Posted on 11/05/2008 12:02:40 AM PST by STARWISE
Earlier this year, 12,000 people in San Francisco signed a petition in support of a proposition on a local ballot to rename an Oceanside sewage plant after George W. Bush.
The proposition is only one example of the classless disrespect many Americans have shown the president.
According to recent Gallup polls, the president's average approval rating is below 30% -- down from his 90% approval in the wake of 9/11. Mr. Bush has endured relentless attacks from the left while facing abandonment from the right.
This is the price Mr. Bush is paying for trying to work with both Democrats and Republicans. During his 2004 victory speech, the president reached out to voters who supported his opponent, John Kerry, and said, "Today, I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent. To make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust."
Those bipartisan efforts have been met with crushing resistance from both political parties.
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Mr. Shapiro is an investigative reporter and lawyer who previously interned with John F. Kerry's legal team during the presidential election in 2004.
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I believe with all my heart that God set an Esther before us and we chose a King. He now will begin a harsh judgement on America for her sins. God help us all.
No, they don't. If legislation is BAD, it must be fought. The Democrats certainly didn't give George W. Bush any kind of honeymoon, and Obama didn't win with that many more votes than did Pres. Bush, the media cheerleading notwithstanding.
Please don’t equate Bush with Jesus. Bush ran for office, and took on the mantle of leadership in our party. With that comes responsibilities and obligations, part of which is to defend the party he is leading. If he is unwilling to do that, as he obviously is, he should never have taken the job to begin with. The president’s greatest tool in his arsenal is the bully pulpit (ironically), and Bush has deliberately refused to use it.
I hear ya! You forgot that President Bush has been called a chimp since day one. Therefore, I'm going to call Obama a few things :
A monkey......Wooo Hooo, I'll be called a racist! Never mind, I'll make it milder and call him an ape instead!
With "tests" from the Russians, Iranians and other terrorists (his buddies), I'll call him Obey-ama because that's what he'll do. Tests are designed to confront a leader to find out if he has any "testicles".
Last but not least, his supporters are Oba-mites, because that's what they really are to our country, a bunch of mites!
Another egghead lawyer who thinks Bush was on the ballot and too many people buy into that nonsense. We lost because of McCain and his 2 year long concession speech.
President Bush is not responsible for the losses incurred last night. The GOP sat silent while the left defined the GOP. That’s why it lost.
Bush was out there busting his ass defending the party and the country from attacks from evil and the left, while conservatives who think they’re the smartest in the room ran for the tall grass.
Amen, STARWISE.
Right on, BSF!
AMEN! But God knows what he has been to the Nation and Bush will be rewarded where it will count!
And, if you'll excuse me...I'm past skeptical...I'm cynical about lefties who have suddenly found religion about how the President is treated.
NOT! Bush saved America from a complete terrorist takeover, and WE, the electorate, handed the Nation to them on a silver platter. Bush, failed because he compromised too much, not too little...
It's stupid comments like this...indicative of the mindless mindset...that earned us the nickname, "The Stupid Party."
When someone suggests he should have responded, is this the only alternative that comes to your mind?
I know it is hard to understand, but to some of us it is better to go with honor, than to live in shame.
Bush was presidential. Something we forgot when Clintoon was wetting his cigars in the white house. Something I hoped we would regain. But it seems, that virtue, is like virginity. Once given away, it does not come back.
McCain decided it would be easier to join the anti-Bush bandwagon. McCain distanced himself from Bush at every possible chance. By doing so he ended up making the whole party look foolish.
Sad but true...you can't defend a man who won't defend himself.
McCain was willing to be nastier to fellow 'Pubs than he was with his "friends on the other side of the aisle."
Which is why he was deliberate in differentiating that which belonged to Caesar, and that which belonged to God...and regarded each as having its rightful place.
9/11 might have been prevented had W been able to get his appointments approved...he had many still languishing in the Senate.
Honeymoon, MA.
Amazingly, you're correct...it is hard to understand. How does that apply here?
Bush was presidential. Something we forgot when Clintoon was wetting his cigars in the white house. Something I hoped we would regain. But it seems, that virtue, is like virginity. Once given away, it does not come back...
You have decided that a person can either be "presidential" as defined by you, or without honor...and define any answer back as "petty," then liken it to using interns as humidors...and equate any one who would do so to a slut.
I don't know what office you're describing, but it ain't the Presidency in a Democratic Republic. Were the campaigns in the early days of the Republic, run by the Founding Fathers, less than honorable...or unpresidential?
I think you're naive and demonstrably ignorant of our history. Mindsets such as yours are the problem in the party...and in the country.
Like I have said so many times in the dose, when history is written it will be very kind to President Bush
I have never seen vitriol like that which has been directed at Bush. This article is spot on, it is deeply shameful to a man that, whatever his shortcomings, has kept us safe for 7 1/2 years.
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