I can say with certainity at this point...he will have been a much better president than Obama. 

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I think history will reward president Bush's foreign policy, but will hold over some questions regarding some of his personnel choices.

Harriet Meirs, Gonzoles, McClellan etc will not go over well.  He will be remembered as someone who was TOO faithful to his freinds.

Regarding domestic spending, I think it will be a case of Guns AND butter simultraneously.  He sought to insulate himself from attacks like "We could have X if we were not spending so much fighting terror" from the left.  He succeeded in that their moans for greater spending on domestic issues ring hollow since we did both.

Wether that was wise it up to history.

He will rank higher than his predecessor WJC.

is that the more the Left reviles someone, the better they are for the country.

AuVox

I think that President bush will get his due praise, but like most decent leaders it won't be till after he's gone. I rememeber all the mud thrown at Ronald Reagan while he was president, and now I see articles published in liberal blogs and media outlets where they are yearning for the days of the Reagan Era.

Bush has been under constant attack by the Left and the liberal biased media from the start. He inherited a soup-sandwich from the Clinton administration that played delay games with problem foreign Governments like North Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, China, and Iran. Appeasement was the name of the game then. When Bush took over an turned off the money faucet, the delaying stopped.

How anyone cannot remember that 9/11 was a direct result of the Clinton administration's policies and actions is beyond me. Same with our current problems with North Korea.

I agree that in the end, President Bush will be remembered as the American President who took on Terrorism pretty much BY HIMSELF... and won. Especially if a major Terrorist attack successfully hits the US during "The Messiah's" reign. (Which I believe is a serious possibility.)

Bush should definately be ranked higher than Clinton, Carter, and (if things continue as they have) Obama.

Doc

Strieff  posted on this subject on Redstate a little while ago.

http://www.cnn.com/2...

My takeaway (other than the despicable act) comes from the end of Paragraph 11...

“He ran as a Democrat.”

This implies he only ran as a Democrat out of convenience, thereby
leading the reader to assume he’s “not really a Democrat”, but maybe
even a Republican, or at least an Independent. Never mind the
continuous associations with Dem politicians and administrations. That
way, there’s no “culture of corruption” label that can be hung on the
Democrats.

Why, CNN has added a whole layer of nuance to the game of “name that party”!

Thomas Sowell's column today should be required reading for everyone on The Obama's economic team!

The money grafs:

The rise in unemployment after the stock market crash of 1929 was a blip on the screen compared to the soaring unemployment rates reached later, after a series of government interventions.

In other words, the evidence suggests that it was not the "problem" of the financial crisis in 1929 that caused massive unemployment but politicians' attempted "solutions."

Will they learn from history?  

Or just assume that they are the ones who can do it the "right" way, and fix things?

In response to Ford's decision to hold off on grabbing the cash, I bought 377 shares yesterday @ $2.76/sh.  It's at 2.16 and still dropping today.

That's what I get for investing with my heart instead of my head.

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The Bush legacy exists - only the MSM censored the news!

Yea. Anyone remember Larry King, Wolf Blitzer or the network evening news, fighting over first dubs to get these voices out to the wanting for feel good news public?  

In October, at the President's Conference on International Development, as is often the case, praise for President Bush and his administration was in the air - for doing what? Doing the walk - not just the talk.

Sir Bob Geldof (Humanitarian activist - and Live 8 organizer)"

.. a great adventure.. what America was born to do.. the sense that this is America at it's best.."

President Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, of Liberia (the first freely elected woman in Africa's history):

 "Under the leadership of President Bush [..] .. What a legacy, Mr. President..." "..America's commitment to democracy and development and to supporting low-income countries around the world has been a signature of foreign policy achievement for President Bush, Secretary Rice, the bipartisan support of the U.S. Congress, and the American people. .." 

 See - you feel good already - and it didn't take putting the MSM's man in the WH, did it?

PS - copy and paste the transcripts if you want a record. Best I can tell the media skipped out of town. Videos are also linked on the site. (;~> gary

The Good:

The War against the Islamic barbarians.

After eight years of Bill Clinton's do-less-than-nothing approach to the re-awakening of the Islamic war against the civilized world, George W. Bush decided enough was enough, finally drew the line and stood up to these evil people. He began using the US military in its intended role, which is to actually defend this country, something the derelict CIC Bill Clinton could not bring himself to do, as he was much too busy sending our military off on half-baked missions to Somalia and the Balkans, two places we had no business being.

Whether or not our actions in Afghanistan and Iraq were worth the effort and the cost, only time will tell. I realize many well-meaning people are holding out hope that these two nations will eventually stabilize at the hands of more "moderate" elements of Islam, and thus provide a counterweight to its more radical adherents.

Sadly, I do not share in this optimism, as I do not believe there is any such thing as "moderate" Islam.

One other good thing Mr. Bush did was to allow American workers to keep more of what they earned. No, it wasn't the passage of the Fair Tax, but at least it was a move in the right direction.

The Bad:

The hideous increase in the size and scope of the federal government.

Unfortunately, Mr. Bush, along with a republican congress, engineered what was essentially a doubling in the size and scope of the federal government over a six-year period. They also managed to create yet another entitlement program with the Prescription Drug fiasco, which was not needed, yet will add even more to the already crippling, if not fatal, overall financial liability that our descendants will be facing. This, by any measure, GWOT or not, was completely inexcusable.

Then there was his inexplicable signing of John McCain's precious Campaign Finance Reform bill, which, in the time since its passage has proven to be a complete joke.
Mr. Bush also teamed up with McCain and Ted Kennedy in an effort to cram an "immigration reform" bill down our throats. Anyone with an I.Q. above freezer temperature instantly recognized that lunacy for what it was-amnesty for illegal criminals.

I must say I was quite proud to join the massive effort, both here at NB and other places, to do my part in killing that hideous bill. I still see that period as our finest hour here at NB, as the MSM was doing all it could to deceive the American people about the true nature of that proposed legislation.

The Ugly:

The socialization of America.

Sorry, but I don't know of any other way to put this. Mr. Bush, for whatever reason, allowed himself to be hornswaggled by Paulson & Co. into signing a massive bailout package that I believed at the time was not really needed, and was probably going to be abused by some seriously corrupt people. It appears my initial fears have reached fruition, as nobody, not the feds nor the banks themselves, can or will tell us were trillions of our dollars are going.

The money itself isn't the only problem here, as these bailouts have ushered in what is essentially a government takeover of much of our financial industry, and now our automotive industry as well.

Many are saying this is only a temporary situation, and the government will only stick around until things improve.

Bullsh*t.

Other than the FCC getting out of CB radio involvement, can anyone tell me of a time in our history when government got into something and later got out of it? It isn't going to happen.

We have all been crying in our beer since November 4th over the fact that 65 million of our fellow citizens voted to put a devout socialist in the Oval Office.

The irony is that we already had one in there.

To me, this bailout mess is shaping up to be one of the biggest scandals in this nation's history.

I hope I am wrong, but it is beginning to look to me as if this is the last raiding of the public treasury just prior to the collapse of the republic.

How historians will view this man through the prism of 20-20 hindsight is anyone's guess. While I applaud his efforts at working to spread freedom in other parts of the world, it would have been nice had he put some effort into preserving it here at home.

-Dave

Merry Christmas everybody!

Obama's gang is getting ready to spill their guts on involvement in Pay to Play Senate Seat scandal.

Expect to see a terse little statement without followup.

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Some funny stuff I thought I'd share with you all:

Dog malfunction.

Golfing on Christmas.

What pets write in their diaries. (This is hilarious)

Best E-cards ever.

-Dave

Merry Christmas everybody!

Seattle refuses to use salt on its roads, causing snowpacked roads passable only by gas-guzzling SUV's

You can't make this stuff up unless you're possessed by the ghost of Rod Serling.

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Special Report starts in 3 minutes.  Brit Hume's last Anchor show.

Says he wants to spend lots of time studying the Bible and spending time with his grandkids.

I'll miss Brit.  Brett Baier has quite a pair of shoes to fill.

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