Meh, politics...
I've long since come to the following conclusion: Politics in most countries is like looking at three huge containers full of liquidy dung. On the left side, you got crap stirred clock-wise, on the right side you got crap stirred counter-clockwise.
In the middle you can have it just shaken, not stir.
From these options, choose the one you prefer.
This description is not equally apt in every country (sometimes some politicians really screw things up so the equilibrium between the crappyness of options is lost), but for the most part, every political party deals with majority of things in roughly the same way. Usually because it's damn difficult to come up with better ways to deal with things, and the political party/ies in the majority are afraid of changing things because if they get it wrong, they get accused of making things worse (quite accurately). This leads to politicians keeping things roughly the same as they are - if things are good they are easier to keep so by continuing the practices, if they are frakked up they tend to stay so.
It's also very easy and fast to frak things up good and proper with making too much changes and getting them wrong.
And every political party has their bull****ters and dungslingers. Honest servants of the public don't tend to do well in politics (and they seldom get into it in the first place).
Oh... about the topic... I just wanted to say my opinion about politics in general. I could guess that this guy could do better* work than Bush, but that wouldn't be an accomplishment in itself.
*
good, definition: something that I could agree with to some extent;
better: comparative form of
good; means I could probably agree with this guy's decicions somewhat better than Bush's. There are parts that I would disagree, but hey, you can't always win, not even every time.
In an ideal world, I would be the benevolent** dictator and all would be good.
**of course, I would only be benevolent to those who agree with me and have no problem with my directives. Those poor blighters who disagree can go to hell or whatever their religion condemns them to after their deaths. Who the hell they think they are.
