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Rethinking George Bush?
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| September 16, 2010
| Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 09/16/2010 5:06:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
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posted on
09/16/2010 5:06:44 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
This is fine, as far as it goes. I voted for Bush twice, I don't regret it, and I don't engage in Bush bashing.
But the Republican Party needs to be remade and, frankly, the next iteration should have no room for people like Bush.
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posted on
09/16/2010 5:13:53 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Things will change after the revolution, but not before.)
To: Kaslin
Bush is old school in that the President goes home and acts as like a President. Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson. Nixon, Reagan and Bush all acted this way. They supported the office holder because they know the difficulties of the office. There is a story that Eisenhower was at the Kennedy White House for an event. He quietly walked with JFK and schooled him on his fiasco on his handling of th Bay of Pigs invasion. Result, a different Kennedy during the Cuban missile crises.
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posted on
09/16/2010 5:15:24 AM PDT
by
11th Commandment
(http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
09/16/2010 5:15:33 AM PDT
by
cantfindagoodscreenname
(I really hate not knowing what was said in the deleted posts....)
To: Kaslin
I think the rise in Bushs’ poll numbers may be connected to the “blame Bush” mantra of the left. Americans are tired of it and the more Democrats do it, the worse they look and the higher Bushs’ poll numbers rise.
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posted on
09/16/2010 5:15:48 AM PDT
by
beckysueb
To: Kaslin
Excellent, Kaslin!! Thank you!
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posted on
09/16/2010 5:19:21 AM PDT
by
dmd25
To: ClearCase_guy
I agree, no room for compassionate conservatives or semi-Progressives.
I’m from Texas and have been a critic of the Bushs for some time.
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posted on
09/16/2010 5:19:33 AM PDT
by
wolfcreek
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
To: Kaslin; calcowgirl; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; genetic homophobe; ..
RE :”
In comparison to Obama and his gaffes, Bush no longer seems the singular clod whom his opponents endlessly ridiculed. The supposedly mellifluent Obama relies on the teleprompter as if it were his umbilical cord. His occasional word mangling (he pronounced “corpsman” as “corpse-man”) and weird outbursts (he recently complained that opponents “talk about me like a dog”) remind us that the pressures of the presidency can make a leader sometimes seem silly. Bush now seems cool because he has played it cool. “
Great, just what we need to de-motivate anti-democrat voters, more Bush cool-aid. Bush is not drawing fire anymore because he has disappeared, much to democrats regret. Recently they have been praising him (even on MSNBC) and asking him to come out and defend Obama on the ground zero Mosque issue, and I appreciate that he has not went for their bait. I always said, Democrats cannot survive without Bush.
I will always remember one of his last acts:
Transcript: President Bush on Auto-Industry Bailout December 19, 2008 | FOXNews.com
and Summary of President Bush's Bailout Plan for Auto Companies : Dec 22 2008
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posted on
09/16/2010 5:25:13 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
To: Kaslin
During the six years Bush had a republican Congress, unemployment was near historic lows and the economy was strong. During the nearly two years Obama has had a democrat Congress, unemployment is high and the economy is sick.
There is some symmetry there, and people are starting to recognize it.
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posted on
09/16/2010 5:26:40 AM PDT
by
Cracker Jack
(If it weren't for the democrats, republicans would be the worst thing in Washington.)
To: dmd25
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posted on
09/16/2010 5:27:40 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: Cracker Jack
It’s because they are waking up and are seeing the light
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posted on
09/16/2010 5:29:12 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: ClearCase_guy
I guess you prefer people like the lazy arrogant pos who currently resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
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posted on
09/16/2010 5:34:47 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: Deb
We now better remember the Bush at Ground Zero with a megaphone and his arm around a fireman ...VDH reflects on W ping.
To: Kaslin
That's uncalled for.
I don't like massive spending. I don't like compassionate politicians who feel called upon to solve every problem -- with my money.
I like George Bush a heck of a lot more than I like Obama.
Saying that George Bush is not my ideal of what a perfect Republican ought to look like is hardly an endorsement of the Kenyan usurper. Give me a break.
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posted on
09/16/2010 5:37:52 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Things will change after the revolution, but not before.)
To: Kaslin
Writing novels or making documentaries about killing the president, or libeling him as a Nazi, is not the sort of politics that we want continued during the Obama years. Says who? ;-)
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posted on
09/16/2010 5:40:09 AM PDT
by
glorgau
To: ClearCase_guy
<< This is fine, as far as it goes. I voted for Bush twice, I don’t regret it, and I don’t engage in Bush bashing. But the Republican Party needs to be remade and, frankly, the next iteration should have no room for people like Bush. >>
And that’s not bashing Bush?
To: Cracker Jack
Bush gets the blame for obama’s ecomonic mess, but I think it started when Reid, Pelousy and the dims took over congress and the budget. I need to research US economic performance charts and graphs to see if that’s the case.
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posted on
09/16/2010 5:45:47 AM PDT
by
GBA
(No. Try not. Do...or do not. There is no try.)
To: Kaslin
The hype being peddled by the MSM now is so radical and over the top that it has lost its credibility. Bush’s incompetence was as much a manufactured myth as was Obama’s brilliance. In the selling of Obama, a mysterious, hateful radical with an obscure history and total lack of qualifications, the image builders/destroyers have shown their true colors, and the public is paying less and less attention to them.
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posted on
09/16/2010 5:47:14 AM PDT
by
Spok
(Free Range Republican)
To: ClearCase_guy
no room for people like Bush. I think there should always be room for decency, kindness, perseverance, loyalty, patriotism, integrity ...
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posted on
09/16/2010 5:47:33 AM PDT
by
patriciaruth
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
To: Kaslin
Trying to ‘feel better’ by rekindling Bush memories against Obama realities is a DOWNER not an UPPER.
I voted for Bush twice, but he led the country into a train-wreck allowing the socialists to come in and ransack the country.
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posted on
09/16/2010 5:48:17 AM PDT
by
LibFreeUSA
(Show me what Obama brought that was new and there you will find things only radical and destructive.)
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