Bush's Place in History.

[DuncanONeil]

You misread!

[wmrs2]

You misread!

My friend, you are doing a good job at debunking the liberals' rhetoric strategy. You are sticking to the facts and giving simple, correct examples of the truth. Eventually this type of fact giving and questioning will break through.

It is a very popular theory that if you continue to see what you are by having it pointed out to you that you are a certain way, this will make you want to change to being the person you would really like to be. This is the "looking glass theory" and you use it very well.

Americans do not want to be labeled with certain names which have historically been rejected by the American public. We have experienced this resentment on this thread as members don't like being labeled as socialist and communist. They have a point in stating this resentment and I suppose we should try to honor their request not to be so labeled.

Yet, does this mean that we should not describe how their political views come across to us? We have witnessed the criticism of capitalism in relation to what President Obama is attempting with the economy. Honestly, very few people know what to do about the economy. The opinion of most Americans, I believe, is to allow the economy to cycle out. In the meantime, Obama's effort at reconstruction seems to be a good thing. But, if his agenda is to replace the capitalist system to a socialist system, like Rush said, I hope he fails.

I look for liberals to jump on this statement like they did Rush this morning on all news channels. In their criticism of Rush they deliberately left out his reference to "But if." Clearly Rush wants socialism to fail but just as clearly he wants Oboma to succeed. "But if" changes everything. The liberal press and many Democrats would rather demonize Rush for saying the President should fail and then come back with the statement that he is the head of the Republican Party to make all anti-socialist Republicans demonized. I think when it comes down to it, most Democrats would like to see Karl Marx. and the tenants of communism fail.

Part of the positive legacy of G. Bush will be that he supported Obama's efforts to rebuild the country by not being critical or revengeful about how he was treated. There has to come a time when the Democrats and Republicans set aside the type of rhetoric such as that cited above and really do what is best for the country. If we continue to seize on every petty word that is said, only the true enemies of our country will win. My suggestion is that we raise the level of debate and stick to the facts with less personal attacks and more accurate descriptions of what we truly are - all Americans.