Posted on 05/01/2009 8:57:45 PM PDT by mnehring
Are you kidding?
George W Bush had more to do with Obama's election than anybody. He had years of the bully pulpit to articulate and set things straight, yet over and over and over he let the press run over him, and blatantly refused to present what conservatism is and what the United States stood for.
George Bush is my contemporary. I voted for him, and personally, like the Dalai Lama, believe he is a likable and honorable individual.
But he was a tragic, tragic factor in the loss of the values for which this nation was founded, and resulted in the Obama hegemony. The Clinton's before him were likewise.
I doubt the United States will EVER recover the spirit of individual responsibility and human dignity (freedom) with which I grew up (coeval with GWB incidentally).
The United States was the "great experiment" because it represented an envelope where the integrity, responsibility, and courage of the individual would be relied upon to allow commerce to flow, as opposed to a top-down government controlled society. The New Testament versus the Old.
George W. Bush never said it, and I doubt, because of his elitist upbringing, ever understood it.
This is far beyond current congressional politics, we are living an historical trauma.
And GWB had everything to do with it. So much so that it's possible that it was all the plan. He isn't that dumb.
Johnny Suntrade
Right you are. I wonder if His Holiness disagreed with Bush's drunken-sailor spending as much as I did...
-ccm
****It is time for this Bush worship to stop****
Your right! Bush may be a good person, but he was a lousy leader, and a terrible president.
These people that still worship him after he destroyed the Republican party, and helped destroy this nation, really baffle me.
I wonder what a "Buddist" is. Someone who likes to drink Bud and/or Bud Lite? Someone who was a Clydesdale in a previous life?
When Iraq took over Kuwait, then Secretary of State James Baker told Americans that America was going to war with Iraq -- because of oil. He only said that once. The behind the scenes masters took him to the woodshed. Afterward it was about babies being ripped out of incubators by Saddam and restoring the Kuwaiti government, a despotic one at that.
It's always been about oil in the Mideast. Maybe what you don't understand, it's not about supplying Americans with cheap oil. It's about preserving the investments of the aristocracy in the Mideast oil infrastructure. It's about big law firms like James Baker's making fortunes lobbying for the Saudis. It's about toying with the idea of allowing Mideast sheiks buy into port operations in America without regard for the security of ordinary Americans
Bush Jr is surrounded with the same people as Bush Sr. Nothing changed.
You can take your pretentious trite commentary and wipe your ass with it or perhaps your nose. It has nothing in it about the real world. The idea we are fighting for our freedom on the other side of the planet is ludicrous. We have illegal Mexicans killing more Americans each year than that who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. how one cannot see the debt accumulation of the American people and not the redirection of vast amounts of public money to Bush cronies is absolutely amazing.
“Are you kidding?
George W Bush had more to do with Obama’s election than anybody.”
No, I am not kidding. What a childish naive mentality you have. Grow up and then maybe we will discuss this. Remember something though boy, President Bush liberated over 50 million people...more than Abraham Lincoln did. He strongly supported life in every aspect bringing dignity not only unto himself but to each of us by doing so.
You may not be able to comprehend this...the press is not our friend, indeed they lie, cheat, steal...whatever it takes to hurt Americans like President Bush. The War on Terror is so big that he simply had to keep trying to keep the nation together while the democrats and their media did their best to tear us apart. They are still doing it.
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