BF>BF>>    I wouldn't be surprised. After all GWB was re-elected...
 
BF> O> His father wasn't re-elected.
 
BF> And he wasn't half as bad. Strange...
 
"Read my lips, no new taxes" ... August 18 1988 ...
 
Bush spoke these words when he accepted the GOP-nomination for the Presidency.
It also won him the Presidency that year.
 
With a Democrat controlled House as well as Senate he agreed to a compromise
for the 1990 budget where several taxes were in fact increased.
 
Pat Buchanan in 1992 repeatedly mentioned this as an example why Bush "The
Elder" was untrustworthy. Bill Clinton did the same in his campaign as the
Democratic candidate and the failure to keep the 1988 promise is viewed by many
as why Bush was defeated.
 
Personally I don't think he was a bad president. It's just that promise which
would have been forgotten if during Desert Storm he had allowed US troops to
continue to Baghdad and capture it ... that would have made him all but
invincible during the 1992 presidential elections ... perhaps it also showed
what a great humanitarian he was.
 
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