Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
When did Obama say our troops were coming home? Or was it they are now moving on over to Afghanistan which is Obamas War.
I'll ignore the rest of this rant and focus on the last sentence.
BUSH INVADED AFGHANISTAN BEFORE IRAQ!!!!!!!!!!
Obama is just trying to stabilize the actual terrorist state in the Middle East...remember, Bush came in and took out the Taliban, but then sent the troops to Iraq and the Taliban came back. Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda have been largely supported by Afghanistan for years.
How can it be "Obama's war" when Bush started it?
READ A NEWSPAPER OR A HISTORY BOOK FOR A CHANGE AND TURN OFF YOUR RIGHT-WING TALK SHOWS.
This is not meant to be a flaming thread. Take your personal hate for Bush out of here.
Do you, in the light of everything Obama is failing at fixing in this economy (and actually making it a hell of a lot worse), miss the George W administration?
I miss the guy tremendously. I may be young at 24, but I miss the guy's down to earth nature and confident attitude. His public speaking ability may have been hit or miss, but overall, I believe he spoke with his heart. He truly believed that what he was doing was the right thing to do.
I realize there is a truck load of complaints from the libs out there about us attacking the wrong country. However, Iraq did, at one point in time, have WMD's. Whether or not this fact was still a reality under the Bush administration remains a controversy. However, the important thing to remember is that Bush firmly believed in eradication of hostile threats to the United States and all freedom loving countries. He was willing to do everything it takes to get rid the global terrorist threat that jeopardizes everyone who believe in freedom. Bush was a warm, genuine man, unlike Obama, who leaves me personally feeling cold and insecure about our future.
To any extent, I really believe Bush did the right thing for this country. His adminstration may have made mistakes, but those were not directly Bush's fault. You have US intelligence to blame for most of the blunders under the Bush adminstration.
Bush, however, will go down in history as one of our great presidents. Maybe not now, maybe not a year from now, but give it some time and we will all miss the man.
Bush will go down as one of the 5 worst presidents in history. His blunders (9/11, the failed wars on terror and Iraq, the naming of Hariet Miers to the Supreme Court, the bumbling of the FEMA response to Katrina, destroying the economy, etc.) are nearly endless and he did not accomplish a single thing that has brought positive results to this country.
Obama is not great and I do not support his economic plans, but to say that you miss Bush just shows how little you follow politics and how little you know about this country. Since you're 24, you probably only remember Bush's presidency (since based on your assessment of his legacy, I assume you have never really followed politics) and therefore you associate him with what is presidential.
I spent a good deal of time in Europe during the Bush presidency, and any time I mentioned I was from the US I would immediately hear their opinion on Bush...never did I hear a positive one. Our country went from THE international dominator to a joke because of his "leadership".
The hatred for Bush doesn't come from being "liberal" it comes from having a fully functional brain. He was an idiot who made countless blunders and drove a prosperous nation into recession through his moronic policies. He's a scumbag who put personal relationships above the safety of the American People (Mike Brown, Harriet Miers) and who damaged the international image of Americans for decades to come.
Say what you will about Obama (as long as it's not "Socialist", "Communist", "Muslim", "Affirmative Action" or "Idiot"), but to actually say that Bush was one of History's greatest presidents is not just foolish, it's embarrassing.
what's truly embarrasing is Obama apologizing for the US protecting all the other wimps who can't protect themselves. That is actually more than embarassing, it's PATHETIC!
As much as I loathe to do it - we can't blame W for NO.
Or are you suggesting that LA didn't have a governor? Well, it did and she was a democrat to boot!
Or are you saying that NO didn't have a mayor? Well, it did and he was/is a democrat to boot!
Interesting how democrats throw no blame on the hideous mismanagement and appalling ineptitude by the democratic governor and mayor directly involved in Katrina. Hell, I cannot even remember the governors name as she is mentioned so little. And that type of partison bs of rewriting history really pisses me off. After all MS somehow managed to not have the rioting/deaths/rapes/looting that LA had - and guess what? MS even had to deal with the exact same FEMA and exact same President that LA had to deal with. The only difference is that MS had competent leadership and LA had political shills that clearly didn't know sh*t from Shinola as my grandfather used to say.
Thank you for saying this. I've been saying this for years on this argument. Very well said.
Really, GWB left office with a low approval rating? Hmm, I wonder why I never heard that before. Well, anyway he also had the highest of any president ever at 92%. The next highest is 88%. It really wasn't a squeaker. Bush owns it.
Here's a scary little mental exercise. Imagine it's a cool autumn morning in 2001. As you catch glimpses of CNN on the TV in the employee break room you see what is drawing the attention of your coworkers to the set is an on-going terrorist attack against a number of target within the United States. As you are continuing to take in the magnitude of the attacks the news channel breaks away to a school room in Florida where president Obama is reading to children.
No thanks buddy! That heavy lifting was done by someone who put the interests of our nation before his political aspirations. Gore would have been a disaster too. I'll give Clinton a slightly better rating simply due to his time on the job.
No, the right person was there at the right time and he did the right thing. So when your grandchildren come up to you one day in the far future and ask why GWB still has the highest job approval rating of any president in history, you can tell them, he was the right person in the office at the right time to do the right thing.
About the same proportion in another thread voted that Reagan was the best modern president, so that should tell you something: conservatives want another Reagan, they don't want another Bush.
Guess you don't have many friends who died in his ill-conceived wars.
Over 4,300 families have had a loved one die; that doesn't count the 30,000+ severely wounded.
And the economy is in the dumper.
Glad you liked him.
How do you view the Kennedy presidency?
He started our involvement in Viet Nam where 56,000 families lost loved ones.
Um, genius. Yes. Bush left with an approval rating of 25%. He was the least popular president in modern history.
Any president would have had an approval rating of 90% after 9/11. It had nothing to do with what he did. That's what our nation does when we are attacked. We rally together in support of one another against a common enemy.
We had the support of the entire world. To watch the lies, immoral conduct, and criminal behavior from the Bush administration erode that goodwill as they chased after selfish interests and let so many drown in New Orleans (amongst so many other failings) was one of the darkest periods in American history.
You are absolutely wrong in your assessment of why Bush had over 90% for a few weeks. Garfield would have had similar numbers because we were under attack.
Here's to new beginnings and a bright new direction.
Very well said.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
However, Iraq did, at one point in time, have WMD's. Whether or not this fact was still a reality under the Bush administration remains a controversy. However, the important thing to remember is that Bush firmly believed in eradication of hostile threats to the United States and all freedom loving countries. He was willing to do everything it takes to get rid the global terrorist threat that jeopardizes everyone who believe in freedom. Bush was a warm, genuine man, unlike Obama, who leaves me personally feeling cold and insecure about our future. 
