Today's poll question; do you think that former American President George W. Bush is an idiot? He has some new memoirs being released and he recently did his first sit down interview since he retired from politics. So many pundits on the left have fought so hard to paint him as an idiot that it seems to have become part of the narrative. Yesterday I has having a friendly chat with someone at work who told me that George Bush was mentally retarded and that the greatest travesty in the history of democracy was Al Gore not winning Florida in 2000. I just smiled, said something nice about Obama, and changed the subject. It is best to keep politics out of the workplace. I despise Al Gore and I like George Bush.
Does that make me an idiot? I am not defending all the man's policies. TARP was a nightmare. He made mistakes, but he gets the most flak for military decisions and the man is loved by many military families.
History will prove the George W Bush was one of the best presidents the US ever had. Can't say the same about his dad.
ReplyDeleteRob C
I have the same strong feeling, Rob. When it all comes out in the the critical hindsight of the the time we lived through while W was president, it will show that man was doing something positive in a turbulent time, and could not possibly live up to the hyped up satire and grief tossed his way.
ReplyDeleteThe Liberal media was very effective in exploiting the serious problems in the economy, Katrina response, conduct of the two wars.
ReplyDeleteThe voters rewarded the media with Obama in 2008. The mid term elections corrected the Liberal narrative. Obama has the benefit of following Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter in the history books.
I saw the interview, and George Bush came of as a very well spoken, down to earth kind of person. He's the kind of guy you'de want to have over for a BBQ.
ReplyDeleteBill Whittle has a great rebuttal of the 'Bush is an idiot' mantra.
ReplyDeletehttp://pajamasmedia.com/ejectejecteject/2006/11/06/seeing-the-unseen-part-1/
"This is a Convair F-102 Delta Dagger. It is a second-generation, supersonic fighter-interceptor. It cruises at 845 mph.
There were some minor aerodynamic problems with the F-102. For example, at certain power settings and angles of attack, like, say, take-off – the jet compressor would stall and the aircraft would roll inverted. It is no picnic, skill-wise, to fly a modern F-16 with advanced avionics and fly-by-wire flight control systems. The workload on the F-102 was far higher. The F-16 has an accident rate of 4.14 occurrences per 100,000 flight hours. The F-102's accident rate was more than three times that: 13.69 per 100,000 hours. 875 F-102A interceptors were built; 259, almost 30% – were lost to accidents or enemy action while serving in Vietnam.
George W. Bush flew hundreds of hours in the F-102."
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I noticed Liberal Roger Smith on CTV Power & Politics talking about George W Bush yesterday. In the background they were showing him trying to open a locked door in China , I believe, and the shoe throwing incident.Anything to try and make him look foolish. I like George Bush...he says it like it is. The media's problem is that he isn't a Democrate.
ReplyDeleteI like GWB a lot, although have sometimes wished he we were more of a fiscal conservative. However in today’s WSJ interview by Strassel 2 important clarifications are made by Bush that might cause a rethinking on the fiscal and social program fronts.
ReplyDelete1. One perception the president is determined to shift is that of his spending record. "Decision Points" contains one graphic: a table comparing, among other things, President Bush's average spending-to-GDP (19.6%) to that of Bill Clinton (19.8%), Bush 41 (21.9%), and Reagan (22.4%). It also shows that his deficit-to-GDP was 2%—half that of Bush 41 and Reagan. ( add to those facts is Obama up to 25% and rising rapidly)
2. But what about 2003 Medicare reform, which saw Republicans add a major new prescription drug entitlement? He rejects the premise of the question. "The entitlement already existed, and the entitlement was Medicare. And that's the threshold question—should we have Medicare? If the answer is no, my attitude is fine, go debate it. If the answer is yes, then let's modernize it." The prescription-drug program is about allowing Medicare to give seniors a "$15 drug in order to prevent a $30,000 operation that your taxpayer money would be committed to paying."
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William in Ajax said..
ReplyDeleteThis video says it all...
http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/right_brothers_bush/
He could have been a little more conservative, but I'm still a fan!
If all the major countries would have put up a united front on Iraq and Saddam we would have solved a lot of our problems instead of some countries (Canada Included ) playing footsie with this brutal dictator. Saddam attacked neighboring countries (Remember Hitler) - is there a pattern.
ReplyDeleteSaddam was given a choice let the United Nations nuclear inspectors in and do their work and prove you have no WMD but Saddam chose to make it look as if he had something to hide. United States and allies did not do a surprise attack on Iraq but tried to get Saddam to come around to his senses - It was Saddam's call and his bluff was called that nobody had the guts to deal with him. This also served as a good lesson to other dictators around the world that United States and some allies will act if they find it necessary and establishing that is very important. Bush did a lot of good things and one of them was dealing with the dictator Saddam.
I agree with you on Bush but am more in favour of TARP than I was originally. I do now feel it was all coming unglued and that the infusion of State credit was necessary to prevent a financial blowout. From what I gather, the program will eventually show a 'profit' for the Government so that being the case, I really don't have an problem with it. Of course I would have charged draconian interest rates for the loans just as a penalty to the banksters, but maybe that's just me.
ReplyDeleteGreat Oprah interview. GWB really came across well, imao.
Rob C...seriously the best predient ever? He did not defend the US from the 9/11 attack. That happened on his watch. He then over-reacted to 9/11 with aq massive build up of Homeland Security and erosion of civil liberties. An unjustified war in Iraq that left the US seriously in debt and the economy was weaker.
ReplyDeleteThe US was weaker in every way at the end of Bush's term compared to the start.
Anonymous you are contradicting yourself. You say Bush did not defend the USA then you say he over defended it with anti-terror measures, which is it?
ReplyDeleteThe facts are there were no further 9/11 attacks and his budgets as compared to others were less tax and spend oriented then other regimes. Furthermore he tried to rein in Fannie and Freddie the precipitous causes of the financial meltdown and was thwarted by Democratic Congress led by progressive extremist Pelosi.
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