I originally posted this on my personal web site back in 2003. I decided to add it to my blog. Yes, it's political. I want to transfer as much as possible from the site because it's going to be completely changed.
The original post, with one minor correction, is as follows:
On 11 September 2001, Al-Qaeda mass murderers committed the most egregious attacks against the U.S. that she has ever suffered. Ever since that day, Congress and the American public have asked the question of, "How could the U.S. Government have allowed such a thing to happen?" Mind you, the U.S. had been subjected to attacks from Al-Qaeda before, namely the attacks against the World Trade Center (the first time in 1993), the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, the attacks against our soldiers in Mogadishu, Somalia, the USS Cole, and the simultaneous bombings of our embassies in Tanzania and Kenya on the African continent. All of these attacks occurred during the administration of Bill Clinton, who entered office on 20 January 1993. The first attack was the bombing of the World Trade Center on 26 February 1993. He had from that date until he left office on 20 January 2001, a total of 2885 days, to deal with the problem. His maximal effort was the launching of cruise missiles at a couple of sites in Sudan and Afghanistan.
After the attacks of 9/11, everyone began pointing the finger at George W. Bush as responsible for "letting this happen". Mind you, he had only been in office since 20 January 2001, a total of 234 days.
Doing a quick bit of math, that means that George W. Bush was being held to the same standard as Bill Clinton. Since Bush only had 234 days to deal with the same problems that Clinton had 2885 days with which to deal, this means that we, the US citizenry, consider Bush, a Republican, to be 2885 / 234 = 12.329 time better than Clinton, a Democrat.
Hence, Republicans are 12.329 times better than Democrats. At least, this is how I see it.
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