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Americans Are Starting to Miss President Bush
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| November 08, 2009
| Mark Whittington
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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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; bush43; fourth100days; georgewbush; nostalgia
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To: TaxPayer2000
Here's a pic of my desktop background...
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posted on
11/08/2009 11:42:07 AM PST
by
Kenton
To: Kenton
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posted on
11/08/2009 11:43:00 AM PST
by
TaxPayer2000
(The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government,)
To: Kenton
The answer is an unqualified “Yes!”
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posted on
11/08/2009 11:44:15 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom." --Charles Krauthammer)
To: TaxPayer2000
I'll belive it when I see it. So far, the liberals I know are solidly in denial. They urp out their threadbare talking points no matter how persuasive the evidence against them. They're going to have to experience a lot more discomfort on a personal level before they can think about questioning their position.
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posted on
11/08/2009 11:44:19 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: TaxPayer2000
Gosh, I never saw that coming! ; )
Well, I didn't see it coming this soon...
People are thinking faster in a faster society perhaps?
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posted on
11/08/2009 11:44:24 AM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: TaxPayer2000
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posted on
11/08/2009 11:44:29 AM PST
by
Boardwalk
To: Kenton
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posted on
11/08/2009 11:45:34 AM PST
by
Qwackertoo
(ACORN is going down, down, down~!!!! Finally~!!!!)
To: TaxPayer2000
SPOCK?!!! The man-child is SPOCK?!!! I don’t think so. He’s more like Charlie X.
To: TaxPayer2000
You have no idea how much nostalgia I’m having for 2002-2005 right now.
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posted on
11/08/2009 11:46:31 AM PST
by
VanDeKoik
(Iran doesnt have a 2nd admendment. Ya see how that turned out?)
To: Kenton
It’s almost like Obama is some sort of reptile just disguised as a human.
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posted on
11/08/2009 11:46:36 AM PST
by
The Duke
("Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Democrat Party?")
To: Steely Tom
the liberals I know are solidly in denialWhen it comes to liberals, that is dogma.
It's the fence riders that are seeing the light.
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posted on
11/08/2009 11:46:37 AM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: TaxPayer2000
Well, I for one miss even Clinton.
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posted on
11/08/2009 11:47:30 AM PST
by
mel
To: TaxPayer2000
I miss him, but I really, really, really miss PResident Reagan. :(
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posted on
11/08/2009 11:47:47 AM PST
by
EmilyGeiger
(The problem with socialism, is eventually you run out of other people's money. Margaret Thatcher)
To: TaxPayer2000
Starting???
I missed President Bush about five minutes into President Obama’s inaugural address...
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posted on
11/08/2009 11:48:53 AM PST
by
GreenLanternCorps
("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
To: All; Qwackertoo
I miss him. :( To those who admit it and to those who don't, we ALL miss him today.
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posted on
11/08/2009 11:49:29 AM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: The Duke
It’s almost like Obama is some sort of reptile just disguised as a human. He's a puppet disguised as a president.
To: Slings and Arrows
Not only ‘Yes’, but YES!, YES!, YES!!!!!!!
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posted on
11/08/2009 11:49:46 AM PST
by
T Lady
(The MSM: Pravda West)
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To: TaxPayer2000
Yes I Do!!
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posted on
11/08/2009 11:50:02 AM PST
by
armymarinemom
(My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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