My President Bush - NOT!

I was happy Bush was elected and then re-elected. But, Bush has become one of the worst Presidents in modern history. Perhaps only Carter was worse.

If the man had one thing to do it was hunt down the individual Clinton failed to hunt down when he had a chance. As far as we know Bin Laden is still out there. But, the worst aspect of Bush is the great expansion of debt this country has taken on. One would have hoped for a balanced budget occasionally.

Now, the country is in an even greater partisan divide. Yet somehow Congress keeps giving him a ride.

Bush is an oil man. Bush does not understand that the oil industry will be a blip in the history books and then perhaps fade from the history books. Maybe the history books will need to reference a dictionary definition to describe oil. Energy from the Sun will always be there - or we have far bigger problems to worry about. Not once did our leader go out of his way to explain that truth to the public. Not once did our leader explain that to members of Congress when asking for legislation.

I sold gas when I was young at 25 to 31 cents per gallon. Even then I knew about energy from the Sun, but I never connected the fact that energy could be captured from the Sun. All I knew was that the Sun made me hot during the summer. And, I got colder during the winter after the Sun went down.

But, I sold a lot of gasoline. My grandfather's old country store was it for miles around. We even had a few robberies where my grandfather sent me to the backroom to hide. I could see events unfold through a little peep hole. I loved my grandfather more than anyone in the world.

So, Bush comes along and he's an oil man. That's fine by me. But, Bush is no great American. Bush is an oil man. Bush should have seen the writing on the Wall. I guess he was just not smart enough. Or, perhaps he was just too beholding to oil interests for campaign contributions? Regardless the reason, we need to move as quickly as possible away from subsidized oil.

Bush has gotten us deeper in debt. Bush has not gotten the key character of 9/11. Bush has not altered our energy picture one bit. Bush has congratulated one of the meanest, heartless leaders of the House of Representatives I've ever heard just because she became the leader. Bush has valued the life of cells that are not viable humans over the long fragile lives of the elderly that could substantially be improved when cell research is more successful. Losing over 4,000 young lives in war is tragic. However, losing MILLIONS OF LIVES one day sooner than necessary is little less than murder many times over.

Bush is no longer representative of anything I respect.

So, when Bush says that the bailout is necessary, I seriously doubt Bush is speaking for the American People. Bush is speaking for Wall Street and bankers that might lose their business. We need smaller banks closer to the local economies. We need legislation that prevents any financial institution from being considered "too big to fail". I see none of that legislation from Congress.

We need to wait until good legislation appears that addresses the real problems. We do not need a free hand to buy bad-debt. Would you go out and buy bad debt? Perhaps you should go try! Go see if a bank will sell you debt at 50-cents on the dollar. Come back and give us a report.

Bush can go eat dirt. Hopefully, McCain, or even the most liberal member of Congress (Obama) will be far better. They could not be much worse.