http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/gwb/ en-us Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:04:54 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416251/posts Clearly, this is my month to really annoy liberals. After picking Rush Limbaugh as Man of the Year, I pick the liberal version of Satan as man of the decade. But again, I ask you, read my arguments, and then make up your mind... Most decades are defined by the Presidents who dominate them. FDR dominated the 30s and 40s. Eisenhower the fifties, LBJ the sixties. The Seventies were the decade of incompetence. The eighties clearly was Ronald Reagan's, and Clinton dominated the nineties. In the same way, for good or ill, President George W. Bush had the most profound... Neoavatara http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416251/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:04:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414772/posts George W. Bush is gone from Washington but his legacy, like an abandoned toxic waste dump, lingers on. Like President Franklin Roosevelt before him, President Bush helped redefine American freedom. And like Roosevelt's, Bush's changes were perversions of the clear vision the Founding Fathers bequeathed to us. What did freedom mean in the era of George Bush? In Iraq in September 2004, the U.S. military constructed Camp Liberty, a tent compound to house Iraqi detainees next to the Abu Ghraib prison. (The torture scandal and photos had been revealed in late April.) Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller declared that Camp Liberty... Campaign for Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414772/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:02:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414593/posts In his year-end interviews with friendly news outlets like The Washington Post and National Public Radio, President Obama had a curious choice for his biggest accomplishment of the year: the bailout of the financial sector. It seems odd that a president whose mantra is change, change, change would pick a program initiated by his predecessor. While the Troubled Asset Relief Program is surely the least popular initiative of President George W. Bush among conservatives, it is also widely reviled by many liberals and moderates. Obama's choice says a great deal about the state of things in Washington at the end... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414593/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:44:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405052/posts This has got to be embarrassing for President Obama, his administration, and the Democrat Party. Obama is outpolling former President George W. Bush by only six percentage points according to Public Policy Polling. The meaning of this close gap is significant since George W. Bush left office with the lowest approval rating of any prior president, 22%... THE FREEDOM POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405052/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:26:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395637/posts This is the third installment of a Monday series excerpting the chapter on political causes from Thomas Sowell's latest book, "The Housing Boom and Bust."IBD Exclusive Series: Thomas Sowell on The Politics of the Housing BoomIn 2002, the George W. Bush administration urged Congress to pass the American Dream Downpayment Act, which subsidized the down payments of prospective homebuyers whose incomes were below a certain level. After passage of that act, the president also urged Congress to pass legislation permitting the Federal Housing Administration to begin making zero-down-payment loans at low interest rates to low-income Americans. In 2004, Federal Housing... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395637/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:37:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390185/posts Dozens of local area workers were left jobless yesterday as the doors closed on their workplace after more than nine years of frisky business. Devastated staff at the "I Hate Bush T-Shirt and Vendor Wear" factory wept as the moment they were dreading finally became a reality: the firm went into bankruptcy in result of sagging orders for their goods and slim prospects for a renewed demand in the future. "The management can say whatever they want, but I personally blame Bush," said Fred Fluger, a longtime employee, as he carried home a storage box filled with "I Hate Bush"... The People's Cube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390185/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:45:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386310/posts NEW DELHI — The India-China relationship has entered choppy waters due to a perceptible hardening in the Chinese stance. Anti-India rhetoric in the state-run Chinese media has intensified, even as China has stepped up military pressure along the disputed Himalayan frontier through cross-border incursions. Beijing also has resurrected its long-dormant claim to the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, nearly three times as large as Taiwan. The more muscular Chinese stance clearly is tied to the new U.S.-India strategic partnership, symbolized by the nuclear deal and deepening military cooperation. As President George W. Bush declared in his valedictory speech, "We... Japan Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386310/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:58:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2385239/posts Here is video of former President George W. Bush today in a speech he gave at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, admitting that he went "against" his "free market instincts" when he decided to move forward with the Wall Street Bailouts in the Fall of 2008. But Bush warned: "History shows that the greater threat to prosperity is not too little government involvement, but too much."That's exactly right. He should have stuck to his principles and instincts. Obama is sticking to his principles and instincts in trying to ratchet up government involvement in everything to the greatest extent possible. Bush... Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2385239/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:38:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2385706/posts Get ready because I am going to slap George W. Bush around a little bit. Now, don't get me wrong, it isn't like I hated him. After all I voted for him twice. There was a lot that Bush did that I supported, mostly on the security and war fronts. But, I really stood against his domestic agenda almost completely. I was against no child's behind left alone -- er, I mean no child left behind -- I was against the bailouts and against the drug benefit for seniors program. I disagreed with his "compassionate conservatism" narrative because it really... Publius Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2385706/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:54:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2385176/posts George Bush gave a great speech in Dallas today at Southern Methodist University in Texas. It's refreshing to hear Mr. Bush speak after all this time. Not to mention the quailty of speeches we've been hearing lately. There's a video clip in the post of Mr. Bush joking about being offered a job as a grocery bagger. The full speech is 23 minutes long. Click here to watch. storyballoon.org/videos http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2385176/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:06:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377379/posts <p>TOKYO — Former President George W. Bush threw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game 3 of the Japan Series between the Yomiuri Giants and Nippon Ham Fighters.</p> <p>Bush, wearing a Yomiuri warmup jacket, took the mound Tuesday at Tokyo Dome and threw a pitch to Giants catcher Shinnosuke Abe that bounced once in the dirt before being caught.</p> www.bostonherald.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377379/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:47:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2375864/posts Every president will blame the past one, either directly or indirectly (using media commentators or spokesmen.) And many times it is valid to do that. Most Americans agreed that G.W. Bush could not be (entirely) responsible for the successful Sept 11, 2001 attacks or the 2001 market crash. Much of what he had to work with his first nine months was left over from the Clinton administration. But liberals (progressives) to this day still say that the "September 11, 2001 attacks were on Bush's Watch" after only nine months in office and that Bush was left a booming economy by... Revival Conservative Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2375864/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 15:05:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375754/posts NEW DELHI (AFP) – Former US president George W. Bush said Saturday that the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan must be won to stop a return to "brutal tyranny" in the nation. In a wide-ranging speech to a leadership conference in the Indian capital New Delhi, Bush said defeating the insurgents was "necessary for stability" and peace both in the region and globally. "If the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and their extremist allies were allowed to take over Afghanistan again, they would have a safe haven and the Afghan people, particularly the Afghan women, would face a return to a brutal... AFP/Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375754/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 10:02:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364388/posts For all the global love-in, the new president has led rich nations to neglect principled action and row back from climate deals Of all the explanations for Barack Obama's Nobel peace prize, the one that rang truest came from Nicolas Sarkozy. "It sets the seal on America's return to the heart of all the world's peoples." In other words, this was Europe's way of saying to America, "We love you again", like those weird renewal-of-vows ceremonies couples have after a rough patch. Now Europe and the US are officially reunited, it seems appropriate to consider whether this is necessarily a... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364388/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:14:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2350514/posts Once upon a time, when you were just a kid, Mom or Dad probably read you "The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge.” And years later maybe you read this 1942 classic by Hildegarde H. Swift to your own children.   Little Red was saved twice by children, once from being auctioned off and once from neglect. The story begins with the introduction of a little lighthouse sitting on the rocky Manhattan shore of the Hudson River.  “It was round and fat and red. It was fat and red and jolly. And it was very, very proud.”  The... northjersey.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2350514/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:21:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342642/posts Former President George W. Bush addresses a Fourth of July crowd at the Let Freedom Ring 2009 festival at Crystal Beach Park Arena in Woodward, Okla., Saturday, July 4, 2009. (AP Photo) How many times during the last eight years did you hear that George W. Bush was a dangerous right-wing extremist? Probably too many to count.What you heard less often were expressions of the deep reservations some conservatives felt about Bush's governing philosophy.Conservatives greatly admired Bush for his steadfastness in the War on Terror -- to use that outlawed phrase -- and they were delighted by his choices... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342642/posts#comment Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:51:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329771/posts George Washington Bridge Worker Dozes on Job Monday, 31 Aug 2009 MYFOXNY.COM - A security worker on the George Washington Bridge was apparently sleeping on the job, according to a northern New Jersey news Web site. The Cliffview Pilot , which covers Bergen and Hudson counties, posted photos of a guard apparently dozing inside a guard booth near the New York side of the bridge Monday morning. A bicyclist said he saw the man sleeping in the booth at 10:15 a.m. and snapped the photos. Joey Lepore said it was the third time he has seen an attendant sleeping inside... FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329771/posts#comment Tue, 1 Sep 2009 21:42:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319892/posts Your editorial claims that Congress was complicit in Bush administration human rights abuses. Here are the facts: Until Sept. 6, 2006, only a handful of members of Congress were aware of the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation techniques." Congress passed the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 to prohibit the CIA's use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" -- the same standard as the Geneva Convention. After learning of the CIA program, Congress took action. I introduced an amendment to the fiscal 2008 intelligence authorization bill to limit the CIA to interrogation techniques authorized by the Army Field Manual.... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319892/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:41:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299824/posts Photographs of Bush, with commentary by the photographers who followed him for 8 or 9 years. Quite the contrast with Barry. Time Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299824/posts#comment Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:21:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283536/posts Ticket sales for Bush’s Saturday evening speech have been "fantastic,” said Landon Laubhan, a Woodward promoter who is handling arrangements for this weekend’s activities. The way sales are going "we will be sold out for Saturday by Thursday,” Laubhan said. The former president’s appearance, his first in Oklahoma since he left the White House earlier this year, is part of a July 4 celebration to mark improvements at Crystal Beach Park and the park’s 80th anniversary as well as the Fourth of July holiday. Bush is scheduled to speak at 6:20 p.m. Saturday in the park’s rodeo arena, which can... newsok.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283536/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 20:20:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2280071/posts Tweets from an Iranian http://twitter.com/ThinkIran (1) January 31, 2006 George W. Bush State Of The Union “Tonight, let me speak directly to the citizens of Iran: (2) America respects you, and we respect your country. We respect your right to choose your own future and win... 3) your own freedom. And our nation hopes one day to be the closest of friends with a free and democratic Iran.” Twitter.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2280071/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:46:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258912/posts On Oct. 3, as the spreading economic meltdown threatened to topple financial behemoths like American International Group (AIG) and Bank of America and plunged global markets into free fall, the U.S. government responded with the largest bailout in American history. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, better known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), authorized the use of $700 billion to stabilize the nation's failing financial systems and restore the flow of credit in the economy. The legislation's guidelines for crafting the rescue plan were clear: The TARP should protect home values and consumer savings, help citizens keep... Salon.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258912/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 10:26:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253668/posts Patrick Bibb, a 19-year-old from Dallas, glanced at his cell phone. He was in the middle of his economics class at Texas Christian University on a February morning. His caller ID read withheld. He decided not to answer. When class ended, he checked his messages and found that George W. Bush had been trying to reach him. The sophomore listened to the voice mail. He heard the former president of the United States thank him at least four times. Bush was happy that the teenager had been selling welcome home george & laura signs for $20 to people all over... Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253668/posts#comment Tue, 19 May 2009 03:43:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247788/posts A lot of the difference, the change if you will, between Obama and Bush has much to do with the word humility. George Bush is and was a humble man. Obama thinks the world counts on him and him alone to lead us. Bush went to church and prayed often. Obama puts out press releases about his supposed piety. The left sold a great bill of goods to the American people claiming that Bush, et al. were arrogant while insisting that Obama was a “man of the people.” The 65th Anniversary of D-Day is fast approaching. Barack Obama will attend... bighollywood.breitbart.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247788/posts#comment Sun, 10 May 2009 00:11:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232442/posts BOAO — Former President George W. Bush cracked jokes about how he scoops up after his dog on neighborhood walks and then turned to more serious subjects like terrorism and the financial crisis Saturday during his first overseas trip since leaving office. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232442/posts#comment Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:25:43 GMT