Bob -

Just because GW (2) didn't cause the hurricane, (4) didn't single-handedly start global warming, (6) wasn't responsible for contingency planning in New Orleans, (7) didn't snipe rescue workers, (8) isn't (outwardly) racist, (9) is making face time for news cameras, and (13) isn't Hillary Clinton... does NOT mean he is a good leader, nor that his policies have made life easier for victims in the short or long term. And I'd probably trust Hillary more with my health care at this point; at least her $500 billion medicare bill and version of CAFTA would never actually get through Congress, since she's a Democrat and despised by conservative males across America (I actually put her in the same category as Bush: a politician and a FRAUD. But she's an impotent one, whereas he's president.)

(10) Is it slander to say that the corps of engineers were underfunded by the feds, so that money could be shifted into the presidential budget and wasted in Iraq? It may not be pretty, but it's true, and it happened under Bush's watch.

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/12540178.htm
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/12576898.htm

>>Sticking pins into an effigy of George Bush that does not >>resemble him in the slightest will not speed the process by one day.

True... but it would make a lot of people feel better to see some justice hammered out, even if the person didn't actually do the ill deed. Look what happened to Saddam Hussein (good riddance too). Barring that, some voodoo pins will do quite nicely

Cheers!