No one is perfect, but it took 0bama to get people to appreciate GWB for who he was & put him in perspective. He grew on me as time went on. Oh hell yes, I miss him. More than I ever imagined I could.
He may have been terribly misguided at times, but he was a *decent* man. I was never embarrassed that he was our president (or Laura our first lady).
He appears as a decent man and he is in his person, but he was an awful President and his wife is liberal to the core.
American conservatives can do better and must not repeat allowing a RINO clan like the Bush family be in positions of leadership and power.
We elected him because we couldn’t stomach Gore and we were somehow persuaded that Bush was a Texas conservative and different from his father.
We elected him as an incumbent against Kerry because we had great hopes that if we gave him a Republican House and Senate, that he would be able to do the critical reforms the country needed. He squandered what we gave him.
And when it came to McCain and Romney, we’d had enough and we witnessed RINOs taking over the GOP and making themselves the GOP establishment.
Bush, a nice man and awful President except for terrorism where he gave full sway to the military brass and our intelligence services. And they performed superbly.
But Bush gave full sway to Wall St. greed as well and look at what they wrought.
Bush liked to find agreeable people and put things on auto-pilot.
Our military performed well under Bush because they are patriotic.
Our financial markets under Bush were devastated as greed had license to steal and laid scam upon scam at the foot of lower class Americans. Bush’s auto-pilot approach to the bankers and the Wall St. traders was a disaster of historical proportions.