"I can not believe that an intellegent person can see it any other way. ..."

Now Eddie....I know you are an intelligent person but how can you say that those who think you are consistently mistaken are not intelligent?....I think the answer is that you choose to see the world the way you see it and those who disagree with your assessments see it a different way. Pretty simple...You choose the "documentation" or propaganda that looks like it supports your view of the world and those who disagree with your positions choose to use "documentation" that appears to prove you wrong. This divergence of views is not an intelligence test but simply a dialogue of opposing views.

In your quest to prove the president wrong you can take virtually every issue and slant it to your view of the world. Unfortunately you take even the slightest positive and turn it negative. Liberal thinking tends to slant towards "the sky is falling" mantra almost on an ad nauseum basis to try to show that things are so bad under a republican administration that we should all dispair and give up.

If prosperity is a reasonable goal then things look better to me. If rising employment after 9/11, historically low interest rates, historically high home ownership,booming business climates , lower tax rates and bolstered consumer confidence are signs that this admionistration is as dismal a failure as you seem to think then I guess you must advocate the opposite conditions....higher taxes, stifled business activity, higher interest rates, no confidence and dispair....If the goal is to pit the "rich" against the "poor" I guess you should keep swinging away with doom and gloom. I, for one , feel pretty optomistic with the way things are going. Sorry you don't.

Oh and by the way...By my own barometer which is my own business things are so much better in 2004 over 2002 and 2003 that I am very encouraged by whatever is causing the upswing. I make no apologies for wanting to prosper. Several people depend on me and I am thankful that things out in the business world are looking up. I don't give the credit to the president nor do I blame the loss of jobs on him either. Employment is just the latest road kill for the buzzards to feed on.