Defending Bush on social issues

There was no desire for bipartisanship in W's first six years in office. Now, he's forced to work with the Dems and he's looking for anything to give his miserable time in office some purpose. Stupid is as stupid does. His legacy is and will forever be Iraq.

Of course we'll all be dead when history thinks about this period so it doesn't matter.

Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Truman, Lincoln, FDR?

I don't think so.

 

That sounded spot-on, Crass. Why the sarcasm font?

 

This might be the least likely thread title in SportsJournalists.com history.

 

I blame the gays.

 

I have a small nugget of sympathy for Bush because he was completely ill-equipped to handle 9/11. I know it's hard to think of anybody that could have, but this was a guy who had absolutely no clue about foreign policy. He was an education/passionate conservative President who was going to balance out Clinton's liberalism. Instead he got stuck with an incredibly complex, dangerous situation that was way beyond him.

I read an article a while back about our relative good luck as a country. We had George Washington as the first president, who refused to become King Washington; we had Lincoln for the Civil War; Roosevelt for WWII; Reagan for the Cold War; and for 9/11 we had...the ex-owner of the Texas Rangers.

It's a big what if as far as what kind of president he might have been without 9/11. There's no doubt what kind he is now -- at least to me.

EDIT: Oh, and I do agree with Bush regarding his immigration policy. There. I said something nice about him.

 

Wait...Bush has an immigration policy?

This is news.

 

Nice strawman by the author. He is not "portrayed" by his opponents as being anything less than a rote incompetent who has not adequately been prepared for his office.

 

If someone from the Eagle Tribune could get the informatioin for a story, so could the Times, Post, CNN and the networks. The Bush administration could trumpet all they want, but the mainstream media is not going to go out of its way to give him credit for anything he may have accomplished ... even when it's something dear to the liberal heart, such as AIDS relief.
The only way Bush would have gotten any props from these people is if he performed a laying on of hands and healed Barbaro's leg.

 

That's just not true. Some portray him as an idiot while others simply say he is evil and devilish. YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. You can't be an evil genious and be a moron.

 

Evil genius? Oh, please. He would have to have something more than a childlike understanding of damned near any subject to be that.

He's not evil, he's mentally spun.

 

evil moron

 

This is hilarious. If I might borrow from Chris Rock ...

W's trying to help the homeless and stop genocide -- give that man a cookie.

Are we to give Bush credit for doing shit an ordinary person would just automatically do? Is this how far the expectations of the president of the United States have fallen?

Breaking news, fellas: When you're the leader of the free world, sending extra cash to try and stop millions of deaths in a foreign nation is something that sorta goes with the job. It's understood when you take the oath. As is doing all you can to shelter and feed the poor citizens of your country.

Son of a bitch, what's next? A story on how W always says thank you when someone holds the door for him?