Live Thread - GW Bush, final presser.

FoxNews, et al ^ | Dec 12, 2008

[TomGuy]

Final presser of GW Bush,

begins somewhat jovial.

[Mojave]

“I readily concede I chucked aside my free-market principles when I was told … the situation we were facing could be worse than the Great Depression,” Bush said...

Fortunately for Bush, his "free-market principles" were very small and easy to throw.

[reagan_fanatic]

Frankly, for all the crap he’s had to go through during his Presidency, I wouldn’t have blamed him if he had gone up to the podium, told the press “Good-bye and good riddance” and then walked off stage giving them both middle fingers on the way out.

I would have paid good money to see that.

[gargoyle]

...The link dosen’t work. but, thar’s OK, I’ve saved it to show my Obama shilling stepson...

[Chuck54]

Thanks Manc, that’s very kind of you.

Just found out the daughter (our only child) is pregnant with our very, very first grandchild.

August 3rd due date. Can’t wait.

:)

[Reaganesque]

Me too. lol

[SweetCaroline]

How Wonderful! Your life will never be the same.

[Lucky9teen]

Bush to reporters:

[Proud_texan]

"The bottom line is he kept us safe from another attack - don’t know how nor do I care but he did... I can overlook his shortcomings & YES he had many"

After 9/11 I had a rat tell me "Clinton did many wrong things but after the first WTC bombings we didn't have another attack on American soil so I can overlook his shortcomings".

[LadyBuzz]

CONGRATS! - our 1st grandbaby is just 14 months old now - you are going to have a blast!

[Lucky9teen]

I love this...

BUSH WAS RIGHT!!!

[Chuck54]

Thanks. I cannot wipe the grin off my face. Wife Cathy tells me to calm down a bit.

I try to tell her there could darn very well be a huge star rise in the East.

:)

[Designer]

"[Yeah, that compassionate conservatism turned out to be a real winner.]"

I wonder why the press isn't hounding him on this.

They claim to be trying to put a "soundbite" on his Presidency to sum it up, as it were.

They could bury him with that one, and no amount of Republican appologizing could wipe it out.

[shielagolden]

Bank of America spend atleast $6 billion of US citizens bailout money to buy a Chinese bank.

Can you imagine the jobs that a bunch of American small businesses could create with 6 billion dollars.

AIG crooks have gotten over $200 billion to make up for their crooked gambling they did speculating & destroying people's lives. AIG didn't lose money in the insurance business they take in atleast 20 bucks for every dollar they pay out.

They did it speculating--gambling--short selling--futures trading. & the American peasants get to pay it all back to these crooks. &Citibank & Bank of Amerca are getting all their losses paid back by the US peasants too.

They are laughing hard as the get the $$. &all these crooks are sending out their paid goons to run down the automakers& make sure they can't even get any loans.

NO bank will loan a dollar to the automakers. &THESE CROOKS USED manipulated the oil futures to illegally jack up the price of gas sky high which is what has destroyed the US auto market.

Pure Evil!

[pgkdan]

Call it what you wish. I call it protecting too many ungrateful sorry asses.

You know what? That's his job. The only part he did well. Everything else is a disaster. The GOP is literally in shambles. His performance the last 4 months has been a betrayal of everything conservatives have believed in regarding economics. Thanks to his incompetence we're handing the WHI over to a bona fide anti-American socialist! How's that for a friggin' legacy?

[what's up]

His exit won't be soon enough

Thank God for the millions who are grateful for every day he spends in the Oval.

While he is there, he stands respected as CIC here and around the globe and the #1 job of the President is being done...keeping America safe.

In addition, he has done a myriad of other things RIGHT and even though the press has veiled these to the public and the extreme right wing, they will be appreciated in coming days and years. God bless him, Laura and the rest of his family.

[Designer]

(from pissant):

"..we nominated “the lemon” as our candidate. I knew it was over. Will conservatives learn a lesson?"

Well, I seriously doubt they will. You can't even get them to read, so the prospects of conservatives learning anything are slim to none.

I'm not talking about conservative values, and American patriotism, which we all have plenty of, but where is the sense in rolling over to the socialists?

No sense whatever.

[Designer]

"I will miss him and Laura."

Don't forget Barney and Mrs. Beasley!

[Designer]

"Conservatives try to smear him on the bailout but I think without it, there would have been a depression.."

Hey, Thinker; don't look now, but I think we're in one.

[what's up]

But he was tougher in his criticisms of his friends than he ever was with his enemies

No, his (and our) enemies got bombed off the face of the earth. And we have lived in safety for 7 years because of it.

[Mr Rogers]

I knew Teddy Kennedy got bombed pretty regularly...but off the face of the earth? And bombed BY GWB?

Didn’t happen. And we are NOT safe from Democrats, who ran roughshod over GWB.