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.
Amen to every word!
I'm sure he really appreciated it. When I looked at his Christmas greeting it was so good to see all the people who appreciated what he had done for this country and were saying they want him back.
Refreshing.
There are no grown ups in Washington right now.
You bet I miss them. I miss them all, but especially our President......the one who loved America and liberty.
God bless President Bush!
Absolutely right, ohioWfan!
There’s only punks, thugs, and traitors or more specifically, a punk muslim (and likely gay)commie, more punk commies, commie thugs (is that redundant?), black panther commies, and the dweeb-wonk followers of the former.
How I miss the two adults, President Bush and VP Cheney!
God Bless Both Men!
You know you’re troll bait, dear friend. Wait and watch.
I'm just having trouble dealing with the punks in the White House. The trolls apparently would rather bash the good guys than work to get rid of the evil ones.
That's all I need to know about any of them.
He pretty much was when it came to National Security. The Dems like to beat their chests about their VP's being "The most important (to date) in US History." Their's is mostly hot-air. Cheyney undeniably was the most important, and powerful VP in recent history.
That inept administration is going to get a lot of innocents killed. The degree of their ineptitude begs the question: which side on they on?
President Bush made the decisions. Cheney was a strong, knowledgeable advisor, but Bush made the calls.
We are being "led" by the enemy.
Yep. And I never doubted for one minute that what he cared about was the safety and security of the citizens of the country.
The current administration cares about neither, nor the citizens themselves.
Thanks for some sanity. I agree with you.
For the naysayers
Sen. Orrin Hatch gave a floor speech as Pres. Bush
was leaving office. This is specifically about the
FannieMae/FreddieMac subprime mortgage/housing
collapse.
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President Bush cut taxes for every American who pays taxes, doubled the child tax credit to help American families, provided marriage penalty relief, and began phasing out the estate tax.
The roots of the current financial crisis extend before President Bush took office and his warnings went unheeded.
In April 2001, just 3 months in office, he warned that financial trouble at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could have strong repercussions in financial markets.
In May 2002, he called for disclosure and corporate governance principles to be applied to those agencies.
In February 2003, the Bush administration warned that unexpected problems at Fannie and Freddie could immediately spread beyond the housing market.
Seven months later, the Treasury Secretary called for prudent minimum capital adequacy requirements for Fannie and Freddie.
In February 2004, President Bush called for stronger regulation of Fannie and Freddie because of their low levels of required capital, that is, subprime mortgages.
Warnings continued month after month, year after year.
The notion that the Bush administration sat by while the problem developed or, worse yet, fought increased regulation is simply a lie.
There has never been a greater chasm between two people than George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama.
I miss the fact that not only were they grown-ups, but they were men who actually loved their country and their fellow men. They knew that their first priority was to protect us. They had moral absolutes by which they lived. They believed in right vs. wrong. They were men of characters. They were actual leaders. I could go on and on.....
Sure do miss having a president and vice president I can trust.
We sure do miss leaders who know
the difference between right and wrong.
That’s why I prefer the steady conservative leadership of:
Ronald Reagan on illegal immigration
Ron Paul on anti semitism
pat buchannan on war
newt Gingrich on the environment
Wait. . Actually I think maybe W is totally awesome and it is your argument which is rather poor.
I think history will judge Bush very very well. Hope he reads freerepublic.. If so, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!
GW WE MISS YOU!
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