Quite frankly, he should thank God that for historical purposes that he was the one in office on 9/11. If it han't happened, what would his track record have been at this juncture?
We likely wouldn't have gone into Afghanistan or Iraq where 80% of his political success has eminated from.
If consciences includes buddying up with longtime libs and dissenters of what makes America great, namely Ted Kennedy, then no thanks! Ted Kennedy is one of the greatest internal enemies that this nation has ever known.
‘Compromise was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything.
‘I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’
‘If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.’
Unfortunately, the 75 or 80% that Bush has settled for are all the amenities. Meanwhile, lost in the negotiation appears to be the health and welfare of the nation at large making the "window dressing items" moot!
President Bush’s immigration policies have not changed materially since he was Governor of Texas.
Unfortunately the world has!
He showed his mettle before 9-11
He handled the China/P3 crisis brilliantly.
But if you think that "he" should thank God for...blah blah blah...are you saying that anyone that had been lucky enough to be in office on 9/11 would then have benefited - not by his response or actions, but by just being lucky enough to be in office then?
My mind is trying to get around this reasoning - I'm trying to think how different it would've been had Gore been Pres. then - or Clinton - or Kerry.
Shudder...your logic escapes me. hmmm - I think I get it now. there are some who couldn't bring themselves to credit Bush with anything, no matter, and so turn it upside down. Yep, that must be it...
Quite frankly, that is one of the most disgusting things I have read on FR posted by a Freeper.
Let me tell you something: George Bush would have gladly been a one-term president if he could have saved the lives of all of those killed on September 11, 2001.