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I am stubborn in my support of things and people.  Once I cast my lot in with an idea, a person, an approach, I tend not to change my mind very easily.  To do so is to effectively admit you were wrong in your initial analysis (and I don’t like to be wrong) *sarcasm*

I have stood by this President through thick and thin.  He did not earn my vote in 2000, but did in 2004 and I have been one of those 25-ish% of Americans who still approved, on balance of his job performance.  The past two weeks the dam has burst and I have now officially disowned him.  Step one was his gopher-like behavior during the fiscal crisis, popping up and emerging form the oval office only long enough to make a brief statement.  Then, after refusing to take any press questions or further reassure the country, he scurried back into his hole in retreat.

Now comes these remarks, within the context of record drops in the markets, and after a $700 billion transfer of taxpayer money to the private sector.

As global markets plunged, President Bush on Monday said “it’s going to take awhile” for the government’s $700 billion financial rescue plan to bolster the troubled U.S. economy.

Gee, thanks for the reassuring words Mr. President.

But, he added: “We don’t want to rush into the situation and have the program not be effective.”

Don’t want to rush? I see, so the fury in Congress the past two weeks, the midnight meetings with Treasure Department, the warnings of pending doom and gloom and calamity was measured and restrained?

Give me a break.