Posted on 05/28/2009 11:38:33 AM PDT by meandog
Edited on 05/28/2009 11:41:03 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Former President George W. Bush may finally upstage Dick Cheney this week. After months of silence while Cheney has been blasting away at President Obama, Bush is scheduled to make two semi-public appearances.
Tonight he'll speak to to the Economic Club of Southwest Michigan at Lake Michigan College. It's being billed as his first major speech to an American audience. The news media will be allowed to attend the event, but not record it. Right.
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I do not have high hopes on this.
Totally agree!
The guy thought he could just sit there, 'be Presidential', and all would be fine!
Here are my beefs:
- Treating Kennedy like royalty (his first month in office) and letting him write the Education Bill.
- Spend as much as you want of the U.S. Treasury.
- Wait 4 frickin years to wake up (2007) and implement a 'surge' to finally wipeout Iraqi resistance.
- The COST? Unneccesary IED casaulties, lib-fest surge, and loss of 2 houses of congress, Presidential election and consequent RATs' RAPE of U.S. Treasury.
Yeah, W's now part of a selective gentleman's club where the members aren't supposed to criticize one another too harshly, so he can either lie or break the etiquette of his position, and you know what the LSM would do with that. Now Cheney isn't as bound by that, so he should be the one doing the spokes-speaking.
“Like a child throwing a tantrum in the backseat of a car on a long trip, voters were more than eager to dump Republicans to stop the cacophony of shrieking liberals throwing a national tantrum.”
No child left behind? He should have left it behind... or rather spanked its behind.
Bingo!
On balance I once liked George Bush. I even voted for him TWICE in the general election (though not in the 2000 primary). I believe he was/is perhaps someone you could have a beer cup of coffee with.
As president, in his second term, he was a major disappointment. He mishandled Operation Iraqi Freedom in delaying a needed surge ("until we took a thumpin'" after the 06 election) and, IMHO, it cost American fighting men and women precious blood. I can never forgive him for that...he became too much like his "Read My Lips" old man who, for some reason despite a 90 percent approval from the populace, believed that if you stopped sudden and assured overwhelming victory on the Iraqi Highway of Death, a brutal tyrant like Saddam Hussein would fall and anti-war liberals would be appeased, pleased and his he'd go down as the peacemaking "Education President." It didn't happen. All it did was usher in a horrible successor to the Oval Office which soon became the Oral Orifice.
And Bush II picked up where I left off and ushered in a socialist...the headline on this article I posted reads "Bush to Break Silence" but, IMO, all he'll be doing is break wind!
My sentiments exactly.
From the get-go, one thing that bothers me about this, is the fact that Bush will be on stage with Bill Clinton. All that does is provide more stature to Bill Clinton.
Appointing him to represent the United States with GHWB regarding the disaster relief in Southern Asia, was also a massive mistake. It more than anything else before or since, to rehab Bill Clinton, after his despicable behavior in office. “Why if those Republicans think he’s swell, he must be a really great guy.”
Damn if it isn’t embarrassing to see people you would like to respect, be so G D stupid.
Appearing with Clinton will also hobble Bush so that he can’t be frank about Obama’s actions. What’s he going to do, stand up there and be frank about Obama, only to have Clinton state that “those comment’s” were political and unfortunate?
My take on these two speeches is that Bush will deliver platitudes, blow kisses and try his best to be liked.
Where he does talk about Obama, if at all, he’ll make nice and contrast Cheney as a mean old man without realizing it.
Please let me be proven wrong, but my take is, “Bush, clueless to the end.”
Perhaps you were simply a terrible listener.
I seriously doubt it. He'll compliment Obama and Clinton I'll bet.
did you see it, or are you just reporting what you’ve heard?
If you weren’t there watching billions of dollars drain from the hedge funds, then you have no clue as to how close we came to total economic collapse.
If you think that would have been a good thing, then the saying about ignorance being bliss applies to you.
No doubt we aren’t going to find out who did what that afternoon, but I assure you it was beyond shocking to watch it happening.
“Great. Mr. “I abandoned the Free Market to save it” is going to add his $.02”.
...this is true. However, he kept us safe and strong militarily for 8 years. He supported our troops. The economy roared even after 9/11. He and his wife kept dignity in the WH. He didn’t try to destroy Christianity.
Now, everyday is opposite day with the Pissant at the helm. I do agree with another post whereas it would be best if he’d just let Cheney do his thing and stay out of it. At least for a little while longer.
Just because it is his first public speech it does not mean he will get political.
Bush wouldnt say crap if he had a mouthful. Look for a few platitudes and a boring speech.
Yes, but he failed to address health care and left it to the democrats, and it is through health care that socialism will be ushered in. President Bush did some good things, but he failed at the important things, we can survive an attack, we cannot survive socialism, government health care, and massive illegal immigration via our southern border. I don’t mean to sound cruel, but what hurt the country more, the 911 terrorist attack or failing to address those things I listed above, which now are in the hands of the most socialistic leaning leaders we’ve ever had.
I can never understand why people think that The Kenyan is a good speaker. He drops his voice at the end of every sentence....very boring.
He needs elocution lessons - among other things.
“W” couldn’t upstage a tomato nor could his father.
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