(Obama Gets) Bush-Whacked

IBD Editorials ^ | June 19, 2009 | Investor's Business Daily

[WhiteCastle]

George W. Bush: After being pummeled by his successor, the 43rd president ends his silence on America's slide into socialism and timidity. He reminds us leadership is not something that comes off a teleprompter. Perhaps tired about being publicly blamed by the current administration for all our current ills, Bush spoke out in Erie, Pa., on Wednesday at the 104th annual gathering of the Manufacturers and Business Association. On the same day President Obama announced expanded policing authorities for the Fed to deal with a "culture of irresponsibility," another move many feel will stifle the risk takers and entrepreneurs needed to grow the economy, Bush extolled the virtues of capitalism and the free market.

[Republic]

THANK YOU FOR THIS REMARKABLE POST!

[Republic]

Isn’t this post by NathanBedford well put? I loved it.

[MHGinTN]

A noteworthy post, Sir. Kudos ... and hearty dittos.

[Righter-than-Rush]

I vote for neither. He’s a globalist, run by the elite, no different than Hussein. Those of you who think there is a nickel’s worth of difference between these two are loaded. Politics is a game and the taxpayer is the pawn. Prove me wrong.

[Lancey Howard]

About damn time!

My first thought as well.

It's just a shame that he didn't have the courtesy to stand up and defend himself during his eight years in office. Bush’s unwillingness to stand up and fight was a slap in the face to his bewildered supporters, including me. The guy even let himself get blamed for a natural disaster!

Unfortunately, now that he's out of office and wants to show the same class that Republican ex-Presidents have always displayed, he has to be measured in anything he says that might sound critical the current administration. I just hope he takes off the gloves if Ubama and company keep it up.

[Salvation]

**He reminds us leadership is not something that comes off a teleprompter.**

Well said, Mrs. President!

[STARWISE]

~~PING!

[Nateman]

The first Tarp funds were because of a run on the money market, $550 billion in 2 hours, on 9/11/2008. Someone was trying to crash our economy.

Click on my name.

[Nateman]

much $ invested in BANKS that were supposed to use it to loan to people that owned houses.

A simple rule in economics is whatever you subsidize you will get more of. The government by assuming all the risk , forcing the loans and then buying those loans inflated the price of houses far beyond what a normal market would have supported.

The bubble worked as long as the economy grew because there was always a new sucker to buy the house at a higher price each time. The moment the economy contracted the facade become exposed and the whole artificial structure came crashing down.

The solution should have been to take the lumps and let the market sort out where capital should move to. They are still trying to hold up the whole rotten edifice to this day and my prediction is that only the final collapse of the dollar is going to stop it now.

[Humal]

I’m glad to see he is finally speaking out. There is a time to stay above the fray, turn the other cheek, but there is also a time to clear the air and speak the truth. Speaking the truth involves his whole administration.

[karnage]

Your worries are not yours alone. But it is still possible that America will wake up. We’ll see what happens with the Congressional elections next year. Maybe it’ll be ‘94 redux!

[Syncro]

A simple rule in economics is whatever you subsidize you will get more of. The government by assuming all the risk , forcing the loans and then buying those loans

Excellent post, thanks!

Today I was watching C-Span and saw all the add-ons to the Military funding bill, noting the billion dollars for "cash for clunkers."

First the government forces car companies out of business and takes over ownership of GM and now want's to subsidize cars for people so the car companies can recover!

With govornment handouts?

The dems are all over the republicans for not supporting the Military funding bill---which they support completely, funding the Military.

They voted against adding on all the foolish pork spending that the dems insisted on tacking to the bill.

The congress and white house is/are completely out of control!

I also watched a couple of hours of the Senate hashing out the Obama/Socialist health care fiasco.

It's astounding at what Dodd and the dems want to do to the excellent health care system we have in this country.

[logos]

I have long believed that it is well nigh impossible to be a practicing Christian and a successful politician at the same time: either Christianity impedes practical politics or practical politics kills the Christian spirit. Whether I’m right or wrong in that belief, GWB is the example of what I mean by that sentiment - and you’ve nailed it. Thanks.

[driftless2]

To those (libs, natch) who say Bush should keep his mouth shut, let me remind you that not only was Bush constantly second-guessed by the likes of Carter and Clinton, he was and is frequently slanderd by the present idiot.

[nathanbedford]

We are enjoined to render unto God that which is God's and unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. But how do we know which is which and how do we find the courage to carry it out? Judging from your about page, you are well aware that the Christian tradition says that the discernment comes with God's grace.

It is ironic that the left could not stop fretting that George Bush was leading the country into fascism when his whole Christian experience dictates that that was a moral impossibility for the man. Because Bush was spiritually alive, he grappled with determining that which was god' s and which was Caesar's. That is a definition of humility.

Barak Obama is not encumbered with such humility and its absence is a signal that he is a risk for fascism. Obama is not troubled to distinguish between God's realm and the realm of the practical politician because he is a God player and a stranger to the first two commandments.

We voters are a hypocritical bunch. On the whole we Americans say we want religious men to hold public office. So Bill Clinton makes broad his phylacteries by carrying the world's largest Bible ostentatiously to church. We complain when Senator Ensign does in the bedroom what we often want our politicians to do in the Oval Office, that is, render unto Caesar that which is not his.

We have gone from a president in George Bush who eschewed loyalty to party to a president Obama who will exploit party loyalty to make himself a god.

[logos]

"We are enjoined to render unto God that which is God's and unto Caesar that which is Caesar's."

So true. Although I have never quite determined what Caesar has that is not God's first. In truth all things belong to God. Caesar is a renter - if only he knew...

[LottieDah]

“...Even now, the Republicans are too timid to name the culprits.”

If Republicans did name the culprits, they would be turned out. The sheeple are hypnotized by President Zero...anything anyone else says is deemed either racist or irrelevant.

[carton253]

Wow! If a democrat president had done this, this thread would be filled with posts demanding that he keep his mouth shut.

Oh, the double-standard we practice.

[sauropod]

I guess with Jimmah and Bubba and Barry always shooting their mouths off, I kinda think being restrained is a quaint custom of the past.

[mel]

But Zero still has positive ragings. Go figure.