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How George W. Bush Redefined American Freedom
Campaign for Liberty ^ | 2009-12-24 | James Bovard

Posted on 12/24/2009 5:02:20 PM PST by rabscuttle385

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1 posted on 12/24/2009 5:02:21 PM PST by rabscuttle385
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To: bamahead; Bokababe; djsherin; BGHater; randomhero97; mkjessup; stephenjohnbanker; sickoflibs
Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge reflected the attitude of the Bush administration when he announced, "Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens." If freedom is a gift from the government to the people, then government can take freedom away at its pleasure.

*Ping!*

2 posted on 12/24/2009 5:03:26 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Purge the RINOs! * http://restoretheconstitution.ning.com/)
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To: rabscuttle385

Yeah, thank goodness his replacement is such a paragon of virtue, friend of liberty and defender of the constitution! Whew! We sure dodged that bullet, didn’t we?


3 posted on 12/24/2009 5:08:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2 million for Sarah Palin: What will you do?)
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To: rabscuttle385

Jeeze Rabs, dropping this nuke in the Bush-bots lap on Christmas Eve....you are too much... love the article,my thoughts exactly.


4 posted on 12/24/2009 5:08:25 PM PST by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is spending you demand stupid")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This scurrilous attack is in preparation for the 2010 strategy of suggesting that those who oppose Obamao really want to return to the days of President Bush.

YES I DO


5 posted on 12/24/2009 5:09:48 PM PST by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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Jeeze Rabs, dropping this nuke in the Bush-bots lap on Christmas Eve....you are too much... love the article,my thoughts exactly.

My words to them:

Merry Christmas, you filthy (RINOs)!

...and a Happy New Year!

6 posted on 12/24/2009 5:11:50 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Purge the RINOs! * http://restoretheconstitution.ning.com/)
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To: Carley

At this point LBJ, Clinton and Nixon are looking good...


7 posted on 12/24/2009 5:13:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2 million for Sarah Palin: What will you do?)
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To: rabscuttle385
Oh, I'm sorry.

I should have given you the Home Alone New York link.

Oh well. The one I gave you works just as well.

Keep the change, you filthy (RINO)!

8 posted on 12/24/2009 5:13:50 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Purge the RINOs! * http://restoretheconstitution.ning.com/)
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To: rabscuttle385

Quit your crying! Saddam never honored the surrender agreement and ended up getting his ass kicked! And rightfully so!


9 posted on 12/24/2009 5:14:36 PM PST by avacado
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To: rabscuttle385

I’m 58 and GW has to be the worst Republican presidnet I can ever remember. This elitist snob snubbed his nose at the American public and said basically he didn’t care what they thought of illegal immigration and that he was going to proceed with amnesty. He also started a war based on false foreign interlligence on WMD, as stated by Colin Powell. His administration went on to blame Sadaam for obtaining uranium from Africa which turned out to be a lie. For exposing the truth Valerie Plain? and her husband were demonized. His administration kept the train wreck rolling with fomenting home loans to those that could not afford to pay them back. His expansion of big government spending is well documented. I got tired of holding my nose and voting for the lesser of two evils. I left the Republican party about 10 years ago. Maybe America will wake up with the marxist Obama in power. If illegal aliens are granted citizenship the voting base for the Democrats will be to much to overcome.


10 posted on 12/24/2009 5:15:46 PM PST by doc
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To: sickoflibs

Go tell it to Hasan; there’s a guy whose freedom was infringed big time under Bush as well as Obama. I’ll call you Alinsky-Bot if you like name-calling.


11 posted on 12/24/2009 5:15:53 PM PST by gusopol3
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Hey, Now, Rab’s posted this not me... I would have waited till Christmas Day LOL


12 posted on 12/24/2009 5:17:59 PM PST by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is spending you demand stupid")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m sure Bovard is chronicling the Obama presidency as we speak.

I have my issues with Bush but I think this goes a touch too far. I find that libertarians, the more doctrinaire ones, have a limited understanding of war. I despise the “moral equivalent of war” because it’s a way of imposing fascism on people but killing your enemy, even if it means killing “innocents’ is hardly an “un-libertarian” thing to do.

Now, Bush’s legacy will always be weaker because of the domestic overreaches, IMO and the mealy-mouthed compassionate conservatism business.

I just wish libertarians would understand that if you get REAL conservatives, they have far more in common than with the liberal fascists who would seek to bring EVERY sphere of activity and thought under the domination of the State, whereas most Burkean Conservatives do not propose any such arrangement.


13 posted on 12/24/2009 5:18:39 PM PST by Skywalk (Transdimensional Jihad!)
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To: doc

I’m 58 and GW has to be the worst Republican presidnet I can ever remember. This elitist snob snubbed his nose at the American public and said basically he didn’t care what they thought of illegal immigration and that he was going to proceed with amnesty.
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Ya mean you didn’t like the conga-line of millions of Bush’s friends wandering in illegally for 8 years? During war time....

You’ll love this little Bush speech of him pimping home loans for totally unqualified minorities and no doubt illegals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3C0EwHZo0Q&feature=PlayList&p=778FA4AA82ECF885&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3


14 posted on 12/24/2009 5:20:52 PM PST by dragnet2
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To: rabscuttle385

The main thing that GWB did badly was not countering the lies and invectives of the left during the last four years of his term. He considered the Presidency to be “above” that sort of thing. As a result they defined him and “his war” and convinced the ignorant to turn out the Repubs in 2006 and then they foisted this tragedy upon us in 2008. I admire GWB but he blew it on this one.


15 posted on 12/24/2009 5:21:35 PM PST by HChampagne (I am not an AARP member and never will be.)
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To: rabscuttle385

I’m open, slick (author). How would you fight terrorism?
It’s all well and good to chuck beer bottles from the safety of the peanut gallery, but a lot more difficult when you are down in the arena.

Keyboard warriors are so boring.


16 posted on 12/24/2009 5:22:31 PM PST by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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You believe Valerie Plame and Joe Wison? Looks like you’ve outed yourself...


17 posted on 12/24/2009 5:23:13 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2 million for Sarah Palin: What will you do?)
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To: doc

GWB was a failure. If he were a success, Obama would not be in office now.


18 posted on 12/24/2009 5:27:53 PM PST by Theodore R.
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To: Theodore R.

***BANG***

Right in the ten ring!!


19 posted on 12/24/2009 5:29:26 PM PST by dragnet2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

IMHO, BO and Bubba one and the same.


20 posted on 12/24/2009 5:30:26 PM PST by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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