Posted on 11/05/2008 3:51:00 PM PST by big black dog
“One bumbling RINO Bush gave us Bill Clinton and the other gave us Barrack Obama.”
Disagree. A corrupt media gave us both.
You can't say this often enough. Effectively opposing the socialist Obama becomes that much harder when the GOP leadership consistently puts international business concerns before Americans' interests.
*Big Sigh*
Sounds nice. If only it were true.
He was right about some things and ought to get the credit for that.
But he didn't connect very well with the country.
I guess the idea was that somebody who was comparatively new to politics, someone who had a life outside of government, wouldn't get trapped in that "Washington Bubble" and would be closer to public sentiments. But it didn't happen.
George W. Bush will be held higher by history than now. His failing was his go along to get along philosophy that went along with everything the GOP congress brought to him as we are one. He should have used the veto pen before the Bolshecrats took over. He has been a much better leader the last two years.
Alan Keyes in a 2000 debate was asked how "W" would be as President, and Keyes said that W didn't have the talent to explain to people the rightness of conservative values.
He can explain the new tone when those he reached out to try him for “war crimes.”
When the two Bushes were lucky enough to win election, they rarely advanced our causes. Their wimpy, won’t stand up and fight the enemy attitude makes me sick to my stomach. They took beatings and never returned fire. They are total wimps that permanently damaged conservative causes. I don’t think we will see another conservative president in my lifetime. I’m 53. And I’m really sad to say that.
Agreed.
Would Regan have survived the resentment of Florida 2000, the Iraq War, and the onslaught of the media?
In a word, "Yes." While always happy to be conciliatory, Reagan had the good sense not to spit on his base and and then eagerly lick the boots of the people who despised him.
How old are you, 18?
The worm turns. Jimmy Carter gave us Ronald Reagan. We go back and forth regularly.
The good news is that this guy may be so incompetent that we only have to put up with him for four years, and we may be able to flip Congress in two.
Quit blaming the wrong folks. Voters wanted Obama. Now they get him.
If the likes of Buchanan had their way I think we’d have been at war anyway, but here instead of there.
The war in Iraq was not only not a mistake, it was the only logical and moral choice. And yes, it ~was~ about WMD the whole time and rightfully so.
And... for anybody that thinks the war has been poorly fought: Name for me one campaign in the history of warfare that has accomplished as much with so relatively few casualties— on both sides.
I haven’t agreed with everything he’s done, but then I didn’t agree with everything Reagan did either. I think Reagan was clearly one of the greats. Time will tell, but I think President Bush will be treated more kindly by history than he has been now.
And you can bank on this: Obama will be a wartime president too whether he wishes it or not. With any luck, his wars will be overseas too. May they go as well. Because they could go much, much worse.
>But he was naive in thinking that he could reach across the aisle in Washington the way he did in Austin.<
How long does it take for anyone to learn that the other side of the aisle is where the enemy resides? What did him in is not only his RINO demeanor but the fact that for 8 years he kept silent. And silence is often perceived as being guilty of the many accusations that were thrown at him. He did not do the Republican Party any favors.
OMG how I prayed for his victory over Gore while they were nitpicking those Florida ballots. In the end, he was just another politician — basically decent perhaps, but still just another politicians.
I wish him and his family well, but I also would like for him to return the money I spent on getting that man elected in 2000. Jeez, he was a disappointment. I guess that fighter pilots should stay in the cockpit and stay out of politics.
“George W. Bush is in fact the only who didn’t lie. Ever.”
He’s not a smooth talking shyster. The country wants a smooth talking shyster.
BALONEY!
Bush did not have national suicidal tendencies, but aside from that?
The Bush administration can not go down in history as a great protector of this great nation, when millions upon millions of illegals streamed across our borders. He did everything but put interstate highway styled rest stops on the U.S. side to welcome the illegals. It has yet to be seen whether or not a horrible attack on our soil will come as a consequence of all of the illegals. Terrorists are very patient. If Bill Clinton is wholly responsible for 9/11 ... it only stands to reason that Bush will be responsible for anything that happens in the next year or two.
The Bush administration totally mismanaged the current wars in the early years. Things seem to be much more successful now, but that is only because his feet were held to the fire by others.
The current state of our economy can't possibly be laid at the feet of the democrats alone. Bush's monetary policies have not been stellar, to say the least. Bush had the white house and allowed the democrats to push him around. He never vetoed big spending. Until just three months ago, he continued to insist that the economy was on solid footing.
The Bush administration did not do nearly enough to address this country's energy requirements. Power plants and refineries still face bureaucratic obstacles that make them unattractive to propose, if not totally impossible to build. Bush has allowed his support of ethanol to be argued by his opponents as the reason for the gargantuan USDA budget, when more than 90% of that budget is allocated to food programs and welfare benefits.
Prescription drug program. Need I elaborate?
Geez, I'm tired and have more points, but nobody reads this long posts anyway.
Bush is an idiot. He could have stomped all over Obama but refused to get involved. He has been one hell of a lame President. No domestic policy. No energy policy. The ONLY time we seem to hear from him is when he is saying “war”, “terrorists”, “Bin Laden”, etc. I can honestly understand Americas temper tantrum of voting for Obama even considering Obama’s BS.
I agree we have been physically safer domestically thus far because we took the fight to their turf, but if we had to surrender on every domestic issue during the last 8 years save the courts and tax cuts, and we will have to surrender on every issue for the next 8 to 12 years, then the safety wasn't worth it. Better to have a dirty bomb in Manhattan than what we got.
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