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Rethinking George Bush?
Townhall.com ^ | September 16, 2010 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 09/16/2010 5:06:44 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Servant of the Cross

What is ignorant, foolish and naive is that you completely missed what connects them.

Soros...

Follow the money and until you eliminate any all politicians connected financially to Soro’s, the Middle East, the Rothchilds, etc... we will always be on this course of Progressivism that leads to one global government in which leads to all of your precious rights being flush down the toliet.


61 posted on 09/16/2010 6:54:50 AM PDT by surfer (To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
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To: Servant of the Cross; calcowgirl; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; ...
RE :”IMHO, the record of President George W. Bush has so many more positives than negatives (chronicled on many FR threads), and history will prove this.”

I would rank Bush presidency about even with Jimmy Carter's (although I do appreciate Bush staying quiet now, something big-mouth Carter couldnt do.)

Bush was clearly a liberal/progressive. The only things I can think of he differs from liberals is raising taxes in the present time and abortion. But on taxes his attitude was no-one has to pay for big government-big deficits, and Obama’s position is only the rich have to pay for it(and he may even back off that.) Neither count the higher taxes future (unborn) taxpayers must pay for their spending.

Bush clearly had a different position on abortion than Obama (one was Republican and one was Democrat) but he passed and promoted the single Mom tax credit to encourage single-Mom-hood and called single Mom's heros, a liberal position.

Roberts and Alito were great picks, but Bush had to be beat by the conservative base to pick them. He wanted Meyers.

So Bush and Obama are not identical, but close. Obama represents socialism, but Bush the socialist mis-represented capitalism. In a way that makes Bush worse than Obama.

62 posted on 09/16/2010 6:55:25 AM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: RipSawyer; Le Chien Rouge

What Le Chien Rouge meant was put the petal, as in gas petal in your vehicle, to the metal


63 posted on 09/16/2010 6:55:52 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

Or maybe it was “pedal”.


64 posted on 09/16/2010 6:56:39 AM PDT by csmusaret (The Obama/Pelosi/Reid Cartel has saddled each of my grandchildren with a $44,000 debt.)
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To: sickoflibs; pissant
Oh my. The extent of the misinformation and delusion contained in one single post is staggering. I also like how you continue to ping a list of I suppose similar thinking folks here.

Seeing some of the names you pinged, I would like pissant, who may be on your list too, to weigh in.

Pissant, would you agree with this statement by sickoflibs ... "I would rank Bush presidency about even with Jimmy Carter's"?

65 posted on 09/16/2010 7:05:33 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (I'm with Jim DeMint ... on the fringe baby!)
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To: csmusaret

Yeah, you are correct. I didn’t check, and as there was no spelling error.


66 posted on 09/16/2010 7:07:49 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin; Le Chien Rouge

A “petal” is part of a flower, as in pulling petals off a daisy, “She loves me, she loves me not”.

A pedal is a foot operated lever, as in accelerator pedal, or a verb, as in pedal a bicycle.


67 posted on 09/16/2010 7:10:45 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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To: Servant of the Cross; pissant; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; Gilbo_3; NFHale; Impy; ...
RE :”Pissant, would you agree with this statement by sickoflibs ...?

Pissant is a Bush-coolaid drinker too? NOOO ! I thought he was against giving illegal aliens amnesty so they can vote Democrat and bankrupt our country.

Pissant wasnt on that ping BTW. Your ping to him here is the first.

68 posted on 09/16/2010 7:22:59 AM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: sickoflibs

“Roberts and Alito were great picks, but Bush had to be beat by the conservative base to pick them. He wanted Meyers.”

BINGO.

I totally agree with you on ALL POINTS.

And Rove’s INEXCUSABLE antics after O’Donnell’s vicotry REGAREDLESS of his personal opinions, demonstrates how VERY IMPRTANT IT IS to scrutinize PAST MISTAKES in assuring future victories.


69 posted on 09/16/2010 7:29:53 AM PDT by ZULU (No nation which tried to tolerate Islam escaped Islamization)
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To: Kaslin
-"Huh? The economy thriving and unemployment practically nonexistent under President Bush and a Republican majority in the House and the Senate was a train wreck?"

- Bush was NOT a conservative and a complete incompetent who couldn't/wouldn't defend conservative principles, spent us into a recession and 'killed' the "Republican Majority". We're you asleep in 2006?....

-"The election resulted in a sweeping victory for the Democratic Party which captured the House of Representatives, the Senate, and a majority of governorships and state legislatures from the Republican Party."

-"Rush Limbaugh: Why Republicans Lost"

... how about the Financial meltdown in 2007/2008, the 'Bailout' mania he initiated/endorsed in 2008? - I can't go on, it's too depressing.

70 posted on 09/16/2010 7:31:36 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA (Show me what Obama brought that was new and there you will find things only radical and destructive.)
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To: Kaslin
But suddenly Bush seems OK

He does? BS! Amazing how many on the 'right' don't get it either.

71 posted on 09/16/2010 7:32:35 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: sickoflibs; pissant
a Bush-coolaid drinker too?

*Sigh*. Pissant has no reason whatsoever to enter this conversation. If he does, he'll have my gratitude. Also, if he does and his only comment is to say, "No, George Bush was a better President than Carter by a significant degree", that would NOT make him a Bush-coolaid drinker you friggin idiot.

72 posted on 09/16/2010 7:32:40 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (I'm with Jim DeMint ... on the fringe baby!)
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To: Kaslin

“Bush’s incompetence? Oh perhaps you think that 0bama is competent? *rme*”

“was a manufactured myth” (if you’d read the whole sentence)


73 posted on 09/16/2010 7:33:53 AM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: ZULU
Facts are stubborn things. Bush Picks Roberts For Supreme Court.

Yea, I'll give you Miers => Alito but also place the most blame on the 'intellectuals' on the Bush team. W was loyal to a fault.

74 posted on 09/16/2010 7:37:20 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (I'm with Jim DeMint ... on the fringe baby!)
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To: Kaslin
Stay out da Bushes.

All of 'em.

75 posted on 09/16/2010 7:40:00 AM PDT by Jim Noble (If the answer is "Republican", it must be a stupid question.)
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To: Kaslin
That is a lie and you know it

Not a lie, but now that I looked it up, I realize it happened on 9/17/01, not 9/12. My mistake. Here's a link. Check out the last paragraph under History. http://www.sacred-destinations.com/usa/washington-dc-islamic-center

76 posted on 09/16/2010 7:40:49 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Spok

I did not read your whole post when I replied to you. Please accept my apology


77 posted on 09/16/2010 7:44:08 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: wolfcreek

I have never heard your “old saying” in Texas.


78 posted on 09/16/2010 7:47:45 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Jim Noble
The intellectual heft of that post ranks right up there with Olberdink, MadCow, Moore, Soros, Matthews, blah, blah, blah .....

You'd think a conservative would be a little worried when they same the same thing that would come out of Keith Olberman's mouth.

79 posted on 09/16/2010 7:49:38 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (I'm with Jim DeMint ... on the fringe baby!)
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To: Kaslin
We now better remember the Bush at Ground Zero with a megaphone and his arm around a fireman than the Texan who pronounced "nuclear" as "nucular."

If there is one image of George W. Bush that will forever be his legacy, it is the following:

Bush's 'Made in the USA' Backdrop Hides 'Made in China' Labels

80 posted on 09/16/2010 7:50:09 AM PDT by Willie Green (Some people march to a different drummer – and some people polka.)
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