Posted on 11/29/2008 6:53:30 AM PST by knighthawk
With the U.S. economy in crisis, George W. Bush’s already slumping popularity levels have sagged even deeper. This summer, his own political party kept him away from its national convention in St. Paul. The President himself has been reduced to wistful hopes that history will somehow justify him.
At this low point, some counterbalance:
1) Even as you read this, Indian commandos are waging a deadly urban battle against Islamic terrorists. Those soldiers have almost certainly trained with U.S. Rangers or Marines — part of an intensifying U.S.-India security partnership that has been one of the most signal foreign policy successes of the Bush years. Otto von Bismark is supposed to have said that the most important geopolitical fact of the 20th century would be that the United States and Great Britain spoke the same language. Bush’s strategic entente with India may well prove the most important geopolitical fact of the 21st.
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excusem.. pardon me. I don’t hear the kumbaya song. We were led to believe all of this would go away once the One was elected...
I am very thankful for all President Bush has done. My only problem with him is he has not stood up and defended his actions and he has not shown the liberals up for the traitors they are. He is TOO nice.
I voted for Bush 2X, but won’t be sorry to see him go. Yes, he kept us safe, but:
1. I think the way he waged the Iraq and Afganistan war stragies leave a lot to be desired. I think Iraq was unnecessary and (despite our real progress), there is still better than 50/50 chance that Iraq will be an Iranian colony ten years from now. He should have gone all out to get Bin Laden while he had the chance.
2. His spending polices were worse than Clinton’s. The Prescription Drug benefit is his albatross around all our necks.
3. While his Admin did point out the dangers of Fannie/Freddie practices, they did nothing about it.
4. Immigration Reform—nuff said.
5. He helped ruined the Republican party.
6. The response to the meltdown (occuring on his watch) is basically a Christmas gift to the Left. Not since FDR has as much been done to turn the country socialist (and I’m not ignoring LBJ).
The only thing that Bush got a bad wrap for is Hurrican Katrina. The only thing that will make me nostalgic for the Bush administration is the coming dictatorship of BHO.
Too late Frum. No one is listening. Go write for your lib friends.
Bush’s Presidency has been reduced to just more demrat roadkill—and he has no one to blame for it but himself.
Agreed - he was just too nice.
If I recall correctly, it was a Democrat (one he allowed to stay instead of cleaning house when he took office) who assured him the weapons of mass destruction were a “slam dunk”. He never called him on it.
Seems to me he continually took the high road, constantly turning the other cheek. It doesn’t seem to have served him well, but maybe it’s not supposed to.
Whenever his name comes up in my travels, I continue to say I admire him and think he has done a good job. It is amazing to me how people’s thoughts are completely controlled by the media.
God bless President Bush - he is a good and decent man.
> Too late Frum. No one is listening. Go write for your lib friends. <
Did you actually read the article? Frum isn’t writing for you or me or his lib friends. He’s writing for history. And I agree with him that history and the historians will be kind to GWB — just as they nowadays are kind to the once-despised HST.
I was among Bush's most enthusiastic supporters--praised him highly here on FR.
He lost me--and most of his base support--when he refused to enforce US immigration law and halt further illegal immigration.
He compounded the loss by spending more money than Lyndon Johnson and hanging the albatross of prescription drug entitlements around our necks.
My anger turned to fury when he handed Congress to the Democrats on a silver platter in 2004 through sheer stupidity.
Now that he has handed the entire U.S. government over to the Democrat Radical Fringe--words cannot express my opinion of Bush.
But I will say that Carter, Clinton, and Warren Harding were worse Presidents.
Your 3 is not accurate. As even the SNL skit acknowledged, the Bush administration pushed a bill to do something about it, which the Democrats stopped.
Ha ha ha, you expose yourself with this old canard (among others).
It was Clinton who had the chance to get Bin Laden.
Your political acumen is as outstanding as your use of the English language.
As even the SNL skit acknowledged, the Bush administration pushed a bill to do something about it, which the Democrats stopped.
President Bush was villified and marginalized since 2000. The political atmosphere/forces against him during his administration, it’s a wonder how he could be so cordial. This isn’t all about him.
He upheld the office well, IMHO. I always get emotional whenever he’s introduced and his face reddens with the applause he gets. His parents raised him well.
As significant as the article is that it falls to a young man from northern europe to find it and post it to our attention.
Perhaps many of us are too close and lack the perspective of distance and the long view that history will soon provide.
Thanks.
How do you do that? ;)
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