Well eventhough i’ve paid my bills, i’m ok with the bailout, just because you look back to the early depression when nobody did anything, everyone lost their investments and 25% of the country was out of work. It would have been cheaper and easier to prevent it before it all came crashing down, but the US loves to wait till something builds into to a horrific crisis before the politicians stop ventilating and start working.
What i’m most amazed at is how despite the US’s debt skyrocketing, people want US treasury securities more than ever. All other currencies, except the Yen, are crashing against the dollar. It makes you think that we should double the debt again 
Bud
Regarding what you where saying about “supporting” the president you didn’t vote for. I agree that most people want the country to work well no matter who is in charge, but there are a hardcore of party activists who are about winning first.
I really hoped that bush would have used the close/disputed election to actually try to build support for bipartisanship. Instead he and the republican party decided to not compromise on anything. Maybe had 9-11 come later or not at all, he would have done so. But i saw him as a devisive, smug, egomaniac who seemed to be unable to admit making a mistake, no matter how innocent or inconsiquential.
I would have love to find a president who i have more respect for after they leave office than i do before. Strangely enough, for me the only one in my mind (from Nixon on) that i have more respect for now than when he was president is Carter and mainly because of how little i thought of him in 1980. I was pretty disappointed in Clinton, not for what he did with monica lewinsky, but the fact that he was willing to lie under oath instead of just admiting it when it first came out, ask for forgiveness and move on. Again, a politician who waited till the house was on fire before thinking about something besides his ego and wasted years of his presidency on a sexual encounter at work (who hasn’t? )