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If you judge strength (ie weakness) by comparison of the US economy to the economies of its major trading partner ( US $ vs. Canadian $ 5yr chart) , the US is crawling around on all fours in a ditch looking for its teeth. That's on W's watch.



luckily, our strength is never defined by anything canadian and canada would be a third world nation on par with mexico if not for the US. who suffers more the US without canada or canada without the US?

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I can certainly understand why someone would be a social/fiscal/cultural conservative, but at this point, I can't imagine anyone saying they think W and the lads have done a good job, except as a provocation to an argument.



well, that's subjective. I don't agree with everything GW has done, but to imply everything he has done is a "bad job" is just as disingenuous.

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He has lived up to his destiny as an embarassment the US will need generations to live down.



Now that's a loaded statement. Who prophesied that he would have a "destiny of embarassment(sic) the US would need generations to live down"? the state run CBC?

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The best that can be said of him is that he occasionally managed to extricate himself from problems caused by his administration's own incompetence.



if that's truly what you believe as "the best that can be said of him" then your state run media has sadly misinformed you.
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