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silhouete2

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47. That is a person's opinion

Thu Dec 27, 2012, 02:37 PM

Dec 2012

Perhaps he has sour grapes on something that happened between him and Bush. We can't know what a person is thinking when they say what they say about people. Until you have had direct contact with the man--and can assess who he is for yourself--you are basing things on other people's opinions--and we all know that people NEVER do/say things out of spite--they only tell the absolute truth. Yes, he has done things in the past that many of us wouldn't' agree with--however ALL politicians do this kind of thing. I could argue that Obama is not a nice guy--because he continues to allow indefinite detention of prisoners at GitMo--or that he allows drones to fly killing many innocent people. It's easy to do. Does that mean Obama is evil? I don't know. My point is--we don't' really know what kind of person Bush is TODAY. Perhaps he was a rich boy asshole, but what kind of person is he today? We only have what we know about from his past to dictate who we think he is today--and that isn't right. Do I truly know how he feels about the poor today? I don't know. Neither does anyone else.

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