Posted on 01/26/2009 8:55:42 PM PST by DissidentDingo
I had a chance to watch the coverage of President Bush’s return to Texas and I have to say, there is something that has bothered me ever since.
He addressed the crowd from behind a podium bearing the Texas state seal and spoke in the same folksy manner we have seen from him since day one. As he finished his speech and went on to wave, shake hands and swagger through the crowd of well-wishers, there was one thought, more of a question really, that I couldn’t get out of my head.
Why the hell have we abandoned this guy?
If anyone had said on September 12, 2001 that we would not suffer another terrorist attack for the balance of the Bush Presidency, I wouldn’t have believed them. If It had been said that the Democrats would gain power by trashing a military that had liberated two countries while the President’s approval numbers would drop to historically low numbers, I wouldn’t have believed that either. And I especially would not have believed that this same President would branded a “war criminal” by the media for housing terrorists…Terrorists!... in a “club-Fed” style country club that is far better than they deserve.
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By the time this nitwit Obama gets done, the whole country will long for the days of President George W. Bush.
George Bush’s biggest problem is that he is a terrible politician, but a good Christian. He put country above party. The result is that he allowed the destruction of the Republican Party. The fact that he did not defend himself, his party, or his policies (turning the other cheek), was not even good for the country, as this gave the Democrats and the media carte blanche to lie through their teeth, knowing he will not defend himself. This made it very hard to defend him. Now the country thinks that the financial crisis is his mistake, that the Katrina fiasco was his and only his mistake. The destruction of the Republican party under his watch makes the country, at least for the next couple of years, into a one-party country. The destructive potential of what the Democrats can now do is indirectly Bush’s fault.
Amen!
You’re right that he put the country above his party, although I prefer to say that he put the country above politics. You’re also right that he made it hard to defend him, but he also never asked for anyone to defend him. I’m as hardcore Conservative as a person can be. No one could look at my blog and think otherwise, but I also believe Bush deserves better than the fair weather Republicans who only cheer when the team is winning. Maybe he prefers to turn the other cheek, but I don’t, so I’m going to defend him. Thank you for the comment.
It is sad how President Bush has been treated but I do believe that history will treat him more fairly. He is a class act.
You can let him know how you feel on the “Thank George Bush” website below.
Spread the word. Let George W. and Laura know how much we appreciate their love and sacrifice for America. It endured even when the country’s citizens turned their backs to them.
I, for one, feel indebted to them for all the time and energy they have sacrificed for this country.
There is no question who I would rather be in a foxhole with. Obama wouldn’t even be in the running.
Almost 64,000 letters sent already through this site....
http://mission1accomplished.com/
I miss President Bush more than I thought I would. I did have major disagreements with him, as I have with all past presidents, but I never thought he was acting to attain some warped idea of what this country should be, but what he believed the founders intended.
I believe he would have been less “compassionate” and more conservative if the Republican Party hadn’t become a country club hangout for the kinds of people who controlled it before RWR came in. I think he was ill-served by some, and his concrete belief in “loyalty” meant he was tragically reliant on some people he should have fired on 9/12.
Part of his loyalty to his father—a very different man who I feel is honorable yet much closer to John McCain in his belief that members of the political class should aim to get along above all else—meant he was blind to this old style Republicanism which we should never have returned to, and which we must reject strongly.
I hope W doesn’t fade out of view, but I suspect he wants it that way. For his positions on life, taxes, the WOT, defense spending, SCOTUS picks, and more (including much some FReepers don’t approve of), I miss him already, and hope he has a wonderful life far away from Washington.
I didn’t know about that website, just left my message there. Thanks for that.
Good summary of why GWB is easily forgotten despite of what he did to make us safe.
Well said my friend.
Oh cool! I’m so glad I’m not the only person on “Free Republic” to see this page! I actually noticed it on “Lucianne’s” page, but I could’ve seen it here; but not noticed it under another title. So it’s up to 64,000 now. Wow, I hadn’t seen it for a few days. They said on there that it was up to about 20-25 thousand just the day after he left Wash.. I’m so glad to read this!
I was just thinking that today.
I’m sickened already - and we have 4 more years of this trash ..??
Living is CA is a challenge; we can have a massive earthquake; we can go bankrupt (first - before Obama gets to the rest of the country); or we can get a shipment of terrorists from Obama (whose terrorist friends will stage riots or worse yet - set off a few bombs to intimidate the local govt into releasing them).
I’d love to have a few more “BUSH” years.
That’s great.
I think the press, in the end, was so disgraceful in their treatment of W on Inauguration Day. You just know that if an attack happened after 9/11 they’d be all over him, blaming him, saying it was only retribution for all we’ve done in Iraq, etc.
I imagine if it happens under Obama, we will get the new mantra: “We have to come together in this time of sadness and resolve to stop our petty bickering” i.e. stop being anything but a democrat.
He abandoned himself.
From the Plame/Libby fiasco, to the fabricated US attorneys "scandal", to actually taking the blame for a frigging natural disaster (!), Bush never had the spine to stand up and defend himself, preferring instead to sit there like a punching bag as lie after lie after lie from the rats and their newsrooms went left unanswered. Bush’s unwillingness to stand up and fight was an eight-year slap in the face to his bewildered supporters, including me.
"History" is already being written by the same scumbags who smeared him for the past eight years and guess what? He'll get exactly the "legacy" he deserves - - the one he has already meekly submitted to. And at this point I couldn't care less.
cool. Thanks!
I agree with you.
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