Words cannot describe how little I care about what current popular opinion has to say about our 43 president. All I know is that earlier this morning an indescribably uncomfortable feeling came over me when I realized that as of twelve noon on this day, George W. Bush would no longer be my president.
I think that before the conservative movement can truly plan for future leadership, we need to come to terms with the man who has lead for the past eight years.
The Bush Presidency's effect on popular opinion has all the irony of a Greek Tragedy. Bush's greatest achievement is keeping America safe for the past 7 1/2 years. Ironically, this lead to a dramatic reduction in public concern for the threat of terrorism. Lower concern translated to a dramatic reduction in the tolerance and understanding of what is sometimes necessary to properly prosecute a war. He is the same man the country who stood on the ruble and on the pitching mound in New York after 911. He never changed but we did. We embraced the Bush Doctrine when we thought it was necessary to keep us safe and we rejected it when we misguidedly thought it unnecessary.
So George Bush left office the same way he came in, met with a total lack of class and understanding by the American Left.
We were told non-stop today that there was a magical feeling of bi-partisanship and unity over the masses of people who gathered at the nation's capital. BULL CRAP! Any good will was destroyed when the crowd erupted into booing and mocking chants when when Bush was introduced. These classy people even booed at Laura Bush and even American war hero George H.W. Bush. There is no doubt in my mind that there was not one person in the crowd with one-fourth of the honor as the elder Bush 41.
I guess we are all supposed to be gratefully that these people discovered patriotism, that they like this whole America thing. I say we were a great country before these people gave us there blessing on patriotism.
Despite how people feel about this president, and even some of my brethren on the right have there doubts, no one will ever convince me that he is not one of our finest presidents.
The truth is we should have used the president on the 2008 campaign trail telling his side like only he can. We still would have lost, but I hated having to put up with an apologetic front for the man and policies that have created a beacon of freedom in the middle east and kept us safe at home. I hope nobody on the right feels that they have to apologize for our 43rd president.
For me history has already vindicated the Bush presidency but for those who have yet to reflect logically, they will have to explain to me how someone can give exulting praise to our 16th president and denounce our 43rd. One of these two presidents instructed one General Sherman to blaze a path of destruction through the Southern States to win a civil war. This same president suspended habeus corpus to all enemy combatants and threw newspaper editors in jail to face military tribunals who criticized his administration's prosecution of that same war.
He did what was right regardless of public opinion and for that the country owes George W. Bush a dept of gratitude. Thanks W.
2 comments:
Great Video. It reminded me of how I felt when I saw him throw that strike in Yankee Stadium in October of 2001. I am grateful He was the man in charge and not Al Gore or that other guy he ran against...
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