I think Bush is a great man and President and one day history will treat him as such.
Thank you for posting this. I’m as angry at the spineless republicans as I am at the LSOS democrats. I don’t know of any of them I will feel as confident in as I have this President.
I have got say, for my Domestic Issues, there has never been a better President of the United States, from appointing Conservatives to the Bench and the SCOTUS, to protecting Firearms makers from crushing lawsuits, to Tax Cuts, to Federal Funds for Abortions, to creating the largest nature preserve in US History..
Now it can be said that in the political silly season, candidates will try to distance themselves from President Bush, that is politics and it is a rough business, butas for the “worst president ever” crap, his critics may whine, but he has accomplished a heck of alot for the American People and Conservatives who care about our Culture.
Right now, we all have seen so much of GWB, we maybe don’t realize what a good President that he is.
Thus endeth the sermon...
GREAT POST!!!! Why in God’s name doesn’t he, Bush, get out there and tell the public that things are not as bad as they have been made out to be...?
We had a Pearl Harbor attack seven years ago, Katrina, Iraq war etc etc. The democrats undermine him at every turn...
He’s been a great president...but a poor peeese poor communicator...
nick
If this was praise of Bush, if was faint indeed. I kept looking for something in this article that referred to what Bush did with those six years of congressional majorities and what legislation was passed that forwarded a conservative agenda.
Michael Savage says Bush is the worst CIC in history.
These Repubs need to buck up; find their spine, if possible. . .look their Constituency in the eye; better the MSM and Lefties et al; and Rino's; and show some WILL and some pride that they are Republicans; and America IS better off now; than it was on 9/11.
Take a page from Obama's book; if nothing else. . .but mean it.
bush has been awesome
All of his detractors have done little more than aid our enemies.
Bush has done some fine even very great things. But what I cannot get over is the out of control spending and the lack of vetoes. We have been worse stewards of the taxpayer’s dollars than the Clinton administration. There was no leadership on that issue.
Bush has done some things, and not done others that have really pissed me off........... but, on balance, I’d say he’s a pretty darn good president who’s poll numbers have been driven down by an unrelentnig attack media.
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.”
It all kinda depends on what happens afterwards, then the comparisons will be made. In the meantime, the dollar has been deliberately driven down, the energy crisis is for real and no one is showing any leadership on it, Social Security and the tax code are both a mess, unchanged from 8 years ago, and the endless war continues. Quite a legacy.
I love George Bush.
George W Bush is the best Republican POTUS the Democratic Party has ever had working for them.
But I still criticize him for expanding the size, scope and cost of government (that is simply undeniable), for contributing to rising food prices around the world (for most of the world corn is a primary source of food...President Bush wants us to put the crap in our gas tanks. Also undeniable.), and for continuing our dependence of foreign oil instead of telling environmentalists to kiss his ass and pressing towards drilling in Alaska and off the coasts of California and Florida.
I'll add more as they occur to me. I'm still an admirer of President Bush for the most part but I have lost a tremendous amount of respect for him.
I wish him and his family well, though.
This came into my in-box last night:
Then my reply. Too bad that Bush takes the blame for everything. Even Clinton knew enough to send Reno under the bus for Waco!
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Subject: Lieutenant General Chuck Pitman
Semper Fi!
This ‘Letter of Apology’ was written by Lieutenant General Chuck Pitman, US Marine Corps, Retired:
For good and ill, the Iraqi prisoner abuse mess will remain an issue. On the one hand, right thinking Americans will abhor the stupidity of the actions while on the other hand, political glee will take control and fashion this minor event into some modern day massacre.
I humbly offer my opinion here:
I am sorry that the last seven times we Americans took up arms and sacrificed the blood of our youth; it was in the defense of Muslims ( Bosnia , Kosovo, Gulf War 1, Kuwait , etc.)
I am sorry that no such call for an apology upon the extremists came after 9/11.
I am sorry that all of the murderers on 9/11 were Islamic Arabs.
I am sorry that most Arabs and Muslims have to live in squalor under savage dictatorships.
I am sorry that their leaders squander their wealth.
I am sorry that their governments breed hate for the US in their religious schools, mosques, and government-controlled media.
I am sorry that Yasser Arafat was kicked out of every Arab country and high-jacked the Palestinian ‘cause.’
I am sorry that no other Arab country will take in or offer more than a token amount of financial help to those same Palestinians.
I am sorry that the U. S. A. has to step in and be the biggest financial supporter of poverty stricken Arabs while the insanely wealthy Arabs blame the USA for all their problems.
I am sorry that our own left wing, our media, and our own brainwashed liberal masses do not understand any of this (from the misleading vocal elements of our society like radical liberal professors, CNN and the NY TIMES).
I am sorry the United Nations scammed the poor people of Iraq out of the ‘food for oil’ money so they could get rich while the common folk suffered.
I am sorry that some Arab governments pay the families of homicide bombers upon their death
I am sorry that those same bombers are brainwashed thinking they will receive 72 virgins in ‘paradise.’
I am sorry that the homicide bombers think pregnant women, babies, children, the elderly and other noncombatant civilians are legitimate targets.
I am sorry that our troops die to free more Arabs from the gang rape rooms and the filling of mass graves of dissidents of their own making.
I am sorry that Muslim extremists have killed more Arabs than any other group.
I am sorry that foreign trained terrorists are trying to seize control of Iraq and return it to a terrorist state.
I am sorry we don’t drop a few dozen Daisy cutters on Fallujah.
I am sorry every time terrorists hide they find a convenient ‘Holy Site.’
I am sorry they didn’t apologize for driving a jet into the World Trade Center that collapsed and severely damaged Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church — one of our Holy Sites.
I am sorry they didn’t apologize for flight 93 and 175, the USS Cole, the embassy bombings, the murders and beheadings of Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl, etc....etc!
I am sorry Michael Moore is American; he could feed a medium sized village in Africa .
America will get past this latest absurdity. We will punish those responsible because that is what we do.
I am sorry the Barack Hussein Obama may be elected president of the United States when he doesn’t have a clue on how to be a strong Commander-in-chief in a world filled with Muslim extremists who will do whatever it needs to do to destroy the lives of civilized people while killing innocent men, women and children in order to bring a change that is beneficial to all Islamic terrorists worldwide.
I am sorry that voters on the liberal left don’t understand the frightening changes that are taking place in the Muslim world and what these changes will do to this world in which we live.
I am sorry that the Democratic Party has been high-jacked by Socialists and Communists right under the very noses of those who take pride in calling themselves democrats.
We hang out our dirty laundry for the entire world to see. We move on. That’s one of the reasons we are hated so much. We don’t hide this stuff like all those Arab countries that are now demanding an apology.
Deep down inside, when most Americans saw this reported in the news, we were like — so what? We lost hundreds and made fun of a few prisoners. Sure, it was wrong, sure, it dramatically hurts our cause, but until captured we were trying to kill these same prisoners. Now we’re supposed to wring our hands because a few were humiliated?
Our compassion is tempered with the vivid memories of our own people killed, mutilated and burnt amongst a joyous crowd of celebrating Fallujahans.
If you want an apology from this American, you’re going to have a long wait! You have a better chance of finding those seventy-two virgins.
Chuck Pitman
Lieutenant General, USMC
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This Lt. General finally gets to what I have maintained for many years!
Lyndee Englund, and Karpinski, and crowd, at Abu Graib, are so responsible for prolonging this Iraq war, even more than the Shites and Sunnis are in blowing up each others mosques, sucking us into the further deaths for our brave troops.
Think of the Islamic reaction to cartoons of their revered Mohammad with a cartoon bomb in his turban; Then think of actual photos of little Lyndee prancing around with a cigarette in her mouth, leashed to a Muslim on his knees, or a nude pyramid of muslims, as published in the New York Times.
Bush’s banner, Mission Accomplished, was stupid and too early; finding Saddam in his spider hole could have ended this war, but then little Lyndee pranced, and the muslim world went bullshit!
Unfortunately, Bush is not able to coherently state his Iraq case, and is not willing to focus Katrina blame on schoolbus Nagin and BooHoo Blanco, so he takes all the hits.
It’s a shame that he is unable to shed responsibility for actions of others while he is in charge. (Even Clinton got Reno to take the hit for Waco, even though she had nothing to do with it.)
Let’s see what Barak or Hillary, or maybe even McCain, can do to stomp out the cockroach nest in the middle east; that little Lyndee, Karpinski, Achminidijab, Al Sadr, Al Quida have been fomenting over the past decade, or century.
Tall order, too bad we haven’t been able to find a new real leader amongst all the American want-a-bees!
Thanks for reading my rant!
On this forum you pray for them, every time one of them gets a scratch, but do they pray for you, do you pray for the bum on the street, or only for Teddy the Swimmer and Britney and Americans Idle contestants? There must be good reasons why this President is unpopular among liberals and conservatives and the centrists. Good reasons.
It is, sadly, very rare these days to see a 100% positive article about W. Usually there is a snarky remark thrown in. Thank you for posting these 100% positive article.
I would gladly vote for Pres. Bush again. His plate was pretty full these 8yrs. History will be kind to him.
However, I won’t extend the same courtesy for John McCain. I learned to despise him during the elections in 2000. I will have absolutely nothing to do with him. The party will be making a very huge mistake if they nominate him for president.
I think the GOP should draft VP Cheney for the nomination. Of course, Duncan Hunter as his veep. We would win big!