Posted on 12/30/2009 1:32:44 PM PST by STARWISE
Though it may be an unpopular sentiment to some, I really do find myself missing George W. Bush. There is no sarcasm in that statement; no hidden slander. I genuinely find a vacancy in the world where President Bush used to be, and for very specific reasons.
I voted for Bill Clinton twice.
In subequent years I came to realize the kind of creature he was, what he did - and I don't mean Lewinsky - and the kind of no-conscience reptiles he and his wife were. And are.
I remember experiencing rage at the election of George W. Bush in 2000.
Then 9/11 happened when I was working down the street from the JFK Federal Building in Boston. I realized with 20/20 horror-sight what it would have been like if Al Gore had been President.
Gore, in the following years, has shown what terror he would have brought on this country with whatever his ideas of leadership would have been.
My mind changed and I began to see the foundation of what made this country and what motivated lunatic terrorists to want to snuff it out. And I became angry.
The next 8 years went by and now we are truly infected by a brand of vermin without conscience. And lately this has caused me to seriously reflect on what we are missing and the reasons I genuinely miss President George W. Bush.
Quite probably the most noticeable reason is that we were not bombarded daily with the Maoist inundation of images of the "Commander in Chief" as we are today. President Bush, once he won, stopped campaigning. His victories and, indeed, his presidency were not about some bombastic, megalomaniacal ego feeding frenzy.
He was our CEO.
Further, President Bush could be relied upon for steadiness of purpose. Whether you agreed with him or not, you knew there would be a landing on the tarmac without incident.
While I was a supporter of the Iraq War at the beginning, by 2006 I realized that something else had to be going on, and it wasn´t oil. If it were oil, we´d have seized it and avoided the rising gas prices. The expenditure of lives and money for the Iraq War are far, far out of proportion to the stated objectives. I don´t claim to know what was or the purpose is there. All I am certain of is that it is not oil and it is not security from terrorism.
That being said, we have been safe. Inarguably safe. This is not in small part due to the fact that President Bush surrounded himself with some of the most experienced and seasoned bureaucrats and military officers around. And, yes, I am an unabashed fan of Dick Cheney.
Dick Cheney just in sound bites makes Joe Biden look like the utter moron he is. Cheney is a man of class, decency and dignity. Yes, he probably knows a lot of things I would really like to know or would really not like to know. But my guess is these things are safe with him.
I can say that of no one in the current administration, least of all the President.
Understand, we have the first administration in history that is an administration of thugs.
If you criticize them, you are insulted on a personal level. I never once remember this happening in the Bush White House. The Bush Administration handled criticism primarily by citing the individual´s right to free speech and to challenge aspects of authority.
Now, if you disagree with the Obama gang, you are a racist or a Nazi.
How sane people can´t see this stark difference is beyond just mere learning disability.
No, I don´t give a damn about so-called "real Conservatives" who carped on Bush for not being the cardboard cutout of a party platform.
These same people helped sink McCain and elect Obama.
I grew up feeling lucky for what I had. I wish these idiotic Conservative ideologues would learn from that principle.
But, they´re all rich. They have no idea of being truly thankful.
And on a purely intuitive level, I miss President Bush because I don´t believe he had an evil bone in his body. He ran this country; he didn´t try to shape it into some Frankenstein´s monster socialist nightmare.
A President of the United States should be a statesman, even a simple man, but surely not a child radical whose origins we are not allowed to challenge lest we be labeled crazy.
Yes, I miss George W. Bush, if only because I could come home at night and go to bed knowing that, for now, everything was going to be all right.
He didn´t have a staff of hotshot narcissists with daddy issues. He ran a board of directors. They stayed in the background and actually worked.
Work.
And you better believe me: God, we need to get that back sometime or we´re all in deep crap.
I didn’t agree with him on a lot of things, but he was brave and honest and he was decent.
And despite my laundry list of domestic policy mistakes, when it came to defending the US he did his level best and he made sure the adults were in charge.
btt
This is so completely out-of-character for Bush, I think it is a load of crap.
Capital Hill Blue: More Liberal Fuel for Islam
By Barb Stock
August 27, 2005
This story has everything—“unnamed sources,” talkative white house “insiders,” “unidentified presidential aides,” and “speculating” psychiatrists.
What article would be complete without visual aids? Neatly tucked in amongst the “startling revelations” is a picture of a very young-looking George W. Bush, flashing the middle-finger salute.
The only problem is, the picture was taken when Bush was the Governor of Texas and is cut from a video, when seen in its entirety, is clearly meant as a joke.
Anyone thinking this from the latest issue of Globe or The National Enquirer think again. Actually, the Enquirer probably has more credibility. Nor is it the plot-line for some mindless daytime soap opera.
***No, this story is from a liberal web-site called Capital Hill Blue.
“Bush’s Obscene Tirades Rattle White House Aides” by Doug Thompson graced the pages of Capital Hill Blue on August 25, 2005 and then graced the pages of the Islamic propaganda web-paper the “Party for Islamic Renewal” on August 27, 2005. This highly questionable article portrays the President of the United States as an obscenity-spewing-foaming-at-the-mouth out-of-control lunatic with radical mood swings. Mood swings, one shrink implies, “all too typical of an alcohol-abusing bully who is ruled by fear.” Doug, could you possibly find a doctor that has actually MET the president and get his opinion?
Dr. Justin Frank, author of Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, “speculates” about the inner-workings of the mind of George W. Bush. Dr. Frank, in his next book, will tell us how he removed a man’s appendix over the phone while delivering quintuples via the internet. In his free time, Dr. Frank is also “speculating” that Bush is drinking again.
“Two questions that the press seems particularly determined to ignore have hung silently in the air since before Bush took office,” Dr. Frank says. “Is he still drinking? And if not, is he impaired by all the years he did spend drinking? Both questions need to be addressed in any serious assessment of his psychological state.”
Excuse me, Dr. Frank, but any “serious assessment” of anyone’s psychological state cannot be done without actually spending some time with that person. Didn’t you learn that in Shrink 101?
This completely unsubstantiated exposé is now the article of choice for Islamics and will no doubt be taken as gospel. However, the gospel according to “Doug” seems to have just a few flaws.
Could we, the reading public, have just one name, Doug?
Do the president’s aides really seek you out so they can “confide” in you?
Do they call you on their cell phones and hold the phone up so you can hear for yourself or do they just text-message you?
Are you and Capital Hill Blue so important that you, Doug Thompson, gets the scoop when no one else does?
How jealous Helen Thomas must be. No presidential aides seem to be calling her with juicy news like this.
Not to be ignored are the implications that the president is controlled by anti-depressants which forced Washington Post media critic Tom Shales, to “speculate” it was over-medicating that caused the president to actually pause and carefully choose his words at a press conference.
This careful choice of words in front of a pack of media-sharks whose only goal in life is to trip up the president of the United States is apparently a symptom of an irrational drugged-up mind.
Doug relates that it was just last year that President Bush’s personal physician told Capital Hill Blue that he had put his patient on these anti-depressants.
This is very interesting because, speaking as a registered nurse, anyone broadcasting personal information on any patient would be guilty of breaking the strict federal privacy laws and perhaps Doug could hunt down this now license-less MD and double check his facts.
Does anyone else see a pattern here?
“Unidentified sources” just seem to beat down Capital Hill Blue’s doors to give it all this scandalous information.
Why don’t these “sources” ever go to Barbara Walters or Brit Hume?
Why do they all stampede to Capital Hill Blue?
Doug, just one living, breathing source with a real legal name is all I ask.
I don’t think that is asking for to much on such a serious topic as the leader of the free world.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/barb-stock/2005/08/27/capital-hill-blue-more-liberal-fuel-islam
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Nice try ...
“America is a strong nation, and honorable in the use of our strength. We exercise power without conquest, and we sacrifice for the liberty of strangers. Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America’s gift to the world, it is God’s gift to humanity.”
President George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 28, 2003
Sigh, he was a good and honest and an all round decent man.
I do miss you Bush!
Bush wasn't God and didn't pretend to be, but he loved God. (Something we can't say about the current occupant.)
I held my nose & voted McCain. Selecting Palin as his running mate clinched my vote. It might have been a more difficult decision otherwise, but given that Obama was the Dem nominee, I was going to vote ‘R’ regardless.
For much of the time G W was President if not all of it we were told by some that what we saw was not what he was ,,,(He was stupid, he was an evil genius, he was God knows what)
Now we are told the same thing about this incompetent crew ..(They really are brilliant)
Its a strange world
Do you know how many times Doug Thompson and Capitol Blue have been debuked here on FR? Of course you don’t. In fact, IIRC, that publication was banned from here at one time. Maybe it still is.
See post #24 ... lies, slander, blasphemy and more lies.
So you’re really a lawyer, Gata?
Unnamed sources are not reliable sources of information, whether from the leftist media or from some blogger with an agenda.
Who are these people, have they identified themselves and their presence at this "meeting," and have they verified that this is accurate?
Lots of people lie, you know. Even people who call themselves "conservative." This is absolutely contrary to the known behavior and beliefs of George W. Bush.
But it gets a lot of mileage from people who continue to work very hard to hate him in spite of all the information that IS verified regarding his character and patriotism.
If they did, it had nothing to do with GW, it had to do with the execrable McCain. But, no, probably not many. I threatened not to vote for him, but in the end I voted for him in order to keep Petraeus in his post (I never guessed the O would keep Petraeus) and his choice of Palin as VP even made me feel (almost) good about it. I suspect she brought a lot of conservatives with her, who like me had sworn they wouldn't vote for him.
Seems to me that there were a heckuva lot of guilty, white suburbanites who threw caution to the wind & voted for Obama. I think that was the difference.
Yes, and I know some. Mostly people who aren't very political or well informed, but were impressed with some of his early speechifying. They saw what they wanted to see and heard what they wanted to hear. But with a few exceptions most of them were not Repubs, but some of them were Dems who might otherwise have voted for McCain.
It’s garbage from a lying, lib blogger.
I’ve asked for its removal.
/sigh
I miss the days when Adults were in charge too.
I would like to see some voter-registration stats on this, but there has been a retrograde movement of former Reagan-Democrats-turned-Republican back to the Democrat Party. I suspect that it was these more moderate Dems that flipped into the Obama column.
I miss W because whenever we (America) was attacked or threatened, he would say “We are going to get them” and then, we would go and get them. There was no hemmin’ and hawin’. He didn’t go around trying to be LIKED by the world. He knew it was more important that we are respected, even feared than to be liked. Obama is on a constant search for approval (Daddy issues) and it is not working for us.
I agree with Mr.Durham, George Bush does not have an evil bone in his body. And even after all the false witness and attacks he suffered from very evil people (ie Michael Moore etc.), Bush has never said a bad word about anybody. The contrast between him and Obama is as stark as night and day. George Bush is one of God’s uppers, Obama is a gloomy cloud, probably sent here to teach us a lesson.
Has anybody noticed how George Bush’s eyes had a certain sparkle when he talked. Obama has doll eyes, empty with no emotion. He scares me.
Lies, recycled or new, are all Bush haters have. (Didn't know this was a leftist source - not at ALL surprised. "Conservative" Bush haters love leftist Bush haters. Two peas in a proverbial pod).
He didn’t go around trying to be LIKED by the world. He knew it was more important that we are respected, even feared than to be liked. Obama is on a constant search for approval (Daddy issues) and it is not working for us.
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So true ...
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