Posted on 01/02/2013 7:10:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind
All this and you still think he was a good president. A good man with a lovely family? You mean the pro-choice Laura?
I give him credit for 2 things: Fighting the loose lending at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and cutting taxes.
I said it at the end of Bush’s presidency and I’ll say it again now, GW Bush was one of the finest men to ever serve as president.
I give him credit for warning about the loose lending at Fannie and Freddie and for the tax cuts.
Almost everything else he did was a disaster. He did not veto any spending, he gave us a more powerful and intrusive federal government (that the libs are enjoying thoroughly), and he invaded 2 countries to go after a loose-knit band of terrorists that slip away to other countries when the heat is on. What have we gotten for our years in Afghanistan and Iraq? The two countries are now more hard-core Islamic than they were, thousands of our people are maimed or dead, and billions were spent and/or stolen by the enemy. Yeah, I would say that’s a pretty crappy record.
Ugh, you're right. Let me amend my comment: Bush should have went before the Senate and asked for a declaration of war.
I believe that he would have gotten it.
I would not disagree with the comment at all. And though a business associate who was a major contributor to both, I believe that GWB and his father WERE two of the finest men to ever serve as president.
- But -
When as President you ignore your own core values and beliefs and allow advisers to lead you into all kinds of silly nonsense and bad ideas,
you cannot be considered a great President.
I feel this slightly more in the case of GWB. He was thrust into a rare and unusual occurrence (9/11). And for a few brief shining moments, he showed us what was inside him and that he could rise to the occasion. But just as quickly, he put his own beliefs aside and decided to follow the ‘advice’ given to him by others.
And that was the beginning of a fine man/weak ineffective President.
So can you imagine what Jebbie will do? He may be nominated but never elected.
He is a good and decent man with a classy wife and two beautiful girls... I just wish he had also possessed a little of Reagan's clear vision and commitment to conservatism.
But of course, hindsight is 20/20.
I think LBJ was worse than GWB; the long-term failed ramifications of both will be forever with us. It’s amazing that TX is the most Republican state in the Union based on elections since 1994, when GWB was first elected governor. I shudder to think what the future holds.
Even Bono praised the president for this...
“I shudder to think what the future holds.”
Well I can tell you one thing it holds. Texas is sending up a new senator that the Republican Rino establishment tried to paint as a “Tea Party Candidate.” Well Mr. Cruz didn’t run away from that tag - he in fact embraced it. And he won!!
Don’t know how long he’ll be able to hang onto them in that Washington slime pit, but Texas is sending up a new Senator with a spine and ‘attachments.’
And we are retiring a worthless Rino.
That’s at least a double, and maybe an inside the park home run.
Supporting abortion and homosexual marriage is classy?
I agree with this.
I 've believed this to be true (that the WMD's went to Syria Bekka Valley) after satellites picked up the convoy from Iraq to Bekka Valley.
Why wasn't this highlighted at the time and why isn't it highlighted now?
It isn't being discussed now even with intelligence we had at the time.
Bekka Valley should be confirmed now and info disseminated widely.
Laura was a McGovern Democrat, a real minority position in Midland in 1972. She may still be a “Democrat” in philosophy though her marriage required her to vote in many TX Republican primaries since 1978. I presume she still voted in the May 29, 2012, Repubican primary, as she lives in Dallas. Or maybe she didn’t vote since the Romney nomination was already set in stone. She is definitely like her mother-in-law on the left.
I think you're forgetting about Carter. The press did not like him much toward the end of his term.
We have a long way to go with Obama and much of the thrill is already gone. It seems to me you take a fairly short view of history.
He compared FDR to LBJ. FDR listened to his best military men like George Marshall even when he didn't like what they told him. LBJ, in contrast, brought his top generals into the Oval Office and cursed them out.
No wonder FDR did much better dealing with Germany and Japan than LBJ did with a poor peasant country nobody had heard of until JFK started sending troops there.
I believe Victor Krulak would have been Commandant of the Marine Corps except that he insisted on telling the truth to LBJ instead of saying what the President wanted him to tell him.
Even that would be destructive on the level of his father and brother.
Look at Iraq and Afghanistan. The BS media made it worse. I seriously doubt our ability to use the Army or Marines for anything beyond punitive raids.
Yep. And close to the same thing occurred before both the Afghan and Iraqi invasions. The tactical generals (not the political ones in DC) thought Rumsfeld's "just-enough" troop strategy was unwise. Rumsfeld shouted those objections down.
Saying it doesn’t make it so.
Ok, fine! He has a wife that can dress appropriately for the occasion, and stand or sit with her legs together. She doesn't tell healthy kids to eat arugala, while she gobbles down ribs. She didn't drop to the floor and do push-ups on the Ellen Degeneres show. And while her husband was in office she didn't insist on taking multi-million dollar vacations every 40-60 days. :p
I guess thats what I meant by classy. haha
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