Treatment of Bush: A Blight on America

Truth Based Opinions (BLOG: Preston Osborne) ^ | 06 November 2008 | Preston Osborne

[davidosborne]

I agree with you that his approval rating after he leavs office will likely be limited at best.

Sadly, IMHO, it will be because of the number of times he failed to govern as a TRUE conservative.....

... conservatives will remember the times he failed us, and the left will remember him as some right-wing radical conservative ALWAYS giving in the to far right, which is far from the truth.

[Jacquerie]

Our failure to stand by the one person, President Bush, who continued to stand by us has not gone unnoticed by our enemies. It has shown to the world how disloyal we can be when our President needed loyalty - a shameful display of arrogance and weakness that will haunt this nation long after President Bush has left the White House. J.S. Shapiro, Democrat lawyer w/Kerry campaign in the WSJ.

[wku man]

I second that.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Timocrat]

He reached across the aisle so many times, and they bit his hand.

If Bush has a fault he's too eager to "reach out a hand". We hold elections because two parties have different views and whoever wins gets to implement those views. This bi-partisan nonsense is just that. Obama won - now let him implement his policies but the next time the Republicans get in lets not have any more of this bi-partisan rubbish from the elected Republicans. When they get elected we should expect them to implement their policies "hell for leather". It's also the duty of the Republicans in Congress to oppose policies they are against with every weapon at their disposal.

Republicans view politics as a polite tea party, Democrats view it as a fight to the death - Republicans should too.

[americanophile]

[ThreePuttinDude]

It appears you are a blight on FreeRepublic

[E. Cartman]

"Our failure to stand by the one person, President Bush, who continued to stand by us has not gone unnoticed by our enemies. It has shown to the world how disloyal we can be when our President needed loyalty - a shameful display of arrogance and weakness that will haunt this nation long after President Bush has left the White House. J.S. Shapiro, Democrat lawyer w/Kerry campaign in the WSJ."

Shapiro should stop sniveling. Bush is The President, not The Queen of England. Like a true alcoholic, Bush fawningly tried to curry favor with everyone who despised him yet at every turn spat upon his staunchest supporters.

It is with justifiable opprobrium that in future his name will be spoken by the people who worked so hard to put him office.

[SevenMinusOne]

Wrong. History will be incredibly kind to GWB....Much like it has been to Reagan. Both will be remembered very fondly.

[Thane_Banquo]

If you consider the biggest expansion of the size and scope of the Federal government since LBJ to be a shining example of what Republicans should stand for, very well. I do not.

[Migraine]

The intense hating (on the part of the MSM, the universities, the lefty interest-groups, and Europe itself) all started with a gasp! after GW Bush was asked in an exclusive interview: “Who is the single most influential person in your life?”; and he answered, “The Lord Jesus Christ”.

Same thing happened to Sarah Palin.

Evangelical Christianity has been summarily marginalized.

[Jacquerie]

You are quite right, for those who wish to live in an Obamanation.

[RJL]

Bush 41 & 43 have both been disasters for the Republican Party and conservatives.

Bush 43 earned his approval rating.

[groanup]

The Bush bashing that has occurred for the last 8 years is nothing more than an extension of the hissy fit libs had when Al Gore was stopped from stealing the election. Ever since it's been BUSH'S FAULT, from WMD's, yellow cake, Hurricane Katrina, stem cells, Valeri Plame and the economic downturn.

[E. Cartman]

Wrong. History will be incredibly kind to GWB....Much like it has been to Reagan. Both will be remembered very fondly.

History would always treat Reagan as a great President. There's too much empirical evidence extant for even the lefties to refute his greatness.

History will judge Bush like Carter, a man with the best of intentions, but beyond his pay-grade who because he ignored reality ended being very bad for the country.

[9YearLurker]

A president who winds up eight years in office with the beginning of the greatest spree of business nationalization in our history is himself perhaps a bit of a blight on America.

[E. Cartman]

You are quite right, for those who wish to live in an Obamanation.

No one wants to live in an Obamanation. But, only a fool would ignore that just as Jimmy Carter helped guarantee a sweeping success for Ronald Reagan, Bush guaranteed a sweeping success for Barack Obama.

[Marauder]

Does the “Civilian National Security Force” set off any alarm bells?

Absolutely. I'm picturing Hitler's Brownshirts, or his Waffen SS.

I'm afraid we're in for some scary times in this country.

[uncbob]

Wrong. History will be incredibly kind to GWB....Much like it has been to Reagan. Both will be remembered very fondly.

Depneds

1.Who writes the history
2.If there is a history after the world goes back into the Dark Ages

[uncbob]

Bush 41 & 43 have both been disasters for the Republican Party and conservatives. Bush 43 earned his approval rating.

The worst part of the situation is that Bush 43 learned absolutely NOTHING from how the democrats treated Bush 41

[SevenMinusOne]

We shall see - I think 10-20 years out you will be dead wrong - GWB is going to, through his steadfast resolve as CinC, to have changed the world.....with the values of freedom and self-worth taking hold in the ME.

And any comparison in decency and/or competence in office to Carter is laughable and no where near being intellectually honest.

The pay-grade BS is just that, BS. The man is as serious and adult (with a hell of an intellect) as any we have had in office. Don't agree with his positions on issues, fine. So be it. The notion of his intellect / pay grade....is utter grade-school level BS.