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President GW Bush is a GREAT man and GREAT President!!!!

Great Presidents have the ability to communicate and to inspire America. That is how Ronald Reagan transformed an America curled up in the fetal position after Jimmy Carter into to the future "Hyper-power" that America became and was up until two years or three years ago.

Bush has failed miserably as a communicator.

Lincoln's list of military disasters, one on the heels of the other, (First Bull Run, The Seven Days, Second Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg) literally fill entire history books. Yet, Lincoln had the leadership qualities to communicate to the nation why final victory must be achieved.

From Katrina to Iraq, Bush has allowed the Democrat Copperheads to falsely communicate to the nation that he has utterly failed and Bush has done very little to defend himself.

I live in an extremely liberal town on the Left Coast and, after Katrina, a liberal coworker started going off on how Bush had totally failed during Katrina. I calmly explained to her about storm surge phenomenon, about New Orleans being under sea level, about the levees being rated to withstand a Category 3 storm, about Katrina being predicted as a Category 5 storm, about the Southern Louisiana Evacuation Plan and how that plan was totally ignored by the Democrat Mayor of New Orleans and the Democrat Governor of Louisiana leaving tens of thousands of low income people stranded in a death trap as hundreds of buses stayed parked in neat rows instead of being used as the Evacuation Plan stated they should be used.

Three days later, my liberal coworker stated she had Googled the issue on the Internet, thanked me for the information, stated that I had opened up her eyes to the truth of the matter and stated that what those Democrats had dome was inexcusable. .

Communicating the truth about Katrina to the American public about Katrina was not my job.

It was the President's job.

However, George W. Bush has yet to do that communicating and it has being his failure to do so in regards to Katrina and in regards to the strategic disaster that an Iraq bug-out will bring that has now given us a Democrat Congress and a demoralized Home Front that may very well lose America a strategecally vital war that, by any historical standard, has already been won.

You may be "the President's best friend" but my Number One loyalty is not to Bush or to any President. My Number One loyalty is to America and Bush's pathetic job in using the Bully Pulpit to inspire and lead America as Lincoln and Reagan did has cost America dearly.

President GW Bush is a GREAT man and GREAT President!!!! Great Presidents have the ability to communicate and to inspire America. That is how Ronald Reagan transformed an America curled up in the fetal position after Jimmy Carter into to the future "Hyper-power" that America became and was up until two years or three years ago.

Bush has failed miserably as a communicator.

Lincoln's list of military disasters, one on the heels of the other, (First Bull Run, The Seven Days, Second Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg) literally fill entire history books. Yet, Lincoln had the leadership qualities to communicate to the nation why final victory must be achieved.

From Katrina to Iraq, Bush has allowed the Democrat Copperheads to falsely communicate to the nation that he has utterly failed and Bush has done very little to defend himself.

I live in an extremely liberal town on the Left Coast and, after Katrina, a liberal coworker started going off on how Bush had totally failed during Katrina. I calmly explained to her about storm surge phenomenon, about New Orleans being under sea level, about the levees being rated to withstand a Category 3 storm, about Katrina being predicted as a Category 5 storm, about the Southern Louisiana Evacuation Plan and how that plan was totally ignored by the Democrat Mayor of New Orleans and the Democrat Governor of Louisiana leaving tens of thousands of low income people stranded in a death trap as hundreds of buses stayed parked in neat rows instead of being used as the Evacuation Plan stated they should be used.

Three days later, my liberal coworker stated she had Googled the issue on the Internet, thanked me for the information, stated that I had opened up her eyes to the truth of the matter and stated that what those Democrats had dome was inexcusable. .

Communicating the truth about Katrina to the American public about Katrina was not my job.

It was the President's job.

However, George W. Bush has yet to do that communicating and it has being his failure to do so in regards to Katrina and in regards to the strategic disaster that an Iraq bug-out will bring that has now given us a Democrat Congress and a demoralized Home Front that may very well lose America a strategecally vital war that, by any historical standard, has already been won.

You may be "the President's best friend" but my Number One loyalty is not to Bush or to any President. My Number One loyalty is to America and Bush's pathetic job in using the Bully Pulpit to inspire and lead America as Lincoln and Reagan did has cost America dearly

Wise words that should be shouted from the rooftop, or at least in the direction of Karl Rove's fax machine.

Well said FRiend, and as someone who voted for GWB twice, my loyalty is not to any one man who may achieve the Office of President, it is to the Constitution of the United States, and our Republic (what's left of it).

What I see happening here on FR (which IS a microcosm of the political universe) is that there is too much emphasis on the personalities of various candidates, too much fawning and accolades about what a 'wonderful inspiring LEADER' so-and-so is, how they 'rose to the occasion' and 'inspired' everybody, blah-blah-blah, and what people do not seem to remember is that it is that very kind of idol worship and self-generated fixation which can (and has throughout history) result in the establishment of a truly fascist leader, one who has no need of the 'law', because they are a law unto themselves, the adulation of the masses empowers them to act on their own authority, and to dispense with pesky legalities and just "make the trains run on time" like il Duce did in Italy.

I happen to support Duncan Hunter for President. I support him not because he gives a real barn burner of a speech, not because he's got a wardrobe right out of GQ, not because he is so polished that he just gleams like a diamond by the standards of our pop culture and empty-headed media, I support him because I believe that of all the candidates, he is the one who will uphold our Constitution, defend our Nation, and will not compromise with what the Law requires of his Office.

He might not get the nomination, and if he does, he might not win the Presidency. But to compromise my own principles and values on the altar of expediency, just for the sake of the political equivalent of the Raiders' Al Davis philosophy "just win baby!", is nothing but a hollow 'victory' and one which will lead to our own continued national destruction.

I once heard a preacher talk about 'how' we are saved by Christ, and he said it was 'The Blood, The Blood, and nothing BUT The Blood' of Jesus upon the Cross, and there is a political parallel which we ought to be applying in this electoral cycle which is 'It is the Constitution, the Constitution, and nothing BUT the Constitution, and the candidate we support should be the one who is most likely to uphold it, not someone the MSM annoints as the 'flavor of the week-month-year'.