Am I blind? Am I the only one who believes he wasn’t that bad? Given the circumstances, I thought the vast majority of the decisions he made were the right ones. I do not understand how all these people have accepted the “bash Bush” meme. It started as whacko’s fromthe left but it has become standard operating procedure in nearly all circles to slam this man and I think history will prove this wrong.
I thought he was great in the press conference today. When he got heated about 9/11 I thought it was terrific. I would have only added that he should have said, “Do you remember American’s jumping to their deaths from those towers?” “What would you have had me do?”
Other than that, he was salient on every point. You know, for all the Bush bashing...if he makes it to next Tuesday and there isn’t another terrorist attack, he deserves our deepest thanks. And conversely, if a suitcase nuke goes off in New York or Los Angeles after noon on Tuesday, people are going to quickly start comparing Obama to Bush and they’ll be talk about love them or hate them, at least Bush and Cheney kept us safe.
Mark my words...
It is safe to say that he broke the President who has been elected to die on a 00 curse is dead.. Reagan almost a victim of it.
No.
Am I the only one who believes he wasn’t that bad?
No.
Given the circumstances, I thought the vast majority of the decisions he made were the right ones.
They were.
I do not understand how all these people have accepted the “bash Bush” meme.
Everybody has a breaking point, or an acid test. Bush did make many disappointing decisions, which certainly sucked. But on the whole, the incoming administration I am afraid will be a cold bucket of water for some to soak their heads in.
It started as whacko’s from the left but it has become standard operating procedure in nearly all circles to slam this man and I think history will prove this wrong.
Sheeple mentality. Be the first on your block to bash the prez, makes you cool in the eyes of those around you. Besides, everyone else is doing it, so it must be the "in" thing to do.
You aren’t alone. President Bush will be judged as a good President. Maybe not great, but only due to the bailout.
Compared to what? Kerry? Gore?
Talk about damning with faint praise.
I think he's probably an okay guy but he was so, so wrong for this country on so, so many things. A partial list.
After taking an oath to uphold the Constitution he turned around and signed CRF saying "I think that some of this is unconstitutional but I'll sign it and let the courts work it out"? Huh?
He looked into Putin's eyes and saw his soul. Sheesh, I hope he was taking sleeping pills for jet lag or something and was suffering from temporary insanity.
He was way, way too loyal to friends and tried to give us Miers who is probably a nice lady but certainly isn't SCOTUS material and then called us sexist when we objected.
He tried to give us amnesty by another name and then called us racist.
He appointed some incredibly unsuited people and hung with them; I give you Paulson, Gonzales, Powell and Rice (and I know, to a certain contingent here on FR she's off limits for whatever reason but the fact remains she's done a miserable job).
Speaking of Gonzales has he been a friend to the 2nd Amendment? Hardly.
The growth of government has gone up more with Bush than during LBJ. Don't even think about the debt. Yes, he did have a rat congress part of the time but even that didn't put ink in his veto pen.
He talked today about how he should have focused on amnesty instead of reforming social security. Do you honestly remember him using the bully pulpit to sell SS reform? I try and keep and think I saw/read everything at the time and it was halfhearted at best. Certainly he didn't attack it with the same energy he did amnesty.
Did the department of education get reformed? Heck, did any government enterprise get reformed?
He kept us safe. He gave us two good justices.
He gave us tax cuts. True, only temporary but perhaps that was the best deal he could get. Sadly he then threw our country under the bus with the bailouts. We have been effectively socialized.
I could go on about the potential unfilled but that is what it is.
Is he better than what we'll be getting? Heck yes, by a country mile, but under Bush we went down the road to hell at a leisurely pace, able to see the sights along the way. Under Obama we'll get there so fast that we can't even enjoy the trip.
But at the end of the day we'll still end up in hell.
And parenthetically I worked for Bush both cycles and in no way do I dislike the man and in all ways he was by far superior to the alternatives. However his form of "compassionate conservatism" doesn't fit my form of "nasty, dirty, evil conservatism" and I will forever bemoan that one of our own did so much damage and damage that won't be reversed, ever.