http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100058215/yes-president-bush-america-does-miss-you/ Frankly, the 47% sound like the abused spouse who foggily forgets the knuckle sandwiches because her bruises have healed.
Fuck George W. Bush. Fuck Republicans! :smt092 I don't miss him that much! He's the reason why our economy is in the worst state and it's recovering slowly right now and people have no patience to see the real change. For love of god, I don't want policy of George W. Bush to coming back after midterm election! I know Republicans would loves to turns us backwards, that's how they got us in the mess in the first place! Republicans can just go to hell for all I cares.
You're naive. Bush is Wall Street puppet just like Obama. He's not responsible for anything because he never ran anything.
Americans are stupid. If anyone misses the two terms of Dubya, they are retarded or under the age of 10. And stop saying the POTUS has no power!!! His executive powers are nearly dictatorial, no matter who he is beholden to for campaign donations or whose economic agenda he promotes. That's what Obama gets for not prosecuting anyone in the Bush administration for crimes against the state.
Again proving my point its not Republicans vs Democrats or even rich vs poor Its the fucking dumb vs the marginally smart and the dumb are winning 1000 to 1
True, here is an interesting article from 2004. The author like most Americans at that time defended Bush even though the 'bruises' not only where still fresh but, he was in the middle of dishing out an unreal ass kicking. The country knew he was messing up and still gave him four more years. He is like an abuser who thinks 'she likes it' because we brought him back. Just How Bad Is Bush? By Robert S. McElvaine The recent Republican National Convention presented George W. Bush's presidency as a triumphant success. Most professional historians take a radically different view. A significant number of historians, in fact, rank the Bush presidency as the most disastrous in American history. They're wrong. An informal, unscientific survey of historians conducted at my suggestion by HNN found that eight in ten historians responding rated the current presidency an overall failure. Of 415 academic historians who expressed a view of President Bush's administration so far as a success or failure, 338 (81 percent) classified it as a failure and 77 (19 percent) as a success. Twelve percent of all the historians who responded rated the current presidency the worst in all of American history. Such a low grade for the incumbent by historians may not be surprising. But the low rating is not just because most historians are hopelessly liberal. Today 70 percent of the historians who see the Bush presidency as a failure rate the current administration as worse than the two presidencies that liberals have most loved to hate, those of Nixon and Reagan. The truth is that the current administration is not the most disastrous in our history. George W. Bush's record on running up debt to burden our children is only the worst since Ronald Reagan. His record on government surveillance of citizens is only the worst since Richard Nixon. His record on foreign-military policy has gotten us into only our worst foreign mess since Lyndon Johnson sank us into Vietnam. His economic record on job creation is only the worst since Herbert Hoover. His record of tax favoritism for the rich is only the worst since Calvin Coolidge. His record of trampling on civil liberties is only the worst since Woodrow Wilson or perhaps John Adams. There was, however, a presidency that was altogether worse than all or any of these: that of James Buchanan, who warmed the president's chair while the Union disintegrated in his term (1857-61). The Civil War was the most calamitous event in our history, and neither George W. Bush nor any other president besides Buchanan has overseen a calamity on that scale. Here's why Bush's presidency has been a disaster, although not quite the worst in our history. This president has: Taken, in the wake of the terrorist attacks three years ago, the greatest worldwide outpouring of goodwill the United States has enjoyed at least since World War II and squandered it by insisting on pursuing a foolish go-it-almost-alone invasion of Iraq, thereby transforming almost universal support for the United States into worldwide condemnation. Promoted the extraordinarily dangerous doctrine of preemptive war. Presided over the loss of more than a million American jobs, the worst record since Herbert Hoover. Misled the American public about weapons of mass destruction and alleged ties to Al-Qaida in Iraq and so led us into a war that has plainly and predictably made us less secure, caused a boom in the recruitment of terrorists, is killing American military personnel needlessly and is threatening to suck up all our available military forces and be a bottomless pit for the money of American taxpayers for years to come. Failed to follow through in Afghanistan, where the Taliban and Al-Qaida are regrouping, once more increasing the threat to our people. Insulted and ridiculed other nations and international organizations and then found it necessary to go, hat in hand, to those nations and organizations begging for their assistance. Inherited an annual federal budget surplus of $230 billion and transformed it into a $400-plus billion deficit in less than three years. This negative turnaround of nearly three-quarters of a trillion dollars is without precedent in our history. Perhaps worst of all, wrapped himself in the flag and used the horrors of 9/11 to divert the voters' attention from the disasters that his policies have produced. It must be admitted, though, that in terms of what it sought to do, the Bush presidency has been successful. His presidency has been remarkably successful, as one historian declared, in its pursuit of disastrous policies. Viewed from this perspective, President Bush's own description in a Time interview (Sept. 6 issue) of his war in Iraq is the best assessment of his presidency as a whole: a catastrophic success. It has been all-too-successful in producing catastrophe. You know for a second I forgot how stupid he was! catastrophic success?
Democrats are spinless really and we have all know this for years. How can you control ever branch of government and still only get a fraction of what you fight for. Democrats are a bunch of individuals pretending to be a group. Republicans will band together and though each individuals may not get what he or she wants, they will move together as a party. ...the democrats simply have never learned how to that. They also let race control this entire agenda, and the republicans did an freaking amazing job of getting everyone to THINK is not about race...but rather "government run a muck"
The race of the current POTUS is a major factor in how the GOP has organized politically since the election and the rise of the Tea Party movement. Yeas, if the current POTUS was a White Democrat, they'd be catching hell too, but nowhere to the same level of President Obama, IMO. Being a man of color just threw gasoline on the entire political shit pile!!:smt025 BTW, I think that article posted about Dubya's administration was meant to be ironic.:smt112
One thing I wan to make sure everyone remembers is that Bush CAUGHT HELL!, and far far more than Obama is getting. If Obama was white AND was faced with the same level of dislike and hatred it would be far far worse. ...and man even warned about the outward lack of respect towards the President of the United States would play out towards future presidents. No one really respected President Bush. Hell White College students showed up to the white house to visit the president where flip flops and Sandals (well lets be hones white women were flips flops and sandals every damn wear..but ya get my point) ...we can't now bitch about the lack of respect towards of Obama when no one said anything about it when Bush was disrespected. They called Bush a monkey and compared him to..and no one screamed RACSIM
and "they" were other white people calling Bush(a white man) a monkey from what I have seen that is why no one screamed racism. What you would have now is white people calling a black man a monkey. You already know the history of this country. If obama was white, there would be less hate. There wouldn't be this new black panther business. no shirley sherrod business. Yes the monkey calling would go on but that was less terrible than the new black panther or sherrod incident. The adminsitration(full of white people) don't know how to handle this racism weapon from fox news because most in the administration have never dealt with it and would not have to if obama was white. Make no mistake about it. Fox news is using the color of his skin to take shots at him. Lastly, bush lied about the weapons of mass destruction. He cost us hundreds of american lives. He let the economy go to crap. If I can't get mad at him destroying our reputation and sending hundreds of men and women to die on a lie. What can I get disrespectful about? This is honestly apples to oranges. Obama has been taking heat simply on the color of his skin. Bush didn't get any of that. Out of the 44 presidents, I bet you Obama is the only one that got hate mail about his skin color(or the most) or called the n-word. I have yet to see someone ask white presidential candidates are you white enough? wtf does that mean? are you black enough? who the heck thinks like that? I'll tell you who. Idiots that want to think that all blacks must act the same way as the way he or she lives.
Fuck George Bush. I would never support a president that kills innocent people in a war for oil. Fuck Dick Cheney too.
Ok, so a white man is called a monkey and its acceptable, but a black man is called a monkey and is racism, AND the contexts of both insults are the same. I'm not sure if I get it. If Obama was white, and in the same context as the attracts are pushed against him now, he would be attacked MORE of that I am 100% sure. And the same-thing that happened to Shirly Sherrod would have happened inf Say Clinton was in office. What would not have happened was the Administrations actions..... ' I have been in uniform since 1991 and I still get a bit unnerved with people talk about "US" the fact of the matter is if you want to blame someone for the OEI and OEF, blame C.O.N.G.R.E.S.S. who did not do its job and checking the president. You can blame congress for both wars, you can blame congress for the state of the economy. There is more tha enough blame to skin this cat. Yes Bush was/is the leader How is it apples and organges. If were talking about the PM of Japan, or the Prince of England ok....but we are talking about two American presidents, so how can you suggest the two are unrelated?????????? This foolishness came from black folk.
What exactly is the context? I thought they were different. Different people doing it at different times for different reasons. The term is the same but I am certain the reasons are different. Clinton is not black. Fox news had 8 years to do this to clinton and they did not. They never jumped on anything like this during the Clinton administration because he is white. Fox news is trying to paint obama as a black supremacist(Glenn beck). It is hard to paint a white man as a black supremacist. Obama is getting heat for being black. I have never seen any of the last presidents get hit like this about the new black panther party or shirly sherood. We have 43 presidents to choose from. not one! There is only so much you can do in congress. If the president comes in with lies and tells you that we could get attack, what do you do? This isn't the first time a president has lied. Congress can't just go into the executive branch and fact check. I'm not saying they are not to blame but I am comparing Bush's 8 years to almost 2 years of Obama. apples to oranges. There is good reason to not like bush over Obama. Bush had 8 years and started fights. Obama got there with 2 fights on his hands and an economy in disgrace. He isn't even done with his term. That's where the apples to oranges come in. Yes we can say they are or were presidents but we are talking about why the disrespect or dislike. Obama hasn't done much if anything on his side of the branch. I am calling them fights since congress never declared war. Maybe I could use battles.
Arch- you make excellent points. Bush got us in 2 fucken unnecessary wars- thousand lives lost, billions spent in both Iraq and Afghan. Thousand refugees coming to the US from these 2 countries. Yes as Flaming hetro puts it Wall street control govt but the economy went to crap during Bush years. I think Obama is done, he sure as hell riding a one way train out of white house to Chicago in Nov 2012. Fox news played him well like a YoYO, I think his lack of experience, knee jerk reflex answers to some questions, surrounding himself with extreme zealouts like Emmanuel and taking up too many things on his plate has become the down fall of his presidency, Of corse add being black to the fire. Obama tried to take major things in his first 2 yrs of presidency 1. two wars 2. Increasing troops in Afghan 3. Checking out of Iraq 4. Health care 5. Closing Gitmo 6. Cash for clunker 7. Stimulus 8. Dont ask dont tell 9. Tax increase 10.BP oil spill 11. Closing space programs 12. Carbon tax 13. Comment on Mosque at ground zero 14. Christmas day underwear terriosit 15. Bringing 9/11 to prosecute in New york 16. Immigration issues and Arizona border. 17. Jumping on sherwood with out checking facts Now he is getting compared to Jimmy Carter, his supporters are deserting him and most Americans dont have respect for him, I am more than 60 % sure that he will be checking out of DC in 2012, unless there is going to be a dramatic turn around in his last 2 yrs.
His downfall is his own.The fact of the matter is people are judging him on the economy and not what has happened. In 2012, The people will look at the economy and forget all the things you just mentioned. He has 2 years to fix the economy BY ANY MEANS Necessary if he wants to keep his job. No excuses will be accepted.
People are such assholes sometimes. FOX news is also a piece of shit... and will say and do anything to basically destroy any chance of democrats winning an election of any kind...
