Yep, I miss Bush - UPDATED

The Anchoress ^ | 2-23-09

[STARWISE]

And if that annoys anyone, that’s too bad.

Seems increasingly like all the “Fascist Bush” caterwauling was the usual fake, dishonest theater meant as a means to an end - the end being to destroy the hated “election stealer” and his legacy, and not much more.

But you know, for someone who “did everything wrong,” his policies suddenly seem wise and right to some surprising people.

It’s easy to campaign and criticize. It’s much more difficult to govern, especially knowing that if you don’t keep the country safe, you don’t get re-elected.

And if you don’t get re-elected, good heavens! How can you continue and complete the coup?

Even with restrictions to free speech and the press watching your back as much as possible, and destroying all possible rivals, it will be very hard for them to spin it if people start saying, “at least Bush kept us safe, not like Obama.”

So, the FISA stays, Gitmo (despite all the righteous-sounding rhetoric) is not so bad, after all. Terrorist-suspected detainees do not enjoy constitutional rights, after all. Patriot Act, stays.

Whether succeeding presidents will abuse the powers Bush put in place to protect us is rather less a question than a surety. Not an “if” but a “when.” And that is troubling, oh yes.

Of course, if we’re destroyed from within, economically, socially and in every other way, well…that won’t be seen as “not keeping us safe,” will it? That will just be seen as “Obama’s brave economic unilateralism being unable save the country from the disastrous global Bush recession.”

[STARWISE]

'Everything “unacceptable” about the last 8 years is now “acceptable.” Except, of course, the “wiser countries” led by tyrants and despots are our new friends, and our old friends are either being sacrificed or left to precede us to implosion.

Oh, and human rights - an issue for which Bush’s commitment was never much discussed in his own country Ah, well, these days human rights are less important than money, honey

The truth is, that’s what Bush was all about:

Human freedom. All the cries of “fascist” and fantasies of assassination only emphasized his respect for free speech, and served as misdirection from the fact that human rights and freedom were what Bush was all about. Freedom for you and for me, and for Africans dying of AIDS and malaria, for hopeful Georgians and Eastern Europeans, for Iraqis and for the Cedar States. Freedom."

Soon enough, folks will wish he was still at 1600 Pennsylvania.

[STARWISE]

~~PING!

[Paleo Conservative]

[SoldierDad]

I missed him starting Jan 20th.

[Darkwolf377]

I'm an unapologetic fan of GWB. He didn't agree with me on everything--no president has or ever will satisfy ALL of ANYONE's requirements--but he kept this country safe and kept the ecomomy from total collapse after 9/11. He made two good choices for SCOTUS, he was right on taxes and abortion, and he seemed to me to sincerely respect our fighting men and women and took the defense of this country with the seriousness it deserves. He backed controversial positions like fighting AIDS and disease in Africa which to me showed the best of Christianity in deeds, not just words.

I couldn't care less about the whining of the "Jorge Bush" types who have all the answers and call a true ally names when a disagreement arises. No, he wasn't Reagan--no one else was--but in our rush to bitch about Bush we forget that Reagan was human and imperfect, too. Bush's job was easily as difficult as Reagan's, if not moreso. He loved this country AS IT IS, not just as a rough draft of some liberal fantasyland, which is the only way the democrats can see it if they want to muster any love for it at all.

W was a president who made tough choices when there were no easy alternatives, and I'd rather have him in the WH than any of the awful candidates on the left or the flawed ones on the right who ran last time.

[STARWISE]

Absolutely ... all you said ~~ moral clarity, priorities, dutiful to our protection and our brave troops and so much more. Honest historians will accurately record his extraordinary courage in those tough and challenging years.

We were mightily blessed for 8 years. I miss him terribly and the peace of mind I had about our safety, knowing it was his top priority .... sleepness nights and worry ahead. I have no comfort about what’s coming. God bless and protect us.

[Darkwolf377]

I have no comfort about what’s coming.

A great choice of words to describe my current feelings, unfortunately.

I really wish I weren't so pessimistic, but...I got eyes and ears, and this guy is awful.

[genghis]

you are not alone.

[genghis]

you miss bush??
heck i miss carter.
I can’t believe i miss the worst president in the history of the country after 1 month.
tarp1,
tarp2
simulus1
appropriations
stimulus 2
cap and trade
bank bailout
auto bailout
nationalized health care
trade war
HUGE increase in regulations
We have an excellent chacne of becoming cuba.
Not to mention a foreign policy that is just dangerous.

[Arizona Carolyn]

~LOL~ I don’t know I will go so far as to miss Carter.. the entire 1970’s was a political disaster... we are trying to out disaster the 70’s.

[dsutah]

Oh by the way, has anyone on “Free Republic” read that former Pres. Bush is going out on the speech circuit? He’s going to be going out and doing speeches starting with one in Canada! (I think it was Canada)He’s going to be doing about 10 speeches all during the year. I read this on “Lucianne’s” page awhile ago!