Obama vs. Bush, the latest round
George W. Bush in April 2013:
“History will ultimately judge the decisions that were made for Iraq and I’m just not going to be around to see the final verdict,” the two-term president told CNN in a wide-ranging interview.
“In other words, I’ll be dead.”…
“You learn that life doesn’t end after you’re president,” Bush said…
“I know this, that Laura and I gave the presidency eight years of our life. We gave it our all. Made the best judgment calls I could. I didn’t compromise my principles. And I’m a content man.”
Bush is still very much alive, and the judgment of history is still out. But at the moment, the judgment of Americans is going rather well for him:
According to the poll, 52% of adults had a favorable impression of George W. Bush, 43% unfavorable. When Bush left office in 2009, only about one-third of Americans said they had a positive opinion of him. This new poll presents a notable shift as Bush’s overall favorability has remained well below 50% for much of his time as a presidential alum…
Obama’s approval rating has…dropped since April, going from a near-even 48% approve to 47% disapprove split to a negative-tilting 52% disapprove to 45% approve…across party lines, from both men and women, from whites and non-whites.
Tipping point? Not that it matters; Obama isn’t going anywhere, unless a lot more people start clamoring for impeachment. A lot more.
ISIS could burn the White House, Obama could be impeached and removed from office and Obama would still have 40% approval.
Back to Blood.
There were things that W did that I didn’t like, but I never doubted his patriotism, honesty and love of country. I cannot say the same of Chairman O.
Bush made mistakes, but he also did a lot of good things. Bush also learned from his mistakes.
Obama has not really done that much good and his response to his near total failure is go further into error. I don’t even mean he has not learned from his mistakes. I am saying he’s getting worse.
you are correct. obama is not going anywhere for 595 days.
Yes, President Bush, I’ve missed you(BIG Time) since…ohhh…around the afternoon of January 20, 2009. Sir Winston’s bust in the Oval? Gone within 3-days. Returned to the Brits, accompanied by a DVD of Baby Boy’s speeches. The great American patriotic paintings you’d placed on the walls of the West Wing? Brought down and replaced with dozens and dozens of Barack photos…to be replaced with more of the same every month since. A few of the many early ‘Tells’ to be followed unendingly.
One thing fewpeople know about Bush is how involved he was with foreign leaders. I’m sure he played tough ball politics behind the scenes, but he didn’t do in front of a TV camera as Obama does. If a reasonable foreign leader was up for election, he didn’t say things that anti-American opponents could use to dislodge them. He did manage to get some things done in South Sudan. He opened doors in India. He won friends in Africa. He got us through the mess in Pakistan after Bhutto’s death without causing a total catastrophe. When I heard John Ashcroft praised by Germany’s formerly leftist Interior Minister for his work on intelligence after 9/11, I knew that Bush had some good people working for him and keeping him informed about what was going on in the world. Bush really worked at foreign affairs. Given today’s chaos, I really miss him.
I get upset when I hear a Bush policy condemned without the condemner even trying to consider whether Bush was making a necessary compromise in order to achieve something he considered a priority. He understood the dangers of the Fannie May/ Freddie Mac housing bubble but couldn’t get throught the lefty propaganda to chang things. He truly researched the embryonic stem cell issue and came up with the unpopular compromise that gave other researchers a chance to develop alternatives. He did his work and accepted responsibility. Obama does neither.
Sooner or later, this new age Rome will run out of competent leaders, because the mob will keep getting rid of the competent ones. They don’t deserve it. They don’t deserve to win.
Not any more.
In some odd decades, people will talk about Bush using the Left’s propaganda. Memories will be gone, silent, just as it was during the Nixon and FDR eras.
I often felt that Bush will be seen in better light after time has passed – with or without Obama being President after him.
He had some tough decisions to make and didn’t seem to make them based upon popularity polls.
In the long run I think the American people will think more highly of the guy who is honest, even if wrong, rather than the guy who is making decisions based upon appearances sake.
So Bush’s numbers going up doesn’t surprise me.
Obama showed his ugly Leftist Stripes, he never attended or acknowledged anything referencing the anniversary of the Gettysburg address, nor any comment on the anniversary of the Star Spangled banner’s authorship. I guess he didn t see anyhing about it on television & then again his lovely wife did say
“we need to change our history”.
Once again right out of Leftism 101.
UN Recognizes ‘Major Changes’ In Iraq (link) by VP Joe Biden on behalf of the UN Security Council.
Withdrawal Symptoms: The Bungling of the Iraq Exit (link) by OIF senior advisor Rick Brennan.
How Obama Abandoned Democracy in Iraq (link) by OIF official and senior advisor Emma Sky.
Saddam: What We Now Know (link) by Jim Lacey* draws from the Iraq Survey Group (re WMD) and Iraqi Perspectives Project (re terrorism). * Dr. Lacey was a researcher and author for the Iraqi Perspectives Project (link).
Explanation (link) of the law and policy, fact basis for Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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