What Bush Got Right

Thank you, Mr. Zakaria, for your insightful and analytical article. I firmly believe that President Bush is the worst president since Buchanan (Harding didn't serve long enough), but his major international blunders were all in his first term. Those were all monumental, of course;, but his second term has been, I must reluctantly admit, far more successful. We still have enormous problems, but the change in influence from Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, et. al, to Rice, Gates, and the others had been a godsend. Whether that was from an admission of failure or an actual philosophical change is, frankly, academic. Bush claimed in 2000 that any inexperience he had in foreign policy would be remedied by his reliance on his closest advisors; the tragedy of the second Bush's presidency is that it took 4 years, thousands upon thousands of lives, and trillions of dollars to figure out who the correct experts were.

Georgia Burns while Bush and Rice fiddle!

I have been debating with myself for days whether to post a comment for the president since I did vote for him both times and I am now an Obama supporter. All I want to say it that 1- the anti-Christ and demonizing comments need to stop. No matter how we feel about him,(I know I will probably get yelled at over this) he is after all, still our president and nothing changes that until January of 2009. We all agree that the war in Iraq is horrific and it is his fault but there is plenty of blame to go around.. Congress voted in favor of the war. Congress was given the same intelligence reports. Both Dems and Reps in Congress could have, should have, voted No. They didn't and the war in Iraq is the tragic result.

Only Democrats are good Presidents, that is a law of nature or a law of media. With Obama the world will fall in love with the USA but loosing respect. Mr. G. W. Bush for a third presidency !!!! NOW

Just got my hands on the tentative schedule for the DNC Coventions opening night. Thought everyone would like to see it...........................

Theme......We are the people we have been waiting for.

Presentation of colors (weather permitting)...... Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Former Domestic Terrorists and People Who Just Happen to Live in Obama's Neighborhood.

Invocation....Rev. Jeremiah "Goddam Ameri-kkk-a" Wright, Obama Spiritual Advisor and Retired Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago

Call to Order....Honorary Chairpersons: Chris "Tingling-Feeling-Up-His-Leg" Matthews, Keith "Somebody-Who-Can-Take-Her-into-a-Room-and-Only-He-Comes-Out" Olbermann, and Randi "Clinton's a whore" Rhodes

Introduction of Michelle Obama...Mrs. Louis Farrakhan, Chicago

Note: Nation of Islam leader, the Rev. Louis Farrakhan, who had a previously scheduled engagement with Muammar al-Gaddafi, sends his regrets.

Address: Michelle Obama on....Why America is, Just Downright Mean

Taped Greeting......Antoin "Tony the Fixer" Rezko, U.S. Federal Prison Facility, Chicago

Keynote Address,,,,Bitterness... delivered by His Excellency, Raila "Hands Dripping with Blood" Odinga

Benediction...... Father Michael "Hillary-Believed-that-She'd-Win-Because-She's-White" Pfleger... Obama Spiritual Advisor and Pastor of St. Sabina, Chicago

NOBAMA!!!

It is always the same. Media always hate Republicans from Reagan, Bush sen. and Bush jun. In Germany e.g. 70 percent hate the USA independent who is president. It is a myth when a Democrat will be president the world fall in love with the USA. The world hate the Americans for ther wealth, for their pride, for their economy, for their religion and so on. Now the Amercians, here the media and the entertainment support worldwide antiamericanism, but why the Americans elected this president? That is not democracy, that is hypocrisy and submission to german, european, islamic and worldwide antiamericanism.

Small children and G OLD Pers should leave the room. The nightmare for the mouth-breathing, out of touch party (MBOOTP) continues. In 2000 Bush beat Al Gore by 271-267 winning 29 States to Gore's 21. In 2004 Bush beat Kerry 286-252 winning 30 states to Kerry's 20. Barack is Leading McCain 309 - 229 with McCain winning Virginia which is exactly tied in the polls at 46.7 %. Obama leads in 26 States to mcCain's 24. The party's over.

Only one question remains. Will the Right wing desert mcCain before or after the convention? It's going to be fun watching the feeble Corn-holey-Roller and the ever cowardly josemarti claim they never were for him. Marti has been weaseling lately, with "He wouldn't be my choice" line. The far right out of touchers like Limbaugh and Fox-types are setting the table by suggesting that McCain must pick a cave-dwelling conservative. They know he won't and that will pave the way for their defection. I love it, I love it, I can't get enough of it.

Bush has made many mistakes but it is easy to view in hine site. In point to fact when the planes hit the towers he was finished no matter what he did. If he tried to get everyone to go with him and we were hit again he was toast. Instead he went ahead with what he thought was the correct way and now is toast.

I did not agree with Iraq but now we absolutely have to win this or we are in deep trouble. Bush understands one thing a lot of people do not. Most of the Muslim word hates us and has no wish to live in peace. They simply want us dead.

Also most people are blind to the reality of this confict. Religion is only a excuse. The real issue is power over what you do and believe. Bush does understand this. His biggest failing as been the people he put in place to actually run things.

Wheither people want to recognize it or not we are in a batttle for our survival. Who ever is the next president had better see this or when my grand childern are grown they will not speak English or have the freeedon we seem so intent on throwing away.

Even though I disagree with Bush on many thing I suspect that future generation will view him in a different light than we do.

Skyway45 is right! If anyone would care to delve into the readings of the Muslim liturature (espeacially the radicalist groups) they will find that they are committed to killing us period. Once the-powers-that-be look the other way from them, they will continue to push their cause and destroy all those who do not agree that "Allah's flag" should be raised around the world. I wish that others would read their creed's and doctrine's (e. g. Hamas). Religion may be their excuse, but it is the fuel of passion that is being bred into the young minds in their cultures.

History will prove that President George W. Bush was one of the most important presidents of our time. I am sick to death of the constant mispresentation, twisting of facts and flat out inaccurate reporting by the liberal, completely out of touch media. They have done their best to brainwash and convince themselves and all of America that Pres. Bush is a failure. You can say whatever you want over and over but that doesn't make it true ---

I am so thankful that he has been our president for the last 8 years. Who knows what the state of our national security and economy would be if Gore or Kerry had won.

Been to enough funerals to know a mortician's facial when I see one.,,,looks like he was propped in his coffin for the shoot,.,,,Your Bush photo fits perfect this two-face liar.

The PhotoShop man is definitly a Democrat!!,,,,Bless him for conveying in graphics what would have here taken a fifty-line paragraph that nobody would've read.,,,

Too bad a PhotoShop artist cant clean up the inside as well.,..,,He's going down as the worst and he'll be lucky if no future administration gets so corrupt that the public wants to hang them and they need to wag the dog and turn to investigating George for the war criminal that he is to take the pressure off of themselves.

Otherwise no future administration will deal with "a past American President's" war crime and he's home free as a retired war criminal. ,,,Oh and, Fareed, this is not one of your honorable pieces, but I guess there were " obligating" circumstance that had you come up with it. ,,We all have to make a living.,,right?

Harley as well as Obama are desperatly trying to nit pick there way from the truth that McCain will win...Obama has No experience with Washington, No experience with foreign policies, No real reasoning for his CHANGE slogan...Change what?...Does he honestly think HE will change Washington?..No, Washington, as Chicago did will change him...Bush did what he had to do in a post 9/11 state! Saddam did the wrong thing to taunt the U.S. in a time of extreme heightened awareness, and we were NOT going to let the Taliban, Iraq or any other rogue regime take advantage of us...Everyone was all for this and was waiting in anticipation for the Iraq war to start! Now that CERTAIN ppl see that this is unlike their video games and ppl actually have to die for what we believe, they are quick to point out the faults and down falls ONLY, and not the good that our men and women died for..No instead we get ppl who would rather use the deaths of these fine ppl to make their own political points..Nevermind who died in the World Trade Center in the 90's, or the too numerous bombings to name off on other Presidents watches...All that matters to some ppl is that we fail in Iraq to prove that Bush is a lousy leader..Well alot of good that Clintons policies of live and let live did for us. We cant just blame Bush for these events that we are in the midst of, Clinton deserves a fine round of applause for his "do nothing" attitude for our safety that made us vulnerable in the first place. He deserves a standing ovation for his NAFTA ideals that left thousands in the U.S. jobless...Blaming our current state on just Bush is a sad attempt by others to get their revenge and anger out for the now..To point a finger somewhere else and not at themselves...Iraq is NOT the start all and end all for everything thats wrong in this nation as some desperatly seeking re-election would want us to think.

McCain will nuke Iran and then Russia. Same policy different President.

Where did PIApockets go?..You dont seems as gungho as you were when Hillary was running..PIA PIA you were here, but now your gone, you left you quotes to carry on...