President Bush in Israel yesterday.
Posted on 05/16/2008 4:56:22 PM PDT by thinkingIsPresuppositional
Hating Bush
C'mon, everybody's doing it!
By Christopher Cook
Look, I know that President Bush has disappointed us in many ways. He's lousy at selling even his best ideas. His first term was a smashing success; his second term has been much less effective. He's made some mistakes, and he's deviated from core conservatism in several areas.
The left hates him the way the Democrats hated Lincoln—not just political hate, but a burning, visceral, personal hate. But we conservatives and Republicans, however disappointed we may be in aspects of his conduct of the office of president, should do two things:
a) we should remember all of the good things he has done...and there are a lot of them.
b) we should never allow our disappointment to become a personal, emotional hatred.
Reading some pundits and writers, I think that some on our side have failed on both of those. Peggy Noonan's most recent piece contains a lot in with which I agree, but the trend in a lot of her other recent pieces has seemed to indicate a growing personal bitterness towards the man. That's sad.
I am reminded of all this stuff today because of a speech Bush just gave in Israel. (News here. Excellent summary and analysis here.)
Read the man's words. Read how much he, on the deepest level, gets it...
(Excerpt) Read more at modernconservative.com ...
No, that's just Peggy; bitter that she doesn't have access to the WH like she did under GHWB.
Sorry, Bush is in it for himself. He’s left scorched Earth behind him for meager results. He’s defined conservativism as himself and his policies. He’s screwed the pooch and there’s no sign of him doing anything to fix it. He trying to re-create Bill Clinton’s last year for his Nobel Peace Prize for creating a Palestinian State, no matter that it another terrorist entity now and has no reason to stop terror.
Bush is 100x better than Juan McTraitor.
LOL—If that’s what Peggy writes when she’s “bitter,” what about the vast majority of those who have been writing the exact same thing here for months, if not years? Those complaints are also invalid for personal reasons?
Anyone who would subvert our sovereignty in the NAU, anyone who would willingly keep the borders wide open in a time of danger, anyone who would water down our precious votes with the amnesty of millions of socialist aliens, simply and specifically does *not* get it.
Horhay needs to go hang out with his dad in KennedyBunkMatePort and go fishing.
We could have done worse than Bush. In fact, we are about to.
>> “to become a personal, emotional hatred.”
Glad no exclusions were made for logical hatred.
Noonan’s work of late depicts shallow sensibilities. I suggest she indulge in a healthy cup of vinegar before writing her next masterpiece.
Yes exactly.
Personally I love the man.
I thought, and think, he has been one of the great ones. If he had the legislature he campaigned for and deserved so much more would have been done.
I admire and respect him and am enraged that so few stood for fight for him, except for the troops,of course, who appreciate him almost as much as they appreciate him.
Theodore Roosevelt once said “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Peggy has been writing mostly about Hussein this year, she is really swooning.
We should send smelling salts!
The harsh critics of President Bush - as to be distinguised from the crude, rude and vile Dimocraps - will wish for the good’ol days of Bush #43 once we’re in a dizzy spin with any one of the 3 Presidential contenders.
I also disagree with President Bush on many of his domestic policies but he has my 100% support on our WOT. At least I can disagree without my loaded rifle at my side.
Yep, unfortunately it’s downhill from here, no matter who wins the election. Of course Bush is imperfect, but he’s a good man who has done a lot of things right. I really enjoyed his powerful speech to the Knesset ... beats the empty “hope and change” speeches and the global warming nuttiness.
If you bothered to read her column today, then I'd wager you just insulted 85-95% of FReepdom.
Probably trawling for a job in the Husayn ibn Mahomet WH pressers...
If he could run again I would vote for him as long as he had a good speech writer and had controlled interviews at all times. The man really failed by not being able to communicate why he justified certain decisions in running a global empire.
Other then that, thank you George Bush for keeping the nation running after 911 and preventing a nuclear 911 by keeping the fight in the ME where it belongs. Thank you for caring enough about the American people enough to kiss Islam’s collective behind even though I know you despise them as a group. Calling it a religion of peace was probably unecessary but this goes back to my previous sentence.
Thank you for yelling from the rooftops after 911 that we needed immediate energy independence although your own House shot your ideas down because of there greed. No, you deviated from them as a collective group and this created new Democratic enemies who shredded every ounce of your accomplishments.
Now please focus once again in your last few months of office screaming for energy independence once again from the rooftops and leave the Palestinian issue alone, it is very much a waste of time and every President seems to try this at the end of there term and fail. The globe now knows the Palestinian excuse for global Islamic terrorists to justify there murder is a joke.
You know, it’s funny. I have my misgivings about a lot of what W has said and done and not said and not done. But, as Yeats’ wrote (as I recall) “What we have thought and done and done and thought must ramble and thin out like milk spilt upon a stone.” After much rambling by W (he is, no doubt, a terrible communicator), we have to look at his conviction in the times in which we have all lived—spoken by deeds, not words. I firmly believe that Bush will not only be vindicated in his expressed beliefs, but that the seeds of what he has sown will eventually flower into a great, stout oak of liberty in the middle east and beyond. He will not merely be considered one of America’s great presidents, he will be hailed as a great patron of humanity itself.
memo to the casual reader: threads like this attract the rabid anti-Bush and anti-Noonan crowd. They’re quite predictable, and they most certainly do not represent FR. In fact, most of them are DUmmies in thin disguise.
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