YOU CAN'T SUBPOENA ME I'M THE PRESIDENT

Yes, we all know that you are a Republican, Phoenix, and that you wouldn't necessarily have brought any of these points up had a democratic president been the subject.You are one of the few people on this earth who will still defend the Bush administration blindly, republican or no.

That being said, the judicial system has yet to prove Bush 'guilty' for any behavior unbecoming of a president, true. People break laws all the time, each of varying quality and severity but thats not the focus here.

The focus should be not which law was/wasn't broken, but which laws were taken advantage of, manipulated by the Bush administration for selfish economical reasons, to the detriment of not only the American people's trust but the welfare of the people of Iraq and the rest of the world.

Such laws that protect the president from facing proseution for eavesdropping in on the American people without a court order, possibly need revision. Lying in court is the least of my worries. How about lying to the people in regards Iraq having "weapons of mass destruction" and falsifying information as a reasoning for defending "freedom"? How about sacrificing hundreds of thousands of lives in the name of "freedom"?

For sure, defending "freedom" shouldn't entail going in and killing tens to hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians on foreign soil.

Morally speaking, the man's hands are already quite dirty, whether Bush knows it or not is besides the point. He will likely serve the rest of his term and be clean of any wrongdoing because of this 'Executive Privilege'. Perhaps that is a privilege which bestows upon the president, the capacity to play God. To decide who lives, who dies and who gets the shaft without facing any repercussions whatsoever seems like it should be wielded with a little more responsibility and decency.
Who knows, maybe even history will look back upon the man fondly, but I'll be damned if at least a few people won't remember just how shitty this administration is.

So, keep loving you some Republicans and keep defending them blindly.

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To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

-Theodore Roosevelt

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Hmm. Not to get off too much on a tangent here, but socialism doesn't seem like a brilliant idea. I mean, one of the ideas behind socialism is income equality, right? Won't this negate the average citizen going above and beyond the call of duty? Won't this sterilize the need for competition, one of the things that has made America what it is today economically? Won't it completely piss off Phoenix Night? You're goddamn right! I kind of understand PN's reasoning for not appreciating Socialism...

Anyways, I don't think America will ever become Socialist in nature. I think our country will continually get more liberal, but there will always be a legitimate number of conservatives to ensure that this never happens.

To remain on topic, the current administration feigns "executive privilege" to run things in accordance to a very centralized political scheme, sometimes involving kidnapping diplomats in countries where it isn't allowed (CIA in Italy), killing lots of civilians and most recently, not providing documents to an inquiring court.

Its clear that current administration's tactile stupidity is making many Republicans realize that liberalism seems much more appreciable, possibly converting them. In my eyes this is a fault of the Republican party for nominating such fools.

How ya doing, buddy?