned wars would have been lost [[prior to Pearl Harbor the only modern Fighter Plane in SE Asia, other than a Japanese model, was the P-40 Curtis Hawk (Flying Tigers), not a great plane but it kept China from falling]]. We had to use Trains & Trucks to move parts from factory to factory. It took factories to build trains & trucks also, and they had to burn fuel (all this putting carbon in the atmosphere, etc). All those planes, & jeeps, & tanks, & ships etc also burned fuel etc., etc., etc. Not to mention when ours, or the other side’s material got destroyed & released carbon.
Our Industry saved the world on several occasions (also, we have established MANY Democracies around the world,….. how many has Russia or China established !!!). So when people talk about this situation as if we are the only beneficiaries, of such Industrialization, they should look at history again, more objectively. If not for us, much of the world could today be under Japanese Imperialism, or Nazism, or USSR domination………’Comprende’.
The rest of the world has ‘As Much a Responsibility’ to solve this problem as we do,
So, THEY SHOULD STOP BALKING, and cut the EXCUSES.

You got that right, Quietman. Algore would be impressed.

notmyprez
Re: “All that we ask is that you give President Obama the same respect that we’ve given President Bush.”
Just who was the last “respected” president? Eisenhauer?

Ned,
I don’t know how long you’ve been around but have you noticed that interest in spinning objects and anomalies measured re. gravity and magnetism dropped off pretty much in conjunction with the Republican Revolution?
Excerpt:
“Now new fuel has been added to the antigravity controversy by Hideo Hayasaka and colleagues at the Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan, together with Matsushita, the Japanese multinational. The team has carried out a new set of experiments aimed at detecting anti-gravity generated by a small gyroscope.
The principle behind the experiment is very simple. After spinning up the gyroscope to 18,000 revolutions per minute, it is put inside an airtight container and allowed to fall between two laser beams. These record how long the gyroscope takes to fall nearly 6ft between the two beams. Any reduction in the strength of gravity reveals itself in a slight increase in the time it takes to fall the 6ft.
In a series of 10 runs, the team found that the gyroscope took about 1/25,000 of a second longer to fall when it was spinning than when it was stationary – equivalent to an anti-gravity effect of just one part in 7,000.
And in a curious twist, the anti-gravity only appeared when the gyroscope was spinning anticlockwise. The team members claim that both this, and the size of the effect, are in line with earlier findings published by them in 1989.
That link is of an article that long since vanished but here’s another source.
H. Hayasaka et al., ‘Possibility for the existence of anti-gravity: evidence from a free-fall experiment using a spinning gyro’, Speculations in Science and Technology, v. 20, 1997, pp. 173-18″
It’s clear that many UFO buffs took on the issue in order to validate investigation of the UFO phenomenon scientifically and as a result this attracted much more interest from the “new age” science crowd than those with more traditional backgrounds.
But if this is true, regardless of practicality in generating antigravity, it indicates a black hole in science that needs to be filled in.
Thanks.

Update:
Now some might say it makes no sense that a spinning object could rise and fall at different rates or that the direction of rotation shouldn’t have any effect but consider that a moving electron in a conductor DOES have a directional field (either clockwise or counter clockwise if you think of yourself as an electron moving forward or backward).
Any physics guys out there?
Forget the theories. Just look at the data.