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Why trust?

The history of Presidents over the past 40+ years leads me to distrust.  LBJ, after all, was the peace candidate in 1964 but in 1965 he began sending massive numbers of Americans to Vietnam.  Nixon?  "Peace with Honor"/ secret plan, Nixon?  Ford?  Pardon Nixon, fire Rockefeller Ford?  Carter?  Nice man but his administration seemed a big mess.  Reagan?  He made up statistics, violated laws with immpunity, favored the rich and the very rich and somehow got away with everything.  Reagan sucked.  Second opinion, Reagan really sucked.  GHW Bush?  Won't raise taxes?  Half a President.  Ok on foreign polict clueless on the economy.  No connection with real people.  Clinton?  I acually liked him.  NAFTA was disappointing and I would have fought Janet Reno and made her clamp down on that damned Louis Freeh leaking like crazy from the FBI.  W. Nuff said.

Well, that'd not a lot to build trust on.  Surprisingly, I trust Pelosi somewhat and Durbin somewhat.  That's it for the whole of elected government.  

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by: David Kowalski @ Thu Apr 09, 2009 at 17:18:19 PM CDT