Quote:I lean towards the Green party, actually.  And I'm not seeing what I want to see.  I'm seeing what's there.

 

The Bush policies of spying were bad.  I'm willing to admit that.  I'm sure most conservatives are willing to admit that.  Bush was by no means a Top 5 President, and you'll never hear most people claim that.

 

But the policy of Japanese-American internment was far worse.  And it cannot be excused because Hitler did worse to jews.  Unless you want to excuse that too.  I'm sure excuses could be made for Bush too.  But I won't hear you spouting them.  Because he's not a member of your party.  Anybody with a D next to there name gets a pass.  Anybody who has an R does not.

 

Go ahead and link the post where I endorsed interning people as good.

 

If your point is to say that I'm not damning enough of one of the greatest presidents the nation has ever had over a decision made during the worst war the world ever saw, then your point is misguided. I don't need to excuse the internment, I only have to believe that the rest of his presidency was far greater.

 

As Rollerjag stated, if you want to hold presidents to modern standards then most of them would come up short, but we judge them for the time they were in. In FDR's time the internment was seen as necessary.

 

Now we have Bush's surveillance state to keep everyone in a virtual prison all the time instead.

 

Also, to add, what is with the republican ignoring of the war on drugs and the disenfranchisement it's caused for millions of black male Americans?

 

A hundred thousand Americans were denied their rights as citizens in the 1940s. Millions of black men are abused of their rights as citizens around the country right now.

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