Posted on 01/22/2005 6:14:11 PM PST by Destro
Bush strays far from Republican tradition
Friday, January 21, 2005
It wasn't a particularly lyrical speech that George W. Bush delivered yesterday at his second inauguration. It wasn't even a very Republican speech, for that matter. But it went a long way toward illuminating how far Bush has taken the Grand Old Party from its traditional conservative roots.
It was the most interventionist foreign policy speech heard in Washington in decades -- since John Kennedy's 1961 promise to "bear any burden" in defense of liberty around the globe. Bush's speech mechanics may indeed have been inspired in part by the success of the Kennedy speech and its focus on foreign policy in an equally dangerous time.
Domestic policy, as a result, got short shrift yesterday from Bush; presumably it will be dealt with in detail in next month's State of the Union message. So heavily tilted was the speech toward tyranny in the world that it seemed better aimed at a United Nations audience than an American inaugural celebration.
And therein lies a remarkable change for Republicanism. The GOP historically has been the party of restraint abroad, the heir to George Washington's admonition to avoid foreign entanglements. President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, had to overcome Republican resistance to American involvement in the First World War, and Franklin Roosevelt, another Democrat, encountered similar Republican hostility and suspicion as he tried to prepare the country for its inevitable involvement in World War II.
More recently, Republicans took Bill Clinton, another Democrat, to the woodshed for his involvement in ending ethnic cleansing by Serbs in Bosnia and Kosovo and in nation-building in Somalia. Bush himself, lest we forget, won election in 2000 with a campaign that condemned Clinton's overseas adventure and promised to steer clear of "nation-building."
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You think I did in some delusional way I guess.
I tend to agree but not if you link it up with a OPEN BORDER POLICY with no confirmed restrictions excluding all non Legal Citizens giving un-restricted AMNESTY to multiple millions of law breaking criminals!
Ever heard of Double Speak? This is classic stuff coming from experts in deception! Don't minimize its effect on the Ignorant masses!
Doing the wrong thing could be DEADLY!
Ignoring the people who put them where they are and depending on their ignorance to continue will be their undoing! It has taken much too long but we are Learning and we take good notes!
Daddy Bush was Ambassador to China... wonder what was promised there we don't know about!
A Constitutional Republic better suits whats needed; they are already a oligarchy/demoncracy, rabid and out of control. They need true Freedom spoken of in that speech, the prople will take care of the rest!
What you mean is defend and preserve the Republic we were given that is blatantly ignored along with the people who pays the bills through taxation.
OH! REPUBLiC....cans kick the cans and get back to the basic root word "REPUBLIC"! If you want to solve the problem!
Democrats sure flip out when ever a Republican gets us into war, they must figgure it's their job.
LOL
I meant what I said, and I said it clearly enough that there is no room for misinterpretation.
As for the taxpayers being ignored, that is wishful thinking. Alas, not everyone believes as we do on many issues, but that does not translate into being ignored. We elect our gov't, and, as a people, we get the gov't we deserve.
I hope you mean "Conservative" in the true sense of the word and not REPUBLICAN in the broad intrepretation because the difference is as obvious as night and day!
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