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Laura Bush praises Obama, bemoans excessive partisanship
CNN ^ | 9-08-2009 | Zain Verjee

Posted on 09/09/2009 12:16:27 PM PDT by Route797

PARIS, France (CNN) -- Former first lady Laura Bush praised the performance of her husband's successor Monday, breaking with many Republicans in telling CNN that she thinks President Obama is doing a good job under tough circumstances.

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To: Route797
Soooo . . . CNN didn't give a crap what Laura Bush had to say while her husband was President. But all of a sudden, when her opinion fits their agenda . . . now they do care?

Is it any wonder?
101 posted on 09/09/2009 1:08:33 PM PDT by mentor2k
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To: Route797

She is smoking pot....sorry he is a commie


102 posted on 09/09/2009 1:12:15 PM PDT by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: Route797

Laura Bush: useful idiot.


103 posted on 09/09/2009 1:13:54 PM PDT by EverOnward
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To: the invisib1e hand

This is misleading propaganda......BS.

She said there is ‘a place’.....


104 posted on 09/09/2009 1:14:06 PM PDT by Freddd (Government run health care=paying more and being denied what we already have.)
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To: ichabod1
“You can’t blame Obama on W, I defy you to carry that argument”

You lose he singlehandedly drove off the Conservatives with his CONSTANT Great Religion remarks and hie Malingering compassionate Welcome Wagon style War,Border Agents jailed Amnesty and "See you at the Signing".

The Rats got the house in 06 and the Whitehouse in 08 Thanks Connecticut George W Maybe 10 Million sat out the elections Need More like his House for everyone?.

105 posted on 09/09/2009 1:15:12 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: eleni121

Check out the name on the post.

And then go QUESTION BUT VERIFY, The actual incident and quote.....it wasn’t in the united states, by the way...


106 posted on 09/09/2009 1:15:38 PM PDT by Freddd (Government run health care=paying more and being denied what we already have.)
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To: Cheetahcat

hie = His


107 posted on 09/09/2009 1:16:06 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: ZULU

“Truer words were never spoken.

Jorge el Segundo and Juan McCain were Obama’s secret weapons.”

They have too be on the DemocRats Payroll!


108 posted on 09/09/2009 1:19:43 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: rabscuttle385; ZULU; Impy; org.whodat; calcowgirl; spyone; dools007; mountainbunny; djsherin; ...
RE :”George W. Bush is “a RINO dog who kneecapped the Republican Party and sold conservatism down the river.

GWB was a disaster as president. I am now convinced, and I never thought I would conclude this, that GWB was worse than Clinton. In fact, Clinton is looking good now.

Not only didn't Bush secure the borders, but he left Afghanistan/Pakistan a mess too. Remember all that crap about invading Iraq to win the WOT? Afghanistan was the one job he was supposed to do as president and he screwed that up too (like Iraq before the surge and the economy and immigration,....)).

This is why I am wary of a Republican in power again. Why do we need republicans in power f...g everything up when democrats can do it AND they get the blame ? And forget most of talk radio if it ever a republican wins again, they are butt kissers.

It's nice now, democrats screw up and get the blame and everyone wants to call themselves conservative now.

109 posted on 09/09/2009 1:24:49 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Socialist Conservatives: "'Big government is free because tax cuts pay for it'")
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To: goodnesswins
"Bush indicated that she didn't think it was fair for Obama to be labeled a "socialist" by critics and expressed her disappointment with the intensely polarized nature of contemporary American politics."

Presuming that Laura, bless her heart, is sharing her husband's opinion, it explains a lot.

Evidently, GWB and his cohort in the Republican Party has always assumed that Democrats haven't changed since the fifties. They believed the US was still in "we might differ on the details, but both parties want what's best for America" and "politics stop at the water's edge" mode.

Alas, he didn't learn from his experience in Washington -- and he should've.

Accordingly, Laura is just being naive. Damn right, we've got a polarized electorate -- because half the country believes in America...and the other half believes in socialism.

110 posted on 09/09/2009 1:25:04 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: Route797

“...a lady of true dignity and civility...”

I disagree completely. Being mealy-mouthed is not dignity. Even her discouragement of the “Wanted Dead or Alive” slogan in the pursuit of Osama bin Laden was spineless.

The Tea Party people merit support not the Kenyan. Palin deserves support not the sneaker Queen Michelle. Laura should close her stinking mouth. The country is going down the tubes and she is serving cake and tea to our enemies.


111 posted on 09/09/2009 1:25:20 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: Jedidah

“The ignorance on this thread is just astounding. These people have obviously not even listened to the interview”

Good troll bait thread.


112 posted on 09/09/2009 1:27:05 PM PDT by 1035rep (The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.)
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To: Route797

Breaking News: Barbara Walters announced today that Laura Bush will join the “girls” on ABC’s “The View”. /worst nightmare


113 posted on 09/09/2009 1:28:34 PM PDT by fullchroma (Obama: GET OUT OF MY DOCTOR'S OFFICE!)
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To: Route797

My dad always told me that if I can’t say something true, keep my mouth shut.


114 posted on 09/09/2009 1:29:51 PM PDT by fullchroma (Obama: GET OUT OF MY DOCTOR'S OFFICE!)
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To: eleni121
how about some kind words for the Tea Party people instead?

I am afraid there will be no such words for patriots Mrs. Bush, GW, or any other Bush, Clinton, Carter, Obama, etc. The simple reason is that they are all members of the same club. And that is the club that intends to see to it that America is no more. Global elitests don't suffer patriots very well.

Anybody who doubts this can reflect back on GWB's description of the minutemen down on the border as "vigilantes".

115 posted on 09/09/2009 1:31:15 PM PDT by Ranger Drew
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To: sickoflibs

In 2004, I voted for the Constitution Party presidential candidate, Michael Peroutka, because Bush was too liberal and because I knew that Kerry would win easily win my state, Illinois. I agree with Bush about Iraq, but his budgets increased spending, too much, and he wanted to give amnesty to illegal aliens.


116 posted on 09/09/2009 1:32:46 PM PDT by PhilCollins
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To: sickoflibs
“GWB was a disaster as president. I am now convinced, and I never thought I would conclude this, that GWB was worse than Clinton. In fact, Clinton is looking good now.”

W did nothing right the Tax cuts were a covert payoff, he could have done an EO on the drilling and the carping over the Iraq Constitution ENOUGH !!!! Dam just give them one already written and say USE IT !!! Jailing Troops BS.. again I am not going into the Mexican Problem and the Muslims he Brought in and THE calling us Racists Bull crap!!!!! Liberal George Split the Party you see it here people defending the indefensible.

117 posted on 09/09/2009 1:35:26 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: 1035rep

See post #114.

Laura Bush should’ve simply said “I won’t comment on the current administration, period.”


118 posted on 09/09/2009 1:37:11 PM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: Route797

119 posted on 09/09/2009 1:42:42 PM PDT by dubie (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: sickoflibs
Bush DID give us Two conservative SCOTUS judges - one under duress.

He did take out the Taliban and keep us safe from future attacks. He did take out a dangerous lunatic in Iraq which was good.

But he screwed up a lot of other things in a way that indicates he is more of a Democrat than a conservative Republican.

He did NOTHING to stop the invasion of our borders by illegal aliens and sucked up to the Mexican government at every opportunity.

He did cut taxes, but raised domestic spending.

He inaugurated the bail out of failed corporations

He put incompetents in office :

Chrissie Whitman as head of the EPA
Tom Kean as head of the 9/11 Commission
Alberto Gonzales to replace Ashcroft who was a good Attorney General
He made Tom “The Meathead” Ridge head of Homeland Security
He put an unqualified friend in as head of FEMA
He CREATED an unnecessary department which could later be abused by an administration like this one - Homeland Security
He tried to support that idiotic deal to have some Arab State run port security
He got us embroiled in two no-win nation building experiments in Afghanistan and Iraq

So what do we have now with a DEMOCRAT in power??

A HOST incompetent boobs as heads of the various Departments
A President who wants to tax us even more - and in many more ways.
Over thirty “czars” who intrude in every aspect of our public and private lives, selected with no Congressional oversight or inquiry into their backgrounds or qualifications
Bail out programs that exceed many times over what Bush had spent
A three trillion dollar “Stimulus Bill” which did nothing except paid Democrat pockets
A man who has disgraced America time and again overseas
A President who support Communist Dictators
An administration which is determined to euthanize elderly and disabled Americans and provide health benefits they paid for to illegal aliens who never paid anything.
An Administration which seeks to undermine the First and Second Amendments and never read the Tenth
A Muslim
A racist

What we need is a group of conservatives to actively take over the GOP from within and expel the Chrissie Whitmans, the Tom Keans, the Lindsey Grahams, the Olympia Snowes, the Susan Collinses, the Arlen Spectors, the John McCains and put real Republican Conservatives back in control of the party as under Ronald Reagan.

120 posted on 09/09/2009 1:44:23 PM PDT by ZULU (God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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