56%

This should be a fun thread!!  While I didn’t agree with everything Bush did, I miss the class he and Laura brought to the White House.  It’s sorely lacking now.

Most Americans think that Obama is as bad -or worse – than Bush? I’m not surprised by that. Not in the least. Most Americans are pretty dumb. Although that fact might come as a surprise to a number of people, it’s no state secret.

http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com

Tom Degan

Wow, Bush had class? You’re a lunatic.

Looks like Obama’s done worse the the first black president, Bill Clinton

Nope, I’m right.

I used to be a Democrat. I switched this year! Obama is a joke!

How did Bush have more class than Obama? How did Bush have any class at all?

For one thing Laura Bush wasn’t traipsing around the world on multi-million dollar vacations lecturing us about how we should live our private lives.

Hmmm… If Americans think Bush and Obama are the same… which some o those respondents had to be Republicons, do those same Republicons think Bush was a Socialist born in Kenya who wanted to destroy this country??

Plus, the article stated most believe Bush is responsible for the way the economy is in trouble!! As much as Republicons want to forget about Bush and his lack of accomplishments… the American people still know who to blame… BUSH!!

Just read your blog, TomDegan, and quite frankly, you have a lot of brass to be calling anyone else stupid.

Gee, you don’t think the liberal media blaming everyone but libs for everything wrong 24/7 has anything to do with the “Bush is responsible” numbers, do you?   The MSM has reduced itself to the Obama cheering section,, but unfortunately for them, they are about the only ones left.

Stupid headline.  

The media is smart enough to realize that the Republicons want the economy to fail in hopes Obama is a one term President!! “Party before Country”… the new Republicon mantra!!

the media sold us a DUD

I don’t remember either of the Bush’s saying they weren’t proud of their country until George was elected. 

Obama should use the theme song from the jeffersons in his campaign. You know ” Movin on up Movin on up to the east side”

I do not recall GW ever referring to the democrat party as his enemies.  He tended to save that kind of stuff for you know, our actual enemies.  O has no class, no brains, and soon, no second term.  Good riddance.

Your joking right?  

Most Americans are dumb?  Can’t argue with you there pal after all, the majority of voters elected Obama back in November of 2008.

All the proof I need!

And here’s another progressive blaming the messenger for any negative impressions of “The One” – even when the messengers are the American people.

I think the Russian National Anthem would fit better.

Quit reading the democrat talking points.  What you fail to understand is under our system of government, many focus on the first line of political representation.  House and Senate representatives are normally the first to fall.  The election results of 2010 should have brought home this point pretty clearly.

Quit reading the democrat talking points.  What you fail to understand is under our system of government, many focus on the first line of political representation.  House and Senate representatives are normally the first to fall.  The election results of 2010 should have brought home this point pretty clearly.

They should have really compared Obama to Carter, not Bush.  That makes more sense to me.  But the answer would be that he was worse than Carter, hands down.

They should have really compared Obama to Carter, not Bush.  That makes more sense to me.  But the answer would be that he was worse than Carter, hands down.

I too am an ex-Democrat, and I’m never going back.  

You said it!  The Media has been picking our Presidents and manipulating the public. You can no longer trust the News Media to tell you the truth, but you have the Internet and can check things out for yourself, until Obama takes that right away from us.

“I have never been proud to be an American” – Michelle O.
“God damn America” – Barack O.

No Real American will vote for Obama.

That means most Americans are racist. What else could it possibly mean?

That means most Americans are racist. What else could it possibly mean?

That’s kinda funny because I have been saying the Dems are the cult of Party before Country for the last 40 years.  

I don’t recall GW blaming things that went wrong on past President Clinton either.  He never went public and said things like “the Democrats won’t pass my bill.”  We have a whining baby in our White House. 

Congratulations for seeing the light you two!!  We welcome you with open arms.

 We don’t want the economy to fail, we want Obama to fail with his Socialist Ideas

I don’t know how much “class” i’d say Bush had, but his wife seemed prett classy.

Obama and his “wife”, not so much. You and the clueless twit who wrote this piece may have hard-on’s for Zero, but most of the rest of us do not.

You’re 100% right. Most Americans are dumb. However, you liberals seem to only think that when people start voting against you.  I would argue that a voting public that could elect Brarack Hussein Obama is capable of doing almost anything, including re-electing his sorry ass. I hope i’m wrong.

Barack*

Al? Is that you? I heard you were bitter towards Zero for not pushing cap & trade, but I never imagined you would go that far.

Your point is correct, however, trying to convince LeeDog that Obama isn’t Jesus is like trying to drag Michael Moore away from an all you can eat buffet.

They’re not going anywhere. They’re going to eat that shit up until they explode. It’s all they have.

Poll: Obama’s Approval Rating Hits All-Time Low, 36%

http://today.yougov.com/news/2011/09/23/problems-president-americans-give-him-lowest-appro/

A lot of Bush’s critics said he was controlled by “others”. Obama’s inferiority complex controls him. The back room Obamacare dealings that took place will ensure he’s as wealthy as Clinton or Gore in probably about 10 years. Even when the Obamaddict’d Obama-gargling true-believers find out what his true intentions are, they will still gargle and still be Obamaddict’d. Heh! Heh heh.

Most Americans….REAL Americans hate the skinny SOB….and his fat wife.
What have they done to deserve otherwise?

In 2010 Republicons were voted in on saying they were going to help the economy create jobs… that’s what they said!!

They also said continuing the Bush tax cuts would also help the economy create jobs by creating some certainty for corporations… none of them happened did they??

Never said Obama was “Jesus”, he’s just trying to clean up the milk the Republicons spilt, while they scream he’s not doing it fast enough… and of course, if they were to regain the Senate and White House…they would be spilling more milk with their same old failed policies!!

George Bush is a man who loves his country .

Obama is a whining teenager who loves himself .

Bush’s cabinet choices versus Obama’s :

The  percentage of each past president’s cabinet who had worked in the  private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet.    Here are the percentages.T.  Roosevelt………………. 38%Taft………………………….  40%Wilson……………………..  52%Harding……………………..  49%Coolidge………………….. 48%Hoover  ……………………. 42%F.  Roosevelt……………….50%Truman…………………….  50%Johnson……………………  47%Nixon……………………….  53%Ford………………………..  42%Carter………………………  32%Reagan…………………….86%GH  Bush………………….. 51%Clinton …………………….  39%GW Bush…………………. 55%And the winner is:Obama……………….  08% This helps to explain the  incompetence of this administration: only 8% of them have ever worked in  a job not supported by tax money!That’s right!  Only eight  percent—the least, by far, of the last 19 presidents!  And these  people are trying to tell our big corporations how to run their  business?  They know what’s best for GM, Chrysler, Wall Street, and  you and me?How can the president of a major nation and society,  the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand  and talk about business when he’s never worked for one?  Or about  jobs when he has never really had one?  And when it’s the same for  92% of his senior staff and closest advisers?  They’ve spent most  of their time in academia, government and/or non-profit jobs or as  ”community organizers.” They should have been in an employment  line.

People coming to the realization that politicians aren’t very different from one another. About time.

CORRECTION – Math-Fail
———————————–
44% – Obama is better than Bush
22% – Obama is about the same as Bush
34% – Obama is worse than Bush
———————————–
Using 1st grade math we get:
66% – Obama is better than or same as Bush
56% – Obama is the same as or worse than Bush
———————————–
Seriously, hire an editor, Mediaite.

I think we’ll see liberals become more approving of Obama since he’s been more aggressive against Republicans as of late. Many liberals have accused of Obama being weak against Republicans, and I imagine that his newfound “testicular fortitude” will endear him to the liberals who supported him in 2008. One thing’s for sure, the polls have not been kind to Obama lately.

I hope that instead of obstructing for the sole reason of making Obama a one term President, Republicans will work with Obama and the Democrats to find a way out of this economic crisis. Country first, not party prospects first.

haha, funny.

GWB wouldn’t know class if it smacked him between the eyes. Coincidentally a lot of classy people would like to do just that.

Someone failed math =P

Lee – Obama and this administration speak with forked tongues.  Last year, a TEMPORARY continuation of the Bush era tax cuts was granted but the underlying current in Washington remained that tax increases were on the horizon.  What kind of trust and confidence does that instill in business leaders when they know that at any time, thanks to Washington, they are liable to have a large portion of what profit margin they have, evaporate thanks to tax increases?  Businesses have no confidence in this administration thanks largely to the demagoguery of leftists who insist that one; people don’t get rich in this country by themselves, and two; wealthy people are going to be asked to pay their ‘fair share’.  Anytime someone in Washington speaks like this, it’s time to bend over because someone is getting screwed!

The same way that Bush got the US into wars and was never actively in one himself, in fact we all know he was too chicken to be actively involved and dodged his way out.

anyhow…

The one type of person you don’t want running the country is business people as they are only interested in the bottom lines for themselves, you do need the people who have spent time in academia, government and/or non-profit jobs as they not only know how the system works they are also smarter and less corrupt than the average corporate stooge.

You say that the US has one of the most successful economies in the worlds history, if that was the case how did Bush manage to crash it so badly? And why has there been such a gap created between the haves and the have nots in American society?

Clinton did’nt hand Bush a country with such out of control problems!!!!!!!!!!

Seems like O started a war recently without having fought in one.  Wait,
so did Clinton, and Reagan, and nearly every other president we have
had.  Very few US presidents served in the military.  Even fewer
actually fought.  But don’t let facts get in your way or anything.

You also forget that the economy crashed right after democrats took over congress.  Just coincidence though right?  

Big debt: Between 2001 and 2010, the Bush tax cuts added $2.6 trillion to the
public debt, 50 percent of the total debt accrued during that time. Over the
past 10 years, the country has spent more than $400 billion just servicing the
debt created by the cuts.

Supply-side failure: Far from paying for themselves with
increased economic activity as promised, the tax cuts have depleted the public
treasury. Tax collections have plunged to their lowest share of the economy in
60 years.

No jobs: Between 2002 and 2007, employment
increased by less than 1 percent when the economy was supposed to be expanding.
Employment growth barely kept pace with population growth. Between the end of
2001, when the country was in a recession, and the peak of the real estate
bubble, er, economic expansion in 2007, the US economy performed worse than at
any time since the end of World War II.

Rich people benefit: The best-known result of the Bush tax cuts is
that virtually all the benefits were conferred upon people who didn’t need them
at all and who didn’t use the money to, say, create more jobs or pay their
workers better. Median weekly earnings fell more than 2 percent between 2001
and 2007. Meanwhile, people making over $3 million a year, who account for just
0.1 percent of taxpayers, got an average tax cut of $520,000, more than 450
times what the average middle-income family received.

Entitlements for trust-fund slackers: For a party that likes to talk about the
virtues of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, personal responsibility and
entrepreneurship, the Bush tax cuts were like an entitlement program for the
already entitled. You’d be hard pressed to find a better way to create a lazy
leisure class than by eliminating the estate tax. But that’s what Republicans
did when they reduced and then phased out the estate tax, ensuring that the
country would be plagued by people like this guy for decades to come.

Nathan, go and look up some facts. You know, those things which tell you exactly when the decline started.

Realise that unemployment was starting to increase before Obama took office.
Comprehend that Obama signed up to bail out the banks whilst it was still technically under Bush’s watch.
Understand that if giving tax cuts to the wealthiest and highest earners was good for the economy then we wouldn’t still have a depressed economy.

The fact is Bush wasn’t working and now a lot of Americans aren’t either, and that’s as a direct result of his failed policies.

At one point or another, Obama has labeled most Americans (I’d guess about 80%) as enemies, his opposition or a problem of some sort in order to advance his policies or to garner votes. The simple fact is that, even since back in Chicago, he just plain doesn’t approve of us. He has made it very clear on many occasions that he doesn’t approve of our Constitution and system of governance either.
I’ve been fed up for a long time with him bad mouthing us.

Just how Medicare and Medcaid got out control.

President Bush on Monday signed into law landmark
Medicare reform legislation that includes prescription drug benefits and has
sparked a bitter fight between opponents and supporters.

Speaking at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, Bush
characterized the measure as “the greatest advance in health care coverage
for America’s seniors since the founding of Medicare.”

Backers say the $400 billion Medicare Prescription Drug
Modernization Act will provide much-needed help for the nation’s 40 million
senior citizens to buy medications; critics say it is a giveaway to drug makers
and insurance companies and a prelude to the dismantling of the program.

If this is the type of class you think we need in the white house, I only hope you are rich enough to enjoy it.

So the continuing huge rise in unemployment has nothing to do with Obama’s policies? Ha…ha….ha….ha…*stop to take a breath*….ha….ha…ha.

Does it hurt to be so completely brain washed?

This is for everyone to see if they are not afraid of the facts.

Talking about being brainwashed, keep listen to fox news speading the Koch brother’s trash while their wealth grew about 20 billion in this recession. Just check their companies profits while they hire no more employees and try to take more anyway and anyhow, nothing to low when it comes to their money.

Then why didn’t you list the facts of how much Medicare was projected to cost and how much it really costs? The fact is Medicare was enacted in 1966 with a cost of $3 billion. The projected cost by 1990 was $12 billion adding in for inflation and giving the figure some padding. In actuality it cost $107 billion in 1990. It has been growing astronomically since then. In 2007 Medicare’s excess costs were $179 billion. Medicare has been out of control since day 1. It had nothing to do with Bush.

Please tell us about GE too.

No it hasn’t. Anyone who can’t see that must be either stupid or on delusional, which are you?

Unemployment had already risen to around 7% by November 2008, Obama didnt take office until Jan 2009 by which time it had climbed further to 7.8% – that is a rise of 3% over the previous 12 months BEFORE Obama took office.

No president could turn that around as soon as he took office, and you have to admit that it must have been the fault of the guy in charge for the previous 8 years.

The figures above are a matter of public record, feel free to google.

File this under the “No Sh*t, Sherlock” Stories Tab.

File this under the “No Sh*t, Sherlock” Stories Tab.

you seriously still think there is a difference between a D and a R?  that fake paradigm is just to keep us pointing fingers…. at some point you have to realize pointing fingers isn’t getting anything done. It is LONG past time to demand results and not accept excuses…. I don’t care what letter they have next to their name…

Who’s better? George and Laura Bush….let me count the ways.

Let’s talk about Halliburton’s no bid contract’s while we
were spending money in Iraq and now when it’s time to spend money here we are
broke, we were broke then but where was your voice, if you loved America you
would not be against rebuilding it, love spending money in Iraq but hate to
spending it here.

and 65% think he about the same of better.
43% better (almost half)
34% worse
way to slant a headline to the right, Mediaite.

the classy way he sent thousands of troops to die in an unnecessary war.
no thanks

Haliburton is still getting no bid contracts. Next.

If you are rich there are millions of ways.

Bush used far more vacation days than Obama.

and Republicans should don blackface and have a minstrel show at their convention.

 More Americans think Obama is better than think he is worse.
Check the numbers.

are you kidding? Republicans tried to blame 9/11 on Clinton within a day. And every other thing that happened was blamed on Clinton’s penis.

Nope, you’re wrong

you stay classy, GOP.

If they must get no bid contracts, at least let then be here in America. next

your racism is showing!!

 Go back and look at the numbers. The rise took place under your hero, George W. Boosh.

 This Mediaite article is the most pathetic attempt at distorting poll results I’ve seen in a while.

When I see you preaching that to the ignorant Republicons here and they head your advice… so will I!!

The Money Trail

The love of
money is the root of all evil and is eradicating America’s middleclass. Most
Americans old, young, middle age, rich and poor can accept fair profits from
pharmaceuticals and health insurance companies. A little research shows these
companies care about profits only and will make it on the backs of all
American’s as seen by the off the charts: pay, profits and spending by drug
companies. Refuting industry claims that high drug prices are necessary to
sustain research and developments efforts, but high drug prices are link to
advertising, profits, and enormous executive salaries. The cost is passed on to
consumers who buys the drugs which are inferior because more money should have
been spent on research and development.

This is duplicated
by the health insurance companies who cares only about profits  and again the cost is passed on to the
consumers which is the main reason Medicare and Medicaid cost has risen.

Until our
senators and congress representatives start working for Americans and not the
big corporations and do the right thing the middle class will continue to
disappear.

We the
voters need to find which of our representatives is for our best interest and
keep them in office while voting the others out.

God has given
America plenty for all, we need only to eliminate the greed, waste, and the
ignorance of our media which is not much more than  the supermarket tabloids which only repeats
what is being said without doing their own research which should be bringing all
this to the light for all to know.

When the
senators and congress representatives address this problem and stop trying to
eliminate Medicare and Medicaid, only then will America be moving in the right
direction.

Obama signed an almost $1 trillion “jobs bill” to keep unemployment under 8%. Tell me again how it is Bush’s fault.

Here’s a fun one to walk down memory lane to remember:

From
Nancy Pelosi on 1/4/08 in regards to 5% unemployment rate under Bush: “This
morning’s jobs report confirms what most Americans already knew–President Bush’s
economic policies have failed our country’s middle class.”

From
Nancy Pelosi 6/5/11 in regards to being asked about Obama’s 9.1% unemployment
rate:
“This
morning’s jobs report confirms what most Americans already knew–President Bush’s
economic policies have failed our country’s middle class.”

From
Nancy Pelosi 6/5/11 in regards to being asked about Obama’s 9.1% unemployment
rate:
“Well, if you want to go into the
past, we can talk about the past all you want. The public wants to know about
the future.”

So you aren’t arguing that the rise started under Bush, just that you don’t like the fact that Obama pushed $1 trillion into the problem to stop it getting much worse?

You can quote who you like when you like, but like all Republicans you like to forget who actually caused the problem in the first place. Bush squandered trillions on tax cuts and now Obama is trying to clear up his mess. So now you blame Pelosi for calling Bush out on the rising unemployment in the very year that it went up another 2% after she said that?

Bush caused this massive problem, you can’t blame Obama as he jumped into the hot seat when the economy was already heading down the pan. Obama has halted the decline and slowly turned it around, I aint saying he is perfect, but he’s got the figures going back in the right direction now – unless you would like to argue that the trend for unemployment isn’t currently falling?

“KBR Inc. was selected for a no-bid contract worth as much as $568 million
through 2011 for military support services in Iraq, the Army said.”

“ He points out that the majority of Americans still fault Bush for the country’s economic problems”

Thanks to a devoted media that lies and spins all they can to cover for their guy. Otherwise, why haven’t we ever heard the media excuse Bush’s economy by saying it was inherited from Bill Clinton’s tech and housing bubble? 

God, America is starving for a REAL Leader.

Karl – are you a plant?  The best people for ‘running’ the country are those from academia, non-profits, and government?  I initially was struck by the sheer lunacy of your commentary then a chill went down my back with the sudden realization that you truly do believe what you say!  You blame Bush for the downturn in the economy, somehow failing to understand the underlying reason for the financial system failure.  It was members of the Bush administration you were summoned before Congress, who testified about the coming financial crash and were lambasted by liberal Democrat representatives to include Frank and Waters who indignately told these fellows that they didn’t know what they were talking about.  Don’t trust me, there’s plenty of videos available on YouTube, if you have enough courage to watch!

Class?  Hey, he was a friendly, fun sort of guy, but “classy” – no way.  Laura is classy despite the fact she smokes too much.

Class?  Hey, he was a friendly, fun sort of guy, but “classy” – no way.  Laura is classy despite the fact she smokes too much.

Is this what people do here? Make up lies and false assumptions about people they disagree with politically?

Just because I said Bush didn’t have any class, I have a “hard-on” for Zero (who I’m assuming is Obama)? Bit of an unreasonable assumption there, no?

I’m not talking about Laura Bush. I’m talking about George W. Bush, former President.

Jesus, dude, keep up.

*You’re

If you think it is bad, you just don’t know how bad it could be with a Perry in there.  So, it offends him that someone thinks he could be bought for $5000?  I understand it was a lot more than $5,000 but he was bought and continues to do big big favors for his money. 

We need to go back to the days where the presidents got equal time on television and no fundraising was necessary.  Maybe the Carter-Reagan election was the last one to see that kind of fairness in elections.

Just like it was Hoover’s Depression, it will ALWAYS be Bush’s Recession.  Trust me – despite the fact that the text books are controlled by Texas – at least for now.

So just because Bush didn’t say something that’s idiotic, that automatically means he has class?

No, give me a few examples of things he actually did that shows he has class, not things he refrained from doing. Thanks.

It’s not about Democrat talking points – it is about having the brains to figure them out.  I haven’t met a tea party person with brains yet.

If you were so concerned for the troops you would have made the effort a long time ago to understand what they did and why.  Instead you are lying to yourself and anyone who reads your nonsense and it’s been more over played by far than the race card.

They know why they went to Iraq and are proud of what they did there, every time one of you crack pots make that ignorant claim it diminishes what they do, they know about the idiots that like to use their work and sacrifice in petty arguments.  I’ve been on boards posting with Iraq vets and they have had the opportunities to set some of the fools straight and they in turn lash out at that troop, one of the many they just professed to be so concerned about.  Talk is cheap, shame on you all.

You are suggesting that clever people (the academics) shouldn’t be running the country. So what you are actually saying is you want stupid people to run the economy. Well I am sorry my friend but I have to disagree cos that’s just as dumb as letting the corporations or the rich run the country.

You try and call me for blaming Bush for the downturn in the economy, so answer this, if it wasn’t Bush’s fault then who was he letting run the country when he was supposed to be in charge?

Being as you think Bush was right can you tell me why he caused the debt to be at an all time high when during the earlier part of his administration there were some good years – did he pay off the nations debts or use the income to reward those who least needed rewards (tax cuts for the rich)

It’s no good you telling me that there were people who weren’t in his party that disagreed with him, that is politics, opposing parties tend to disagree on many things

But lets be clear: you are trying to blame the democrats for Bush’s failure when Bush was running the country. I honestly couldnt give a rats ass what the Dems thought when it was Bush running the country, Bush ran it and you need to accept he screwed up.

I don’t know if you can actually think with any sense, but during the Clinton administration, the taxes were really a lot higher and our economy did just fine.

Cutting taxes has absolutely no impact on whether a business is going to hire more people.  that is stupid for republicans to give their cult followers those talking points. 

Show me a business that has absolutely increased sales and they say “no thanks -I can’t expand even though I have customers who demand my product or service -because “I would have to pay more in taxes”???  They wouldn’t say that and only those with no brain at all would think they would.

Do you want Bush back or someone like him to finish the job that Bush started.

Just to let you know I’m a Democrat on your side!!

His administration was partly responsible…..how responsible? we will never know, Sandy Berger took care of that.

They didn’t ask me.  Actually, Obama is worse than George Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter COMBINED!  In other words, he IS the worst president in U.S. history.

Seems to get worse daily.  It really doesn’t matter how many think Bush is worse, does it.  lol

Yes, fox news covers for him,CNN most of them are republicans even on MSNBC we have Andrea Mitchell, Joe Scarborough, Tamron Hall, Chuck Todd, and Willie Geist are republicans or appear to be republicans.   
    
   

Yeah, you’d think Mediaite could hire an editor. Or maybe say:
“Hey, friend. Can you proofread this article for me before I show it to the world?”
22 + 34 = 65?? Come on.

Facts prove Bush was and will be the worst president, just look how he took this country down, we are still trying to recover with no help from the job killers McConnell and Boehner.

It would be nice if we were spending that money here, thanks again Bush for a not needed war.

Hey geniuses, it had nothing to do with either.  I effing hate listening to arm chair economists rail on about how an elected official with minimal control some how derails the economy.  Hey which one of the hated Bush policies actually directly led to the collapse of the housing market? The wars, no wait tax cuts for every American not just the “rich”, no wait it had to be Medicare Part D.  Perhaps it is way more complicated than the average Mediaite poster can comprehend so they instead circle their wagons and regurgetate the lamest talking points they can find. 

 d’oh!
you got me there.

You say 56% of Bush’s cabinet appointees had private sector experience?

PolitiFact: Obama can count 15 out of 22 [of his cabinet appointees] with private-sector experience, or 68%

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/sep/01/michele-bachmann/bachmann-says-obama-has-virtually-no-one-his-cabin/

Nice talking point, though.

Oh yes how can we forget. Joke, be critical, complaign about Obama and you are a racist. Put the card back in the deck so you can claim to be playing with a full one.

gorgegirl – your entire first sentence was nothing but a non sequitur.  Come back when you gain the ability to make a point.  I’ll be waiting.

Is that Change You Can Believe In?

Well, for starters, he never gave the Queen of England an iPod full of his speeches. Also, he never talked over her National Anthem while standing right next to her. He never gave another world leader a collection of old movies on DVD that wouldn’t play in Europe even if the recipient wasn’t blind as a bat (which he was), nor did he give the guy’s children tchochkes from the White House gift shop.

Also, he didn’t whine incessantly. Bush took all the crap thrown at him with dignity and grace, sometimes too much so, IMHO.

Class is one of those things you don’t notice unless it’s missing. But if you really need an example, here you go.

http://tinyurl.com/72euoj

Hey, what if they just nominate a black guy?

Sadly, most of George Bushes worst were made up by the media and misinformed/ignorant voters. Obama is the real deal in the “worst  ever” category.

The point was made that the downturn began shortly after the dems took control. That would be Pelosi and Reid in 2007. Go back and see where we were as a nation in terms of debt and unemployment in January, 2007.

Who’s to say that the Democrats – party of “never let a crisis go to waste” – don’t want the economy to stay bad so they can enact a whole bunch of other “reforms” they could never get passed in a growing economy? I think there’s far more evidence that this is the case. President Obama insists on pushing his green-jobs agenda despite the fact that Spain’s economy lost 2.2 regular jobs for every green job created, and now most of the green jobs are gone there, too. He also insists on raising taxes even though he, himself, said it was a bad idea to do so in a recession. 

I don’t want Obama to fail. I want him to succeed because, if he does, America succeeds. The problem is that all of his ideas have been proven to lead to failure everywhere they have been tried over the past century. He needs to base his ideas more on those of our founders than on the central-planners of socialist Europe. Ideologically, though, he just isn’t that guy. And he’s smarter than all the rest of us (or so he believes) so we’ll keep getting more of the same.

And he will fail.

And America will continue to falter with him at the helm. 

Can you please find a link with video of President Bush saying that 9/11 President Clinton’s fault? I’ve looked and it doesn’t seem to exist. Sure, there were rank and file Republicans who said that, but that is often what partisans do – blame the other party.

President Obama has blamed Bush and nearly everyone else for all his problems, accepting no responsibility himself. This is why he will lose next year. People hired him to do a job, not spend all our money on partisan boondoggles and all his time pointing fingers. He isn’t getting the job done.  

At least you sound reasonable!!

Obammy, the Kenyan boy king, couldn’t shine G.W.’s east coast cowboy boots (politically speaking of course). HONKYS FOR CAIN!  YES WE CAIN!!

Yes they did.

Five families run the Republican Party, one being the Koch
family, why not deal directly with the five families and let them tell the Republican
Party the deal.

 The slacking we got on
the November elections means we lost the media war simple but true, after
Bush’s polices drove the economy into the ground, no jobs, insurance premiums
out of control, wall street out of control, banking reform needed, two wars
with out of control spending, the top two percent making more money than ever
before, auto industry failing, just to mention a few. Then to have the negative
Fox News pointing out the facts about the unemployment recovery not going as
fast as they think it should be going, mis-information about health care reform
and to have the republicans block everything that does not benefit the top two
percent.

Yes the Obama administration has accomplished very much in
the first two years with little or no credit with Obama taking what was given
to him and dealing with it. CNN news caters to the rich as well, by what they repeat
and who they choose to interview not caring about America but news they think
people want to hear. There are far too many intelligent people in America that
are worth repeating instead of repeating people with their own agenda first and
what is left is for America second, if at all. Giving a tax break for the top
two percent does not help America short term or long term as it has been in
effect for ten years now, if  the
republicans or the five families that run the party will not do what is good
for America in its time of need, when will they do it.

Until we can expose the greed (bonus for Wall Street and
banking while denying unemployment for people without jobs), uncaring for the
poor, education for all, we will likely never unite as a nation as we should
and continue our God given place in the world. God has given plenty for all
Americans who strive to make their world better without being held back by
greed, prejudice, deceit, as they go through their life.

Whether we like it or not America is one big family and the
more we help everyone who needs help, the more it will unite our country and we
will all prosper together.

I never voted for Bush, and I voted for Kerry in 2004, never voted for Gore or Bush, thought both weren’t worth spitting on.  In 2008, as a Dem, there was no way I could vote for BS and smooth talk, so I voted for McCain.  Obama compared to Bush is like comparing Castro to Kennedy, there is no comparison.  Bush was open about his background, not shady like Hussein.  Bush loves American, unlike the Obama’s!  Laura Bush was a True First Lady, not a Racist Ghetto Tramp like Michelle.  Bush was a Man, Obama is Almost a Man, if he would get rid of his girly ways.  No, Bush was a True American  who loves his country.  Obama is a BS Artist who lied his way into power and will be relieved of it in 2012 because he is the Most UnAmerican Leader We have had in our History!

Wow…Yes, Michelle has yet to kill someone with a car as Laura did. And Obama has never had his Driver’s License suspended because of a DWI.

Bush & Cheney had plans to invade Afghanistan before they assumed office. Cheney’s company had offered the Taliban $150 Billion so they could build a Oil Pipeline through their country, which they turned down. There is now proof that the Saudi Royal Family was involved in 9-11. So we invaded Afghanistan for no reason.

We invaded Iraq..On the “basis” of UN Resolutions…Strangely Israel was in violation of FOUR times as many. Bush’s father had been asked by the Saudi’s to keep Saddam in power. They needed to have a strong Sunni leader between Iran and the other gulf states. As we have seen riots in Bahrain earlier, and now in Yemen, and others Bush Jr took that strong leader away. They now have a Shia leader in Iraq and that is causing problems throughout the Arabian Peninsula. And as far as Iraq in concerned, while Bush was still in office we had killed nearly ONE MILLION. That number puts Saddam to shame.

The lying liberal media vilified Bush and put the Zero up on a false pedestal.  To this day, they make fools of themselves by working for Obama instead of for the people.  The lying liberal media will get theirs in the end, becasue Truth always wins out.

Obama is the worst ever, and he will so identified in history, despite the attempts by the lying liberal media to protect and defend him

Last friday the CEO and CFO of Solyndra took the fifth in front of congress rather than speak the truth; and the so-called news media found that unnewsworthy.  Mediaite found it unneewsorthy and didn’t bother reporting it, instead we got stories about Levi Johnson and other gossip.

I don’t know how the media sleeps at night withthe lies and distortions they put forth on a daily basis  They think we are the stupid ones and they can get away with it, but the majority of the public now knows that they lie, cheat and steal.

Obama is the worst, he will be a one termer.

Zara proves that to be a Mediaite writer, you not only have to be illiterate, but you also have to be innumerate.

Would that be the second-worst president or the second worst-president?

you might check, I also think bush shit his diaper and laura spilled a coke on her mother’s rug. Is that far enough off topic for you boo boo.

I don’t see the relationship. George Bush was a liar and I don’t consider President Obama a liar.

What a dishonest headline! The poll found that considerably more Americans think Obama is BETTER than Bush. You guys are disgusting.

If Bush loved America so much, why did he ignore warnings about Bin Laden, lie about WMDs, adopt torture as an instrument of U.S. policy and … I could go on. We’re good to be rid of him.

No, those lying liberal media types remind us that Bush inherited a booming economy and a budget SURPLUS from Clinton, and then eliminated them both. Aren’t those guys evil?

Technically, Obama hasn’t started a war. He did, however, help bring a Libyan civil war onto Gadhafi’s head, which is fine by me. Now Gadhafi is out. (Fulfilling Reagan’s 1987 mission.)

No US deaths. No limbs lost. No traumatic brain injuries. No fatherless children. No decades of rehab for wounded soldiers. And a small fraction of the *monthly* cost of operations in Iraq or Afghanistan. We have a new war model, and it makes more sense. (see Bin Laden raid, drone strikes in the tribal regions, etc.)

I agree with you on the crash, though; there’s plenty of blame to go around — Greenspan, Paulson, Bush, Clinton, Congress, Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, Fannie/Freddie, Countrywide, Lehman Bros, Bear Sterns, Wachovia, etc.

The biggest problem may have been (Clinton and Bush) appointing regulators who were philosophically anti-regulation. Greenspan thought fraudulent financial products and lack of transparency in the derivatives market were nothing to worry about. But then he acknowledged to Congress in 2008 that his entire philosophy (that the market would regulate itself, that banks would not risk everything on short-term gains) was wrong. Default-swaps and toxic assets (derivatives full of severed bits of sub-prime mortgages) blew up the economy, and those assets-gone-bad are still weighing down banks and restricting lending today.

They blew it up!

Since they likely polled mostly democrats I think Bush did pretty good !

You need to turn off the talk radio and actually talk to a few Iraq vets. You’ll be surprised how a lot of them feel.

sure you were.

we believe you

The fact that Americans have memories of the years pre-2009 is what’s really responsible for them blaming Bush for the mess we’re in.
Darn you, ability to recall recent history!

socialist!
*drink*

Pity you have to make up quotes.
If you have to lie so much to push your core beliefs, i think a little self-evaluation might be in order.

Bush loved his country so much that he let it slip into collapse.

That was almost a sentence.
Dubya, is that you?

another fake “ex-Democrat”
you Republicans love to try that ruse, don’t you?

Most Americans believe in an old white man with a long beard hovering somewhere in outer space.

Most Americans believe more than they think–it’s our culture, after all.

Thou sayest, pretty children!

Most Americans believe in an old white man with a long beard hovering somewhere in outer space.

Most Americans believe more than they think–it’s our culture, after all.

Thou sayest, pretty children!

Obama’s a close second to Carter for the worst president medal.

Projecting?

Then you’re a fool.

And why did Obama triple down in Afghanistan; institute droning in Pakistan, Libya and Somalia (at least it’s not waterboarding, eh?); extend the Patriot Act; keep Gitmo open; continue rendition; lie about no taxes on anyone making < $125,000; etc., etc.

I thought at some point that Obama was going to be close with Bush same or worse I don’t think that will change from year from now just my opinion. Unless everything inproves in this country in a year which I don’t see.