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What bothers me is, Pres.-Select Obama already has this “deer in the headlights” look and he hasn’t even moved into the Oval Office yet. I don’t think he thought he’d ever “win” the election.
Just going to school doesn't mean you are educated.
LOL!
“But as Bush leaves office he is looking more and more like a deer in headlights....”
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.
It is a good analysis. Thanks for posting it.
This is a terrific article.
MORE SAMPLES:”In other words, Bush talked the talk but he did not walk the walk. This was almost always true when it came to wielding the veto pen. Bush couldn’t find the veto pen — let alone use it. Bush would not even veto legislation that he knew was unconstitutional. “Taking a constitutional view” is not the same thing as taking a constitutional stand. Statesmen don’t “take views” on the Constitution — they defend the Constitution with their deeds.
The follow-up question proves the point. DeMuth asked Bush if it was harder to work with a Republican or Democrat Congress. Here is part of Bush’s response:
In some ways it was more difficult because when you work with the [Republican] Congress, there was an ability at times to forgo Republican principles, and it put the President in an awkward position.... It’s easier to veto bills ... when the Democrats are in power, because, after all, it’s Republicans who crafted the bills coming in.
Bush did nothing to stop profligate spending by the Republican Congress. His excuse was that the situation was “awkward.” These are not the words of a statesman. Statesmen do not “forgo principles.”
If additional proof is needed that Bush “takes views” on principles, but does not defend them, take a look at the video of this disquieting declaration by the President, “I’ve abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.” Listen to his voice. Watch his demeanor. This is a defeated man, a tired man, anything but a statesman.”
I don’t think Bush is a stupid man and there must have been a reason why he didn’t fight back for 8 years on the home front. What that reason is I don’t know. Even somebody like Karl Rove regretted not fighting the lies and insinuations of the Democrats. I’m assuming Rove knows the reason for Bush’s reticence and is sure to cover it in the book he is writing. Whether it is based on religion or some morality concerning governance or whatever Bush’s silence is certainly puzzling. I wouldn’t say he is a dear in the headlight because the oncoming car was oncoming for 8 years and Bush could have jumped aside at any moment. There is something else behind this — maybe a pledge to himself for wining the election through the courts — and if he writes a book maybe we will know.
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.
Lets face it, Washington is a cesspool.
Obama should fit right in.
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.
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).
He has been a friggin disaster. European socialism has arrived with the front door wide open. Signing the medicare/medicade bill is enough to bankrupt the country, as we will find out in time.
He's going to run for president in 2012, you know.