Celebrate New President, Old One's Triumphs

[underpants]

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/opinion/commentary.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-11-09-0055.html

The election is finally over. The gaping divide between blue and red, right and left, can be bridged -- we hope. Election night came and went and there were no troubles, no riots, no madness, no mayhem.

George W. Bush is a good and decent man. Whether one approves of his policies or not, he never once acted like a teenage frat boy in the Oval Office, he never threw up at a state dinner, or jokingly ordered the bombing of Russia over a microphone that wasn't supposed to be on, and he never let 52 American hostages be paraded on Iranian TV for 444 days.

There is no denying that many of the actions of the Bush administration have dismayed conservatives and angered liberals. The spending binges turned off many of his party faithful. His foreign policy and the Iraq war have infuriated the opposition. The heavy-handed attitude toward domestic spying and information collection set off alarm bells for many. No one is happy with the way in which noncombatants, enemy insurgents, and those who have been wrongly imprisoned are being handled.

Bush has presided over an era of unprecedented crises. He led the nation down roads that no one ever envisioned. He has taken wrong turns and hit potholes and ruts. But he has never done so intentionally.

He is clearly a man who loves his God and his country. In two months he will return to Crawford, Texas, and it's likely the world will hear little more from him. History will determine what sort of a job he did -- not angry bloggers or biased journalists. Until Jan. 20, however, he is the president and he deserves the respect that the office demands.

[fasttense]

1. The over 4,000 dead American soldiers who died for the bush, Cheney and KKKarl,

so they could get reelected, might just disagree with this assessment of the bush deserving respect.

The families who are suffering from these losses might also disagree.

What about all the dead Katrina American citizens? I wonder if they and their families think the criminal-in-chief deserves respect?

What about the millions of Iraqis who had to flee for their lives?

This supposed "man" is neither good or decent, nor deserving of respect.

You don't get respect just because you hold an office, respect has to be earned. And the bush earned nothing in his life.

[underpants]

4. In the article she does mention W's work on AIDS

but, as we know, this was basically beyond the point of "Sir the foot is infected" to "SIR IT HAS SPREAD TO THE KNEE!!"
something HAD to be done and Bush finally acted. Finally.

[MaineYooper]

2. codswallop.

Oh please. Revisionist history doesn't take long to appear, does it?

Never acted like a frat boy?!? Apparently, the author missed the performance in Europe last year.

The only cogent statement in the article is that history will determine the sort of job- and it almost certainly will not be kind in its assessment. The list of failures, intentional and unintentional, is truly staggering. The successes can be counted on one hand, or maybe two if one is really generous.

[underpants]

3. I had to search to find this article

our local rag publishes people no one has ever heard of....and with reason

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/opinion.html

I did actually find this on their website-a horrific symptom of the news blackhole that Richmond is. Boy there were some people SHOCKED around here on Tuesday, they had been lead to believe that all was well and that McCain had'em right where he wanted'em. The Richmond Times-Dispatch cosponsored the Mason Dixon poll oft cited that McCain was in the lead here 3 weeeks out and really really close the last weekend.