>>To be honest even if I'm open minded, I can't come to think of anything significant positive that reached the news up here.
>Keep trying. I'm sure you could.....
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>>Under his administration we had.
>>- The most disasterous financially run administration. And they call themselves fiscal conservatives, Ha !
>Agreed. Combined with the spending spree that our Congress started, we now have a record deficit and debt that my gradchildren's taxes will be paying off.
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>>- A financial crisis because of lack of regulation in the house market
>Some politicians (R) recently tried to regulate and/or change the lending 'rules' that were thrust upon the financial industry about 10 years ago by other (D) politicians. The changes were defeated in congress.
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>>- The death of american kapitalism
greed kapitalism.
>Huh?
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>>- A economy in distress
>Because of the financial crisis. So many everyday financial decisions are influenced by the news media reporting how bad things are. It become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It was in distress already before the financial crisis. The huge debt was already there, the car manufacturers already had a difficult time and an very high trade deficit.

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>>- 2 Wars were we did not get out anything, costs billions
>Multiply that by 1000: Trillions. Let's check with the common citizens of the middle east about what 'we got out' of this war, and interview the returning soliders about what they were able to do for those common people. A valid question is wether the cost-benefit ratio was too high.

>>- Torture of prisoners (violation of human rights)
>Were any rights of the 3000 people who were in the World Trade Center area on 9-11 violated? By definition, enemy combatants who become POWs have fewer rights than citizens.

911 it totally irrelevant to respecting human rights. You do, or you do not. No matter what. You don't torture out of revenge. Revenge is not a argument.. NEVER, EVER. POW have rights as described under the treaty of geneva. BTW, the US alway have claimed them not to be POW, so they could get away with the practises that happened.

>>- The Disaster of New Orleans
>If the Republicans have the knowledge and power to control the weather, why did we vote them out of office?
>Oh, you may be referring to the response to the Disaster. Local government agencies are the first responders; the federal government follows up with support for the cleanup and rebuilding efforts. Nevertheless, NGOs (most with funding and labor provided by religious group volunteers) are the primary source of restoration and rebuilding efforts for private citizens.
>Ah, the dikes around the 9th Ward - we should have had the Dutch come in and do a design/build contract. They really know so much more about managing ocean waters in low-lying lands. Instead we send a huge pile of federal tax money to the (D) state and local government in Louisana and New Orleans and had them oversee the contracts to design and then more contracts to build and upgrade those dikes. Let's follow that money and see where it went.

FYI, The dutch were there quicker than most of your government with a fregate helping for fresh water and distribution of goods. And yes the dutch went up to new orlearns to work upon a solution to the dikes.

>>- Rejection of Kyoto or any other environment agreement
>It was -19 degrees farenheit here this morning. Where's global warming when you need it?

Environmental issues is far more than global warming.

>>- Rejection of the international court in The Hague
>Can't comment since I've never heard or read about it.

No american can be convicted in The Hague for war crimes because they did not recognise it. The hague is the place were millosovic and karadic went to prison. There tens of people convicted there for war crimes.

>>- A world wide declining appreciation of the US
>Is this a Nice guys vs. Good guys comparison? I'd rather be the Good guys that fought injustice rather than the Nice guys who got pushed around.

Or the good guy that intents to do good but is fooled by another and gets into trouble ?