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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about time.
We now know that the media can manipulate anything they want.
We must make that a focus in our fight. We've got to figure out a way our voices can be heard en masse, because the opposition's intent is to silence us completely.
God Bless President Bush always! We owe him a debt of gratitude, not the disrespect and disloyalty that has been thrown at him. History will judge him well and this nation will rue this day that they elected an arrogant fraud.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
You are half right.
True, but seriously, why is this being published the day after Obama’s win? This should have been published last month. What a load of crap.
Bush has been the leader of the GOP, and has led it to this.
I call that weak leadership. His inability or unwillingness to bring about better results got us to this point.
He is a good man, but a weak and ineffective president and leader.
No namecalling or nastiness from me; just a fairminded analysis of where we are, and why we got here.
He has pretty much been coasting since 2004, much like his father did. With a similar ending.
Count me in on the pettiness. Barry Soetero will NEVER be my president no way no how. My US flag will be flown upside down tomorrow SOS
To dman late for that, Bush failed in an epic manner, and it seems to me that the idea here is to offer some sort of support for the Obamao is quite simply untennable.
GWB offered his hand and got smacked for his efforts, Obamao deserves the same treatment.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
respectless ... but it would have reflected the situation the US are in.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Even tonight the left was taunting him outside the White House as though he himself had lost the race. The MSM systematically destroyed his reputation as a president, making sure that he would be a liability rather than an asset for anyone who ran on the GOP ticket in 08. Their treatment of him has been one of the biggest tragedies I have ever seen, and yet I have wanted nothing more than for GW to use the bully pulpit inherent in his position to defend himself and his decisions. WHY didn't anyone come out with a strong voice and tie the financial disasters of Fannie and Freddie to the DEMS? That whole scheme should have backfired royally on the Dems, but instead most Americans sucked up the lies from the media and believed that Republicans were responsible for the mess. Time and again there were opportunities and certainly reasons for calling a press conference and just reaming people out for their lies and distortions. I believe you have to teach people how to respect you. GW allowed the MSM to define him and their definition was all wrong.
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Oh, how sweet to discuss this now. A Kerry lawyer nonetheless! I suppose we are supposed to be ‘respectful’ to Obama and the Demonrats, right? HELL WITH ALL OF THEM. I am an eye for an eye person and at least you can say with the opposition and statements made about Obama and the Demonrats-they are true! These are not good people, period. We are about to find out and get even more verification no matter how ‘paranoid’ some that don’t want to wake up to the travesty that was this election like to call the pessimism of what has happened with this election. Bush has been treated maliciously, unjustifiably. And he will be missed within just ONE YR!! At least with Bush you got someone who could be wrong but was essentially a GOOD MAN. With these people they are deliberately liars who seek to destroy dissent and have more respect for our national enemies that want to destroy us. The media can go to hell along with them. This disaster is all on them.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The alarming thing is Obama is really all of those things. This is the new ‘president’!
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