Bambi's taking it to a new level.
Posted on 05/20/2009 6:40:38 AM PDT by big black dog
Let's face it, this is shaping up as George W. Bush's best month in years. The last time the 43rd president enjoyed this kind of vindication was when a bedraggled Saddam Hussein was pulled from a hole in the ground by American soldiers in 2003. All of Barack Obama's efforts to cast the Bush administration as an immoral stain on American history have not merely collapsed, but collapsed on the heads of Bush's most public and vocal critics.
Here's a non-stammering Nancy Pelosi talking about Bush last July: "God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States -- a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject."
Don't mind if I do. How about national security? It turns out that support for a criminal investigation of Bush policies yielded an important finding after all: Pelosi's own long-standing agreement with the Bush administration's toughest measures. On that point she's in sync with the rest of the country. A CNN/Opinion Research Corp poll found that Americans approve of the interrogation methods Bush okayed by a margin of 50% to 46%. In other words, she didn't have to go through the condemnation charade to begin with.
Then there's Iraq. That July interview with Pelosi is quite a goldmine. When faced with a 14% approval rating for Congress, she counters: "Everything I see says this is about ending the war. . . " Well, that's not happening anytime soon. Everything I see says "ending the war" was as phony as Nancy Pelosi's outrage. Hillary Clinton went to Baghdad three weeks ago to reassure the Maliki government that the Obama administration will not abandon Iraq. On top of that, Gen. Ray Odierno said the U.S. might "maintain a presence" in some Iraqi cities beyond the scheduled draw-down date if the Iraqis request it. Did Pelosi mean the other war, in Afghanistan? Obama has done an outstanding job of taking that challenge seriously, and for those keeping score, his pick of Gen. Stanley McChrystal (the man who hunted down Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq) has met with the gushing approval of Dick Cheney.
And speaking of Dick Cheney: Not only has he proved to be an important and articulate defender of the Bush administration's national-security policy; his repeated interviews and statements have done Bush the service of drawing fire away from the former president. Bush not only looks wise these days; he looks modest and thoughtful as well. And Cheney's (denied) request to declassify more CIA interrogation memos explodes the myth of the "most secretive administration in American history."
Let us not forget the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility. For years adduced as a monument to the Bush administration's disdain for due process and human rights, Gitmo was slated to be shut down by Barack Obama as a first order of business. Today, the posture without a plan has come up against a bi-partisan roadblock. Thursday, the House denied the Obama administration a requested $80 million to close the facility. The Senate's version of the bill in question contains $50 million for the Pentagon to shutter the place, but the money can only be tapped 30 days after Robert Gates devises a plan to relocate detainees outside the U.S. -- so far France will take one. To top it all off, on Friday Obama announced the revival of Guantanamo military tribunals.
On Iran, the Obama administration is veering from its stance of bottomless "respect" and "perseverance." This week Obama set early October as a "target" to determine whether Iran is really deserving of all that extended goodwill. Additionally, the administration has drawn up benchmarks to gauge Tehran's cooperation in halting their march toward a nuclear weapon. As Robert Kagan put it, "[Obama's] policy toward Iran makes sense, so long as he is ready with a serious Plan B if the negotiating track with Tehran fails." The October non-surprise will be the revelation that Bush wasn't merely neglecting to smile at the mullahs and to ask nicely.
Finally, there's the strange and frankly unsettling image makeover of the Saudi royals. The Bush family's alleged intimacy with an extremist monarchy formed the very backbone of the anti-Bush industry. Yet, upon taking office Barack Obama commented on the bravery of King Abdullah and went on to virtually adopt the Saudi Peace Initiative as American policy. The administration is also seriously considering sending released Guantanamo detainees through the Saudi "jihad rehab" program. A week ago, "60 Minutes" aired a prime-time broadcast praising the same absurdity. The free pass Barack Obama gets on his all-encompassing embrace of Riyadh leaves the score of anti-Bush best sellers and documentaries looking a little less than credible.
President Obama, and the country at large, is finding out that George W. Bush's most controversial policies were not born of ideological delusion, American arrogance, or missionary zeal. They were imperfect but sound (with the exception of our ties to Riyadh) responses to complicated threats. But the validation of the last president runs a very distant second to the most compelling aspect of all this: the drama over CIA interrogations and Guantanamo will hopefully serve to set the administration on a more serious national security course. And it would be helpful if the American public finally dropped moral outrage as the preferred mode of political argumentation.
That’s beautiful Deb. You posit things are looking up (crickets chirp) and decide it must be cause “the Bush stimulus worked”. I’m laughing on the inside.
Since Bush’s socialism is apparently paying dividends right now I guess in 6 months when the Obama socialism shows results we’ll all be millionaires right?
People in the know were saying before the election that Obama wouldn’t bring the troops home but his voting public believed him.
I wonder how his DUmmies acolytes are twisting logic defending him when they were 100% against war when Bush was President. I guess they’re for it now.
Bambi's taking it to a new level.
Good catch!
Deb, the LSM, WSJ, Fox; etc', are now shilling for 0zero & Co. The info whodat posted in 101 is very much the heart of the matter as to what is happening...this recent financial collapse is a global enigma.
The economy is not recovering and will not for years regardless of what 0zero, Congress, state and local leaders say or do.
Basically it is a credit -illegal immigration bubble Ponzi scheme that popped.
Do some simple math and look at goobermint bloodsucking of the GDP now and for the near future (10 yrs +). The economy can't grow when goobermint sucks the life out of it.....do not forget too the sheer number of baby boomers set to retire with a bankrupt MEdicare and Social Security system on the close horizon.
Think what you want, but, Greenspan NWO economics don't work.......this crisis was planned and the world now refuses to buy any more US debt until common sense comes around in DC.
Deb, if I am correct, you are in CA...if the economy is recovering, then why is CA going broke and what did the voters tell Arnie and the blueslature about sucking more life from the economy?
All this crisis stuff was set into place to bring about the NWO and the first step is bring the US, Canada and Mexico into the next phase with South America as NAFTA and CAFTA are in place now.
The next steps to come in our 'economic recovery' are higher food prices, serious devaluation of the dollar, higher taxes, higher energy costs, loss of liberties, and more government control.....the US banking and auto industry snafus are point in case.....bought a loaf of bread lately?
Still, no secure border to the south and no truths from Geithner, etc. about the TARP bailout banking mess to the public. China and Brazil are talking about trying to move off the USD.
Many states' retirement funds were in moderate to huge hedge funds. Many states based their spending with the 'free money' to the retirement accounts. Guess what? The wheels fell off and many states like CA and NY and NV and NC even are backpeddling fast to attempt to regain control of their fiscal realities......CA will be bailed out by 0zero & Co. and 0zero will replace people in CA goobermint as he chooses....watch.
Thank you.
‘Are we fighting a war on terror or aren’t we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001?
Were people from all over the world, mostly Americans, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan , across the Potomac from our nation’s capitol and in a field inPennsylvania?
Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn’t they?
And I’m supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was ‘desecrated’ when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet?...Well, I don’t. I don’t care at all.
I’ll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.
I’ll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about theHoly Bible, the mere possession of which is a crime in Saudi Arabia
I’ll care when these thugs tell the world they are sorry for chopping off Nick Berg’s head while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat.
I’ll care when the cowardly so-called ‘insurgents’ in Iraq come out and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques.
I’ll care when the mindless zealots who blow themselves up in search of nirvana care about the innocent children within range of their suicide .
I’ll care when the American media stops pretending that their First Amendment liberties are somehow derived from international law instead of the United States Constitution’sBill of Rights.
In the meantime, when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing up an Iraqi terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don’t care.
When I see a fuzzy photo of a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners who have been humiliated in what amounts to a college-hazing incident, rest assured: I don’t care.
When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank: I don’t care.
When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and fed ‘special’ food that is paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that his holy book is being ‘mishandled,’ you can absolutely believe in your heart of hearts: I don’t care.
And oh, by the way, I’ve noticed that sometimes it’s spelled ‘Koran’ and other times ‘Quran.’ Well, Jimmy Crack Corn and-you guessed it-I don’t care!!
Don’t discuss that in detail with them - we disagree.
Its not “Bush-bashing”. Its recognizing what the problem was and determining not to repeat it on the national level.
If Chris Chrisite manages to nominated in June, I’ll support him for governor, even though he’s a RINO. Corzine is much worse, much much worse.
But in National Elections I will never support a candidate like McCain or Bush again - ever. I’ll do everything to block them in a primary and if the get nominated, vote third party.
Thanks rabscuttle.
I agree with you totally.
Higher-brain functions, such as an ability to deal with facts, logic, common sense and reason, are atrophied, dessicated nubs in the liberal mind. Instead of facts and logic, you have ideology and indoctrination. Instead of common sense, you have emotion. Instead of reason, you have groupthink.
Think back to how Blago was arrested vs. how Strumtruppen went after Dog Chapman .... for something that is not even a crime in the USA.
What if China complains about US citizens distributing Bibles there? Ya I know that's a extreme example, as Dubya has always looked for Mexico's interests first. But still
Have you noted who is running the Congress and the White House these days? Sort of a reflection on Dubya ... and his indifference to the citizens here. Why not go whole hog for the Commie?
That may be true but that is not saying much. This is only because Bush is finally off camera, not bailing anyone out, not proposing stimulus packages or amnesty or even more war funding now.
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WRONG!
A little in-depth reading of the facts might help.
My point is Hussein is getting high numbers for perpetuating the same policies that President Bush did
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How you could even dare to compare the two is a signal proof of stunning ignorance and denial.
Some very obvious differences, mrs, are character, relentless pursuit of the safety of your and my butts, love of country, strengthening and honoring our military, doing what he and the military felt was necessary to protect us, regardless of the fallout in the polls, ETC, ETC, ETC.
Blinders, mrs .. failure to remove them will lead you into the ditch of hate-filled delusion.
Feel safe now ?
That’s the truth ... tiresome, crotchety and a broken record.
Ain’t that the truth.
They should just go found their own BDS site
and take their virulent infection with them.
Ain’t that the truth.
They should just go found their own BDS site
and take their virulent infection with them.
Exhausting, ain’t it?
The very REASON I have an issue with GWB is BECAUSE his administration’s actions and in-actions helped put the lying impostor, closet Muslim and socialist in the Oval Office.
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Total BS!
Sheeple swooning over the 1st bi-racial candidate, 24/7 media demeaning, mocking and personally assailing the characters and motives of Pres. Bush and VP Cheney et al with THE most despicable personal attacks ever, an hyper-partisan obstructionist Congress, and a mostly uninformed and indifferent electorate just craving ‘change,’ and pubbies who thought withholding their vote or PUNISHING the GOP would actually help.
Talk about fantasy world.
And apparently from every perverse pore of their bodies.
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