Farewell, Sir.

January 15, 2009 | Filed under Bush | Posted by

After watching President George W. Bush deliver his farewell speech to the nation, there remain two images that in my mind define President Bush. One is personal, which I may share a bit of over the weekend during his final days in office. The other is really no less personal, though observed via television from a couple short miles away.

Even years from now, when I remember President George W. Bush, this will still forever be a defining moment. Ignoring the Secret Service demands to stay within protocol, plan and security measures, the President silhouetted himself and climbed the rubble, grabbed a bullhorn, and spoke unscripted to the men and women working tirelessly even as the task at Ground Zero was making the sobering transition from rescue to recovery.

That was the President of the United States.

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  • Hansel2

    Doctorj, frankly, without putting too fine a point on it, you are simply a liar. Making up your very silly arguments with no supporting documentation. You are also an idiot. Sorry, but you are.

    ABC News/Washington Post poll:

    Do you think the war with Iraq was worth fighting, or not?

    4/03
    Worth Fighting: 70%
    Not Worth Fighting: 27%

    12/08
    Worth Fighting: 34%
    Not Worth Fighting: 64%

    So what do you think, WW? Do you believe that over the course of what is now 5 years, the American people have become dumber? The more educated a population becomes on a subject the tougher it is to lie to them about it. These polls reflect that – not what you would like to believe, which is that the majority of the country has been brainwashed by the MSM or some other ridiculous source. And you know something, I’m just pointing out one of around 10 polls to make this simple. Every other one reflects the same slide.

    Over the last five years, you opinion about the success of the war and of George Bush’s presidency has waned. It is actually YOU who is brainwashed, not the rest of us. And your punishment for being so stubborn and not listening to reason is your voice has been pretty well silenced in the political arena – not to return any time soon. You people are looked upon by the rest of us as curiosities. No one outside of your small bubble is ignorant enough to believe some of the garbage you spew.

    And, really, without his ability to lie to the public and instill fear in them, Bush had nothing, another reason his polls began to slide. After Katrina, everyone finally saw what kind of manager this idiot was, and then they began to add two and two together and apply that knowledge to everything else he had his hands in.

    His legacy will be built on sinking to the lowest level of manipulation to power his governing. From the reasons for starting war to the Libby case, to Katrina and numerous other fiascos, this man has shown what disaster can come from an over-inflated ego, an inability to reflect, and an ease at lying to himself and everyone else. His inefficiencies in this office have destroyed more than our reputation as a country – it’s individually destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives of innocent Iraqis, American soldiers and civilians.

    There’s no thanking this bastard. He deserves no one’s good graces. He should rot in hell for what he’s done. The only thing he’s done right is leaving quietly.

    And you know, I don’t need to add 500 footnotes to this post for it to carry weight. I have 75% of the public behind me on this – and that’s 5 years of an earned percentage.
    depp=true
    notiz=Better to fold now, or keep getting disemvoweled.

  • Bruce Henry

    Willie:
    You can be angry at “you lefties” all you want, but I am not “demeaning the man” on this site. I never said, and never would say, anything about his family, positive or negative. WTF does his family have to do with anything?
    Speaking of Clinton re-do’s, where do you think this so-called “Bush hatred” started? Anyone here remember the 1990s? Remember the rise of Talk Radio, with its unremitting, day-after-day Clinton hatefest? Remember the Clinton Chronicles, narrated by every snakehandler’s favorite holy man, Jerry Falwell? Remember the accusations that the Clintons were everything from drug smugglers to wife-swappers to serial killers? And as for “going after the man’s family,”, I don’t remember the Right being particularly respectful of either Hillary or Chelsea. Do you?
    Yeah, “us lefties” are truly a deranged bunch.
    BTW, Willie, still waiting on that accomplishment list.

  • Hansel2

    I have known for many years the left is a self loathing bunch of people who not only do not care about the military, but wishes it did not exist.

    This is the stupidest statement I’ve ever heard. You prove yourself to be a joke with unsubstantiated, delusional statements like this.

    Furthermore, don’t respond back. Your opinion means nothing.

  • Rolf

    When told the nation was under attack, the Commander-in-Chief sat frozen for seven minutes while a group of schoolchildren read aloud from a book called “The Pet Goat”.

  • Justice58

    What were their names, ages and dates of birth? Or are You just fantasizing about not having Booosshhh to kick around anymore.

    Look insensitive moron without a soul, babies died. Old people died. Why don’t you take the time and look up the name of the little old white lady that died and was pushed into the corner at the Convention Center? That was someone’s mother & grandmother! Babies died because they lack proper nourishment…like Milk. Some old people died because they didn’t have medication, some couldn’t take the heat, lack of food & water only to lay in the street and die. It was so horrible! Bush failed the citizens of New Orleans. Those poor people!

    I’ll be so glad to see a President in office that has the brains to handle a crisis! It was shameful for Bush to fly over New Orleans and not land that plane. The citizens of New Orleans needed a president and he failed them miserably.

  • Hansel2

    Gee.

    Disemvoweled for having an opinion 75% of us have, and backing it up with an ABC/Washington Post poll.

    Face it. They’ll be an awful lot of opinions over the next 8 years you’re not going to like.
    depp=true
    notiz=Don’t like it? Then don’t call ANY president a bastard.

  • Hansel2

    You’ve got a world of right-wingers here who’ve called Clinton and Obama much worse than that.
    depp=true

  • DJ Drummond

    Bruce, you got that list earlier this week in my post. To recap:

    • Banned partial-birth abortion
    • Reinstated parental-consent clause in the Medical Privacy Act
    • Upheld ban on abortions at military hospitals
    • Proposed, worked for, and signed into law two income-tax cuts
    • Worked to eliminate the Death Tax
    • Worked to privatize Social Security
    • Eliminated OSHA’s ‘ergonomic’ rules for home businesses
    • Reduced H1B visas from 195,000 a year to 66,000
    • Killed attempts to revive Kyoto Global Warming Treaty
    • Revised Forestry Management Act to allow cleanup to prevent fires, removed need for Environmental Impact Statement before removing dangerous brush and fallen tress from fire-risk areas
    • Removed Saddam Hussein from Iraq
    • Eliminated Al Qaeda network in Afghanistan
    • Eliminated Al Qaeda operational existence outside North African continent
    • Disarmed Libya of its WMDs
    • Improved US military review ability, emphasis on asymmetrical warfare
    • Best friend to Israel since 1948
    • Prohibited putting US forces under UN command
    • Brought back EP-3 plane and crew from China without conflict
    • Ended participation in International Criminal Court
    • Faced down the UN, saying “America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.”
    • Worked to reform Medicare
    • Worked to address border security, created largest budget and roster for enforcement, internal fugitive capture, and employer penalty system in history
    • Constructed ABM silos in Alaska, Montana, and Maine
    • Operation Tarmac
    • Denied ABA role in vetting federal judge/justice nominations

    Now seriously Bruce, see a professional. That pathological hatred you have eating you up, will sooner or later ruin your life if you don’t get help.

    God bless George W. Bush, and God save the United States of America.

  • WildWillie

    Wow the left is always nuts but today, wow! They are off on a trip to la la land. There hatred is so severe.

    Brucy, if you do not remember the things said from the left about Laura or the Bush twins, then you choose to be ignorant or are oblivious.

    I remember Bill Clinton holding a news conference about Lewinski. I remember him shaking his finger at us citizens (that is you and me) and saying “I did not have sex with that Lewinski woman”. His adminitration and wife bought into it then they found out he lied to them and to the country. Then he lied under oath. If you want to give him a pass, fine, but don’t act like only the right held no respect for him. How could a person respect someone that lies so convincingly? Live in your alternative universe, I don’t care, but don’t blame the very unreasonable hatred you lefties show to GW from day one because of what Clinton did to Clinton. ww

  • max

    Willie, move on. Thanks.

  • Bruce Henry

    DJ, you may consider “worked to do this, that, or the other” an accomplishment, but most people don’t. Dennis Kufuckingcinich has “worked to establish a Department of Peace” for about 20 years, but has he accomplished it?
    Your points on abortion may not be considered “accomplishments” by a large percentage of Americans — that’s for another thread.
    Some of your list is debatable and subjective at best. “Best friend to Israel since 1948″, and “brought back EP-3 plane and crew from China without conflict” come to mind. Kinda like Carter brought the Iran hostages home without conflict? Real point of pride there, huh?
    And a couple things are just plain false, like, “Eliminated al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan”, or “Eliminated al-Qaeda operational existence outside the North African continent,” wherever the “North African continent” is. If the al-Qaeda network has been eliminated in Afghanistan, who is killing our soldiers there?
    Now give me a CONCRETE, MEASURABLE accomplishment of the Bush administration. Is real, disposable income up for regular folks? Is unemployment down? How is your 401fuckingK? Is the National debt bigger or smaller? Is the military in objectively better shape? Are EOG test scores up or down? What about the ratio of people with health insurance vs. people without? Has he stopped, or even slowed, illegal immigration? Did the size of the Federal government shrink, or even slow its inexorable growth?
    In other words, what objective measure can you use to defend this loser? Face it, you were fooled, twice, and now you’re angry that I wasn’t fooled, too.

  • DJ Drummond

    Bruce, I have a successful life and a wonderful family, and a president I am proud of. You have a mental disorder based on a pathlogical hatred of a man who you could never beat, for all your lies and malice.

    Sucks for you, boyo.

  • Bruce Henry

    Drummond:
    Who mentioned your life or your family?
    Who is talking about objective facts here, and who is talking about “pathological hatred” and “lies and malice”?
    Paranoid much?

  • Knightbrigade

    Though I disagreed on some issues (he should have been MORE conservative), overall President Bush has my respect and appreciation.

    Some point out President Bush’s low ratings.
    I think it still beats the current Congress rating. So go cry about the San Fran Nan during this whine fest..

    Like President Truman, President Bush’s rating WILL rise in the future.

    Loony leftards and trolls are wetting themselves as President Bush leaves.
    lol… GOOD hand me a stick so I can poke them some more….

    Take Care Mr. President…..you were a great LEADER.

  • Bruce Henry

    Wow. I go to bed expecting somebody to post something of substance here about Bush’s “accomplishments.” I don’t know why I expected that.
    I wake to find the same list by DJ of untruths, half-truths, net negatives, and irrelevancies (Built ABM silos, “Worked to” do this, that, or the other). When I ask for examples on specific subjects like Debt, Healthcare, the state of the military, or immigration, I’m met with insults (“you have a mental disorder,” “loony leftards and trolls”), followed by deafening silence.
    I’ll take that as a win.
    Another one.

  • WildWillie

    Brucy, DJ quite handily exposed you for who you are. A list was provided, very good list I might add, but you regect it. So, if you want to consider that a win, I am not surprised. You lefties always, and I mean always, live in a make believe world.

    I bet you GW cares nothing about the polls and that alone is a sign of a great leader. Obama already took a poll to see if he should enact a plan. Clinton redeux.

    Obama is already a failed precidency and he hasn’t even been sworn in. At least that is a record. ww

  • max

    Bruce, DJ is incapable of having an intelligent, reasoned discussion on anything, let alone the object of his desire.

    LittleWillie, move on. Thanks.

  • Bruce Henry

    Fine, WeeWillie, but answer me this:
    Where, on this thread, or any other since I’ve been commenting here, can you find a comment which can be construed as “hatred” of W? Can you cite where I’ve said anything negative about his character or his family?
    So, how did DJ, the object of your hero-worship, “expose” me?
    Please, spare yourself the embarassment of a reply. We already know what you’ll say.

  • doctorj

    Willie’s intellengence is really “wee”. Don’t waste your time on him.

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