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What is Bush's record as it stands today?

#1 - in the 2000 elections, he promised to add 3,000 border patrol agents. He never did so. The later goal was increased to a new 6,000, the gap of which was supposed to be filled with National Guard troops while the training happened. This has not happened either.

#2 - Under his watch, the federal prosecutors have established a de facto lower limit on drug smuggling cases of 500 pounds of Marijuana. Anything less, they are simply "not interested."

#3 - Under his watch, Johnny Sutton's office in Texas has been ignoring cases of real drug smuggling, allowing "stash houses" to exist for over a year and a half even after multiple raids. At the same time, they have been ruthlessly persecuting the Border Patrol, going after agents using bogus trumped-up charges, lies, and deception. Friends of the Border Patrol have a lot on this; Sutton's office has also been caught lying to Congressmen about various cases. The phrase "prosecutorial misconduct" describes this office in much the same way "a tall building" describes the Sears Tower, but Bush's administration doesn't care, it seems.

#4 - It is apparently the policy of this administration that when armed commandoes violate the border of the US, National Guard troops are supposed to retreat before them.

#5 - The Katrina debacle still goes on. The fact that money that was supposed to go to Levee maintenance got funneled away into the corrupt hands of "committees", and Louisiana's general disarray. However, it's now far longer. Stuff like this is inexcusable, and even as the crime problem in New Orleans is returning to pre-Katrina levels, the crime NO exported to other areas in the evacuation is making problems there as well.

#6 - The lower class in America is being assaulted; wage deflation/suppression due to "under the table" workers and corporate avarice are at an all time high.

#7 - As RAW mentions below, the middle class is also under attack from all sides: corporations are slashing health care, raiding pensions, and making work lives worse every day. Wages are being depressed there too as workers try to compete with "outsourcing" to nations where workers' rights laws and environmental laws mean precisely Jack.

#8 - I'm convinced Bush knows so little about Iraq's and Afghanistan's region, and so little about how to manage a proper war, that he's a bumbling moron. He's screwed up Afghanistan by letting the pressure off too early, when he turned around to go into Iraq. He's screwed up Iraq by having no idea of what was around the area, or the underlying pressures (such as the tribalist Sunni/Shia/Kurd internecine warfare that was bound to happen and the Iranian goal of taking the area over) that were going to create chaos after Saddam was removed.

#9 - Worst of all, he's done absolutely nothing good for tthe economy. The housing market is in the process of tanking. Even as wage depression hits the middle and lower classes, the price of goods and gas at the pump are working their way quickly upwards. Gas is almost $3/gallon again. This is the President who stood by his Saudi friends in the early days of his Presidency, and they made an announcement that oil over $30/barrel wasn't good for the Saudis, or America, or the world. At over $70/barrel now, the Saudis are laughing, and Bush has done absolutely nothing to work on getting the prices down.

There you have it.

So here's the challenge -to Democrats and Republicans: show me a REAL candidate. Show me someone I can trust to do the right thing at least 70% of the time. Show me someone who means what they say and seems to have at least a modicum of common sense.