The Bush Years in Retrospect

with the unqualified Prez, tells us alot about the Lib/Dem'wits desperation! They so hated Bush and Cons/Rep power, they would be smitten with almost any Democrat that won the Presidency.
The irresponsible spendthrifts, Obama and Dem leaders, make Bush's 'waste' seem like childs play! The 'Coward in Chief' Rookie, who has to learn on the job how to run our Country, is supported by birdbrains, in denial, who can't figure him out or admit they were so beguiled and misled! Many just don't care, as long as SantaObama delivers the goodies to uplift them! Forget about what's best for America. God help us, Ex Democrat

Excellent post.
"(G)overnance versus autocratic rule..." I believe you nailed it with that one phrase.

McCain, Clinton et al berated barry about needing on-the-job-training...prescient observations,indeed. The 3 am phone call campaign ad was a death blow, yet barry was able to overcome this and so many other major concerns with the aid of a compliant, malleable MSM, and now we are in a steaming pile of dung.

Bush was certainly no saint, and even he acknowledged forsaking his capitalistic tendencies with the first bailout. But never in a million years would he have ventured as far down the same path as barry soetoro. Hayek called it the "Path to Serfdom". We can only hope we end up so lucky.

... was entirely the product of the media. George Bush was almost never mentioned in the mainstream media unless in a negative context. Nowadays, it's "all Obama, all the time"... all day long, day in and day out. And strangely, the leftists and liberals seem unable to see through the propaganda haze.

Nevertheless, conservatives MUST continue to flood Washington with e-mails, postcards & letters-- both to our elected senators & reps, and to whitehouse.gov-- expressing our opposition to Obama's naive and counterproductive policies.

your site per SgtStryker's request. You are a very good common sense conservative voice. I'd like to invite you to visit my place and look to the right hand side and read "CONSERVATIVE EMAIL LIST ALERT" and get in touch with me if you'd like to join our "Townhall Band of Bloggers". We are a close knit conservative group that share our email addresses, blog links, city & state of residence. We keep each other informed of news articles, petitions, new post notices and a daily message board. We'd be honored to have you join us. We need all the conservative voices we can muster.

Good work, Dan.

It is hard to comprehend how supposedly smart people elected this dangerous dolt to be POTUS. Now we're stuck with him until 2012. But, we can begin "neo-reconstruction" next year by firing many of his facilitators and replacing them with conservatives. We'll be better off with a non-functioning impasse-strangled congress than one that will do D'ohbama's bidding.

You're right, Bush made mistakes, but at least those mistakes were not pushing us down into a Socialist abyss - wish he was back!

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A difficult subject to cover in a short blog but you did a good job of it. Many of us who supported Bush in his elections were seriously disappointed in his conduct of affairs. I will give him eternal credit for what he did in Iraq and Afghanistan even with their short comings. He also gets high marks for his successful Supreme Court nominations in spite of a couple of miscues along the way.

But many of us are still very unhappy with his fiscal policies, his expansion of government and his total surrender to the Hispanic invasion of the country for foreign nationals who come here as crimials and stay to flout our laws, disrespect our language, insult our flag and ignore our customs. That single failure did more to move the successful campaign of Obama into high gear than any thing else.

Of course we don't want to forget that Bush also started the great giveaway of money through TARP and the outright gift to the auto industry even though Congress, of all things, was against it.

Your conclusion is, however, correct. In camparison to Obama, Bush was our greatest president ever.

Clear, concise look at Bush and the MSM fed hatred directed at him. Which BTW I believe will come back to haunt the dishonest lot perpetuating the vitriol.

However, I don’t think we can state this any longer: “...even though these institutions are still non-government entities.”

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that President Obama is "incompetent"? Seems to me that he's succeeding.

He wanted to grow government at the expense of personal liberty and property. Done. In order to change America, he first had to destroy America (It's integral to the liberal-fascist playbook.). Not done, but getting there . . . fast.

He wanted to be seen as "The One" (It's integral to the liberal-fascist playbook. Reprise Wilson, FDR, Mussolini, Hitler, JFK, LBJ, Arafat.). Done.

He may well not be competent to achieve what YOU want, but he seems to be doing swimmingly at accomplishing what HE wants. Seems to me that to argue that he's incompetent, you have to argue that he's the turtle on the fencepost.

After 09/11, President Bush was tapdancing in a minefield IMHO. Look at pictures from 2001 and 2009, he aged NOTICEABLY in the White House. He kept America safe and took the fight to our enemies, overall I have few complaints about the Bush Years.

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BTW, EXCELLENT POST!

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A good objective analysis of W. 1. He did stand up against Islamofascism. 2. He did pass the tax cuts which worked. 3. He even had a fair pro-conservation bill and gave more monies to HIV help than all the Presidents' before him. But, he gave into the compassionate conserv baloney and it hurt him with the BASE. He had a bad farm and education set of bills. He never, never defended himself or his decisions. It took Cheney now to do just that. Over all, he will be somewhere in the middle of the pack when history decides his fate. Far from the worst as libs portray him. Drop by my newest, friend.