Posted on 12/30/2009 1:32:44 PM PST by STARWISE
Though it may be an unpopular sentiment to some, I really do find myself missing George W. Bush. There is no sarcasm in that statement; no hidden slander. I genuinely find a vacancy in the world where President Bush used to be, and for very specific reasons.
I voted for Bill Clinton twice.
In subequent years I came to realize the kind of creature he was, what he did - and I don't mean Lewinsky - and the kind of no-conscience reptiles he and his wife were. And are.
I remember experiencing rage at the election of George W. Bush in 2000.
Then 9/11 happened when I was working down the street from the JFK Federal Building in Boston. I realized with 20/20 horror-sight what it would have been like if Al Gore had been President.
Gore, in the following years, has shown what terror he would have brought on this country with whatever his ideas of leadership would have been.
My mind changed and I began to see the foundation of what made this country and what motivated lunatic terrorists to want to snuff it out. And I became angry.
The next 8 years went by and now we are truly infected by a brand of vermin without conscience. And lately this has caused me to seriously reflect on what we are missing and the reasons I genuinely miss President George W. Bush.
Quite probably the most noticeable reason is that we were not bombarded daily with the Maoist inundation of images of the "Commander in Chief" as we are today. President Bush, once he won, stopped campaigning. His victories and, indeed, his presidency were not about some bombastic, megalomaniacal ego feeding frenzy.
He was our CEO.
Further, President Bush could be relied upon for steadiness of purpose. Whether you agreed with him or not, you knew there would be a landing on the tarmac without incident.
While I was a supporter of the Iraq War at the beginning, by 2006 I realized that something else had to be going on, and it wasn´t oil. If it were oil, we´d have seized it and avoided the rising gas prices. The expenditure of lives and money for the Iraq War are far, far out of proportion to the stated objectives. I don´t claim to know what was or the purpose is there. All I am certain of is that it is not oil and it is not security from terrorism.
That being said, we have been safe. Inarguably safe. This is not in small part due to the fact that President Bush surrounded himself with some of the most experienced and seasoned bureaucrats and military officers around. And, yes, I am an unabashed fan of Dick Cheney.
Dick Cheney just in sound bites makes Joe Biden look like the utter moron he is. Cheney is a man of class, decency and dignity. Yes, he probably knows a lot of things I would really like to know or would really not like to know. But my guess is these things are safe with him.
I can say that of no one in the current administration, least of all the President.
Understand, we have the first administration in history that is an administration of thugs.
If you criticize them, you are insulted on a personal level. I never once remember this happening in the Bush White House. The Bush Administration handled criticism primarily by citing the individual´s right to free speech and to challenge aspects of authority.
Now, if you disagree with the Obama gang, you are a racist or a Nazi.
How sane people can´t see this stark difference is beyond just mere learning disability.
No, I don´t give a damn about so-called "real Conservatives" who carped on Bush for not being the cardboard cutout of a party platform.
These same people helped sink McCain and elect Obama.
I grew up feeling lucky for what I had. I wish these idiotic Conservative ideologues would learn from that principle.
But, they´re all rich. They have no idea of being truly thankful.
And on a purely intuitive level, I miss President Bush because I don´t believe he had an evil bone in his body. He ran this country; he didn´t try to shape it into some Frankenstein´s monster socialist nightmare.
A President of the United States should be a statesman, even a simple man, but surely not a child radical whose origins we are not allowed to challenge lest we be labeled crazy.
Yes, I miss George W. Bush, if only because I could come home at night and go to bed knowing that, for now, everything was going to be all right.
He didn´t have a staff of hotshot narcissists with daddy issues. He ran a board of directors. They stayed in the background and actually worked.
Work.
And you better believe me: God, we need to get that back sometime or we´re all in deep crap.
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"No, I don´t give a damn about so-called "real Conservatives" who carped on Bush for not being the cardboard cutout of a party platform.
These same people helped sink McCain and elect Obama."
I could make fun of him and not be called a racist!
Go out and win voters to the idea of what America is about - freedom, freedom, freedom.... Go forth!
Have a Happy New Year, Starwise.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. Those who held out for perfect gave us the TOTUS-reader. This administration is as much at their feet as the dimocrats.
Shocking stark poltical clarity!
Exactly right.
a staff of hotshot narcissists with daddy issue
Comfortable in his own skin. A real person, with a real sense of humor.
The bashers self-identify ... always good
to know. What they do and don’t stand for
is quite telling.
The positive threads about Pres. Bush will
continue .. more than ever now with these
incompetents at the wheel.
Happy New Year to you as well!
The entire commentary spoke to my heart.
I have long railed against the so called ‘conservative MOVEMENT’ that demanded purity from President Bush.
He wasn’t perfect, but then perfection belongs only to God.
He cared about me and my family and not ‘feeling my pain’ either.
Bless Laura and George Bush and their family.
George Bush was like a tough cop on the beat. You knew you won’t be getting away with any funny business while he is in charge. Obama has shown us exactly what would happen in Mayberry had Barney Fife been elevated to sheriff.
George Bush was like a tough cop on the beat. You knew you won’t be getting away with any funny business while he is in charge. Obama has shown us exactly what would happen in Mayberry had Barney Fife been elevated to sheriff.
You bet I miss them. I miss them all, but especially our President......the one who loved America and liberty.
God bless President Bush!
He wasn’t perfect, but then perfection belongs only to God.
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Amen.. if I only had one nickel for every time
I’ve said that here. If you go by their bashing,
there’s sure a lot of FReepers who don’t grasp
that and surely must believe *they* are omniscient
and perfect then .. huh ?
;)
We're there really any conservative Republicans who actually sat-out the last election? Just askin'.
Seems to me that there were a heckuva lot of guilty, white suburbanites who threw caution to the wind & voted for Obama. I think that was the difference.
They may bring out the haters who have no self control, see his name in a title with a clearly positive article, and cannot stop themselves from saying something stupid, but these kinds of articles need to be seen and read and reflected on.
The bashers do "self-identify." And what they reveal about themselves isn't pretty.
Thank you for this thread, STARWISE.
*mega-sigh*
>>We’re there really any conservative Republicans who actually sat-out the last election? Just askin’.<<
You haven’t been on some of the threads I have. I have been the subject here art FR of BLISTERING attacks b/c I noted exactly what I said here. Just wait, they will be along soon enough.
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