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Title: The Treatment of Bush Has Been a Disgrace
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URL Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122584386627599251.html
Published: Nov 5, 2008
Author: JEFFREY SCOTT SHAPIRO
Post Date: 2008-11-05 18:55:49 by Jhoffa_
Keywords: None
Views: 1063
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The Treatment of Bush Has Been a Disgrace What must our enemies be thinking? Earlier this year, 12,000 people in San Francisco signed a petition in support of a proposition on a local ballot to rename an Oceanside sewage plant after George W. Bush. The proposition is only one example of the classless disrespect many Americans have shown the president. [Commentary] AP According to recent Gallup polls, the president's average approval rating is below 30% -- down from his 90% approval in the wake of 9/11. Mr. Bush has endured relentless attacks from the left while facing abandonment from the right. This is the price Mr. Bush is paying for trying to work with both Democrats and Republicans. During his 2004 victory speech, the president reached out to voters who supported his opponent, John Kerry, and said, "Today, I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent. To make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust." Those bipartisan efforts have been met with crushing resistance from both political parties. The president's original Supreme Court choice of Harriet Miers alarmed Republicans, while his final nomination of Samuel Alito angered Democrats. His solutions to reform the immigration system alienated traditional conservatives, while his refusal to retreat in Iraq has enraged liberals who have unrealistic expectations about the challenges we face there. It seems that no matter what Mr. Bush does, he is blamed for everything. He remains despised by the left while continuously disappointing the right. Yet it should seem obvious that many of our country's current problems either existed long before Mr. Bush ever came to office, or are beyond his control. Perhaps if Americans stopped being so divisive, and congressional leaders came together to work with the president on some of these problems, he would actually have had a fighting chance of solving them. Like the president said in his 2004 victory speech, "We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us. And when we come together and work together, there is no limit to the greatness of America." In Opinion Journal Today To be sure, Mr. Bush is not completely alone. His low approval ratings put him in the good company of former Democratic President Harry S. Truman, whose own approval rating sank to 22% shortly before he left office. Despite Mr. Truman's low numbers, a 2005 Wall Street Journal poll found that he was ranked the seventh most popular president in history. Just as Americans have gained perspective on how challenging Truman's presidency was in the wake of World War II, our country will recognize the hardship President Bush faced these past eight years -- and how extraordinary it was that he accomplished what he did in the wake of the September 11 attacks. The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous, proving to the world what little character and resolve we have. The president is not to blame for all these problems. He never lost faith in America or her people, and has tried his hardest to continue leading our nation during a very difficult time. Our failure to stand by the one person who continued to stand by us has not gone unnoticed by our enemies. It has shown to the world how disloyal we can be when our president needed loyalty -- a shameful display of arrogance and weakness that will haunt this nation long after Mr. Bush has left the White House.
Poster Comment: Will someone get this guy a cross?
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#21. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#1)
If that's what you believe, then call-in the gestapo.
...with the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
What? What??? Honor your new Maximum Leader!! ;-)
Sadly, I believe voters rejected it. Too bad.
Ah sheet ! I thought byeltsin escaped !!
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Yes, as a matter of fact they did.. Sheehan pulled down 17%. A good showing for an independent. Still, I have to wonder why one of the most liberal places in the world would object to this measure and back Pelosi by 3 to 1, knowing she is basically little more than an un-indicted co-conspirator.
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” President Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
Less than 80 days and counting. Out of the frying pan and into the oven.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
I haven't seen or heard from FChristian in/+!1foreVAR!
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” President Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
The first shot fired across the bow will be "racist!" The return salvo will be deafening. I CAN'T WAIT! This is gonna.be.so.cool! Hello Jhoffa...Peace... What is that deafening sound going to be. Or what should it be.
How the hell is old A+ ?
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Reality.. Objective thought. Raw anger. ANY objective analysis of Obama's policy positions and proposals will be met with cries of "Racist!" by the faithful. Then, there will be a fight between those who are offering honest criticism in good faith, and the Obama worshipers.. Those who believe him incapable of sin. Or even error.
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” President Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
Because many of our fellow citizens are unbright sheep, perhaps? Just a guess....
ANY objective analysis of Obama's policy positions and proposals will be met with cries of "Racist!" by the faithful. Then, there will be a fight between those who are offering honest criticism in good faith, and the Obama worshipers.. Those who believe him incapable of sin. Or even error. A lutheran cracker (redundant?) will go postal, strap on a bomb jacket and go off in a Milwaukee welfare line: "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
True story. I ran into some of those Obama worshipers today. Was having lunch at McDonalds (the boycott is over they caved on the gay issue) anyway it was in the city so there were a lot of black folks there. Some black lady started yelling OBAMA!. I was talking to my helper telling him about the Obama worshipers. She yelled OBAMA! again. So I yelled Sucks right after she finished. I kept eating my grilled chicken sandwich and didn't look around. Nobody came up to me to beat my ass or nothing. Just finished eating and left.
Just a guess.... "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Just toss a chicken leg in there. Let nature take it's course.
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” President Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
damn everyone is naked and no one is even screwing around.
"Is a Communist Pig" Did that one at the bar the other day. He left, scowling. I had my hand inside my jacket on my way out later. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Let nature take it's course. BWAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
More evidence of stupidity ! LOL
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Not so strange.. We're all here (And there, and hither and yon..) because of the Dubya personality cult back during the 2000 primary. Some people are, apparently, just susceptible to this sort of behavior. Toss in the black badge of modern victim hood and their endless whinging and conspiracy theories, then salt it with a little white guilt and it's not very hard to imagine how the first serious black presidential candidate becomes an overnight deity. He beat "the man" doncha know..
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” President Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
And it's so sad that that's all it takes for an affirmative-action mulatto to gain entrance to the White House.
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” Honestly? I'm not mad at him.. But allot of people will be when the buyers remorse sets in. Remember the tale which ends: "You knew I was a snake when you picked me up." They should have known, but used this guy like a canvass to paint their own hopes and desires on. They'll be mighty pissed when he can't live up to them. I'm mad at the Republicans. They blew this. They've been playing both ends against the middle for years now. The Neo's using the Paleo's and Religious Conservatives (The sane ones, anyway. The others are effectively neo's themselves) for political cover. They had to, because they couldn't run on what they honestly think and believe. People simply wouldn't buy it. They did this for so long, and were so flagrant, that we're ALL tainted now. That neo-con smell just doesn't come off. As it is, in this cycle anyway, the terms "Christian" and "Conservative" are useful only as terms of derision..
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” President Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
He needs more than a 'cross'.........what a dipwad. Welcome home.
Yeah hell, he'd just Velcro himself to it anyway.. Then brag about his sacrifice. And thank you. I appreciate that.
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” President Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
Thank you for speaking so eloquently, noone! Short and right to the point. No dancing on the head of a pin for you......ya sweet angel you! LOL.
Perhaps if Americans stopped Bring on the Depression. Bring it the F*** ON! If digging ditches and eating beans for a few years is what it takes for me to see some worthless sacks of crap bankers and politicians living in sack cloth and being spat upon by my fellow Americans well... where's my shovel?!?!
Is there anything more disgusting than a toadie?
Political necrophiliacs.
DEATH TO THE GOP!
This Shapiro idiot isn't alone: 26% of Americans share the same view! I saw a thread on Free Republic about a year ago where some nutcase said that "History will remember Bush as one of our greatest and most misunderstood Presidents! The next generation will remember a fine man who stood up to tyranny around the world and defended freedom!" Most of his fellow posters chimed in with "Amen, Hallelujah!"
Most of his fellow posters chimed in with "Amen, Hallelujah!" Is there anything more disgusting than a toadie? You're on a roll today, RP. Very insightful and funny, too.
oh jimmy, I'm so sad that Sarah didn't win I know this because I predicted with near certainty and maybe Obama won't be so bad, since the reporters at FOX news love, shallow
You usually only see this level of love and unquestioning loyalty to a "dear leader" in a totalitarian state. Shapiro sounds like some low-level party hack in 1960's China writing odes to Mao, or some fawning Italian journalist singing the praises of "Il Duce." That's something else that the Bushbots have in common with the Obamaphiles - a slavish devotion to their Dear Leader or Messiah. I can think of nothing more un-American.
Good news from a bad deal….. 1. As a Southerner, Barrack’s election completely negates any charges of racism in America. I will not have to feel guilty or defend myself anymore. 2. As an American, I will not have to defend this country from charges of racism or cowboy diplomacy, or anything else from Europe and leftists all over the world. We can even say to them, “Where is your Black President?” 3. I am free from the resentment of all Black Americans towards Whites. No excuses now, we have elected one of their own. 4. I am free from defending George Bush and his policies. I feel giddy! 5. I am free from the Clintons, their power or control of the Democratic Party. 6. Jimmy Carter will lose more influence. 7. Jesse Jackson has lost his issue. 8. The left‘s attack apparatus will have nothing to do, no Bush to blame. Many of them will have to fade into the sunset, or maybe get a real job. 9. Bush derangement syndrome is finally cured. 10. The MSM has lost their cover in G. Bush. What will they do now? Who will they blame? 11. The Democratic Party will now have to accept responsibility for their policies, positions, and actions for the first time in eight years. 12. With B. Obama in charge, there is a real chance that all Americans may finally realize the limits of government and accept individual responsibility again. 13. Since Obama was alleged to be a Muslim, we can now look at militant Islam as the brutal enemy that they really are rather than a reaction to American policy or favoritism to Jews, etc. 14. Sarah Palin is still hot!
That's awesome.. Can I borrow it?
lol.. Smoking peyote with Chief Joseph again, I see..
Political necrophiliacs. That's awesome.. Can I borrow it? Sure thing. Glad you like it.
DEATH TO THE GOP!
woot!!
Sarah herself has said that God chooses the presidents for America lol I guess it's true
It'll be interesting to see how SNL treats the new first family...
Awkwardly, with great fear. I suspect that Michelle Obama is a real ghetto- fighter and will persecute one and all who dare to besmirch their good family name.
Are you saying that he should be crucified? It may be illegal to suggest that.
#22. To: Jethro Tull (#7)
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#23. To: Jhoffa_ (#0)
Earlier this year, 12,000 people in San Francisco signed a petition in support of a proposition on a local ballot to rename an Oceanside sewage plant after George W. Bush. The proposition is only one example of the classless disrespect many Americans have shown the president.
#24. To: Jhoffa_ (#0)
#25. To: bluegrass (#23)
#26. To: Jhoffa_ (#0)
#27. To: Rotara (#24)
#28. To: Jhoffa_ (#13)
They don't know it yet, but there's a fight brewing between the Obama personality cult and the rest of America.
#29. To: Jhoffa_ (#27)
I haven't seen or heard from FChristian in/+!1foreVAR!
#30. To: Old Friend (#28)
What is that deafening sound going to be.
#31. To: Jhoffa_ (#25)
Still, I have to wonder why one of the most liberal places in the world would object to this measure and back Pelosi by 3 to 1, knowing she is basically little more than an un-indicted co-conspirator.
#32. To: Jhoffa_ (#30)
(Edited)
Reality.. Objective thought. Raw anger.
#33. To: Jhoffa_ (#30)
Obama worshipers
#34. To: bluegrass (#31)
Because many of our fellow citizens are unbright sheep, perhaps?
#35. To: Rotara (#32)
#36. To: Rotara (#34)
#37. To: Old Friend (#33)
Obama
#38. To: Jhoffa_ (#35)
Just toss a chicken leg in there.
#39. To: Old Friend (#36)
damn everyone is naked and no one is even screwing around.
#40. To: Old Friend (#33)
#41. To: Jhoffa_ (#40)
Toss in the black badge of modern victim hood and their endless whinging and conspiracy theories, then salt it with a little white guilt and it's not very hard to imagine how the first serious black presidential candidate becomes an overnight deity.
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#42. To: X-15 (#41)
And it's so sad that that's all it takes for an affirmative-action mulatto to gain entrance to the White House.
#43. To: X-15 (#41)
#44. To: Jhoffa_ (#0)
#45. To: rowdee (#44)
(Edited)
#46. To: noone222 (#12)
#47. To: Jhoffa_ (#0)
being so divisive resisting being porked in the ass, and congressional leaders came together to work quit fighting with the president on some of these problems over who gets sloppy seconds, they would actually have had a fighting chance of solving them totally reaming the citizenry...
#48. To: Jhoffa_ (#0)
Our failure to stand by the one person who continued to stand by us has not gone unnoticed by our enemies. It has shown to the world how disloyal we can be when our president needed loyalty
#49. To: Jhoffa_ (#17)
#50. To: PnbC (#49)
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#51. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#50)
I saw a thread on Free Republic about a year ago where some nutcase said that "History will remember Bush as one of our greatest and most misunderstood Presidents! The next generation will remember a fine man who stood up to tyranny around the world and defended freedom!"
#52. To: Jhoffa_ (#0)
but in 2012 she will become president
and she will pick Ron Paul to be the Vice pres
that Ron Paul would become the next president
and while it didn't happen I'm almost always right as I go with my gut
also the knowledge that she is a good person just like Bush
aren't behaving quite as fearful as they did during his campaign
#53. To: scrapper2 (#51)
(Edited)
#54. To: PnbC. the thread (#49)
email -
#55. To: PnbC (#49)
Political necrophiliacs.
#56. To: shallow merde (#52)
#57. To: Jhoffa_ (#55)
To: PnbC
#58. To: lodwick (#54)
(Edited)
14. Sarah Palin is still hot!
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#59. To: Jhoffa_ (#56)
this is reassuring because it is what I have always said
although why God would choose Obama is still a mystery to me
but I guess as they say "God works in mysterious ways"
love, shallow
#60. To: X-15. the thread (#58)
#61. To: lodwick (#60)
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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