Sure, I've never heard of Dowagiac, Michigan either, but

a good editorial is a good editorial.

http://www.dowagiacnews.com/articles/2006/05/08/columnists/dncolumn01.txt

"According to the Treasury Department, the 42 presidents who occupied the White House between 1789 and 2000 borrowed a combined total of $1.01 trillion from foreign governments and financial institutions.

"The Bush White House has borrowed $1.05 trillion between 2001 and 2005 alone.

"Yup, more than all previous chief executives combined.

"George W. Bush inherited the largest federal surplus in American history in 2001 and turned it into the largest deficit ever, with $423 billion of red ink forecast for fiscal year 2006.

"No wonder he's being compared to Herbert Hoover who, running for president in 1928, declared that American was closer to ?the final triumph over poverty of any land.? A year later the stock market crashed and plunged America into the Depression. Hoover kept insisting that ?prosperity is just around the corner,? but actually it was a landslide loss to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

"Bush is also being compared to James Buchanan, who left the country more divided and acrimonious than he found it; Andrew Johnson, whose efforts during Civil War Reconstruction after Abraham Lincoln's assassination are reminiscent of the rebuilding of Iraq; and James Polk for allegedly manufacturing war with Mexico.


"Only one president elected twice has seen his ratings plummet as low as Bush's in his second term - Richard Nixon, months before his 1974 resignation during Watergate."

Now I've mentioned this little wrinkle before, Bush has handcuffed and thrown down the well, every successor he will have for decades, because of his ridiculous policy of taxcuts combined with a war. Hope you've saved all that money you got in tax cuts and sent it off shore, cause taxes are going to have to go up big-time to pay for his mistakes, oh and the mistakes of the roughly 25.1% of people who voted for him. Maybe now would be a good time to make voting compulsory, Australia does it.

But I'm not gloating, I've got nearly 5 years of Stephen Harper to wade through, and he makes Bush look like a genius and a giant. And he lost every seat in every major urban area in Canada. He's the backwoods choice for Prime Minister, can you say Yee Haaa!!!????

Rob