You could argue that 9/11 changed his foreign policy and more broadly his worldview, though there were calls for an Iraq War even during his campaign.
What you can't argue is the massive change in internal policy. During one of the biggest economic expansions of our time Bush was worried that some were being left behind. What happened during his time? Inequality reached pre-1930s levels, the safety net was being dismantled, and ultimately a recession similar to the Great Depression followed.
@interinfinity Not any more. From 1903 to 1979, it was a US territory. From 1979 to 1999 the canal itself was under joint U.S.-Panamanian control. Since 1999, it has been completely under the control of Panama.
what gives america the right to forcibly keep the panama canal open ? free market bitches if panama wants to charge 100 dollars u pay a 100 dollars. just like the entire owrld pays over the ods for services of american companies
The best President we had in Long time. He did well he kept us safe from Iraq. Did what was needed to be done after 9/11. Also Bush was true christian man, that fallowed Jesus not allah like we have now. Us christians will take this country back by electing a real leader Rick Perry and Sarah Palin. I believe the Lord will call on these two to lead us out of this Mess that Clinton and Obama made. PRAISE you JESUS and the GOP!!! AMEN!!!!!!
@pennjersey83 You tend to forget Iraq was going to create some mass weapons of destruction. Bush just stopped them before they could start attacking other countries. Or use those Weapons against us. This was a great move. We have not been attack since 9/11 and Iraq was behind 9/11.
@smallen642 i think it's lame how he didn't cite anything to back up his "failing school" argument. if he did cite something, i didn't hear about it. it's also lame how most americans bought that. the question arises, since he was president for 8 years, did he do anything to improve the schools in this country, and if so, what did he do? i don't know the answer to that, but my guess would be he did nothing that improved the schools while he was president.
he talks about failed schools. which schools are failing? how do u define a failed school? how many are there? who says they're failing? where is he getting this information? he mentions this really vague thing, something that is kind of a matter of opinion and doesn't go into any detail. but that was enough to make many americans vote for him.
The neocons were (are) horrendous, but it was Bush who did not discipline the national security decision-making process and Condi Rice who was incompetent as National Security Advisor. Just check out what conservative Republican WH insider Lawrence Wilkerson has to say about the Cheney Administration 2002-2006.
I think people in 2000, before Bush, felt a hell of a lot more secure about their lives and future of American than at the end of the Bush era in 2009.
Yeah and they were right? I seem to remember something happening less then 2years later about a guy called Osama Bin Laden orchestrating a massive terrorist attack against the US.
Sorry, I meant to say financially secure. The decline in the confidence of the middle class during the Bush years was certainly unprecedented.
If you look at the standard right track/wrong track polls, they reached record highs (even higher than during Reagan) in the late 90s. However, they continually eroded during the Bush W years.
What a moron you are, they don't give a shit about protecting american, CIA caused the 911 attacks and he was put in office because he is a trained liar in his satanic soceity he was trained in in his 20s.
What are you crazy???? 911 Documentaries??? WHAT??? You should just kill yourself!!! You know no one loves you anyway!!!!! Does your stupid ass really thinks the CIA was involved in 911????
YES OR NO!!!!!!! You know 2012 is coming up. You should like give me all your stuff. Were all going to die anyway.
I was actually going to write to you to you seem like a big ignorant fool, cooper would call you "the biggest moron you haver walked on the face of the earth", yes the CIA and FBI planend and staged the attacks as they planned in operation northwood in 1962.
Marvin Bush was made head of securacom and he removed the bomb sniffing gods and security cameras in the twin towers before his team went in and rigged the buildings 2 weeks prior to the attacks.
Your so fucking stupid. It's pretty sad that you focus on 911. Something most people don't want to think about. Stupid fucks like you however have no lifes then make up shit based on nothing. 911 Conspiracies should not be a hobby. It's sick and very sad. J.F.K Was shot by one man. Not The C.I.A. Or Aliens working for Nasa!!!!!! So just crawl back up inside your mom. Atleast you will be safe from that evil Government!!!!!
@dabosedabose Why did the government remove bomb sniffing dogs from the twin towers 2 weeks before 9/11? Answer my question for it is proposed with seriousness rather than for the sake of petty argument.
well, by the time gwb left office the djia was around 8000. oh, and we were close to complete economic collapse. oh, and during his 8 years the national debt almost doubled, and oh unemployment was at almost 9%, and the cost of healthcare increased greatly etc etc. i'm happy i'm not having/ raising children in the US. this country is an embarrassment
i just came back to watch this again and he sounds so inarticulate and nervous. Why did we elect him? I mean I wasnt old enough to vote back then but man.
While Bush and McCain were busy squabbling and accusing each other of having engaged in shameful conduct, Alan Keyes was sitting quietly in the center, forced to listen on as both Tweedledee and Tweedledum proceeded to publicize their very long lists of grievances.
The hilarity of this exchange was accentuated when, in a moment of desperation, Alan Keyes interrupted and politely asked Larry King, "May I make a substantive remark?"
What he ran on and said here is very simular to what Obama ran on and Clinton. A uniter not a divider, Hope, which even Bush just mentioned, education and the widening division of the rich and poor which Bush referenced with the schools.
Look at what Bush actually did to the country.
Clinton actually did all of that.. Obama is definitely trying so far.
Are we ever going to fall for this Republican bullshit again i wonder?
It'd do our nation good to start listening to Rush Limbaugh more, and Herman Cain, and Sean Hannity, and Neal Boortz, and Bill O'Reilly. We just might become smart, and well informed.
if you say so sir! as far as i know Rush Limbaugh says whatever as long as it boosts his ratings. i did a lot of research about him and he is not the type of person i want to get my facts from. I actualy used to listen to him a lot.
what the hell are you talking about? Peace is created by killing bad guys? Which bad guys are you referring to though? The bad guys of the US are the unseen hands, the Israel Lobby and the Jew infestation of the government, like some swollen parasite Israel feeds off of the US and gets its soldiers to fight its wars
Please.. lonewolf... explain why this thinking is obtuse? what part about protecting Israel is bad? Do you known who they are fighting????????????????????? Do you have a clue at all?
...huh, what happend? Hmmm....let me think...Something realy important, something big must have happend between 2000 and... let's say... 2002...but what could that possibly be? Why couldn't he make the world the peaceful place he'd imagined?
A few people advising this Administration, a small number of people called the neoconservatives hijacked our foreign policy. Theyre responsible for this mess.
Ron Paul was right. All that the President is, is a sock puppet. Its not all his fault.
Just look at how Obama's letting off the hook, and how the Israel lobby has become a major influence regarding US foreign policy.
The Liberals are just as responsible as the Conservatives. The Liberals did not offer any alternative policy other than "no". The only one that actually showed actionable leadership was Bush and a few of his advisers.
If it were up to the Liberal leadership at the time, there would be at least 1 other ground zero site in the US at this time.
The Liberal leadership's position and conduct at the time was totally spineless and irresponsible.
President Bush will go down as a GREAT president. Don't be fooled by the popular media trends. Hard decisions had to be made and hard decisions are usually unpopular.
I think it sfunny that Bush is amazed people liked clinton in this clip!!! What a joke. Looking at Bush now I am amazed he got away with all the crap(halliburton, iraq, lies, gonzalez, etc) he did. Clinton doesnt look so bad to me
That's back when he could talk good-like, before looking like an idiot provided a great excuse for sailing his country down the river and looking after his buddies and puppet master's interests.
the gop makes a big mistake by nominating this idiot incompetent buffon!!! i wish mccain was the niminee .back then in 2000, i believe that he'll leave the republican party in a more better position
McCain probably would've. Hated to admit it but I supported George Bush back in2000. Small government, low taxes, pro-life, and a humble foreign policy.
However the Neo-Conservatives advised his Administration to run wild in Iraq, Pakistan, and providing foreign aid to Israel and other moderate Arab nations.
WTF ARE YOU DUMB? Not only did he say it but so does every president from here on out so long as Iran tries to possess a nuclear weapon. the supreme leader of Iran (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei) would like nothing more than to wipe Israel off the map. They continue to fight a proxy war with Israel and if you do not think this will affect Americans and our security you are CRAZY!!!! Obama too will protect Israel should Iran decide to move forward with its nuclear threat against them. You are very DUMB!
@TimmyHaag ron paul would have found it a damn lot easier to get into the presidency if he's just spent decades conforming to the republican party rather than doing his own thing and pissing them off
His own thing ? Not even close. If he wanted to do his own thing he wouldn't be a republican he'd be a libertarian and caucus as such. But no he doesn't and malcontents and the invincibly ignorant continue to support his selfish shtick in order to keep him in Congress.
I was hoping for an unbiased video of Pres. Bush. How silly of me to think that people wouldn't make a bad correlation between his policy pre 9/11 and nis post 9/11 policy. I wish we could have seen what his 8 years would have been like with no 9/11. That would have been cool, for multiple reasons.
Bush was campaigning for a humble foreign policy. Don't build nations don't police the world. But the neocons and the bankers took over and advised him to run amok around the world.
Granted, Paul has a few good ideas but he also has a few cooky ones. If there wouldn't have been a war, Pres. Bush's spending wouldn't have been so exorberent. He spent quite a bit on education, but that probably would have been as far as his spending went.
are you kidding!!! whether 9/11 did'nt happen, bush will still be a disastrous president, and for me he's the most idiotic, disastrous and incompetent choice for the presidency in the history of the country
You lack substance. I have a feeling you're picking the things that Pres. Bush did "wrong" as the things he didn't have ahnd in, or were impossible or immoral to get around.
yeah, all the things he talked about, sure didn't show up in the 8 years he was in the white house. In fact, if they had, we probably would be looking at a different view of him.
I've got no love lost for George Bush, my main problem wth him was all the money spent on the bailouts, ofcourse I blame Hank Paulson mostly for that, but I wish Bush wouldn't have listened to him in the first place.
I think the thing to take from this video is that George Bush was pretty likeable, seemingly genuine, and well-intentioned guy that convinced many Americans that he was going to govern toward the center. That's how he won the election. But, for whatever reason, things changed. And they changed drastically. Some give him the benefit of the doubt and say that it was the personal trauma of presiding over 9/11 that caused him to change his governing style. Others say his top advisers changed him.
If you've seen documentaries, the ones with tapes that show evidence, you will see it was his advisers rumsfeld, cheney, wolfowitz, that changed his opinions.
I believe very sincerely that his top advisers called the "neo-conservatives" have our troops occupying Iraq and looking for trouble in the iran region.
Wolfowitz, Libby, Frum, Kristol, Bolten, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rockefeller
Dude, seriously Iran is the one causing trouble, basically for the whole world. The countries that haven't turned on Iran, only haven't because theyre recieving big financial benefits ie Russia. Russia is loving being the only western ally of Iran, they sell them weapons, build them Nuclear Refinaries, and they have a large Opec friend (more like bitch) to regulate oil prices in their favor (which by the way is up since Russia itself is a large oil producer.)
Iran is causing trouble? please that's laughable, Iran is a country has no modern army or navy force, nor air force, struggling its way to make nuclear for power or weapon, with we had more than half a century ago, while Israel has hundreds of nuclear war heads, please tell me, which one do u fear more?
Dude, whats with this Israel derangement syndrome, come on man. Iran causes pleanty of trouble, Hamas and Hezbollah are Irans right and left arms, they finance proxy wars mainly against Israel, but also against the US and Lebanon. Israel can have a million nuclear warheads for all I care, Israelis don't want to irradicate anyone, regardless of what you guys like to believe, they fight only those who attack them preemptivley.
Iran is controlled by Islamic fundamentalists i.e. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who wouldn't mind the world coming to an end too much, because they are convinced that they will be rewarded in their heaven. Israel is controlled by political moderates, if they are a bit hawkish, it's because they are forced to be to prevent being exterminated. I know that you'll come back and say something like "Zionists are the biggest fascists of all" or whatever, but just don't bother, I've heard it all before.
Ron Paul was right about George Bush. Our foreign policy was supposed to be humble. He would've been a great president if he had a good staff and not let the neo-conservatives get in the way.
I don't know why people blame everything on him, the economy blame the SEC for not doing their jobs when they have been warned numerous times, Katrina, well didn't Rita hit shortly after, it doesn't make sense to me to send troops when they're gonna get wiped out by another hurricane, Iraq well I think we should have went in with more of an Iron fist type policy until it was stable, For people who respond to this give valid reasons for why you hate Bush, most of yall tell the same story,
If Bush takes the credit for everything good that happened when he was President shouldn't he also get the blame for everything that is wrong with the USA as well?After 8 years of W america is worse off,thank god he's out of office.
They don't understand that the Neo-Conservatives have hijacked his foreign policy. You have to remember, he was campaigning to have a humble foreign policy.
We went to Iraq without a declaration and they were not a threat to our security.
this guy is so dangerous because he was underestimated as a baffoon. while he comes off as unassuming he has done more damage to the U.S. than any other president in recent history - by design, not accident. watching his videos of 2000 now, almost every word out of his mouth flew in the face of his policies for the last 8 years.
My fellow Americans, you voted for this sh--head. Not once but twice. Now you have the sheer audacity to complain that you're losing your jobs, and your homes, and your 401(k)s. You're b-tching about the Iraq War and high gas prices. Spare us the sob stories. You're getting exactlly what you deserve.
Correction, he stole both the 2000 and the 2004 election. Al Gore. I may not have been 18 back in 2000, but I supported Bush because he campaigned for a humble foreign policy. The Republican Party now is in shambles.
I think you're an idiot for having supported Bush back in 2000, but on the other hand I respect you for being man enough to admit that truth that Bush and Cheney stole the 2000 and 2004 elections. And yes, the GOP is crumbling. But no, Paul will never be president. He does not have enough of a support base.
Many of us supported Bush back in 2000. He did campaign for a humble foreign policy and less government. Unfortunately, I'm one of the few that remember what he was campaigning for. The Neo-Cons ended up taking over his foreign policy. They did the same thing to Reagan.
Ron Paul had quite a support base, but it shrunk because McCain, Huckabee, and Romney stole his show. FOX News locked him out of the debate and that's how he ended up losing.
damn bush looks 20 years older now. Look at clinton/bush debates clinton looked like he put on 20 years too. Obama looks like he's put on 10 prior to even taking oath.
yes, he does. And Bush speaks SO much slower now. I guess then he was younger and eager to impress--now he's a two term president whose been through a lot of crap.
I would have to disagree with that assessment. Democrats control 58 seats in the senate, Obama won in a landslide victory over a center right republican. I would say America right now is searching for ANYONE and ANYTHING that can get us out of this economic mess.
i voted for bush twice, and obama this time around, but one thing poeple seem to forget, promise and hopes for peace go out the window after 9/11....he was put in a bad spot...he did what he thought he had to...not a smart man...but he does have heart..
3000 deaths on 911 was not a legitimate reason to inflict hundreds of thousands of Iraqy civilians deaths, during the war. It was also not the reason to flush U.S global reputation down the toilet. Bush had 9 months to do something about Bin Laden, when Clinton transfered the gathered inteligence on the potential attack to him. He did nothing!And after 911 his presidency got hijacked by the neocon and evangelical agenda.I do believe that he was acting for the greater good in his mind though!
well everyones a critic.....you and me didnt have to make any hard calls after 9/11,he did, after all he was put in that situation. I'm just glad this generation didnt have to fight WWII....cuz we would all be in knee high boots.....Americans, we just dont have the will anymore.
Neo-cons are the only Republicans who have a shot at office. America is a liberal country.
Neo-cons are just the people who are willing to sell out their values in order to get into office, and then when they get there, they steer sharply to the right.
Its the only way conservatives get into office in a leftist country.
God I hate liberals. They're so open minded and progressive.
You could argue that 9/11 changed his foreign policy and more broadly his worldview, though there were calls for an Iraq War even during his campaign.
What you can't argue is the massive change in internal policy. During one of the biggest economic expansions of our time Bush was worried that some were being left behind. What happened during his time? Inequality reached pre-1930s levels, the safety net was being dismantled, and ultimately a recession similar to the Great Depression followed.
endrity 2 weeks ago
panama canal zone is US territory dumbass
interinfinity 2 months ago
@interinfinity Not any more. From 1903 to 1979, it was a US territory. From 1979 to 1999 the canal itself was under joint U.S.-Panamanian control. Since 1999, it has been completely under the control of Panama.
aaronhoffmeyer 1 month ago
what gives america the right to forcibly keep the panama canal open ? free market bitches if panama wants to charge 100 dollars u pay a 100 dollars. just like the entire owrld pays over the ods for services of american companies
harj2009 3 months ago
@harj2009 Because ... treaty. They agreed not to shaft us ... we agreed to give it to them.
aaronhoffmeyer 1 month ago
sstategicss instersts s s
jgq85 4 months ago
problem was that this guy wasn't calling the shots in his first term
ieodksnw787 4 months ago
George Bush had so much potential. What a failure after 9-11.
pennjersey83 4 months ago
SURPLUS DEPLETED BY BUSH
21boxhead 4 months ago
CH CH CH CH CH ABOUT THOUSANDS TIMES
21boxhead 4 months ago
excuse me, sorry, 9/11 changed everything....
dras50376272 4 months ago
what is nasional statechic inchest?
Dabeydoo62 4 months ago
The best President we had in Long time. He did well he kept us safe from Iraq. Did what was needed to be done after 9/11. Also Bush was true christian man, that fallowed Jesus not allah like we have now. Us christians will take this country back by electing a real leader Rick Perry and Sarah Palin. I believe the Lord will call on these two to lead us out of this Mess that Clinton and Obama made. PRAISE you JESUS and the GOP!!! AMEN!!!!!!
MegaELECTRICEYE 4 months ago
@MegaELECTRICEYE
"He did well he kept us safe from Iraq."
You're either a troll or very very stupid.
pennjersey83 4 months ago
@pennjersey83 You tend to forget Iraq was going to create some mass weapons of destruction. Bush just stopped them before they could start attacking other countries. Or use those Weapons against us. This was a great move. We have not been attack since 9/11 and Iraq was behind 9/11.
MegaELECTRICEYE 4 months ago
@MegaELECTRICEYE
Iraq was not behind 9-11. Stop trolling me idiot. I don't have time for your retardation. Bush fucking sucked. Period
pennjersey83 4 months ago
@MegaELECTRICEYE
stop being silly...
zonjordan 3 months ago
This doesn't sound like his true voice. Somebody is in the backstage voice-over this "Bush" guy.
RomulanFord 5 months ago
To me, McCain was a better candiate in 2000, than 2008.
Kimmis1990 6 months ago
образований
links3712 6 months ago
он говорит про образований ну сам он дебил!
uuukkjj 7 months ago
I wonder if bush was switched for some alien clone type being after the 2000 election?
dsspike51 7 months ago 3
@dsspike51 your getting warm..,,his eye color is listed as blue where did old blue eyes go.??swap the word alien for demon...
zelotalot 6 months ago
@smallen642 i think it's lame how he didn't cite anything to back up his "failing school" argument. if he did cite something, i didn't hear about it. it's also lame how most americans bought that. the question arises, since he was president for 8 years, did he do anything to improve the schools in this country, and if so, what did he do? i don't know the answer to that, but my guess would be he did nothing that improved the schools while he was president.
exbronco1980 8 months ago
he talks about failed schools. which schools are failing? how do u define a failed school? how many are there? who says they're failing? where is he getting this information? he mentions this really vague thing, something that is kind of a matter of opinion and doesn't go into any detail. but that was enough to make many americans vote for him.
exbronco1980 9 months ago
he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about
philberz 9 months ago
Someone got his Adderall
k9forkids 10 months ago
I think there's more serious things to complain about in politics than Bush's mixed up sentences.
VoiceOfModeration 10 months ago
Oh please!? Who are you trying to fool Bush???
tornadoguy12 10 months ago
@tornadoguy12 The majority of voters.
tyenolam 10 months ago
George Bush has read more books in one year than every libtard posting on this site has in their lifetime.
Envy is a sin.
decoffinated 1 year ago
FUCK YOU GEORGE
yourmaker74 1 year ago
karl rove sure is a superb puppet master.
illxplicit07 1 year ago
0:10 our own hemisphere (lol wtf?) is in our nashinel stritigick intrest
ya we think this is a fail for bush but really its an epic fail for you and me and a win for his administration.
souds like palin 0:58
mynameisabag 1 year ago
You can tell he rehearsed all of this with Karl Rove. There's no real thought here, just bullet points that were memorized...
RavenMichaels 1 year ago
His face tells "Lies"
nwobart 1 year ago
I can't believe America elected this Buffoon and he the reason he invaded Iraq for profit.
publicmario17 1 year ago
The neocons were (are) horrendous, but it was Bush who did not discipline the national security decision-making process and Condi Rice who was incompetent as National Security Advisor. Just check out what conservative Republican WH insider Lawrence Wilkerson has to say about the Cheney Administration 2002-2006.
Tippersnore 1 year ago
Watch the video "The George Bush you forgot."
You'll be slapping your forehead so hard...
MooseOfReason 1 year ago
Guy ran on no issues other than I won't cheat on my wife....
rick9565 1 year ago
stateegic intwest
steagle1017 1 year ago
Shit, W was pretty smart back in '00.
thehoaxbuster 1 year ago
was this before his brain malfunctioned?
xgs724 1 year ago
@xgs724 Same thing i said.....Alan keyes was the angriest as usual.
feldman30012 1 year ago
Well again.....i still see people crying about Bush.
Mage13246 1 year ago
I think people in 2000, before Bush, felt a hell of a lot more secure about their lives and future of American than at the end of the Bush era in 2009.
LocoYoFla 1 year ago
Yeah and they were right? I seem to remember something happening less then 2years later about a guy called Osama Bin Laden orchestrating a massive terrorist attack against the US.
andro89 1 year ago
but as long as people "felt" more secure then thats okay
andro89 1 year ago
Sorry, I meant to say financially secure. The decline in the confidence of the middle class during the Bush years was certainly unprecedented.
If you look at the standard right track/wrong track polls, they reached record highs (even higher than during Reagan) in the late 90s. However, they continually eroded during the Bush W years.
LocoYoFla 1 year ago
Your not giving facts, so your still a tard. Stay off the crazy websites, and get a job. You stupid fucking loser. Bomb sniffing GODS????
dabosedabose 2 years ago
Top 10 president. Not an idealist but a REALIST. Who stands on principal and protects America, not his popularity.
Americans care more about American Idol than the Constitution.
xukeith33 2 years ago 2
@xukeith33 gw bush is the worst pres in american history
exbronco1980 2 years ago
Well actually Obama is, considering he is the most unpopular president in American history after only one year in power.
andro89 2 years ago
What a moron you are, they don't give a shit about protecting american, CIA caused the 911 attacks and he was put in office because he is a trained liar in his satanic soceity he was trained in in his 20s.
Christ sake go watch some 911 documentaries.
Xendrius 2 years ago
What are you crazy???? 911 Documentaries??? WHAT??? You should just kill yourself!!! You know no one loves you anyway!!!!! Does your stupid ass really thinks the CIA was involved in 911????
YES OR NO!!!!!!! You know 2012 is coming up. You should like give me all your stuff. Were all going to die anyway.
dabosedabose 2 years ago
I was actually going to write to you to you seem like a big ignorant fool, cooper would call you "the biggest moron you haver walked on the face of the earth", yes the CIA and FBI planend and staged the attacks as they planned in operation northwood in 1962.
Marvin Bush was made head of securacom and he removed the bomb sniffing gods and security cameras in the twin towers before his team went in and rigged the buildings 2 weeks prior to the attacks.
Planes were remotely controlled.
Xendrius 2 years ago
Your so fucking stupid. It's pretty sad that you focus on 911. Something most people don't want to think about. Stupid fucks like you however have no lifes then make up shit based on nothing. 911 Conspiracies should not be a hobby. It's sick and very sad. J.F.K Was shot by one man. Not The C.I.A. Or Aliens working for Nasa!!!!!! So just crawl back up inside your mom. Atleast you will be safe from that evil Government!!!!!
dabosedabose 2 years ago
@dabosedabose Why did the government remove bomb sniffing dogs from the twin towers 2 weeks before 9/11? Answer my question for it is proposed with seriousness rather than for the sake of petty argument.
guitarszzz 1 year ago
george w. wasn't so cocky and smug and defiant by the fall of 2008. he is a waste of a human being.
exbronco1980 2 years ago
well, by the time gwb left office the djia was around 8000. oh, and we were close to complete economic collapse. oh, and during his 8 years the national debt almost doubled, and oh unemployment was at almost 9%, and the cost of healthcare increased greatly etc etc. i'm happy i'm not having/ raising children in the US. this country is an embarrassment
exbronco1980 2 years ago
i just came back to watch this again and he sounds so inarticulate and nervous. Why did we elect him? I mean I wasnt old enough to vote back then but man.
KingMrTexan 2 years ago
@KingMrTexan well he was popular with white trash, religious fanatics and middle class idiots. he also had some very powerful backers
exbronco1980 2 years ago
well, at least he told the truth. he would start a war if it is in our "national strategic interest". which is a broad statement.
KingMrTexan 2 years ago
dis cracker is retarded
kirknator201 2 years ago
Condie / rummy must have dont something to bush...hhe is quite articulate here. Wonder what they did to him.
kmcl11 2 years ago
ACTUALLY, Governor, pretty much EVERYTHING was going well in 2000 not just the Dow Jones Industrial Average!!
Claronium780 2 years ago
I remember this debate vividly.
While Bush and McCain were busy squabbling and accusing each other of having engaged in shameful conduct, Alan Keyes was sitting quietly in the center, forced to listen on as both Tweedledee and Tweedledum proceeded to publicize their very long lists of grievances.
The hilarity of this exchange was accentuated when, in a moment of desperation, Alan Keyes interrupted and politely asked Larry King, "May I make a substantive remark?"
sifjure 2 years ago 2
Hes talking like a robot.
jmw20watch 2 years ago 12
This is the most sickening thing about all this..
What he ran on and said here is very simular to what Obama ran on and Clinton. A uniter not a divider, Hope, which even Bush just mentioned, education and the widening division of the rich and poor which Bush referenced with the schools.
Look at what Bush actually did to the country.
Clinton actually did all of that.. Obama is definitely trying so far.
Are we ever going to fall for this Republican bullshit again i wonder?
grudgekeeper 2 years ago 2
If people keep listening to Rush Limbaugh and bill O'riely and all the Liberal haters, Yes we might fall back to Republican again.
abel120606 2 years ago
It'd do our nation good to start listening to Rush Limbaugh more, and Herman Cain, and Sean Hannity, and Neal Boortz, and Bill O'Reilly. We just might become smart, and well informed.
HeroicLegacy 2 years ago 2
if you say so sir! as far as i know Rush Limbaugh says whatever as long as it boosts his ratings. i did a lot of research about him and he is not the type of person i want to get my facts from. I actualy used to listen to him a lot.
abel120606 2 years ago 2
Nah, Obama is doing a good job of pushing this country back to Republicans. Who needs Limbaugh and O'Reilly.
dicendimes 2 years ago
We Will Fall Back To Republican Party Agian
RichGrant08 2 years ago
It's inevitable.
NotoriousPimp24 2 years ago
Alan should've won back than
AliOllieWoodson 2 years ago
I really don't like Bush, but at least he's not Alan Keyes.
elroyleday 2 years ago
"protecting Israel is in our national security interests"
OUCH! As early as 2000 this is what Bush was thinking
lonewolf1369 2 years ago
I just dont like the two socioty rederic it makes him sound like a libtard.
Hey liberals who are for peace. Do you know how peace is created. By killing bad guys!!!! Read your history!!!
bsands22 2 years ago
what the hell are you talking about? Peace is created by killing bad guys? Which bad guys are you referring to though? The bad guys of the US are the unseen hands, the Israel Lobby and the Jew infestation of the government, like some swollen parasite Israel feeds off of the US and gets its soldiers to fight its wars
lonewolf1369 2 years ago 2
Well, there are two societies.... it just a fact. It is not a good thing... another fact
elroyleday 2 years ago
Please.. lonewolf... explain why this thinking is obtuse? what part about protecting Israel is bad? Do you known who they are fighting????????????????????? Do you have a clue at all?
Biltospill 2 years ago
...huh, what happend? Hmmm....let me think...Something realy important, something big must have happend between 2000 and... let's say... 2002...but what could that possibly be? Why couldn't he make the world the peaceful place he'd imagined?
Hochdorff 2 years ago
Its complicated buddy. One person cann't change everyone's mind.
seth917 2 years ago
A few people advising this Administration, a small number of people called the neoconservatives hijacked our foreign policy. Theyre responsible for this mess.
Ron Paul was right. All that the President is, is a sock puppet. Its not all his fault.
Just look at how Obama's letting off the hook, and how the Israel lobby has become a major influence regarding US foreign policy.
NYJared04 2 years ago
Watch "blood and oil" here on youtube, Bush knew in August 2000, by Matt Simmons.
Last oil shock book - David Strahan.
If your curious you'll check this out.
ocean3da 2 years ago
The Liberals are just as responsible as the Conservatives. The Liberals did not offer any alternative policy other than "no". The only one that actually showed actionable leadership was Bush and a few of his advisers.
If it were up to the Liberal leadership at the time, there would be at least 1 other ground zero site in the US at this time.
The Liberal leadership's position and conduct at the time was totally spineless and irresponsible.
seth917 2 years ago
He seems full of shit. It's just advertisement, just like whole Obama is.
NordicCrossle 2 years ago
Agreed
seth917 2 years ago
Bush was sharp. He just had a problem with the language area. He was/is a very smart dude.
One doesn't get elected as governor twice and then elected President of the US twice, without being very smart.
seth917 2 years ago
no he got helped by the whole republican population + has fox news manipulating everyone
oh yeah his brother didn't let black people vote in Florida and his father was an president once himself
Raubez 2 years ago
President Bush will go down as a GREAT president. Don't be fooled by the popular media trends. Hard decisions had to be made and hard decisions are usually unpopular.
We are living in a safer world because of W.
seth917 2 years ago
Are you a Obama supporter?
cutedude22 2 years ago
Yes. I voted for him.
seth917 2 years ago
I think it sfunny that Bush is amazed people liked clinton in this clip!!! What a joke. Looking at Bush now I am amazed he got away with all the crap(halliburton, iraq, lies, gonzalez, etc) he did. Clinton doesnt look so bad to me
sandroeleven 2 years ago 4
Could be. It will be interesting to see the period that history puts on this sentence in time.
I think he will remain about where he's regarded now - on the high end of the bottom quarter, with regard to the various rankings.
Good post, great video.
natehellman01 2 years ago
That's back when he could talk good-like, before looking like an idiot provided a great excuse for sailing his country down the river and looking after his buddies and puppet master's interests.
Sounds a lot like Obama!
Restore the Republic people! =D
brizzlie 2 years ago
Yeah, Ron Paul!
Ron Paul was right, he was campaigning for a humble foreign policy. Don't build nations, don't police the world.
Where's Ron Paul when we need him the most? Or Dennis Kucinich?
PVJared 2 years ago 3
the gop makes a big mistake by nominating this idiot incompetent buffon!!! i wish mccain was the niminee .back then in 2000, i believe that he'll leave the republican party in a more better position
chuichinagumo 2 years ago
McCain probably would've. Hated to admit it but I supported George Bush back in2000. Small government, low taxes, pro-life, and a humble foreign policy.
However the Neo-Conservatives advised his Administration to run wild in Iraq, Pakistan, and providing foreign aid to Israel and other moderate Arab nations.
We needed Ron Paul as our President.
NYJared04 2 years ago 31
WTF ARE YOU DUMB? Right HERE IN THIS VIDEO in 2000 Bush ADMITTED, "protecting Israel is in our national interests"!!!!
lonewolf1369 2 years ago
WTF ARE YOU DUMB? Not only did he say it but so does every president from here on out so long as Iran tries to possess a nuclear weapon. the supreme leader of Iran (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei) would like nothing more than to wipe Israel off the map. They continue to fight a proxy war with Israel and if you do not think this will affect Americans and our security you are CRAZY!!!! Obama too will protect Israel should Iran decide to move forward with its nuclear threat against them. You are very DUMB!
Biltospill 2 years ago
@NYJared04 Amen to that.
gcastro44 1 year ago
@NYJared04
Ron Paul would of been worse than Bush 2.0
TimmyHaag 1 year ago
@TimmyHaag
You don't even know what Ron Paul stands for silly libtard.
KiloByte69 1 year ago
@KiloByte69
Ron Paul stands for whatever will get him the Presidency. Thinking like a grown up for the win.
TimmyHaag 1 year ago
@TimmyHaag ron paul would have found it a damn lot easier to get into the presidency if he's just spent decades conforming to the republican party rather than doing his own thing and pissing them off
AussiePolitics 1 year ago
@AussiePolitics
His own thing ? Not even close. If he wanted to do his own thing he wouldn't be a republican he'd be a libertarian and caucus as such. But no he doesn't and malcontents and the invincibly ignorant continue to support his selfish shtick in order to keep him in Congress.
TimmyHaag 1 year ago
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David12King 11 months ago
@David12King
I disagree. One thing their great at is keeping us divided and distracted.
TimmyHaag 11 months ago
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David12King 11 months ago
If only Bush followed what he campaigned on. He would've been one of our best presidents.
Willredd94 1 year ago 6
@Willredd94 But he didn't. Piece of shit.
whatchitnow 3 months ago
@Willredd94 The same could be said for most presidents really.
SarriaYaffle1 1 month ago
@Willredd94 9/11 changed everything you idiot
Pvic 2 weeks ago
@Pvic You forget that most liberals perceive 9/11 as a natural disaster, not a terrorist attack.
andro89 2 weeks ago
fuck israel and fuck whites devils....white apes....gone wild!!!!!!
southrapsucks 2 years ago
I was hoping for an unbiased video of Pres. Bush. How silly of me to think that people wouldn't make a bad correlation between his policy pre 9/11 and nis post 9/11 policy. I wish we could have seen what his 8 years would have been like with no 9/11. That would have been cool, for multiple reasons.
voted4bush 2 years ago
To voted4bush,
Bush was campaigning for a humble foreign policy. Don't build nations don't police the world. But the neocons and the bankers took over and advised him to run amok around the world.
We needed Ron Paul as President.
PVJared 2 years ago
Granted, Paul has a few good ideas but he also has a few cooky ones. If there wouldn't have been a war, Pres. Bush's spending wouldn't have been so exorberent. He spent quite a bit on education, but that probably would have been as far as his spending went.
voted4bush 2 years ago
are you kidding!!! whether 9/11 did'nt happen, bush will still be a disastrous president, and for me he's the most idiotic, disastrous and incompetent choice for the presidency in the history of the country
chuichinagumo 2 years ago
You lack substance. I have a feeling you're picking the things that Pres. Bush did "wrong" as the things he didn't have ahnd in, or were impossible or immoral to get around.
voted4bush 2 years ago
George Bush must've really either had good head from his wife Laura, or he probably drank 5 cups of coffee that day.
He sounded so smart back in 2000. Ron Paul was right, he was campaigning for a humble foreign policy. Lower taxes, and more power to the people.
PVJared 2 years ago
yeah, all the things he talked about, sure didn't show up in the 8 years he was in the white house. In fact, if they had, we probably would be looking at a different view of him.
juliet97 2 years ago
I've got no love lost for George Bush, my main problem wth him was all the money spent on the bailouts, ofcourse I blame Hank Paulson mostly for that, but I wish Bush wouldn't have listened to him in the first place.
pahtsan 2 years ago
The Education System hasn't gotten better in America, it's gotten worse. NCLB was a failure, like all of Bush's other policies.
irapedelmo12345 2 years ago
He failed, because of Cheney, Wolfowitz, and the Neoconservatives were pretty much taking over his presidency.
Bush was pushing for a humble foreign policy.
PVJared 2 years ago
america deserved GWB
exbronco1980 2 years ago
I think the thing to take from this video is that George Bush was pretty likeable, seemingly genuine, and well-intentioned guy that convinced many Americans that he was going to govern toward the center. That's how he won the election. But, for whatever reason, things changed. And they changed drastically. Some give him the benefit of the doubt and say that it was the personal trauma of presiding over 9/11 that caused him to change his governing style. Others say his top advisers changed him.
gqiq 3 years ago
If you've seen documentaries, the ones with tapes that show evidence, you will see it was his advisers rumsfeld, cheney, wolfowitz, that changed his opinions.
dh234 2 years ago
I believe very sincerely that his top advisers called the "neo-conservatives" have our troops occupying Iraq and looking for trouble in the iran region.
Wolfowitz, Libby, Frum, Kristol, Bolten, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rockefeller
PVJared 2 years ago
Dude, seriously Iran is the one causing trouble, basically for the whole world. The countries that haven't turned on Iran, only haven't because theyre recieving big financial benefits ie Russia. Russia is loving being the only western ally of Iran, they sell them weapons, build them Nuclear Refinaries, and they have a large Opec friend (more like bitch) to regulate oil prices in their favor (which by the way is up since Russia itself is a large oil producer.)
pahtsan 2 years ago
Iran is causing trouble? please that's laughable, Iran is a country has no modern army or navy force, nor air force, struggling its way to make nuclear for power or weapon, with we had more than half a century ago, while Israel has hundreds of nuclear war heads, please tell me, which one do u fear more?
jaychins 2 years ago
Dude, whats with this Israel derangement syndrome, come on man. Iran causes pleanty of trouble, Hamas and Hezbollah are Irans right and left arms, they finance proxy wars mainly against Israel, but also against the US and Lebanon. Israel can have a million nuclear warheads for all I care, Israelis don't want to irradicate anyone, regardless of what you guys like to believe, they fight only those who attack them preemptivley.
pahtsan 2 years ago
Iran is controlled by Islamic fundamentalists i.e. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who wouldn't mind the world coming to an end too much, because they are convinced that they will be rewarded in their heaven. Israel is controlled by political moderates, if they are a bit hawkish, it's because they are forced to be to prevent being exterminated. I know that you'll come back and say something like "Zionists are the biggest fascists of all" or whatever, but just don't bother, I've heard it all before.
pahtsan 2 years ago
Why did he say strategic so much? He wasn't even saying it right.
justwant2laugh 3 years ago
Because he was campaigning for a humble foreign policy. Meaning no nation building and no policing the world
PVJared 3 years ago 4
I can tell youre a Ron Paul supporter.
pahtsan 3 years ago
lol. Ron Paul really hammers that shit into your brain.
Locke1217 2 years ago
Ron Paul was right about George Bush. Our foreign policy was supposed to be humble. He would've been a great president if he had a good staff and not let the neo-conservatives get in the way.
PVJared 2 years ago
"lol. Ron Paul really hammers that shit into your brain."
Ron Paul's the most honest man in congress, along with Dennis Kucinich.
PVJared 2 years ago
I love him, such determination. Such a badass, he knew he had it when he was speaking with such power.
GreatGWB 3 years ago
Its interesting, he doesn't seem to stumble on words like he did when he became president.
Brenc1 3 years ago
george bush is more cowheaded than mitt romney. they remain confused.
utubeisamotherfucker 3 years ago
get this man an oscar...pronto
GEOpz838 3 years ago 2
Bush deserves four more years!
cspencer2001 3 years ago 2
Yes. In Guantanamo Bay prison.
naganorisama 3 years ago
ya I think hes got some brain problems now he spoke so much better back then
wpgziggy 3 years ago
wow this looks like a completely different man
karina1510 3 years ago
after an attack on our soil, trying to protect 305 million people, and dealing with economic downfall.. you'll change a little bit
Briantino 3 years ago 2
lol
163Chaos 3 years ago
and Hurricane Katrina !!!
XxXxxXxxX72 3 years ago
Exactly, what did people expect him to do? Go to New Orleans and physically HELP people seek shelter and bring them water?
Briantino 3 years ago
I don't know why people blame everything on him, the economy blame the SEC for not doing their jobs when they have been warned numerous times, Katrina, well didn't Rita hit shortly after, it doesn't make sense to me to send troops when they're gonna get wiped out by another hurricane, Iraq well I think we should have went in with more of an Iron fist type policy until it was stable, For people who respond to this give valid reasons for why you hate Bush, most of yall tell the same story,
repwin 3 years ago
If Bush takes the credit for everything good that happened when he was President shouldn't he also get the blame for everything that is wrong with the USA as well?After 8 years of W america is worse off,thank god he's out of office.
WhiteArmy1918 3 years ago 3
They don't understand that the Neo-Conservatives have hijacked his foreign policy. You have to remember, he was campaigning to have a humble foreign policy.
We went to Iraq without a declaration and they were not a threat to our security.
Ron Paul hits the nail on the head about that.
PVJared 3 years ago
this guy is so dangerous because he was underestimated as a baffoon. while he comes off as unassuming he has done more damage to the U.S. than any other president in recent history - by design, not accident. watching his videos of 2000 now, almost every word out of his mouth flew in the face of his policies for the last 8 years.
ajacksb 3 years ago 4
saying underestimated, you reminded me of a certain austrian guy that was underestimated in germany... and everyone knows how bad that turned out.
RotzKotzere 3 years ago
What fools the Bush voters were in 2000! He hasn't kept a single promise.
whoo689 3 years ago
My fellow Americans, you voted for this sh--head. Not once but twice. Now you have the sheer audacity to complain that you're losing your jobs, and your homes, and your 401(k)s. You're b-tching about the Iraq War and high gas prices. Spare us the sob stories. You're getting exactlly what you deserve.
sean2015 3 years ago
Correction, he stole both the 2000 and the 2004 election. Al Gore. I may not have been 18 back in 2000, but I supported Bush because he campaigned for a humble foreign policy. The Republican Party now is in shambles.
Ron Paul should've been our President.
PVJared 3 years ago
I think you're an idiot for having supported Bush back in 2000, but on the other hand I respect you for being man enough to admit that truth that Bush and Cheney stole the 2000 and 2004 elections. And yes, the GOP is crumbling. But no, Paul will never be president. He does not have enough of a support base.
sean2015 3 years ago
Many of us supported Bush back in 2000. He did campaign for a humble foreign policy and less government. Unfortunately, I'm one of the few that remember what he was campaigning for. The Neo-Cons ended up taking over his foreign policy. They did the same thing to Reagan.
Ron Paul had quite a support base, but it shrunk because McCain, Huckabee, and Romney stole his show. FOX News locked him out of the debate and that's how he ended up losing.
PVJared 3 years ago
I hate to belabor the obvious, but people supported Bush solely because of his last name. Nothing else.
sean2015 3 years ago
I bet he put white stuff in that coffee, but it wasn't sugar.
KaworuKunIsMyLuvr 3 years ago
Damm what an fuckin idiot will he get the fuck out of there already ?
hola7890 3 years ago
damn bush looks 20 years older now. Look at clinton/bush debates clinton looked like he put on 20 years too. Obama looks like he's put on 10 prior to even taking oath.
swixican 3 years ago
yes, he does. And Bush speaks SO much slower now. I guess then he was younger and eager to impress--now he's a two term president whose been through a lot of crap.
wonkacorp 3 years ago
the president is a tough job LOL
qv76 3 years ago
I'd say the US is essentially a centre-right country now.
fdantheman 3 years ago
I would have to disagree with that assessment. Democrats control 58 seats in the senate, Obama won in a landslide victory over a center right republican. I would say America right now is searching for ANYONE and ANYTHING that can get us out of this economic mess.
bigbossman999 3 years ago 3
i voted for bush twice, and obama this time around, but one thing poeple seem to forget, promise and hopes for peace go out the window after 9/11....he was put in a bad spot...he did what he thought he had to...not a smart man...but he does have heart..
yankee22167 3 years ago
3000 deaths on 911 was not a legitimate reason to inflict hundreds of thousands of Iraqy civilians deaths, during the war. It was also not the reason to flush U.S global reputation down the toilet. Bush had 9 months to do something about Bin Laden, when Clinton transfered the gathered inteligence on the potential attack to him. He did nothing!And after 911 his presidency got hijacked by the neocon and evangelical agenda.I do believe that he was acting for the greater good in his mind though!
andron333 3 years ago 3
well everyones a critic.....you and me didnt have to make any hard calls after 9/11,he did, after all he was put in that situation. I'm just glad this generation didnt have to fight WWII....cuz we would all be in knee high boots.....Americans, we just dont have the will anymore.
yankee22167 3 years ago
You voted for Bush twice, and then you voted for Obama. Not many people would be willing to admit these things, so I admire your courage.
sean2015 3 years ago
Neo-cons are the only Republicans who have a shot at office. America is a liberal country.
Neo-cons are just the people who are willing to sell out their values in order to get into office, and then when they get there, they steer sharply to the right.
Its the only way conservatives get into office in a leftist country.
God I hate liberals. They're so open minded and progressive.
Mplessor 3 years ago
That's because he's a neo-conservative. Neo-cons are far to the left of what most people would consider a conservative Republican.
cocacola443 3 years ago
Is it me or does he seem alot smarter?
ColdHardNews 3 years ago 5