What Bush Got Right

Another top issue is flip-flopping. It's a term used on both sides. Many people on Newsweek say they're scared of Obama flip-flopping. Yet, if you paid any attention, You'd notice that Senator Mccain has made many flip-flops himself. I mean, he's gone from pro life, to pro choice, from against Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy, to for Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy, and many more.<http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/9111.html>. As for offshore drilling, Obama didn't flip-flop, he said he was open to the idea if it was part of a bigger energy plan. Is being open to an idea seriously that bad? But overall, when you really think about it, who's never changed their ideas, who can say they've never changed or reversed their ideas even once?

The next issue is National Security. You say you trust Senator Mccain to protect this country. Yet over the past couple days he's been slammed by Paris Hilton's mom, even Paris Hilton herself recently. If Mccain can't even protect himself from an old women, from Paris Hilton and her mother for Christ's sake, how can you expect him to protect the rest of the country.

Lastly, there is the issue of Iraq and Obama listening to the generals on the ground. You say you don't trust Obama because he won't listen to the generals and instead implement his 16 month timetable no matter what they say. Yet even senator Mccain, the person who
got the enemy factions confused, was corrected, than said the same mistake again, complemented Obama's 16 month timetable. I mean, we may not be on the same page here, but if even senator Mccain complements the timetable, than isn't that a good plan, isn't that a good timetable. I mean, that's what I believe anyway.

Well there you go, I hope you enjoy it, thanks for taking your time to read it.

You think that Condi Rice is a pragmatist? She's an apologist and enabler of Bush's failed policies, and that is all. She was a truly lousy National Security Adviser and she's more like a Secretary of Marketing than a Secretary of State.

Oh, and the reason why Europe "doesn't do enough" to help us in Iraq and Afghanistan? It's because we've given them little or no reason to trust our judgment. Violence may have decreased in Iraq, but the Iraqi national government has not become more stable, except to the extent that there seems to be pretty broad consensus that the US should leave, something the Bush administration seems not to want to hear. As for Afghanistan, we've ignored the "reality on the ground" in that country for so long that the reality is rapidly becoming a nightmare.

Don't ask me to give the Bush administration credit for anything. To the extent that anything it has done has not resulted in disaster, it is just dumb luck. Yes, the next president needs to examine the facts carefully and decide what to do based on his own judgment, not a reflexive, unthinking rejection of Bushism. A deliberate, thoughtful appraisal of Bush's record will not require long.

"He was right to take on terrorism"
Well ara9557 I agree with you Bushs war on terrorism. As
Bush himself has said many times he would do it again and not change any thing.
I'm sure everyone agrees that hanging Saddam was worth 1.2 trillion dollars even if it will take generations to pay it off, and certainly worth the 500,000 iraqi lives trashing the country, creating 2.5 million refugees and another 2.5 million displaced within Iraq and the 4500 young americans to get rid of Saddam after a;; he killed almost as many as Bush.
Only problem is the war on terror is in Afghanistan but we can forgive Bush that little over sight, Afghanistan had no oil and since Bush invaded Iraq we now have all this cheap oil.
But the tax cut? naw if you make $50,000 a year that cut amounts to $15.00 not exact;y impressive.
Education is on hold since we have no money for it same for the infrastucture of this country. and I don't get the personal accountability? Are you talking about Bush? he wouldn't know the truth if he tripped on it.

So called American military power stands naked and exposed like the Emperor with the new clothes after the Russians run through Georgia. So much for promising Georgian sovereignity.
In debt to the Russians and Chinese, dependant on Russian and Arab oil, scared of Paki nukes, all that Americans can do is kill innocent Iraqis in a jingoistic fit. Pathetic.

Ok, here's what I don't understand. Bush promotes deception about WMD to get us into Iraq [Susskind's book shows conclusively that he did, and Susskind claims to have tape recordings of his sources, despite their statements when the book came out that they lied]. Clinton can't keep it in his pants, and uses the FBI to cover it up. Regardless of who is worse, both of these men have clearly acted against the national interest. Yet all I hear in these comments is either people promoting one or the other.

Are you all blind? Both of their presidencies were utterly corrupt. Just because different fat cats benefitted from each one doesn't change the fact that NEITHER acted in the American interest. Both thought that we had no right to know what was really going on. So yes Bush is bad. And yes, Clinton is bad. Enough silly partisanship. The only way out of this mess is a return to limited government under the Constitution. Nothing else will work. And neither party wants to give that to you. They're both much more interested in handing American sovereignty over to international institutions where the leaders are not even elected. So keep that in mind when you rant against one without ranting against the other.

lets get real, the Bush folks have caused unecessary hell for us and the world.

To Harley,
RE: "Yeah stick to the DRILLIN AND KILLIN old guy "
Geez H, do you have to over-DRAMATIZE everything? Yeah I'm voting the old guy;
better than Mr. Young & Hip but DON"T KNOW SH*T!

P.S. Come Nov.4th O-man loses!

i wonder who pays the author to write these things (...)

1. Commending Bush's accomplishments in Africa was in Zakari's article. You can find it on page 2.

2. This paper was well written. Although I felt it did have a slight political slant on it, it was surely one of the most unbiased material I've read on Bush. The poster below misses the point by saying that Zakaria's article is garbage because Bush is the worst President ever and should be impeached. First, the point of his article was to look at Bush's accomplishments and failures and attempt to reach a more objective opinion on it. Second, Zakaria separated the discussion from Bush as a person and the effectiveness of Bush's policies. You can have a bad president but still make some wise decision making policies. If you can't understand how to separate the two, then you're just as bad as the person in the white house is today.

Am I the only person who thinks that Fareed Zakaria should be the next head of White House communications? He has to be one of the most pragmatic policy analysts and effective communicators in modern media.

Does anyone else think that Fareed Zakaria would make a good policy advisor to the next president? This article shows that he is a pragmatic and balanced observer of policy, and a very effective communicator.

Sure President Bush has failed in numerous points, but those failures evolved with public tastes and necessity to become quasi effective stop gaps until fresh perspectives can be found with the next administration.

Russia has just invaded Georgia, a soverign nation with a democratically elected government. So why is Bush still in China cheering for Michael Phelps? This is a serious issue people, you'd not know that because the news are more focused on John Edwards, but Europe is tense over this. This is the first time a soverign nation in Europe is invaded since the end of World War II, so why is Putin back in his office and Bush isn't?

Then again, why am I surprised? This is the man who sat for seven minutes on 9-11 after the second tower was hit. The same man who would rather stay on vacation when New Orleans was sinking and Americans dying. The same man who said he'd give up golf (golf!) to show solidarity to the troops in Iraq and still went to play a few holes anyway.

How did we sink this low?

well a decent article with some truths in it abeit too much personal opinion and pronouncements from the author.

the war on terror was not misguided. It was the appropriate response to demonstrate to the world the power of the sleeping giant that is the United States.

It is the liberal softening of America which caused a planeload of people to obey a few hijackers who were armed with UTILITY KNIVES. If this happened today the hijackers would have plastic forks and various and sundry items embedded in various parts of their bodies. It is Bush's policies which have thwarted and prevented many attempted attacks.

no matter what the man does you all in the media continue to tear him down. This article is the first one that actually gives credit to the fact that problems were seen and subsequently corrected. A whole lot better than J. Carter who I consider the Worst as well as the worst period of history for America.

History will acknowledge the positive which his admin has brought forth.

I guess that you all are followiung your own article about obama overexposure. youu must be to write an actual relevant article which praises Bush.

tired of the whiners, they are so shortsighted and only see the past.

Bush will rightly be remembered as a man of integrity and discipline...who won the Iraq War, restructured the geoploitics of the middle east, took us into the right direction on world terrorism, and most of all---he kept us safe since 9/11. Thank you, Mr. President. I salute you.

90sapphire and Gigantus, I appreciate both of you. It's always good to break from the seriousness of the day and leave reality behind. Those are two of the funniest comments I've seen in some time.

My fellowbloggers....Are ya'll following the HOTTEST HUSSEIN QUESTION?????????

The question of Hussein's Certificate Of Live Birth (COLB)........if not you are behind on your Fact Checking. Seems quite a few people have opinions. Look at the results of a Google..................

.....Results 1 - 10 of about 482,000 for obama birth certificate...........482,000.........that is a BUNCH of opinions....I know most of ya'll are.....TOO LAZY or TOO SCARED....to look yourself.....so HolyRoller will give a helping hand. Here is a very recent "Israel Insider" report.....................

Claim: Obama's "birth certificate" forged with sister Maya's original
By Israel Insider staff August 5, 2008

Independent analysts, working separately, claim to have discovered that the original Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth used in the fabrication of the Barack Obama "birth certificate" belongs to the Presidential candidate's younger half-sister, Maya.

Examining the high resolution image originally posted by the "Daily Kos" left-wing blog and subsequently claimed as authentic by the campaign, and posted in lower resolution on the campaign official "Fight the Smears" website, at least two analysts have been able to independently discern the name "Maya Kassandra Soetoro" from artifacts left behind in the process of forging a new fake document for Barack from an image of Maya's original document. Additional confirmatory information, such as her birthday and the nationality of her father have also been resurrected. A full report documenting all details is to be published in the coming days. Israel Insider has not yet seen proof that would validate the claim.

The dramatic claim comes just a day after a forensic specialist, posting on the Texas Darlin blog under the name Techdude (his real name is known to Israel Insider), announced the discovery of the identity of the original owner of the COLB document used in the forgery but would initially only indicate that it was a woman born in the 1970's. However, he provided enough clues to enable another graphic specialist (screen name KG) to independently reproduce the incriminating evidence. (Techdude had said that he wanted to give the guilty parties time to confess to the forgery, but also to allow independent confirmation of his discovery. He even offered to pay for a trip to Vegas to the first person to discover the name and detail the method by which it was discovered.

Ya'll need to keep your eyes open. Is this why Barry is in Hawaii??? Wonder when the Nation Enquirer is gonna break this???

NOBAMA!!!

Well guys, I think I've made my point on this site. It was interesting and fun to debate and argue. But after awhile it seems redundant. You find yourself repeating the same things, and you start lose self respect, going negative or just for laughs instead of really proving your point. You start to learn about society, from both sides, the republican, the democrat, the independant. You hear from smart people, and from dumb people, and from some just plain crazy or negative people, and everything in between. The reason I was interested in these comments was because I felt I brought something new to the table, and wasn't just repeating other people's comments which I've also seen. I've seen people go from honorable and clean, to sloppy and negative, like sharenews for example, he or she was one of the most clean cut arguers on the site, but now she or he has become petty and negative, calling Obama supporters name callers when he or hse calls them name callers in the same comment, or argueing as if he or she contradicted the other person, when in fact, he or she didn???t even read the whole statement in the first place. Sharenews used to separate fact and opinion, and only tell truth, but now sharenew???s fact and opinion have become one as he or she comes up with more and more fabricated lies. I used to respect sharenews in the beggining, but now I???ve lost all respect whatsoever. It was a fun ride. But now I'm starting to see my own dignity slip away, and I don't want to see myself end up so low, just as I???ve seen people like sharenews end up, just angry and frustrated becoming more negative and opinionated as time goes on, to the point where I don???t even know the message I was trying to convey in the first place. So I'm going to leave with some dignity. Maybe you'll hear from me in another four years, who knows. Just have fun commenting, try to keep it clean, and don't get too angry or frustrated, it's just not worth it. (last comment)unless I have something new to say, but besides that (last comment)