OT: US Pres election

[thejeff]

I reread your first post and it still reads that way to me, possibly because my opinion of our current administration is of corruption first and the stupidity and incompetence a distant second.

Most of the apparent stupidity seems to me to be more arrogance and the belief they're above the law. The kind of thing we see on display in the current banking crisis. We see CEOs running their financial empires into the ground and ask how could they have been so dumb not to see this coming, but they got their millions in bonuses in the good years and now they walk away from the ruin with more millions in severance. Who's dumb here?
Bush and Cheney have run the country into the ground and probably gotten away with it. They're started wars, funneled billions to their friends and saddled the country with the largest debts in history. If their interests lie with the US, that sounds stupid, but I've come to the conclusion that they don't. The Bush family has their new estates in Paraguay. Cheney'll be off to Halliburton's new headquarters in Dubai. What do they care?


I am glad it was a misinterpretation, though. I'd still rather have someone well-meaning, but out of their depth, than a competent crook. The competent crook can do far more damage.

[Skirmisher]

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