An accurate comparison imho...

Quoted: Should we be worried the Mariners are baseball’s equivalent of the Bush Administration? Fiscally undisciplined with negligible positive returns? Check. Marketed as veteran leadership despite any veterans with leadership experience? Check. Sloppy management reinforced with sloppy execution on the ground? Check.

Hopefully this doesn't sway the election.

Quoted: Ralph Nader said Sunday he will run for president as a third-party candidate, criticizing the top White House contenders as too close to big business and pledging to repeat a bid that will "shift the power from the few to the many."

Obama's response to the State of the Union address.

Quoted: Official Website of Barack Obama 2008 Presidential Campaign

Quoted: When they go to war, most governments try to be fiscally conservative. They institute austerity programs that require less spending at home and they raise taxes. President Bush spent more at home (following the Reagan economic model) and cut taxes. Then he borrowed money to fight the Iraq war - borrowed it by selling Treasury bills to other countries.
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In the last few years I've heard people say that, well, you can't really blame the President for the price of gasoline. After all, it's those nasty Arabs that are raising the price. Recently I've clarified the issue for myself: you really can blame the president for the price of gasoline. His policies and actions have lead to the decline of the dollar. And the decline of the dollar is why gasoline at the pump costs what it does.

Oh dubya...

Quoted: Pressed on the issue, Mr. Bush said, "You need to talk to an economist."
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"I think I got a 'B' in Econ 101, but I got an 'A' in not raising taxes," he said.

redot. all states (right-leaning and left-leaning) should play by the same rules. agree with the author's conclusion quoted below.

the only reform that could make sense to me is one where we ditch the electoral college and switch to an all out popular vote

Quoted: California Initiative No. 07-0032 is an audacious power play packaged as a step forward for democratic fairness. It’s the lotusland equivalent of Tom DeLay’s 2003 midterm redistricting in Texas, except with a sweeter smell, a better disguise, and larger stakes. And the only way Californians will reject it is if they have a chance to think about it first.

I like that the discussion is framed in a non-partisan context. In fact, the guy who wrote the following quote wrote the first article of impeachment against Clinton.

Quoted: "On January 20th, 2009, if George Bush and Dick Cheney are not appropriately held to account this Administration will hand off a toolbox with more powers than any President has ever had, more powers than the founders could have imagined. And that box may be handed to Hillary Clinton or it may be handed to Mitt Romney or Barack Obama or someone else. But whoever gets it, one of the things we know about power is that people don't give away the tools."

Quoted: The US House votes to ease curbs on funding stem-cell research, defying President Bush's threat to veto the bill.