I see MyndFyre's point, Clinton did lie to us all and for that he was bad, but that isn't really a big deal when you compare in comparision to the injustice Bush maybe doing to us by "secretly" and without "warrants" eavesdrop on americans. Now seriously MyndFyre, I know your partisan-Bush and that's fine, but wouldn't you admit you feel just a little uncomfortable with all the privacy issues being invaded here?
No. I do not see that my privacy is being invaded. I'm not talking to an al Qaeda terrorist, nor am I even placing out-of-country calls (except that one time I called Ron). And even then we didn't discuss plans to blow anything up.
As I said, Bush has not given me a reason to doubt his honesty, and so if he is going to tell me as the President that he is only authorizing this to monitor people making calls to terrorists, I'm going to believe him. I've seen lots of accusations of lying, but I've never seen any that sufficiently discount all alternative rival hypotheses. My favorite lie accusation is when people tell us Bush lied about the Iraq war and WMDs: I can think of at least two ARHs -- that the weapons were removed in the great length of time we gave them, or that the intelligence was faulty.
I do not find Bush to be all that bad of a president. I feel though however, that if our privacy is comprimised for liberty (and vice-versa), we deserve niether (to paraphrase Ben Franklin), and that does make Bush a bad president and something should be done about it for the sake of our rights, which have been slipping away ever so pacely since 2000.
This statement seems a little.... unclear. But what can you not do now that you did legally before Bush was President? I never have had a habit of calling terrorists and conspiring to blow shit up. I don't know about you, but that just seems.... well, stupid, for one, and wrong, for another.
Bush pulled us out of a recession that he inherited from the former president with flying colors.
There are lots of things that I don't agree with Bush on, particularly education and immigration. But I think that people are missing the facts of the matter because of misinformation from biased media combined with the typical citizen's lack of education.