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George W. 'Deer in Headlights' Bush
The American Thinker ^ | Larrey Anderson

Posted on 12/28/2008 9:03:52 AM PST by wgflyer

admire President Bush. I think he is a good man and I have said so before. But as Bush leaves office he is looking more and more like a deer in headlights....

...A sound education, a clear and steady mind, real world experience, a moral compass, the ability to listen to and understand conflicting points of view, superior communication skills, common sense and courage are the tools a statesman needs. With the possible exception of education, none of these skills can be taught. They must be lived, learned, and earned.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: bush; legacy; term2
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To: duckman

> Probably because he is watching his legacy crumble around him. IMO I think he is a good man and history will look favorably on him.

Agree with the first statement, disagree on the second. W fumbled Iraq, immigration, education, the economy, and more, by tossing conservatism out and partnering with socialists.

His intentions were honorable, but he did not have the stuff to really lead this country. Now, with ZeroB looming to take the helm, we are well and truly screwed. It is well past time for conservatives to rise up and give this country some real alternatives to the socialist slide that has started to accelerate.


21 posted on 12/28/2008 9:53:40 AM PST by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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To: wgflyer
I think he is a good man and I have said so before.

The same used to be said about Jimmy Carter, but not anymore. Good men don't run the country into the ground, they don't look into Putin's eyes and see his soul, and they don't reward criminal behavior.

22 posted on 12/28/2008 9:56:33 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: AmericanVictory
"and he does seem to have had the same lack of feeling about it"

He came down almost every rung for me when he signed CFR and said something along the lines that "some of this is unconstitutional but I'll sign it anyway and let the courts work that out".

In my mind that vow to uphold the constitution is black and white; if you think it's unconstitutional you don't sign it and hope that somebody else fixes it.

That's just not right and there's just no way to spin it so it is.

23 posted on 12/28/2008 10:02:29 AM PST by Proud_texan (Scare people enough and they'll do anything.)
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To: wgflyer

Lets face it, Washington is a cesspool.
Obama should fit right in.


24 posted on 12/28/2008 10:02:31 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: onedoug

There's president "Religion of Peace" with the main financier of Islamic extremism.

25 posted on 12/28/2008 10:03:26 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: mylife

Amen to that, my friend.


26 posted on 12/28/2008 10:08:41 AM PST by wgflyer (Liberalism is to society what HIV is to the immune system.)
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To: wgflyer

Have a great Sunday. Its a beauty.


27 posted on 12/28/2008 10:31:27 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: sickoflibs
"“I’ve abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.”

Yes, of course. The old "I had to destroy the free market system to save it" argument. You gotta just love that one. Deer in the headlights indeed. On most principals important to Conservatives, Mr. Bush, unfortunately, couldn't buy a clue if his life depended on it.

28 posted on 12/28/2008 10:39:00 AM PST by Desron13 (If you constantly vote between the lesser of two evils then evil is your ultimate destination.)
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To: AmericanVictory
It's like an unfinished thought:

We will guard the borders (except we will give citizenship to the invaders).

Abortion is wrong (except in cases of rape or incest).

Stem cell research using human embryos is wrong (except we will finish the ones we already started).

We will support smaller government (except when government needs more control).

I've always thought that that was the basic thinking pattern of a true liberal:

We will speak of all good things (but we will never actually to the hard work).

All ranch and no cattle!

29 posted on 12/28/2008 10:39:55 AM PST by donna (Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy.)
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To: wgflyer

I like George W. Bush.

But that picture shows one of the three things I don’t like: holding hands with what amounts to “Bedouins on Camels”, ignoring the Mexican invasion and persecuting Ramos and Compeon.


30 posted on 12/28/2008 10:41:45 AM PST by RoadTest (The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? - Jer.17:9)
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To: T-Bird45
"He clearly has strong feelings about moral principles but never seems to have connected them to our founding principles in any discernible way."

That's because like all Liberals, his sense of morality is completely cut off from any form of objective reality. Morality is simply what makes them feel better about themselves regardless of the actual outcomes and consequences.

31 posted on 12/28/2008 10:46:10 AM PST by Desron13 (If you constantly vote between the lesser of two evils then evil is your ultimate destination.)
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To: 353FMG
He fought the enemy abroad but not the one at home.

Well put

The RATS and the radical left were enemies at home. Bush failed to engage them and win. He was too busy trying to be a "compassionate conservative".

He never learned they will take what he gives them but still stab him in the back.

32 posted on 12/28/2008 10:48:44 AM PST by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: RoadTest
“I like George W. Bush.”

I do to, as a person. But the cases you cite are the tip of the iceberg in his continual and continuing liberally tainted leadership. As a leader: Good riddance.

Out with the bad. In with the worse. But sooner or later we'll find a good one...I hope.

33 posted on 12/28/2008 11:20:38 AM PST by wgflyer (Liberalism is to society what HIV is to the immune system.)
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To: VictoryGal

A fumble or two maybe, but the team stayed in the game and just may be winning it.


34 posted on 12/28/2008 11:21:40 AM PST by frposty (I'm a simpleton)
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To: donna
It is a good analysis. Thanks for posting it.

I personally like Pres. Bush, but I have to agree with this article.

The Democrats in congress are not the Texas Democrats Gov. Bush worked so ably with and McCain Feingold should've been vetoed.

35 posted on 12/28/2008 12:28:52 PM PST by Stepan12 (Palin & Bolton in 2012)
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To: Moonman62

"Goodnight, sweet Prince."
36 posted on 12/28/2008 12:47:59 PM PST by onedoug
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To: wgflyer
Bush I do not want to get started on this Liberal Idiot like his getting the country saddled with the most incompetent person on the face of the earth As president NO LESS !! ONE person and one to blame Pant o load W Bush!
37 posted on 12/28/2008 2:38:07 PM PST by Cheetahcat (Osamabama the Wright kind of Racist!)
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To: wgflyer
I have to say I am much more acerbic when it comes to the man. From a post I made last night (excerpted from a longer post):

At this, although throw in a political cabal (for lack of a better word) that also has a very skewed positive-negative benefit curve (oh, and to those that blame Democrats for this mess ....well, it is as much in the lap of the so called 'conservative' Republican party, and the 'compassionate conservative' president George Bush has outspent EVERY Democrat president in living memory, and some of his fiscal actions may end up having such dire ramifications on the USA that they would almost make Osama bin Laden hang a bl@@dy poster of bush in his cave as a sign of respect and admiration to a fellow enemy of America. Yes ya Bushbots out there, I said what you just read! President Bush has honestly outdone Osama bin Laden, and now all we can do is wait and see whether Barack bin Obama can outdo George bin Bush ...and marvel at how George bin Bush led to the election of Barack bin Obama in much the same way that Jimmy 'bunny' Carter led to the election of Mr and President and Honorable Ronald Reagan).

38 posted on 12/28/2008 10:44:46 PM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: onedoug

You know, I could have gone the rest of my life without having seen that photo.


39 posted on 12/28/2008 10:45:58 PM PST by Peanut Gallery ("...evolution doesn't fully explain the mystery of life" ~ George W. Bush)
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I'll always value GW as a good man and a Great President. Laura was a respected example of a First Lady.

Any other armchair Quarterbacking is just for lazy folks who wish they could be the President of Joe's Coffee House, but never will be.

40 posted on 12/28/2008 10:51:49 PM PST by NoRedTape
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