Only one major terror event on US soil (which can be attributed to Clinton).
No President Gore. No President Dukakis. No President Kerry.
A free Kuwait.
Bin Laden’s head. Hussein’s body swinging from a rope. Khalid Sheikh Muhammed. Al Zarqawi. Several foiled domestic terrorist attacks.
A tax cut that has finally been made permanent.
Partial Birth Abortion Ban.
Alito.
An honorable man in the White House.
SnakeDoc
Clinton and Obama?
I went to bed at night believing that any emergency decisions made regarding the use of US forces would be made in the interests of the United States and in such a way as to minimize US casualties. I went to bed believing that both men would make decisions based on a Christian background that I knew and agreed with. Having said that, both men made decisions that were RINO related. I’ll be charitable and believe that many were made as trades with Nancy Pelosi and her evil Senate counterparts and that these trades were in the interests of the United States. I do not believe that another Bush would be good for the country as I don’t like political dynasties, whether they’re Democrat or Republican. There are many, many good men (and women) who would make excellent presidents. Why must two or three come from the same family?
However, I believe that now decisions are made by Obama that are not in the interests of the United States, but in the New World Order. I believe that decisions are made based on helping Islam and the Caliphate. I believe that the lives of US forces are given no weight in decisions. For some of this I blame good conservatives who refused to compromise and vote for the RINO after he had won the primary. I believe that a patriotic RINO is better than a Muslim usurper who wants a new Caliphate. Some conservatives are waiting for the perfect candidate. There will be no perfect candidate, now or ever. Reagan is dead, and, possibly, many of these same people might not have voted for him the first time either. It wasn’t until he was in office that his true colors shown.
Wow, just 5 years ago, this thread would have been zotted immediately.
We got Sarah.
Utter WILLFUL failure on borders.
a reasonable assurance we won’t have 4 or 8 years of Jeb
Would you have preferred President Dukakis, President Gore, and President Kerry?
Why are you even asking, just to have your point of view verified by people who do not like Bush either?
As a side note to Bush-basing, please consider the following.
With all due respect to the family, friends and supporters of the late Ronald Reagan, I can’t think of any 20th century president, even conservative presidents, that weren’t oblivious to Congress’s Section 8, Article I-limited powers.
Conservative does not necessarily mean respect for the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
Unending wars in Iraq And Bumphukistan.
Bush 41, kicked saddam out of kuwait, did a miraculous job of containing the S and L crises, was the last president that both parties looked up to in terms of personal character.
Bush 43 brought us “the bush tax cuts”, recovery from 9-11, kicked saddam out of Iraq, kept “Kyoto Al” out of the white house.
Seems to me that before Soros manipulated the derivatives market to benefit his communist stooge, Obamugabe, Bush 43 gave us unemployment around 4.8% and a consistently strong and growing GDP.
They paved the way for a smooth transition to Socialism
Just imagine what might have happened to this country with presidents Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry. There would have been nothing left for Obama to steal or destroy.
There needs to be some clarity. Start with H.W. Bush.
In some ways, Reagan was like Frederick William I of Prussia in several ways, especially restoring the economy and building the military, along with relatively bloodlessly defeating the Soviet Union.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_I_of_Prussia
H.W. Bush, in this analogy, takes the role of Frederick (II) the Great in using this “Grande Armee” of Reagan in a way that will reverberate for a century. In this case with Gulf War I, and showing the world in a small way what would have happened in a US-Soviet conflict. Our military and tactics against theirs. The importance of this demonstration should not be forgotten.
In the process, it also stopped cold Saddam’s development of WMD, which he indeed had been developing, and smashed his apparatus for developing it.
One other H.W. Bush victory will never be recognized. He was a superb China scholar, and saw in the Tiananmen Square massacre and great opportunity, and took it, despite congress. After considerable delay, he continued to offer China ‘Most Favored Nation Trading Status’, but only in an exchange for something the Chinese had sworn they would never do. To sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreement.
W. Bush was equally competent with foreign policy, but failed miserably with domestic policy. His first domestic blunder was in attempting to use a presidential philosophy of the late 19th Century, that it should be the congress that runs the country, with the president just an executive and in charge of foreign policy.
Then, with 9-11, he not only “took the war to the enemy” in foreign lands, which was fine; but he turned the powerful forces of government inward against the citizenry, imagining legions of terrorists among us. And this was, and remains, a major disaster.
It will take decades to fully restore our rights and liberties because of this. Tragically most of it will not fail because of a popular or political revolt, but just because it is far too expensive to maintain.