McCain: 'these are harsh times'

CNN ^ | 2010-10-26

[FloridaSunrise]

My understanding was the George W. Bush was President of the United States, and John McCain was just one of 100 Senators.

Are you pretending that John McCain was more powerful than Bush?

[Loyal Buckeye]

It will McCain full time on the Sunday talk shows, post-election.

[csmusaret]

If McCain had stayed on the campaign trail instead of rushing back to Washington to “save the country with his savvy, experience, and leadership” and instead joining in the dithering and hand wringing, he might have won anyway. But no, instead of being a catalyst for change, he proved that he was part of the problem and definitely not the solution the voters were looking for.

[FloridaSunrise]

Let’s agree that McCain and GWB are both a couple of turkeys.

[csmusaret]

I am forever grateful that Bush prevented Presidents Gore and Kerry. I thank McCain for his military service but piss on his political career.

[sport]

I will with you on McCain, but on Bush, we part company.Bush may have his faults, but, he has not publically insulted me because I do not and did not go along with his amnesty for illegals.

[csmusaret]

Can we lay to rest this fallacy that Bush was some extravagent spender? Look at the trend line on the annual deficits in this chart. They were declining steadily until the Pelosi/Reid Cartel took over Congress. Also, as a percentage of GDP, Bush's average annual deficit was smaller than Reagan's or Bush the Elder's.

[FloridaSunrise]

Are you forever grateful that Bush gave us President Obama?

[csmusaret]

I am forever grateful that Bush Bashers are becoming fewer in number and less vocal. Now if we could only convince you that Bush was not on the ballot in 2008 but McCain was. Bush didn’t give us Obama, his detractors did. It was the constant drumbeat of anti Bush rhetoric from the Pelosi/Reid/Media cartel, coupled with the sour grape sucking criticism from fair weather Republicans (ably assisted by John McCain I might add) that gave us Barack Hussein Obama, and it is high time all the remaining BDS sufferers realized that.

[rabscuttle385]

and it is high time all the remaining BDS sufferers realized that.

It isn't BDS to point out that Bush signed both the first economic stimulus as well as the notorious TARP legislation into law.

It isn't BDS to point out that Bush presided over the GSE takeovers, as well as the nationalization of GM and of AIG.

Bush's economy was a fraud built on loose credit and financial chicanery. And as for Bush's actions, they were nothing short of straight-up Marxism.

But hey, at least in 2012 we might get to play fifty-two-card economic pickup without the two jokers: Bush and Obama.

[csmusaret]

We have a real time enemy right here in the here and now who is dismantling this nation. I personally have little patience for people who want to live in the past and dwell on the negative aspects of an eight year Presidency. So what if Bush wasn’t perfect, he was better than the alternative and harping on his shortcomings won’t change the past or help the future. I find it especially ridiculous
to say that Bush gave us Obama considering we ran such a flawed candidate. I don’t think Bush was a great President, but I quit bitching about him long ago. The people who continue to blame him for everything from Obama to dandruff sound just like Obama, Biden and the rest of the Dems. It is long past time to move on from the last fight and get focused on the current battle. Failure to do so is indeed BDS.

[rabscuttle385]

We have a real time enemy right here in the here and now who is dismantling this nation.

An enemy is an enemy is an enemy.

The sad part about folks like yourself is that enemies are only real when they're Democrats.

The people who continue to blame him for everything from Obama to dandruff sound just like Obama, Biden and the rest of the Dems.

I'm not blaming him for dandruff.

I do fault Bush's incompetence as one of many reasons that led up to Obama's coronation.

[csmusaret]

The sad part about folks like yourself is that enemies are only real when they’re Democrats.
No enemies are only real when they are still in the fight.

I do fault Bush’s incompetence as one of many reasons that led up to Obama’s coronation.
Well you are just wrong about that.

The Democrats do more than enough Bush bashing. I can’t for the life of me understand why any Republican or Conservative thinks they are doing anything positive by joining in the piling on. Fortunately the urge to kick Bush while he is gone seems to be diminishing among rational people.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”I am forever grateful that Bush Bashers are becoming fewer in number and less vocal. Now if we could only convince you that Bush was not on the ballot in 2008 but McCain was. Bush didn’t give us Obama, his detractors did. It was the constant drumbeat of anti Bush rhetoric from the Pelosi/Reid/Media cartel, coupled with the sour grape sucking criticism from fair weather Republicans (ably assisted by John McCain I might add) that gave us Barack Hussein Obama, and it is high time all the remaining BDS sufferers realized that.”

GWBush is Republican’s Jimmy Carter.

A big reason why Democrats are finally going to get crushed next week is because Bush is gone and staying out of sight till after the election(thank you President Bush) . Bush gave Dems 2006, he gave them 2008 (with McCain's help) and he gave Obama lots of excuses after that. If you cant understand why GWB was a disaster you have learned nothing from a long painful disaster. Bush was a liberal/progressive like Obama, and Obama is GWBush chapter 2.

Please move on from your hero worship of him for your own sake and sanity.

[Pelham]

Thank you for sharing that bit of concentrated idiocy with the rest of us.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Don’t forget GWB’s SEC changing the leverage rules in 2004 so that the big Wall Street firms could gamble to their hearts’ content.

We really need to do our damndest to elect a POTUS in 2012 who doesn’t believe in “Too Big to Fail.” That’s easier said than done though. Obama would not be POTUS now without Wall Street money, but if not Obama, their money would have gone to Hillary.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Don’t forget GWB’s SEC changing the leverage rules in 2004 so that the big Wall Street firms could gamble to their hearts’ content.”

And Bush probably thought this was a good thing, and when the housing bubble was expanding he thought he found the Philosophers Stone : the secret of 'Money for Nothing' that no-one else could find. By the time he realized he helped revive the Frankenstein monster he decided to go into damage control, to spend his way out of a political disaster. It didnt work, surprise.

[genetic homophobe]

I readily admit I chucked aside my free market principles to save the free market.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

But in one way, Obama is worse. As Charles Gasparino wrote in Bought and Paid For,

"Bush never proclaimed himself to be the president of change, to be the leader who would set the greed merchants on Wall Street straight, even while he all but promised to make them rich. That distiction belongs to Barack Obama alone."

[sickoflibs]

RE :”But in one way, Obama is worse. As Charles Gasparino wrote in Bought and Paid For, “Bush never proclaimed himself to be the president of change, to be the leader who would set the greed merchants on Wall Street straight, even while he all but promised to make them rich. That distiction belongs to Barack Obama alone.”

But it was Bush that made all that Obama crap sell in 2008+ early 2009. "A new beginning ..Bla-Bla-Bla" when it was the same plan as the last guy. Notice that THIS CRAP isnt selling anymore without Bush or McCain in the WH?

Those two RINOs are the termites, Obama/Pelosi are the noisy woodpeckers. The Woodpecker provides a nice noisy target to rally against and personalize, on the other hand the termites destroy the house from within quietly till it collapses.

Of course Obama looks/sounds worse, he's a liberal Democrat, he is supposed to sound that way.