DAVIS: Farewell to Bush, the president and the man

You should have noted, Lanny, that Bush promoted illegal immigration, built up the population of illegals, and then tried to cram anmesty down our throats. Back here in the real world, we are fed up with self-aggrandising politicians who think they can do whatever they please with the country. I liked Bush as a person, but I never thought he should have been president. My suspicians were fully confirmed.

Bill Clinton did not create the surplus. How do you get a surplus from projected numbers? (It's all relative, like placing 100,000 new police officers or equivalent on the street when 60% of them are laptop computers) He happened to be at the right place at the right time with the dot com boom. He also used Y2K state of fear to keep the economy from going through a possible recession which he handed over to Bush. Al Gore has also capitalized on the same model with Global Warming which was too deterministic (it's getting colder, not warmer) and has now evolved to a non deterministic "climate change". It's all a matter of swarm mentality and how to manipulate it.

Soxconn, Right on all counts, but don't forget how immensely important the "peace dividend" was to Bill Clinton's budgets. Clinton's budgets were only possible because of Ronald Reagan's steadfastness in winning the cold war. It's irritating to hear Democrats expound on how great Clinton's economic policies were when his budget surpluses were only possible because of Republicans never giving in to the Soviets. Winning wars, even cold ones, does pay in many ways. I hope Obama has the sense and guts to win the ones we are in now.

"They helped convert a trillion-dollar surplus left behind by Bill Clinton" What trillion dollar surplus? There was a trillion dollar debt to the Social Security fund, remember? A debt is NOT a surplus, an asset. It is a liability. That liability has grown even larger over the last 8 years. It also promises to keep growing under the Obama administration, with no "change" in sight

How convenient that Mr. Davis has now decided that he disagrees with the policy of "rendition". Wasn't he Clinton's Chief of Staff when Clinton implemented this policy?