Posted on 08/10/2008 8:04:51 PM PDT by Gambit
President Bush will be reflected well in histoir when its not reported by ABDNC. The war Victory will be a shining trophy.
Pray for W and Our Troops
His leadership through 9/11, and his steadfastness and clarity on the war in Iraq and the WOT will earn him a high place in the rank of US Presidents as time wears on.
His SCOTUS appointments will conservatively shape the court for years.
That his ratings are low now is the nation’s problem, not his.
“that his historical reputation will be as bad as that of President Harding, the disastrous president of the Great Depression”
Don’t they mean President Hoover? Harding served from 1921 to 1923, befor the depression.
Bush needs to take on the "do nothing, good for nothing" Democrat controlled Congress.
There was a bit of a recession under Harding, followed by the seven years of plenty before the crash of 1929...so they must have meant Hoover, not Harding. The downturn under Harding is never called the Great Depression.
This comparison of Bush to Truman is bogus. Most historians follow a very liberal ideology. It was just a matter of time before they got around to historic revisionism and the Truman legacy. I seriously doubt the same consideration will be given to Dubya, at any future date.
Yeah, our current approach sucks. I remember how in WWII we invaded Europe, Africa and every Japanese held island at the same time. Oh, and I almost forgot how we invaded Russia because they were undemocratic.
So you really believe that Truman was a roten president?
So you really believe that Truman was a rotten president?
BTTT for the BS
Lets see. Truman was a liberal and he favored FDR`s New Deal. Even promoting his own Fair Deal, which included nationalized healthcare -— AKA. socialized medicine. Harry and Bess both hated Jews and blacks.
Truman got us involved in Korea. Then, instead of running for reelection and finishing the job he started, he cut and run. Lets not forget, Truman followed FDR’s lead by handing eastern Europe over to the Soviets, which began the spread of communism.
And dropping the bomb on Japan was a no brainer. Any POTUS would have done it.
At best, Truman was average. IMO, he was below average.
It is difficult to express in words how good this current President is.
It is somewhat more easy— though still quite difficult to express in words how stupid and in fact deadly his critics are.
The reactionary culture globally and here in the United States that has grown up around President Bush since 2003 is largely an indication of the President’s principaled and statured reasoning. When you look at how the American public loathed Truman for allowing more than 30,000 Americans to be killed in combat for South Korea, it boggles the mind that 4,000 combat deaths later critics feel entitled to make an analogy.
wow! The audacity of stupidity. —Or is it self serving egoism of an American culture desperate to not be distracted by a dangerous world.
It rarely matters that the truism of BushHate can be so easily refuted. As a normative culture, BushHate is something one can reference as a steady reality despite its lack of grounding.
The Iraq war was a catastrophic and mitigated failure. No one dares to challenge the public sphere on this point. Presumably, Saddam Hussein was one of the world’s most noble citizens and certainly one of the great leaders of the 21st century. Saddam exuded honesty, integrity, sensitivity, anti semitism [oh wait is that a vice], respect for human rights, respect for the rule of law, and a magnanimous sense of overall civility. Sadly, he is now dead after being put death. He received a lengthy trial from his fellow citizens which seems strange given his rather superior judicial methods which were so much more expeditious.
Sorry— I had to vent.
Well vented!
I'm a Truman hater.
You'd run for re-election with a 22% approval rating?
The Iraq war is won in spite of naysayers and idiots like you. Go to war against Saudi Arabia, perhaps the most idiotic statement ever.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Amen. I was only a teenager when President Truman was in office but I always liked him and thought highly of him, just as I do President Bush. Mr. Bush is REAL. He loves this country and the people in it. If he’d had a decent Congress throughout his administration, he would have fixed Social Security through his good plan and done a lot more, but he was cursed with Pelosi and friends and too many RINO’s. I thank God for him, a man for this time in our country’s history.
I see you had no comments on the rest of my post.
Guess you agree with me about Truman.
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