Right you are. Who said this?
“Today I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent: To make this nation stronger and better I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust. A new term is a new opportunity to reach out to the whole nation. We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us. And when we come together and work together, there is no limit to the greatness of America.”
It was George W. Bush, November 3, 2004, after being elected to his second term. How short are the memories of the virulent Bush-haters on the left, who never gave him a chance. He reached across the aisle so many times, and they bit his hand. He compromised a great deal - to the detriment of his popularity - and they did not soften one iota toward him. He got called Hitler and Nazi for his troubles.
He has been wrong on much - mostly spending and big government - but he has been right on terrorism and has kept us from being attacked, not just here but pretty much worldwide, for 7 years. No gratitude from the self-righteous “progressives” and from many of our own party. I hope that history makes the right call - but with leftists writing most of the books used in schools, don’t count on it.
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.
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.