Comments on: Ben Stein: Bush Is Not All Bad

Iraq Is A Mess, But There Is A Lot Of Good In the U.S.

[roewert]

Thank you Ben Stein for showing us just how out of touch with reality you are.
Stein says: " Let's admit that Bush has presided over a lot of success in addition to some serious failures. "

What successses? List them? And ecomonics is not a valid response. Economics is consumer driven and tends to run in cycles. The president has nothing to do with it.
Bush is a failure. Period, end of quote.

[roewert]

Thank you Ben Stein for reveal just how out of touch with reality you are.
Stein says: " Let's admit that Bush has presided over a lot of success in addition to some serious failures. "

What successses? List them? And ecomonics is not a valid response. Economics is consumer driven and tends to run in cycles. The president has nothing to do with it.
Bush is a failure. Period, end of quote.

[taffyblock]

I find it interesting that after chairman Mao died and his cohorts were "removed from power", the Chinese people, having been oppressed for so many years, embraced their freedom, solved their problems (for the most part) and worked hard to establish a vital economy and improve their lives. So, why is it that after Saddam Hussein was removed from power and his cohorts brought to justice have things declined so dramatically in Iraq? The people are killing each other -- such a thirst for blood and violence -- and no one has an answer. Perhaps because there IS no answer? I believe we were naive in thinking that if we helped them by removing the regime that held them in captivity for more than 30 years, they would do what most normal people would and relish their freedom. The Chinese were determined to improve their lives and it has taken a generation to do so. Granted...there are still problems in China, but they are not killing each other over ideological differences -- they do not possess that need to kill themselves and others to prove something. Hey... and also, wasn't Saddam Hussein TRULY a weapon of mass destruction all by himself?

[oleander8]

"If you don't agree with Ben Stein and CBS they'll most likely delete your posts later like they do mine..
Posted by bildooreilly at 10:55 AM : Jan 29, 2007"

...now, billdoo - can you say "just kiddin'!"?

bm6005

"Stein, Liebermann, AIPAC, PNAC, Kristol, Wolfowitz, Perle, Abramoff, Feith, Kagan, Hadley, Doh!!! Get the picture? 'Nuff said!!!! "

You said plenty. The reality is blinding...

[racosta65]

Great comments.

Thanks. It is appropriate that Mr. Ben Stein comments follow the section on Mao. I can remember when the left in the U.S. walked around with Mao's red book.

GOD Bless America

[diamtool]

Let me try to get this straight..
So country singer Merle Haggard "knows nothing of what's up in America right now." But elitist Ben does.. OK!
If that is true, then I'm sure Bush will be fondly regarded by history as the president who made the stock market climb and had no terrorist attacks for five years. Sure he will...
Clinton had the stock market climb and no terror attacks for eight years!
The real estate boom Benny refers to was started under Clinton- George Bush put an end to it with his trillion dollar Chinese-financed war,
which our grandchildren will still be paying on in 2050.
Cllnton created many more jobs...
No American cities or pieces of American cities destroyed on Clinton's watch.
Is anyone in America still buying this republican kool aid (or is it eyewash?)

God Bless our Troops
God forgive George Bush

[bpreiss]

Either Mr. Stein is an idiot or he's profiting from the death and dismemberment in Iraq along with the Bush Administration.

[bm6005]

Stein, Liebermann, AIPAC, PNAC, Kristol, Wolfowitz, Perle, Abramoff, Feith, Kagan, Hadley, Doh!!! Get the picture? 'Nuff said!!!!

[rannam]

Great Editorial Mr. Stein!

[fmwoolsey]

oops! Sorry, I did mean Ben Stein. Thank you again, Mr. Stein.

[bpreiss]

Either Mr. Stein is an idiot or he's profiting from the death and dismemberment in Iraq along with the Bush administration.

[fmwoolsey]

Thank you CBS, Sunday Morning and Ben Stiller for saying the truth about President Bush and the state of our country. Yours is a voice of reason and reality. Why so many people think that they are so knowledgeable about the situation in Iraq is beyond me. And, as I read someone stated in another comment, if there are twenty people that he knows who are unemployed in this economy then they're either collecting unemployment and/or welfare and are too lazy to work (or they're just druggies). President Bush is doing a GREAT job and I for one, am so very proud to be an American and to support the efforts he's making to help US. Life in America is good, people. If you don't think so, try living ANYWHERE else in the world.

[ademeyer]

oops! I called Stein, Stiller during in my whole post! Sorry Mr. Stiller. I got you two actors mixed up.
Ben Stein is the actor who plays an intellectual and Ben Stiller is an actor who doesn't pretend to be a pundit. (Stiller is much cuter)

[digdafunk]

Too bad Visine can't clear up your foggy brain the way it clears up a red eye.

[edwardgeismar]

Ben Stein is the same rich,out-of-touch NeoCon Republican that suggested that everyone should purchase and own a second-home so as to avoid the potential loss of a primary home during a catastrophe like Hurrican Katrina! He is so out-of-touch with working, middle-class Americans that he makes the ludicrous statement that there is full-employment under Bush! The highest budget deficit, the largest trade balance deficit and more job losses during Bush than Herbert Hoover he completely ignores. A pathetic, out-of-touch fool!

[karlimhof]

hey bugs beeny - dude , you look real stupid in this CBS picture - uncomfortable too - like someone just shoved something u.y.a., like a water-melon

[bluestardad]

Go away you neocon pimp!

[wadyaknow]

"The nation is wealthier than it has ever been (although this is very unevenly distributed)."

I was furious when I saw him deliver this yesterday. He sneeks in this very important line and does not elaborate on it just to throw out a crumb to the peasants. No-bid contracts. Tax-breaks for the richest. The poor being used as cannon-fodder while the Bush and Stein kids whoop it up....

[adh47]

Thank you for being a "voice in the wilderness". It is refreshing to see someone in the news media step back, actually use some common sense and NOT have a "carbon copy" opinion on the situation we are in.