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To uber hip hurlers of “Worst. President. Ever.” epithets

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  January 19th, 2009 at 08:37 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Worst presidents ever don’t win wars, liberate millions and keep us safe.

Worst presidents ever have names like Carter and Buchanan.

I found this masterpiece rebuttal to the Bush bashers over at Leftist American Online (AOL), by one of their token conservatives. But that this genius is outnumbered is no disability. Our absentee hero, Caleb Howe puts liberals in the fetal position crying for Obamommy.

Enjoy this excerpt and go to AOL and read the whole thing and the crazed comments from the soon to be let down by the Messiah crowd after they hear Jesus’ name from Warren’s lips!

Much like the crass and tasteless foot-stomping triumphalism we were subjected to on the day after the election of Barack Obama, the preponderance of media elites and left-bloggers have this week begun writing their snide, polemic send-offs for President George Bush in advance of next weeks inauguration. It is, of course, to be expected. If we’ve learned nothing else of the “Bush Lied, People Died” drones over the last few years, we know how much they treasure their favorite assassination target.

The hyperbole is, if I may likewise indulge, so over the top as to cause one to ponder either the sanity or the honesty of some of these would-be pundits and historians, if not both. From the uber hip “Worst. President. Ever.” epithets, to cries of war criminal, science killer, and even mass murderer, the frothy left is taking their final gibbering, wild-eyed romp of mayhem across the web and screen. After all, decorum will, on Tuesday, become the word of the day, as every Joe the Plumber, blogger, or media personality who thereafter challenges or questions the mighty Obama can expect to be heartily attacked for their audacity (another personality attribute which is soon to fall into ironic disfavor).

But if I might, I’d like to cut in to this frenetic political lap dance with a bit of my own, perhaps less aroused, but at least as self-important, commentary.

President Bush had a task set before him on September 11, 2001. Something had failed. Our agencies weren’t working together properly, perhaps. Intelligence breakdown. Security breakdown. The enemy had brought terror and death among us. From that day forward the President’s agenda would by necessity revolve around and be set against the backdrop of foreign policy and terrorism. It is neither high drama nor dudgeon to name this era the post-911 world, so significant were the events of that day.

Into this new world we, as a singular nation, followed our leader, President George W. Bush. Upon his shoulders the weight of our hopes and fears rested, and by his stride our march across the new history would be defined.

Coming soon: DeVine Gamecock’s take on the Bush legacy at The Minority Report

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Examiner.com and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

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  • David123

    First, he kept his campagn promise to restore honor and dignity to the presidency:

    no perjury
    no obstruction of justice
    no molesting employees
    no weird activities with cigars

    Second, he responded well to the attack of Sept 11
    regime change in Afghanistan
    regime change in Iraq
    regime attitude change in Libya
    no attacks in America since Sept 11

    Third, he appointed originalists to the Supreme Court
    basic civics – 3 branches of government; the LEGISLATURE is supposed to make the law, NOT the judicial branch – under President Bush our government is working more like it is supposed to
    the right of all law-abiding citizens to own guns is recognized as an individual right, not a meaningless “right” of the National Guard to own guns.

  • Mike gamecock DeVine

    and certainly in my lifetime.

  • Vegas_Rick

    Thanks for bringing it to us GC.

  • Jaded

    President Bush and spending have spent the last couple of weeks on sites reminding people they should be GRATEFUL that they can write their dribble at all…..The President kept us safe and allowed us to BITCH (excuse my french this one time) about our finances and our economy…..GET OVER YOURSELVES you Bush haters because within a year you will be in the insane asylum if you do not let your anger go!

  • mbecker908

  • icbm

    and perhaps you should reconsider my invitation. :)

  • icbm

    kept us safe and persevered in striving for victory in iraq despite the unpopularity he suffered.

    this kind of political courage and determination is rare, especially in war. nixon had it, as did truman. not so clinton, carter, lbj, etc.

    while bush himself was partly responsible for the mistakes in iraq, and for allowing his popularity to descend farther than it should have, this doesn’t change the fact that he stood for what was right when he had almost every possible incentive not to.

  • mbecker908

    And I’d be happy to attend and be a designated driver. :-)

  • icbm

    n/t

  • E Pluribus Unum

    But I do recommend this one, heartily. I shall keep trying on the reco. 7th time was not a charm.

  • 6eorge Jetson

    since Obama seems to be continuing a substaintial subset of Bush’s policies, much greater than one would expect from someone that hails from the far left politics of Chicago.

    As all of the MSM know, President George W. Bush is a complete and total idiot. Science has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is the Worst. President. Ever.

    In a little reported but interesting turn of events, Obama is choosing to continue many of George Bush?s policies by retaining Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, selecting a major player from the Paulson/Bernanke/Bush led TARP I design, and not committing to an exit/closing date from either Iraq or Gitmo.

    Unbeknownst to the MSM, there?s this little mathematical property called the Transitive Property. It?s rather a complex concept, but I?ll attempt to summarize it as

    if a = b and b = c, then a = c

    When applied to Bush and Obama, we find that Obama is the ?

    Obama, Bush, and the Transitive Property

    Do the poor babies of the far angry left feel rejected?

  • Mike gamecock DeVine

    Absolut Vodka Red Bull

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  • Mike gamecock DeVine

    have been possible. We had to win their trust after betraying them in the past, before they would provide the necessary intel for a surge to surge.

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  • Mike gamecock DeVine

    http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law–Civil-Rights-Examiner~y2009m1d18-Obama-caves-on-Osamas-cave

    Krauthammer

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/15/AR2009011503149.html

  • olsmithie

    borderline libs will wistfully be looking back at Geo 43.

    Nothing like four years of pain and suffering to make you appreciate last eight.

    Regards

  • icbm

    i’ll just pretend i didn’t hear that

  • icbm

    but on the whole when it comes to bush, i like what you wrote, and it’s too bad that few newspapers will ever write similar things.

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  • itrytobenice

    Of the Kool-aid that is. You know I’m a Pentecostal teetotaler on the other stuff.

    I’m not saying President Bush was perfect, but considering the ignorant electorate, the biased media, the D controlled Congress in 2006 on, and the “D in R clothing” controlled Congress from 2001 – 2006, he did a pretty dang good job.

    I appreciate his honesty, his integrity, his stalwart defense of America, his broad shoulders and even his attempts to resurrect the image of Clinton. I think in that last case, he really didn’t want to have the presidency tarnished by the recent memory of such a cad in its seat so he tried to emphasize Clinton’s only good side. That of a tsunami comforter.

  • JSobieski

    there are real reasons to doubt that the victory will be long lasting. Will Iraq be able to avoid the rising Jihadist tide that seems to be enveloping so much of the Islamic world?

    Turkey had a geniune secular leader pull them kicking and screaming to where they are now. There is every reason to suspect to that Turkey is slowly sliding into a more Islamist society.

    Iraq does not have the same advantages that Turkey had. In the long term, Turkey is the best we can hope for, and I’m not sure Turkey in the the long term is a success.

    Iraq’s constitution places Islamic law above the secular law (no secular law can contradict Islamic law). There is no such provision in Turkish law.

  • 6eorge Jetson

    “Will Iraq be able to avoid the rising Jihadist tide that seems to be enveloping so much of the Islamic world?”

    To me, that is the most important reason for invading Iraq. Let me rephrase the question in a different light…

    “Where does the young, ambitious Middle-easterner go to seek out opportunity?”

    By no means am I an expert on Turkey vs Iraq, but even this layman can see that the intellectual capital of Iraq dwarfs that of Afghanistan. If–I repeat if– Iraq can reach an increasingly prosperous, bottom-up driven, “stable” condition (all in relative terms), then it can serve as a self-sustaining, bottom-up drain on the Jihadist tide. Not necessarily a strong ally of the US, as it will follow it’s own interests just as a business spin-off may one day come back to compete against the parent. But if given a true choice, genuine prosperity vs emotional Jihadist pursuits, I believe some, hopefully a small but critical mass, will choose the self-interested pursuit of prosperity.

  • JSobieski

    no law can contradict Islamic law. The have experts on religious law (without any knowledge of secular law) sitting on the Supreme Court.

    The cause of Jihad is not economic or even political conditions–the cause is an ideology that they believe to be ground in religious texts written more than 1000 years ago.

    By not imposing a constitution (like we did for Japan and Germany) that specifically calls for separation of church and state, it seems highly likely that in the long term, Iraq will slide into Jihadist behavior.See Turkey, Indonesia, Jordan, Egypt, etc. for other examples of moderate Islamic states that are directionally moving away from the Western model. Truly free elections in any of these places will not come down in favor of Westernized government—the more Islamist parties win.