Eight years of playing poker and all we got were more democrats and large deficits.
Posted on 12/01/2008 12:54:38 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Calling the 2008 elections a “repudiation of Republicans,” President Bush shouldered at least some of the blame for his party’s poor results in November.
“I’m sure some people voted for [President-elect] Barack Obama because of me,” the outgoing president said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Now I’m gutless?
When was I asked to defend anything?
Ending this irrational volley.
There is a shadow government; it determines our Presidents, at a minimum down to two candidates, it determines our Senators, as to who can run, it determines our nation's policies: as in rampant amnesty for illegal invaders; as in bail out of the most heinous greedy financial institutions; as in impunity on government eminent domain; as in vast spending and economic "incentives" to cultivate citizen government dependence; as in mass indoctrination to cultivate diversity-associated guilt; as in world leveling of economies and prosperity through environmental fear.
GWB was just another one of those. To think in terms of self guided personalities is totally naive, tantamount to reading People Magazine.
Does anyone really think that Julia Roberts is the most beautiful, talented actress in the world? There is a shadow-Hollywood that says come here girl we're going to make you a star.
Does anyone really think that Brad Pitt is the most manly talented actor in the world? There is a shadow-Hollywood that says come here boy we're going to make you a star.
Does anyone really think the Barach Obama is the most experienced talented leader and administrator in the world? There is a shadow-government that ---
The sad thing is the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, could be, today, virtually energy and resource independent from the rest of the sad scrambling world, a booming dollar, and nowhere on the planet like it, but there is a shadow-government---
Johnny Suntrade
but I can’t imagine Bill Clinton ever admitting that some people voted for Bush in 2000 because of him
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Never happen... his narcisscism rules.
Restoring honor and dignity to our White House that had been so defiled for so long mattered then, and thanks to the decency and the respect they have for the office, Pres. and Laura Bush sure swept out the flies and filth and made us proud. God bless them.
How quickly some have forgotten the rotgut vulgarities, pay as you go tollway, and scandal after scandal in that White House.
LOL!
McCain’s problem is that he had to campaign on “change”, just like the other guy. And why would people choose OLD change with McCain when they could choose NEW change with Obama?
The reason McCain had to campaign on “change” is because George Bush sat there like a punching bag for eight years, never having the guts to stand up and defend himself as lie after lie after lie from the rats and their newsrooms went left unanswered. Bush’s unwillingness to stand up and fight was an eight-year slap in the face to his bewildered supporters, including me.
The result was that the Democrat candidate could successfully tie his opponent to the easily-smeared punching bag, Bush, while the Republican candidate had little choice but to distance himself from Bush. What, McCain was supposed to defend a man who refused for eight years to defend himself? This situation left McCain between a rock and a hard place.
So yes, this year’s Republican slaughter was Bush’s fault. No joke.
Ironically, Bush defeated McCain in 2000 and now again in 2008.
Whew....
And yeah, Dubya - - people DID vote for Zero because of you.
Congratulations.
Eight years of playing poker and all we got were more democrats and large deficits.
What is this? George Bush confession week. Every stinking day he is whining this, and other crap. SHUT UP BUSH. Keep your stupid guilt in your own heart and mind. You know there are a huge amount of areas you screwed the pooch in and CAUSED THE DEFEAT of the republican party. You were #1 in turning the party into a center left bunch. Just shut up and go home.
“Bush: Some voted for Obama ‘because of me’”
I’d say about 4 million votes.
It was Obama v McCain....not Obama v Clinton.
“He really lost some votes after that amnesty fiasco last year and calling the base xenophobes.”
Looks like some of my fellow xenophobes took it personally.
“I’m more upset that he is regurgitating the “faulty intelligence in Iraq” self-defeating narrative.”
I find it odd that even while the President himself says this, there are many of his supporters that STILL cling to the faulty intelligence as if ONE DAY, someone will wave a magic wand and “poof” “why, there’s them danged ole WMD’s, hiding in plain sight all this time, by golly!”
I couldn't believe he said that. Why doesn't he just go and join the Democrat party.
I used to take down the degrading pictures of Bush they would put up on the bulletin boards at work. Now they can stay up for all I care.
I would never have thought a lame duck president could do as much damage as he has done to the country.
I held my nose and voted for McCain. Sarah Palin was a breath of fresh air. We need to rebuild the party with Reagan ideals. If we ever want to win again, the party has to stand for something we can believe in.
Perhaps you didnt see the aerial films of a caravan of loaded vehicles escaping to syria before the US military arrived. And did you miss the fact that he actually used chemical and bio WMD against his own subjects?
If she doesn't get corrupted first, and if she has good, genuine conservative advisers, not like the quasi-Socialists hanging around with Bush, McCain, et al.
Only time will tell. I think she may have been brought out into the limelight a little too early, though.
“Perhaps you didnt see the aerial films of a caravan of loaded vehicles escaping to syria before the US military arrived.”
So you have irrefutable proof of what was in those trucks then?
“And did you miss the fact that he actually used chemical and bio WMD against his own subjects?”
Of course he did. And we know that AT ONE POINT he had WMDs....we still have the receipt. Look, I am NOT saying “Bush lied” I am saying that EVEN Bush now agrees that the intel was AT BEST faulty while his unrepentant sycophants still cling to bitter hope and ghostly “trucks heading to Syria.”
You must be the pigeon in a shell game.
“You must be the pigeon in a shell game.”
You must mistakenly believe that was a logical answer to my post. That and “Dubya” has been a GREAT POTUS!
Self delusion is not healthy, seek help.
It's almost as if he is being held hostage by some really terrible threat against America and is being forced to say this stuff to keep it from happening; at least that would be a grande and heroic reason, but then he did deny that the clintonites had damaged the white house at all when they left, and he apologized for the yellow cake fiasco, when his accusers were proved liars. There have been so many times when we have risen to his defense and he has just smacked us down by agreeing with the media and the Democrat's false charges.
There have been so many times when we have risen to his defense and he has just smacked us down by agreeing with the media and the Democrat’s false charges.
I wholeheartedly agree. He has been knocked off-stride for some unknown reason. He has surrendered to the MSM’s narrative.
Going back to his presser in August 2006,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060821.html
where he made the statement that Iraq didnt “order” 9/11 and the whole thing was contorted and blown out of proportion, he has ceded to the media’s interpretation of events.
you are right about the yellow cake thing. And he also allowed his administration to get buried with the katrina propaganda. he has also brought some on himself, most notably the Miers nomination.
and then there was the complete fiasco of the 9/11 Commission. it certainly wasnt his fault, the Rs in general allowed that proceeding to become a distortion and a circus, but it happened under his watch and concerned what had occurred under his watch.
I posted something a couple of weeks ago that some people here verily agreed with: I think he lost a great deal of momentum and guidance when Karen Hughes resigned from his administration.
Why leave the GOP breathing and with a pulse, when you can have it euthanized by a sitting GOP president.
If Bush didn’t push the GOP off a cliff before the election, he is doing a great job after the election.
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