I have problems with the hedges in the front yard. I now know the problem, Bush. Yes I have been treating the hedges as a bush and not a shrub.

And for those who are trying to blame the loss on Bush,Chicago was selected as a finalist for the 2016 games last summer, when Bush was still president. 

On April 14, 2007, Chicago was selected by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) as the United States Bid city, and on June 4, 2008, the IOC named Chicago as one of four finalists to host the 2016 Olympic games.

for the infrastructure. Or kids killing  kids with clubs and guns. Or Obama Mama sitting on her dads lap in her mid 20's to watch a foot race. Or maybe the "smug one" coming to tell them how to run the show. Or the fact that the committee knew the wrong people were going to become rich from the land deals that were sure to happen. Nope. Had to be Bush. I am more convinced every day that Bush was more respected and looked up to than the ignorant clown we have now. They cant sell the "smug one" any longer.

"Live for yourself...there's no one else more worth living for.
Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"- Rush--Anthem

Truth is no one could undo the damage done by the MSM and the democrats to our national reputation over the last 8 years. Maybe they thought they were just destroying Bush but they were really destroying our image...but I guess it was worth it politically. Cheering against your own country for political gain has consequences....!

...should we be surprised? 

v

...an error was made in 2008

Will Bush Derangement syndrome ever end?  In a word: NO!  "It's Bush's fault" is too convenient an excuse for the worshipers of Teh One to use to explain their Obamassiah's failures.

Will the left in this nation be forever able to blame the world's ills on our 43rd President? They will certianly try, but as for everyone else buying their arguments, no.  There are signs that even diehard Democrats are getting tired of  "it's all Bush's fault".

"Someone should tell Jackson America refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty in -- wait for it -- 1997!"  Noel, you should have pointed out, for the sake of the historically impaired, that Clinton, a Democrat, with a Democrat majority Congress, was President in 1997, and that he refused to submit the treaty to the Senate because he knew it would fail to be ratified.

"... we misled the world into Iraq."  In what alternate universe, Jesse? Besides CIA, the British, French and German intelligence agencies all concluded that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was working on acquiring and building more.  The members of the administration and Congress during the time of the Democrat President Bill Clinton made many statements to that effect.  What? Did Saddam, after W was elected say to himself, "Uh, oh!  America elected a Republican President.  I'd better scrap all my WMDs"?  Jesse probably "forgot" that it was a coalition of countries that invaded Iraq both times. 

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

are GWB fault as well. the Cubs and White Sox not making to the baseball playoffs are GWB fault as well.

Traffic jams On I55 are also GWB fault.

HIV in the gay community is as well.

Wake up. The IOC did not drink the BHO kool Aid that our USA media has. They see right through his inability to lead.

BHO is a highly educated stupid man.

BHO-  THE PROGRESSIVE PIRATE

I've mentioned this before, but it bears repeating.

While in Costa Rica, we meet a moonbat (and couldn't get her to uproot herself from our breakfast table) who had all of the liberal talking points down.  Particularly that she was now proud of her country, whereas under Bush she was ashamed.

A day or two later, during the Costa Rica Independence Day long weekend, we met a lovely lady who was originally from Honduras, but who had lived in CR for the last 3 years.  She was absolutely dismayed at the (Vain) Obama administration's support of Honduras' overthrown soon-to-be dictator for life.  Not a proud moment, at all.

And I wonder, truly, how much the Poles and Czechs are loving us now, that we've abandoned them in favor of Russia?  We know the President of France thinks Obama is a naif.  Obama has insulted both the Queen and PM on numerous occasions (Normandy was the worst)....yet he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia.  He's cozied up to the Venezuelan thug, made overtures to Castro (how's that closing Gitmo thing going, Bammer?), and totally given the whackjobs in Iran and North Korea a pass for their continuous sabre rattling.  Last but not least, Obama has tried to bully Israel.  Did I miss anything?  Oh certainly, I did.  Obama's great humanitarian efforts in the recent tsunami and typhoon in AMERICAN Samoa and the Phillipines.  (Hint, President Bush sent an aircraft carrier after the 2006 tsunami). 

Dispel the old image?  Claptrap.

I'm sure it had nothing to do with the "children" in Chicago beating to death another child with a 4x4.  And seriously....Chicago?  I've been there, twice, both times for business.  The Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium were nice, but there are far more interesting (not to mention safer) places for the non-American tourist in this beautiful country of ours. 

Vain Obama made yet another tactical error in going to Copenhagen, trying to use his charm to sell another smelly deal.  His egO got the best of him, I truly hope he learns a lesson from this (he won't).   Too bad, so sad, EPIC FAIL.

Yet in typical fashion, the leftist media blames another Obama failure on George Bush.  So in answer to your question, BDS will reign in the left forever. 

I hope he fails, too.

Chicago corruption only reaches so far, and Copenhagan was short notice, too bad for them.

But if there so sure this failure is Bush's fault, then send him the travel bill, I look forward to his reply. 

Interesing angle from Don Surber, the wife angle:

"Democratic Chicago Mayor Daley sent his president to Copenhagen on this wild-goose chase, only to have the president humiliated on an international stage. Worse, Daley is responsible for Michelle Obama being humiliated. There is no way on God’s green earth that Barack Obama is going to forget that."

Bad blood between the Bamster and the old Chicago machine could serve us well. On the other hand, a patho-narcissist like the Bamster is likely incapable of chivalry.

The Left is either ignorant of history, or hoping that the public is.  I suspect it's a combination of the two.

And the MSM can be expected to parrot their ridiculous talking points.  They'll find more foreigners to assert "there hasn't been enough time since Bush" to reassess America's image in the world -- which is merely a polite way of rejecting the narcissistic Obama without pissing him off.

They are only deceiving themselves, however.  The longer they perceive that the silk-tongued, global-healing POTUS can, as George Will stated, 'melt any problem merely by talking' (or words to that effect), they'll only postpone their rendezvous with sobriety.  Without that rendezvous, they will never devise effective policy solutions, and continue to look like a pack of fools.

Olympic Bushers.

I've done a little research, and it is clear to me that Rio has something to offer the IOC that no other candidate had. Warning: the following link may not be suitable for those under the age of eighteen or anybody with a heart condition. 

http://www.traveladventures.org/continents/southamerica/riobums.shtml 

Now ask yourself and answer honestly, Michelle on Lake Michigan, or the Girl from Ipanema?

Has anyone got their hands on the alternate story? You know, the one that the Obama worshippers had prepared for the big Chicago Olympics win? Do they realize how whiny they look when they can't come up with anything better than "Bush's fault"? In fact, do they realize how fawning they look when they reflexively go on the defensive for the Chosen One. The adult response would have been to say, "We did our best. Congratulations to Rio."

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people's money."

—Margaret Thatcher

The fact that Obama and the Democrats are taking this personally proves that the left, in general, are narcissists.  So we didn't get the games in Chicago.  BFD.  If Obama had not flown to to the IOC with his Wife and Oprah and made a speech that was about nothing but how much THEY would like it if THEY could walk out of THEIR house and welcome the world 'back' into THEIR neighborhood.  I mean, good grief.  It's no wonder why the US was ousted in the first round.  This president was elected American Idol style by a media completely infatuated with the prospect of their 'historic' President.  Obama, the Media, and the Democrats live in a bubble where America is made evil specifically by Republicans.  "Once the Republicans are out, the world will respect us again."  Me me me me me me

"I travel a lot. ... I thought we had really turned a corner with the
election of President Obama. People are so much more welcoming of
Americans now. But this isn't the people of those countries. This is
the leaders still living with outdated impressions of Americans."

I'm so sick of this one.  I travel a lot, too.  Lot's of time in Europe and some in Asia during the Bush administration.  Never ran up against anti-Americanism.  Looked for it, even asked about it, but never saw it and the most negative comment I ever got was that we have a "bit of a cowboy" for a president.  IMHO it is an imagined phenomenon, outside of the Middle East.  All I see is pure projection when libs make comments like this.

on someone's wash day in Peru, it's Bush's fault.

I'd love to see an end to this tired BS, but I doubt I ever will. There will likely always be some deranged libnut jerkweeds out there that will find some way to blame President Bush for something.  

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

I really don't care if the rest of the world doesn't like the U.S.  It's juvenile to worry about that.  I prefer that rest of the world respects us and our interests.

Of course we should all be proud of the President of the United States grovelling before a  non-state committee that rules no nation but is along the lines of an international kennel club.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.