*Ping!*
Yeah, thank goodness his replacement is such a paragon of virtue, friend of liberty and defender of the constitution! Whew! We sure dodged that bullet, didn’t we?
Jeeze Rabs, dropping this nuke in the Bush-bots lap on Christmas Eve....you are too much... love the article,my thoughts exactly.
Quit your crying! Saddam never honored the surrender agreement and ended up getting his ass kicked! And rightfully so!
I’m 58 and GW has to be the worst Republican presidnet I can ever remember. This elitist snob snubbed his nose at the American public and said basically he didn’t care what they thought of illegal immigration and that he was going to proceed with amnesty. He also started a war based on false foreign interlligence on WMD, as stated by Colin Powell. His administration went on to blame Sadaam for obtaining uranium from Africa which turned out to be a lie. For exposing the truth Valerie Plain? and her husband were demonized. His administration kept the train wreck rolling with fomenting home loans to those that could not afford to pay them back. His expansion of big government spending is well documented. I got tired of holding my nose and voting for the lesser of two evils. I left the Republican party about 10 years ago. Maybe America will wake up with the marxist Obama in power. If illegal aliens are granted citizenship the voting base for the Democrats will be to much to overcome.
The main thing that GWB did badly was not countering the lies and invectives of the left during the last four years of his term. He considered the Presidency to be “above” that sort of thing. As a result they defined him and “his war” and convinced the ignorant to turn out the Repubs in 2006 and then they foisted this tragedy upon us in 2008. I admire GWB but he blew it on this one.
I’m open, slick (author). How would you fight terrorism?
It’s all well and good to chuck beer bottles from the safety of the peanut gallery, but a lot more difficult when you are down in the arena.
Keyboard warriors are so boring.
This is thin gruel for attacking GWB. Who is this clown?
From a legitimately arguable statement like
the "Department of Defense has become the most powerful force for freedom the world has ever seen."
Bovard extrapolates a bizarre conclusion that belief in the previous statement must also mean that
...if the government seized all of every citizen's paycheck...and used all the revenue to bankroll foreign military conquests, Americans would have absolute freedom.
And as the phrase goes, that's the kind of logic that isn't. Paleo-libertarians are despicable human beings; I'll take an avowed socialist over one anyday, because, news flash, paleo-libertarians aren't really interested in freedom. They hate their country too much for that.
GWB was, and is, a very principled man who placed country over self, over legacy. I miss him, and I thank God he was ours following 911.
Exactly wrong.
Precisely why faux conservatives are as they are.
There is not liberty for us in this world absent defense.
The pretentious braying sentimental nonsense of a world that simply ignores America and lets us live in peace is the anti-thesis of what we ought to be.
Thank you President Bush for your excellent American service.
I still love how Jesus told the pacifists and the anti Imperialists that the Roman Soldier was the one with the greatest faith in all of Israel.
priceless.
Just bow down before Ron Paul and everything will be just perfect!
What a fool the country turned out to be by rejecting such a magnificent all seeing, all knowing cult leader.
What escapes me, as much as you all hate the GOP, why do you remain in it?
For anyone unclear what this vomit is about:
The Campaign for Liberty was announced on June 12, 2008 as a way of continuing the grassroots support involved in Ron Paul’s 2008 presidential run, and corresponded with the suspension of that campaign. Paul formally announced during the Texas Republican Convention that he had created this new organization known as the Campaign for Liberty.
Obama is the husband. Dubya was the sperm donor.
Only in the minds of left wing lunatics and other assorted assholes.
Ya know, this is a bit harsh .-.. --- .-..
Most to be dreaded, but not always possible to avoid, as Jemmy had that pesky little matter with the British to deal with.
Madison was brilliant, yet he and the other Founders weren't perfect. Instituting an amendment process to the Constitution is evidence of their own realization that they were mere mortals who didn't possess a crystal ball to see into the future.
Dubya deserves censure on a number of things, (NCLB, prescription drugs, bailout #1) but in the WOT he took the fight to the enemy. An enemy that may very well acquire in the future the means to launch nukes or bio-weapons inside our borders.
I wonder if he were alive and POTUS on Sept 11, 2001 what Jemmy Madison would have done?
Post needs a barf alert.
Merry Christmas 385!
this is pathetic twaddle
Merry Christmas