Posted on 01/19/2009 6:05:56 AM PST by bray
I know most of you have read this, but it is my/our Goodbye to a Great Man:
The Katrina Hurricane reflects President Bush’s term completely. He was the janitor who was left to clean up messes yet gets the blame for those messes. How in the world was anybody supposed to stop a hurricane that caused more damage than 10 nuclear bombs. In addition to the force of the storm the levies that were supposed to keep the water out of below sea level New Orleans were never fortified. The money that was sent to fix the levies had been stolen by corrupt local politicians and the money ended up in their freezers. Then GW gets the complete blame for not fixing the disaster in 24 hrs. Katrina was done masterfully considering the size and scope, but was twisted into a Bush disaster. They should have renamed it to Hurricane Bush.
Just like Katrina, every problem that GW is hated for can be directly traced to Dem neglect and corruption yet Bush gets the blame and hatred. The attacks on 911 were directly caused by the gutting and destruction of our intelligence community by Gorelick and the clinton regime yet President Bush was falsely blamed. That same CIA was handcuffed by clinton and the ones who gave supposedly false information on WMD and Bush gets blamed. He finishes the job that clinton should have done in Iraq and is vilified for freeing 25 million people from a brutal madman.
He made an attempt at solving gaping problems like energy, SSI and immigration only to be pilloried at every turn. Never mind that these issues are emotional traps, he had the courage to take them on and was stoned for those attempts. None of them have simple solutions yet he began the dialogue only to find out that these problems will never be solved since who wants the attacks that go with them.
His final trap was the financial meltdown. By all appearances it looks like he was performing a miracle keeping this economy moving forward for his first 6 yrs. He couldn’t keep that going once Lola Pelosi and Dirtbag Reid took over the District of Corruption. Their Party undermined the Banking industry and turned Fannie/Freddie into slush funds for Dem financing. That eventually toppelled those gummit corps just like the NO levies flooding the entire economy and Bush got the blame.
President Bush was always the Lifeguard who if he failed to revive the victim was tried for murder. He was the scapegoat for anything that went wrong as was the penchant of PravdABDNC. He risked everything over and over since he put his Country far above himself. Millions may hate him since he took on huge problems that didn’t have catchphrase answers. These were deeply complicated issues that were interwoven in corruption and deceit as well as DNC sacred cows. These issues had multiple layers and no matter how obvious the answer was going to be unpopular. Add to that a hostile opposition media that was going to fan any flames and he became an unpopular President.
The good news for us is that he doesn’t really care about popularity. He understands that popularity and leadership are polar opposites. He knows that to be popular you have to do nothing and spend all your time campaigning to make yourself look good. You may be popular but the problems are still there and likely getting much worse. Popular Presidents kick the cans down the street to the next President George W Bush. He understands that his 25% popularity represents real attempts at solving and in many cases actually solving those problems.
Katrina is the perfect symbol of W’s Presidency. It was a storm too big to solve by the gummit, yet he did all he could and took all the blame. Will he become more popular in the future? Who cares since President George W Bush doesn’t. His legacy is written in the lives of 50 million Iraqis and Afghani as well as no attacks since 911. That is worth 25% approval ratings to him.
Pray for W and Our Troops
enough braying
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Well done.
Bush was, indeed, a good man. The only thing I hold against him was his financial irresponsibility. Co0authoring bills with Ted Kennedy, Prescription drug entnitlements, and the colossal wasteful bailouts.
As a man and a protector of American citizens he was an honorable person.
Nice term. Accurate, descriptive, catchy. I hope it catches on in general use.
Let us not forget those mussel techs that built or stayed in an area that is "BELOW SEA LEVEL" during a hurricane, and a mayor that is so inspiringly smart it hurts and mis-categorizes the term moron but surprisingly gets reelected, shades of Mayor Barry of DC, or not
Bump
“How in the world was anybody supposed to stop a hurricane that caused more damage than 10 nuclear bombs.”
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The damage wrought by Katrina was MUCH more due to the abject lack of self-reliance and personal responsibility of the denizens of Chocolate City, than the magnitude of the hurricane itself.
Well Bush certainly had a hurricane-like effect on the GOP and their political power and chances.
But pawn off on others, problems he exacerbated with stunningly poor decisions, is disingenuous at best.
The BDS on the conservative side an also be summed up by the lack of support for domestic drilling. Oh yes, we wanted to drill here, drill now, and pay less...but only a vanishingly small number of us were willing to support President Bush when he tried to get 'er done. Some guy said to me "yeah, why the hell didn't he try to get domestic drilling before?" I told him that he DID try it before, and we didn't support him then, and we obviously won't support him now. To his credit, he DID look very thoughtful for a while.
Honestly, most of the American public deserves the disasters Obama is heap on our heads, beginning with the massive tax increase designed to look like a "tax cut".
W was unfairly beaten up by those who were falsely accusing him of incompetence. Yet, he allowed his attackers to viciously tear him apart and he took all the abuses without responding in kind. This was the response of Christ when He was betrayed by His own people before He was crucified.
I have to give the President credit for being a Christian first and a politician second even if it meant not meeting all the expectations of others who think he should have been more aggressive (especially during his last 4 years).
katrina was Bush’s fault cause he was unable to do under 10 feet of water, what the dim-0s REFUSED to do while the streets were still dry.
Perhaps now we will see why Pravda and TASS had such a high place in the soviet union. Barak Obama is nothing more than the leason between the new serf class and the old money that gave us George Sorros.
"Nice term. Accurate, descriptive, catchy. I hope it catches on in general use."
Agreed. We should use it as often as possible until it catches on.
Pelosi and Reid are the geese that fly into the engines and bring the airliner down. Bush is the pilot who does his best to land the airliner and keep as many people alive as possible.
Great analogy.
Just correcting my tagline.
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