Posted on 05/31/2012 7:38:41 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
John Bolton, Mr Bush's ambassador to the United Nations, said it would not be helpful for the Republicans to more vigorously defend the former president's record, which Democrats have sharply criticised.
Mr Bolton urged Mitt Romney, the party's nominee to face Mr Obama in November, to focus on the future and resist arguing over whether their last president left behind "a big mess or a little mess".
His remarks came as Mr Bush prepared to return to the White House for only the second time since leaving office in January 2009, for the unveiling of his official portrait.
"I think people would agree with Obama that he was left with a mess," Mr Bolton told The Daily Telegraph.
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They may have to dedicate the Fraud’s “official portrait” while he still occupies the White Hut.
Regardless, he's made it a worse mess.
Just wondering....does anyone ever ponder how bad things could have been under Presidents Gore or Kerry?
And US voters will have realized Obama the problem-solver is triple, no ten times, worse.
This is a question better saved for historians... Did GWB leave a bigger mess for BHO than BHO left for Romney? It will be a no brainer. But for now, focus on replacing BHO.
The media successfully “borked” W. W certainly didn’t help himself on many issues. If I were a strategist trying to have Bush help on the campaign trail, I’d keep him to solidly red states and military bases.
As much as I hate it, everywhere else he is a reminder of why people voted for “hope and change” in the first place.
George Bush was a failed President.
As far as I’m concerned, it was al Qaeda that left us the mess. REMEMBER 9-11!
with a little help from the media, of course.
I think Bolton would agree that the mess Bush left had it’s roots in the Clinton intelligence services firewalls and the Clinton era Frank/Dodd houses for louses programs.
The housing and financial mess happened under Bush, but were caused by Democrats in Fannie, Freddie, HUD, Justice snd for the last 2 years in the House and Senate. Bush expressed concern, but Barney Frank famously said “There is nothing wrong with Fannie and Freddie”.
Remember, that the Democrats had both Houses the last two years of the Bush presidency and they were hell bent to sabotage anything good coming from the WH. The anti-Bush hype and vitriolic attacks designed to take him down were at a crescendo during those years.
I too think history will be kinder to W. than many of us now are willing to be and trying to run a campaign as an apologist for the Bush administration would be a very bad idea. This campaign has to be about the future. With Romney we may have one, with obama we won't.
Is Obama going to sign Bush’s portrait? He has graffitied everything else, shuck n’ jive tinhorn that he is.
Our foreign policy mess today is the product of three poor jobs done by Clinton, Bush and Obama.
He will be vilified by history as the last guy who had a chance to prevent the collapse of the US but chose to punt.
Excellent analogy.
But it was the GOP that passed prescription coverage, expanded Medicare and Medicaide and eneacted No Child Left Behind. They also spent like drunk sailors in a whore house and Bush signed all the checks.
Romney needs distance between him and W. If W ever shows his face on the campaign trail it will cost Romney votes every time. As much as I like and admire George W Bush on a personal level I think his presidency was by and large a failure and a disappointment.
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