Posted on 05/08/2014 9:51:24 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
If you've just crash-landed from the planet known as Kepler-186f and have no experience with the human life form or its recent history, let me just clarify something for you: George W. Bush was a divisive and unsuccessful president. Economically, internationally, culturally — you name the category of leadership, and the results pretty much range from disappointment to disaster. A CBS News/New York Times poll clocked Bush's final approval rating at 22 percent, which is about as low as you can go in politics without needing a parole officer.
You may get confused about this, because lately Bush is enjoying a public restoration. The Bush you read about these days is the kind of inclusive conservative you can deal with, a guy who bikes with wounded veterans, a sensitive portraitist of world leaders. A graphic this week on FiveThirtyEight.com showed how fewer and fewer Americans blame Bush for the country's economic morass, even though his successor, Barack Obama, won two presidential campaigns based on precisely that premise.
Bush's critics will argue that this is testament to how quickly we forget the past. But it has more to do, really, with how we distort the present.
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To choose between Bush and Obama, I wouldn’t just crawl over broken glass or walk across hot coals (pick your metaphor), I’d EAT broken glass and hot coals and I’d do it ... here it comes ... every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Now that Bush came out last summer and intimated that people who were against gay marriage are bad, I’m sure the media will view him more favorably. If he comes out full bore anti-conservative and anti-Christian like he’d like to, is stock will go way up.
Heck, by comparison to Obama, our seasoned citizens should remember the good ole Carter years. Are we gonna regress all the way back to Nixon with his wage and price controls ? Ah. The Nixon years, where the EPA and AGW all got their start. The EPA is their church. Anti-humanism is their religion. And the AGW theory is their bible. And apparently the Koch Bros are their Emmanuel Goldstein. So we have regressed back to 1980. Boy do we need a Reagan now.
The yellow cake was sold to a Canadian Company, it was reported on AP and ignored by the media.
If Bush I had not interfered then Saddam would have used his robbings from Kuwait to fund a new war with Iran, possibly defeating it (with the USSR out of the picture)
He would also have held the Saudis to ransom
Oh and finally, the Islamic jihadis hated him, so they would have tried to get him and he would have used his characteristic mustard gas attacks on them
And there would still be 2 million Christians in Iraq living safely rather than 200,000 and dropping under danger from jihadis
Not possible
Compare Carter to Obama -- now that's a better comparison...
He’s a RINO and was a poor leader. He looks good now only because Obama is the worst President in history.
Much in the way a filthy pond with garbage floating in it would look pretty good if you were on fire.
My Millard Fillmore memorabilia collection salutes you.
But, seriously, he was one of the better presidents when it came to adherence to the constitution and p*ssing a lot of “living document constitution” types off who deserved to be p*ssed off.
John Tyler was another, but his legacy is somewhat tainted by his ties to the secessionist movement in his final year on earth.
So please America not another Bush or Clinton.
That’s how its always been done - vilify the guy with the hard medicine and apologize to him over the corpse.
You must not be from TX, where the uninformed are poised to launch George P. in January 2015.
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