Posted on 06/15/2006 4:01:18 AM PDT by NJRighty
June 15, 2006 -- WHO'D have thought it possible even a month ago? President Bush is getting his mojo back.
The president just had the best week of his second term, perhaps of his entire presidency - and the end of the investigation of Karl Rove, which would have been the headline grabber not long ago, had little to do with it.
Instead, the president's brilliantly conceived and executed trip to Baghdad - giving exactly the right boost at the right time to new Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki - capped off seven days that included the forming of a full Iraqi Cabinet and the success of the U.S. military in locating, bombing and killing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the sadistic Jordanian-born insurgency leader that Osama bin Laden once called the "prince of Iraq."
Equally significant, the night Zarqawi died, American forces staged 17 raids on insurgent targets. By Monday, they had launched 140 more. On the day of the president's visit, 75,000 troops fanned out over Baghdad, ordered to clear the Iraqi capital of the violence and anarchy that has plagued it for months.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Bump for a later read.
Give a Democrat a gold bar and he will complain about the weight.
I have to admit, the drumbeat's gotten to me more than once. I've had my moments of doubt and complaint. But I've never doubted that I voted for the right guy in 04, and I've never seen failure in Iraq as a viable option. I just haven't always been sure we'd succeed. Plus, my fundamental distrust of gubmint has made me skeptical about it, too. But I've always tried to hang in there and see what happens. And really, with the DEM party being what it is, it's not like we have a choice anyway.
My entire family is of voting age and every one of us voted for the president in both elections. As a matter of fact I was teaching in the Ukraine during the last election and spent $40 USD in shipping charges in order to make sure that my vote for President Bush arrived in time. The shipping cost was exceedingly high but that was what they charged me and I could have said "jump in a lake" but I didn't because I wanted my vote to count. It arrived in NH the day of the election and was counted, but NH went to Kerry anyway. Have you ever spent $40 to vote to make sure your vote counted for President Bush? Neither had I, but being a Vietnam Veteran, I wanted to do everything I could to make sure Kerry was NOT elected president.
I stated the qualifier to show how much the president is hurting his own base. While not running again, he does have the power to set policy direction and he is flat out wrong on illegal aliens, seemingly taking the same track with Iran as Clinton did when he "dealt with" North Korea and has not been taking a hard stand on genuine energy policy with the house and senate. All of this is going to have an impact on any perceived "momentum" because it is not going away.
I totally support the war and am thankful for the good news, but this is not enough to sustain momentum because it is only one facet of his presidency and most Americans are more affected by the issues listed above than they are by the war in Iraq, unless they have family members serving there, then that would of necessity take precedence.
While not running again, President Bush does have the power to set policy direction and he is flat out wrong on illegal aliens, seemingly taking the same track with Iran as Clinton did when he "dealt with" North Korea and he has not been taking a hard stand on genuine energy policy with the house and senate. All of this is going to have an impact on any perceived "momentum" because it is not going away.
I totally support the war and am thankful for the good news, but this is not enough to sustain momentum because it is only one facet of his presidency and most Americans are more affected by the issues listed above than they are by the war in Iraq, unless they have family members serving there, then that would of necessity take precedence.
For those who are "All immigration, all the time," you should be impressed that you've managed to alienate those who agree with you. That doesn't speak well for your prospects on persuading those who don't agree with you.
No one can be blamed for not believing your first sentence when it was followed by a tidal wave of hostility against the President.
And when you combine that with the fact that NOTHING you said was relevant to the President's great week (the SUBJECT of this thread), then you look even more suspect.
If you want people to think you're telling the truth, don't act like you're not.
The immigration only, Bush-is-a-villain borderbots have alienated hundreds of freepers who AGREE with them.
Are they so hostile that they are blind to that fact? Or are they not all that bright?? Or are they among the political opposition?
Why has this incessant hijacking of threads.......especially those positive about the President.....continued?
It is a logical conclusion to draw that they are leftists posing as conservatives, and their anxiousness to harm the President is to divide conservatives for their own political gain......first in November, and then in '08.
I don't think there are this many stupid people on FR.
Yes, you are seeing "progress" in the area of Texas where the border has been strengthened with U.S. troops but all that means is the illegals have moved to another section of the border that is still porous.
I have faith, but that is in Jesus Christ, not fallible men. As for the rest of your post.
Thank you.
Actually, I am very concerned about the immigration issue, but tired of seeing it presented as the only issue out there and of the people who want to make it the subject of every thread, regardless of the topic.
Because Mecca is "holier" in their minds than Jerusalem and they are being led by Satan. They hate the Jews because Satan the one who leads and influences them, hates and wants to utterly destroy the Jews. Why. because our Lord Jesus Christ is a Jew and a descendent of Abraham in the flesh.
Nope...A Conservative Republican American. Sorry to pop your pigeonhole bubble.
Do you get a doorprize? Bonus points? Extra pay?
You are welcome. I've been reluctant to jump in and say much. But the constant distortion of "things good" into "things bad" has typically been a hallmark of the liberals. Well, some here have morphed into that habit, also. The lack of civility between otherwise decent people (I would hope, anyway) is, at times, astonishing. I really miss people like MeekOneGOP who stayed with the premise and discourse of a thread, remained civil and disagreed without being disagreeable.
Jim, I am copying you as a courtesy since my comments pertain to the forum. I don't need anything and I will still be around. I'll take a break now and then, tho.
No, I think they're stuck on the issue. I don't mean "stuck on stupid," they just haven't been able to move past it. I don't underestimate the challenge.
Ya da ya da ya! You can write and say anything you please. It may or may not be true.
I did not say you were lying, I just pointed out that it is a very common practice for those that do lie to start out the way you did.
As such, I discount all those that attempt to make a point that way. I suspect I am not the only one. I would suggest in the future you simply state your view with out the quailfier.
He was successful only because people replied to his initial post.
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