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Originally Posted by August
Just curious Oberon about what you didn't like about Bush given that he really hadn't been in office long enough by that time to have made much of an impression one way or the other.
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One has to remember I was younger then, and more under the sway of the fuss that the left kicked up around the time. I was also more left-wing back then than I am now so I was inclined to believe what people around me said about Bush (or Dubya as we all called him back then) and the trouble that he was going to cause for the world and (more importantly for me) to the environment in terms of wild animal protection.
Of course, two thirds of what was predicted about Bush never happened and the rest was spin, and looking back on it now I realise just how much hyperbole there is about US presidents both left and right. Up until the 2000 era though, I had no internet and thus the emotion behind US presidential choices didn't really effect me because I had no real connection to the States.
The benefit of hindsight, eh?
