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The greatest president of the 21st century
TownHall.com ^ | 10/27/04 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 10/27/2004 8:44:57 AM PDT by Time is now

Oct. 27, 2054 -- It was a tragedy worthy of Shakespeare. A man of strength, a man of courage, a man of God risked his life and his presidency to protect his nation and the values for which it stood. And the nation, blinded by its worship of tolerance, led astray by a barrage of hate, looked instead to a shyster and a weakling for guidance.

George W. Bush was the finest president of the 21st century. He took office in the crucial 2000 election -- the election marking the beginning of the end for American representative democracy. Immediately denounced as a conservative radical and an unelected dynastic pawn, Bush stepped into a situation fraught with peril. A recession had begun after the illusory prosperity of the 1990s Internet bubble unexpectedly burst. A decade of defense and intelligence slashing had sliced national security to the bone. The administration of Bill Clinton, marked by a tendency toward tolerating immorality and bashing traditionalism, had left America profoundly vulnerable.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election; history
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How true it is! What a good look at the future!
1 posted on 10/27/2004 8:44:58 AM PDT by Time is now
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To: Time is now

Love this, totally agree with the foreshadwing.


2 posted on 10/27/2004 8:49:46 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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And I think the author is 19 years old. There is hope for our future!


3 posted on 10/27/2004 8:54:45 AM PDT by marlon
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To: Time is now

It has one part wrong.............forgot to write into history his successful second term!

i have said for some time now that the big fear that drives the Dims now is exactly this...that GW one day will be credited in history for his grand vision and the beginning of the restructure of a successful middle east. Something no man has ever attempted to do with conviction.


4 posted on 10/27/2004 8:55:27 AM PDT by Republic Rocker
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To: Time is now

This column gave me the chills, it ws so accurate.


5 posted on 10/27/2004 8:57:30 AM PDT by Wonderama ("America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy"....John Updike)
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To: Time is now

This column gave me the chills, it ws so accurate.


6 posted on 10/27/2004 8:57:40 AM PDT by Wonderama ("America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy"....John Updike)
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To: Time is now

This column gave me the chills, it ws so accurate.


7 posted on 10/27/2004 8:57:45 AM PDT by Wonderama ("America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy"....John Updike)
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To: Time is now

That's how we have seen this as well. George W. Bush will go down as one of the greatest Presidents of all time. He will and has outshone all the others.


8 posted on 10/27/2004 9:05:56 AM PDT by cubreporter (-I trust Rush...he will prevail in spite of the naysayers.)
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To: Time is now

You were wrong on one point...where Bush is unceremoniously throw out of office. No way. No how. Bush/Cheney 2004


9 posted on 10/27/2004 9:08:59 AM PDT by cubreporter (-I trust Rush...he will prevail in spite of the naysayers.)
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To: cubreporter

Outstanding article!


10 posted on 10/27/2004 9:31:44 AM PDT by AZConcervative
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To: cubreporter

Had this same thought recently. I think that GWB has become the new standard for the presidency. Even the future dims will, while never admitting it nor achieving anything even close, try to model themselves on it. For awhile everyone wanted to be an FDR. Then a Kennedy (although I have never understood why anyone would want to emulate a Kennedy).


11 posted on 10/27/2004 9:33:20 AM PDT by meowmeow (We are all Buckhead!)
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Um, duh.

Bush has been president for all but [b]20 days[/b] of the 21st century. And, regardless what you think of Clinton, I don't think 20 days count for much. So...

Of course he's the "greatest president of the 21st century" as, really, he's THE ONLY president of the 21st century.

So, in addition to being the "greatest president of the 21st century" he's also the "worst president of the 21st century", the "tallest president of the 21st century", the "shortest president of the 21st century", etc...


12 posted on 10/27/2004 9:33:21 AM PDT by ObviousMan
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To: Republic Rocker

"i have said for some time now that the big fear that drives the Dims now is exactly this...that GW one day will be credited in history for his grand vision and the beginning of the restructure of a successful middle east. "

My sentiments exactly.


13 posted on 10/27/2004 9:36:15 AM PDT by DestroytheDemocrats
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DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILS!

Picky, Picky, Picky!

14 posted on 10/27/2004 9:46:15 AM PDT by VOYAGER (!)
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To: ObviousMan
Of course he's the "greatest president of the 21st century" as, really, he's THE ONLY president of the 21st century.

Details, details.

15 posted on 10/27/2004 9:55:38 AM PDT by nosofar
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To: ObviousMan

Um, duh....bye, bye


16 posted on 10/27/2004 10:14:01 AM PDT by cubreporter (-I trust Rush...he will prevail in spite of the naysayers.)
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To: meowmeow

(although I have never understood why anyone would want to emulate a Kennedy).


Me neither.


17 posted on 10/27/2004 10:17:29 AM PDT by cubreporter (-I trust Rush...he will prevail in spite of the naysayers.)
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To: Time is now

Since you were coming from 2055 President Bush was not the only pres, in the 20'th cen. unless it takes 50 yrs. to declare a winner of '04.....


18 posted on 10/27/2004 1:32:43 PM PDT by grounhog ( grounhog)
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To: finnman69
Love this, totally agree with the foreshadwing.

Heck, the only thing Shapiro "predicts" is more big government.
That's a certainty no matter WHO is elected.
Cripes, it's not as if Dubya ever bothered to use his veto over congressional spending.
I'm just sorry that I bothered to read this adolescent tripe.

19 posted on 10/27/2004 1:47:48 PM PDT by Willie Green (Hawkins/Tonnelson in 2004!!!)
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"I'm just sorry that I bothered to read this adolescent tripe."

I guess you don't read much at all nowadays, since most everything could be categorized as that coming out of the MSM....


20 posted on 10/27/2004 1:59:15 PM PDT by Time is now (We'll live to see it......Soon after this election....)
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