Posted on 05/28/2006 1:37:09 PM PDT by ncountylee
Through his presidency, George W. Bush has worked hard to avoid repeating the mistakes of his father. He has done almost everything differently, yet now finds himself in the same hole despite trumping his dad by winning a second term.
He is roughly at the same place in the polls where the elder Bush was at the low point of his presidency, with only about three of every 10 Americans registering approval. Like his father before him, this president faces a rebellion among conservatives, an uncertain economic outlook and the prospect of Republican losses in November.
The first President Bush liked to quote Yogi Berra, his favorite pop philosopher, and his curious take on a baseball loss: "We made too many wrong mistakes."
What were the biggest mistakes of George W. Bush's presidency? When asked that at an April 2004 news conference, he said he could not think of any. A far more subdued Bush now acknowledges some major ones _ and not the ones his father made.
They include "kind of tough talk, you know, that sent the wrong signal to people," Bush said at a Thursday news conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. He said the inhumane treatment of Iraqi prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison was one of the darkest marks on his watch.
"Now I think he wishes he had not taken a blanket view that everything his father did was wrong," said Bruce Buchanan, a University of Texas professor who has closely studied the Bush family. "Staying out of Baghdad looks like a brilliant move at this point." During the Persian Gulf War in 1991, the first President Bush did not send U.S. troops into Baghdad to oust President Saddam Hussein after the U.S.-led coalition ousted the Iraqi arm from Kuwait.
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Where's the barf alert? C-BS and the kook left at it again
Where's the barf alert? C-BS and the kook left at it again
C- BS.
Note the source.
Bush is still in a hole. The latest is illegal immigration is like a traffic ticket.
Symptomatic of being totally pu**y-whipped by the MSM.
Exact same place as his dad? Gee, I didn't know his dad served a second term.
What's uncertain about it C.B.S.?
This tells you all you need to know about this article.
I don't think he did EVERYTHING differently. The problem is that they both played to a liberal audience and stuck a finger in the eye of their base.
Antiwar garbage masquerading as a news article.
I think the opposite is true, Bush usually refrains from making the case for Iraq strongly enough, instead leaving the floor to his enemies, who never stop being tough in making their case. However, this was specifically one of his father's mistakes as well, Bush Sr. declined to talk forcefully about the economy during his second run at the presidency, also leaving the floor entirely to his enemies, the Clinton camp, who, as we know, tore him up.
"an uncertain economic outlook"
What BS...
President Bush Sr. was not reelected and President Bush Jr. was so it has to be a different hole.
Unfortunately, Bush isn't in the same hole as his dad - his dad's hole was much shallower. If the Bush I tax increase was a strip mine, the Bush II amnesty is hell itself.
Bush Sr. mistake "Read my lips..no new taxes". He caved.
Bush Jr. mistake "Guest worker program". Borders like swiss cheese.
Father and son weenie duet.
"I don't think he did EVERYTHING differently. The problem is that they both played to a liberal audience and stuck a finger in the eye of their base."
You're living up to your screen name - the only BRILLIANT comment on this thread so far.
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