While blistering Obama, Christie praises George W. Bush’s leadership

[George II]

Source: Bergen Record

October 26, 2014, 4:09 PM Last updated: Sunday, October 26, 2014, 4:09 PM

By Charles Stile

staff writer |

The Record

Governor Christie argued Saturday night that President Obama did a lousy job as a world leader.

But Christie also made the case that Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, did a better job.

“When we have folks around the world who wonder any longer what’s it mean to be a friend with the US, and what would the United States do in return for our friendship?,’’ Christie said during a fundraiser-birthday party for Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad in a Des Moines suburb.“That never, never had to be worried about in the past administration. Everyone knew where George Bush stood and who he stood with.”

Invoking Bush’s name, even in a Republican crowd, seemed a bit jarring. Bush ended his tenure a deeply unpopular president, with the public dissatisfied with his handling of the Iraq War and the economic crisis of 2008. Since his departure, Republican candidates rarely mention name, content to have Bush retreat to his ranch, write his memoirs and stay away from the campaign trail.

So why is Christie going where few Republicans have gone over the past six years?

One reason may be loyalty. It was, after all, George Bush who rescued Christie from oblivion. Christie and a close circle of allies became top tier “pioneer” fundraisers for Bush’s 2000 campaign. Bush went on to nominate Christie for United States Attorney in 2001. It was the role that elevated Christie and positioned him for his 2009 campaign for governor, in which he soundly defeated then-Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat. Christie would not be standing on any stage in Iowa or the Jimmy Fallon Show, as a potential 2016 presidential candidate if not for George Bush.

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Holy crap on a cracker!

Did he eat too many donuts yesterday and was on a sugar high when he spoke?

[otohara]

1. Sean Hannity Wrote His Speech

or maybe it was Ann Coulter.

[oldandhappy]

2. Here it is New Jersey.

Listen closely. He will want your unqualified total support in 2016. You decide!!

Oh man I wish our current Dem candidates would talk about the Obama accomplishments.

[SoapBox]

3. And Dems? Seriously?

There is EIGHT years of HELL, to choose from, for use against Pukes and Baggers.

If they start wanting the "good old days" of Chimpy...throw it back at them.

But I suppose...Dems wouldn't want to be divisive, so they will roll over and play dead.

Sigh.

[Omaha Steve]

4. US tax payers should ask for the hurricane aid $ back then

http://newsone.com/2070783/hurricane-sandy-damage-images-photos/





President Barack Obama is greeted by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie upon his arrival at Atlantic City International Airport, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Atlantic City, NJ. Obama traveled to the region to take an aerial tour of the Atlantic Coast in New Jersey in areas damaged by superstorm Sandy, (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

[AndreaCG]

9. Excellent point!!!

He didn't mind Obama's "incompetence" there.

[SoapBox]

16. That's a billboard right there!

And put that aid number right under it.

[George II]

36. I guess Christie forgot about that day.............

....Obama traveled TO New Jersey after the hurricane. bush flew OVER New Orleans after the hurricane (I think on his way to Arizona to give McCain that infamous birthday cake):



Yeah, Obama's a bum and bush is a hero!

[The Wizard]

5. Bush favored his base

the wealthy elites and so does Christie. Both are bullies and ethically challenged. As Bush tanked the U.S. economy Christie has done the same to New Jersey. If he gets the nomination he won't carry NJ.

[PatrynXX]

6. Outside this country people thing highly of the USA and Obama

that wasn't the case in the decade prior to obama. Bush had done so much harm it's amazing how much Obama fixed in the amount he was given. Bush was no leader as he wasn't elected for the first 4 years thus we had no leader. Dick Cheney was the leader from 05-09. God hope Bush has that laugh in hell and stays there

[HomerRamone]

8. except all the countries whose civilians Obama is bombing nt

[Cha]

14. "Bush had done so much harm it's amazing how much Obama fixed in the amount he was given.."

Still doesn't negate that.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

21. Fuck that! People outside the U.S. understand what was handed to Obama! They are more politically

nuanced and smarter than Americans. They love Obama!

[George II]

23. "ALL the countries"? Get real......

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.....weigh the pluses and the minuses and lose the chip on your shoulder.

Obama isn't bombing any countries or regions with which bush got us into war already.

Bush Sr. created al Qaeda as an enemy (do the research)
bush the lesser caused the creation of ISIS

[HomerRamone]

35. Bush-Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan & Somalia. Obama-Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya

& Syria.

At least in all these countries "people" don't "think highly of the USA and Obama", and plenty of others don't, either. That's not having a chip on my shoulder, that's fact...

[George II]

38. I repeat......

......Obama isn't bombing any countries or regions with which bush got us into war already

[Cha]

13. People didn't even want to say they were from the US when they went abroad duing bush's reign of

TERROR!

[George II]

24. By coincidence, I went to the UK for a week right after bush invaded Iraq....

....(wore an American flag lapel pin) and people came up to me to give me condolences for our so-called "leader".

[Cha]

25. Good for you, George! I would see posts on DU at that time about Americans saying they

wore Canadian patches in Europe. I visited Canada in 2004 wearing a Kerry pin and got proper commiseration.

[Historic NY]

7. Is Christie constipated......

he must be because he is so full of shit.

[lordsummerisle]

11. He must be

In that pic with him and Obama his body looks ready to explode...

[Brigid]

32. That pic must have been taken before Christie had that bariatric surgery.

Too bad weight loss hasn't made him any smarter.

[Thinkingabout]

10. Yes we knew where Bush stood, he was just waiting for someone to help

Him off a post. He also stood with Cheney, what a loser. Left the WH to train in paint by numbers, perhaps soon he will find a career he is good, oh, forgot bring on the booze and whatever, he was good at being a party boy.

[George II]

12. Instead of painting pictures he should be pounding out license plates.

[hibbing]

15. Leadership

No one ever went broke underestimating the stupidity of the American people, or something like that.

Peace

[kelliekat44]

17. Actually, Obama should feel good about Christie smearing him. nt

[Mister Nightowl]

18. That's Rich

Literally. K&R.

[C Moon]

19. He wants to be Jeb's VP pick.

Actually, let me edit that: I wonder how much the Koch brothers paid him to say that?

[Tikki]

20. I think you re correct about the VP job.

If christie doesn't get the nod, I think he will want the VP...


Tikki

[no_hypocrisy]

27. Yup

[heaven05]

22. RW

fool, ninny, dunce, blockhead, bonehead, cretin. He want's to be your president, how bout that America? This is what is considered as modern legitimate presidential aspirant. Jeb will probably get the nod and their are enough people taken with him to make him a real contender, I think.

[merrily]

26. Someone, please tell this gasbag/thug his 15 minutes are over.

[turbinetree]

28. 152

New Jersey, Since you elected this jerk and now have a part time governor running around doing nothing except bankrupting your state and dropping it on the credit watch (down graded eight times since this hypocrite was elected) and job creation (rated at 36 out of 50 states), maybe someone from your area should remind this jerk that under the war criminal ( Bush and crew) rein of terror, 152 New Jersey citizens were murdered based on a lie, so in Christies little world he can wrap himself to the Bush flag, since he has nothing else and nothing better to do, except get your state out of its mess.
And just for the record if you go to "ONE NEW JERSEY. org" the facts about this jerk's leadership speaks volumes of what he would do if he were elected president with a republican controlled Congress, your state is in shambles

[Beowulf42]

29. New Trends

This seems to be a trend that is slowly emerging from the right. And it is an I.Q. test for the American people. If our collective memory is so bad that we begin to think of the G.W. Bush presidency as the good old days this country is doomed. Christie did to the New Jersey economy and prospects for its people exactly what G.W did to this country. That coupled with the propaganda against Pres. Obama and every decent facet of our society will have created an unbelievably dismal society that guarantees our future as the world's most hated nation state. And after what the American tax payer did for N. J. after Sandy, he has proven himself as the ungrateful bastard he is.

[DFW]

30. Yeah, the Republicans were SO helpful to NJ during Sandy's aftermath

And Bush did SUCH a masterful job with new Orleans after Katrina.

And Christie is the next model for Speedo men's swim wear............

[Brigid]

33. Thanks for the eyeworm.

BTW, my autocorrect tried to change "eyeworm" to "eyesore". I thought about leaving it that way!

[cilla4progress]

31. Yup -

he's runnin' for SOMEthing!

[yellowcanine]

34. Ya want leadership? Leadership Christie style......

[left-of-center2012]

37. George Bush did lead us ...

... into war with Iraq and Afghanistan; near economic collapse, etc.

[PFunk]

39. Yup. Looks like his running

He's abandoning the middle and going full right wing. I wonder how those who elected him feel about this?

[Zambero]

40. Christie provides us with fair warning

Elect him or others like him, and we will receive the same misguided policies that brought us to the brink of oblivion when Bush the Underachiever was in office, only I'm not sure the brink would hold on the next go-round.

[czarjak]

41. By all means...

Let's get back to the good old days. Hell, he just wants to take our country back(wards).

[Algernon Moncrieff]

42. Translation: The Obama administration did not wholeheartedly cheer Israel's actions in Gaza

“When we have folks around the world who wonder any longer what’s it mean to be a friend with the US, and what would the United States do in return for our friendship?,’’ Christie said during a fundraiser-birthday party for Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad in a Des Moines suburb.“That never, never had to be worried about in the past administration. Everyone knew where George Bush stood and who he stood with.”

Translation: The Obama administration did not wholeheartedly cheer Israel's actions in Gaza

The invocation of the Bush name is akin to the rehabilitation of figures that used to take place in the old USSR. The GOP will spend the next two years arguing that Bush/Cheney was right and Obama has been wrong on Middle East foreign policy, and that only a Republican can effectively deal with these issues.

[George II]

43. "Everyone knew where George Bush stood and who he stood with"....

That's SO true, but who bush stood for was basically "me, myself, and I and anyone daddy or Cheney told me to stand with"!

[blkmusclmachine]

44. George and Christie, sitting in a tree, K - I - S - S - I - N - G

[George II]

45. But in their case it isn't a tree, it's a fence post.

[TRoN33]

46. Good reason to not vote for him.

Christie is clearly delusional during W. Bush years. Because of inept Dubya, we were most hated country on whole world.