My critique on the out going president will be a mixed bag of nuts. First I would like to say thank you for going after those who would bring harm and destruction to our nation. Not a single hit on our soil since then, this is not even up for discussion.
Secondly, thank you for thinking of the families with your tax policies (they also helped the not so rich) it has kept a lot of folks from going broke. I am not looking for discussions about the "tax cuts for the rich" B.S., namely I cannot get a job from a poor person but the rich seem to have things for me to do and they pay nicely.
Now for the things that I think dulled the luster of the President.
Leadership, leadership, leadership, and sticking up for our side. He was very detached from the public and did not want to get down into the trenches with the rest of us. He (President Bush) was very respectful of the office of the President but did not use it to advance the Republican philosophy of smaller and limited government and certainly did not curb spending.
That could be part of the problem that has led us to where we are now, but evidence has also shown that Barney (my boy lollipop) Frank and other democrats fingerprints are all over the housing debacle.
President Bush needed to just go out and meet with his party and with the public, both those who supported him and those that did not. Although he did cozy up a little to the democratic party leaders in Congress and you can see how that worked out for him.
As the old saying goes, "if you tell a lie long enough, people will start to believe it." This is what happened to Bush over the past eight years. He was slandered, bashed, called all manner of names, hated at all times and was "damned if he did and damned if he did not."
The worse thing was when he was lampooned, he did not say anything…anything at all, he did not defend himself to anyone. This is no wonder so many people just do not like this guy. You have to at the very least stand up for your self and not think that you are above the fray.
If you do not stand up and challenge others then that just tells them that it is ok to malign your reputation and will basically diminish your standing in the world.
President Bush's "they got a whooping" during the disastrous 06 elections, just showed how out of touch he was with the party at large. He made the statement like he was just the president and not a member of the Republican party and he did not really care. I guarantee the democrats would never do that. I mean they have a klansman for a representative in the democratic party and they make no big deal of it, yeah Robert (sheets) Byrd (D) V.A. K.K.K. (D)
If they will not eat their own and show loyalty to the death, then why can't we. The Republican party because of the absent leader Bush, has lost a lot of members and support (me included.)
They really need to go back to what works, less intrusive government, smaller government, and get out of the pocketbooks of Americans. The government is not the opiate of the people but rather an addiction hard to kick to the curb.
Well I hope that future leaders will learn what not to do from Bush's example of how not to lead.
I am sorry but for the most part you were a disappointment and the democrats are going to destroy the good things that you did, so you are going to the preverbal whoopin.
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