Posted on 06/01/2007 11:22:52 AM PDT by JZelle
George W. Bush is looking for a legacy to leave behind, and he may have found it. His approval rating now hovers at 28 percent, but with a little more work he could leave office as the most unpopular president ever. He's not there yet. When Harry S. Truman left Washington in 1953 the pollsters said only 23 percent of his countrymen were still wild about Harry. (Adulation would come later.) Pundits, historians and others who track these things reckoned no president could ever match that, but George W. has a good shot at it.
Like Harry Truman, George W. is a man with his own ideas about who he is and what he's trying to accomplish. No one but an authentic churl denies his stubborn courage. Nothing rattles his determination to win a necessary but unpopular war in Iraq, or tempers his dogged attempt to sell an even more unpopular immigration "reform" scheme. Unlike Harry Truman, this president is doing it by scorning his last remaining friends.
"Those determined to find fault with this bill will always be able to look at a narrow slice of it and find something they don't like," the president told a clutch of immigration officers at a training camp in Georgia earlier this week. An exaggeration, but we don't expect precision from politicians. The president continued:
"If you want to kill the bill, if you don't want to do what's right for America, you can pick one little aspect out of it, you can use it to frighten people."
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The left was right all along: the man is a moron.
I used to think that Bush would be remembered as one of the Great presidents. I gave that up a while ago. I still tend to think he will be remembered as a Good president. But I’m not sure about that either.
I know this is an incredibly selfish thing to say, but I’d rather be popular when I was alive than when I was dead.
Sorry Psycho... but President Bush is not a moron.
He may not be a moron, but he’s lost a large percent of his supports even here on FR.
Why do you think Carter is running around the country saying nutty things? He is feeling the heat. GWB is closing in on his worst president title. That is the real reason Carter has come back with a renewed energy and sense of purpose.
He’s always been attacked here at FR. And actually I don’t think he is worried about his legacy. He is doing what he thinks is right for America, even if he may be wrong.
I’m guessing getting himself into the situation he’s in is “genius”, then?
You are not paying attention.
President Bush lifted this nation out of its despair after an outrageous and unjustied attack designed to murder 50,000 of her citizens and to kill him in the White House.
Consequently, he has brought to an end the murderous regimes of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein providing more than 50 million people with an extraordinary measure of hope and means to a better life and culture.
There has been not one repeat of the dastardly attacks made on 911.
For his excellent service, we get the vitriol of slander from a fascist left and right in this country who are more than certain that this President is no patriot.
The nation has enjoyed relentless abundance and economic affluence while prattling on about Anna Nichole and Brittany. Pretending that the height of luxury enjoyed by our citizenry is continually in jeopardy from his policies, the fascist left and right rail for his end by nearly any means.
I will not stand down in the face of the continued absurdity even if I were the last person on the planet who liked President Bush.
He may not be a moron, but he is to the left of his father and not a conservative. He may believe more in his “no borders approach” than his concern for the war on terror.
His immigration policy may also be more dangerous than all of the good he is doing in the war.
Immigration may have been his #1 priority all along, a set up for Jab to finish.
I will never vote for another Bush family member.
That people even consider equating the performance of Jimmy as POTUS and that of GWB has me scratching my head.
I’ve heard a lot of freepers denigrating liberals because they do what they think is right, even if they are wrong...
The left was right all along: the man is a moron.
That’s what occurs to me lately. Scary isn’t it.
Jorge Bush has just about completed his “total desctruction tour”. Is there anybody left to piss off?
It’s all Bush’s fault.
They are certifiable if they think another Bush is being elected anything anytime soon. The arrogance astounds...
You may be right.
Imbecile is closer. Perhaps even idiot.
But what he lacks in brains, he more than makes up for in testosterone.
GWB has a chance to avoid the competition by getting a clue about immigration, but he seems determined to sprint to the finish with Jimmah.
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