‘Bush … Come Back, Bush, Come Back’
6) UN first; U.S. second. If Bush was a supposed “cowboy,” there at least was never doubt that his first and foremost interest was the U.S, not the “international community.” One Obama bow was OK; one apology about genocide tolerable; one smug cast-off line that we are not exceptional understandable; one mea culpa sent to the corrupt UN human rights crowd I suppose forgivable. But add them up and we sense that our president is embarrassed about America’s history and culture — but not quite embarrassed enough not to enjoy its material bounty to the fullest.
7) Who will criticize the critics? American elites crucified Bush. Vein-bulging Al Gore called him a liar. John Edwards and John Kerry tag-teamed him in vicious attacks. Alfred A. Knopf published a novel imagining his assassination. The Toronto Film Festival gave first prize to Death of a President, a 2006 docudrama about killing President Bush. I could go on again, but you remember the times, in which everyone from John Glenn to Garrison Keillor played the Bush Nazi/brownshirt card.
And now? John Edwards imploded in scandal. John Kerry was exposed as a tax-dodging elitist hypocrite. Al Gore, if not a sex poodle, at least is a green-con-artist of the billionaire sort, who both hyped a world-ending crisis and then profited from his rhetorical overkill by selling supposed green snake oil in the fashion of medieval penances. CBS, the New York Times, and Newsweek now totter near financial insolvency, after showing both poor judgment and questionable ethics: from the Times’ offering a discount for the MoveOn.org “General Betray Us” ad to a Newsweek senior editor declaring Obama a “god.” Suddenly bad things have happened to most of Bush’s loudest critics. (Note I’ll pass on the post-Bush Letterman or the post-Bush Rangel).
8. Bush’s disasters proved not quite disasters. Take the two most famous: Iraq and Katrina. Iraq is calm and can make it as a consensual state. Kurdistan is booming, not on a genocidal watch list. We killed thousands of al-Qaeda terrorists in Anbar province. That helped to keep us safe from another 9/11-like attack. Libya gave up its WMD. Dr. Khan shut down his nuclear franchising. American troops left Saudi Arabia. Syria got out of Lebanon. Iraq neither attacks four of its neighbors, nor does the government there give shelter to the likes of Abu Nidal and the architect of the first World Trade bombing attempt. Understandably, Biden and Obama now see something to claim and hope we forget their own assurances that it was either lost or to be trisected.
The BP mess (oh, how Nemesis likes to strike in the same locale!) reminded us how the federal government is inept under any president, whether during a manmade or nature-induced calamity. Shutting down oil drilling in the Gulf may be the worst legacy of the spill. Much of Katrina’s mess, in retrospect, can be attributed as much to anemic local and state responses and an endemic New Orleans culture of dependency as to Brownie’s FEMA incompetence.
9) Bush was not corrupt and ran an especially ethical administration. Before Obama even started, we had the Blago mess (of which the final story is not yet in) and the Bill Richardson, Tom Daschle, Tim Geithner, and Hilda Solis ethical lapses. Bush condemned Republican malfeasance and kept his distance. But suddenly the culture of corruption is not so corrupt when Chris Dodd, Charles Rangel, Maxine Waters, and others prove as compromised as Duke Cunningham and Larry Craig. The Chicago crowd makes the Crawford crowd look like pikers. Bush said not a word about Obama and BP; Obama viciously attacked Bush as incompetent during Katrina. You decide.
10) Bush was authentic. He mangled his words. A liberal industry grew up around both “nuclar” and its sometimes corrective “nucular.” He strutted and talked Nascarese-like “bring ‘em on.” Much of this was excessive, but we knew at least Bush meant it. We got worried when he extemporaneously expounded for long riffs about freedom at press conferences, as his eyes rolled and he drifted from topic to topic. He put his arm on Angela Merkel and cried out “Yo Blair.” The media told us he was a yokel; we might add: albeit an authentic one who could duck properly when under shoe attack.
But Obama? He cannot really speak off the teleprompter without pauses, repetitions, and constant self-referencing (as in “me,” “I,” “my,” etc.). He is stiff and not comfortable with himself off the court or golf course. Bush made decisions and stuck by them; Obama the professor offers a perennial “on the one hand”/”on the other hand” mish-mash and a sorta, kinda, almost answer. Americans would prefer to be in a foxhole with George Bush, who would swagger and announce as decider-in-chief at H-hour, “OK, pard, we’re going over the top together on this one.” They wouldn’t want to be with Obama, who would stutter and give a long-drawn out exegesis why race and class had condemned us to such an unfair predicament, whose only solution is to go into a fetal position and condemn “them” who did this awful thing to us.
Who knows? At this rate America may play Brandon DeWilde to Bush’s Shane: Bush — Come Back, Bush, Come Back!
Dear Hanson,
I am home sick with pneumonia, and this last great contribution of yours got me laughing so much that I lapsed into a relentless series of painful coughs. Took me 20 minutes to calm down, and it still hurts! Damn it! Thank you.
Not to worry Jeffery.
It’s good to get exercised and work the guck up out of your lungs.
Kinda like what we over-exercised conservatives are going to do to the guck in congress come NOvemeber.
(P.S. Drink lots of fluids. Really.)
I’d go “over the top” with George Bush. He’d be a couple of steps ahead of me and I’d follow.
In the same situation with Obama, it would play out more like James Coburn and Maxmillian Schell in the movie “Cross of Iron”. You will recallthe scene where Coburn, playing “Sergeant Steiner”, a thrice decorated combat NCO, pushes the cowardly major, Maxmillian Schell out of a bunker into the path of a Russian attack telling him “this is where the Iron Crosses grow”. Of course Steiner has to point a pistol at the major to get him to go outside.
No, Bush would be cutting in line to avoid combat by signing up for the Texas Air Guard, then get assigned to Alabama, then not show up.
Your memory is worse than your ideology.
Still hitting on that debunked story? Believe it or not, those of us who serve in the National Guard do have a right to move and some latitude to schedule our service when civilian life conflicts.
What branch did Obama serve in?
“What branch did Obama serve in?”
He was a decorated veteran, who saw action with Jeremiah Wright’s “Goddam White America” Howling Commandos, and he also served in the 101st Coke-Sniffing Brigade.
Awesome, Dave. I also think he got a Girly Grenade Toss achievement badge.
Yes… But don’t forget that, according to Obummer, both his father and step-father served in WW2, when they were 5 & 6 years old! Admirable, as not many were in the service at that young age!
Oh Obamao “serves”. He “serves in the “red Army” Of George Soros. The one that wants to destory America from within,SSh, dont tell anyone, but any bets Maobama also is a member of the Moslem Brotha hood?
could you sleep at night knowing Obama “had your back”?
Charley Killebrew USMC
Sleep? Hardly. Not only would he be signaling the enemy to our hideout/camp/foxhole for tea and crumpets, but when the firefight began, he’d be screaming and saying he was on their side.
Only an ignoramus liberal would equate flying a Jet Fighter as an officer in the Air Force National Guard as “avoiding combat”.
Not just a jet fighter, Sarge, but an interceptor that carried “nucular” missiles tasked with meeting Ivan’s incoming Tupolevs to knock them out of the sky. In very tiny flaming pieces. Without any great expectation of coming back, either. Not a mission for low IQs, people.
I owe as many headaches to G. W. Bush’s centrist decisions as the next guy, but there’s no day I wouldn’t buy the man a beer. If he still drank.
Not just an garden variety interceptor, but one that was difficult to fly and recorded a high rate of failures/crashes.
Thanks for reminding people of that. This is the one areas where the ANG story just totally falls apart — and proves that the memogate bitter enders like Betty don’t actually believe the story for themselves since they can’t be bothered to research even the most simple background info.
He WAS serving in wartime: WW2.5. Working as a part of our deterrent system in the hope that it never got upgraded. Would we bash Carter for serving in the same conflict in the nuclear sub program? No! Nearly everything else is fair game of course but no one ever dares to diss that part of his public service regardless of his erstwhile navy career motives and that would be trashy and given the circumstances, downright cruel.
I too was a pilot in the USAF (F4 Phantoms), an aircraft a generation younger than the Delta Dart that President Bush flew, and an aircraft far easier to fly (for example, I had a crewmember to help with weapons and targeting).
The F102 was not a creampuff job. Alone, with a single-(marginal) engine, off to intercept Soviet bombers with a missile that you would HOPE wouldn’t turn you into plasma too. No doubt the detractors like Betty Know-nothing have even more significant achievements that allow them to judge the actions of President Bush.
And later in the Air National Guard, I managed to schedule my duty time around medical school and residency.
But what the hell: At least President Bush looked like he was comfortable in a flight suit and speed jeans. President Urkel can’t even find a boys bike to ride, and still looks like he got on without a seat attached to the seat post.
Yeah, good grief~~I’m a 66 year old girl who grew up long before girls were allowed in flightsuits and even I know that. The usual lib combo of ignorance and arrogance is fun to watch~~but it sure is destructive in elected office.
picture Obama landing a plane on an aircraft carrier at sea.
Did you miss the whole implosion of Dan Rather’s career over that issue?
I predicted in the comment sections of several blogs, both right and left, that history would judge Bush to be at least an average president, and probably above that. Perhaps well above that. On lefty blogs I was dismissed with incredulity or savaged, and even on righty blogs I was scoffed at.
Well, it is playing out about how I thought, except that I thought it would take another 10 years or more. Obama’s incredible incompetence has accelerated the rehabilitation of Bush’s image by an order of magnitude.
Bush’s main problems were his “moderate” view on immigration and Medicare D (his most liberal and incorrect idea of all).
Dr. Hanson, while a bit more of a party-line man than I am, has done a good job of showing here the many ways in which Bush was far preferable to what we have now. Good show.
Garbage, Betty. Rant all you like, Mr. Hanson’s article is real and true, and most of us know it.
Betty, do you know the mortality rate of training to fly jet fighters ? Of course not. Do you know anything about the F 102, an interceptor that was never deployed to Viet Nam ? Of course not. Do you know that high flying hours pilots were coming back from Viet Nam when Bush had finished his training and the low hours, recent trainees were judged excess ? The high hours pilots were taking all the billets. A similar thing happened in World War II where the Navy trained too many pilots excepting casualties that did not materialize. Many of those excess pilots were simply discharged early or given non-flying billets until the war ended.
A history lesson would be good for you.
Shame on you, expecting dear sweet Betty to know such things! How could she? They weren’t in the DNC’s morning talking points handout, were they, Betty?
F102s fell out of the sky so often only half survived. And given the state of ejection seats and the behavior of plane, these crashes killed more than half their pilots. And still the drivers got into that plane day after day, and even told the National Guard folks to take second seat.
Compare that behavior with, say, closing down Gulf oil where even more lives are dependent on the crude flowing. To say nothing of the lives lost at ever doubling in fuel prices.
Well said, Mike, but the F-102 was deployed to Vietnam with ANG pilots – the ONE National Guard aircraft type that did so. G.W. picked EXACTLY the wrong aircraft to fly if he wanted to avoid flying combat in Vietnam. Flying the 102 in Vietnam was a voluntary program – and people who served with him have said that G.W VOLUNTEERED TO GO.
Aside from that, have any of y’all ever looked into the cockpit of a 102? You could not see out the front, for all practical purposes. The combination of the huge instrument panel and radar scope as well as old, crazed windshield glass made the forward view slim to nothing. As near as I can figure they used the “land by Braille” approach.
Indeed. The F-102 was a supersonic interceptor primarily by virtue of its delta wing configuration. However, the state of knowledge of aerodynamics available at the time it was built dictated that it had a very high landing speed, which translates into an aircraft that while fast, was very dangerous to land. And as you noted, it’s cockpit design did not provide good forward visibility as a substantial brace was directly forward in the pilot’s line of sight. In addition, the primitive and large radar screen more or less required the pilot to have his head down in the cockpit much of the time, watching the screen. In addition, its engine, while powerful for its time, was less than reliable and when it cut out in flight, the F-102 had a poor glide ratio and a very high stall speed with extremely poor low speed handling characteristics. It’s general handling characteristics were also nothing like modern fighters. Those who excelled in flying the machine–and survived (many did not)–were good pilots indeed. Mr. Bush was rated one of the best.
And yes, Mr. Bush did volunteer for Vietnam service, but the war was winding down and his aircraft was not useful in that theater. As with all wars, as they end, there is a surplus of pilots and high hour pilots are in demand while those with fewer hours are not. Mr. Bush fell into the latter category. Because the war was winding down, and he was nearing the end of his TNG commitment, there was not sufficient time for him to undergo the training necessary to transition into a more modern aircraft unless he wished to make the TNG or regular Air Force a career. This situation is an everyday matter in the Guard as experienced pilots constantly leave and new candidates enlist. Suggestions that he used influence to enter the Guard are likewise false as there was no wait for qualified pilot candidates, but a substantial waiting list for basic enlisted airmen.
The record is clear: Mr. Bush was a good officer, an excellent pilot, he served honorably and did all that was ever asked or required of him by his superiors and nation. Sorry leftists.
Betty don’t know Jack.
To paraphrase Bruce Campbell’s line from Army of Darkness,Betty the Kool-Aid drinker knows Jack and shit. And Jack left town.
I am Jack, CANG/USAR, 1961-1967 and I don’t think I want to know this Betty!
Are you perhaps referring to that early 60′s Texas Air Guard e-mail??? What’s Mr. Rather up to these days anyway?
I understand Dan’s selling watermelons by the roadside.
You mean TRYING to sell them.
60′s e-mail? That’s a really good one.
Yeah, as good as a ‘document’ produced on a selectric typewriter with exactly the SAME proportional spacing as Microsoft Word using Times Roman fonts….which was a physical impossibility for the era.
One thing I noticed when Dan Rather showed President Bushs’ supposed official paperwork was that it didn’t appear to be on official Air Force letter head with the standard Reply to the attn of:, Subject:, and To: lines. Also the centered organization block and the Dept of Defense seal were missing. Never heard of anyone else mentioning this.
LOL “What’s the frequency Kennith?” – Dan Rather
and Obama in turn would be declaring himself a citizen of Kenya and not a US citizen so he was therefore exempt from military service.
AT least the silly progressive bimbo had enough sense not to try to use the racism card in her “know”-nothing blurb. Sheesh — I cannot believe all these years later that ANYone would be stupid enough to post this and expect to be taken seriously.
Shilling for Dan Rather gets you on top of the steaming shovelfull and deservedly.
Glorious Betty Nose! Yes, all hail Ozero who didn’t serve at all and can’t even throw a baseball.
Keep drinking that kool-Aid, Betty. Your reality is based upon an empty, shrieking fraud. One can only wonder how you’ll deal with the Guns of November.
And while we’re at it , I’ll ask the painfully obvious question: how’s all that hope and change working out for these days?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
Bush volunteered for ‘Nam, but was turned down because he hadn’t accumulated enough flight hours at the time he offered to go. Also, his fighter, the F-104, was not widely used in the S.E. Asia theater.
In the words of the great Ronald Reagan: “It isn’t that liberals (Betty) are ignorant. It’s just that they (Betty) know so much that isn’t so!”
EVERYTHING about Leftists is projection. Everything. This includes their frequent Hitler references – Hitler was left-wing, you know. Genocidal dictators invariably are.
I wish conservatives were smart enough to realize this already.
Mr. Bush flew F-102 Delta Daggers, an airplane notorious for his engine failures and known widow makers. However, the meme still remains that he was safe on the rear, when he like all those brave men of tactical air command were at the forefront of continental defense when we still expected Soviet bombers to attack our cities.
Another interesting tidbit, he had an equal number of takeoffs and landings in a century series fighter.
I am not sure Obama has ever held a ‘squirt gun’ never mind could defend our country. He is such a girl…
… and that’s being disrespectful to the courage of girls.
..sigh
My ten year old daughter pitch’s a hard ball harder and faster than Oblama. She also learns karate so she could kick his weasely butt too! Come to think of it, my daughter is probably smarter than Oblama too – She EARNED the awards that she has.
Predictions for Y’all
2010 GOP slimly wins a majority in both houses. 2011 Oblama announces “The US is too racist, that is why most of my policies failed…A Black person will never get equal treatment” (The Ultimate Racism Card – which causes massive Race problems) Hillary Clinton and a crop of “New Conservative” (New to DC progressives) Democrats run in 2012… and kick Rino John McCain’s butt again.
Once again Conservatives pine for Reagan but would be happy with a Bush Jnr.
Oh really, Betty? And when was the last time you–or Barack Obama for that matter–strapped on an F-102?? Bush, in fact, inquired about volunteering for active duty service with the Air Force in SE Asia and was told he didn’t have the requisite number of flight hours and that, anyhow, the F-102 was being phased out of the program.
His squadron commander recommended him for promotion calling him “a dynamic outstanding young officer,” and “a top notch fighter interceptor pilot” with skills far exceeding his contemporaries. He said Bush was a “natural leader whom his contemporaries look to for leadership. Lt. Bush is also a good follower with outstanding disciplinary traits and an impeccable military bearing.”
And besides, Bush didn’t have to “avoid” combat. The Brass would have seen to that. They didn’t like putting prominent politicians’ sons in harms way. When those sons did see duty in Vietnam, they were given non-combat roles (see Gore, Al Jr.). Bush Sr. was a prominent oilman and Texas Republican who served two terms in the House and was a candidate for the Senate during the Vietnam era.
So, go blow it out the orifice of your choice.
Hey there Betty,
When you can successfully pilot a F-102, give me a call (this includes landings, too.)
Otherwise, put a cork in it.
Mine, oh mine, did our current president serve in the military?
Is that what it take to be a great president? To serve in the military? Although serving in the military is honorable and those who serve, or served, our great country in the military should be honored. However, I don’t believe this factor alone determines the greatness of a president. Many of these post rant about how great President Bush is over President Obama because he served in the ANG. The military produces some great leaders, but not all who serve in the military are great leaders. Bottom line military service alone is not a qualifying factor for greatness as a president.
I don’t think anyone was making the point that military service is a requisite for exceptional leadership as a president. Most were countering Betty Knows’s suggestion that GWB’s military service was invalid because solely because it was in the ANG by pointing out the problems with that argument.
tell me about Barak’s extensive military career and how much the troops consider him a “commander-in-chief”
Especially since Oblama
1 Is trying to REDUCE Military personnel pay
2 Is trying to cut 1 TRILLION (One MILLION MILLION) of Defence Spending.
Did George Dubya ever screw the Military? Nope.
Betty:
Stuck on stupid is no excuse. Seek the truth (I mean really do it) and you’ll find it. God is gracious to all until the end of time which could be tomorrow, so hurry up and get it done. Looking forward to it.
Betty Bolshevik
No wonder Archie chose Veronica!
I have a suspicion that Betty Knows is really Dan Rather sock puppeting away in his basement,while he longingly watches old video tapes of when he was on the air and mattered even a tiny bit.
Betty (or Dan) I think you are the only person left in the USA that still buys the idea that the CBS story was true. Time to get a life, girl…(or guy if it is you, Dan)!
You are so RIGHT!! I am so glad Obama was smoking pot and hitting coke and being mentored by a known communist in Hawaii in his early days before he was President!
Ahh…a reference to an underappreciated classic from the great Sam Peckinpah. It highlights the difference between those who talk and those who do.
Methinks y’all be doin’ too much protestin’. Know what Im sayin’?
No, Betty.
We’re just a very helpful lot, and take an interest in your education. Adds value to your life, don’t you think?
Actually, me thinks, Betty, that you had your butt handed to you by people who are an order of magnitude more informed than you are on this subject (and, without doubt, a wide range of other subjects as well)
No way, Betty.
You’re challenged here all the time by intelligent people, who disagree with your one-dimensional talking points, and, not once, have you replied with anything substantive. (You might want to look up that word.)
“Betty Knows”: give me a break. My name for you is “Betty, Miss Informed”. Re your, as usual, feather weight, misanthropic contribution to this thread, I have no reason to change my mind.
Smarten up.
Yeah Dubya!
Spewing debunked talking points form the Bush Legacy Project isn’t substantive. You’ve been bamboozled by your media masters. Face it, drone life is the life you’ve chosen. Blind obeisance is the price they demand from you. In return, they make you feel patriotic without the cost of actual service. Flag pins and three-cornered hats for everyone! You’re being played for patsies.
LOL, so the fact that your statement is so demonstrably false that numerous people are compelled to point out the falsehood is just “protesting too much?”
Like I said to you in prior posts Betty – you come in here with innuendo – and bluffington/kos fictional facts and outright lies and you’ll get your arse handed to you every time.
And once again you’ve had it handed to you.
Personally I find all this information about the Air National Guard and the different fighter jets very useful. But I do think it is fair to point out that Betty has probably crawled back under the troll bridge and isn’t hearing a word of it. Still useful and interesting thanks.
Of course she has….all she has is the ability to vomit up her bile while doing a drive-by. Facts to her are like kryptonite to Superman….
Great analogy Mike Myers!! That’s one of my all-time fav movies!!!
VDH: True, all true. Except I don’t feel Conservatives will call for a third Bush term. they know all too well that the Constitution doesn’t allow for that. Besides, Bush was too compassionate about federal spending. way too much of it. Yet he was a piker compared to uber spender Obama and that’s a plus for Bush.
On the other hand, maybe more folks are beginning to realize that Bush wasn’t too bad and he was very much an American president. I and many others are too sure that Obama looks upon himself as an American. more a world citizen owing homage to other heads of state like the Emperor of Japan, the Saudi king, the premier of China, plus the mayor of Tampa for goodness sakes!
Also, Bush realized the government was an American government not his personal staff. I cannot recall Bush talking about “My Secretary of ” whatever federal department he was referring to. Obama’s always talking about his officer this, his officer that, everything but “his” country.
If the year 2012 is not the end of time, as some Socialists predict, it’ll certainly be the end of Obama’s personal reign over America.
My bad!!!! “are too sure that Obama” should read “aren’t too sure that Obama.
@Doug Wright # 3
Hey, Pam Iorio, the mayor of Tampa, has a very cool and queenly demeanor. I can understand why Obama would bow. Reminded him of Mom probably.
Sorry to nit-pick, but Bush can run in 2012. A President cannot be elected for 3 sequential terms. He can run again because he didn’t serve this term.
Sorry, but I just checked this out. According to the 22nd Amendment, a person may only be elected to the officer of the Presidency twice in a lifetime. However, a former President who has already served two terms (or the majority [more than 2 years] of a first term and then elected to a second term is not restricted from being elected Vice President and then, upong the death or resignation of the sitting President, step up and fill the position for, effectively, a third term.
(Examples given in these Pre-Bush articles:
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/LAW/08/columns/fl.dorf.goreclinton.08.01/
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0613/p09s02-coop.html)
Wrong, the Constitution specifies that you have to be eligible to be elected President in order to be elected Vice President. That means: natural born citizen, at least 35 years of age and 14 years a resident, and not previously President or Acting President for 6 years or more as of the start of the new term.
Sorry, but you are the one who is wrong. There is nothing in the requirements for the Presidency of the United States about having not served in the position of president previously.
To quote: To hold the office, the Vice President must satisfy the same constitutional qualifications as the President; that is, the Vice President must be a natural-born citizen of the United States, at least thirty-five years of age and a resident of the United States for 14 years.
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/vice-president-of-the-united-states/constitutional-requirements.html
See? Nothing about not having served as President previously.
No, he can’t. Here is the relevant Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America:
Amendment XXII (1951)
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Now, we can disregard that as Article II Section I (concerning the qualification of presidents) has been and re-elect President Bush. But he’s already had to clean out the cesspool once following the serial philanderer, disbarred lawyer and pathological liar Clinton, why should he subject himself to that again?
I enjoyed this very much.
Happy to say I voted twice for one of these presidents, while I never voted (and never will vote) for the other guy.
I cannot think of the awful events of Sept. 11 without remembering, with gratitude, Bush’s remarks, and his demeanor, at the National Cathedral. Remember his visit to Yankee Stadium for the World Series? I know he drove the Euro-wannabies nuts, but to me, he seemed like a grownup’s president.
I remember President Bush tenderly embracing that young Ohio girl who lost her mother on 9-11 and the tears of compassion in his eyes.
Yeah, that was the image that sticks in my mind too. That moment was FAR more real than any I’ve seen since he left the WH. I usually disdain the “soft leadership” qualities of a president, preferring action and the correct choices being made about critical issues, but that moment is probably what made me a Bush supporter for the duration of all that followed. That wasn’t scripted and it was obviously heartfelt. A man as busy as the president who takes time to comfort a grief stricken girl is the type of man who has his heart in the right place. And really, that’s the number one qualification for president. All else flows from that.
I see nothing wrong with a President showing some compassion – a little heart.
Too bad our current president has little or no compassion – and it would seem – no heart. Such is the mark of a would-be dictator.
For all the security in the world, when George Bush threw out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium, he stood on the mound as an expression to uphold freedom.
He was also equivalent to a deer in an open field with a target on it’s side in hunting season in Ohio. I don’t care what anyone says.
He put his life on the line for his country in that moment to take a stand for the principles of the country. To me that was an extraordinary act of courage. And one taken for the American people and every citizen of the free world.
VDH:
On Bush’s authenticity I would add that most people never fully bought onto the “Bush lied, people died” trope. Iraq 2003 – 2008 was a gut-wrenching experience for America to behold, with many significant mistakes made and many lives lost. But, after the surge turned it around you heard less and less about Bush’s supposed duplicity on the Iraq intervention. I can’t remember the last time I saw a “BL/PD” bumper sticker. No one is going to remember that slogan 10 years from now.
On the other hand, no one is going to forget the brazen lies told by candidate Obama, the obvious collusion of the MSM in his duplicity, and the cynical partisan, and questionably constitutional, way in which the Obami have shoved their Death to America legislation through Congress. Fortunately, this has led to a resurgence of conservative America which is putting the brakes on this drive toward national suicide. And for the future, what we’ll remember is Obama lied and our country almost died. Bush’s credibility is being restored, while Obama’s is beyond redemption.
Cash for Clunkers took care of most of the BL/PD and Obama 08 bumper stickers.
David
Unfortunately, here in the northeast MA/southern NH region, there are still way too many Obama ’08 bumper stickers to count. But then this is the same area that had Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers attached to cars on The Won’s inauguration day.
Touche!
On “Bush lied, people died” chant:
Most people DID believe it because Bush, as VDH says, never answered the outrageous defamations of the media’s Bolsheviks.
Thousands of American children have no father because of Bush’s equivocation for 6 years of a phony war
If only he HAD lied, and waded in to slaughter all perpetrators AND any of their sympathizers in the Middle East, even nuke them, we’d have less orphans and more honor. For that, W deserves history’s ignominy.
And yet, whatever may be said about George W. Bush’s errors of judgement, no one can ever creditably question his loyalty to the United States of America. The same cannot be said about the current President.
pelaut,
I agree with your general idea to some extent but for reasons that you might disagree with. Bush’s great mistake was trying for UN backing for far too long. He should have simply said Iraq had violated the original UN resolutions and the terms of the ceasefire in the first Gulf War and gone in immediately. It would have been as short a war, and a much shorter insurgency.
As for the rest, I disagree. A wartime president has to both make compromises, and not be distracted by the ankle biters that the media proved itself to be. Granted the ankle biters went way over the limit for wartime, The mistake he made there was not reinforcing the idea that we were, and still are, at war with Islamfascism, and treason is a black and white charge during wartime. He should have prosecuted the reporters and their sources in government that disclosed classified information that probably cost American lives.
No, you DON’T disagree with me.
I simplified my opinion too much and you amplified yours, with which I entirely agree.
But the consequences are that that W left a lot of American orphans, and didn’t “pre-empt” squat, thereby pre-empting future BOLD military action — little like Viet Nam.
Thanks, Georgie!
Thank god Iraq ended up being successful in the long run. That is why Democrats are trying to take credit for it.
At least Bush never blamed his predecessor for not acting on intelligence which might have prevented 9/11 and he never blamed the previous administration for intelligence which pointed to WMD in Iraq. He always stood like a man, agree with him or not. He never pointed fingers at Clinton and he refrains from criticizing Obama. That, if nothing else, proves his honor.
“… no one is going to forget the brazen lies told by candidate Obama…”
Obama supporters either pretend that the lies are truths or they tell themselves that Obama’s lies are valid weapons when fighting for left-wing causes.
I remember when Alphonse D’Amato, the former NY Senator well-known for his corruption and bribe-taking, was running for reelection. A journalist asked a NYC woman who she planned to vote for. She said, “D’Amato.” The journalist asked, “But what about his alleged crimes and corruption.” The woman replied, “Yeah, he’s a crook, but he’s OUR crook.” That’s how many on the left feel about their favored politicians or candidates. Honesty, ethics, morality, reliability, etc. do not matter if the politician supports the left’s causes. That’s why left-wing politicians rarely succeed as leaders: who would be foolish enough to follow them?
Right…Lies by Obama go into the “false, but accurate” column by the libs
I have my on variation
Obama lied babies died….
The folly in criticizing Bush the way the leftist medias did was that there was a void where his humanity was concerned. Despite that flaw and the intellectual dishonesty involved, it worked, in so much as it set the false precursor scenario up, namely Bush=evil, obama=good, with messianic powers to restore the nation from the supernatural evils perpetrated by the evil Bush, and so on and so forth in a circular fashion.
Now, obama is stating to be criticized on his human abilities/or liabilities, as the tradition of american free-speech-discourse, with each man or woman free to disgorge him/herself of all their displeasure of those in elected office in the public square, so to speak. Part of my optimism is that I felt that the public ownership of it’s right to it’s position and it’s opinions would set things right, and be something that obama, axelrod and rahm could not escape (at least not for very long after the window of “fantasy” candidate they had opened during the campaign had closed) and into which they are now trapped.
Do not underestimate the court of public opinion, despite whatever degrees to which you’ve been able to successfully manipulate it were in the past..
OK Professor, you hit another one out of the park. But c’mon: these clowns just keep throwing you softballs.
Let the record show, in this age of puny opposition, an asterisk next to the record number of lopsided victories.
The only PED (performance enhancing drug) in questions is the prescribed soma from the current administration.
“In the book (Brave New World), soma is a hallucinogen that takes users on enjoyable, hangover-free “holidays”, developed by the World State to provide such inner-directed personal experiences within the socially-managed context of State-run ‘religious’ organizations, social clubs, and the hypnopaedically-inculcated affinity to the State-produced drug as a self-medicating comfort mechanism in the face of stress or discomfort, thereby eliminating the need for religion or other personal allegiances outside or beyond the World State.”
Perhaps both these boys could just wander off into the sunset and someone with real balls and true leadership skills might take the reins…
Can’t wait till our Marxist-Muslim president, our warrior of words commander in chief goes after the Prime Minister of Israel in support of those peace lovin’ palestinians!
Love the way Clinton always bobs her head, nodding in harmony with every word Obama-Mao utters!
Or should it be MaObama?…lol
How about the utterly classless and/or clueless treatments of our allies?
The only ‘allies’ that matter are the English-speaking democracies. The rest of them? There’s a reason they’re called eurotrash..
Should I relay your message to the families of:
Brian Juul Nørløv Andersen, Kim Carlsen, John Mogensen, Steen Rønn Sørensen, Mikkel Keil Sørensen, Thorbjørn Ole Reese, Anders Johan Stæhr Storrud, Casper Cramer, Mark Visholm, Morten Krogh Jensen, Jens Mathias Petersen, Sonny Kappel Jakobsen, Jørgen Grundt Damholt, Anders Bjørn Storgaard, Christian Raaschou, Jesper Gilbert Pedersen, Henrik Christian Christiansen, Jacob Grønnegaard Gade, Dan Gyde, Sebastian La Cour Holm, Benjamin Davi Sala Rasmussen, Jacob Moe Jensen, Mads Lerche Rasmussen, Martin Abildgaard, Andreas Søgaard Brohus, Steffen Bloch Larsen, Michael Ebert, Rune Westy Zacharias Nielsen, Kenneth Patrick Nielsen, Simon Sejer Hoffmann, Sophia Bruun, Martin Kristiansen, Jonas Peter Pløger.
34 Danish troops who have died in the war in Afghanistan. Denmark is a country of 5 million people. Which means that relative to population size Denmark has had more casualties in Afghanistan than the US.
Given the cartoon controversy, this is one more reason to buy more Danish imports. Ummm, butter cookies…
I understand where you’re coming from regarding most of our erstwhile European allies however, I think that blanket condemnation does a great disservice to allies such as the Poles and Japanese to name just two. The Poles have stuck their necks out for the cause of freedom on numerous occasions. The Japanese, while not actively providing troops to most operations for reasons well known have proved a bulwark in the Pacific against the Soviets and now China with their robust defense forces and continued access to their homeland for American forces. This post is not meant as a rebuke just a reminder that we have been consistently and loyally supported by other allies who had a different set of circumstances to operate under than our Anglo allies (i.e. GB, Canada, Australia). They deserve to be recognized. God bless all those who sacrifice for the cause of freedom.
I agree, O’s treatment of his allies is disgusting. My nation has spent a great deal of blood and treasure on behalf of our alliance; Bush showed his respect by quoting our Prime Minister from WWII when, in our debate on declaring war against the Nazis, the PM pointed out that it was better to fight them over there now than to fight them over here later.
A-effin-men.
Bush kept us safe.
9/11, broken economy, outed CIA operative, Iraq where Osama Bin Laden never set foot, tax breaks for the rich adding to the deficit, failed prescription health care, false evangelism, secret prisons, failed to capture Osama Bin Laden, trillion dollar debt, Lied about firing Rumsfield, mission accomplished banners, failed foreign policies, Katrina, Dick Cheney, illegal wire taps, torture, ignoring the constitution…
Please don’t mention Bush and ‘debt’ alongside Obama; it just looks so silly.
Bush isn’t even playing in the same league; do you at all understand by what order of magnitude the national debt under Obama has been increased?
Part of the desired transformation (or, better, the mechanism by which said transformation is to be achieved) actually seems to involve destroying the US economic system. He’s doing his best.
Obama was working to destroy the economy well before he was ever elected to the Senate, in the manner prescribed by Saul Alinsky and Cloward-Piven.
As the federal government worked to force lenders to extend mortgages to those who could never repay them, Obama the Community Organizer trained ACORN scum to invade banks and bankers’ homes to force/embarrass them into extending those loans. As a lawyer, he was a part of a lawsuit against Citibank, charging that they were discriminating against the [unable to repay] poor; the case was settled (as are most harassment lawsuits).
The Dems will never admit that Jimmah Carter’s CRA, put on steroids beginning in the early years of Clinton and the whole thing facilitated by Fannie & Freddie’s lowering of the qualifications of mortgage loans they’d buy from lenders all combined to make the failure of the economy almost certain.
The Dems’ hard work to bring down the economy as soon as they gained control of Congress was quite possibly more successful than they had hoped, but at least it did get Obama and even more Dems elected, so that at long last the liberal dream of ObamaCare might come true, not to mention a trillion dollars of pork to spread, another Democrat dream. Too bad the economy is even harder to reverse than it was to drive it over the cliff! And too bad they continue to work to make the economic ruin irreversible, again in the mode of Cloward-Piven, and facilitated by the Alinsky method.
And count on Sweatt and the other Leftists paid to post here and on any conservative site to continue to support The Teleprompter, who passes out free goodies from his stash to all who will agree to refuse honest work.
Amen, sister. Amen.
Yeah, I miss those days too. You could still read the paper, get a litany of the latest presidential foibles, subtract out the bias and conclude that things were mostly OK. Not like the sh*t were in now.
Oddly, Bush’s prescription drug plan — which I opposed — is the first government give-away that has stayed under projected cost.
Gee, I hope ObamaCare does as well — don’t you?
The remainder of your rant is pure liberal propaganda, most of which survives only because Bush was a turn-the-other-cheek guy rather than a fight-like-a-pitbull-on-every-charge guy like Clinton. And yes, I do hold that against Bush. By allowing the opposition to demonize him without a fight, he facilitated the election of the present teleprompter-in-chief — whose part in the current economic situation was substantial, even before he entered the Senate! Hail to the community organizer, trainer of ACORN banker-harassers!
ignoring the constitution…
Seriously? By adding that, you imply that the current President doesn’t?
And what’s wrong with Dick Cheney? He shoots lawyers, doesn’t he?
As for Valerie Plame, get real. She was a desk jockey who got “outed” by Richard Armitage at State. She was also barely competent and her husband is a strutting buffoon.
What’s wrong with Dick Cheney is only that he missed.
Fanatical leftists like Dennis Sweatt will still obsess over Bush in 2020 and 2025…
Look at how memorized and broken-record-like his unintelligent rant is.
Clinton left us 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden! The Sudan offered him atleast 3 times and Clinton turned it down! His excuse? He had to campaign for Gore in 2000. Gore was too buisy to visit. That was their answer. Seriously. Clinton met with CIA Head Jim Woolsley only twice!
Outing a CIA officer? You mean Valerie Plame? The one who went through the front door of the CIA and sat at a desk for 5 years? As former ex-CIA covert agent Robert Baer said, “If you go through the front door at headquarters, then you aren’t covert.” Plus, Plame was outed by the Senate Intelligence Committee for LYING to them while testifying. Or have you not read that? Even the authors of the law said that she was NOT a covert agent.
Next time the NY Times outs our secrets, why not cry foul in the same way?
Iraq? Try the original reason for the end of the Gulf War in 1991. What was Saddam Hussein’s requirement? What was the Iraqi Liberation Act of 1998? I thought that Clinton said that Hussein was a threat to the world? Hans Blix thought Iraq had hid their WMD’s. He asked one month prior where 1,000 pounds of chemicals were. Saddam’s regime awarded two Russian Army Generals medals approx. 3 weeks prior to the invasion. And why did the U.S. have to get a Canadian ship to haul off the rest of the chemicals out of Iraq after the war?
Deficit? Bush’s last budget deficit was only approx $585 billion compared to Obama’s $1.3 trillion. Obama has spent more than any President previously combined. Did you know that the Democrat’s redistrubtion of weatlh of entitlement spending (Social security, Medicare, Medicaid) has costs far more than the wars in Iraq, Afgahnistan, Vietnam and Korea combined!
Ignoring the Consitution? Obama and the democrats have ignored it completely! They’ve ignored it since Woodrow Wilson! Does passing Obamacare give you any alarm bells? Please spare us. Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme in world history.
President Bush did NOT pardon Scooter Libby. Get your facts straight.
Feeding information to Fox News? Uh, have you not heard that GE owns MSNBC which does business with the WH? Can you say Wind Turbines?
……”uh, I feel a tingly feeling go up my leg!” (Not!)
Oh, and Ted Turner of CNN is a conservative…LOL! Did you not watch Katie Couric walk off the set of the set when Bush won in 2000?
Please, stop slurping the kool-aid. You’ve been fed a pack of lies.
Get educated.
@ Dennis Sweatt
9/11, broken economy, outed CIA operative, Iraq where Osama Bin Laden never set foot, tax breaks for the rich adding to the deficit, failed prescription health care, false evangelism, secret prisons, failed to capture Osama Bin Laden, trillion dollar debt, Lied about firing Rumsfield, mission accomplished banners, failed foreign policies, Katrina, Dick Cheney, illegal wire taps, torture, ignoring the constitution…
Let’s see, 9/11 not Bush’s fault, Inherited from Clinton economy, CIA F*&^up, Iraq had NOTHING TO DO WITH GETTING OSAMA BIN LADEN, Your right about the tax breaks, Prescription health care could have helped (if given an honest chance), False evangelism is a matter of opinion, WHAT PRISON?, CLINTON WAS OFFERED BIN LADENS HEAD ON A PLATTER BY THE SAUDI GOVERNMENT (TWICE!!!) AND OBAMA HASN’T CAPTURED HIM EITHER, Trillion (singular) dollar debt opposed to Obama’s TRILLIONS (plural), GO RUMSFIELD!!, Your right he jumped the gun with the banners, screw foreign policies, Katrina wasn’t Bush’s fault!!!!!, Dick Cheney is still one of the smartest people to ever walk through the doors of the white house, I AGREE with you Illegal wire taps, The torture wasn’t illegal!!!! the CONSTITUTION DOES NOT APPLY TO PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY, that’s like all these people here ILLEGALLY asking for their rights!!!!
In short you got 2/18 right!! Your about as smart as Betty Knows!!
I miss Ronnie, and now I miss George
With those guys, you knew you had a President who loved America unabashedly, warts and all
obama does not- he loves government, he loves ideology, he loves the BS proletarian faux struggle foisted upon mankind by marxism
Oops, you forgot Obama really loves himself…I mean like, REALLY!
What took 20 years for Truman has taken 18 months for Dubya. He would be a strong contender in 2012 if it wasn’t illegal, since he actually does seem to care about the law and little stuff like that.
But, you know, all politicians lie. It’s the nature of the beast, since nobody could ever be elected if they actually said exactly what they think.
Except with the current gang, it’s another matter entirely. Truth telling should have been VDH’s #1 item. Not so much because of Dubya’s honesty, but because of Obama’s universe of lies. The deliberate, elaborate, monumental lies are what is fueling the unmatched fury the country feels, even more than the economic mess we are in and the incompetence of the regime. Maybe 10% were hoping for Socialism. The rest wanted some rest for our military, and relief from the constant hatred the media heaped on Mr. Bush. 54% bought the fantasy of the milk chocolate Obama cotton candy.
The president got the job because of the greatest deception in US history. It’s surreal in scope and execution. The entire campaign was a bizarre ruse. The Moron’s life is nothing more than an artful lie. The country submitted to group hypnosis. It’s really the most extraordinary thing that has ever happened in this country, and the most dangerous. This presidency is a Hollywood set. The country is being run into the ground by a movie script run amok.
Is there a single thing they promised that they have done? From the Great Stimulus Robbery, to the secret Islam / Chicago mutual protection pact, to health care “reform” that will chop years off of all of our lives…who but a few on the right had a clue about any of that and a hundred other things?
We are the victims of the most preposterous sleight of hand every conceived.
all polliticians lie. Anonymous the obummer didn’t lie. he promised change. and boy did he deliver. I dont recall ever hearing him promise anything but CHANGE. I kept saying to the tv when he was running his mouth about change and change you can beleive in (wup) he did lie. because he didn’t bring the change I beleive in.ok so he told that one lie during his campaign. boy has he ever made up for it since he moved into the oval office,I am still amazed that so many STUPID IDIOTS voted for him when he would never say just what the change would be. I was strongly considdering voting for him but when he could never come up with anything but change I went with Palin/McCain. Lordy I am glad I didn’t vote for the LIEING BASTARD,
No, don’t come back Bush.
The grandson of Prescott Bush, financier of the Nazis via the UBC – son of GHWB, tax raiser and one of the few to have the guts to publicly utter the phrase “New World Order”. Bush I was also a war hero and a fantastic pilot – an odd juxtaposition. Remember ‘Operation Just Cause’ in Panama – protect the drug money coming in from Panama? Jeb Bush was the bagman for one of the drops. What an odd coincidence that the Bush family owns a bunch of resort hotels in Panama, even though it isn’t a vacation destination for them or anyone else. Are you rally telling me the Navy Seals ‘navigated incorrectly’ and were ambushed surfacing by one of the canal locks? The Seals?? I know, I’m one of those wacky conspiracy theorists.
No, this is not a family to wish to ‘come back’. The “Security and Prosperity Partnership” (North American Union) of 2005 – practically a plan to erase our sovereignty by fiat? Conservatives, do we want this? Creating a big pharma entitlement handout of ANY kind? Under GWB the US / Mexican border became more porous than ever, spending skyrocketed, and the US went against George Washington’t famous “beware foreign entanglements”. Either the Republican Conservative faction is going to get back to its roots, or it will die on the vine, and we’ll be purely socialist by 2012. Stop being the world’s babysitter, end the eternal wars, beef up the military for our own defense, slash spending and get rid of the Fed and go back to the gold standard. If GWB is thought of for a minute as a ‘conservative’, and we wish for him to come back, then we have already lost.
“The grandson of Prescott Bush, financier of the Nazis via the UBC…”
It was William Averell Harriman, henchman and crony of Roosevelt and numerous other Democrat presidents who owned UBC outright, not Prescott Bush, Simple Simon. And it was liberal Democrat William Averell Harriman who, as you put it, was the “financier of the Nazis” even while the United States was at war with Germany.
Now get back to propaganda school, and learn how to come up with some newer and more convincing lies. The old ones aren’t cutting it.
If grandchildren are to be faulted for teh sins of their grand-fathers I pity your grand=children.
… and just imagine … even with all these warts, he’d be a better choice than MaObama!!?
Idiot much?
Are you seriously proposing that GWB is responsible for the sins of the grandfather and father? I thought Japan was tough, allowing the inheritance of debt.
I’m not a big fan of GWB, mainly because he did nothing to reign in the government monster that is devouring all before it. It took an Obama to make him look good.
I hadn’t realized that I had gone to the Huffington Post website – I thought I was at VDH’s ‘Works and Days’. I guess criticism of one’s gods is not allowed. Dave, Prescott Bush was one of the seven directors of the bank – you need to expand your sources. I won’t even go into his involvement with the American Birth Control League and helping out Planned Parenthood. Are those lies too? Can you show me how I’m wrong? I’d appreciate it.
It’s a shame that criticism of a Democratic Socialist like Bush is not allowed. The ad hominem attack is a favorite of the left. I have no problem with people more learned than I am pointing me in the right direction, but the sad responses fit in perfectly with the NYTimes crowd. MarkD – you’re right, perhaps I have gone too far, but I was taught in the NYC public school system before it fell apart, and my teachers, in effect, said ‘turn every page’. Keep following sources and read all you can. The old Conservatives I was raised by welcomed criticism and debate. I guess those types are all gone. Now it is “lies” and “idiot much”. On a conservative site written by one of the preeminent historians of our age. I guess the Socialist / Alinsky types have won after all.
The rush to defend a guy who borrowed and spent hundreds of billions of dollars (instead of trillions), did all he could to erode our borders – especially the southern one, and failed miserably to rein in the Fed is not to be taken to task?
VDH is right – Obama makes Bush look good, but I don’t want Bush back, and other than the 2 SCOTUS appointments, I fail to see the positive legacy. Have I been misled?
You’re just spewing left wing propaganda, and you ought to know better.
Prescott Bush worked for a liberal Democrat who owned all kinds of businesses in Germany. That’s what the truth is. Prescott Bush wasn’t financing the Nazis. The claim is 100% nonsense.
You’re not telling the truth AND you’re helping the liberal Democrat when you do that, and I’m going to jump right down your throat every time you do it.
Fair enough Dave, but you look stupid when you defend, automaton like, people who are not representative of true conservative values. GWB and the “North American Union” is straight out of the International Socialist / World Government / UN playbook. GWB signed it with a smile. It was an attempt to obliterate US sovereignty. Our border was opened fully with Mexico. Walk me through the conservative part of that.
And then you engage in ‘messageboard machismo’. “Jump down my throat”?? Please don’t try to intimidate online. We can have a reasoned discourse, and I’ll dig deeper on the grandaddy Bush thing, and his pro choice self, as you seem to have a firm grasp of this.
It’s fine to disagree with an individual policy, it’s fine to criticize.
It’s not fine to falsely accuse men of financing the Nazis.
That’s NOT o.k.
It’s also counter-productive to attack people who are generally on your side, because it lets people who ARE NOT on your side get political power.
The Republicans are not perfect, but they’re a lot closer to perfect than the Democrats are, and there IS NO OTHER OPTION. Attacking people like Bush will only serve to let people like Gore, or Obama get elected. And, that’s bad.
If you want to go down that road, that’s your business, but it isn’t right to go down that road slandering a man as a Nazi financier, when he wasn’t. That’s not fair to the memory of Prescott Bush, and it’s not fair to his family.
Its patriotic to question your leaders. They work for you.
My second Ranger Buddy was a Seal,LTJG. He lasted one day. Flunked Land Nav. Oh, my first was a marine. Failed the 3 and 4 mile run.
Any other myths you need debunked?
Yes, Mr. Poe – one more myth. “I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system”. This was the explanation for the Bush era Keynsian stimulus. A very leftist economic move, and totally removed from capitalist methodology. Can you please debunk the myth that this is part of capitalism, and one of the tenets of Adam Smith’s magisterial work “Wealth of Nations”. I’d settle for a column by Thomas Sowell explaining how Fabian Socialist J. M. Keynes fits into the capitalist economic model. Bush’s handout to the banks was wretched – almost as bad as his attempt to have OUR sovereign ports controlled by Dubai Ports World. (was that a myth too?)
C’mon people. You’re allowed to be a Republican or a Conservative without licking GWB’s boots.
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
Thomas Jefferson
The Iraqi State is the only thing that may fail, we will have to wait and see. These two wars of choice are layed at the feet of the self proclaimed boy prince “W” and his henchmen Cheney, but don’t let the facts stop you. Your party started the wars, my party will clean your mess up whether you like it or not so quit crying. You party lost we won tough break, get over it. Deal with the truth!
Military operations against Iraq began under Bush I, military operations against Afghanistan began under Clinton, dolt. Bush II started (or initiated) a war with exactly nobody.
And, unless I miss my guess, your fabulous party, which managed to get well over 1,000,000 Americans killed in wars, they either started or bungled us into, over the last 150 years is poised to get a well-deserved ass-kicking at the polls in a couple of months.
But, if it doesn’t work out that way, we’ll muddle through somehow. If we can survive disasters like Jefferson Davis, Woody Wilson and FDR, we can tough it out under a vacuous clown like Obambi and a Jim Crow-o-crat Congress for a couple of more years.
Hopefully, at some point, America will wise up and we’ll go back to Republican rule in America like we had almost constantly from 1861-1933, because while we can survive occaisonal “liberal” tyrannies and Democrat petty despots, we won’t survive generation after generation of it.
HEAR HEAR Dave. so very well put my friend,and so true,
I agree with this 100% Dave. My faith is ‘Republican leadership’ has been sorely shaken. This Neocon thing is all wrong – the Old Republicans are what we need – no foreign entanglements, strong defense, balanced budget, sound money, let the American do his or her thing without gov’t interference.
Unless the Fed and the PATRIOT act are dismantled, along with credence of the UN, Obamacare, Soc Security, and a host of other gov’t abominations, we’re just whistling past the graveyard. I think you may have mistook my position as the same as ‘Montana’. You couldn’t be farther from the truth.
There was bi-partisan support for Afganistan after 9/11. Any sane American supported dismanteling the terror sponsering Taliban. Same with Iraq – Congress authorized military action. Facts. Here’s another one – January 1, 2006 – Dow was at 13000 and unemployment was at 4.9% with a deficit of 200 billion after 6 years of Bush. Then Democrats took over. Now what do we have – a mess. Congratulations – you won and millions of Americans are suffering as a result.
montana you really need to get off the koolaid boy,
“You party lost we won tough break, get over it.”
See you in November, 2010 and 2012. I’m sure you will be quite magnanimous in your resounding repudiations. In the interim, see if you can learn a little bit of punctuation.
No, burying a small mess underneath a much larger, much fouler pile != ‘cleaning up’. Try again during the bonus round.
Oh geez. “two wars of choice” “henchmen[sic]“! “Your party lost”
Nice level of analysis there Montana. Really, the most amazing thing is that “your party” managed to totally squander its mandate in a little over 18 months by laying bare its progressive agenda. You fooled yourselves into thinking that the public wanted fundamental institutional (utopian inspired) change instead of pragmatic fixes to specific issues.
Well you guessed wrong bud. And the price will be paid in November and again in 2012. Don’t you get this? Or are you sitting comfortably in your blue state cocoon unaware that the tide has turned decisively against “your party”?
Sucks to be you.
Apparently, Montana thinks the Republicans started the war in Afghanistan.
What responsibility do the Taliban who controlled that country have, Montana, for the September 11th attacks?
Or was that just some ‘tragedy’ like an act of God (a hurricane or earthquake or what-have-you), instead of an act of war?
I remember the Taliban’s first disgusting act of blowing up the Buddhas of Bamyan, hundred’s of feet tall that had been carved into the side of a cliff in 507 and 554 A.D.
When I saw the towers going down on September 11th, my first thought was that “the perpetrators of this are the same ones who destroyed the carving of the Buddha”.
How can so many be disconnected and ignorant of these facts as to misconstrue and characterize so negatively, the very groups that defend them!?
The War on Terror in Afghanistan was a war of choice?
Really?
I suggest you keep up to date on the news a little better. If you did, you might have heard of a little something called the Attacks on the United States on September 11th, 2001 (AKA the 9/11 Attacks). It was the latest battle in a war declared against the US by Islamic Fanatics that goes back to the Attack on the USS Cole in 2000, the Attack on the US Embassies in Africa in 1998, the Attack on the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the First Attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, all the way back to the Attack on the Marine Barracks in Beirut in 1983.
So if you honestly think the War Against Terror in Afghanistan is a war of choice, you have been living on another planet and likely one in a completely different galaxy.
Why do you liberals continue to make derogatory comments about Bush and his administration and defend a POS like Obama??? Obama has not done ONE thing right since he has been in office and apparently he needs to take vacations every other week!!! I cannot remember ANY US President in the last 30 years that has taken as many vacations as King Obama.
I am proud to be a supporter of President Bush and if liberals don’t like that, go jump in a lake!!
There are any number of issues that I may have had with President Bush, from his failure to secure the border to over the top government spending. But damn I sure do miss him.
Dr. Hanson:
I always enjoy your work, here and elsewhere. May I expand your points a bit?
(1) Mr. Bush did indeed occasionally abandon conservative principles and engage in leftist inanities such as over spending on social programs and bits of idiocy like No Child Left Behind. In a sense, he can be forgiven for such things in that he did not represent himself as a dyed in the wool conservative, and the one area where even many solid conservatives sprint rather than wander off the reservation is in the field of education where they seem all too happy to impose federal mandates on individuals and local governments. However, in any presidential record comparison, Mr. Bush comes off far better then Mr. Obama, even now. In the foreseeable future, Mr. Bush’s stock will rise, much like Harry Truman’s. But there is one area that cannot be disputed, as much as Mr. Obama and the media (is there a difference?) would like to try: Mr. Bush kept us safe with no successful domestic attacks in the many years following 9-11. Bush: 0. Obama 3 and counting in less than two years.
(2) The only surprise is that Mr. Obama could be convinced not to be utterly politically (and potentially, nationally) suicidal in vital policy choices. That he is praised for doing what any minimally competent and rational POTUS should do indicates how far he, and democrats, have lowered our expectations of our leaders. Truly scary and utterly disgusting.
(3) In all things, Mr. Bush demonstrated a genuinely calm and Christian demeanor, privately greeting and comforting our troops and their families, genuinely sharing their tears and hopes instead of faux “feeling their pain.” He did not stoop to the levels of reflexive, daily, partisan, venomous sniping that defines the character of Mr. Obama and his advisors and appointees. I’ll never forget Mr. Bush’s surprise holiday visit to the troops in Iraq. I’m a veteran. I know when the troops appreciate such visits and when they are merely giving the minimum deference required. On that occasion, their delight and pride in their commander in chief was obvious and freely given. I’ve seen nothing like it regarding Mr. Obama whose advance PR flacks have often allowed only soldiers who avowedly support Obama close to him and who have actually handed out digital cameras to those soldiers so they can be photographed photographing Mr. Obama. Mr. Bush is the real thing, and all Mr. Obama can do is, like a child caught in the act, blame his older, wiser sibling. It’s not attractive.
(4) Americans recognize manly character. George Bush has it. Barack Obama does not. He’s like the actor who plays a man on TV. When Mr. Bush was photographed in a flight suit, leftists went berserk, because even they can recognize the real thing, and they know they have nothing like it. Mr. Bush looked like a fighter pilot because he is a fighter pilot. Mr. Obama is, at best, a Dukakis-like weenie in a tank. Can anyone imagine Mr. Obama doing an endo (end over end crash) at speed on a mountain bike on rugged terrain? Thought not. Americans aren’t comfortable with anyone they fear can’t be trusted with basic, common power tools. Or a hammer.
(5) Mrs. Bush (both Mrs. Bushes): Class over a steel core. Mrs. Obama: A thin veneer of whine, lack of grace and unearned sense of entitlement over a core of unfocused resentment. Designer glasses, clothing and shoes can’t disguise that.
(6) That George Bush would even think about bowing to foreign leaders, apologizing for America, praising and defending her enemies, or any of Mr. Obama’s serial insults to Americans and American allies, let alone act upon such, is unfathomable. That it is not only eminently fathomable, but the very definition of Mr. Obama’s character is repulsive, frightening, and very, very dangerous.
(7) Considering the fact that the entire energies of the lame stream media, the Democrat party, the academy, and not a few feckless Republicans were focused on daily disparagement of Mr. Bush for some six years, it’s remarkable that his approval rating was as high as it was when he left office. Considering that all of those entities, including a few feckless Republicans have been daily focused on the praise and aggrandizement of even Mr. Obama’s fingernail clippings for almost two years, one must consider how truly incompetent, venal and dangerous he actually is to have the approval ratings he now has.
(8) In the years to come, Bush’s “disasters,” like those of Harry Truman, will be seen in a far more rational light because they have been grossly exaggerated and demagogued from their inception There is nowhere to go but up. Mr. Obama’s, however, are quite the opposite and the destructive consequences of many already enacted and many that may be enacted have yet to be experienced. That bitter taste of those experiences left in history’s mouth will not be pleasant and will have the half life of plutonium. As to Katrina culpability, state and local incompetence and dependency: 90%. Federal culpability: 10%.
(9) Had there been any real corruption in the Bush administration, is there any doubt that those responsible would be doing hard time? The best Mr. Bush’s drooling, slavering critics were able to accomplish was the unfortunate Scooter Libby. If the Justice Department was not completely corrupted, the prison in Thompson, IL would be full of Obama officials.
(10): George Bush: Genuine American. Barack Obama: Barack Obama.
Miss me yet? Yes Mr. Bush, we do.
Mr. McDaniel,
Very well said. As a fellow veteran, I have been seething with resentment of this Teleprompter-in-Chief who has been bowing and scraping to foreign leaders while using the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines who are risking their lives for this country as political theater. The duplicity and contempt he has for our citizens in uniform is palpable. He used the entire Corps of Cadets at West Point as window dressing to tell the American people that he was going to make a half-hearted attempt in Afghanistan, then pull out just in time to be able to claim an empty victory for purposes of the 2012 campaign. Did you think our enemies world wide weren’t watching, and marking their calendars, Obama?
Then, when an unstable MUSLIM opened fire on his fellow soldiers, Obama was nowhere to be found. At least until he could figure a safe way to say nothing substantial. Bush would have been on a plane.
Obama is a true product of the DemoRat machine. An empty suit, programmed to pursue the politics of class warfare that the DNC believes is the ticket to power. The DNC is only concerned with perpetuating their grip on power, not in leading or improving this country.
Mr. and Mrs. W were there. They came to comfort the wounded and the survivors of the murderous Muslim crime.
Mike you really hit it plumb out of the park and so very true,
Note how closely Mr. O resembles the disappointment in Mayoir Nagin (and the corruption in Louisiana writ large). My sense is government is seldom more than a 5% concern of the populace (which is why special interests can dictate to DC). And when times are good most anyone can sit in the chair and stumble along. When crisis hits we see just how sound the institution is (like a hammer ringing a bell).
Florida’s mayors and governors have experienced more hurricane trials (and even larger destruction and disruptions) than New Orleans and done uniformly better. Maybe practice, maybe experience, but clearly better governance either in its absence (citizens knowing they must be responsible) or in reality.
What is clear from Katrina is that dependence leads to loss and death when crisis hits. Next up, 300 million teats.
I agree with every word.
Once again, outstanding work Dr. Hanson. You lined up the target with the utmost in cool and calm deliberation and detachment – like the finest marksman. I especially liked points nine and ten. Five years ago the mainstream media continually prattled away on what they termed Bush’s arrogance. Now we have someone in the WH who really personifies it, but with a demeanor that is both petulant and imperious. O brings to mind the Emperor Commodus played by Joaquin Phoenix in the movie Gladiator – but with none of the cunning.
O brings to mind the Emperor Commodus played by Joaquin Phoenix in the movie Gladiator – but with none of the cunning.
Yep, none of the cunning…..that’s why Rahm Emanuel & David Axelrod still have jobs.
Here’s the part I don’t understand. Even if one were an Obama supporter and completely agree that all the ills of the world are Bush’s fault, didn’t Obama’s supporters elect him to solve said problems rather than spend four years blaming the cause? That he was elected to fix the f*ckups not tell us who caused them doesn’t ever get mentioned by the right or left medias.
That is called accountability and responsibility, not exactly staples of the liberal left.
I always try to think it through as if this was an executive management team of a publicly traded company. It works on so many levels (stimulus unemployment “guidance”, poor capital allocation/ROIC decisions, hiring of unqualified employees, back room deals, back tracking, revisionist history, failed promises and outright lies, lack of strategic discipline, political decisions, zero responsibility for anything, etc, etc)and the outcome would always be the same – these clowns would have been fired within 12 months.
Can you imagine a new management team taking over a restructuring/turnaround situation, failing spectacularly, and every step of the way blaming their predecessors? Shareholders LOVE that.
We had an understanding of all of this prior to 20JAN09.
VDH wrote particularly magnanimously with restraint for many months, but between the lines we knew that he knew that the deeds of our historic first Islamic apostate president would expose the authoritarian agenda of his regime by the time we go to vote.
The founders prayed that government would be held accountable by insuring a free press. Now we appreciate the wisdom of those men. There is no such thing as a little bit unconstitutional or a little bit pregnant or a liitle bit untrue. Once you legalize all abortions you can justify damn near any repugnant act.Needs become rights, indifference becomes impartiality and soon we are uncertain about what the meaning of is…is. Progressives…exit stage left, now! That roar you hear is the sound of change,real and born of freedom and in defence of liberty..Like all worthwhile battles this one will not be easily won, but free men and women of all races and religions will find a way to remain free in America.
John, I’m a Canadian and have been watching what has been happening in your country with great interest. I saw many months ago a sea change, one that was going to be dramatic and a once-in-a-lifetime event. It is inspiring to see the everyday man and woman stand up. Sure, Americans take a lot of heat but I don’t know of a more generous people on the face of the Earth who give without strings attached.
Your Constitution and Bill of Rights are a beacon to the world. And despite what your ruling class says, they are incredible documents that are the envy of oppressed people around the globe and do not need to be changed or altered. Protect them with everything you have. The world needs them.
Freedom is fleeting and it can disappear in a generation. Only the US can preserve it.
I wanted to get to Beck’s rally on 8/28 just to see it (a Woodstock-type moment where I could say that I was there when the world changed) but couldn’t. The world is watching and the everyday person is behind you, if not in person, in spirit. God bless America.
John, I’m a Canadian and have been watching what has been happening in your country with great interest. I saw many months ago a sea change, one that was going to be dramatic and a once-in-a-lifetime event. It is inspiring to see the everyday man and woman stand up. Sure, Americans take a lot of heat but I don’t know of a more generous people on the face of the Earth who give without strings attached.
Your Constitution and Bill of Rights are a beacon to the world. And despite what your ruling class says, they are incredible documents that are the envy of oppressed people around the globe and do not need to be changed or altered. Protect them with everything you have. The world needs them.
Freedom is fleeting and it can disappear in a generation. Only the US can preserve it.
I wanted to get to Beck’s rally on 8/28 just to see it (a Woodstock-type moment where I could say that I was there when the world changed) but couldn’t. The world is watching and the everyday person is behind you, if not in person, in spirit. God bless America.
One more thing – Bush’s joking, self-deprecating reaction when he had a shoe thrown at him – difficult to imagine Obama, or many other pols on either side – reacting with such grace.
Obama, after recovering from his injuries, would’ve had Holder file suit against the shoe-tosser…1st in lower Manhattan, then in Arizona.
I thought about this recently and can’t imagine The Won managing to duck out of the way in time.
Oh, Obama will duck, all right.
In the process of ducking, he will bang his noggin on the lectern, and issue a statement “Let me be clear, I inherited this (Bush) desk….”
We miss Bush because he had a set of NADS.
We miss Bush because he LOVED the UNITED STATES of AMERICA.
We miss Bush because he did what HAD to be done after the 9/11 attacks.
We miss Bush because our economy was rockin’ and a rollin’ until the Dems took Congress.
Bobo Hussein whackadoodle?
He hates the USA and her Allies.
He hates the 60-65% of us AMERICANS who can’t stand HIM and poll against his whacko crappola time and time AGAIN. But, now, the ‘MAJORITY’ of ‘AMERICANS’ are the CIC’s ‘worst enemies.
Wow. Just frackin’ WOW.
No, this party-hardying, pot-tokin’, high-life livin’, frat boy Libtard is NOT from this Country. He’s NOT FROM THIS PLANET!
Earth to Mars, your idiot is missing.
Right Delia, but you forgot “Thunder and Lightning” Michelle. She hates the honk and our country even more than our Loser-in-Chief.
Bleh. How did we get here?
I am a Conservative. I do not miss Bush’s politics. I do miss, however, the decorum he and Laura Bush displayed.
Even the Dems before Clinton understood the need for a Presidential air. Carter was a bad President, but he was not a barbarian squatting in the Whitehouse.
I wish I could be as glowing in my reminesence of George Bush. . . I keep going back to “why didn’t he seal the border with Mexico? Why was he opposed to the Minutemen?” Don’t forget his quote that “Islam is a great religion”, or that after looking into the eyes of that sob Putin, this was someone ” he knew he could trust”.. . . All this sounds like the children of Israel wishing they were back in Egypt, although things werent much better for them when they were.I think he is a better man than the “o”, but he was no Reagan.
The border problem was a major GWB misstep in this regard, he was thinking Texan not Nationally. We here in Texas have a different perspective in regards to the Mexican situation, they are assimilated and we understand and welcome there presence. The vast majority are hard working and have contributed in many different and positive ways to the growth and wealth of this state. The drug problem is a shadow that is overwhelming in its ugly presence and must be solved both in Mexico and the US. Migrant workers is a supply and demand situation and we are seeing a decrease in border crossing due to a lack of employment. The headlines and difficulties lie in the drug trade and its terrible effects. Just maybe, shudder, we should actually try the Milton Freedman approach and legalize the damn stuff. Legalize it, tax it, and stigmatize the users.
Why doesnt Texas take over the drug-infested northern tier of Mexican states? Its sad, but most people, even a lot of back-east and deep south conservatives, wouldnt lift a finger for Texas if Mexico invaded. But let ingrate California get invaded, and you would see a reinstatement of the draft.
GWB was the best president Jews and Mexicans will ever have.
Is it really worth of Dr. Hanson’s time and intellect to defend George W. Bush? I’m not a Bush hater, but the man was a tremendous disappointment.
Category 2 mentions “petulance and ingratitude.” I voted for G. W. Bush because his father had been a very effective President. If George W. got in trouble, I was confident George H.W. would help him out. Just as Vito guided Michael in “The Godfather,” to use a movie metaphor.
Now imagine my horror when I read that G. W. refused any advice or guidance from his highly skilled and seasoned father. “Petulance and ingratitude,” indeed. Why would Bush deserve any “credit” from a stranger, Obama, when he was unwilling to acknowledge his own father’s wisdom?
That level of arrogance and petulance and ingratitude may well have cost lives.
Category 3 mentions that “Bush let the slander of a Michael Moore or Keith Olbermann go unanswered.” This was not admirable, it was a terrible mistake. Bush seemed to lose interest during his time in office. He didn’t bother to challenge his critics or communicate with his friends.
He let his enemies define his policies because he no longer cared. If Bush were serious about driving his agenda, why would he put a worthless hump like Scott McClellan out in front for so long?
Again, I’m not a Bush hater, I voted for him twice (Gore and Kerry were grotesque). I just believe that any effort spent trying to redeem G. W. or “credit” him is wasted. In fact, resurrecting the reputation of Bush now will only help the Democrats trying to survive the midterm elections.
“Now imagine my horror when I read that G. W. refused any advice or guidance from his highly skilled and seasoned father.”
Source? If this were something written by Al Franken I would hardly take it too seriously. We would need to know why the author of this claim would be considered both reliable and knowing of what he wrote before we could assign this claim much in the way of credibility.
In any event, if the worst that can be said of any President is that he was a man in his own right rather than the handpuppet of his parents then we need not think him a bad President at all. ^_~
Besides, on what basis do we love George H.W. Bush’s Brent Scowcroft and James Baker, as policy makers? Remember, they served on that figure-out-what-to-do-in-Iraq commission that was to advise W., and didn’t recommend the surge. Thank God he didn’t listen to them, and went with the surge (against the ‘advice’ of Senators Obama and Biden, for that matter, too).
Yes, it is true that Obama-san has flushed trillions down the crapper. Yes, it is true that he demeans the United States, sucks up to the Moslem world, and apologizes ad nauseum to our erstwhile friends and enemies alike. And he relentlessly beats his breast concerning America’s many shortcomings while studiously avoiding mention of anything positive about his (?) homeland. And seems to be devoid of any real emotion (I believe the correct tem is alexothymia). And as Commander in Chief he is a bit of a joke (I suspect that the only weapon he has ever handled is a steak knife). And he seems to play a lot of golf, and vacation frequently. But hey, being Prez is a tough job. And he nows how to ‘kick ass’. That off the cuff remark tumblng out of the mouth of this effete, pampered, poseur was Obama’s cowboy moment. I am sure that the liberal intellectual elites felt a tingle up their legs when he uttered it. He’s a beer drinking real guy’s guy. Yup. We are blessed.
Yes, Obama has learned how to ‘kick ass’, so long as he has someone to help him carefully identify ‘whose ass to kick,’ as he himself so memorably said.
Can you see W needing someone to tell him who the a$$h-le is that needs kicking?
Remember when he used that precise designation as he pointed out a NYTimes writer (some guy named Adam Clymer) to Cheney, and Cheney agreed with Bush’s description of the guy, adding “big time”?
George W Bush was a total disaster for conservatives. He gave us Barack Obama.
Everybody is aware of the his disgraceful disregard for any fiscal constraint. But the biggest lie being perpetuated by his fans is that he made us safer. He did not!
GWB failed to even name who the enemy was after 9/11. He never acknowledged the evil in the Islamic texts going so far as to even call it a “religion of peace”. Under his watch Muslims flowed into our country in record numbers making us less safe with each passing day. He said he welcomed Muslims with open arms. Christians were exterminated in Muslim countries including Iraq (while under U.S. occupation) without a peep from him. We used the blood and treasure of our country to install Sharia based governments in both Iraq and Afghanistan which is the goal of the jihadists.
Iraq is not stable as the loopy VDH claims. It will disintegrate into a Muslim hellhole in short order. Now we have a Muslim sympathizer in the White House who surrounds himself with Muslim advisors.
GWB did nothing to end institutionalized racism against white people. He did nothing to end McCain Feingold. He did everything he could to continue the open borders policy while leaving our country vulnerable to a flood of illegal aliens who are murdering, raping and terrorizing U.S. citizens. He trampled on our Constitution.
It frightens me that so many people would even consider sending another Bush to represent our country and our Party.
Samuel:
Wrong. George Bush and Hillary Clinton together brought a precious gift to conservatives. Barack Hussein Obama.
Now all of the voters, including those conservatives have had a first hand look at the long sought after Utopia, as presented by the Marxist in chief.
Even John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and others of their ilk will have to move aside or get run over by the oncoming train.
Wise up in November and again in 2012 or it’s all over.
Do the right thing and just maybe the Republic can be sustained for awhile longer.
Marxists never give up, they regroup and come at you again and again and again. Just like the parasitic United Nations blood suckers.
And that’s why Victor Davis Hanson should run for the presidency in 2012. He would command no ship of fools.
Just another reason why electing someone like Obama with NO EXPERIENCE AT ALL is such a horrible idea. Obama never ran anything in his life, not a town, a city, a state, or even a major corporation, nothing at all, and yet people thought he had enough executive experience to run one of the most complicated nations and economies on the planet.
America, did we learn anything from this? November. The first step in putting an end to this madness comes in November. Then maybe we can bring some sanity back to this administration.
“Obama never ran anything in his life, not a town, a city, a state, or even a major corporation, nothing at all, and yet people thought he had enough executive experience to run one of the most complicated nations and economies on the planet.”
It was actually worse than that. Obama never so much as ran a LEMONADE STAND, let alone a major corporation. Yet when Sarah Palin was chosen as the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, the media was all over her for HER inexperience. While a single incomplete term as a governor in a small (population-wise) state may not be a lot in the greater scheme of things, it’s a heck of a lot more than what the Democrat PRESIDENTIAL candidate had.
Yet the media managed to play the “Palin is too inexperienced card” rather effectively. I’ve never understood how people overlooked that incredibly obvious reality and still voted for Obama despite his utter lack of experience with ANYTHING except being a “community activist”, one of the vaguest job titles ever created.
There are three (3) kinds of people.
1. Those who make things happen.
2. Those who watch things happen.
3. Those who do nothing.
Obama falls into category four (4)
4. Those whose alligator mouth overloads their hummingbird rear ends to the point that even those who do nothing (3.) can’t stand the sight of them.
The corruption of this administration is unprecedented. The pending election, it now appears, will be a resounding repudiation of these criminals. With the promised investigations and hearings the size and scale of outright theft and complete disregard of the law will be exposed. VDH will be responding at a hectic pace just to keep up. If the vacationing Kenyan survives until 2012 it will be a surprise, the GM robbery alone is and should be an impeachable offense.
Limousine liberals vs. Nascar conservatives
I’d bbq with the latter any day.
Karma. What a bitch.
Mis Bush? Heck yeah! One more thing: we never got the sense that Bush was a member of the political class, but that is Obama’s core identity.
Miss Bush? Heck, I even miss Clinton!
Hell, Nixon’s looking pretty good right about now
“He will pile up more debt than any other prior president.”
Clarification: He will pile up more debt than ALL prior presidents combined.
Excellent article, you hit every point that has been in my head since this socialist joker took office.
Wow, Dr. Hanson; you’re firing on all cylinders this morning if I must say so in my best Nascarese. Loved the “couldn’t stage a chain saw scene if they tried without serious injury” quip….
masterful
Great, as usual, and nice allusion to “Shane” in the headline. Thanks
Bottom Gun:
Late November, 2010:
Pilot Obama: “Start the check list.”
Ordnance Officer (GIB):
“Altitude zero, airspeed zero.
Pilot: “EJECT,EJECT!”
GIB: “NO!Wai….”
Sound:”Pop, WHOOSH,CLANG!”
GIB: “Uh…we are still in the hanger..To late now.”
Between VDH and MikeMcDaniel: I think the situation is pretty well summed up. Obama is the loser and Bush is the winner in the court of opinion. Personally, pretty much EVERYTHING obama and the demonrats support, I oppose. History will be kind to Bush – Obama not so much. Can we get rid of this guy yet?
The bottom line is that it’s always been clear that Bush feels comfortable in his own skin, the mark of a mature man. Obama does not. At 49, Obama is an adolescent still searching for an identity and for the integrity that allows a person to be sure of what he believes in and make firm decisions based on those beliefs. Basically, we have a senior citizen, two teenagers, and two children living in the White House, and one of the teenagers is calling the shots for the entire country. Scary.
The hypocrisy of Obama willing to take credit for Iraq’s success, but not for the financial mess… That is dead on.
I marched on the Mall last September, and when I got back, I put an “I miss W.” bumper sticker on the back of my car. Call me bitter. Call me clingy. These next two elections can’t come fast enough.
>>Bush was tarred in 2004 for a “jobless recovery” when unemployment hovered near 6%. It is now almost 10% and Obama still harps about “jobs saved.”<<
-The unemployment is directly attributable to the economic crash of 2008. Why did it crash? Unrestrained trading on Wall Street of loans made by banks and bundled as securities….a process that was started under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
…and spun up to a white-heat in 2007-2008 by the Dodd-Frank-Dingell triumvirate.
Leaving these fools out of the equation is like forgetting to mention Luis Gonzales in the 2001 World Series.
Explain what the “…..Dodd-Frank-Dingell triumvirate….” is, and how that affected the securitizing of bundled home loan refinances which fed the 2008 Wall Street crash?
Have you ever run a business?
When your business is required to serve customers who cannot or will not pay, your business becomes more vulnerable to the whiplash caused by a decline in revenue and an increase in costs. When your competitors also control your access to capital and can demand compliance with this insanity, knowing full well they will benefit from your losses: When the regulators (thugs) proffer guarantees for the folly, but only to your competitors (who in hindsight will take their bailout and crush you)while demanding endless compliance with rules your competitors hashed out with the regulators: When the market rewards the competitor’s management with fantastic rewards for derivative-folly: When you call the “police” and the “bosses” signal a warning (with name calling and labels – “back down or we will be investigating you”)…Then you will “get it.”
The rest of us understand: The 08 economic crisis was made by nothing more than the guarantee of financial rewards with little / no risk (apparently) and an absolute certainty of no criminal responsibility for any breach of any fiduciary duty no matter how egregious. These guarantees were offered by government to a certain portion of an industry for political motives to achieve political goals. (Cue quotes of meaningless regulations and laws which would never have been enforced). Alone, this was inadequate, to bring about the havoc: but these were combined with new “incentives” to take risks: e.g. audits for those who failed to comply (go along to get along) – and not just the obvious audits and green-mail lawsuits, but no doubt other dirty tricks such as squealing on the responsible to ensure compliance. (Regulations and laws enforced – including written and unwritten policies, and, oh yes, policies out of thin air – not policies which are never enforced.) Presto; irresponsibility for the collapse of an industry pays, while responsible parties are lambasted by government, and banks are guilty of a fiduciary breaches committed by someone else who profited from the very same malicious conniving(except in a few cases which I suppose were exemplars or political pay backs).
I’ve heard people say, ‘I like W. but…’ I always had great admiration for Bush. I’ve defended him on many blog threads like this.
Jeb/Sarah ’12
Kind of a side issue, but in reference to Bush’s brush clearing, for which he is still mocked, the brush clearing was to implement an ecological restoration project. The ecological illiterates in the press never reported on the tallgrass prairie restoration demonstration project, even though they were told about it repeatedly. It was either beyond the reporters’ understanding, or it just didn’t fit their narrative, but it’s a far more significant ecological project than Michelle’s awesome vegetable garden, and paid for by thousands of dollars of the Bush’s own money, plus a lot of sweat.
Laura gives a guide to how other ranchers can do what they did, and restore the upland gamebirds and excellent grazing land the early settlers found:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325568,00.html#
I hadn’t heard that before. Those prairie restoration projects are costly and require alot of work. I briefly considered restoring one acre to prairie when I lived in MN. Didn’t have the time, energy or money. Kudos to G&LB.
I think even 90% of BO voters would rather be in a fox hole with Bush. Imagine him throwing a grenade the way he pitches. You’d have better chances with Michelle even.
Let us not forget that the mainstream media, fed up with the Clintons, gave Bush favorable treatment in the run up to the 2000 election. The media detested Clinton, and by association, Gore. They glossed over GWB’s faults, and one sociologist noted that one of the network anchors always gave a brief smile before Bush’s name. I’m sure part of their vitriol towards Bush later was fueled by the realization that they had helped him win. My objection to being a Republican, before I considered being a Conservative, was this: The Republicans were more than willing to support businesses at the expense of free markets. Now Bush wasn’t really very conservative, but he was Republican.
I would mostly agree with Bush being authentic. The fact of the surge even happening means Bush was willing to accept what they had been doing didn’t work, and they needed to do something different. He didn’t insist the first idea just needed more, he was willing to switch to different. No, Bush wasn’t as great as he could have been, but he was a damn sight better than what came before and what has come after. Thank you, Mr. Bush.
Good points here, Milwaukee.
But I guess it must have been the 2004 election when Dan Rather tried so patently to peddle the obviously false ‘documents’ he had that were intended to cast some kind of doubt on Bush’s Air National Guard service.
Not even the storied anchor at CBS, heir to the sainted Cronkite and all that, could get away with promoting documents made in the computer age as being vintage typewritten stuff.
Had he done a few things differently, Bush 43 would’ve made a great President. Like pointing out Democrats’ shameless reversal on their Iraq war stance (they were all for it before they were against it), standing up to the manifold false attacks on his policies and actually closing our Southern border.
Compared to our current Presidente, he stands a full head and shoulders taller and has far more intellectual depth. At least GW knows how many states there are in the union.
Speaking as a Canadian, I can say that Bush, and most Republicans in general, are FAR better for my country than the gang in power now. People criticized Bush over a few minor gaffes, but at lease he never promised to have a meeting with the “President of Canada” the way Obabma did. My own experience with Americans in general is that conservatives either are familiar with and respectful of us, or they admit they know nothing about us and are interested in learning. In contrast, American liberals *know* about Canada and everything they *know* is media stereotypes. At the end of the day Conservatives who understand the value of trade are far better for my country than liberals who want to close the border to trade going either way.
“Obama’s problem is that Axelrod and Emanuel could not stage a chain-sawing task for Obama if they tried — severe injury would surely follow.”
That there’s comedy gold! I always enjoy your writing, Dr. Hanson, but that one had me spitting on my chin with laughter.
‘Spitting on my chin..’ is usually defined as ‘drooling’. Other than that, I liked the allusion.
More like slobbering.
VDH is on his game with this piece. I’ve enjoyed every one of his columns, but sometimes you can tell when he’s fired up.
George Bush is a gentleman. That is part of what rankles the Left. With all their trashy fake aristocrats, the Kennedy clan, the Clintons, mob daughter Pelosi, even the sad effort to make Michelle Obama seem glamorous, it burns them to run across the real thing. Bush discouraged dragging the country down with talk of “scumbags.” That is the kind of talk that belongs in Obamanation and that is why the country remembers Bush with fondness.
Thank you Dr. Hanson. Spot on.
I highly recommend that everyone go to Youtube and watch President Bush throw out the first ball for Game 3 of the World Series after 9/11.
Then go to CNET and watch the video of President Bush making the surprise trip to the troops in Iraq for Thanksgiving. Watch how the troops react.
I can’t help but well-up tears watching these videos.
How we miss you, Mr. President. Please forgive us for how we treated you so disrespectfully, so dishonorably.
Oh how we miss a real man, a real leader, a proud American who loves his country and its people.
I felt the same way, when I found those pictures of W and Laura meeting the planeload of returning servicemen and women from Iraq this summer.
He looked great, Laura was lovely as ever, the troops seemed overjoyed to spend time with him.
I would love some day to shake that man’s hand.
And topping all Hanson’s items, Bush was/ is a statesman and a gentleman, while Obama was, and will ever be slimy “community activist” -
“Community Activist” is far too noble a title to give to the current occupant of public housing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave….he’s a self-promoting con man with no honest skills that can be discerned.
The whole comparison of Bush to Obama is tiresome. As trite as the ‘apple to oranges’ simile.
Bush handed us Obama on a rusted tin plate and the GOP slathered pond scum on him as a sauce with McQueeg.
Now we are in a death spiral unable to pull up or even comprehend level flight. This is the consequence of creating a debauched populace by brainwashing in lieu of educating.
We are not that far away from a military dictatorship as chaos descends. Maybe the generals will bring back the actual constitution one day. Shouldn’t take longer than a generation or two.
Whatever happened to style and grace?
I guess elections do have consequences.
Style and Grace left the White House with President Bush. Now we have the wide-load hag.
9/11,
allowed the Bin Laden family to fly out of the US on 9/11
outed CIA operative Valerie Plame,
pardoned Scooter Libby,
Iraq (where Osama Bin Laden never set foot),
false evidence on WMD’s,
feeding information to Fox News,
tax breaks for the rich – adding to the deficit,
failed prescription health care,
false evangelism,
secret prisons,
failed to capture Osama Bin Laden,
trillion dollar debt,
Lied about firing Rumsfield,
mission accomplished banners,
failed foreign policies,
Katrina,
Dick Cheney,
Carl Rove,
illegal wire taps,
torture,
ignoring the constitution,
broken economy …
You want more? I got more…
Other than the obvious lies, 70% of the country supports everything on your list.
As one example of many, the vast majority of the country does not consider waterboarding to be torture. We not only support what was done, we consider it humane and we support its use in the future.
WOW !
A perfect specimen of “homo sovieticus” !!!
Perfectly brainwashed !!!
I am calling the Smithsonian.
Please don’t; He’s making a perfect exhibition for himself, and if the Smithsonian did create an exhibit of this deranged homo-sapiens, it would take up too much space in the basement, which would require removing air conditioning equipment.
And then, how would they get rid of the miasma?
Did I miss the big, scary “keeping suspected terrorists in a camp at Guantanamo bay” item in your list of Bush no-no’s?
How about rendition, Predator drone attacks, making lists of US citizens (like al-Awlaki) it’s OK to shoot on sight?
Yo, genius — It’s Karl Rove.
As Bugs would say, “what a maroon.”
Do tell, sir, how it feels to live with all that chain link and barbed wire in your head?
Is it all as utterly clueless and ridiculous as what you’ve listed so far?
If so, then no, we don’t want more. We’ve heard all those lies from Moore, Kos and Obama.
You “got” more what? Kos talking points? Beyond that, Sweattball, you have ,as does your messiah, nothing
Bush commuted Libby’s 30 month prison sentence, but he failed to fully pardon Libby.
Another reason to view GWB with contempt.
The one at the bottom of Dennis Sweatt’s list…..
“broken economy …”
-Should be at the top in huge block letters.
Note to the eletists: Obama has proved the point that supposed high IQ does not equates with high character. BHO is educated and elected way beyond his intelligence. I hope he spends the rest of his presidency on the golf course which is the only place he may improve his performance while sparing the country from his ego. After all BHO is not interested in being president of the United States. He views this job as a stepping stone to being emperor of the world (UN). His only remaining hope for 2012 is to become “essential” to America as a result of another major attack on the homeland- thus his encouraging support of anything radical muslim. He will then get his chance to stand on the rubble with the bullhorn to proclaim himself savior and must thereby be kept in office at such a crucial time. Dr. VDH, so many reasons to miss George Bush but your 10 points are a good starting point.
KRC wrote “Obama has proved the point that supposed high IQ does not equates with high character. BHO is educated and elected way beyond his intelligence.”
I’m sorry, but what proof is there of Obama’s intelligence anyway? The only ones telling us Obama is such a genius is Obama and his media shills. I have yet to see a single school transcript that back this up.
As far as I’m concerned, Obama failed every single class he ever took and only got through school by Affirmative Action, and until I see a transcript to prove me wrong, I will continue to tell that to anyone who asks as an undisputed fact.
Obama is very bad; Bush was not nearly as good as VDH paints him. Dr. Hanson also personalizes the comparison; that is, Bush was good partly because of his terrifically good character and disposition. In reality, Dubya’s life had lots of episodes of problems and instability. Was he a decent guy overall? Yes. Does he stand as a shining political and personal counter-example to BHO? Not really. Appearing drunk in public, being unable to form sentences, etc., were hardly examples of what VDH is claiming.
About the claim that Iraq is calm? That is serious misrepresentation of reality.
When did Dubya appear drunk in public? I’m sure if he had when he was in the White House, there would be many many many pictures of it. THe fact that even MSM hasn’t photo-shopped such a thing would indicate it’s too stoopid to be true.
I cannot *believe* the lies progressives will go to in an effort to prop up their failed messiah. At least we’re not hearing the “racist” and “bigot” allegations any more, so *that* card has been overplayed until its death.
P.S. “…being unable to form sentences …” Perhaps you’ve heard the term TOTUS? Because *your* man not only can’t form sentences, he can’t even speak without his teleprompter. AT least Bush could wing it, and the word “misunderestimate” has entered the lexicon as something that *every*one knows and understands perfectly. As, I guess, TOTUS has similarly.
PPS – No one ever claimed that Bush was a Manchurian President or a purchased candidate. The fact that Obama can’t speak without his words scrolling in front of him makes me wonder who bought and paid for those words, and if he can’t speak in public or won’t speak in public because his paymasters might not approve of what he has to say.
Yes. The POTUS Putz can’t even address a schoolroom of 4th graders without his teleprompter. And yet, he still can’t pronounce “Corps”.
Anybody care to imagine how well known it would now be, if it had been Bush instead of Obama who thought there was an Austrian language, or who thought there were 57 states?
NahnCee, really calling 0bama a “man” Please… Perpetual adolescent, man-child, sure.. But there is nothing denoting manhood in the same space as Barry Soetoro
Bush told us what he would do, then he did it. He didn’t bill himself as the re-incarnation of Ronald Reagan, he ran on compassionate conservatism. In the USA you get two choices. That’s the way the system worked. Many here don’t like the spending on prescription relief or the educational initiative, but you weren’t bamboozled.
As for terrorism, again, there wasn’t anything hidden about what the man did. He said what he would do and he did it. The country reelected him in 2004. I don’t recall him cramming anything in prior to 2008; and looking back, TARP may very well have prevented an economic meltdown. We got what we paid for. An honest man true to his promises who put his country ahead of his popularity.
Compare and contrast. The Obama campaign was a staged lie, more by avoiding saying what he would do as by declaration. Once in office, he revealed his true colors, even while continuing to obfuscate his actions. There is no precedent for a national figure ruling against the will of the American people. It’s breathtaking.
The Obama presidency is a coup, nothing less. Not only can’t it be compared to Bush, it can’t be compared to anything else. Ever. If the criminal cabal thought it could win support of the military, they would now be ruling by force instead of by ignoring the Constitution.
To expand on your comments proreason,
Look at the alternative to the Compassionate Republican George Dubya.
Al Gore. UGH. Invented the internet, Snake Oil salesman for the Green movement (remember Green is the New Red) Liar, Hypocrite.
John Kerry. UGH. Belittles the Military, Tax Cheat, Liar, Self Aggrandiser (nominated HIMSELF for medals in Vietnam) He is a Vet who belittles serving Military!
Bush was head and shoulders above these two vacuous buffoons. As for Barack Hussein Obama? EPIC FAIL!
Emperor Barack the First ( I can just see him as lead in “The Emperor’s New Clothes)
Remember all those eminent historians who proclaimed George W. Bush to be America’s “Worst President Ever”? Where are they now? They are yet another reason most of us no longer have any confidence in the judgment of the nation’s self-proclaimed intellectual elite.
Thanks again, VDH, for another superb piece of critical composition.
Obama has always been an idiot looking for the appropriate village. And now he thinks he’s found one because so many fell for his ethnicity scam.
And the ethnicity scam is being perpetuated and successfully advanced by him, and the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Charles Rangel, Maxine Waters, the NAACP, etc, etc, etc.
I like that statement above that says “It took Obama to make Bush look good”.
Obama makes the average man in the ghetto look classy.
Bush was one of the worst presidents we have ever had, precisely because he was Obama-lite. He set new standards for fiscal irresponsibility and manifestly felt more loyalty toward Mexico than toward his own people. He backed affirmative action, was an enthusiastic pom-pom girl for giving whopping no-down-payment mortgages to millions of people who could barely keep current on their cable TV bills, and proposed an utterly lunatic “comprehensive” immigration reform which would have permitted anyone in the world to come to the U.S. if they could claim they had a job waiting for them. He was a cocky, ignorant, insensate, destructive fool, and it is indeed a measure of how truly egregious Obama is that he could make el Presidente Arbusto look good by comparison.
Just to be clear, does this mean that you think Obama is MORE of a “cocky, ignorant, insensate, destructive fool” ???
Barack Obama is unfit for the office of President of the United States. He was
unfit before he was elected. He completely lacks understanding of the scope of
his duties and responsibilities. He is a ward politician in the highest office
of the land and increasingly his shortcomings have become a threat to the
fundamental culture of this great country. Ditto as to his wife.
I have no time to miss Bush, because I am busy trying to fight the building of a commie pseudo-regime where the Police are called stupid, the thugs of the black panther racist organization are free to intimidate the voters, the terrorists who attacked the USS Cole are not prosecuted, the unions want to control my life, the media are servants of the government, I am told where and what I can get as health care, the jihadists build victory monuments over Ground Zero, the government is taking control of the private sector, schools and universities brainwash the American future generations with marxist propaganda, the southern border is open to the infiltration of terrorists, the mad mullahs are allowed to get the bomb.
All this administration is doing is aimed at destroying America.
We have no time to play, we must tell to the voters what is happening and how important it is that they kick this gang of elitists, commies, and filo-jihadists away from Congress.
Somewhere on the internet in the last day or two was a picture of Obama glad-handing the troops (a few of them) after having made his Iraq-is-over speech. When Bush is shown with the troops, they are always massd around him and everyone is grinning — there’s a palpable sense of energy glowing off the picture both from Dubya and from the soldiers around him.
In the Obama picture, there were about five or six soldiers in the picture. A white guy was at the front of the picture, focused on the food on the table in front of him, totally ignoring Obama who was back and to one side in the photo. Two soldiers (only) were trying to take Obama’s picture, and both of them appeared to be black.
On the other hand, if Obama’s Secret Service keeps him at the same imperial distance as they did when they traffic-jammed LA’s streets, perhaps they will only allow food-fixated white guys and carefully screened black people within shooting distance of him.
“Obama’s problem is that Axelrod and Emanuel could not stage a chain-sawing task for Obama if they tried — severe injury would surely follow.”
That….is funny! (and absolutely correct)
Can’t you just see First Dude Palin and President Bush chainsawing away on some Thanksgiving weekend outing in the future. That’s fun to think about.
A very simple yet accurate comparison of the two men.
Nice work.
Surprise! As far as I can tell, both Bush and Obama are decent, in certain ways, exceptional individuals who are vilified because that is what is now done to the other side. Their every weakness, real and imagined was/is magnified and the only question for their opponents is whether they are more malicious, than inadequate, or vice versa. But then, I have been saying this for some time. Both are believed to be great threats to the Republic by the other side, but both sides reject the comparison, because they know that they happen to be right, and the other side, not only wrong, but evil as well. Too many of us just can’t give up the cartoon version of good and bad guys in politics.
I remember seeing a youtube video on ‘Obamas shocking confession’ – a video interviewing our head narcissus when he was a new senator – Which was in 2004 – a question posed to him was if he would run for a national ticket. And our head narcissus replied to the effect I am a believer in knowing what you are doing when you apply for a job… Later..some of his ‘colleagues’ in the senate ‘helped him change his mind’ (to go ahead and run).
I ponder:
a) Who were these ‘colleagues’ and why the push?
b) Could it be they thought (if he won) they could then
use his inexperience to their advantage? Hmmm??
c) was this the beginning of the ‘grooming’ process?
d) Isn’t a statement like that so very telling?
e) was anyone actually listening to probably the
one ‘truth’ he has told???
f) did they not believe inexperience could be a
potential problem for such a position? I suspect,
like the many who voted for him “didn’t care” they
just wanted social justice.
g) Social Justice as we can now tell, is ruining America.
Judging by his early interviews without a teleprompter, in my book, he pretty much flubbed on a lot of answers (off the top of his head) which was very telling especially where he stood on issues. (I guess No one was listening). I guess after that a talking points coach was found, it became apparent he would be better off giving vague and ambigious (even lies) for answers and slogans (hope and change.) False Prophent -False Image.
With or without a teleprompter -
The guy is an empty suit with empty words.
Dr. Hanson could have included the efforts George Bush made to head off a looming disaster in the Sub Prime/Derivative/Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac arena.
You remember… the financial disaster born under Carter’s Community Reinvestment Act, expanded under Clinton and championed to great personal profit by Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and a host of left wing political hacks like Jamie Gorelick and Franklin Raines, parked in cushy and very well paid but fake jobs before revolving back into liberal government positions.
I miss Bush, because I never had to wonder whose side he was on.
Amen!
Whilst reading all of these wonderful comments, I am comforted in the fact that we are all as mad as H#&&!, and we’re not going to take it anymore.
November***********BRING IT ON!
WE need a return to reasoned-thinking and responsible living, a nation where everyone is self-controlled and self-reliant. True conservatism. aaaaaaaaaaaah It would be so,so, freeing.
President Bush allowed Congress to spend too much money. He led the charge to increase Medicare entitlements. He gave the Department of Education more power instead of dissolving them, but…I know he went to bed each night worrying about the safety of my family. I know he prayed for wisdom and guidance as he fought two wars. I know that he always was an honorable and loyal man that loved his country above all else. I don’t know where our country would be today if not for him on 9/11. Thank you for your time served President Bush.
Amen, Tammy. Amen.
Obama has achieved the impossible :
Make Democrats miss Bush.
Make Republicans miss Clinton.
On a scale of 1 to 10, I give :
Clinton a 4
GWB a 5
Obama a 1
I think that is fair. This is simple enough that anyone who is not a leftist would comprehend it.
GWB was not very good. But it is impossible to make him look bad given the existence of Obama. ANY slander of Bush necessitates the complete ignoring of Obama’s existence.
We are unlikely to have a President as bad as Obama (unless female) for decades to come.
I doubt that any woman could do worse. Hillary is light years ahead of Obama, and I doubt the first female President could be worse than her.
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Bush 2 is only looking good because we are comparing him to Obama, who really is one of our worste presidents. When compared to Clinton and Bush 1, Bush 2 does not look any better. And compared to Reagan, much worse.
Uhh, Dr. Hanson, have you tried commercial script writing?
Anyone, at the RNC listening?
Flyover Country is awake thanks to you and others Dr. Hanson. Thank you.
Chain saw. That was good. Made me laugh at the thought.
Gawd….where to start….hmmm….oh, I know: to miss George Bush is to miss lead poisoning for kids. If someone actually misses Bush or thinks Bush was a better President than Obama, he or she might as well wear a large badge that goes “I’m a clueless moron — ask me how.”
Actually even Hussein comes across as a reasonable person when compared to friggin Bush.
Name-calling doesn’t count any more, if it ever did. You must give examples of (1) Bush’s incompetence, (2) Obama’s superiority, (3) our idiocy. And (4) do it without playing the race card.
Betcha can’t do it, can you?
P.S. Just because you throw in a cutesy “gawd” to show your sense of humor and educated elite-osity, it really doesn’t bring anything to your comment as a whole.
BC is one of those useless wannabe intellectual surprised he isn’t accepted as sophisticated and smart outside his personal circle of similarly minded physical friends. To prove out his smarts online he tosses out links to the progressive sites where he gets his guidance from. He toes the line there, and is reassured that he is a online smarty too.
BC is embarrassingly easy to figure out. Links to ‘reality based’ community losers is all you’ll get in response to your challenge that he substantiate if you get anything at all.
It’s hard on self-professed elite intellectual to be called out as actually clueless by mounting evidence. It’s happening all about the progressive meadows. The smart sheep are getting a clue, the rest like BC are becoming increasingly shrill and unhinged. It’s all about Bush again, because there’s no coherence left in defending Obama. Everything BC has tossed out in praise and defense of Obama since 2008 (and still tries to toss out) has been overtaken by events and proven to be the maundering of fools. Cambridge Mass, BC’s cocoon, has a lot of people just like him. The strutting is gone, the defenses sounding increasingly hollow, and the utterly clueless like BC are being left in the dust as the more adaptable jump ship.
Just Passing Through wrote: A whole buncha linkless, defensive, whiny, right wing drivel, as is usual. You’re one of those people whose infantile insults are actually affirmations — but only if one cares.
Which I don’t. Shoo.
I’ve dealt with BC in the past. He ignores facts if they don’t fit his world view and the daily talking points the DNC pass out via e-mail each morning. If the DNC said the sky was green and you showed BC a picture of the blue sky along with a link to a web site explaining exactly why the sky is blue he would ignore the facts, call you a racist for disagreeing with the Won and continue hapily tapping away at his computer in his mother’s basement.
I have found it much easier to simply skip over BC’s posts, since they add nothing to the adult conversation anyway.
Bush was light-years better than Obama.
I used to think that someone could have an IQ as high as 80 and still be a Democrat, but now I know that to be a Homocrat, one must have an IQ below 70, as you have shown.
Hmmmm….I had provided two links: one to a declassified transcript of an FBI interview with Hussein discussing Iran and where he is spot on; and another to a report based on more classified documents showing not only how Bush and his people planned to take out Hussein in advance of any intel showing Hussein having any WMD’s or al-Qaeda connections, but also showing how they forced the the CIA (spineless as usual) and the intel agencies to find any sort of “evidence” to justify the invasion.
In case you don’t know — you’re suppose to click on those bolded and blue bits of text: they are called “hyperlinks” and clicking on them will take you another website that, if done correctly, will provided some support to the statements being made.
If that wasn’t bad enough, that report also showed while the Republicans controlled the Senate and the committee chairs, the ones on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), headed by Republican douche Pat Roberts, obstructed, delayed and lied about that “Phase II” investigation showing how Bush lied. That report was suppose to have been made public by the 2004 election but Roberts and the other Republicans successfully delayed it until June of 2008.
Basically all you idiots claiming the Bush was mislead by the CIA got it backwards, but that was already known to smart, well informed people. And for situations like this, ancient & sacred schoolyard rules allow those smart, well-informed people to indeed call Obama bashers, especially those who miss Bush, well, morons.
Speaking of Bush, some more good news about his legacy, although to be fair, it’s probably more about Cheney’s legacy.
And guess where the dolt in chief is going this weekend? Camp David!!!!!! Is Michelle going to Tokyo for a shopping trip?
Hey Mike Myers –
on second thought Obumble would be Lt. Triebig. :>)
If this was The Caine Mutiny, Obama would be Fred MacMurry, and Bush Van Johnson. Obama, always with the wise answer, but ultimately with feet of clay, and Van Johnson, trying to do what’s right with his sometimes limited ability.
The totally disconnected manner he’s acting with right now, I think ‘bammy is more like Bogart.
Only, you know, not with the class or capability.
Michelle states they “raised the bar.” Yes they did, the clueless bar.
GWB would prosecute the USS Cole bombers … BHO will not … that’s a big difference, IMHO
Good Doctor:
I wonder if you will see this:
See study, NEJM Volume 361:52-61 July 2, 2009
Number 1
The Medicare prescription benefit DID NOT create an unfunded liability.
The application of each $1.00 that benefit resulted in an offsetting savings of $1.38 of care costs. In essence, the benefit more than paid for itself.
R. Richard Schweitzer
Sorry but it takes more than one article in the leftist NEJM to prove anything. Especially a study with admitted limitations like “They come from a Medicare Advantage plan and may not hold for stand-alone Part D plans, because Medicare Advantage plans have an incentive to structure copayments and formularies to minimize spending in Parts A and B, whereas stand-alone plans do not. Our study used data from a single insurer in one region….”
Two slogans stick out in my memory:
“Don’t blame me, I voted for Huckabee.”
“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job, it’s a depression when you lose yours, and it’s a recovery when Barack Obama loses his.” -Ronald Reagan (with Obama substituted for Carter)
I think the recovery starts next January, when Pelossi and Reid lose their jobs (and hopefully their seats).
I hate to disagree with you Doc, but while I’m all for Reid losing his seat, I still want Queen Nancy to be re-elected (which given her district shouldn’t be a problem). I think it will be more fun to see the Queen thrust back among the little people and losing her private military jet (and the ability to give free plane rides to all her distant neices, nephews, cousins, in-laws, etc) as they pry the gavel out of her rictus-tight hands.
Aw, VDH, it wasn’t so sudden. Despite the many issues I had with the guy, I honestly starting missing Bush about 30 seconds after BHO was sworn in.
But you ask the right question. I couldn’t care less about who I’d rather have a beer with (although if it’s a choice between Dubya and Mr. Cool, I wouldn’t have to think twice). But I do care who I’ll be sharing the figurative foxhole with. A lot.
Our President GW Bush is an all-American with real Class. Was all class when he was President, and he still is. His beloved wife is also always proud of America and proud of her all-American good-ol-boy husband. They love our Military —- and our Military KNOWS this.
how very much this all-American military family fears for America, with this arrogant cowardly moron indonesian-schoolboy/black thug/ANTI-American obama in the presidency. we can only pray he goes the way of dictators and dictator wannabes: OUT. ASAP.
It all comes down to integrity. Bush had plenty and that’s probably the single most important aspect of being the Commander in Chief. Our current president has none and will never have the respect of those he commands.
Absolutely!!
I know he wasn’t perfect, but I miss him.. What an honorable man, you can’t say the same to what we have right now.. Laura, grace personified, what we have right now??? YUCK.
You knew that Bush loved this country.. Loved the people(even Aholes like BC and Betty, loved the military, etc.
@75
Clinton spent a majority of his time defending/deflecting his balls, and coopting ideas of his opposition. spawned a movie.
Bush spent a majority of his time defending a war, no two. also spawned a movie(s).
That’s two nations, not cajones, that stand to be freed.
GWB is to Clinton as Clinton is to Obama. Well not really.. bigger gap between latter (duh – one is socialist and GWB never blamed Clinton (for 9-11) like O does he – too young to recall who clinton blamed). but own balls and states do not an equivalency make.
TO BE CLEAR: Clinton’s wrinkles came from his escapades and ache of indescretion… GW’s from his sacrifice and ache (love) for country. This is not to say Clinton does/did not love our country… though it is to say that he loved himself more (than the dignity of the oval office).
In those awful days after 9/11, George Bush the President, was a magnificent leader and America was proud of their President. That will be remembered always. He and his wife were naturally gracious and also maintained grace under pressure.
If Obama had been President then, would Obama’s response to Al Quaeda have been – “Come on guys we’re buying shrimp here”? Would he have done anything beyond organizing a televised Town Hall meeting?
Bush stood his ground and passed an historic test with flying colours. As President, Obama has yet to be tested but displays no grace under pressure. No way no how is he a leader. I wouldn’t even follow him down a sunlit sidewalk, let alone into a tight spot.
On Jan. 20, 2001, right after George W. Bush was sworn in as President, I breathed a sigh of relief. Mainly because the Clintons were no longer in power. All was right with the world again.
A few months later, I watched as he dedicated the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan, knowing that this was a man that I felt would bring honor to the office of President, especially by reinvigorating our military, as Reagan himself did.
Then, after 9/11, again proving to be a man’s man, proclaiming that the terrorists would soon hear from all of us. Cowboy? Damn right! You tell ‘em George!
President Bush the second is at least a man a character and stood on his principles and still does as of today. Obama has the character of the demon possesed, lying, cheating, stealing, blaming everybody else (mostly President Bush) but himself and on top of that he is the biggest pussie to ever sit in the White House, a coward who does not dare to even reveal his own school records, a false man, some sort of affirmative action parasite who seeks to be the puppet of the highest bidder. The worst part of it all is that he thinks he can escape Nemisis who is of course God. We the faithful and believing shall not pay the price for this fool but of course some unnamed fools will.
Best sentence in Mr. Hanson’s article: “The BP mess (oh, how Nemesis likes to strike in the same locale!) reminded us how the federal government is inept under any president, whether during a manmade or nature-induced calamity.”
As usual, he’s right on!
This may seem a little off topic, but every one ought to see “Mao’s Last Dancer”. It is based on the autobiography of Li Cunxin.
It is a stark reminder of the freedom we so often take for granted, and the struggle that many in the world must overcome to achieve it, and even know freedom as an ideal and a possibility.
It also demonstrates the extremes of a society of central planning, and one where the individual is central.
It is as significant as the film “Charlie Wilson’s War” to the choices facing American’s this November, IMHO.
You left out my favorite: remember the APEC summit when one of Bush’s SSA’s was being forcibly blocked from the President and Bush went over, grabbed the agent and pulled him through the guards…awesome.
If he were the last Republican on the planet earth, I wouldn’t want him back. I’ll vote Green before I’ll ever vote for another Bush family member – so Jeb? Don’t even bother. He’s better than Obama? That’s like saying he’s better than a good swift kick in the pants.
Our current problems were cause by the Democratic congress that took power in 2007. Check the unemployment trends, that’s when they jumped.
While 43 can’t serve again as President, perhaps we need to get his brother into the WH. I think Barbra Bush raised a great family and her sons are the type of men our country needs at this time.
Before you get carried away with the Bushes again, they arent what they appear. Remember GW supported amnesty and no border control until it looked like it might affect the election. He is not much better than McCain. The RINOs of the Party will obey their Masters, the Globalist elite.
George senior is a sneaky SOB who has been playing both sides of the street. Now he wants Jeb to be the next President so he can bloat his ego and further take America down the road of Globalism. George senior reminds me a lot of Joe Kennedy senior; a ruthless, unprincipled, wheeler dealer who has no real love of the Constitution and free enterprise, despite having gotten rich that way.
The Bushes arent the way and the light, they work for the same puppetmasters who the Socialist Democrats work for.
People be skeptical and use your common sense….voting for the wrong candidates can be fatal for freedom. Obama is the best example of that; like an embedded tick these carpetbaggers are much harder to get out of office then get in.
We are free and we shall remain that way regardless of who is President! Now lets kick some ass this November and then again in 2012 and there-after!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIPoPw9zgvQ
While I certainly have my criticisms of Bush, Obama is a walking disaster of a president. Perhaps the main theme I get from him and his presidency is that of a spoiled, petulant child playing at being an adult. He is not responsible; he will cuddle up to whoever gives him fawning attention and a cookie; he will sell out anyone in order to obtain this. This is no way for any adult, let alone the President of the Untited States, to act.
And he is remarkably dangerous because of this.
It would be a foolish person who would choose this over Bush — who in spite of his faults did not act like a resentful, sneaky brat.
If he is so well liked why is he not out there trying to get Rebublicans elected.
Let me get this straight. The US replaced a hemorrhoid with a toothache, and people want the hemorrhoid back?!?! How about neither one? These goofballs are the best a country of 300 million+ can produce?
Bush was and is a complete punk. A poseur. And a coward. Silver spoon fed from day one. Never had to work a day in his life. CHICKENED OUT OF ACTIVE DUTY AND BLEW OFF THE MAJORITY OF HIS RESERVE DUTIES. Had businesses handed to him that he ran into the ground. Got elected governor because of his daddy and grand daddy, in a state where the governor does little more than pose for pictures with athletes. Hoodwinked YOU PEOPLE into voting for him. Lied about WMD. Lied about connections between AQ and Iraq. Lied about how the war would be paid for. Lied about yellowcake. Fired Shinseki, the ONE PERSON who knew what had to be done to prosecute this false war. Spent a trillion dollars up front and off the budget, with a cost going forward of over three trillion. Brought on the worst recession since the 1930s (a recession which started in December of 2007, a few short months after Democrats assumed committee leadership positions).
And if that isn’t enough, the bozo couldn’t string together a coherent thought to save his life. Bush is the poster boy for right wing incompetence all gussied up in flag pins and cowboy boots to hide the utter insolvency of his character.
And there are millions of people who know these truths. And we vote. And we care. And we know that the abysmal and childish behavior exhibited by the shrieking harpies of the right over the past 18 months is proof enough that you have no principles, only an agenda. You are Fox News personified, claiming to be patriotic, fair and balanced, yet unmasked by $1 million donations to Republicans. You’re Bill O’Reilly admitted that Fox News is anti-liberal. You’re Sean Hannity welching on his pledge to be waterboarded for charity. You’re Sarah Palin writing third-grade talking points on her palm. You’re Glenn Beck lying about holding Washington’s inaugural address in his hands.
You’re charade is effective, but it is also transparent. And you will reap what you sow.
Clear enough?
Just about all of that is lies (or isn’t relevant), but even if it was true, Bush would STILL be better than any skanky-ass Democrat that ever crawled out of whatever hole it is they keep the Jim Crow boys in.
There you go, Proof positive. It’s all lies, according to surly man. I guess that ends it, then. Thanks for the compelling arguments. Here, let me give you something equally unassailable yet with a touch of much-needed color for your next reply . . . “nanny nanny boo boo.”
That’s a freebie. Use it judiciously.
Betty, you silly bimbo. Read my lips: there *were* millions of you who voted for Obama. Past tense.
Over.
Done with.
Won’t happen again.
You and your ilk are old news and will be swept out to the garbage heap of history starting in November. If your Messiah can make it through his full term without being impeached, the rest of your pathetic ilk will be gone in 2012.
Rant and rave all you want to — because what you post is a compendium of lying, snarky drivel. Tell me, Betty my dear — do you have the imagination to place your skinny jug-eared President on top of the smoking heap of the World Trade Center on September 12 and imagine what he would have said, how he would have reacted? Can you wrap your twisted little mind around the concept of The One dragging his teleprompter up onto that Islam-created heap, the better to apologize to bin Laden and put the full blame for 3,000-plus deaths on the same middle-class white Americans you are so eager to blast to this very day?
If you think we are transparent and silly, I (for one) think you are really and truly evil, vile and malignant in a deadly cancer-sort of way; such that we need to start prosecuting enemies of the state such as you and yours for treason. Is *that* clear enough?
Actually, no it’s not clear at all. Perhaps you could be a bit more – direct and intelligent and less angry, bitter and resentful and childish, Go ahead, give it a go.
Honey, Shhhh………..
Great post! Made a few edits/corrections for you to bring it up to the present tense:
Obama was and is a complete fraud. A poseur. And a coward. Silver spoon fed from day one by coteries of white liberal guilt academicians and race-baiting Chicago Pols. Never had to work a day in his life other than cash his grant checks and accept completely unearned accolades from his benefactors. CHICKENED OUT OF TAKING ANY SORT OF PRINICIPLED STAND ON ANY MILDLY CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE THAT CAME UP FOR VOTE IN THE ILLINOIS LEGISTLATURE AND VOTED “PRESENT” 130 times. Never ran a business in his life and is utterly and blissfully unaware of how economies work and is presently proving that by taking this country full-throttle into the ground. Got elected Senator because he displayed abject fealty to the Chicago political graft machine; a city so totally in thrall to organized crime and Daley family and Democratic political patronage that makes New Orleans look like Salt Lake City by comparison. Now does little more than pose for pictures with entertainment industry dimwits and various Third world kleptocrats, tyrants, UN bureaucrats and ANYONE else who displays a reflexive hatred of this country. Hoodwinked YOU PEOPLE into voting for him. Lied about being the great conciliator and a non-divisive leader. Lied about his connections with Jeremiah Wright and William Ayres and ACORN. Lied about his academic background. Lied about his writing Dreams of My Father. Distanced himself from Rev. Wright – the ONE PERSON who knew exactly why Obama attended for 20 years a cesspool of racial divisiveness and poisonous rhetoric masquerading as a church. Spent a trillion dollars on a “stimulus” that has had the wonderful effect of increasing unemployment, discouraging economic growth and scaring the bejeebers out of anyone with any honestly earned money to the point that they are back to burying small bills and change in jars in their backyards out fear that this arrogant lunatic is going to dream up something even more destructive. Tripled down on an already overspent federal budge and is well on his way to ensuring the complete impoverishment of this country not seen since the 1930s (a recession which started in December of 2007, a few short months after Democrats assumed committee leadership positions).
And if that isn’t enough, the bozo can’t string together a coherent thought or sentence to save his life without the aid of his trusty teleprompter or Rahm Emmanuel. Obama is the poster boy for left wing incompetence, arrogance and utter detachment from reality all gussied up in whatever little trinkets Michelle may desire next time she takes off on another jaunt to lush vacation spots around the world.
And there are millions of people who know these truths. And we vote. And we care. And we know that the abysmal and childish behavior exhibited by the shrieking harpies of the left over the past 10 years is proof enough that you have no principles, only an agenda. You are the soon-to-be forgotten liberal NY/LA media establishment personified, claiming to be far more intelligent, fair and balanced, yet unmasked by the fact that upward of 89% of their political donations go to Democrats. The Journolist emails prove that the “unbiased press” has been reduced to nothing more than a cheering peanut gallery for liberal politicians and pet causes. Your Charlie Rangel is a classic NYC race-hustler and self-important Potentate of political self-dealing government patronage straight out of Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities. Nancy Pelosi’s explanation of the gargantuan and largely unread Health Care boondoggle bill wouldn’t pass muster for those with third-grade educations – yet people like you bought it. Your Keith Olbermann needs to move out his mom’s house and become a man…. and so do you.
Your caterwauling is ineffective, but it is also transparent and very tiresome. And you will reap what you sow.
Clear enough?
(And by the way, like many self-described intellectual heavyweights, you have yet to understand and apply the CORRECT USAGE OF YOU and YOU’RE. Must be that superior education.)
MisterH, best laugh I’ve had in weeks; great job (“Great post! Made a few edits/corrections for you…”)! These clueless clowns are either: ignorant/unobservant, stupid, or statists/leftists and need to be smoked out everywhere in public.
Utterly inspiring. Probably the best, most cohesive and intelligent lashing of this clown in the white house I have ever read.
Thank you MisterH – succinct and clear.
I can’t laugh though – I have children…
Betty, I’ve read your entire diatribe on a left wing website/blog of which I don’t recall the name. I peruse these sites to see what the enemy is up to. Now pray tell us are you a female or a girly man? I expect it to be the latter, a girly man who hides behind a woman’s name. Shame on you, repeating lies that you first copy from others.
Oh Ooooo Black Betty bam ma lam
Oh Ooooo Black Betty bam ma lam
-But Betty does Know.
Recently I saw a YouTube video that showed George W. Bush inside an airport terminal. He was there in person welcoming some of our soldiers back from Iraq. I was awed by his posture, mannerisms and gestures. In his body language, I saw sincere humility, respect and compassion. I got choked up watching him.
One picture resonated so much was Obama and his umbrella / gate, with his wife ducking on the side.
I can not imagine another person (let alone a US president) so stymied by such simple ordinary everyday life objects.
Next time you have paid operatives paste out their endless list, just link / show that picture. No other words needed.
BC, Dennis Sweatt and the rest of the dunderhead clique,
Abu Nidal living in Baghdad; The perpetrators of the 1st WTC attack given sanctuary in Iraq; Zarquawi taking refuge in Iraq; Bounties paid to suicide bombers’ families; Flaunting the cease-fire articles; Prohibited dual-purpose equipment and Mr. Hussein (The Iraqi one) promising to ramp up production once inspectors left; Tens of thousands of dead-by-gas Kurds and Iranians; Charnel houses of torture; Regional instability and attacking neighboring states; Genocidal ambitions and psychopathic sons ready to take over the reins of state; Attempted assassination of a former US president; Attempting to control and destabilize the world economy by invading Kuwait; Ecological crime such as the draining of the home to the Marsh Arabs, not to mention trying to kill them all.
Do these not mean anything to you? Or, are you so busy playing video games in your parent’s basement that you only have time to listen to Wolf Blitzer deeply embedded in his Situation Room?
The Iraqi people are now free and they have stared evil in the eye, flinched, regrouped and defeated the evil in their midst.
It really bothers you when other people are free, doesn’t it?
If only you had half the fortitude of the average Iraqi.
You truly make me ill and your ilk is so tired, dark and sullen. Enjoy your pathetic and dreary lives.
And, one day, realize that you voted for an effete poseur and a man of no accomplishment whatsoever. Some day, defend your actions if you can.
The actions of petulant children.
God bless Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney.
It’s somewhat interesting to read these one-dimensional opinion pieces; they cater to a very narrow demographic, it seems. Namely, the part of the population who are enamoured with the pundit fueled narrative. Whether that narrative is ‘conservative’ or not is irrelevant; this demographic is interested in neither reason nor rationale. They do not want truth, they want agreement. In order to achieve the goal, people are being presented as cartoons, interests are narrow down to talking points, the people are being presented opinion and punditry, not facts. And hey presto, a narrative is formed. Truth is irrelevant, it’s that very narrative that is the important bit.
I’ts somewhat interesting.
Really? I have plenty of facts – but also responsibilities. I, for one, cannot go around spewing what I know willy nilly without thought for the consequences to others. This self-imposed restraint severely limits what I can write / comment upon.
As it happens, there are facts / theories / reasons and other forms of information from which to base a sincere, reasonable criticism of what Americans call “conservative” principles. Ditto “libertarian” and any number of other political sects except “Liberal” or whatever you want to label it.
Trouble arises because “Liberal” has no support outside the fantasy world created the True Believers.
Hence, I am thrilled to accept 99%, or 80%, or 61%, or blimey, even 51% reality over 0% reality any day of the week. It astonishes me that otherwise intelligent people prefer to assuage their egos with fantasies than to accept the incredible, miraculous, beautiful, wonderful reality all around them. Astonishment because blatant refusal to come out of the dream-world sows evil seeds with harvests far beyond our usual horizons.
From experience, I suspect from the comments I have read here, a formidable array of solid facts support the trend and leaning of the authors to the “right of center.” As to the “left” – please… nuff said for now.
Obama shows a complete lack of magnanimity – he never gives credit where credit is due.
And he, like all other Dem presidents, lashes out at prominent Americans, such as Rush and Beck, for exercising their right to free speech.
And his ugly smugness toward those who disagree with him is downright disgusting.
He is a man who realizes that the people no longer see him as the messiah but as a buffoon.
This article is naive. Do you honestly think that an administration can turn around something as weighty as a national economy in 2 years?
The answer is “no”, it can’t. The president does not control the economy with the flick of a switch. The effects of the current administration will not be felt for 5 to 10 years.
What we are suffering through now are the full effects of the George W. Bush administration.
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3036
The situations that arose in the GW Bush administration — and of course I’m thinking primarily of Sept 11th — are a direct result of actions taken by the Reagan and Bush administrations.
And the downturned but livable economy of the GW Bush administration is likely due to the liberal spending of the Clinton era, not to mention the Clintons’ quiet but expensive ramping up of the war on drugs.
The GW Bush administration, as the above article demonstrates, took a booming dot-com economy (which many people attributed to Clinton, but of course he had nothing to do with it) and channeled it into war debts… which we are STILL recovering from. (And let’s not forget the short-sighted and basically evil actions of quite a few mortgage bankers, hmm?)
That’s all I have to say. I’m not liberal or conservative, so you can skip those epithets in any impending replies. I’m just interested in getting people to think realistically about how the world works.
Naomi,
Whatever your party affiliation is, makes little difference to me. However the reference you cite for your argument comes from the most liberal of liberal-leaning economic policy think tanks. They never met a tax increase they didn’t support nor Democrat-sponsored pet program or cause they couldn’t applaud despite years of warning signs that the big government “Great Society” edifice for which they are tireless cheerleaders is unsustainable in every sense. cit: education, social security, federal education polity, welfare, immigration policy, global warming. So their explanation for why we’re in the state we’re in does not carry much currency given their past analysis of big issues.
Even if you were to remove the expenditures to date for the Iraq war we’d still be in big trouble. The structural problems we’ve come face to face with now are the direct result of rapid growth in state, local and federal government spending. This is something that that the blinkered, progressive policy wonks at CPBB have not and will never acknowledge.
Obama’s first stimulus package, passed in spring 2009, cost more money than all seven years of expenditures on the war in Iraq.
No more stuff about how we’re spending too much on the wars, please.
Nonsense.
Mr Hanson, you left out the most important thing of all. For all his faults, George W. Bush loved America, and did what he thought was best for it.
This is the first time we’ve had a president who truly disliked us. I miss having a person in the white house who is not out to destroy the country.
First of all, I doubt Betty is a woman, but rather a liberal plant, has a either a political science or psychology degree and is working for the Democratic National Committee.
Obama brings several Shakespeare passages to mind. The two most appropriate:
In regard to his speeches: “It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
After he is defeated in 2012: “He is like a bad actor, who struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and is heard no more.” (I hope).
I was always a big fan of all Bush administrations but i feel Bush let us down as much as anyone by not balancing the budget..
Dubya a good president? The air must be very, very thin on Planet Conservative.
Whatev …
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The AMERICAN PRAVDA media also denigrated President Bush 41 as a wimp. Despite his serving in WW2 combat and having lost 4 planes–2 to mechanical failure, and 2 to Japanese ground fire. Watch the 8mm film from a submarine pulling the skinny half drowned aviator out of the drink as bullets from the beach kick up water spouts near him.
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Rocketman
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I don’t want Bush back but I do want a Regan back. Better still, how about a Washington? Got any of those around? Lincoln maybe?
It would be nice to have a president who actually believed in America wouldn’t it? A president who doesn’t bow to our enemies or apologize for our greatness would be refreshing wouldn’t it?
We’ve done things wrong? Committed sins? And? Does anyone think there is another country out there which doesn’t?
I know people like Sean Penn believes Venezuela and Cuba are those countries. But then, I don’t see him moving there any time soon. Do you? No. he’s too busy making his money in this country, which he despises.
Obama believes some profits are too many. Well, let’s see, he’s worth what? How many millions? I haven’t seen him give any of that wealth away yet.I guess he feels he hasn’t profited enough. Soros? Billionaire? Haven’t seen him redistributing his wealth. Gore? He just buys bigger homes. I guess that ole carbon footprint nonsense just applies to the masses.
And yet, there are still people who believe in this bumbling, whining, buffoon. That is the amazing part. When Bush signed the Patriot Act into law, I denounced it and him. When he voted for bailouts, I again renounced him. But some of these die hard libs will continue to sing Obama’s praises even after they find themselves standing in bread and cheese lines.
Admitting you are wrong, when you are, is a sign of strength and intelligence. Continuing to declare you are right when the facts prove otherwise, is a sign of stupidity.
FACT: Unemployment: 9.6% with actual numbers upwards of 16%.
Die Hard’s Response: It’s Bush’s fault.
Prognosis: Stupidity.
FACT: Obama is a Marxist Communist. He appoints devout communists as Czars. He believes in redistribution of wealth. He believes that the state, actually the UN is better equipped to raise your child then the parents. As Senator, he proclaimed such a belief by propagating the child’s rights laws governed by UN. They are now trying this in the UK. A child can use the UN as mediator for all domestic disputes with parents. UN’s decision is supreme. Isn’t that nice?
Die Hard’s Response: Children have their own minds. No one owns another. Children have rights. Some parents are abusive.
Prognosis: Demented Outlook, Warped Moral Code.
FACT: Obama and cabinet initiate bills that are against the will of the people in almost every, single instance. He is against the American people and thinks he knows better than us how to run our lives.
Die Hard’s Response: He does. Government knows better than we do. Collective mind is smarter than our measly, puny single mind.
Prognosis: Lunacy.
FACT: Obama is NOT a Christian. Obama does not enthusiastically dispute this. He attended Wright’s “church.” Any church that preaches anything other than Christ Crucified, is not a Christian Church. The hate and racism associated with that church, cannot possibly be Christian. Furthermore no Christian could ever make the mistake Obama did in an interview when he said, “…my muslim faith…” No Christian could say that there isn’t a more beautiful sound in the world than early morning prayer (the muslim prayer was what he was referring to). To a real Christian, that is one of the most offensive sounds in the world.
Die Hard’s Response: You’re an idiot. Of course Obama is a Christian.
Prognosis: Delusional Tendencies. Idiocy.
FACT: Obama despises America and believes her to be just another country not worth more or less than any other. He bows to the Saudis, the Japanese, the Chinese. He apologizes for her. He airs our dirty laundry to countries that have atrocious human rights policies such as Libya and Iran. His admin states that other countries are as great if not greater in certain aspects. Why? Who cares if another country is greater in one aspect. Why mention it? For what purpose? To curry favor? lol. Insane.
Die Hard’s Response: He is right. We are an atrocious society that is full of racism, elitism, White Supremacists. We endorsed slavery 8 million years ago and still owe people for that. We are so naughty. We should be spanked. I think this is the rhetoric of gay, masochists who bathe in self loathing.
Prognosis: Deceived Perverts Perceiving Deception as Proof of Obama’s Superiority over the common, misguided Conservative fool.
FACT: Obama completely bumbled the Oil Spill in the Gulf. Furthermore, he didn’t care. 3 days after spill, the dutch offer skimmers. Obama refuses. 2 days after that, another 12 countries offered their help to clean up the spill. Obama refuses. Gov Jindhol begs for natural sand burms of sand to be dredged up to thwart flow of oil to beaches. Obama refuses. Jindohl begs for synthetic burms. Obama does not reply for weeks. Obama wanted the oil to continue to spill. He could care less about our Gulf or beaches or animals and people sufferings. He went on Vacation how many times during that tragedy? 6? 4? Whatever. How many concerts on Wed nights did he MC?
Die Hard’s Response: He was there on day 1.
Prognosis: Blind Devotion to a Monster.
And so on.
What is more interesting is your complete lack of narrative substance and persuasive argument supporting your narrative.
Never send a boy to do a man’s job. A bunch of people forgot this.
Anybody on this planet who truly believes King Obama is a good/great President definitely needs their heads examined!! He has managed to worsen the deficit BIG TIME and continues to lie about having “saved or created more jobs”. If this was the case, then why is the unemployment rate still hovering around 9%?? I am so sick of the liberals nasty comments about Bush and their absolute hatred for this man. Bush was not perfect(no human being is) as a President, but in my personal opinion, he did a great job keeping our nation ssafe after 9/11 and was a good President(if you don’t like my opinion of President Bush, TS!!)
As for the liberals and their opinions of Bush, if any of us had wanted your opinions, we would have asked for them and we most certainly did NOT!
Luke. You have to buy into insanity if you want to sup at Mr Hanson table. He lives in that mythical world where black is white and white is black. Only true believers who never question his word can accept his twisted opinions.
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I’m going to vomit.
Bush was a big government fool, not much different than Obama. Medicare part D, No Child Left Behind, TARP bailout for Wall Street fat cats, invading a country (Iraq) that didn’t attack us and couldn’t threaten us…
The Bush family destroyed the GOP and the country.
You GOP sycophants with your Presidential knee pads need leave the Bush family cult and rejoin the real world.
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