<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by UALOneKPlus:
I think it's pretty closed minded to call our President a dummy. I may not always agree with all the decisions he makes, but he is our leader and unless he gets impeached, I'm going to give him the respect I think he deserves....
Clinton's legacy of non-confrontation got us 9/11, so let's not forget that either.</font>
Any changes will probably affect our personal freedoms a lot more than our travel plans.
Mr bush is not a dummy. Although he may be controlled by a ventrilloquist! Give the guy a break! Mr bush is just like any evil dictator, trying to do the best he can for the billionaires he serves.
As for clinton, he did not 'give' us 9/11, We bought it from him, paid for with our own apathy. it was indeed his inaction that allowed it to happen, but it was US that distracted him from his job by prying into his personal affairs(no pun intended).
Blaming one elected (?) official or another doesn't get us our constitutional rights back, or our security at the airport. Has all of this so called security caught any terrorists? no. Even the 'shoe bomber' got past all of the security and onto the plane. The only people who have been affected by the new security, is us. Bush's war on terror has so far been about as effecive as his daddy's failed war on drugs. Drugs still come into this country, and so do terrorists.
We need to pay a lot closer attention to what these politicians are doing in our name, so that we are not made into targets in the first place. This is what happens when we are affraid to debate 'political' ideas. If we want positive change, we must involve ourselves in the process of making change instead of our recent 'just-vote-then-forget-for-four-years' attitude. Who on this board has actually written to the president or to the TSA about these questions? I have.
I apologize to anyone who thinks my post is too 'political', but these are the tough questions that WE must answer if we want to have any say in what the coming changes in our community might be.