“Al Gore lost by a wide margin” — okaaay… ;^)

Roy, what flavor Kool-Aid is it you drink again? Where do you get your “balking points”? Daily Kos, Democratic Underground?

Al Gore lost by a wide margin despite his efforts to close the gap through voter fraud during the recounts and also by using the courts to disenfranchise military members. You’re still stuck in the fantasy that Gore won? No wonder you’re so confused about everything else!

As for Yugoslavia, I suppose you think it was OK that a bloodthirsty dictator tried to prevent people from enjoying self-determination? How is it that you think the U.S. caused that mess in the Balkans again? You’re big on claims but short on facts to back it all up. Who, exactly, is it you say is at fault? Bush I? That’s a new level of Bush Derangement Syndrome, for sure.

Quoted as “It’s all Bush(II)’s fault, unless it was Bush(I)’s fault.”

yeahRITE!

Get a clue, Roy & associates. Or don’t. Enough Amerians seem to be waking up and seeing through the propaganda and lies – not soon enough to prevent 4 years of damage but at least in 2010 they’ll start setting it right!

Is there anyone on your site who knows what they’re talking about? I haven’t found anyone yet and I’m just about tired of looking.

…do you mean that after 8 years of the Bush Regime, can it still be Clinton’s fault?

No, I would say. (connotes opinion… ;^)

With regard to that and also your phobia of left-wing slant, Balkingpoints
is a global perspectives forum that reaches far beyond the failed Republican era in America.

The world rejected Bush and the party that rubberstamped him, years
ago. America caught up with that view, in the last two election cycles.
A majority has deposed them (fact).

With Obama’s election we’re moving on now to a new global era, that
I regard the GOP as currently comprised, to be increasingly irrelevant in. Your site author is a declared Progressive, which I stated within this very Balk / the first one ever posted to Balkingpoints. See Balkback #1 above.

But plenty of sites do provide a journalism false-front, which in reality
are loaded with opinion they can’t substantiate, because history has repeatedly proven them wrong. Fox News for example, pays nearly all of
it’s voices to maintain that government is the problem – cut taxes on the wealthy and cut regulation, and prosperity trickles down to all.

America tried that under Reagan/Bush for 12 years and Bush II for 8, out
of the 28 years from 1981-2008. Now the banking system is near collapse, millions have lost their jobs and millions have lost their homes. Millions more are in fear of either or both. Around 100 million Americans are medically uninsured or underinsured, and 1 illness away from financial
ruin. Trickle-Down, indeed. Categorical failure and big lie.

So they’d be an excellent venue to direct your complaint to… ;^)

This site posts many comments that I find informative, and most important, free of the left-wing media slant. That is until I get to yours, ” I would say the global recession left in the wake of anti-regulatory policies of the Bush II regime…” Does this statement imply that the Bush administration has sole responsibility for the economic crisis, or do Clinton and the US Congress share the burden with the former administration? If this is your opinion, then say so. If it is fact with a foundation, then please back it up with a reference. Otherwise you negate the benefit of this site by lowering it to the standards of say, “The New York Times.” I want honest thoughts and opinions, but I also require accurate factual information where it is necessary. It’s imperative I know the difference so please, references where applicable.

Which I argue is ultimately to the good for regular working people the world over, the more we see our aligned interests in corporate regulation and labor rights, and the more we connect on these matters across borders. The age of a global labor movement is coming, and it’s good for the stability of both workers and owners. Protectionism is not the way to prosperity in this technologically-shrunken and interwoven world IMO. Free & fair trade, can create new layers of growth and wealth on multiple sides and fronts – as it has already proven now for centuries.

Equally clearly, we cannot let it nor multi-national corporations, run amok. We see now from this current crisis, how those must be regulated in sensible ways that leave workers shielded from the fallout of unchecked risk-taking, greed, fraudulent corporate practices, moving factories and shifting industrial trends. Only governments, can be the governor. Only citizens, can require their governments to step up and do the job.

Capitalism is like a nuclear reactor. Ignite it and it will throw off massive yields that benefit everyone around it. Fail to limit it’s burn, it melts down and kills everyone around it – including it’s owners & managers. Meltdown is exactly what began to occur worldwide in 2008, after 3 decades of laissez faire economic policy in America that began with Ronald Reagan in 1981 – only interrupted by Bill Clinton in the ’90’s. But the simpletons are deposed now, and the intellectuals who know how to strike the proper balances, are back in.

Welcome aboard baldeagle. (…see what happens when you get me started? ;^)

I find that people whom advocate a perpetual-warrior policy, have usually never fought in one themselves. As the Obama/Clinton change back to sanity begins to rack up foreign policy successes, the pro-Bush / attack-them-all crowd will become marginalized and irrelevant IMO. The disaster that was the Bush Regime, is over.