When my Republican friends complain about our current president and claim that he may be the worst president in history, my immediate response is usually to think out loud.
Okay. Let me think. G. W. Bush took us into Iraq and left us with an incredible recession, but I don't recall getting letters or emails from my republican friends complaining about him.
On the other hand, when President Johnson, who ran on a no war in Vietnam policy, actually took us into war in Vietnam in 1965, I, who had been a supporter of Johnson, made it clear that I could never support him again. And I wasn't the only one who convinced Johnson not to run again in 1968.
And then there was the stock market disaster at the beginning of Obama's tenure thanks to Bush and company. But today, six years later, the stock market is at record high levels. I wonder who gets the credit?
I hear that Osama bin Laden is dead. I wonder who gets the credit for that?
And of course, there is our Congress. When Reagan was our president, there were many verbal bombs being lobbed at him by the democrats, but while this was happening, the democrat leader of the congress, Tip O'Neil, managed to sit down with Reagan and succeed in getting a good deal of important legislation passed including tax increases needed to pay for our American budget.
How about now with a democrat president and a Republican congressional leader? Nope. Fifty attempts to overcome the affordable care act as opposed to tending to the needs of our infrastructure and of our economy, but very little positive legislation accomplished due to a Republican Congress and so many filibusters in the United States Senate by the Republican minority.
And by the way. Like Reagan and every president before and since, our current president has made mistakes, in my opinion, so I don't give him a free pass. I just wish that the civility that existed during the Reagan years would reappear within our current political world. We would all benefit by it.
Okay. Let me think. G. W. Bush took us into Iraq and left us with an incredible recession, but I don't recall getting letters or emails from my republican friends complaining about him.
On the other hand, when President Johnson, who ran on a no war in Vietnam policy, actually took us into war in Vietnam in 1965, I, who had been a supporter of Johnson, made it clear that I could never support him again. And I wasn't the only one who convinced Johnson not to run again in 1968.
And then there was the stock market disaster at the beginning of Obama's tenure thanks to Bush and company. But today, six years later, the stock market is at record high levels. I wonder who gets the credit?
I hear that Osama bin Laden is dead. I wonder who gets the credit for that?
And of course, there is our Congress. When Reagan was our president, there were many verbal bombs being lobbed at him by the democrats, but while this was happening, the democrat leader of the congress, Tip O'Neil, managed to sit down with Reagan and succeed in getting a good deal of important legislation passed including tax increases needed to pay for our American budget.
How about now with a democrat president and a Republican congressional leader? Nope. Fifty attempts to overcome the affordable care act as opposed to tending to the needs of our infrastructure and of our economy, but very little positive legislation accomplished due to a Republican Congress and so many filibusters in the United States Senate by the Republican minority.
And by the way. Like Reagan and every president before and since, our current president has made mistakes, in my opinion, so I don't give him a free pass. I just wish that the civility that existed during the Reagan years would reappear within our current political world. We would all benefit by it.
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