Posted on 03/07/2009 2:04:04 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Disaster Dubya; they miss him already Tony Allen-Mills in New York
HE has moved house to Dallas, popped down to the shops, tried out the nearest Mexican restaurant and been serenaded by a British pianist. Now it is back to work for George W Bush, the former president, who is off to Canada next weekend to begin his new career as a celebrity speaker.
Bush’s public re-emergence at a Calgary convention centre after six weeks of post-White House seclusion coincides with an unexpected shift in popular attitudes to the president who left office with some of the worst approval ratings on record.
It turns out that he may not have been quite so bad after all. “If Bush policies were disastrous, as [Barack] Obama claims, then why is he continuing them?” asked Kevin Hassett, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
“Several polls . . . have named [Bush] the worst president in American history,” said Thomas Fleming, a former president of the Society of American Historians. “But maybe it’s time to suspend the rush to judgment.”
To be sure, there has been little misty-eyed nostalgia. One late-night comedian joked last month that Bush was charging $150,000 (£106,000) per speech on the lecture circuit - with an extra $25,000 if anyone throws shoes at him.
Yet Obama’s cautious adherence to a range of Bush policies - from military strikes on Pakistan to the legal status of White House e-mails - has allowed the former president’s allies to claim that history will prove kinder to him than many expect.
Bush has made no attempt to defend his record or criticise Obama’s.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Because, unlike previous occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (not to mention the current one,) Dubya knows about being classy.
I miss him too, more each day.
This is true to form.
In a relative sense, yes. But he did start us down this slippery slope with the September bailout. That move also may be seen as pushing Obama over the top in November.
“”I miss him too, more each day.””
That’s nothing..........I never EVER thought I would say this, but I even miss Bill Clinton
Just posted in a Brit paper.
Bush mattered because he understood the presidency.
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and FDR and Truman understood that we had to destroy their entire nation because of it. No consideration to the idea that the leaders of Japan should be treated as common criminals. Japan, all of it, had to be punished to the extreme.
2.2 million Japanese died for attacking America.
al-Qaeda, representing the Muslim world of a billion people, attacked America, with greater loss of life than Pearl Harbor. Bush would not, could not let that attack pass.
From that moment his presidency was defined. Nothing else comes close in consequences to that attack and his response.
George W. Bush understood the presidency.
Would you go as far as Jimmuh?
ROFLMTO...and the body count list?
Well at the risk of sounding like a ‘female’ Rushette, if you care enough to look at my previous posts, I predicted that GW Bush would look like a ‘saint’ and many would long for his leadership. TOO LATE....we are now stuck with a marxist bastard determined to take the U.S. down (and is succeeding if the sheeple don’t start taking some action, ANYTHING, would be better than to stand by and watch this dismantling of our Country. DON’T STAND THERE..........DO SOMETHING.....
The marxist kooks are readying for Prez Bush in Calgary already and are organizing thru social networking sites like Facebook:
George W. Bush in Calgary - PROTEST!
War criminals are not welcome in Canada!
March 17th 2009 George W. Bush will come to Calgary, Alberta to speak. It will be his first speaking engagement since leaving office. We will be protesting the event to demand that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney stand trial for war crimes committed in Iraq, and at Guantanamo Bay.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=51109508236&ref=ts
FEEL FREE TO FREEP YOUR OPINIONS AT THEIR FB SITE :-)
Just for the record, the Clintons were and are typical Democrat Alinsky Socialists. Hillary’d be doing the same stuff as Obama, maybe just a bit slower. Make no mistake, the morally challenged Bubba Clinton and Mrs. Pantsuit paved the way for the likes of Obama to be elected. Her running in the first place when she knew she was so polarizing and that not everyone loved the Clintons was very telling.
It was a mistake to distance the Republican Party, history will be nice to Bush but not to the Republican Party that through him under the bus.
They should have embraced him and the policies they liked and explained how they are different rather than treating him as the plague.
What do you suggest we DO? We voted against the little Marxist Fauntleroy and urged others to do the same; we tried to protest the canonization of Bubba and Hillary before that, but all Democrats still saw him as the saviour of the universe and above justice no matter what he did, and Hillary as “the smartest woman on the planet and maybe in the Universe. Even when the DU mindset sees this country sold completely down the road, the Obama cultists will refuse to see his true color - and that might be more correctly described as red. (Communism isn’t near as much fun as the DU’ers paint it as. They’ll only see when their hatred of the eeeeeevil “rich” ends with their own hides standing in the Obama soup lines, with no job except maybe a temporary gubmint job with which to pay their college loans, and all they’ll *see* is that they still blame “Bush and Reagan”.)
“Disaster Dubya; they miss him already”
Who is “they?”
Comparing Bush to Obama I’ll take Bush. At least he didn’t tank the economy.
Bush has made no attempt to defend his record or criticize Obama’s
Obama is doing that for him while W sits back and laughs.
I MISS DUBYA!!!
I’m still glad he’s gone , just wish he was succeeded by a real conservative ...
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