We owe the man a lot. He kept us safe. But he did not assert leadership here at home.
e.g., he couldn't demand time ....
He sure as hell could have.
The Republican Party could have bought advertising for him, but, weenies that they are,...yadda yadda yadda
As Party Leader it's POTUS job to break heads when needed. GW had some flaws in office that are just plain hard to ignore (IMHO):
(A)Poor Communicator,
(B)Disinterested in Party Discipline and Leadership,
(C)Absolutely impervious to advice when needed,
(D) Deaf to constituent concerns, i.e., illegal immigration and border control. Massive spending.
Complain all you want about the MSM. It is absolutely a left-wing wolf pack. But just like wolves, they search out the weakest link among their prey. They found it.
The President is not a dictator; he can't 'fix' everything that's wrong.
GW turned out a very low number of Executive Orders and very rarely found the wherewithal to veto many of the remarkably bad... even disastrous ... bills put before him. A President cannot "fix" everything, but he sure as hell can enforce his will and promote his constituents' wishes. I thank God we had George for the past 8 years. Now let's find the worthy successor he couldn't.
That is, waddaya say we end this denial about some aspects of GW's performance in office, stop feeling sorry for him, and figure out who the next GOP candidate is going to be? I say draft General Petraeus, he is just the man to stop this preposterous jerk now in office before he gets his second term.
And there is no "feeling sorry" for President Bush going on.
He did his best, he is satisfied that he did his best, content with who he is as a child of God and follower of Jesus Christ; he is living in peace and with the love of his life in Texas, pursuing his desire to help those in need; support for him is growing as the media lies fade and the truth of Obama's horror arises.
How can anyone feel sorry for a man so richly blessed? Certainly not anyone who knows who this man is.
Here, here! Now that is something that I agree whole heartedly. Petraeus would make an excellent prez...another Ike. I just wish that DUH-pee-yew would have listened to him about the necessity of the surge that is/will win OIF before the 2006 "thumpin'".
Those weenies abandoned him when things got tough in Iraq, and the MSM and Democrats started screaming. President Bush, on the other hand, just rolled with the punches, because he was more concerned about the service people he'd decided to send into harm's way. THEY were more important to him than his political position or even personal popularity, and he still believes that today. For THAT, and for taking the lumps he did in order to keep this country safe from further attacks after 9/11, I'll be eternally grateful to him.
Because he was so concerned about national security, he spent his political capital on that, was blocked by partisan Democrats, and the weenies in his own party in Congress, and wasn't able to get legislation passed that could have mitigated somewhat the economic problems caused by the mortgage crisis, created in large part by those same partisan Democrats.