Honestly, I'd hate to see this thread get out of hand. Even though I am Republican (and Christian, and a middle-class white male), I can easily see that even Republicans can play such partisan games. Thusly, I'm not saying that Moore is evil evil evil because I like President Bush (and, admittedly, he has his faults, but he was what we needed when we needed him), but because such anti-whoever propaganda is really shitty and immature. It's on the same level as supermarket tabloids. It's fodder for the easily swayed, and a confidence booster for anyone who happens to dislike the recipient of the gesture.
I'm not here to declare ill on any one President. We cannot fairly judge any U.S. president simply because we haven't had to do what they do. It's easy for some film maker, college student, or (highly paid) political analyst to decry a political figure when they haven't had to be the one to make the tough choices. I'm sure many of us who have spoken ill of a leader would quickly change our tune if we suddenly found ourselves in their position, with decisions weighing on their minds that could affect the lives of millions, and possibly even cost some of those lives.
President Clinton made some bad moves. Sure. Every president has made at least one. President Bush had a choice to make over whether or not he would commit our forces to defend a highly elusive threat. He had to decide whether or not Hussein was truely a threat or not. He had to decide how and when to act, or not to. None of us here have had to make such choices, and I don't think anyone except a former president is qualified to say "He's doing the wrong thing" until history itself proves his actions fruitful or otherwise.
That's why it bothers me so much that people so casually sling insults at our President (any of our Presidents, to be honest). Tactful dissagreement about policy is one thing. Being an asshole is something entirely else.
Then you can be right.
