Live Thread - GW Bush, final presser.

FoxNews, et al ^ | Dec 12, 2008

[TomGuy]

Final presser of GW Bush,

begins somewhat jovial.

[Chuck54]

Couldn’t really say but my butt is living free from rocket fire, explosions, terrorists, etc.

You seem to have the answer so let me have it.

Thread throlls, looking to post their anti-immigrant rant. Got to love their persistence.

Geez!

[angcat]

GOD BLESS YOU PRESIDENT BUSH.

I WILL MISS YOU AND I LOVE YOU!

[Chuck54]

I couldn't have said it better!

Totally agree. I will miss this man greatly.

[eureka!]

Re#218 True, in part. Although the rats are more corrupt, the presstitutes made sure that you can thank Duke Cunningham et al. for 2006 and subsequent mindset in many voters. You can also thank Laura Ingraham and her ilk for their incessant whining and "holier/more conservative than thou" shtick for 2006 and in this election cycle doing their best to have voters come to grips with the fact that we were stuck with McCain and needed to keep Obama out of office. Not.

I too am not entirely happy with W. In all fairness, he told us what he was going to do before he was first elected. And he tried to do it and did some of it. It is not like everybody's eyes were not wide-open when he took office. That said, we do have the future before us with some hope for a conservative resurgence. Time will tell whether that effort will be able to trump all the government cheese that will be flowing, courtesy of you, me and other taxpayers...

[genetic homophobe]

I’ve got a boy at Paris Island right now. He’s committed to defending the Constitution of the United States of America. I think we’re on the same team here. Since you’ve engaged in name calling, I’ll ask you a different question (”couldn’t really say” was actually a good honest answer to my first one, I can’t really say either). Here goes:

Having fought a splendid war against Islamofascism, should we give W a break on nationalizing the banks and stroking the unions with billions of our dollars?

[TheThinker]

Bush said something interesting though, how free markets can set the stage for democracy. They really do go hand in hand. Once you give up the free market in a democracy, your democratic government soon follows.

[Wallace T.]

Scott McClellan was a bad appointment. It may be explained by his political connections in Texas, as he is the son of Carol Keeton Rylander, a former liberal Democrat mayor of Austin who switched over to become a RINO. Other bad choices included two of Bush's Treasury Secretaries, Paul O'Neil and Hank Paulson, and his choice for the Fed chairmanship, Ben Bernanke. Additionally, he put up with unsuccessful commanders in Iraq for way too long. It took the 2006 election disaster to fire Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense and place a competent general (Petreaus) in charge of Iraqi operations, after which the situation turned to our favor.

I don't believe bad judgment was in play, although the President seems to have an overly optimistic view of human nature. He made sound choices in the judiciary and foreign policy overall.

Given the President's Texas background (cronyism and political favortism have been standard operating procedures for a very long time) and the history of the Bush family going back to his grandfather, his economic background is more of a mercantilist one, with government coordinating with big business, rather than the more laissez faire approach of Barry Goldwater, Robert Taft, Sr., or Calvin Coolidge. It would have been out of character for President Bush to appoint free market advocates to the key economic positions. Unfortunately, the poor advice he received in these matters led to statist, anti-free market policies such as the bailouts and expansion of Medicare.

[Theodore R.]

Not completely, I believe a poll showed that the military vote for Oprah’s Choice wss exactly the same as the African American population of the military: something like 28 percent. Race is all that matters in America, as LBJ understood.

[Theodore R.]

Coolidge was not a free trader, most protectionist.

[Theodore R.]

I don’t buy any of that, and neither do the former border patrol agents.

[Wallace T.]

Coolidge was not a free trader, most protectionist.

True enough, and all the Republican Presidents from Lincoln to Hoover were protectionist. However, Coolidge was generally opposed to Federal intervention in domestic economic matters.