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Miss Me Yet? The Freedom Agenda After George W. Bush
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 04-24-10 | BARI WEISS

Posted on 04/23/2010 4:06:46 PM PDT by GOP_Lady

Dissidents in the world's most oppressive countries aren't feeling the love from President Obama.

No one seems to know precisely who is behind the "Miss Me Yet?" billboard—the cheeky one featuring a grinning George W. Bush that looks out over I-35 near Wyoming, Minn. But Syrian dissident Ahed Al-Hendi sympathizes with the thought.

In 2006, Mr. Hendi was browsing pro-democracy Web sites in a Damascus Internet café when plainclothes cops carrying automatic guns swooped in, cuffed him, and threw him into the trunk of a car. He spent over a month in prison, some of it alone in a 5-by-3 windowless basement cell where he listened to his friend being tortured in the one next door. Those screams, he says, were cold comfort—at least he knew his friend hadn't been killed.

Mr. Hendi was one of the lucky ones: He's now living in Maryland as a political refugee where he works for an organization called Cyberdissidents.org. And this past Monday, he joined other international dissidents at a conference sponsored by the Bush Institute at Southern Methodist University to discuss the way digital tools can be used to resist repressive regimes.

He also got to meet the 43rd president. In a private breakfast hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Bush, Mr. Hendi's message to the former president was simple: "We miss you." There have been "a lot of changes" under the current administration, he added, and not for the better.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agenda; bush; bush43; bushlegacy; freedom; gwb; missmeyet; obama; president; presidentbush; presidentgeorgewbush; presidents; rino; wsj
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To: ohioWfan

He started it.


521 posted on 04/28/2010 2:53:55 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Deb
Laz always starts it.
522 posted on 04/28/2010 2:54:31 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: ohioWfan

Nu uhh. I do not.


523 posted on 04/28/2010 3:03:17 PM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: Deb; Lazamataz

Hey, that’s supposed to be MY line!


524 posted on 04/28/2010 3:08:34 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: onyx

(its better to humor him)


525 posted on 04/28/2010 3:10:34 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Lazamataz

Are you two timin’ Laz?


526 posted on 04/28/2010 3:21:07 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: onyx; ohioWfan; Deb; Lazamataz
Mercifully, I see the troll is home in the Land of Zot.

That is one little creep I won't miss. I had to smack that one down a few weeks ago. No integrity whatsoever...was blatantly making things up to support his/her agenda and generally stirring up trouble. That troll was not a conservative at all.

527 posted on 04/28/2010 3:52:24 PM PDT by Allegra (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: Allegra; onyx
Oh, exactly, Allegra. Completely lacking in integrity, and making things up out of whole cloth.

NOT ONE OF US!

528 posted on 04/28/2010 3:56:52 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: Allegra; ohioWfan; Deb; Lazamataz

LOL. Right. Just another malcontent stooge, sleeping in Zotland now.


529 posted on 04/28/2010 3:57:18 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: onyx
And I hope he's getting beaten up (verbally, that is) by the PUNKS who put him up to this with their "truth file."

There's a whole lotta guilty, creepy people involved here, and the only one gone is the dense one.

530 posted on 04/28/2010 4:00:22 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: dsutah; ohioWfan; onyx; Deb
“I’m just wondering who “Favor Center” supports?”

Favor Center was quite active and worshipful on the Ron Paul threads a couple of months ago.

He/She/It got quite nasty with me when I said I didn't like Ron Paul.

I think he/she/it went lower profile on that more recently when a couple of other banned Paul retreads got busted here.

531 posted on 04/28/2010 4:02:54 PM PDT by Allegra (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: Allegra; dsutah; onyx; Deb
onyx pegged him as a retread. I'm thinking she's right about that.

And most likely a Paulite. I think a lot of them have lower IQ's. ;)

532 posted on 04/28/2010 4:05:41 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: Allegra

Ah. It all adds up now.


533 posted on 04/28/2010 4:06:08 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: ohioWfan

‘....I’m proud of my continued support of this man of integrity, character, courage and patriotism, and will never allow a name-calling leftist or angry con intimidate me.’

DITTO and AMEN!!


534 posted on 04/28/2010 8:25:20 PM PDT by 4integrity
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To: ohioWfan; Favor Center; mkjessup; stephenjohnbanker; Jim Robinson
They make me mad, and sometimes I cross a line I shouldn't cross.

You just did.

You said mean things about me and didn't ping me.

As for the alleged "truth file," if there is one, this is the first time I've heard about it, though your posting history here on FR is very much a public record.

535 posted on 04/28/2010 8:58:36 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: rabscuttle385; onyx; Allegra; STARWISE; Deb; Chunga
Have a nice life, rabs.

Just remember my promise that if you pull any of the filthy tricks you've pulled on me in the recent past, I will not respond publicly, but will report you to the proper authorities.......something I should have done months ago.

The gig is up. Your unethical game has been exposed by one of your buddies, now banned (who pinged you here to help him attack me). I don't care where you got your ancient posts of mine, nor who compiled this "truth file" that you clearly have used in your random, personal vendetta of yours.

So good bye. You won't hear from me again, unless it's on a thread about an issue, and even then I will avoid any contact with you if at all possible.

If you post back to me here, I'll be gone.

536 posted on 04/28/2010 9:21:03 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: 4integrity

:)


537 posted on 04/29/2010 7:30:57 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: ohioWfan

thanks for the ping -

and yes, those trolls can get you down....I get b**ch slapped whenever I stand up for Mitt, so I find it easier to pick on John F’n Kerry again (did I mention he went to Viet Nam?)....NOBODY stands up for HIM! :)

Can’t wait for Laura Bush’s book ...next month??


538 posted on 04/29/2010 10:52:19 PM PDT by bitt ("WE THE PEOPLE" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE)
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To: Favor Center; All
IN a sense I sympathize with those largely decent folks defending the Bush legacy.

They do so in reaction to the often intensive lamestream media's clownish attacks on him. (Many of us got suckered into defending him too.)

What his present fans need to do is take a step back and actually figure out what Bush did or did not do to promote conservative values. Not much. Usually counterproductive in fact.

They are defending Bush—in a spirit of defending someone from the neanderthal attacks he faced during his tenure in office.

But Bush needs to be evaluated objectively—his record not the person. When they do, they will realize that his administration was an abject failure for conservatism.

Really scary.

539 posted on 04/30/2010 8:21:21 AM PDT by eleni121 (For Jesus did not give us a timid spirit , but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
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