Bleating about Bush ,Clinton,Carter,Nixon etc. takes the focus off the present.
I believe our energies should be primarily focused on fixing the mess we are in now. We are in deep and sinking fast.
Fixing the dire situation that is now is the best use of those energies.
Not apologizing for, or covering up for, any administration past or present.
You're absolutely right, Ice, I don't know you and we haven't met. So I have to come to my conclusions based on what you say here and how you say it. Here and now.
I totally agree we need to fix things
I agree that bleating about the past is a waste of time - up to a point. I'm not revisiting the secret bombing of Cambodia or Bush Senior's ties to the Sauds. I'm interested in the things that are still affecting us, including the current war and the current fiscal crises.
My point is that for you to present yourself as an unbiased, nonpartisan voice of reason and truthseeking... well, you need to do it in EVERY adminstration that needs it, not merely the ones that you happen to disagree with politically.
So are you truly truth seeking?
Or is this merely partisan political opportunism, an attempt to "take down" one administration after supporting and backing and remaining silent about the failures of another?
All I can say is your voice, like allmost all those on the right on this forum, has been strangely silent until Jan 20, 2009. Now maybe you were avoiding the political side here for good reasons; or maybe you only joined recently, I don't know. BUT...
It seems to me there's a simple way for one to demonstrate the non-partisan nature of their 'truth-seeking' and it would naturally be clear in their writings... IF...
They would criticize Obama for what he is doing wrong (continuing the deficit spending, for instance) but be careful to point out, each and every time, that Obama, has, after all, been in power a mere six months and that many of these problems were created by others... any true understanding of the nature of the problems facing us leave no question that the Bush legacy is one of absolute incompetence, malfeasance, ignorance and criminal activity (including war crimes)... and to package this into a sentence that begins "Well Bush was bad but Obama is worse"... as you did with your very first posting on this thread that I remember .... really lays out two things... firstly that you are spending as little time as possible actually adressing the ROOT of the problems we face but instead are focused on attacking the current incumbent - and secondly that somehow, in your mind, you are able to put the Bush record and the Obama record into the scales of justice and come out with Obama as "worse"...
So time for a quick recap:
Bush Administration: 9/11 - 3,000+ US civilians dead and blamed on intelligence failures. Osama bin Laden, eight years later still alive and sending postcards. They took us to war in Iraq under false pretences. 5000 troops killed,Leaked the name of a covert op. Scandals: Justice hirings, justice firings, Abrahamoff, secret Energy policy meets, Enron & energy crisis, all the many lies about length & cost of war; torture and 'flying prisons', Patriot Act attack on our rights; fiscall IRResponsibility, financial crisis, housing crisis bank crisis auto crisis. ... this list could go on for pages and we all know it.
Obama: Not solving all of these within six months...
and ... Are his citizenship papers in order?
This is balance? Hardly.
Laying blame at the correct doors always helps demonstrate the writer's balance, politically.
Sorry, you aren't doing this. So I have to question the nature of your "truth seeking".
And as I said earlier; anyone on the right demanding an open government after eight years of the most secret government in history... well it's enough to choke a horse, that's all.
Maybe you spent each and every day of the Bush Administration writing letters demanding his impeachment and calling for accountability. If you're this excited about Obama's birth certificate, then I can only assume that a truth teller would have just been going WILD during the Bush years of torture, lies and mayhem....
So, tell me about it. Please. Let's open ALL these doors, the ones of recent past scandals that still affect us today... and those that need to be opened, today.