What Bush Got Right

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  • Posted By: niteshft_1 @ 08/10/2008 9:04:04 PM

    No one really knows what goes on at the White house unless you've been there during a disaster. Lower people in the chain, that isn't included in the meetings, can only speculate what is going on there. The media listens to them and put it to print. Should we really listen, read, and take it as fact? That is what the mainstreme has been doing the past 6 or so years. Where are the reporters of yesteryear when we could get an unpartial story?

  • Posted By: jtm236 @ 08/10/2008 8:58:13 PM

    I read almost halfway through this article and I was looking for the answers of what the article title implies: What Bush Got Right. It didn't even talk about what he 'got right', so I stopped reading because the author is misleading. It's always "fun" to hear about the Bush administration from the slant of a hater. While I don't agree with everything Bush has done, I think the author should've focused the article about what Bush got right since that is the title of the article. If the author doesn't believe Bush has done anything right, he or she should've said "nothing!" in the article, and just leave it at that without wasting my time just rambling on.

    • Posted By: olderwiser @ 08/10/2008 9:03:31 PM

      I tend to give the author a high mark for taking on the almost impossible task of finding something that Bush did right. Whatever it is, it is totally obscured by the storm of out and out screw ups. One after the other. Then, when some of them wouldn't screw up well enough, he kept trying until he got it right, or wrong, so to speak.

  • Posted By: dajohnson5 @ 08/10/2008 8:57:58 PM

    Hater. You idiots hate that Mr Bush is getting all that love in China. Your bashing is going to back fire. See what you libs have done for John McCain by sucking up and glorifying Obama. You fail to mention the aproval rating of Congress.

    • Posted By: royalcat68 @ 08/10/2008 9:01:39 PM

      I know you are not serious . You are a joke. Bush is a joke. Approval rating----23%. Liberals have nothing to do with this. Your calling anyone a liberal just hides the fact that you are stupid and uneducated.

  • Posted By: buck smith @ 08/10/2008 9:00:47 PM

    bush is the worste leader this country has ever had

  • Posted By: AZwoman @ 08/09/2008 7:44:37 PM

    MarianaS : you can't be serious? Do you actually believe that GW Bush has done anything right? Can't believe anyone isn't sorry he was our President. We will never live long enough for history to vindicate him, thanks to the terror he has created. You are so wrong

    • Posted By: Mariana S @ 08/10/2008 12:01:06 AM

      I would vote for President Bush again in a heartbeat. AZ woman. And you're going to miss him when he's gone. In about 6 months.

      • Posted By: jedimom @ 08/10/2008 5:56:22 PM

        You have to be kidding, with unemployment the way it is, gas prices, trillion dollar debt, thousands dying and the middle east hates us more than ever and you think ANYONE will miss bush,

        • Posted By: Twister52 @ 08/10/2008 8:56:22 PM

          Jedimom, you're not using the force.

          If you were, you'd realize that you'll miss Bush the first time America gets schwacked by the terrorists on our OWN SOIL.

          Do you really think that they've decided to pack up their toys and go home?

          W/o Bush's strong response to 9-11, we'd have been attacked numerous times in the previous 7 years.

          War is an ugly thing, but with some people, ie, terrorists, they don't understand or respect anything than relentless aggression, and liberals (and yes, I mean primarily Democrats) don't have the stomach for it. They'd all rather just hold hands and sing Kumbhyah with those that want to kill them and their children.

      • Posted By: raddave @ 08/10/2008 1:47:42 AM

        Then you are blind.

  • Posted By: arealpatriot @ 08/10/2008 8:38:32 PM

    21stCent- if a silly typo is all that you can comment on then who is the moron? Guess I am talking to you loser.

    • Posted By: 21stCent @ 08/10/2008 8:55:33 PM

      Typo? Yeah,sure...just like those weapons of mass destruction you were commenting on 5 years ago. I doubt seriously if you could draw a map of the world,know the difference between fiscal and physical,or could even give a vague accounting of 20th Century American history. The bedrock of your so called PARIOTISM is lack of education and an unflinching pride in your ego driven ignorance and simplistic mind set. Fortunately,Bush has screwed things up so bad,we will begin to come out of the darkness with the election of Obama. Then you right wing wack jobs can go back to the loud and dumb world of extremist talk radio that spawned you PATRIOTS 20 years ago.

  • Posted By: arealpatriot @ 08/10/2008 8:54:00 PM

    niteshft_1 - You are right on.

  • Posted By: Notrepublican @ 08/10/2008 1:29:56 AM

    You're right though, the Middle East is unstable, causing less oil production, causing rising gas prices everywhere. And you know who made the Middle East unstable, who executed the order to disrupt Middle East activity, who Bushed us, BUSH!

    • Posted By: pyramid @ 08/10/2008 2:41:41 AM

      The middle east being unstable is Bin Ladens fault!!

      • Posted By: soundiata @ 08/10/2008 4:15:51 AM

        Bin lade and his petty criminal terrorist crew was hated in much of the middle east(even by saddam) until Bush invaded iraq.

        • Posted By: star3 @ 08/10/2008 8:51:10 PM

          Bush didn't invade Iraq, we were invited. Read some of my previous post. As for Bin Laden, we feel its GOD'S job to judge Bin Laden, its OUR job to arrange that meeting. We are in the process of doing just that.

      • Posted By: Notrepublican @ 08/10/2008 4:19:30 AM

        Ask yourself this, what was the price of gas before we invaded Iraq? What's the price of gas today?

        • Posted By: crankyfranky @ 08/10/2008 8:57:04 AM

          That's kind of a no-brainer, isn't it? They arabs can set the gas prices wherever they want to. Remember when the price of computer ram shot to an sllp-time high after Chinese factories were destroyed in an earthquake? They rebounded, and we're paying lower-than-ever prices for ram now. The oil companies finally got the approval to gouge us. Do you think if the arabs drop the price of crude that the U.S oil companies will drop our gas prices? After the price of gas soared, it fell only pennies and we made a big deal of it. We're more concerned with saving pennies rather than somehow forcing gas prices down. If the U.S refused to buy the arab oil, they WOULD have to drop their prices. They raised it simply because they knew they could get away with it. They, like our own oil companies, are making record profits!
          The "greenies" are preventing our using vast oil reserves. Blame them to a large extent for our gas prices. The gasoline prices are simply a war issue!

          • Posted By: star3 @ 08/10/2008 2:35:40 PM

            The president rescinded the order for no drilling off shore, so, now the dimocrat (yes, I mis-spelled it delibertly, before you start to correct me) congress is dragging its feet on agreeing to that, They had darn well better pass it, and soon, or they may just find themselves on a permanent vaccation, curtesey of the American public!

        • Posted By: Skypoint @ 08/10/2008 9:08:10 AM

          The price of oil is ultimately set by world supply and demand, not the Iraq war.

      • Posted By: raddave @ 08/10/2008 8:15:04 AM

        Bin Laden did not make us invade Iraq.

  • Posted By: Twister52 @ 08/10/2008 8:23:03 PM

    Article quote - "That president, of course, was George W. Bush. His decision to blindly repudiate anything associated with Bill Clinton is what got us into this mess in the first place."

    T-H-A-T'S A-N O-U-T-R-I-G-H-T L-I-E!!!!!

    Just when I thought the media might, just MAYBE, give Pres. Bush some credit for SOMETHING good, it gets yanked away in the very last paragraph. I should have known.....

    The "this mess" referred to, particularly the war on terror, is NOT to blamed on Pres. Bush. If any of these idiotic, self-serving, treasonist news reporters had done an ounce's worth of homework, they would know that America getting dragged into the war on terror was Bill Clinton's fault, not Bush's. Bill Clinton essentially sat on his thumb for EIGHT FRIGGIN' YEARS and did just about NOTHING to defend America and our interests abroad. And so what did the terrorists do after each terrorist attack on American venues and interests overseas? They got bolder and bolder each time, finally culminating in 9-11.

    Does anybody REALLY think we'd be over in Iraq or Afghanistan right now if Bill Clinton hadn't been a spineless jellyfish in exercising our military might during HIS watch? Terrorists don't understand democracy and freedom but they sure as *ell understand brute force. YOU CAN'T TALK A TERRORIST TO DEATH!!!

    Pres. Bush isn't perfect; he's undoubtedly made mistakes. You're an ABSOLUTE IDIOT if you think that ANY U.S. president will never make a decision they'd later regret, and I'll even say that about the liberal media's current lover, Obama. Crap, I'll say it loud and long that Obama will prove to be an absolute disaster for America.

    And Bush? He's fought the terrorists whenever and wherever he thought they were at their strongest, and's he's done it resolutely for almost SEVEN YEARS!

    GOD BLESS PRESIDENT BUSH, AMERICA AND ALL THOSE WHO LOVE HER! (and that obviously does not include the mainstream media.....)

    • Posted By: loriw @ 08/10/2008 8:50:20 PM

      you make some very good points.

    • Posted By: alan.lockett @ 08/10/2008 8:45:11 PM

      The terrorism schtick is intended to get you to ignore the loss of your freedoms. Neither Republicans or Democrats intend to protect those for you - they'll just end our boys off to die somewhere else so that they can never defend us here.

  • Posted By: niteshft_1 @ 08/10/2008 8:50:11 PM

    My apologies 21stCent, I got out of line

  • Posted By: niteshft_1 @ 08/10/2008 8:47:45 PM

    21stCent and still arcane

  • Posted By: Bushy Baby @ 08/10/2008 6:53:47 PM

    In a few years "AFTER" his term ends, Facts will prove that he is one the best Presidents ever. Hide and Watch. This is going to happen.

    • Posted By: Klancy51 @ 08/10/2008 7:03:10 PM

      Enter Your Comment

      • Posted By: simonanunhappydem @ 08/10/2008 8:28:14 PM

        Well, pigs will also fly, just wait and watch.

        • Posted By: olderwiser @ 08/10/2008 8:46:19 PM

          Well, then, we're all agreed that he looks really crappy now. We have to hide and wait for something? Maybe shredding a lot of records? That's it. We'll hide behind the desk and watch them shred. Erase tapes, stuff like that. Okay.

  • Posted By: smargoles @ 08/10/2008 9:15:39 AM

    What utter crap. The author of this apology for Bush lists a few transgressions by the single worst president in US history and then shifts into overdrive in his pathetic attempt to claim Bush has reversed course. Nothing can be further from the truth. Bush continues to undermine the rule of war, and loots the nation at every opportunity. Conservatives and republicans should hang their heads in shame that their mantle piece has been carried by this world class thief.

    • Posted By: star3 @ 08/10/2008 2:20:00 PM

      There is only one rule in war, honey---WIN! And we had better win this one, or you may have the oppertunity find out what its like to live where you don't have the freedom to spout your ignorant remarks.

      • Posted By: Mimi13 @ 08/10/2008 3:54:51 PM

        Ummm . . . seems like I've heard this line before. Like in the 1970s. It went something like "We have to fight them (the Commies) in Vietnam, or we'll be fighting them in Los Angeles." So the Commies won and LA is still safe. Funny how things turn out.

        • Posted By: star3 @ 08/10/2008 8:46:02 PM

          Wrong, Mimi, the commies didn't "win", actually no one did, because Nixon caved in to the drug brained hippies who were spouting the "Give peace a chance" chant, well, we gave peace a chance, and this is the result. So, no, they didn't win, we were told to pull away by the, then leader, Richard Nixon. Had we been allowed to stay and finish the job, we may not have had to face this situation now. We may not have left an opening for another slime ass bully to think they could get away with challenging us. Yeah, L.A. is safe---for now. Sure hope it remeins safe, since I live nearby!

    • Posted By: Skypoint @ 08/10/2008 1:13:09 PM

      Wow. Why don't you tell us how you really feel?

    • Posted By: Tiger01 @ 08/10/2008 11:26:10 AM

      Funny how liberals always call the last Republican president "the worst in US history." They did this with 41 and Reagan as well. It's an absurd charge. What makes him the worst? Our losses in Iraq? The Korean War cost about 10 times in American and civilian casualties, but no one is calling Harry Truman the worst president in history. If Iraq ends up being a stable democracy in a few years (in a place, by the way, where democracy has never before existed in human history), then I think Bush 43 will come out just fine in the history books. In fact, if you look at the ratings of war-time presidents, all of them end up in the top half (even LBJ amazingly). Face it Defeatocrats, decades from now, George W. Bush will be one of those iconic heroic figures of history much like Reagan and Truman. He'll be viewed as the hero who defeated terrorism and established justice and democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan. Meanwhile, your "hero" Bill Clinton will be a mere footnote in history, remembered only for keeping chubby chicks under the desk.

  • Posted By: Sherri04 @ 08/10/2008 5:55:18 PM

    Does any bias show in this article??? President Bush has done plenty RIGHT, but you in the media didn't plan on acknowledging it then or now!! The old mantra that Bush and Cheney are in with the oil companies is tiring, President Bush tried in 2002 to open up ANWR but the Democratic Congress would not pass it. (In 1995 the Republican Congress passed opening up ANWR, but Pres. Clinton vetoed it, saying that we had plenty of oil and it was cheap-oh well, that turned out great,didn't it) The press never reports that last year Exon paid in $40 billion in TAXES and had a net profit of 39 Billion. They paid their share. There is so much dishonesty in this article it is staggering, I could go on and on.

    • Posted By: simonanunhappydem @ 08/10/2008 8:43:57 PM

      Truth can be tiring, but it does not make it not true. Bush/Chenney are for the interest of the oil companies and for the Saudis, not for us Americans. Opening Anwar would not make us energy independent in any way. Spending a trillion dollars on alternative energy, instead of wasting it in Iraq would have. Exxon pays some taxes, but received more than 10 billion dollars in subsidies from this administration. WHY?

  • Posted By: arealpatriot @ 08/10/2008 8:36:51 PM

    By the way- if any of you out there for Obama believe in "Change for the Better", then you believe in higher taxes, much higher energy cost, downsizing our military to nothing, less liberty, major economic depression, our American way of life ruined, compassion for islamic terrorists, less crime control and more useless "gun control", and America going back to the 70's with Jimmy Carter. This does make you a total moron and you do deserve all of the bad that will come with Obama.

    • Posted By: 21stCent @ 08/10/2008 8:43:10 PM

      Are you brain dead?Seriously ,you need a basic primer in economics,history,political science.....anything other than the neocon propaganda that has infected your being.

  • Posted By: soundofreason @ 08/10/2008 8:43:03 PM

    I wonder if Lincoln was considered a failure while he served in office as well? The answer is of course he was but the course of history changed that. Iraq was a mistake and if the middle east continues as it always had then Bush was a failure but if Democracy takes root and 40 years from now the middle east is the next Europe.... put him on the rock.

  • Posted By: Straight Arrow PR @ 08/10/2008 8:40:53 PM

    Excellent analysis by one of the few remaining journalists who are intellectually honest.

  • Posted By: mcham1011 @ 08/10/2008 8:37:32 PM

    Twister52 is absolutely right! Here is one more for you...President Bush has stayed true to his word when it comes to the war on terror...he did not back down when his approval rates went down. He is not making the war a popularity contest like our Liberal party has done over the last 7 years! It seems to me that everything went south when Democrats took over Washington in 2006...high oil prices, foreclosures and otherwise bad economy.

  • Posted By: hachetwacker @ 08/10/2008 8:37:19 PM

    faheed are you related to obama wanna kill americans bin laden? To bad bill wasnt pres on 9/11 because then when he was busy getting his cigar smoked no one would have noticed we were attacked

  • Posted By: alabama1 @ 08/10/2008 9:50:39 AM

    This author struggles to give a few kudo's to Bush. Yes, it is true that he gave away our money for Aids in Africa & other countries, but one word about all the Americans with AIDs that have no drugs or care at all or very limited care.
    No word about all the harm that has been done by this adm, by changing the banking laws & setting up the scene that we have now, both in Home owernship & credit & financial markets. Well, I guess all his big oil & big business friends, made their killing, so who cares about us little folks! Righ? We are just the back bone of the country & are weakening fast.
    I can't even begin to address all the destructive things this President has done. He has dishonored hiself & all Americans.

    • Posted By: star3 @ 08/10/2008 8:37:11 PM

      You think so? Then wait until Obama takes over---if he does, God forbid! Anyone dumb enough to believe Obama will "change" anything except to put a mosque where the White House now stands will deserve what they voted for. You may, then, wish for the "good old days" when you had the freedom to speak your mind without fear of anything worse than someone disagreeing with you.

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