Perino said the speech will be the last scheduled public event for Bush as president until he appears on the North Portico to greet Obama on Inauguration Day, which is Jan. 20. Bush held his final news conference on Monday.
I'm glad I'm as old as I am--grew up in the best of times.
I am glad the President Bush took his responsibility to keep the US safe seriously when it would have been easy to give in to the caterwauling. And no war efforts are ever perfect, these have been microscopically examined in 24/7 real-time... we would not have won WW2 under these circumstances most likely with a press who was at best neutral re: national security...
And our national security trumps everything else. A major terrorist incident after 9-11, such as a nuke in a US city, would have caused even greater financial devastation than the mortgage crisis... and this did not happen...
He had to spend his capital on the War and this derailed his efforts to privatize Soc sec and also to regulate Fannie and Freddie. And our GOP congress-critters spent like drunk sailors...
We are lucky that President Bush won Florida in 2000...
Thanks for the ping, contrary to what the Bush haters or BDS sufferers say, history will judge him as one of our best presidents