Posted on 05/05/2011 6:30:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
IMO, there is no way to adequately thank President Bush or his VP Cheney for their unrelenting drive to capture bin Laden.
Heh. Love that poster!
Clearly you don’t have the slightest idea what it means to be a conservative. Oh, I’m sure you can mouth (or, in this case, write) the usual platitudes and talking points, but comprehension is another matter altogether.
Just got through telling someone else, “The guy was a globalist dufus with moments of sanity, at best.” On many issues the guy didn’t have clue one.
I couldn’t vote for him the first time around, and decided to give him the nod the second time. Just my luck, ducking that nimnal Kerry gave us Obama.
Hate to break it down to that, but it’s the truth. Bush ran our national debt up over 90% in his eight years in office. In his last six months, he ran it up $1 trillion alone, and set the stage for Obama to run up $4 more trillion and counting.
People will look at Laden’s death and tell us the legacy of Bush was the War on Terrorism and the death of Laden. In part that’s true.
In part it’s also true our nation is on the verge of bankruptcy and we are stuck with Barack Hussein Obama.
That’s one of the worst mixed bags I’ve seen in 60 years.
The government today is making management decisions for over 50% of our private sector businesses.
Some fricken legacy...
If you are such a bad leader, that when you leave office people don’t know better than to vote in a fascist Marxist and fellow traveler of the haters of America, you have been a miserable failure.
George, in some ways you had some class. In other ways you were such an...
So do I SOL.
Please get specific when you justify Hussein in the WH. It would help.
>> People mistake him for a giant because
Yes, GWB often governed like a Democrat of yore, but he was absolutely steadfast and effective on security. Unfortunately, he handed the keys to a bunch of losers that are hellbent on destroying the virtues of our Country.
“[H]e was absolutely steadfast and effective on security.”
Except with regard to the Mexican border. Truly, he has a very unusual combination of strengths and weaknesses, and an odd view of how the world works. Quixotic.
The stupidity of those who say Bush caused Obama makes me sick.
Politics does not work that way...Did Carter cause Reagan? ....no
Reagan caused Reagan
was Bush perfect ? no ....
but he was honest and a straight shooter and how often do you find that ?
He disagreed with people here on the border but he never lied about it.
The people here now want to throw the baby out with the bath water ..
if a politician disagrees with em about an issue they are labeled a Rino or worse
Good luck with that in the real world
People whining on the right need to grow up
What the f#$% do you think they will say about you?
I bet you will not make the history books
bttt
Once again, I feel so very sorry for you that your inability to discern character and put it above your political bent keeps you from understanding who George W. Bush is.
Every one of you on this forum who abhor this good, GOOD man (and you do hate him, hoser, denials notwithstanding), hates him because he doesn't agree with YOUR politics. It's shortsighted, and empty. Fortunately, there are very few of you angry souls left around here.
There are very few conservatives who agree with some of the things he did. There are NO conservatives who think he was perfect.
But those of us who put morality over politics admire him. For those of you who have politics as your religion, and worship at the altar of your particular brand of conservatism (which in some cases isn't conservatism at all) you'll never understand President Bush.
I would bet a million bucks that you saw the title of this thread, got angry because a man you despise is getting credit he very much deserves, and came on to make your absurd, off-topic post.
Pathetic. Sad. That's you.
The people who are driven by emotional and psychological need are those who see that President Bush is finally getting the credit he very much deserves, and come on the threads like this to throw temper tantrums.
If you bother to read the threads about President Bush and his steadfastness on the war on terror, his self-sacrifice to keep the methods intact that "got" bin Laden, you will see some of the brightest minds on this forum.
There are only a handful of petulant children and malignant naysayers who can't stand to see anything positive said about President Bush and whose emotions are out of control who disrupt threads like this one.
Are you counted among them? Do you wish there were more of them?
This thread and others, is not about the perfection of George W. Bush. But his efforts in the WOT have indeed been completely vindicated, and the psychologically weak among you just can't stand it.
Too bad. History is with the TRUTH, and the TRUTH is that President Bush was a strong, patriotic Presdident and a man of impeccable character who did every single thing he did because he thought it was the right thing to do.
Given your screen name, you should appreciate moral clarity and seeking after God's will. (And if you see Bush as an elitist, you have fallen for the leftist class warfare and should be ashamed. As for globalist 'fantasies'...you have indicted yourself with that one. The facts don't back you up at all).
Not historically accurate. Based only on emotional speculation and not the facts.
Bush was a disaster. Had he succeeded in ramming amnesty down our throats(as he tried like hell to do), he would have surpassed Jimmy Carter as the worst POTUS. Instead, he delivered us to the worst POTUS.
But you've revealed enough in some of your posts to let us know that deep down you DO admire the character and courage of George W. Bush.
You can continue your bluster all you want now, but some where deep inside, you know President Bush is a man of immense character whose politics just don't line up with yours.
He's not the bad guy you've built an internet reputation on ripping to shreds, and you know it. I would recommend that you stand on your own more often and don't worry about impressing the haters around here.
They're definitely not worth it, and there are only a handful left who still don't get it.
(btw, the talking point that Bush gave us Obama is just plain silly. You know enough historical fact to stop throwing that inanity around).
“Given your screen name, you should appreciate moral clarity and seeking after God’s will.”
Read the Psalm. It is precise and specific. It does not ‘reach across the aisle’. Not gently, anyway.
Your ‘morally clear’ president called Islam a “religion of peace”. That gross fiction alone has weakened and undermined all efforts against them, and will continue to do so.
Bush II did not have moral clarity. He had moral certainty, and those are two very different things. Some of his certainties coincided with reality. Some did not.
Similarly you mistake willful for strong. Again, they are not the same thing.
There are two areas where I will give the man credit for being strong and being correct: the resolve to track down and eliminate the perpetrators of 9/11; and the defense of the unborn and infants. Those are not small things, but of themselves they are not enough. Behind each of those outrages - jihad terrorism and casual infanticide - is a corrupt and perverse cultural base, one Eastern and one Western. Repeatedly, he compromised with those cultures and consequently never had much effect in shaping or controlling them. Contrast that with Reagan, who never compromised with communists or communism, and as a result ultimately broke their backs.
Is George W. Bush a good man? Probably. If what he projects is a true reflection of the man then yes. Was he a great President? No. He was the best out of the past four administrations, but that is not a very robust competition.
I could go on, but given your screen name there is probably not much point. We are not going to agree on this, and whether we do or not makes not a bit of difference.
I know what it means, thats why I'm a radical..
Since conservative means "same old, same old"..
Washington D.C. needs radical change.. not conservative change from way before Obama..
All the points you make are determined by your political pov, and your apparent lack of understanding that the role of the President of the United States after 9/11 was to protect America from further attack - thus the words about Islam which calmed the waters in a significant way.
I do not mistake willful for strong. Especially when the 'willfulness' comes from conviction. I also strongly disagree with your accusation that understanding that evil was trying to overcome good, that there are very bad people who want to do things to harm others because they are evil, is not moral clarity.
President Bush's moral clarity was the very essence of his policy in the War against jihadists as well as his unwavering protection of the unborn, and I, for one, am thankful that he had it.
I recommend your reading Decision Points. Even if you disagree with every decision he made, you will more fully understand why he did what he did, and how his desire to follow Christ motivated him.
I praise God for this brother in Christ who led this country. As a conservative I disagreed with some of his decisions. As a Christian, I respect that he did what he did as a fellow sinner saved by Grace and a follower of Jesus Christ.
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