Posted on 06/17/2009 8:18:50 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
ERIE, Pa. | Former President George W. Bush fired a salvo at President Obama on Wednesday, asserting his administration's interrogation policies were "within the law," declaring the private sector - not government - will fix the economy and rejecting the nationalization of health care.
"I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in," the former president said to applause from members of a local business group. "You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Facts are stubborn things. They can become a sharp, painful pebble in the boot of the intellectually dishonest.
You have private Freepmail.
These comments are edited from here:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/the_psychopathology_of_bush_ha.html
the article is titled:
The psychopathology of Bush hatred
By James Lewis
The Bush hatred we are seeing in the media today belongs in the long catalogue of human psychopathology — not rational behavior. ..... At the end of his two terms of office, the President flew to Iraq, into harm’s way, knowing the dangers, to hold an open press conference.
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But our media harbor such bitter hatred for him that they turned a potential bomb-throwing incident -— by one of their own -— into a joke, just another reason to sneer at the President. .............
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The political case against him is based almost entirely on media falsehoods, slanders, and greed for power. Not much rationality there.
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Our public melodrama is therefore being driven, not by facts and reason, but by the most primitive emotions that prey on human minds. (irrational hatred)
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Prosperity permits our primitive urges to flourish on the public stage.
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President George W. Bush is being crucified in the public square in spite of his plain decency and goodness, and in spite of his remarkable success in winning two difficult wars to protect this nation from harm. All wars are hard; all wars involve mistakes and self-correction. All wars, if they are to be won, come at a cost.
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President Bush is not a theoretical politician. He is a practical man. He has constantly made the best decisions by his lights, sometimes against his own ideals, because reality sometimes makes things like war necessary; sometimes it makes massive bailouts necessary. The conservative question is always, “What is the realistic alternative?”
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I do not oppose one leader for doing something just because he is a Democrat, only to turn around and grant a "pass" for essentially the same behavior, because another leader is a Republican. Maybe in my younger GOP days I would do that, in my age and wisdom I am to the point where I have come to embrace preciseness, honesty and academic integrity based on independent thinking and embracing the truth.
The record will show that as a loyal, contributing Freeper ($$$ and ideas) from here in East Asia I have been one thing: CONSISTENT. To be otherwise would be a scoundrel and a hypocrite.
I fully attacked the most abject failures of appeasement and spinelessness during the Clinton Administration (with Cohen, Albright, Richardson, et.al) towards Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong il.). I went on to support President Bush in the good things he did regarding North Korea in the 2001 to essentially 2005 time frame. (It is a matter of record in my posts).
Then you will notice a change in my posting and tact. It became more and more vitriolic in OPPOSITION TO PRESIDENT BUSH and his assistants for serious, deadly mistakes in their dealing with North Korea--ending in complete capitulation and appeasement and phony deals, which also discouraged the movement of freedom in North Korea found in the depths of dungeons of the dictatorship...all because of the likes of Christopher Hill, Condi Rice (hot and orgasmic for a foreign policy legacy "success" no matter how dangerously this positioned us in the future with North Korea which has indeed now come to pass under the imcompetent follow-on Obama), and all this being signed off at the desk of "W". (Did not the buck used to stop there!??)
For the next three and a 1/2 years you will assuredly find me also strongly opposed to OBAMA and his own brand of helpless appeasement towards Pyongyang.
North Korea is a serious issue, our failure there in dealing with them are putting us at great risk and they span both Democrat and Republican Administrations alike in recent history.
This may piss some people off but so be it--particularly any who have posters of The Bush Family on their garage wall or still have a Bush 2004 sticker on their car. God Bless them, but when it comes to North Korea, their man, George W. Bush was a complete failure in his final years in office, a complete disappointment, and not just for me but for the millions of North Koreans who know face a fourty-year rule under General Kim Jong-un and his nuclear weapons, for Japan and South Korea that face very real threats on a horrendous scale. It is the unequivocal position I adopt and adhere to, and I have every fact to back up these assertions. I dont care which GOP sacred cows I step on in the process; at the end of the day truth and moral clarity regarding our relationship with North Korea will be my ultimate goal here on FR. Not whitewhashing over vast mistakes just because those who committed them happen to also be a member of the same political party I am in.
This is not hatred. This is not bashing. This is not obsession. This is adherence to truth, truth so much that it cuts to the bone and hurts like hell some time. But truth nonetheless. Nothing more, nothing less.
I always figure a healthy dose of honesty is valuable in these kinds of situations.
Glad to provide some.
I'm thinking that this line from James Lewis might be the bottom line of the explanation of the clear "psychopathology" of the Bush haters (who always deny their hatred, btw).
It is not rational behavior, and I believe a lot of it does stem from his decency and goodness. I don't think anyone who has a fundamental confidence in himself or is at peace internally hates George W. Bush. I think the people who hate him are fundamentally angry people who need a whipping boy for their anger and inadequacy, and George W. Bush, with his decency, humor and honor provides that object of their scorn.
Eventually it will fade, but rational people have to put up with it until they calm down, or find another object of their rage.
My decidedly UNprofessional 2 cents. :)
Thank you for respecting my position as well.
I guess I must have missed it.
I respect your opinion about the situation in North Korea (I am no expert on it, and it is not the subject of the thread). I, however, do not respect any name-calling or gross generalizations of those who do not concur with your opinions (as written in your above post).
If you avoid that, then you have my utmost respect, regardless of your views.
respectfully from Asia,
One of my sons has a significant amount of education (and experience considering his age) in the area of international relations and security and is as well read and conservative as anyone around. I would love to run your opinions by him and see what he thinks as well as to do some additional research myself.
What I know about North Korea is only what I have only read on conservative boards and in occasional articles, so I am interested in learning more.
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