Posted on 01/21/2009 5:02:20 AM PST by IrishMike
So very true. I abhorred his turn towards the left with regards to govt, but I do respect the guy.
Well said! Bookmarked.
This is about as fair a summation of GWB’s Presidency as I have read. I disagree with the author on one point, tho’. I think History is going to judge GWB as one of the greatest American Presidents ever. Obama has a tough act to follow, only he doesn’t know it yet.
Although I disagreed with some of President Bush’s actions, this article is right on the money regarding what a decent man he is. If we humans had the power to see the true measure of a man’s soul, my instinct tells me that George Bush would come out much, MUCH higher than Barack Obama . Unless Obama really experiences true conversion and acts on that, he will end his career far below.
(It will also be interesting to see how smoothly the transition from Obama’s presidency to the conservative who follows him will go.)
In other words, had Bush been any kind of a leader. Sorry, but 'nice guy' and 'classy' are about as applicable here as they would be to a surgeon whose patients all die.
Those of us that join the March for Life tomorrow in Washington,will GREATLY miss President Bush.He was the pro-life president.I am afraid that we will now become the pro-death country.Pray for our nation,
He was treated sooo badly by the Press which infected many people.....it is unforgivable. They elect this empty boob hussien -—and discard Laura and W like trash. I hope to God George gets his justice when some people with brains actually look at his accomplishments (referring to terrorism). I despise the MSM.
I have a lot of mixed feelings about Bush. In 2000, I thought he was the best choice and the right choice for the job. I 2009, I’m not so sure - but only because we witnessed few real examples of his conservative credentials.
That said, the statement about a divided nation rings more true than ever before, and this is a charge I lay at the left’s feet. It is the Democrats who have driven a wedge in this country that has created a political divide. It is Democrats who have driven the wedge in the country that has both created, maintained and exacerbated the racial divide. And, it was Democrats in the Clinton WH and Democrats at the Obamessiah inauguration who displayed some of the most classless, juvenile and immature behavior towards the incoming/outgoing president, Bush.
Clinton’s trashing of the WH and stealing $200,000 worth of property from the WH (remember the china, silverware and computer keyboard “W”’s they stole) - property that rightfully belongs to the American people.
The Obamanites’ “booing” of Bush and the whole “hey, hey, na na na” business is a prime example of just how immature, juvenile and classless they are. And, IMO, the biggest problem with Democrats and politics is that, with them, it isn’t about policy, it isn’t about patriotism, is isn’t even about America - it’s about who won. They have corrupted their political party into one giant Superbowl rivalry. And that kind of attitude will NEVER serve America well.
You cannot lead those who wish to destroy you and your administration. They have an agenda that has nothing to do with common sense or good government.
I really really hate having to agree with you on this point.
No -- the complainers are in the position of a trauma victim who rolls into the emergency room already coded and is saved by an all-out effort from the surgeon -- and then complains that the doc didn't sew up the incision as neatly as he should have.
President Bush stopped the terrorists cold - no more 9/11s. That's what turned his hair gray. I disagree with a lot of what he's done, but that makes up for all the rest.
My daughter’s boyfiend (a Marine) remarked on how President Bush looked like the weight of the world was finally taken off his shoulders. It was finally taken off. Zero may have a tough job ahead of him, but his shoulders will not have to bear the additional burden of being pilloried by the press, the entertainment industry, and the looney left.
I am sure that today George Bush slept more soundly having been relieved of the awful burden of his office.
Ya know what? I’m sick of Bush being called a class act. He destroyed conservativism by always siding with the left on any domestic issue. Bush is a leftist and a bully, pure and simple. Disagree with him on the right, and he or his henchman will publicly label you a racist or a vigilante.
Obama may turn out to be the most hated President..especially if these anti white comments continue to prevail throughout his Presidency.
I expect 4 years of whites having to tip toe around his misdeeds while being called racist if he is criticized.
I am so sick and tired of hearing “President Barrak Obama” on TV, I sent this message to our local Fox station (St. Louis):
Please, get off the messiah and do the real news. Like how many killed last night in drive by shootings; who is driving wrong way on one way street; news that really matters. Also, when you going to start calling him “Obama” and cut out the “President Barrak Obama” crap, it’s been “Bush” for 8 years, now it’s time for him to be “Obama”....
I live 100 mi. east of St. Louis, get the St. Louis stations and Fox is the ONLY one I can tolerate anyway so please be more professional and search for news other than what Obama crapped in this a.m. (and how much it will sell for on eBay)
President Bush is a leader of uncommon moral vision and clarity of national purpose.
And in his farewell address to the nation, delivered January 15, 2009, President Bush made his valedictory exhortation on liberty and America’s responsibility: “In the 21st century, security and prosperity at home depend on the expansion of liberty abroad. If America does not lead the cause of freedom, that cause will not be led. … America must maintain our moral clarity. … Good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise.”
I disagree. Reagan was a "leader of uncommon moral vision and clarity of national purpose", Bush was ok. He has 3 major things to his credit, IMO - 1) the tax cuts, 2) the GWOT and 3) the appointments of Roberts and Alito.
Those things aside, his presidency will be characterized by the fact that it took him the majority of his first etrm to learn how to spell "VETO", understand its meaning and use it!! In his second, term, he lurched much farther to the left, in SPITE of the fact that the left detested him and everything he stood for. He did his utmost to appease them and all he got for his efforts was more disdain and derision from them.
His "moral vision and national purpose" didn't seem to extend themselves to rotecting our southern border and protecting America from the invasion from the south. They also didn't protect us from out of control spending by the Congress, the massive earmarks and, ultimately, the meltdown our economy is currently experiencing.
So, I find him likeable as a person, but as a president, he gets about a "C-" in my book. He missed too many opportunities to be a true and genuine conservative leader.
A agree. I wish he hadn’t ‘bailed’ at the end...it did him no good and set the country up for chaos. But, overall, he was a class act, like it says. It took a lot of grace to refuse to go on the defensive, especially after some of the lame stuff that was said and printed about him.
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