Posted on 01/17/2009 10:24:11 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
From the day President Bush took office, the long knives were out for him - in ways they will not (and should not) be out for President-elect Barack Obama. The chattering class saw Dubya as a walking style crime in a cowboy suit. They hit Bush for everything - for the way he mangled syntax, for the books he read, because he worked out too much.
Note now that the buff Obama is taking office, stories gushing about Obama's daily workouts flood the channels. Oh, yes, and the same people who belittled Bush for sending troops to war even though he only served in the National Guard somehow do not seem to notice Obama's utter lack of military experience.
To trash Bush was to belong. There was little upside in supporting Bush, even if you had supported his agenda.
Most of the Democratic candidates for president in 2004 and 2008 voted for the Patriot Act - and then campaigned against it. They voted for the resolution authorizing U.S. military force in Iraq - then bolted from the war itself. Likewise with No Child Left Behind. Somehow Bush was the guy who looked bad as he withstood the heat, while his caving critics preened.
When the Dems were pushing for a humiliating retreat from Iraq and opinion polls supported troop withdrawal, Bush instead pushed for a troop surge that has made all the difference. Vice President-elect Joe Biden - who voted for the war before he was against it - visited Iraq last week. While there, he promised the Iraqis that America would not withdraw troops in a way that undermines Iraqi security. Yet that was exactly what his party advocated a year ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Is Bush the only President where under his two terms illegal immigrants committed crimes? There was illegal immigration and open borders for centuries. Illegal immigrants have been committing crimes for decades and long before President Bush.
I have a feeling we are about to become a pinada
yep he will
“This is widely recognized as a fact here in Japan and all of East Asia”
Says the self appointed spokesman for Japan and ‘all of East Asia’.
“Kim Jong il is the one left standing..”
What an excellent point! A murderous dicator stays in power longer than a duly elected President with term limits. He really beat Bush on that one.
“with a regime with nukes it most likely did not have when Bush came to power.”
Yeah, the fact that NK has been violating the NPT since the early 90s has no relevance. Another brilliant point by you.
“and unless you surprise the world with a surprise preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear capabilities in the next 48 hours”
Quick! You need to send him your make-believe intel regarding the whereabouts of all Iranian enrichment facilities so he can forward this to the USAF and order the strikes.
Ms. Saunders must really get into the crawl of a lot of these San Fran libs. I’m really looking forward to how the press handles Zero’s presidency. I suppose it will be more stories about the purchase of a dog and the picking out of the new drapes, along with the never ending drone of what a mess he was left to deal with. Probably your best investment at this point would be a knee pad manufacturer because the press will be on it’s knees for a least the next four years.
“Bush showed U.S. is no paper tiger.”
How about “Election of 0bama showed the U.S. is a dead pussycat in the road, but still in one piece and not yet stinky enough to attract a cleanup crew.”
No kidding. How dare the King of the World not solve all of the planet’s problems.
I would like Cheney to be in charge for the next eight....why didn’t he step up to the plate?
I suspect health issues, plus the fact that a hypothetical Cheney Administration would do things MUCH differently than the (gag-choke-puk) ‘compassionate conservative’ crew has done over the past eight years.
Cheney is hard right too, and the current pack of RINOs and ‘Rat-lites infesting the GOP would have most likely torpedoed him early in the primaries. But of all the candidates, Cheney could have single handedly dismantled Comrade 0bama and exposed him for the naive, inexperienced fool that he is.
Cheney is brilliant. The level of vitriol against him shows how frightened Big Media was of him. Too bad he has problems with his ticker. We could have had a very different country with him in charge.
You know it. In a perfect world, PRESIDENT Dick Cheney would be preparing to leave office after a stellar two terms, VICE President George W. Bush would be heading back to Texas to resume his interest in the Texas Rangers baseball team or something like that, and President Duncan Hunter and Vice President Sarah Palin would be preparing to continue the conservative policies of the Cheney Administration.
You have to read the comments posted at the SFgate for a real laugh.
Maybe Bush didn’t accomplish all the goals but he wasn’t a traitor like the MSM constantly harping on him and advertising to the world the BDS churned out day after day.
All the garbage spewed from the Left and it’s media machines has damaged this nation by weakening it. Leftist liberals are the termites of this nation slowly but continually eroding the structure. My disgust of them borders on the level of hatred.
The only consistency in the Establishment press is cowardice. PravdABDNC is complete Groupthink.
Pray for W, America and Our Troops
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