Fuck Obama for not prosecuting the bankers after 2008. Fuck Obama for not stoping the NSA spying on it's citizens. Fuck Obama for not shutting down illegal prisions where my country tortures people! Fuck Obama for all the right things he didn't do, but FUCK GEORGE W. BUSH for all the wrong things he did do. He lied to us about WMD (or he was too stupid and inept as a leader to realize he was lying). He put our country 6 trillion dollars in debt by going to war in Iraq (which had NOTHING to do with Osama Bin Laden and 9-11). As a direct result of his presidential actions my country started tortuing people. I enlisted in the U.S. military after 2001, and nothing makes me angrier than knowing I fought for a country that was doing something so heineous.
Government is not a team sport. Politics unfortunately rules Government, but Government is where the rule of law is supposed reside. The rule of law is about right and wrong not about Reds vs Blues.
You think W. is smarter than me? I beg to differ Just because some political underling of the former president talks to a classroom full of students and brings up some annecdotes as evidence that W. is smarter than everyone in that room doesn't make it true. Looking at all the horribleness that happened during his presidency, one is forced to conclude that he is either stupid and innept, or he is malicious.
You are a self identifying as a "Red" and as a result you feel the need to defend your past leaders. You take this emotional impulse and apply logic to it. As a result your emotions rule your intellect, when it should be the other way around. I have no doubt that W. is smarter than a lot of folks, and I suspect you are one of them.