Regardless of what happens in this election, this President will go down as one of our best. The partisans of today will use this President as an example like they like to use Ronald Reagan now.
This Presidency is defined by 9/11. Not for the attack itself, but for the response President Bush made. He did more than made us safer, he brought us back. Through the horrors that horrendous, dreary Tuesday morning we were reassured by this President that in response to this act of war, we will not tire, we will not relent, we will not fail.
This President has not let us down.
Through moral clarity and conviction, he led us through the war in Afghanistan. When reporters were questioning the success of the war, he did not tire, he did not relent, and he did not fail.
Democrats questioned our troops ability to win in Afghanistan. After all, the great Soviet Union could not win, how could we?
Though Democrats questioned the Afghanistan War like they do in Iraq, Afghanistan had free and fair elections.
This is what we are now seeing in Iraq. Though the deaths are higher, the outcome will not be as long as this President stays in the White House. The only way will lose this war is if we choose wrong.
If we forget what this President has done for our country, we will have lost the will to fight.
We should learn the from the mistakes of the past. Vietnam was led by leaders who did not believe with all their heart that the war in Vietnam was the right war. Lyndon Johnson was debated into sending troops in, and was very conflicted about it. Nixon then ran on a platform in 1968 to get out us out of Vietnam. President Bush's opponent runs on a platform in 2004 to win a war that was the "wrong war, in the wrong place, in the wrong time."
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— go to most recent comments1 - Yensid
Akk... chog... cough.. akkk!!! what the.. hell... are you shoving down my wind pipe Mr.!! Whatever makes you feel better!! I can throw the pen around too and write frothy the-president-is-holier-than-though-I-love-him speeches too. With all your love and conviction you forget to mention the big dildo up the ass of the American people. This president will go down as a lying, corporate-seducing, coal eatting, war monger and no fancy speeches on 9/11 will save him from that! Go Kerry!
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2 - Art Green
I do not care what you think right now. You are a partisan. Abraham Lincoln was not liked. Ronald Reagan was called "dangerous".
Bush is being called the same thing. Ronald Reagan renewed our confidence. George W. Bush renewed our spirit.
3 - Dude
What's that noise? Oh, it's Reagan and Lincoln spinning in their grave, along with the hundreds of thousands of dead kids from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yeah, Artie boy, there's your "spirit" for ya.
4 - andy marsh
News Flash! I like this guy! And I second his thank you to my president!
All in favor? The ayes have it...
5 - Art Green
I knew I would take flak from the moonbats here.
Blame America first. Bush's job approval was 90% after 9/11. What does that tell you about his job of renewing the spirit of Americans?
6 - Mark Saleski
is it possible for conservative bloggers to write anything without the stereotyping and namecalling?
blame america first?
moonbats? just because people don't agree with you?
bush's job approval rating is way, way below 90% at this point. what does that tell you about renewing the spirit of americans?
and you can repeat the "we're safer" mantra as often as you wish...but it doesn't somehow spin it into a fact via some kinda thought process alchemy.
7 - Winston Smith
Oh christ. I really can't believe this. I mean...I can kinda sorta--if I squint really hard and have ten or thirty beers--understand how someone might dislike Kerry more than they dislike Bush...
What I absolutely cannot understand is the adulation for this despicable, incompetent fellow--perhaps our worst president since Andrew Jackson (a Democrat, in case you're inclined to charge me with partisanship.)
I DO, however, agree with the comparison to Ronald Reagan. Reagan and Bush will both go down in history as being among the worst American presidents.
The party of Lincoln has now utterly disgraced itself three times in my life, with Nixon, Reagan, and Bush '43.
8 - Mac Diva
This is one of the most selfish, as well as inaccurate, blog entries I have ever read. For anyone to believe that the current situation in Iraq means the war against terrorism has been won is mind boggling. For the person to go on and assert that the economy has recovered suggests delusion. The third affront is that no thought whatever is given to how the failures of the Bush administration have effected most Americans. Apparently, only the author matters.
Bush's supporters are said to be people who ignore facts and embrace emotion, as he does. This entry proves that is true of at least one of them.
9 - Art Green
Bush's approval was at 90% after the 9/11 attacks, not now. (Hovering around 50-52%]
As for Reagan going down as one of our worst Presidents... HAHAHAHA!
10 - Eric Olsen
I am not sure how giving one's opinion about something as important as a presidential election is "selfish."
I am not nearly the Bushie that Art is, but why is he not allowed to give his opinion?
11 - Art Green
Here is a fact for you. When Bill Clinton ran for President, the unemployment was 5.3%. .1% lower than the current unemployment. Considering Bill Clinton did not have to go through an attack that claimed the lifes of 3,000 people, claimed the jobs of around one million, and sunk the airline industry. Considering the circumstances, he did a hell of a job on the economy.
Where did I say the War on Terror would be won after Iraq is won? Now you are just putting words into my mouth.
12 - Art Green
Thank you, Eric. ;)
13 - andy marsh
embracing emotions...Diva...you make it easy to embrace certain emotions!
14 - Mac Diva
Something else about 'kneeling before George W. Bush' entries like this one makes me wonder. With the exception of Andrew Sullivan, damn near every conservative man in the blogosphere claims to be heterosexual. I'm skeptical. It seems to me that a subtext of homoeroticism is present in 'kneeling' entries. Something has to explain the deep reservoir of attraction. And, no, it can't be Bush's policies.
15 - Art Green
And somehow I am one to "attack" people and post with emotion?
16 - Mark Saleski
never said he's not allowed to give his opinion.
however, when the discourse (shoulda used double quotes around that word) starts including things like calling those with opposing viewpoints 'moonbats', well, that just makes me think less of the opinion.
17 - Mac Diva
No emotion involved other than curiosity, Art. As a straight woman, I am out of the picture when it comes to male to male attraction. Since there is no apparent reason for the 'kneeling,' perhaps there is a subtle one.
I appreciate your willingness to at least discuss the matter. Do you find President Bush attractive?
18 - andy marsh
You gotta admit Mark...there are some moonbats around here!!! although, I'm not really sure what a moonbat is...
19 - Art Green
No, I do not find him attractive...
Well Mark, for crying out loud. I would think that calling someone a moonbat is a little less offensive than questioning my sexuality.
20 - Art Green
Someone on the extreme edge of whatever their -ism happens to be.
That is a moonbat. To me, they are moonbats. To them, I am.
21 - andy marsh
I would imagine I'm one also.
22 - Mac Diva
Art, you have posted an entry that defies understanding if judged on a factual basis. I'm sure you want to be understood, so we are just exploring other ways to reach your goal.
I don't find Bush attractive. His mouth is crooked. And, there is something simian about him. He has tics. But, I think he looks his best when he is in his jeans and checked shirt pretending to be a farmer in Texas. (Sure beats when he is pretending to be a president in D.C.) Art, do you agree that Bush looks better in casual clothes?
23 - Hal Pawluk
I have to agree that history will remember this president for his response after 9/11.
But the entry will be couched in terms of what he has done to this country, rather than for it.
24 - Art Green
Fair enough, Hal. At least you have the intellectual honesty to admit his response to 9/11 was good.
As for the rest, I guess right now, history will decide George Bush. I believe he has done well, you believe he has done wrong. Oh well.
25 - Hal Pawluk
Not quite, Art.
I believe he was right in going after terrorists while he did that.
That was when he attacked the Taliban in Afghanistan.
He then went into self-destruct mode, essentially abandoning the war on terrorists and instead pursuing a right-wing political agenda with the unilateralist invasion of Iraq.
We have only seen the beginning of the damage that has set in train, at home and around the world.
That is how he will go down in history.
It's not a flattering portrait.