Things I don’t miss about George W. Bush, By Michelle Malkin • February 9, 2010
"See you at the signing" (GWB 2007 after reaching an immigration deal with Pelosi)
Posted on 06/08/2012 11:12:19 PM PDT by WilliamIII
George W. Bush has stepped out of the public eye since leaving office, but absence hasn't made the nation’s heart grow fonder.
The 43rd President of the United States is the most unpopular living former president, a CNN/ORC International poll has found, as only 43% of people surveyed said they had a favorable opinion of him and 54% viewed him unfavorably.
The negative rating puts Bush far behind his fellow living ex-Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Dubya’s father, George H.W. Bush.
Clinton nabbed a 66% favorable rating, Carter scored a 54% rating, and 59% of those polled said they had a positive view of Bush Sr.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
This is the difference between historical perspective and current events and is totally typical and equally meaningless as a real indicator.
In 1992 a similar survey was done and Ronald Reagan was ranked significantly below Jimmy Carter in approval (46% to 63%).
All this is is news filler and bird cage liner.
He will be remembered as the last guy with a chance to turn this country around and failed.
****He gave us the worst recession since the Great Depression.****
Go back and look at the last year of the Clinton Presidency. The economy was going great guns until March or April of 2000. Then the stockmarket went into freefall and Clinton did NOTHING to stop it.
Then in the first year of the Bush II presidency 9-11 again sent the stock market into freefall.
It was up and down after that as money to fight terrorist nations was sucked out of the economy as the idea to fight terrorists on their soil rather than our soil was in place.
Then in 2008, the Community Reinvestment Law, enacted by Jimmy Carter, came back to bite us in the butt causing another freefall in the market and the loss of much of my 401K.
There is that problem of Unintended consequences in everything enacted by congress into law.
***He played right into Osama’s hands with his Iraq decision. ***
Not necessarily. How many here remember that during the Iran-Iraq war that Saddam’s aircraft attacked US warships in the area.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/24/world/1985-iraqi-attack-on-us-ship-cited.html
Or Saddam’s attack on Kuwait cutting off the oil supplies, or his constant harassment of our warplanes in the No-Fly zone as we attempted to help the Iraqis get rid of him. I will say that our efforts were vastly unappreciated as the Iraqis prefer a dictator of their own kind more than a foreign power helping them.
Saddam Hussein was not a nice man. But compared to the alternatives he was best option. Christians had a much better life under Saddam than they do now. Saddam was an enemy of al-Qaeda and in protecting himself against them he was also serving American interests. Bush’s Iraq policy not only removed a roadblock to the expansion of al-Qaeda, it opened up a new recruitment area for terrorists and a new battleground for them to attack America. And a strong Iraq under Saddam was a check on Iran. The world would be a much better and safer place now had Bush not chosen to overextend our military and money on a counterproductive move into Iraq.
But Reagan was always almost universally revered by conservatives as a great president, Bush is not.
George W. Bush is no Ronald Reagan.
Did the article mention the IQ of the people polled?
Normal adults would call this dereliction of duty and a grotesque failure of leadership. You just made the case, in spades, for Bush's dismal rating.
Correct. The fact is that this dull-witted elitist Ivy Leaguer never figured out the simplest principle of Poli Sci 101: In politics, Appearance is Reality.
His biggest failure was one of judgment, accepting the pig-eyed Rove's position that attacks need not be answered. The results are what you see today.
As time passes, public opinion will improve regarding W. He faced a lot of unique challenges.
yeah, whatev. The rats aren’t responsible for wasting money?
The idea of NO COLA for 2 years is repulsive. There's ALWAYS a rise in the cost of living. Damn Dems...Then they have the nerve to give up 2% of SS for the last two years...and then say SS is in trouble both years.
Things I don’t miss about George W. Bush, By Michelle Malkin • February 9, 2010
"See you at the signing" (GWB 2007 after reaching an immigration deal with Pelosi)
Way to go Ms. USA! Another ‘selective’ conservative.
Bush Sr. wasn't that good on domestic affairs, but he managed winding down the Cold War very well. If his son had shown such competence, you might be right, but he didn't.
Santorum, like him or not, was never POTUS and certainly not a 2 term POTUS. He may have lost his Senate seat in 2006 but he didn't hand the country to a Obama POTUS and a Reid-Pelosi super-congress. He didn't leave the WH in 2008 with voters trusting Dems more than Rs on every-single issue including war and taxes. RS may have been a very bad POTUS, or maybe he will never be one, but he wasn't one.
I still remember Michelle Malkin hosting FNC(the Republican party Channel) The Factor on Fridays summer 2007 or 2008 until Rivera went on the show ON AIR and said he would spit in her face because she was a racist; and not one person on that channel defended her. Yet they kicked Glen Beck off of the channel with high ratings to put on the Dana PE-RINO show The Five. Republicans are infected by liberalism.
That is Obama's excuse. "Serious head winds."
I thought W was very good on foreign policy, toss up between him and H.W.
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