This is gonna go off topic for a bit, but people gotta understand that Republicans have been slamming Obama for a bunch of little issues, like the maneuver with branching our troops out from Afghanastan (good or bad, thats irrelevant and also minor). But if one took a moment to observe, he/she would notice that most Democrats complaining about Bush have a mirroring tone to the Republicans complaining about Obama.
@leonarddaccardi Are those the same balls he utilised when he went to Vietnam with the other draftees? Oh no thats right he got daddy to duck him out of it. Cretin coward cunt that he is.
i didn't see the buttplugs being passed around. truman are you kidding me? this is like deciding between swanson and mortons? give me a break who the fuck do you think your fooling?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it President Harry Truman who created the National Security State-- perpetuating the Military-Industrial-Complex? Didn't we choose to take Nazi Secret Police and create our own Secret Police? Who operate without oversight?
False Flag, anyone? I say yes-- to even 9/11/2001 to being false flage. Why else did Bush stall any investigation for over one year? Refuse to go under oath, etc...
@gamesbok I would believe it! Did you see the video Thom Hartmann did about CIA involvement in the murder of JFK? It was on the Discovery Channel last year 11-22-2009. Part of the title is: "Did the mob kill JFK?"
Turns out Nixon was involved, the mob -- and the CIA. Even my jaw hit the floor, and I'm an old cynic.
"like Truman" HAH well i guess that means reagan and nixon we're like trumans too, and.... oh never mind THEY'RE ALL very very very dissapointing to me, only doing policies that they themselves would allow.
When 10,000 refugees a month poor back into a free Iraq to return to terrorist free homes and the LIBERAL MEDIA refuses it a front page, the credibility of journalism--save Fox--disappears as fast as Obama's popularity. As it is, the brave soldiers and Iraqis with voter stamped thumbs must carry the parade of victory silently in their hearts...a liberal insult as brazen as being spit on.
Its amazing how ignorant commie loving liberals can be. When someone like Bush declares war and people die its OH MY GOD TERRIBLE, but when upwards of 100 million people die in the name of communism its fine.
He did a good job? No wonder I have never heard of this interviewer. Invading foreign countries and creating enemies for us, spending us in to oblivion, his support of any and all NEW WORLD ORDER BS (why don't you dopes talk about his support of the NORTH AMERICAN UNION?????) , his support of Amnesty, you guys don't have to look far to see how horrible he was.
@ScottfromTexas. Yeah, and not to mention that Iraq was a peaceful and democratic nation before that evil Bush dictator arrived. I remember Saddam as a graceful and caring man who only tried to do what was best for his country through chemical and nuclear development, and if that meant killing thousands of Kurdish women & children so be it! Bush be damned!
@csrocker101 History is written by the victor. His mistake was that he was relatively pacifistic when he needed to lead his nation to victory. If he had nuked the globe and then the presidential bunker were the only ones to survive repopulate earth (through good'ol southern inbreeding) after fallout, I bet future history would be very flutering towards him. GUDDAMN LIBERULS, you destroyed the reputation of a good patriot!
Exactly. YOU made millions. No one else did. During his administration and because of his policies he caused the WORST financial crises since the great depression. Trillions of dollar were lost, thousands of people lost everything HOWEVER; that is all over-ruled by the fact YOU made millions of dollars. Congratulations. Have fun driving your Hummer and shopping at Wal-Mart.
@csrocker101 I don't drive a hummer, I drive a honda......I don't show off my wealth, I save it for a rainny day while you idiot communist scum bought a house that was out of your price range....as usual the Liberals piss and moan they lost....well too bad
K...nice rebuttal. Did you know your buddy George Dubya was also responsible for the LARGEST corporate welfare program ever? The Federal government gave 800 billion dollars to the banks and various other corporations. Not to mention he signed into law a HUGE entitlement program for seniors: Medicare Part D dramatically expanding the federal government. So I guess he is in your argument a "communist".
"one of the reasons barack obama did so well was because he spoke to people who wanted a president...who didn't always seem to be looking at the note cards."
Respectfully, even if that's true you can't argue that he doesn't deliver very powerful speeches. That takes more than just reading a teleprompter. Bush had teleprompters and stumbled on words and gave some of the worst public speeches of our country.
Well can you blame them for being "snookered?" How else are you going to know about a candidate other than when he speaks? I mean you do here commentary and his policies but the only interaction the average American will have with a candidate is when they see him speak on TV.
Bush was still elected to two terms in office, so, evidently the sub-par speeches he delivered did not hurt him too much. Obama has been criticized for being too smooth with speeches and using a prompter. It has not hurt him too much either. Everyone has speech writers. Most have teleprompters. Who cares. What they are actually saying and doing are the things that matter.
Bush may have been a good reader of people, but he was a poor manager. He let Dick Cheney run much of US foreign policy (see Iraq) and he legislated directly to his base of wealthy people. The US was much bigger and more diverse than the Bush administration would allow and that bit McCain in the butt in 2008. The aftermath of Bush is the Birther folks, and they are scared because the kind of privileged mainly white and monied power structure that died with Bush is not coming back.
FRTothus: Less than 600,000 Japanese civilians lost their lives in WW2.(as opposed to 4 MILLION innocent Chinese massacred by the Japanese in China alone). Truman regretted how the CIA evolved, but felt it necessary to balance Soviet expansion at the time. He seriously CUT defense spending,fired Gen MacArthur, partly for ignoring his orders NOT to provoke the Chinese in Korea. Vietnam was not even a blip on theTruman adminstrations' radar. Created the Marshall Plan to SAVE millions of lives.
@guderian2000 If you ask me, Dresden's carpet bombing might have killed more civilians than Hiroshima's but at least there they had a chance to take a cover. Nukes don't spare you that... On the other hand at that time they might had honestly thought that "duck and cover" was a good idea when you are nuked.
Since the Bush Adminnistration failed to protecting the people and have corrupted the promises of the American society, already has sealed all of our fate.
And now, Bush's name is now remembered in history in shame.
Truman murdered millions of innocent civilians in Japan, instituted the American National Security State, continued American imperialism and war-time levels of military spending, oversaw the importation of the Nazis into US "intelligence" (Op. Paperclip), destroyed the anti-fascist forces all over Europe, provoked China through Korea, and laid the groundwork for Vietnam. Just another in the long line of American war criminals posing as "leaders".
Bush had the ability to make monstrous decisions & lay his head down to sleep at night because (as spoiled elite) he has never been accountable for anything. Why would he have learned the skill of introspection?
If there is any gift that history will offer him & his presidency, it is humor born out of retrospection & relief that he is now harmless.
If you want to know the truth about 'Bu-ll Sh-it', the fascist pig, and 911, all you have to do is Google Bertha Champagne or read about her in the Washington Post archives. And ask yourself why you've never heard of her? And why you've never heard of Marvin Bush's connections to 911 locations through Securacom and insurance on the WTC at his next job with HCC Insurance. Bu-ll Sh-it should be tried and hanged for treason, short and simple. Enjoy the financial demolition they engineered.
You wish it wasn't so " weird bunker mentality", jury rigged, House of card, WMD, a bigger man....
You mean you wish Cheney hadn't completely run things?
Bush isn't comparable to Truman. Bush is the triumph of anti-intellectualism. Bush IS more like Reagan. Cheney is more like his old boss Nixon. Nope....to Truman
There are certain things about Bush that cannot be changed over time, they will not get better. Like 9/11. The financial crisis. Starting a preemptive war on flimsy if not outright false pretenses. Katrina. Abu Ghraib and U.S. human rights abuses.
And as for his vision, I don't see his preemptive strike and implement democracy at the point of a gun as being something that will look better over time.
Yea Bush invaded another country but you have to remember that after 911, almost every person in America was blood thirsty for revenge. The loudest cheers he ever received in any speech were the ones that came after he uttered the words "we will have to disarm Saddam by force". So did he invade Iraq for no reason? perhaps, but the American people were on board with him up until a year after the occupation.
what makes you a great president: lots of bad shit happening on your watch that causes you to have to kill millions of people while looking like you're defending the innocent. That, or get assassinated.
@Shadizar666 guess what bush did what the people wanted at the time and is a pariah now look at it you call bush the evil hatemonger cuz someone or something told u so or gas prices are blamed on bush read the man first
If the Truman Doctrine says we can support foreign govts in their own internal battles, the Bush Doctrine says that we can invade other countries for flimsy, at best, reasons. I don't know enough about the political climate in the late 40s, but Bush's philosophy about causus belli and the powers of the president can only have a negative impact on this country's future.
My point is, you have to see the good in Bush to know what to talk bad about him.
culbertsonew 2 months ago
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This is gonna go off topic for a bit, but people gotta understand that Republicans have been slamming Obama for a bunch of little issues, like the maneuver with branching our troops out from Afghanastan (good or bad, thats irrelevant and also minor). But if one took a moment to observe, he/she would notice that most Democrats complaining about Bush have a mirroring tone to the Republicans complaining about Obama.
culbertsonew 2 months ago
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culbertsonew 2 months ago
Compare one administration to another one 100 years ago... a journalistic non-question to set the imagination down a path to nowhere.
mlawren7 2 months ago
Bush was a puppet. A lot of presidents are puppets in one way or another but he was the most obvious. I doubt he devised ten per cent of his policy.
TheSinestr 7 months ago
george bush has more class and intellegence and BALLS than these 3 put together!
leonarddaccardi 1 year ago
@leonarddaccardi Are those the same balls he utilised when he went to Vietnam with the other draftees? Oh no thats right he got daddy to duck him out of it. Cretin coward cunt that he is.
hsybcmpny 1 year ago
i didn't see the buttplugs being passed around. truman are you kidding me? this is like deciding between swanson and mortons? give me a break who the fuck do you think your fooling?
up2space 1 year ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it President Harry Truman who created the National Security State-- perpetuating the Military-Industrial-Complex? Didn't we choose to take Nazi Secret Police and create our own Secret Police? Who operate without oversight?
False Flag, anyone? I say yes-- to even 9/11/2001 to being false flage. Why else did Bush stall any investigation for over one year? Refuse to go under oath, etc...
greatbroad 1 year ago
@greatbroad I believe Truman claimed the CIA was out of control two years after he created it.
gamesbok 1 year ago
@gamesbok I would believe it! Did you see the video Thom Hartmann did about CIA involvement in the murder of JFK? It was on the Discovery Channel last year 11-22-2009. Part of the title is: "Did the mob kill JFK?"
Turns out Nixon was involved, the mob -- and the CIA. Even my jaw hit the floor, and I'm an old cynic.
greatbroad 1 year ago
"like Truman" HAH well i guess that means reagan and nixon we're like trumans too, and.... oh never mind THEY'RE ALL very very very dissapointing to me, only doing policies that they themselves would allow.
BagpipeHustler 1 year ago
bull shit man! thats some BULLSHIT!!! THATS SOME BULL SHITTY SHIT!!!!
swampalex 1 year ago
When 10,000 refugees a month poor back into a free Iraq to return to terrorist free homes and the LIBERAL MEDIA refuses it a front page, the credibility of journalism--save Fox--disappears as fast as Obama's popularity. As it is, the brave soldiers and Iraqis with voter stamped thumbs must carry the parade of victory silently in their hearts...a liberal insult as brazen as being spit on.
Chiangmai007 1 year ago
Its amazing how ignorant commie loving liberals can be. When someone like Bush declares war and people die its OH MY GOD TERRIBLE, but when upwards of 100 million people die in the name of communism its fine.
WOWkitePWN 1 year ago 2
The nigga bought aluminum tubes! Aluminum!!!!
Ladiestreat 1 year ago 3
He did a good job? No wonder I have never heard of this interviewer. Invading foreign countries and creating enemies for us, spending us in to oblivion, his support of any and all NEW WORLD ORDER BS (why don't you dopes talk about his support of the NORTH AMERICAN UNION?????) , his support of Amnesty, you guys don't have to look far to see how horrible he was.
ScottfromTexas 2 years ago
@ScottfromTexas. Yeah, and not to mention that Iraq was a peaceful and democratic nation before that evil Bush dictator arrived. I remember Saddam as a graceful and caring man who only tried to do what was best for his country through chemical and nuclear development, and if that meant killing thousands of Kurdish women & children so be it! Bush be damned!
andro89 1 year ago
@andro89 - ELECTRICITY levels still aren't at pre-war levels. LOL! What a joke.
ScottfromTexas 1 year ago
Bush was the closest thing to Hitler that our country has ever seen. Fear mongering nightmare.
jfarris4417 2 years ago
@jfarris4417 no actualy woodrow wilson was the closest thing to it read your history carefully
TheNekoman123 1 year ago
"How Will History View the Bush Administration?"
A complete and utter failure.
csrocker101 2 years ago 16
I agree
atlantoon 2 years ago
@csrocker101 History is written by the victor. His mistake was that he was relatively pacifistic when he needed to lead his nation to victory. If he had nuked the globe and then the presidential bunker were the only ones to survive repopulate earth (through good'ol southern inbreeding) after fallout, I bet future history would be very flutering towards him. GUDDAMN LIBERULS, you destroyed the reputation of a good patriot!
DINDRAGON 1 year ago
@DINDRAGON
Amen Brother! Dey took er jobs! Glenn Beck 2012! Tea Party Lube!
csrocker101 1 year ago
@csrocker101 oh blow me, during his adminstration, I made millions
gopconservative78 8 months ago
@gopconservative78
Exactly. YOU made millions. No one else did. During his administration and because of his policies he caused the WORST financial crises since the great depression. Trillions of dollar were lost, thousands of people lost everything HOWEVER; that is all over-ruled by the fact YOU made millions of dollars. Congratulations. Have fun driving your Hummer and shopping at Wal-Mart.
csrocker101 8 months ago
@csrocker101 I don't drive a hummer, I drive a honda......I don't show off my wealth, I save it for a rainny day while you idiot communist scum bought a house that was out of your price range....as usual the Liberals piss and moan they lost....well too bad
gopconservative78 8 months ago
@gopconservative78
K...nice rebuttal. Did you know your buddy George Dubya was also responsible for the LARGEST corporate welfare program ever? The Federal government gave 800 billion dollars to the banks and various other corporations. Not to mention he signed into law a HUGE entitlement program for seniors: Medicare Part D dramatically expanding the federal government. So I guess he is in your argument a "communist".
csrocker101 8 months ago
"one of the reasons barack obama did so well was because he spoke to people who wanted a president...who didn't always seem to be looking at the note cards."
One word...TELEPROMPTER.
kbr7171 2 years ago
Respectfully, even if that's true you can't argue that he doesn't deliver very powerful speeches. That takes more than just reading a teleprompter. Bush had teleprompters and stumbled on words and gave some of the worst public speeches of our country.
csrocker101 2 years ago
he is a great speaker which is why so many people get snookered by him
kbr7171 2 years ago
Well can you blame them for being "snookered?" How else are you going to know about a candidate other than when he speaks? I mean you do here commentary and his policies but the only interaction the average American will have with a candidate is when they see him speak on TV.
csrocker101 2 years ago
Bush was still elected to two terms in office, so, evidently the sub-par speeches he delivered did not hurt him too much. Obama has been criticized for being too smooth with speeches and using a prompter. It has not hurt him too much either. Everyone has speech writers. Most have teleprompters. Who cares. What they are actually saying and doing are the things that matter.
mkamaryn 2 years ago
cause Bush never used one...oh i forgot he did, but he was to stupid to read it properly
DaytonaRoadster 2 years ago
Bush may have been a good reader of people, but he was a poor manager. He let Dick Cheney run much of US foreign policy (see Iraq) and he legislated directly to his base of wealthy people. The US was much bigger and more diverse than the Bush administration would allow and that bit McCain in the butt in 2008. The aftermath of Bush is the Birther folks, and they are scared because the kind of privileged mainly white and monied power structure that died with Bush is not coming back.
Tippersnore 2 years ago
GW Bush was a great President derided by the media.
For the last comment to say that Obama is legit when speaking and that Bush was like a deer looking into headlights is stupid.
This kind of commentary makes the Hoover Institute look stupid.
knoxlong 2 years ago
He did not adequately defend us from attack on 9/11 when they were well warned. Vacation in Crawford.
Started illegal, unjust and immoral war in Iraq.
Financial meltdown because his regulators asleep on the job. Corporate welfare.
Possibly worst ever.
tapeatsbill 2 years ago
When you really think about it
SouthernRebeler 2 years ago
FRTothus: Less than 600,000 Japanese civilians lost their lives in WW2.(as opposed to 4 MILLION innocent Chinese massacred by the Japanese in China alone). Truman regretted how the CIA evolved, but felt it necessary to balance Soviet expansion at the time. He seriously CUT defense spending,fired Gen MacArthur, partly for ignoring his orders NOT to provoke the Chinese in Korea. Vietnam was not even a blip on theTruman adminstrations' radar. Created the Marshall Plan to SAVE millions of lives.
drysdale65 3 years ago
So because the Japanese army behaved atrociously in China that justified a bombing campaign by the USAAF that killed mostly non-combatants?
guderian2000 2 years ago 7
@guderian2000 If you ask me, Dresden's carpet bombing might have killed more civilians than Hiroshima's but at least there they had a chance to take a cover. Nukes don't spare you that... On the other hand at that time they might had honestly thought that "duck and cover" was a good idea when you are nuked.
DINDRAGON 1 year ago
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culbertsonew 2 months ago
Since the Bush Adminnistration failed to protecting the people and have corrupted the promises of the American society, already has sealed all of our fate.
And now, Bush's name is now remembered in history in shame.
Spriggangirl 3 years ago
1:10 WAIT why are we getting paid to talk about GB
kurtsbyotch 3 years ago
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general010 2 years ago
Truman murdered millions of innocent civilians in Japan, instituted the American National Security State, continued American imperialism and war-time levels of military spending, oversaw the importation of the Nazis into US "intelligence" (Op. Paperclip), destroyed the anti-fascist forces all over Europe, provoked China through Korea, and laid the groundwork for Vietnam. Just another in the long line of American war criminals posing as "leaders".
FRTothus 3 years ago 2
"He did a good job in call kinds of way" ???? All those ways must not have mattered.
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BillyCronin822 3 years ago
Bush had the ability to make monstrous decisions & lay his head down to sleep at night because (as spoiled elite) he has never been accountable for anything. Why would he have learned the skill of introspection?
If there is any gift that history will offer him & his presidency, it is humor born out of retrospection & relief that he is now harmless.
BabetteBombshell 3 years ago
If you want to know the truth about 'Bu-ll Sh-it', the fascist pig, and 911, all you have to do is Google Bertha Champagne or read about her in the Washington Post archives. And ask yourself why you've never heard of her? And why you've never heard of Marvin Bush's connections to 911 locations through Securacom and insurance on the WTC at his next job with HCC Insurance. Bu-ll Sh-it should be tried and hanged for treason, short and simple. Enjoy the financial demolition they engineered.
CTTBA 3 years ago
You wish it wasn't so " weird bunker mentality", jury rigged, House of card, WMD, a bigger man....
You mean you wish Cheney hadn't completely run things?
Bush isn't comparable to Truman. Bush is the triumph of anti-intellectualism. Bush IS more like Reagan. Cheney is more like his old boss Nixon. Nope....to Truman
Mmmmmmmbacon 3 years ago
people are going to view Bush like Nixon
RobertAlly 3 years ago
There are certain things about Bush that cannot be changed over time, they will not get better. Like 9/11. The financial crisis. Starting a preemptive war on flimsy if not outright false pretenses. Katrina. Abu Ghraib and U.S. human rights abuses.
And as for his vision, I don't see his preemptive strike and implement democracy at the point of a gun as being something that will look better over time.
billthebutcher2 3 years ago
So what are we saying, that both truman and bush are psychopaths, they can kill and then sleep at night? Jury rigged is right...
hurchel 3 years ago
Yea Bush invaded another country but you have to remember that after 911, almost every person in America was blood thirsty for revenge. The loudest cheers he ever received in any speech were the ones that came after he uttered the words "we will have to disarm Saddam by force". So did he invade Iraq for no reason? perhaps, but the American people were on board with him up until a year after the occupation.
qpwnsall 3 years ago
truth and reconciliation! (also is Andrew Ferguson actually zombie Kurt Vonnegut?!)
Nilopollis 3 years ago
History is a great trickster. It wouldn't surprise me if the world forgets W in 50 years; or if Yassir Arafat is remembered for 500
Mugzie69 3 years ago
Hell the world was already trying to forget Bush before he even left office.
billthebutcher2 3 years ago
what worries me is this is all about "appearance" and not about substance.
Is this how we determine history?
RationalLiberty 3 years ago 2
Sadly and unfortunately, yes.
pakratmak 3 years ago
what makes you a great president: lots of bad shit happening on your watch that causes you to have to kill millions of people while looking like you're defending the innocent. That, or get assassinated.
d3p3ch3mod3 3 years ago
Only if you let him get away with it
The people of america need to arrest his ass
And make him accountable
The president isn't the most powerful man on earth!
He is the SERVANT of the people of the most powerful country on earth
And if bush isn't held accountable for his crimes
The american PEOPLE lose the freedoms the founding fathers fought for
When a president makes an inaugural speech, he should be pissing his pants
Shadizar666 3 years ago
@Shadizar666 guess what bush did what the people wanted at the time and is a pariah now look at it you call bush the evil hatemonger cuz someone or something told u so or gas prices are blamed on bush read the man first
TheNekoman123 1 year ago
If the Truman Doctrine says we can support foreign govts in their own internal battles, the Bush Doctrine says that we can invade other countries for flimsy, at best, reasons. I don't know enough about the political climate in the late 40s, but Bush's philosophy about causus belli and the powers of the president can only have a negative impact on this country's future.
eirefrance 3 years ago