Posted on 06/17/2009 9:33:29 PM PDT by AKSurprise
Former President George W. Bush fired a salvo at President Obama on Wednesday, asserting his administration's interrogation policies were within the law, declaring the private sector not government will fix the economy and rejecting the nationalization of health care.
I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in, the former president said to applause from members of a local business group. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money. Repeatedly in his hourlong speech and question-and-answer session, Mr. Bush said he would not directly criticize the new president, who has moved to take over financial institutions and several large corporations. Several times, however, he took direct aim at Obama policies as he defended his own during eight years in office.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Apparently, Iran and N. Korea aren’t the only ones seeing Obama as weak at the moment...
About time...
Drudge has gone overboard with that headline. The Times “takes swipes” headline is more accurate.
Bush didn’t “slam” Obama, but he did set the record straight on some of the garbage Big O’s folks have been spreading around.
Sounds like he was very well received.
I hope somebody in the Bush Cheney team gets the Kenyan BC out. Bush in almost every case would say nothing but he sees what Obama is doing to destroy America.
I think that’s because Bush, unlike his predecessor or his successor, actually cares about the dignity of the office. Obama is now undermining that dignity by attempting to pass the buck and blame every problem on Bush.
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FINALLY!!!!
Hell Obama has only been in office 5 months
There’s a limit on how many of those cheap shots a man can take. I hope he puts the Peanut Vendor in his place too.
I agree..and I am fed up with the liberal talking heads like the insipid Bob Beckel and others who complain about Cheney speaking out in defense of the Bush years when they were just fine with Carter and Clinton bashing Bush for 8 endless years!
Too little, too late. Now you decide to speak up after helping create & foster the conditions that led to 0boooooomba and allowing 0boooooomba to pound on you for the past two years without so much as of flicker of response. Thanks GW. Oh yah by the way, the troops & border patrol agents & police & FBI were the ones who kept our country safe for 8 years, not GW Bush sitting secure in the WH.
Bush is one to talk, after the bailout of the big banks occurred...on his watch!
I’m sorry but how exactly can he talk when he helped authorize the bailout of the banking industry?
We can at least unify to stop Obama.
If we can’t stop fighting each other long enough to do that, then we really have lost it.
Thank the Lord for the three of you. I was concerned that I would again be the one told to go to DU for getting under the skin of the Bushbots.
Now as for the ‘bots on this thread. You clowns squealed like stuck pigs when Carter dug into Bush, but now it’s okay for Bush? Maybe had Bush been a wonderful president he may get away with it. Bush was a wrecking ball sort of a failure as president and has NO credibility attacking anyone else.
Bush decided to destroy the free market in order to save it. Where does he get off telling Hussein that the private sector can fix what he screwed up when he did all he could to destroy the private sector.
Conservative used to have such a simple definition. A conservative is a conservative. Bush (as McCain) did his level best to give us Hussein. Please, spare us this Stockholm Syndrome crap. Go peddle it somewhere else.
Bush didn’t take a swipe at anyone in that article. That headline is a serious over reach. Drudge is going to get plenty of hits out of it though, and BO gets his straw man back for a few more days.
Wish he did not say this while in office.
I think every conservative is pretty ticked at what Bush did with the TARP and auto bailouts. I think what most posters here are supportive of, is what he did regarding the GWOT.
I’ll tell you something, FRiend, we may yet come together, but it ain’t gonna be over Jorge W Arbusto.
Know your FRiends, know your enemies. Emperor Bush is not now, nor will he ever be our friend.
There are some here, some in the conservative movement, some in the tea-party movement who would like desperately to get others to see where the G**-damned Stockholm Syndrome has gotten us.
A body has to fight off an infection, or more aptly perhaps, a cancer. The body will not survive if it does not eradicate the cancer. These Bushbot fools are cancer. I will not break bread with them, lest I get their cancer as well.
He sunk to the lowest level of his administration when he said those words.
I hope folks keep VERY focused. GW was one of the good guys. I admire him as President. I wish we had him back in for 4 years; heck, I wish we even had a President right now...
Me too, but at least he's finally showing some backbone and joining Dick Cheney in defending his administrative policies (and with class, I might add).
one president breaks Americas financial back dumping americas wealth and young heros into a war to rescue the ungrateful islamics and lead them to "democracy" to the tune of trillions
while the next president breaks americas back and delivers the final blow, cancelling out the foriegn policy actions of the former, leading America away from democracy and dumping 4 times the wealth down a deep black hole
it's like some surreal reality game show in a bizzarro world
I don't know who the enemy is any more
makes me wonder what the people of Germany or japan were thinking before WWII, when they got swept up in the winds of war by their sicko leaders
I just hate Bush a little less than Obama. Our government is killing the United States
Who knows, maybe at the time, he figured he had more important things to do.
In any event, he's got plenty of time now to do speaking engagements, maybe even make a few bucks.
Amen. I am a man without a party.
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It’s about time, George.
You and me both, brother.
For the next three-and-a-half years, anyone who joins together defeat Obama is my friend.
Obama is NOW undermining that dignity....
It began a long time ago!
The problem was also McC...the self-righteous bipartisan useless candidate.GWB and McC were/are not good friends!
But maybe GWB made a gamble with the future and prefered OBAMA as POTUS ,guessing he will fail, than McCAIN...
Oh yes about Beckel. He makes me ill listening to his drivel. The stupidity out of his mouth is neverending. We get it Bob, you love ZerO.
“Zer0’s such an easy little target.”
Maybe so but haven’t you noticed the 0 with support from the congress is currently the dictator of the US with little chance of change.
This is one of those non-traditional, unprofessional and incivil acts by presidents after they complete their final term, or at least it used to be. The Clintons certainly broke the custom of stifling their criticism of their successors, and now ostammer is taking shots days in and day out at Bush. I say it’s high time we set aside our provincialism and fight fire with fire.
Good on Dubya!!! He should do much more of this........he can still show leadership and the contrast between Dubya and hussein is more than startling and is not to hussein’s benefit.
Its soooo much easier to talk the talk.
“Bush is one to talk, after the bailout of the big banks occurred...on his watch!”
It was the massive, coordinated withdrawal of about a trillion dollars from money market accounts that occurred on Sept 17-18, 2008 that precipitated the banking bailout. Had the banks not been resuscitated, our entire system would have collapsed.
Stop blaming Bush for things you don’t understand.
Soros.
Bushbots, antibushbots....oh my! Everybody here must be a natural-born extremist, wanting to surge to one side of the boat or the other. But when the subject is GWB, what can you do? Both sides sink at once. Indefensible positions port and starboard.
We'd have been better off with Thompson/Palin.
Cheers!
I’m sorry, it’s not an extreme position to long for the days of 4.9% unemployment we had under GW. He was speaking to a group of capitalists and pointing out the current administration isn’t on their side. I don’t think it’s an extreme view to be on the side of capitalism. It’s an American view.
Obama blames Bush no less than 25 times a day, but it is not ok for Bush to speak out. That is an absurd claim. Bush NEVER blamed Clinton for starting a recession, nor for letting the country get attacked by terrorists seven times during his presidency. He is a real man, unlike the boy president we have now.
Bush spoke out for free market, against government spending as an economic recovery, and attacked the disastrous policies of Obama. Does this mean you like the Obama economic plan?
As a pundit put it: Bush would not recognize a free market principle if it was on fire and roller skating naked througth the Oval Office.
It was the massive, coordinated withdrawal of about a trillion dollars from money market accounts that occurred on Sept 17-18, 2008 that precipitated the banking bailout. Had the banks not been resuscitated, our entire system would have collapsed. Stop blaming Bush for things you don’t understand.I wasn't even going to bother commenting on all the blaming and hate being thrown around... but you made up for it with a good reply. I swear there have been DU "sleepers" in here for a long time..
I agree with what Bush said, but he lacks authority after expanding government as if he were a Democrat. Ditto for the GOP in general. They still don’t have enough courage of conviction to call Obama and the Demos what the really are: Socialists.
Didn’t say the position was extreme, just the inclination. Everybody wants to regard him all good, or all bad. Neither choice defensible very long. Is that any clearer?
Exactly. Government was BIGGER when Bush and the Republicrats left office than it was when they came in.
Good for GWB for a change.
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