[tomnbeverly]

“stand up for themselves very often”

I like your post, but did it ever occur to you that he was too busy standing up for you to stand up for himself?

[Soothesayer]

Those who voted for Obamessiah or supported his regime in any way deserve everything that is coming to them. However, the youngest generations of Americans are totally innocent of all this and they will end up suffering the most for it. There is not a damn thing to be happy about.

[pissant]

Every President has a balance of good things he did/tried versus the bad things he did/tried. Overall, Bush was on the positive side, but not by much, especially with the ridiculous socialist bailout at the end. He is a a good man. But he will never be remembered as a conservative president, because he wasn’t.

[TruthHound]

Is the Republican party better now off than 8 years ago?

No legacy to be proud of.

[lonestar67]

I really see conservatism as intrinsically a statement against conservatism.

I think Bush was radically profoundly a great Conservative.

I think he was a global conservative which I gather many conservatives find oxymoronic. Bush’s willingness to crush three of the most evil dictatorships in the world and speak so bluntly against other made him a radical anti statist.

The security of the homeland is one of the most core constitutional doctrines and the fact that he did that better than almost any President ought to earn him more than just alright.

The budget blame that is so annoying is and indication of why Americans cannot fix the budget. They blame the President and refuse to acknowledge that it is a Congressional responsiblity. There is very little the President can do about the budget and vetoing the budget is really not a reasonable option.

Bush was staunchly pro life and yet gets very little credit for that. He had a profoundly theological and Christian view of the world and got little credit for that.

[Spirochete]

Time after time, in spite of being right on the issue, Bush sat back and let his enemies define him and his policies. Surrogates can only do so much, and who wants to be a surrogate for someone unwilling to stand up for themselves very often? Conservatism became a thing to shy away from, having no elected leader or defender.

This sums it up.

[Historix]

Although Bush did some dumb things in office, I must give him credit. He did the unthinkable for a Clinton. He took one for the team. We were attacked on 9/11 with resualts greater than Pearl Harbor. To this very day, no other plot has suceeded. Bin Laden and his kind must travel by donkey on a moonless cloudy night to evade death. Saddam is dead. We did not find WMD’a, but is that the most important outcome of the war? There are now two somewhat stable democracies in the Middle East, and Afganistan will become a third, placing Iran in a poor disposition to act against anyone. Bush has been rolled over by a steamroller by the media, but he did the American thing, he did the right thing to do.

[Doc91678]

In my eyes the Progressive Left had a great deal to do with the failed attempts to make America better.
True Bush met many stumbling blocks, but in my eyes he's a great Dude. Now that he's retired, I wouldn't mind having him come sit on my porch so we can watch the sunset while drinking a couple of brews. That's Lucky Lager to you.

[Doc91678]

In my eyes the Progressive Left had a great deal to do with the failed attempts to make America better.
True Bush met many stumbling blocks, but in my eyes he's a great Dude. Now that he's retired, I wouldn't mind having him come sit on my porch so we can watch the sunset while drinking a couple of brews. That's Lucky Lager to you.

[backhoe]

Good essay, Grig- thank you...

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THEG,
( The Heavy Equipment Guy )

...gating back out, into Cyberspace and the Dreamtime

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[varon]

My thoughts at the end of the Bush Presidency is the transition of power from a president that wreaked havoc in other countries to a president that will wreak havoc in our own.

[IrishMike]

The bailouts will in time prove to the worst thing he did.
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There is a lot of truth there, but I would also include illegal immigration. It’s where I started to part ways with the man I voted for twice.