I lost all respect for the corporate media's summation of a person's position when in 2008 I heard the mantra repeated, "Ron Paul is a racist, Ron Paul is a racist." A mantra that was oft repeated by my lawyer colleagues whether neocon or liberal--"Ron Paul is a racist, Ron Paul is a racist."...
Interest on the national debt was over $450 billion in 2008 alone. Bush was in office for 8 years. I haven't run the numbers, but I'm quite sure that interest made up a substantial portion. I would make a very rough guess of at least $2 trillion.
This is how the sheeple are trained to argue rather than to critically analyze information. They are trained that it is normal to shout one's opponent down without even listening to what they have to say. The same TV that trained the sheeple to eat a Super Sized Big Mac and a 22 oz coke for...
I think of Bush as another Von Hindenburg. As horrible as the Reichstag Fire Decree was, it wasn't Hindenburg who used it for horrific purposes. I'm not sure he was capable of using it that way. I seriously wonder if Germans in 1935 were still grumbling about how bad Hindenburg was ...