Do you miss President Bush?

it's okay if you miss, but be sure to clean up after yourself.

Do you miss President Bush?

He!! No! Why would I?!?!

Shows us how clever, innovative and creative Tim Kaine and his DNC actually are; blame Bush for every wrong and ill for the past eight years as well as the next six years (and even though his Party was in power since 2007).

And Tim, I don’t think we should get into a discussion about Presidential leadership setting the tone because frankly, I’m waiting almost 18 months for any sign, any semblance, any spark of leadership from Obama; to set even the most basic of tones.

andro

so you miss bush?

Can't..........stop..........laughing!

Actually, I missed him by about 3 feet when I shanked a golfball a few days after 9/11.

"His loyalists have always believed that history would be much kinder to the president than public opinion was during his term.

and they are busy rewriting that history. I think it is to save face, I mean, it's hard to admit that you voted for the man TWICE.

His legacy is not only embarrassing, but has put us all in the worst economic crisis in modern times.

Tell you what, let's ask the Iraqi people if they miss Bush.

What is to miss, his legacy is still screwing us over to the present.

canuck dave

Actually, I missed him by about 3 feet when I shanked a golfball a few days after 9/11.

i hope that your aim is better next time!

Who really wants to read GWB's book? I mean the guy could barely put together a sentence ....

it's a coloring book.

yes, i do still miss him, those quiet stolen nights, the whispering in my ear. georgie, georgie, where for art thou, georgie?

How can you miss him when we have Bush 3 now? Bush may be riding bikes, but his political agenda is still thriving in Washington.

It seems some are still upset with Bush.

Well he did engaged us in 2 wars that we continue to pay for while our economy tanked and he paid out 1.6 Trillion in bailouts and TARP. Gee, I can't imagine why people would still be upset with George W. *roll eyes*

Like Clinton's book, Bush's book will make him a multi millionaire.

Are you under the impression that the Bush family is not a member of the wealthy elite? Do you really believe him to be just a cowboy...mind you, a cowboy who can actually purchase oil companies and baseball teams?

800 lb. gorilla -

it's a coloring book.

You'd think someone who was responsible for creating so much sh1t would at least have a "scratch & sniff".

nice, but it would not smell pretty.

lol a political comeback. Everybody knows, like Sarah Palin, he's not going to be writing a whole heck of a lot of his book. He'll come up with ideas, but like his past, somebody is bailing him out. He gets himself way in over his head often; but clearly understands his role is that of salesman. Not decision maker, or visionary. Miss Bush? Like I miss stepping in dung.

This book's gonna be like "My Pet Goat", from the goat's perspective.

Do I miss Bush????

Hell NO!!!

It seems some are still upset with Bush.

Ya think?

Do you miss President Bush?

Yes.

..but give me another shoe and I'll nail 'em this time.

i lol'd.

We also believe that leaders who make tough decisions are rarely popular when they're president, but that history puts things into context."

Really? I'm pretty sure FDR, JFK, Lincoln, and many others were massively popular when facing hard decisions *they didn't create*

He had to make hard decisions because he created situations where he would have to make hard decisions and face hard consequences.

Do you miss President Bush?

Gosh, I guess I do. I mean, we could always use one more unfounded, infunded war, and I think the wealthy elite could certainly use a massive tax break right about now!

Drrrr-deee-drrrr.......

I don't miss people who take their policy decisions from the voices in their head.

The answer is still the same.....HELL NO! I miss Bush as much as I'd miss having my toenails ripped off with a pair of pliers. Does that answer your question?

Nope, but I think the organ-grinder he escaped from does. He needs to keep a low profile, or at the very least stay far away from any microphones. His book will be a waste of trees, which makes him indirectly guilty of killing more intelligent and evolved lifeforms. On the other hand, the revisionist history contained in his book would probably support another cable news network for a few years just by refuting the lies, distortion, and misinformation within its pages. Hopefully, his book will come with more crayons than Sarah Palin's book did.

Andromeda, it will take much longer than 8 years to repair the damage Bush did to this country -- if we ever can.

I miss seeing Bush in the docket at the Hague for War Crimes.

I miss him he missed the rig explosion, and a plane to Russia , on a foggy day...

Imiss him , yell, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

The banksters, surely, miss him.

Do you miss President Bush?
Good Lord No.

Here's what I miss about him:

1. We'd still be in Iraq...oh wait we are!

2. GITMO would still be open...oh wait it is!

3. Don't Ask, Don't Tell would not be repealed...oh wait, it hasn't been!

4. We'd still be overspending, growing the deficit...oh wait...we are!

5. Homes would still be foreclosing...oh wait, they are, and it's WORSE!

6. Unemployment would still be at 7.8%...OH SHOOT...it's WORSE!

7. Fat cats on Wall Street would still be gambling with our money, and we'd still be assuming all the risk...oh wait...they still are and so are we!

8. Banks would still not be lending...oh wait...they still aren't!

I could go on and on...those on here who can't stand Bush...can you please tell me how Obama is one bit different? I'm pissed, why aren't you?!!!

Like I said, politicians are a necessary evil - we can't torture and execute them, nor can we live without em

Stopped the country from going into another Great Depression, started reforming healthcare, getting us extricated from Iraq and Afghanistan, good foundation being laid for his foreign policy, stock market booming, economic indicators up, job losses steadily declining (jobs are the LAST thing to improve). I see LOADS of differences.

oy vey.

Do I miss Bush? Absolutely NOT! I'm still celebrating that he is out of government!!!

And Lisa Schneider, Obama can't instantly fix everything that Bush has broken over the last 8 years. That's 8 years worth of mess to fix!

I don't miss Dubya and it's a sad commentary that some people in America are re-writing our history to make a hero out of the man. A sad day, indeed.

And Lisa Schneider, Obama can't instantly fix everything that Bush has broken over the last 8 years. That's 8 years worth of mess to fix!

Then:

A. He shouldn't have promised to instantly fix things...ie end Iraq in 16 months, close GITMO first year, tackle immigration reform in his first year, etc, etc.

B. He shouldn't be working so hard to make it worse...they both accomplished a lot in their first 16 months, you bet they have, and both made it worse than it was before them...fast!

Lisa, come on! Do you seriously think he said he'd fix those things instantly?

Who's President Bush?

trex...NO! And I am not the one who said what I posted above:

"I will end the Iraq war in 16 months"- CANDIDATE OBAMA

"I will close GITMO my first year." - CANDIDATE OBAMA

"I will tackle Immigration Reform my first year in office." CANDIDATE OBAMA

If he had the time to make it worse, it would follow he should've had adequate time to make it better.

Like a metastasizing, cancerous hemorrhoid.

No I certainly do not miss him but I sometimes feel sorry for the poor sap! To let Cheney run things so badly Ol' George didn't have a chance to govern the way he wanted to and should have. He should of file 13'd DICK and kicked Carl Rove to the curb!

Schroedinger, do you think Bush could ever have done the job on his own, without someone running things in the background? Did he ever once in his life have a job he handled competently?

Bush fading far from view, like maybe a black hole in space, along with his S&M puppetmaster Cheney, sounds fabulous to me

The recession we are going through, is the result of policies of the Federal Reserve, and the Clinton Administration, and helped by the inept Pelosi Clan.

When Clinton was elected into office, the Federal Reserve dropped the interest rate from 10.5% to 6%. We in the finance business thought they would never lower the rate lower than 8%, because at 8%, the federal reserve is printing and giving it to the lenders at 6%, the 6% covers inflation. If the interest rate is 6% the Fed is giving it to the lenders at 4%, which does not cover inflation, so our children and their children will be paying for this.

Prior to the Clinton Adminstration, 1978 interest rates 18 to 20% 1984 14% 1986 9.5% and 1992 10.5%. When the Fed lowered the rate we in finance thought that maybe the Federal Reserve liked Clinton, and of course people at that time had loans and were paying 9 to 14%, when they lower it people refinanced and took equity out, and went on a wild spending spree. Also Clinton pushed for loans for people who did not qualify, and had no means of paying it back. Now we are paying for this.

President Bush, will go down as the president who liberated IRAQ, and got rid of Saddam Hussein, in Africa he is very popular, and no president in our history has done more for the poor than he.

Look at Clinton in Rwanda when 800,000 were murdered by machetes, Clinton did nothing, except for his debacle in Somalia.

Thanks George Bush!

How can you miss him when the problems that occurred on his watch won't go away for decades? We are reminded of his bad decisions every time we hear about the economy, the deficit, the wars in the middle east, our lack of green energy options... I know they are not all of his causing, but they are his legacy.

trex..No I don't sadly enough, he himself had said before that he really didn't want the job. His whole campaign was more of a behind the scenes deal than most Americans would ever know. There was and is a whole different process behind his Presidency..almost like the plot of some movie. I'm on your side trex but I don't want to give these righties even one reason to call me a "Hater" because I'm on the correct side politically..you know..the left where we prefer pragmatism over propaganda and paranoia

I admire the spunk of the revisionists who blame the financial meltdown on Democrats.

But why did the GOP lose so many seats during the mid-term elections of 2006?

If Bush and his GOP congress were doing so well, why did they get voted out?

I guess in their books we'll all forget that the reason the Democrats won the majority during the mid-term 2006 elections was due to the glorious mess that the GOP and Bush had created and that the beginnings of the current recession were well underway before the Democrats took majority control of congress back then.

Yes, the Bush admin effed this country up for years to come, and no I will not miss him. Although I blame Cheney far more than Bush and think things would have been radically different, and that Bush would have been a good president without the poison of the Dick, Cheney.

Hell phlucking no!

disgusted independant (1.51)

Excellent post!

The facts are Greenspan and Clinton ruin our economy. Clinton by giving our tech to the chinese, and pushing for loans for people who did not qualify.

In 2006 McCain sent a letter signed by 19 senators stating we better do something about Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and the Federal Reserve or we are going to face a major financial meltdown, but the new inept Pelosi Clan did nothing. The 19 senators that signed, not one and I'll repeat not one was a democrat.

However if you Obamabots would like to check facts, go to the Federal Elections Commission Websight, (FEC). Cris Dodd and Barrack Hussein Obama, were the highest paid recipents of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Also thank you George Bush for your work and fight on Partial Birth Abortion.

Now the Obamabots have a president that says no more war on terrorism, but declares war on the unborn, Obama is no more than, how you say, oh yes Obama Sin Laden.

Back to my tall Iced tea and stogey.

Masochist may miss the fall of the economy when Bush was leaving office but I think I would miss a hernia more. Maybe if we miss him we can figure out a way to suffer in other ways like beating ourselves over the head so it will fill in the gap.

If you have some free time while missing him why not pull some teeth with pliers or rip out your appendix with tweezers or a chain saw. ;-)

I miss President Reagan

Another 18 months of Obamba and we will all be missing America.

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10) "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." —LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000 (Listen to audio clip)

9) "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." —Greater Nashua, N.H., Jan. 27, 2000(Listen to audio clip)

8) "I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft." —second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004 (Listen to audio clip)

7) "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." —Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000 (Listen to audio clip)

6) "You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." —to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005 (Listen to audio clip)

5) "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." —Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004 (Watch video clip; listen to audio clip)

4) "They misunderestimated me." —Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

3) "Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" —Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

2) "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004 (Watch video clip; listen to audio clip)

1) "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002 (Watch video clip; listen to audio clip)

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@ 1.55

LSD. I mean LCS.

I knew some jerk like you would come along and blame Clinton for the mess this country is in.

It gets tired, after a while. Don't you think?

killer bees

What I wrote is fact, if you don't understand any thing I wrote, thats ok. I dont expect you to look at facts. That would only confuse you.

But there might be something that would help, pull really hard on your ears until you hear a pop. Now I know its warm in there, and you may be comfortable, but the longer you stay in there, the more ignorant you become.

LCS

If McCain warned of a financial meltdown, why didn't he recognize it when it happened?

I can't say i miss Gdub, but i do miss "Bushisms" and Will Ferrell as Gdub.

Same here, Peter. No more new Bushisms. Other than that, I don't miss him one bit.

tmac-425222

Sept 2003 Bush and McCain started work and propose legislation, to reform Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

However the world had changed, countries like China found out capitalism is not so bad, and the leadership of this great country of ours, controlled the purse strings. America had lost it's manufacturing to China, because of the hatred spread by the Clinton adminstration towards business, and now we were left with a country that mostly lives off intangible products, services. However a countries backbone is manufacturing.

When Greenspan lower the interest rate, Americans refinance their homes, and took equity out to buy cars, computers, cell phones, televisions. and these products we bought are made elsewhere. This was Clintons and Obama's plan spread the wealth, and we did, we consumed, 5 cars per family, 10 televisions, we even had to put televisions in our bathrooms and cars, but all these products came from other countries, from companies that use to be in the United States.

Nafta was created to keep the business on this side of the hemisphere. I live 10 minutes from Mexico. If you go to Mexico Dodge Ram, Ford Escort, Samsung Television, Panasonic Television, Bosch tools, Black and Decker, Bose stereo, notice Mexico has some companies, that made products, in Germany and Japan and Korea, that because of the tariffs put on them.

Thanks to Ronald Reagen Honda and Toyota's are being put together in the United States.

When ever you buy something look to see where it is made, and try to buy American.

Right now I looked at my blackberry, and it is made in Mexico, the battery in Japan, interesting.

I did not vote for Bush. I did not agree with Bush on many matters What I miss is being able to turn on the TV without seeing the president's mug spread over every channel.

I do not miss Bush at all, I still would want to see him again on tv, if Bush and Cheney is appearing before a war crime tribunal.

Do I miss Bush? Not just no: Hell no!

I don't miss Bush but I do wish Obama had half the balls he did. Even while he was destroying the country Bush didn't give a damned about bipartisanship.

We need to transplant Bush's balls into Obama.

hahahaha
I miss Bush the lessor as much as I miss my ex's bad attitude and lousy sexual overtures. MEANING.....NOT one bit!

I miss bush about as much as people love the sound of one raking nails on a black board... not at all. But I'm pissed at the crap he left for us to clean up.

Not only yes, but hell yes, I miss him. He made a share of mistakes, he spent too much, but overall was and is far preferrable to the joke we have for a pResident in the Whitehouse now. Thank You President Bush for the decent job you did, espescially in light of the total failures of your successor and the party in control of congress since the 2006 election. I'm Proud that George W. Bush was our President!

I'm Proud that George W. Bush was our President!

Amen Cornhusker. W had a spending problem, an amnesty problem and a rarely used Veto problem; however, he protected us for 7 years, Europe hated us (which makes me proud) and we were killing thousands upon thousand of terrorists that might have otherwise killed many other Americans. Way to go W! America loves you! I bet there was at least one lib that has their head boiling right about now. I miss W!

Lisa Schneider:

I could go on and on...those on here who can't stand Bush...can you please tell me how Obama is one bit different? I'm pissed, why aren't you?!!!

THANK YOU - have been saying it forever... I mean, really... what's the difference.??

And frankly, until I read this forum, I had no idea he'd left the white house.

McKracken - however, he protected us for 7 years,

Oh! Just forget how he didn't protect us from 9/11.

Just forget all about that.

Lisa Schneider:

I could go on and on...those on here who can't stand Bush...can you please tell me how Obama is one bit different? I'm pissed, why aren't you?!!!

THANK YOU - have been saying it forever... I mean, really... what's the difference.??

for starters ? he didn't start an illegal war based on lies.

yes ... the one we should have been focused on in the first place instead of ignored as bush did.

again.. cleaning up after bush.

Lisa Schnieder...let your words give no discourse to your beauty...think about it..

Just forget how he didn't protect us from 9/11.

You mean how Clinton had Bin Laden and let him go? W would have at least had the balls and took Bin Laden out instead of thinking how to prosecute the scum bag (Bin Laden not Clinton) in a court of law. So you are right at placing the blame for 9/11 squarely on the shoulders of Clinton where it belongs.

if he had the desire to find him.

So you are right at placing the blame for 9/11 squarely on the shoulders of Clinton where it belongs.

Riiiiight......just keep trying to tell yourself that 9/11 happened in 2000 and NOT 2001....9 months into Bush's term.....of course it was Clinton's fault, as was the recession of 2007, as was Katrina, as was everything that happened between January 2001 and January 2009....All Clinton's fault.

"Big Ern" McKracken

Just forget how he didn't protect us from 9/11.

You mean how Clinton had Bin Laden and let him go? W would have at least had the balls and took Bin Laden out instead of thinking how to prosecute the scum bag (Bin Laden not Clinton) in a court of law. So you are right at placing the blame for 9/11 squarely on the shoulders of Clinton where it belongs.

what crap. hey how about this ? Reagan made Bin Laden !!! and the TWC basement bombings ? happened 38 days into Clintons presidency . but he didn't blame Bush sr.
you cons did nothing for 8 months on terrorism ! ignored it . actually dismantled what Clinton was doing and obstructed others ...

try some facts before you open your trap ...

the Bush-Cheney anti-terrorism record before September 11, 2001:

-- Backed off Clinton administration's anti-terrorism efforts. -- Shelved the Hart-Rudman report. -- Appointed new anti-terrorism task force under Dick Cheney. Group did not even meet before 9/11. -- Called for cuts in anti-terrorism efforts by the Department of Defense.
-- Gave no priority to anti-terrorism efforts by Justice Department. -- Ignored warnings from Sandy Berger, Louis Freeh, George Tennant, Paul Bremer, and Richard Clarke about the urgency of terrorist threats. -- Halted Predator drone tracking of Osama bin Laden. -- Did nothing in wake of August 6 C.I.A. report to president saying Al Qaeda attack by hijack of an airliner almost certain. -- Bush - knowing about the terrorists' plans to attack in America, warned that terrorists were in flight schools in the US - took a four week vacation.

Contrasted with Clinton's real results:

-- Sent legislation to Congress to TIGHTEN AIRPORT SECURITY. (Remember, this is before 911) The Republicans because of opposition from the airlines, defeated the legislation. -- Sent legislation to Congress to allow for BETTER TRACKING OF TERRORIST FUNDING. Republicans in the Senate because of opposition from banking interests, defeated it. -- Sent legislation to Congress to add tagents to explosives, to allow for BETTER TRACKING OF EXPLOSIVES USED BY TERRORISTS. The Republicans because of opposition from the NRA, defeated it.

When Republicans couldn't prevent executive action, President Clinton:
-- Developed the nation's first anti-terrorism policy, and appointed first national coordinator.
-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up 12 U.S. jetliners simultaneously.
-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up UN Headquarters.
-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up FBI Headquarters. -- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Washington.
--Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up Boston airport. -- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up Lincoln and Holland Tunnels in NY. -- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the George Washington Bridge. -- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the US Embassy in Albania.
-- Tried to kill Osama bin Laden and disrupt Al Qaeda through preemptive strikes (efforts denounced by the G.O.P.). -- Brought perpetrators of first World Trade Center bombing and CIA killings to justice. -- Did not blame Bush I administration for first World Trade Center bombing even though it occurred 38 days after they had left office. Instead, worked hard, even obsessively -- and successfully -- to stop future terrorist attacks. -- Named the Hart-Rudman commission to report on nature of terrorist threats and major steps to be taken to combat terrorism. -- Tripled the budget of the FBI for counterterrorism and doubled overall funding for counterterrorism. -- Detected and destroyed cells of Al Qaeda in over 20 countries -- Created a national stockpile of drugs and vaccines including 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine. -- Robert Oakley, Reagan Counterterrorism Czar says of Clinton's efforts "Overall, I give them very high marks" and "The only major criticism I have is the obsession with Osama" -- Paul Bremer, Bush's Administrator of Iraq disagrees slightly with Robert Oakley saying he believed the Clinton Administration had "correctly focused on bin Laden. " -- Barton Gellman of the Washington Post put it best, "By any measure available, Clinton left office having given greater priority to terrorism than any president before him" and was the "first administration to undertake a systematic anti-terrorist effort."

Clinton maintained submarines armed with cruise missiles in striking distance of his camps. They could launch in, I believe, an hour of receiving intelligence of bin Laden's whereabouts. Three times, the White House received intelligence of bin Laden's presence, and that he was likely to remain at the location for at least an hour. Clinton wanted to order strikes each time, but each time, George Tenet strongly advised against them on security grounds. They didn't happen.

One of Bush's first orders on taking office in January 2001 was to remove the submarines.

"Clinton's advisors met nearly weekly on how to stop bin Laden...I didn't detect that kind of focus from the Bush adminsitration."
- Two Star General Donald Kerrick

what Republicans said about Clinton and his use of the military

"You can support the troops but not the president" ---Rep. Tom Delay
(R-TX)

sound familiar ?

I LOVE THIS ONE !!!

" President . . . is once again releasing American military
might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit
strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation
will cost. And he has not informed our nation's armed forces about
how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a
sound foreign policy." ---Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)

"I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning . . . I
didn't think we had done enough in the diplomatic area." ---Senator
Trent Lott (R-MS)

"Well, I just think it's a bad idea. What's going to happen is
they're going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years." ---Joe
Scarborough (R-FL)

this is just hypocritical !!

"Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may
come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up
their life?" ---Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99

Yet he supported Bush ! ? lmao

"I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it
is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just
learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with
very vague
objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these
questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of
engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition
of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is
no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our over-
extended military. There is no explanation defining what vital
national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war
when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan
today" ....-Rep. Tom Delay (R-TX)

here Bush had none ...

"If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they
have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy." ---
Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of George W. Bush

and from the grand hypocritical liar himself !!!!

"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to
explain to us what the exit strategy is."
-Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)

His view on Clinton !

BUSH OPPOSES NATION BUILDING...

"If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road." [Gov. George W. Bush, 10/3/00]

Yet what does he do ??

...BUSH SUPPORTS NATION BUILDING

"We will be changing the regime of Iraq, for the good of the Iraqi people." [President Bush, 3/6/03]

so chew on that for a while.

for starters ? he didn't start an illegal war based on lies. Wow- just wow

Would you believe it if you heard it from their own mouths?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYI7JXGqd0o

Im unclear on how DC ever does a good job of protecting us ... frankly I think tha tmobsters offer about the same sort of protection!

McKracken - You mean how Clinton had Bin Laden and let him go?

You still believe Bin Laden was the mastermind behind 9/11, don't you?

Do you recall that fake CIA video tape recording of someone they claimed was supposed to be Bin Laden? If they will lie about that, then they will lie about anything.

The Bush administration needed a boogy man, someone to blame for 9/11, and to shift focus from their own failure to protect America, so bin Laden was the obvious choice.

Do I miss or did I miss? You aren't asking about my marksmanship are you? [sarc]

Just could resist a little attempt at humor.

WHEN?!?!?! In 200 years? He easily belongs in the bottom 5 if not the bottom 3.

Miss Bush yet?

Noooooooooope...

Right at the bottom... w/ Hoover, Harding, Nixon, Van Buren...

actually today I don't. Politicians are a necessary evil .... not someone to be missed or admired.

um....riggggggght.

Bush will not crack the bottom 10 in the next 100 years., but keep thinking he's better than Clinton - what a pipe dream! Of course, you has some EVIDENCE or FACT to back up your claim right? Right?

If I am not mistaken, was not the economy strong and the middle class happy under Clinton economics. While Clinton can be criticized for many things, Military, Monica, impeding investigations, giving advanced technologies to China. The average American was far better off under Clinton then Bush the Son.

Bush will probably be ranked in the middle on he list of presidents.

If you consider the "middle" to be between 1 and 44, well, then, sure.

#25 is pretty generous. I doubt he'll make it out of the worst 10.

Bush will probably be ranked in the middle on he list of presidents.

Yes Red he will in the middle right between worst and he should have never happened to America!!!

To Jim

The Democrats who voted for the Iraq war did so based upon invalid information provided to them by the Bush the Sons administration. When the information was proven false these Democrats had every right to call Bush the Son on it.

He was dealt a series of difficult hands, from inheriting a recession, 9-11, War on Islamic tyranny, $4 gas, etc.

It was a very, very mild recession. Unemployment topped at like 6.3%. He made the war on Iraq, he wasn't delt anything. There was no reason to go to war.

His primary fault was allowing left-wing idiots to define him without confronting them. The Democratic traitors voted for the war on the same arguments, then undermined the commander in chief for crass political advantage

So 70-75% of the populace who disapproved him was doing the same thing?

For one thing, his administration misled everyone. From the US populace to the UN. They didn't let intelligence guide policy, they made policy guide intelligence. You can't blame us for turning against him because his administration lied to us.

I was neither for, nor against the war. I had no conclusion at the time. But after all the evidence came to light I had a real conclusion. They had betrayed the US military, by not listening to them, the US populace, by decieving them, and the international community, by harming it.

Bush, Bush Bush - Here's a memo that says we're going to be attack by air from al qaeda -

"Ok Son, You've covered your ass - now get out of here. "

Bush didn't inherit 9/11 - he ignored the intelligence and instead of reading the memo he opted for "My Pet Goat".

MarkLHolland

The Democrats who voted for the Iraq war did so based upon invalid information provided to them by the Bush the Sons administration.

Well... some of them did. Others did so because they were spineless. Remember? "You're either for us, or you're against us." And I say this as a Democrat myself.

Jim,

That's revisionism at it's finest.

1. Bush inherited a projected SURPLUS and at the least, a balanced budget.

2. Bush IGNORED intel and did very little in the way of "anti-terrorism" for the 8 months prior to 9/11.

3. Bush sat like a @!$%#ing idiot ON 9/11 and told us to go shopping and buy duct tape afterwards.

4. Bush invaded Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban following 9/11 (the ONE thing I give him credit for.

5. Bush allowed Cheney to craft his energy policy and we saw gas prices go from $1.20 a gallon at the beginning of his term to almost $5.00 in 2007....all the while stock prices and profits went through the roof for KBR, Halliburton, Exxon-Mobil, etc.

6. Bush had the worst job creation record of any president in modern history, and that was BEFORE 2007.

7. Once the Taliban were ousted, Bush installed a puppet regime in Afghanistan, and then turn his eyes towards Iraq....meanwhile, Bin Laden was never found.

8. Despite the fact that Iraq posed no immediate threat to the US or our allies and that UN sanctions that had been in place since 1991 were WORKING, Bush, via Powell pressured the UN to issue Resolution 1441....because UN weapons inspectors didn't find any WMDs, but we "knew" Saddaam had them....4000 plus brave American soldiers have paid the ultimate price for this lie and the cost to the American people is rapidly approaching a trillion dollars...wasteful spending anyone?

9. Bush scared Congress into voting for the AUMF (authorization for use of military force) to enforce UN Resolution 1441 with talk of mushroom clouds and another 9/11....in short, he LIED.

10. Bush pulled the bulk of our forces out of Afghanistan to invade/occupy Iraq, thus allowing the Taliban and Al Quada to hide in the Tora Bora region and reconstitute themselves.

11. Bush set up a puppet regime in Iraq, stirred up a hornet's nest, failed to take into account the costs and length of his "nation building", declared "mission accomplished" before it was so, left the country in worse condition than before we got there, hid the bill from the American people and left the @!$%#pile for his successor to clean up.

12. Bush embarrassed us all around the world while he "globe-trotted" from country to country, including going to Beijing for the Olympics, in-between taking more vacation than any other president EVER, ostracized our allies and friends, allowed his party to insult our oldest ally, France, sucked up to Saudi Arabia, had his representative to the UN make us look like fools, etc, etc, etc.

13. Bush nominates two radicals to the Supreme Court and thankfully failed to secure the appointment of Harriet Miers....also thankfully, several of his more radical appointments/nominees (Bolton, Kerik) either were stalled in committee or withdrew their nominations before being allowed permanent positions in the administration.

14. Bush's administration outed a covert CIA agent then lied about it; suspicions are that this lead to the office of the VP and/or the Attorney General and Karl Rove.

15. While Bush didn't "cause" the economic collapse of 2007, it was his administration that proposed TARP and the bailouts, not Obama's administration....his lack of oversight, coupled with the deregulation enacted by his REPUBLICAN allies in Congress lead to a near worldwide collapse and a second Great Depression.

16. Katrina....

17. Bush's two tax cuts have sucked trillons of dollars out of the US treasury, coupled with Iraq, Afghanistan and, Medicare Part D, NCLB and other unfunded mandates, this lead to 7 years of deficit spending, with his final budget including some $1.3 trillion in DEFICIT. The National Debt he inherited was some $4 trillion, and when Obama took office, it was some $12 trillion.....fiscal responsibility?

There are charts and graphs aplenty that indicate that the Bush years were a total disaster on pretty much every front you can imagine, perhaps you should look into that a little before you opine that Bush was even a "mediocre" president, or anything besides one of the absolute worst we have ever had.

jim weinert @2.12

You forgot: Bush was so certain that government did not need the surplus that was in our treasury, he busted the surplus by giving all taxpayers a special refund check. Right after we got our checks in the mail, 9/11 happened. The rest is Bush administration deficit history.

Bush Junior had an opportunity of lifetime to unite the country unlike any of his predecessors, save FDR, when we were attacked on 9/11. If he had only went after Al-Queda after 9/11 and cleaned up the mess there, he would have the whole country behind him. Instead, he and his team of neo-cons in their lust for a New World Order took us into Iraq based on lies. This guy occupied the office of the President of the United States and hopefully someday, he will have some quality to reflect on his decisions while rotting in jail - with his good pal Cheney in the next block. Do I miss him - no, I just miss the trial that he should have been put on.

was not the economy strong and the middle class happy under Clinton economics.

Of course it was there was a GOP majority. Please inform me how Clinton did anything other than sign bills and receive b.j's? I forgot he also bombed Bosnia and killed scores to take the heat off during Lewisnky and his impeachment.

LOL red is this a focus group question? lol

jim weinert

Bull@!$%#.

President Clinton made the exact same arguments prior to Bush even running for office.

The dishonesty of the left is profound.

Clinton did not use it to start an unnecessary war. Big difference!

I think Bush will be ranked behind Hoover due to his mishandling of the economy,9-11, Iraq, and the bailouts he and Paulson initiated.

I miss Harry Truman, that's who I miss.

"Big Ern" McKracken

Please inform me how Clinton did anything other than sign bills and receive b.j's? I forgot he also bombed Bosnia and killed scores to take the heat off during Lewisnky and his impeachment.

Yeah, how dare he intervened in the ethnic cleansing and genocide - just a distraction!

Bush was a good man and a good president.

He was dealt a series of difficult hands, from inheriting a recession, 9-11, War on Islamic tyranny, $4 gas, etc. Still he managed to keep the unemployment low.

No he did not-the recession started in March 2001, gas was $1.46 when bush took office, and unemployment rose to 4.2 % in Jan. '01- to 6.3% in June '03-steadied at 4.4% in March '07, rose to 6.1% in August '08-to 7.2% in Dec. '08-rounding out his term to 7.6%-not exactly low.

Just keep on re-writing history, you're doing yourself a great service.

The ignorance of the right is profound

by the numbers ??? so far , Bush will go down as the lowest at 23% ... that's 2 points lower than Carters lowest.. there is one other president lower but that was before polls.

his illegal war in Iraq at least however has assured him of the spot.

I can't wait after the 2012 election when the seed will be, do you miss Obama yet, then i will say, HELL NO, Obama was the worst President ever right behind Jimmy Carter.

Fred

always remind me of that group Right said Fred,and their one hit wonder Im too sexy

Sorry Fred but just humorous

Unless the GOP can come up with a viable candidate, then your little pipe dream ain't gonna happen Fred. At the moment, the GOP field is as follows, in order per the straw polls (I think):

Romney,

Paul,

Huckabee,

Gingrich,

Palin.

And not one of them is polling above 50% in the GOP polls, let alone the "likely voters" or "registered voters" polls. And even if YOU don't like Obama, he's still sitting at about 50% approval (+ or - the margin of error) and easily outpolls any of those tools. In fact, nationally, there isn't ONE Republican remotely as popular as the President, even Brown......so, yeah, good luck with that one. As the 2012 kicks into gear at the end of next year, things will be better, jobs wise and the people will be reminded of who actually did the people's work who either made up bull@!$%# claims and sat on their hands. Reality does not support your point of view.

Right at the bottom... w/ Hoover, Harding, Nixon, Van Buren...

Hey, by comparison Nixon wasn't that bad. He only committed war crimes in a war he inherited, burglarized the democrats instead of stealing trillions from the American people and attacked the Constitution in regards to a handful of people on his enemies list. He is not even in the same league as W.

Wow, redshadow, this is like a msnbc seed! ...(Congrats, actually!) ..I found a spot to slip in!

From Hotdogs, Bulldogs to Bush .... well, atleast you're still on-track!! To answer your question, probably, "no." I did originally have respect for his, seemingly, having 'guts' to make the tough calls ... until I decided I didn't trust his motives regarding war, HS and the Patriot Act to name a few; but Obama hasn't proven to be much different overall - except he is projected to spend more within his term as well as raise the deficit more in 4 years than Bush did in 8 - I know, many refute that - we'll see, I guess. If "es" is here, I'm sure he jumped all over the statistics in the article! And, no I don't miss Clinton - doesn't everyone blame him for removing the Glass-Steagle Act? Your 2.6 sounds like you know more about the 'bad guys' than I do. Interesting thought about Bush, though; I wonder if he had it to do over, if he would do things differently?

You'd really have to ask Rove and Cheney that question...

LOL. I bet Cheney would say 'no.' -- Bush seemed to be a little softer, imo,..a little more heart, sort of. It appeared they started to disagree on war policies and such.

Sounds much like Clinton.

In what way? I don't recall Clinton starting wars, burglarizing the GOP, or having an enemies list? He had a number of faults and problems, but I don't recall any of those.