..Bush: "..now this is called a door, you use it to git inside"
Posted on 11/08/2009 11:39:08 AM PST by TaxPayer2000
Obama 'Cold' and 'Bloodless' The UK Telegraph has a remarkable story from America about a new trend that, so far, seems to be going unreported in the American media. Americans, turned off by President Obama's cold demeanor, are missing George W. Bush.
"In a sign that the Obama honeymoon truly is over, I began to hear this week the first stirrings of a wistfulness about Mr Bush. 'I never thought I'd hear myself say it,' one Democrat told me. 'But Obama makes you feel that at least with Bush you knew where he was on Americans Are Starting to Miss President Bush something.'"
The Telegraph piece cites, among other things, President Obama's relatively cold public reaction to the Fort Hood Massacre in which a Muslim soldier took the lives of at least thirteen of his fellow soldiers and wounded thirty. It is noted that President Bush felt very deeply the deaths of servicemen and women in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Indeed, former President Bush and his wife Laura paid a private visit to Fort Hood to meet with the wounded and the bereaved. President Obama has yet to visit Fort Hood, though he is scheduled to be at a memorial service on Tuesday.
A year since Barack Obama was elected on a wellspring of "hope and change" there seems to have developed a yearning for a President who can feel, who actually has emotions. In a way Americans exchanged a President like Captain Kirk for one like Mr. Spock and do not very much like it.
The nostalgia for President Bush has even manifested itself in a poster and bumper sticker that shows a smiling Bush with the caption, "Miss Me Yet?"
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I missed him from day one too. I remember hearing Mark Levin say that President Bush signed so much of the spending bills because it was the only way he could get the budget he needed for the military. So, apparently, Congress tucked military spending monies into other bills, just as they’ve done recently.
Obama is a cold-hearted snake! Cool and calm? How about cold and calculating?
But he never even hinted that he wanted to change the fundamental path of this country. While he was in office I don't recall citizens actively talking of armed revolt or succession.
-10nobama, I shout Rush's mantra,
I HOPE YOU FAIL!
Miserably.
I hope you FAIL so completely that Americans will never even think about electing another socialist/fascist/communist.
I was thinking more like "Q". Malicious mischief, haughty condescension, elusiveness, etc. Yep. He's "Q."
No.
He’s Tom Marvolo Riddle.
Sorry, but he was a Tax-n-Spend democrat, plain and simple. Was he better than the alternatives? Sure. But a conservative he wasn’t!
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..Bush: "..now this is called a door, you use it to git inside"
At this point, I am begining to miss the rather benign and bucolic Jimmy Carter....
At least Jimmy had been a military officer and was somewhat versed in the application of nuclear power, so far as it applied to propulsion of naval vessels.
But rather like Resident (Pres_ent) Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., or Barry Soetoro, or Mr Michelle Robinson, or Sock-Puppet, not a clear understanding of what constitutes the “best interests” of the United States.
Jimmy just wanted to “make nice” to the more radical brand of Islamic jihadists.
Obama considers himself to be a “sleeper agent” for Islamic jihadists.
Even if he doesn’t, I do.
True that. He was spot on with the war on terror (no foreign contigency or whatever the h*ll they call it now). He made the mistake of trying to get the MSM and liberals to like him. He also didn't want to be known as the president who let GM and the banks fail so we got TARP. Hussain just expanded on that. Goes to show that once you let the statist to get a foot in the door you're screwed.
He still helped create Dept of Homeland Security though, and I think that will go down as a H U G E mistake.
There was no need for yet another intrusive government organization to grab power.
The sad thing is, Obama is making Bush spending look minor in comparison.
I did not agree with President Bush on several policies--most notably, NCLB. (No Child Left Behind) But, he and Mrs. Bush always seemed to me to be very decent people and ever mindful of the great responsibilities they bore.
A stark contrast to the current WH occupants.
insane...I don’t miss him at all. In fact he was the major factor in empowering Obama to do what he is doing now.
Bush was an idiot and a horrible President and we are now paying dearly for his continued mis-steps on practically EVERYTHING.
He will go down in history for having on the dumbest comments ever made by a politician:
We had to abandon the principles of the free-markets to save the free-markets.
Yeah...he pretty much paved the way for Obama to destroy this country.
At least this one is good looking even if she is a lizard...
Yea, I miss Bush.
With Bush, or a Bush-like neo-con RINO, we would have taken 5 or 10 years to get to the point Obama has taken us in less than a year.
I miss the languid pace of RINO socialism.
"It's one of the hallmarks of psychopaths to not being able to show empathy. They can mimic feelings but have no idea what they are. Hence Obama's performance. Bertie on November 08, 2009 at 07:57 PM"
I love it!
Starting to miss him?...I missed him the same day he left!
Was he better than the alternatives? Sure. But a conservative he wasn’t!
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