Admiration for Bush
I loved the way George Bush handled the shoe throwing incident. I saw a mischievous grin on his face between shoe one and shoe two. He seemed to think it was funny. If “W” had operated this way through his presidency, that is not taking himself so serious and on a mission from God, I think the out come would have been different.
Mostly though, the last two years he did a much better job after putting Chaney in is place. I sure hope Obama doesn’t need six years to get up to speed.
I really admire the way George Bush brushed it aside and called the Secret Service off the guy. The secret service seemed a little slow on that though. They should have been there between throw number one and throw number two.
I’d be upset over the disrespect, I think, If Bush hadn’t turned it into a wonderful press opportunity. I’m going to remember that sly grin for a while. I think he kind of liked the guy for having the guts to do it. CNN jumped on it saying it ruined his farewell trip. It did no such thing. Fox on the other hand didn’t report on it at all for a day or two and commenting on how the mainstream media had been constantly airing it. CNN appears to lean left to me and if they want to do that, that’s fine, but I’ll make the same call with CNN that I do with Fox, stop making it look like news when you do it.
If you didn’t see or read about it, while in Baghdad, an Iraqi reporter pulled his shoes off and hurled them at George Bush.
Way to go President Bush!
Oh where do I begin. Well first of all the predident gets blamed for whatever the economic conditions are...
Hey they said they would take a bullet for him. Nothing in the job description mentions shoes.
Hi Rusty,Just an outsiders view (non American).W is possibly the worst president the US has ever had.Remember, Reagan slackened regulation of the financial industry,W threw the regularity brakes out the window,allowing the banks in their madness to lend to NINJAS (no income,job or assets) which in turn caused the subprime credit crunch causing the biggest recession since 29,unbelievably other western gov’ts followed suit.Absolute Madness.I know for a fact that the UK gov’t was warned by emminent economists 5yrs ago that this would all end in disaster and chose to ignore the advice. Fortunately using my own life experience and wisdom i was well prepared,but sympathise with those who suffer.We now have a very long, steep hill to climb back to sanity,regards Chas.
I think you clicked on the wrong article.
Yea, this crises was not a surprise to many true experts. Goggling it will show that, the warnings have been out there for some time.
I think your talking about derivatives, they actually are usually based on assets but the complications are extremely complex. Rule one, if you don’t understand the investment, don’t make it. I think there was some fraud out there as well.
Bush is not the reason for this, it actually started long before he was in office. He didn’t fix it though. Neither did Clinton or Bush I. But then neither did Thatcher. It goes back that far. Greenspan was in a position to do something but he didn’t. He believed that firms self interest would regulate the issue. As it turned out, many employees were more interested in their bonuses than they were the health of the company. High risk investments must return higher yields. They created the gains, then got out of town before the calvary road in. The calvary in this case was market correction.
I don’t accept this is a US made problem. We made our own problem, everyone else made theirs. No one wanted to end the boom.
Well they definately lowered the boom that is for sure.
Eventually things will come around but it will take some time. While Bush was no one to brag about I can think of at least two for sure worse than him in recent history. He definately dropped the ball on Iraq.
We should have left much sooner. Or better yet not gone at all.
Who Clinton? For sex? Surely not from someone that loves Angeles City.
Either you are Tom R said the Clinton years were full of scandal. BS they were not. They were full of K. Star chasing after every possible thing and they all turned into nothing. Not one of the political investigation landed anything and it went on the entire time. So Bill Clinton is a perv, who isn’t!
I can think of no one worse than Bush. He is a war criminal. We would prosecute and kill anyone that did the things to our soldiers that Bush has done. We have prosecuted for water boarding.
Enron ring a bell? Most of their shenanigans happened in the Clinton Administration. How about Nuclear and Rocket guidance secrets sold to China.
As far as the other it wasn’t about him having sex with a semi ugly woman. (Though as President I would have thought he could have done better) It was about perjury which is a felony. There was enough evidence for the bar to suspend his law licence.
As far as finding not evidence meaning you didn’t do anything I guess that means Al Capone was just a businessman who didn’t pay his taxes. All it really means is they can’t prove you did anything. The truly sneaky are pretty good at hiding the evidence.
So what? What did Clinton have to do with it?
So let me get this right, if a person gets investigated in the most expensive investigation of all times by someone that was clearly not objective and changed how we now call on special prosecutor because of the run way prosecutor that went after Clinton, since he couldn’t come up with something, he must have not been able to prove it? And you call yourself a conservative? Did you really mean that? Just because he was investigate by right wing extremist he must have done something? I forgot that prosecutors name.
I don’t get this at all.. Clinton kept an Attorney General onboard that many of his advisers wanted to get rid of because she wouldn’t allow Clinton to break the law. And the Attorney General scandal that the Bush administration had was that they wont prosecute no matter what, even Ashcroft left because they try to get him to sign off on torture when he was heavily medicated and he threw them out.
You would have to blind yourself to call Clinton corrupt when the republicans gave us Nixon and Bush. Both Bushes lied to us, The first one lied about reasons to get into the war as well.
I just don’t see how you can say these kinds of things.
Hi Rusty,I agree with your reply statement “no one wanted to end the boom”.Boom years tend to get the same politicians re elected,so they have a conflict of interest.From a UK perspective recent history shows we have a recession @ every 10yrs,this one was overdue by 6/7yrs.The consumer helped delay it coz so much cheap borrowing was available,regards Chas.
Ok I never called myself a conservative. You called me that.
All I said was just because nothing could be proved doesn’t mean nothing was there. OJ walked. Really think he didn’t do it? The law however says he didn’t because the prosecution couldn’t prove their case. So on that basis I guess you are right. Thet didn’t do anything, and Al Capone was just a businessman who didn’t pay his taxes.
Rusty they all lie to us it’s just that the good ones don’t get caught.
No Tom, you labeled yourself a conservative by your position that show no objectivity at all. Actually, you’ve labeled yourself a republican. The republicans are not conservative in my opinion. A conservative would never erode personal freedoms the way the republicans do. I called you a conservative in the normal most often use of the word. I don’t think you’re conservative at all. I don’t think Bush nor Chaney are conservatives.
I think it is impossible to destroy and disregard personal rights the way those two have and accurately be called conservative at all.
Ok so I’m not conservative even though that is what you called me. I’m not Bush or Chaney what exactly is it you think I am?
So when did you hear me erode personal freedoms. I think I said a lot of just the opposite. Remember my statement about the federal government overstepping their authority. Eroding personal freedom is exactly what they are doing when thay do that.
I am very much in favor of personal freedom. Also personal responsibility for what you do with that freedom. It is the second half of that many don’t want anything to do with.
You are conservative in the mainstream use of the word today. It is just not an accurate use of the word.
Voting republican and voting personal freedoms is an oxymoron.
There are, of course, exceptions. Al Gore paid a heavy price for his involvement in the attempt to impose government censorship on the music industry. Tipper Gore can yell at the top of her lungs proclaiming that isn’t so, it is so. Once she was called to task for it, I think she realized what she and he were doing and backed off. Would have been nice to hear them say “I was wrong.”
You’ll hardly ever hear them say that unless you really back them in a corner. Even Clintons apology was pretty much a non apology. The breif version being. Well I’m sorta sorry even though I didn’t do it.
I’m not necessarily a Republican. I’ve voted for them for president the last few times because I thought the Democratic opponents were just sleezy. I haven’t seen anything to prove me wrong on that yet.
Obama is the possible exception to that but I still get the feeling there is something not right there.
I heard McCain say it and I think it was the McCain that would have won the election. Though I seem to notice it early on, that he was being handled I was not alone. Other American’s picked up on the same thing and it cost him the election. But after seeing his temperament vs Obama we have the right person.
McCain admitted “I messed up” on Letterman’s late night show. Standing up Letterman and appearing on prime time news at the same time was a massive blunder.
We owe a lot to McCain, he is a good American but he is not the leader that Obama is and the best presidents have been leaders. Geesh the country has been split and we have been at each others throats. It doesn’t matter any more what is best, it just matters what side proposes the idea. That’s not right.
Obama is trying to change that but that’ a mighty big battle. I hope he can pull it off though. It takes a leader to do that. I have watch the choice of words that Biden has been trying to us. He sometimes slips up though and uses more divisive language and he tries to back off. Its hard breaking old habits but that’s the leadership of Obama in action.
Hopefully you are right. (For a change:).) He has a big opportunity hope he will take advantage of it. Funny thing so far he is getting more flack from the Democrats than the Republicans.
Hopefully you are right. (For a change:) .) He has a big opportunity hope he will take advantage of it. Funny thing so far he is getting more flack from the Democrats than the Republicans.