Bush Guru Says President’s Bond with U.S. ‘May Be Lost’

Mr. Bush is a lost cause because his house of cards was just that. He is just another typical politician that blathers words to fit a mold but really doesn’t have any foundation from which to stand.
He is a hypocrit of the ultimate kind, which is part of why our political system in general is so bankrupt. The Republicans are the stooges of Corporations and K Street and the Democrats are beholden to archaic and corrupt Unions and populism.
What is the informed citizen to do in such a situation? How do we even acknowledge an election as a ‘choice’? Bush is just a part of a bigger problem, one that is mainly the fault of Americans themselves and their lack of understanding, education and interest in their country and political system.
The comments thus far reflect those sentiments exactly.

Bush never had a “bond” with America. He was barely elected running against poor opponents, his first election had to be decided by a conservative supreme court. He got his wish to go to war and now and forever will be known as the Alfred E. Newman of American presidents. He has spent the little capital he had. It is gone, but there never was a bond.

President’s Bond With US ‘May be Lost’.
MAY be lost?
Have you been living under a rock for the last year or so?

Bushes legacy has been lost due to his loyalty to the Corporations and dis-loyalty to the American people his Anti-immigration law bill and pro Free trade (i.e. exporting American Jobs) will bury him and his republican party faster than the war on Iraq I voted for him both times but I will not vote ever again for another so-called free trader

Give me a break with the histrionics. Bush isn’t Washington or Lincoln, and he hasn’t yet fought to win in Iraq. But he’s also overseen the freeing of millions of people and enacted policies that have kept us from domestic attack for five-plus years in an age where millions of dangerous people very much want nothing else but to see us all dead. He’s also the first U.S. President since the days of the Barbary pirates, including his father and Clinton and Reagan, to see Islamic extremism as the threat it truly is and to do something about it.
I know, I know. Halliburton Bush is Dumb Bush Lied Chimpy McSmirk. But after you’re done, take a grown up look at what’s really happened.

IRAN SUX: Buddy, you got that all wrong.
The US in Iraq = the Problem.
Wake up and smell the reality.

There is an old saying – “People deserve the government they elect”. What we have today is NOT the fault of George Bush but the fault of every single American that voted for him and his cronies – SHAME ON ALL OF YOU!

Bush should be impeached for not only mis managing Iraq, he got us in but won’t let the generals finish the job. In addition he has thrown open the borders, put border patrol agents in jail on the word of a repeat drug smuggler, he is bringing in 7000 refugees from Iraq, he has just made a worse deal with North Korea than Clinton did. I am a life long conservative and voted for Bush twice and he has destroyed the Republican Party. He has guaranteed Hillary as our next President and a Democrat Congress for years unless the Republicans in Congress start the process to remove him from office and get back to the true roots of the party. Frank

If you think we have problems now wait until a million people from Iraq are allowed in to the US because of the collapse that follows our withdrawal. And these people will not be vetted any better than the Bosnian that terrorized the Mall in Utah.

Charles Krauthammer said it best and it applies to the mainstream media and most of the posters here: “Bush Derangement Syndrome: the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency — nay — the very existence of George W. Bush.”

Pres. Bush has his hands tied… and that is ashame. What we really need to do is drop a big one on Mecca. Years ago, another Presidential canidate mentioned, put the walls up around the US, and he was taken down… no this logic makes more sense… Yes, US=freedom… but it does not mean coming into the country, and trying to change what the US stands for….

I believe Bush wasted his capitol with the American People by an authoritarian leadership style that might have worked 60 years ago, but will not make it in today’s world.
I believe Bush does have good motives and the hate speech against him has been shrill. It is a sad day when both sides are so interested in power that they cannot work together for the common good.
BTW I voted for Bush both times.
More then Bush is to blame here.

BUSH IS A BOUGHT OFF WHITE DEVIL. THE IRAQ WAR IS A SMOKE SCREEN TO LET ALL THE 3RD WORLD SQUATTERS INTO THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY TO TAKE ALL THE JOBS AWAY FROM THE MIDDLE CLASS.
STOP VOTING DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN. THEY ARE ALL TRAITORS.
THESE DEVILS WANT TO PROPOGATE FEAR SO THEY CAN CONTROL YOU.
THE ONLY TERRORIST IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

Bush will become more popular again as we start improving things in Iraq. Americans tend to be very impatient and the fight against dictators and terrorism is a long one. The results will eventually improve and Bush will be vindicated. He is a courageous man.

These Bush people don’t get it.
They abandoned their base.
They’ve flooded the country with nearly 40-50 million illegal aliens. Do you like the idea of gang-bangers in your neighborhood?(If you don’t perceive the danger of that, then you live in a gated community or they haven’t reached your town in significant numbers yet.)
They flood the country with muslims. Now they’re about to let in 7,000 Iraqis.
High tech jobs are going to H1-B visa foreigners who’re working taking high tech jobs from Americans because they’ll work for a lower salary.
US companies outsourcing jobs overseas.
Is this what US troops are risking their lives for?
What so corporate America can continue on in its status quo and so tens years from now they can open up Starbucks coffee shops throughout the Middle East?
America today is only a shell of its glorious past.

My question has always been, “Are we at war or not?” It is like being half-pregnant. Either fight the damn war, which includes protecting OUR BORDERS, and sealing ALL BORDERS INTO AND OUT OF IRAQ, or just getting the hell out! We must fight this war 100% all-out and quit screwing around or there WILL be more blown up American buildings thanks to Islamists.

I served in Iraq for nearly two years as a civilian US government employee. I voted for Bush in 2000 and traveled to Florida to help him win the recount there. I voted absentee from Baghdad for Bush in 2004.
Bush’s failure to plan for postwar Iraq is catastrophic and astounding. Everybody had a postwar plan EXCEPT THE U.S.!!!! All the countries surrounding Iraq had a plan for when the Americans took out Saddam. The interests within Iraq, the Sunnis, the Shia, the Kurds, all had plans. Osama bin Laden made preparations, as did Moqtada al Sadr. But the arrogance and hubris of Bush and his top advisors prevented a postwar plan in the rush to WAR WAR WAR.

Draft Jenna.

Bush may have made mistakes, but things could of been a lot worse. At least the American people were smart enough not to put John Kerry in the white house. That would have been a greater mistake than the sum of Bush’s. For all those people out there that hate America, you know who you are, Liberals, Democrats, the news media.. Please feel free to leave.

the weakest generation ought to grow the hell up. 3000 war dead in 4 years is tragic for the families, but insignificant to a nation of 250+ million. We need to stay in Iraq, take out Iran BEFORE they get Nukes, and close our border to illegals.

Matt wants to talk facts, but then he lists the Republican talking points from 2002! Saddam, in 2003 was a paper tiger. The control that the world had over his regime was nearly complete. He had no WMD. Remember that it was the United States that supported his war with Iran and provided the material for his horrors, which all occurred ten years before we invaded. The war had nothing to do with him…it had to do with providing the US with a “footprint” in the Middle East, control over the second largest oil supply, thus preventing China and India from that control, the need to protect Israel, and the requirement of keeping the dollar as the exchange for oil. All of this occurred while providing billions of dollars for friends and supporters. Read any of ten books out today on the failures of this war. We are now in a untenable position, aligned against all of Islam, made worse by incompetence and confusion. To ask the world to put up with our failures and to insist on staying with failed policy only makes our nation look foolish and arrogant.

Junior has proven to be only slightly more conservative than Senior. Did you really expect more? As for the war, it has been clear for 2 years that the Iraq people need to fight for their country. We need only decide how long we are willing to wait.

It is disloyal to lie. Bush@Co lied to the American people. They believed that the end justified the means.
This “breaking of the bond” is what happens to relationships that are built on lies. When the truth comes out, and you know you have been disrespected, there just is no way to forgive.

The Dems allowed us to get here as well. We all voted Democratic to stop this war. And what are they doing about it? Nothing. I personally am sending $1,000 to the Libertarian Party. Our government has run amok. Chevron and BP control the USA.

How would you define “BOND”? President Bush has lost nothing of his bond with the American people…and he has not lost his faith. We, as a country, are not getting the full story in the mideast. The beltway egos have no shame in their duplicity.

Folks…. settle down and realize it will be decades before we understand a number of critical questions. Are the islamists a real threat to the U.S. or have they just been blowing smoke over the last decade that our country is the devil and needs to be wiped off the face of the earth? Does Bush emerge as a historic individual who had the courage to face a serious world threat, or a misguided President who had no idea what he was doing? Keep in mind that Lincoln was assailed with venom in his day only to be heralded a century and a half later so until history plays out we are doing nothing more than short term Monday morning quaterbacking.

The said the same thing about Vietnam. They were afraid to pull out because the country would collapse. It never happened.
Worst President EVER
It’s sad that he represents a country of which 90% of its residents are smarter than him.
He is the face of America. No wonder everyone hates us.

People have short memorys. Bush does not. He knows we are in a war with islamo facism we must win. 9-11 was a small taste of what is to come if we do not confront this enemy. Sure, mistakes were made. So there are in EVERY war. Lincoln made many too in a very unpopular war. ALL wars are unpopular. That does not mean they are not necessary to the survival of democracy. Democrats encourage the enemy. The mainstream media with it’s anti Bush bias and bias by omission of news helps the enemy.
Islamo facists will not stop. EVER. They don’t care if we pull out of Iraq or not. They want us all dead or converted to radical islam. WAKE UP! Support the troops! Support the mission for God sake, because if we do not, 9-11 will seem like a pleasant memory.

History will be the ultimate judge of the Bush presidency. Polls mean nothing because people are only reacting to the news of the day.
Lincoln was considered a failed president during the Civil War but later generations consider him one of America’s best presidents.
Decades from now people might look back at the Bush presidency as a bold presidency that changed the world and protected the American way of life from those that want to destroy it.
No monuments have even been built for critics and nay-sayers. History will not remember Pelosi or Murtha or Reid. Bush will either be known as a great president or a failed president but at least he dared to fight when others wanted to put their heads in the sand and hope our enemies would leave us alone.

This so called Bush Guru was a presidential campaign strategist not a policy strategist. His job, as a “senior strategist”, was to get Bush elected in 2000. He aparently was promoted to “chief strategist” for the 2004 re-election.
His job was not to form policy.
ABC News is a sham. This article is not even news it is biased partisan commentary and anti-American propaganda.

For those who dismissed the weight of Dowd’s opinion and those of the other 15 individuals referenced in this article as coming coming from Democrats, a widipedia check of the bios of Marvin Olasky, Donald Evans, Bruce Bartlett and Niall Ferguson is suggested.

Funny how all of these people who have never been to war are telling us how they are saving our military. This war might well have been optional at the time. It no longer is. And as far as what is going right and what is going wrong in Iraq, who could tell by reading the left wing crap out there. Talk to some soldiers, saliors and marines who have been there. Many of whom are actually volunteering to go back for addtional tours. Not something you would think from reading stuff from you guys. Most of the Iraq Vetersans tell a different story then what you get on NBC or CNN. Al Anbar provience has come a long way in the last year. The Marines on the ground there tell me that the Iraq tribal leaders are actually stepping forward to help stop this cycle of violence. Oh, by the way, they just opened another new school in Al Anbar.

All the words in the world can’t hide the fact that our military has been hijacked by the Neocons. Our people are NOT dying for our freedom, or our future. They _are_ dying to secure wealth for Cheney,Bush,and their cronies. So when your boy comes home in a box, at least you can be sure that a buck was made by his sacrafice.

The government leadership in this country has lost its “bond” with America. No one on either side of the aisle makes any attempt to build consensus or negotiate compromises anymore. The trouble is our so-called leaders are too busy lining their own pockets and the pockets of their friends while patting themselves on the back to care what Americans think. Of course, pandering to the latest poll is when they pay lip service to what Americans think. What a crock of crooks.

What I don’t understand is why grant asylum to 7,000 Iraqis? I mean, I know their country is war-torn and all… but one of Bush’s talking points for years now has been “We’re fighting this war there so they don’t bring it here.”
Um… YOU’RE bringing them here. Good job, Einstein.

Americans are the most stupid, weakest and certainly the most whining people in the world! How many were killed in 9/11? 3000! that is not even a portion of the people dead in Dresden, Berlin, Tokyo, not mention Hiroshima because of the American bombings….

I hate to break it to many of you, but there is no way to effectively seal the US borders without the expenditure of a large chunk of our Gross Domestic Product. Our borders are much too vast. The best that we can hope for is better control and knowledge concerning who is coming here. We can also hope that the countries south of the border will improve their economies and give their citizens more reasons for staying put. People don’t leave their native countries because they hate them. They leave them because there are no jobs and/or poor living conditions. As all humans, they are willing to risk almost everything to survive and survival to them means coming to the US. In the end, this is the root of all of our immigration woes. Until we can help make the rest of the world a better place to live, we will be plagued by an influx of refugees from the third world. However, as long as unemployment remains low, the problem remains manageable.
With respect to Iraq, I am quite happy that we have succeeded in drawing Islamic extremists there and dealing with them on foreign soil. Until we kill and/or break the resolve of a majority of the more violent elements within Islam, the war against terrorism will continue. Frankly, I prefer that it continue in the middle-east as opposed to in the buses, trains, and shopping malls of this country. Since 9/11, the terrorists have been thwarted in their attempts to attack us at home and have been mostly preoccupied with fighting jihad elsewhere. We owe that to a President and military that have been undaunted in their resolve to win this war against those who want to destroy western civilization. Sure, everything isn’t peachy, but it is much better than it could have been under a weak leader.
In short, I accept Bush with all of his many faults. I look at the objective evidence of an excellent economy and good national security and am thankful for what I have. I don’t spend time on useless conspiracy theories that encourage hatred and unrest. I see America as the last hope for worldwide freedom and democracy that will only fail if Americans lose their humanity and refuse to reach out and help the oppressed people of this world to gain freedom and control of their lives and countries without fear of retribution. Most of our soldiers understand the threat and the challenge that faces us and are willing to sacrifice to make the world a safer and freer place for everyone. I hope that more of us here on the home front will wake up and see the world the way it really is. If we want to preserve our freedom, then we must export it and help fill the world with governments that allow their citizens the right to liberty and justice for all. If we put our heads into the sand and abandon the cause of freedom outside of the US, it will only be a matter a time before we are consumed by the very threat that many are now trying hard to ignore.

To those who posted that people should do more research and find out whats’ really happening in the world I AGREE. However, in doing so, with an open mind, you may find yourself seriously questioning your convictions relating to the issue of tolerance and multi-culuralism in regards to Islam and immigration.
If you look at the situations in France, Britain, Sweden, Norway and Germany, you will definately begin to develop serious doubts as to whether integration is possible.
Visit Bruce Bawer’s website. Mr Bawer is the author of “While Europe slept-How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within”, a liberal, and gay. But, if you read his reports and commentary, and didn’t know his background, you’d swear he was a knee-jerk conservative. He’s not, he’s just been faced with too much reality to ignore it.
I voted for the other guy twice, my motto was “anyone but George” and I’m not even a Democrat. Mr. Bush broke his bond long ago, and we all know the popular slogans. Guess what?-THATS NOT NEWS It’s time to move past that and start recognizing the root problem. The problem is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, nor globalization, the root of the problem is an archaic ideology and it’s followers. They will not stop. They will not rest. They will plan, train, raise funds, plot and continue coming. We had all better get used to it.
I asked my wife, who labels me as a left-leaning centrist, “Honey, am I becoming some right wing nutjob?” She assures me I’m not.
ABC News bias is ridiculous. They are the same people who will continue to claim that Islam is a “religion of peace” after busses full of people on their way to work start exploding here.
Tolerance and multiculturalism are great until they threaten to unravel the very fabric of our way of life. Then decisive and un-apologetic action is neccessary and the American way.
Oh, and by the way, we’re rolling out the red carpet for 7000 Iraqis to re-settle here? Is this a bad dream. I’m speechless. I wish it was.

Wrong- Bush’s core supporters have deserted him because of his open borders policy. Americans don’t like taking orders from Mexicans.

I would go to war if:
1. The job was to completely wipe out a foreign country.
2. Take all resources, and install our own government.
3. Kill all men and children.
4. Impregnate or kill women.
5. Loot and plunder for personal gain.
6. There were no ‘war crimes’.
That is war… anything else isn’t… anything less is inconclusive… if a country cannot face the above 6 criteria then a diplomatic solution must be found.

Say what you will about the man, it’s clear from the comments here that Bush is smarter than his followers.

You know, it’s very easy to sit back and criticize when you don’t don’t have to contribute anything “except” criticism. Given the President’s popularity right now it’s safe to predict that our next President will be a Democrat. When that does come to pass, those who are throwing the stones now will be the ones who have to come up with the goods.
Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha, and a host of others will have to come up with a plan, rather than a daily dose of Bush-bashing.
The Democrats have already as good as promised tax increases and socialized medicine, but that’s the least of the problems we will probably face.
When the Dems pull us out of Iraq in a mass exodus, we will probably see Iraq become a base for terrorists, Iran and Syria will be calling the shots for the entire area since there will be no opposing force in the area. With that comes the possibility of petroleum supplies being interrupted on a scale we’ve not seen before, and acts of terrorism as we’ve seen in England, Spain, and other countries.
Of course, blame will be placed on Bush by the Democrats for a few years, but sooner or later they will have to come up with solutions rather than accusations.
I’m on up in years, and I don’t have to worry with it for too much longer, so I’m able to kind of look forward to seeing what kind of mess the Democrats will make of things. And mark my words, they will mess up. I can still remember Jimmy Carter.
The ones I feel sorry for are my children and grandchildren. Those of you who worship Howard Dean, Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, and the like, will get just what you deserve.
I don’t mind being wrong, but time will tell.
Mix

Its a good thing we didn’t have such media scrutiny (and bias) along with such partisanship in our government during WWII. We lost 10 times as many troops in one battle as we have lost during the whole war in Iraq. In WWII we knew who the enemy was and they were hiding in mosques and schools.
If we were to go back to 2002 and President Bush would have decided not to go into Iraq with the evidence we had available; then later Saddam were to have used a WMD you bunch of whining backbiters would be calling for the Presidents head for failing to do something.
You seem to forget that Saddam had numerous chances to comply with UN inspections and repeatedly failed to do so. If he would have allowed the inspections and the UN would have not found anything there would not have been a war. Its just that simple.
In my opinion we gave him too many chances and quite possibly gave him time to hide or move the WMD’s. Let’s hope I’m wrong or when these WMD’s fall into terrorists hands we will all come to regret not acting stronger and sooner.
Its time for Americans to care about our security and safety and quit dreaming of living in an ideal world where everyone will get along. That’s never going to happen. If you believe for a second that Islam is a peaceful religion you are terribly misinformed and ignorant of history.
Thank God President Bush doesn’t make decisions based on polls and pundits opinions.

This blog is facinating. I’m really frightened by the hatred that people have for each other because of differing political beliefs. And I’m even more concerned by the unwillingness of many American’s to even try to understand both sides of this debate. Until we do this, nothing decisive will happen, and events will continue to control us.

I have lost all faith in the President and his policies. I am counting the days until the next election. If he would withdraw the troops and admit that it’s best for the country, at this point in time, the american public might have some respect for him. Otherwise, he is lost.

It will be an interesting election in 2008. The Republicans under Bush have lost their base do to his illegal invasion (immgration) policy and the Democrats have lost their base due to their not ending the Iraq war now that they control both houses of the Congress.
It could boil down to which base is madder at their party. The Democratic candidates are sprinting to the left and the Republican candidates are trying their best to ignore Bush’s efforts to turn this country into a Latino majority society.

Observe the net effect of 40 years of alchohol and cocaine abouse . . . Our President is a mindless nut case who has managed to muddle his way across the national and international stage as the “Ugly American.” And, our congress supported him!

I think things are good.
This generation doesn’t know war.
Most think a military should be docile. Well, inaction begets threat.
We need to hope that the Iraqi people can find common ground. That will bring peace.
Peace through strength.
Although, I admit we probably should’ve gotten Saddam in ’91. Even if we don’t agree with the mission, we must support our forces objectives.

Screw it. Nuke the Whale Embryos and be done with it.

It’s quite obvious from the numerous juvenile tirades posted here that Democrats and other miscellaneous liberals have no idea what they are talking about. Perhaps I can inject some facts into this discussion (if, in all honesty, it can be called a discussion).
For example, our friend “Chuck” declared:
“…[D]on’t advocate sending our precious troops into yet another Republican created bloodbath.”
Which previous “Republican created bloodbath” were you referencing, Chuck? Perhaps it’s time you read a little history. The total casualties and battle deaths from all previous “Republican” wars (American wars begun under Republican presidents) during the last 110 years (according to World Almanac [1994], & CNN, as of Feb. 14) total 31,527 and 3,662, respectively. The same figures for “Democrat” wars are 1,747,278 and 426,664, respectively.
In other words, according to World Almanac & CNN (not Fox News, for all of you conspiracy theorists ;>), Democrat presidents planted 117 dedicated American servicemen in Arlington (and other locations), for every ONE serviceman who died during a supposed “Republican bloodbath.”
Allow me to suggest that you “flush out your head gear, new guy…”

We have lost a little over 3000 military personnel in almost four years in the war on terror. We lost more American citizens than that in one day on 9/11. If the terrorists are allowed to return to attacking us directly, significant loss of civilian life in the US would dwarf our current military losses. Look at what happened to the Israelis during the Palestinian intifada and extrapolate. I don’t think that most Americans are interested in going there.
Our military personnel are far from being sitting ducks. They have killed and captured far more terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan than they have taken in the form of casualties. By all measures, the loss of life by our military in this war has been minimal. In addition, by all objective measures, security in this country has been very good since 9/11. Where is the objective evidence that refutes this fact? Pointing to imagined future attacks is meaningless. The only thing that matters is the reality on the ground and that shows that we have been well protected from terror attacks since 9/11.
Our borders have been porous for a very long time. Bush inherited this problem and has proposed what he believes will help identify and better control the influx of illegal aliens into this country. The fact that we can’t seem to find a consensus solution in Congress is not his fault. If you want to blame someone for lack of action in this area, blame your Congressman and Senators.
As far as WMDs in Iraq goes, what part of “everyone including Bush thought that he had them before the war” don’t you understand? Go back and see what everyone was saying back then. It was the same as what Bush was saying. Bush may be a determined man, but he never had the power to deceive everyone here and abroad concerning this issue. Even Saddam thought that he had them. So why would Bush believe something different?
I grow tired of the Bush-hating crowd. This type of mindless hate solves nothing and poisons almost everything that it touches. People who continue such destructive behavior need to grow up and learn to smell the roses. Just like the TET offensive in Vietnam, we are in fact winning the war against Islamic extremism and can only be defeated by our blind and thoughtless ignorance.

As someone who supported GW Bush and voted for him in 2004, I have come to loathe and despise him.
- We have the largest continuous deficit in history and the largest debt in history.
- He refuses to enforce our immigration laws or to do anything about illegal immigration.
- He is openly a globalist and wants total open borders.
- He does nothing about our deficit, spending like crazy. He obviously does not care.
- He does not care about our own industrial base. Doing whatever he can to send jobs and industry overseas.
- Six years since 911 and our borders, ports and airports have seen very little significant increase in security.
- Kisses up to the Mexican government over the plight of the American people.
- IRAQ!!! What else needs to be said here? War is a violent business and should be avoided at all costs unless you have no choice. And once you make the choice to go to war, you fight it to win at all costs. You should never try to conduct a limited war, especially letting the politicians run the battlefield. A total fiasco is Iraq!
- Destroyed most goodwill from the rest of the world towards the US.
- Tarnished America’s reputation beyond anything I thought possible.
I cannot stomach to listen to him anymore. His arrogance, pompasity and stupid grin just me me angry anymore.
The worst American president in history. The stupidest American president in history. And yet, he just goes forward with whatever agenda he has. And I still don’t know exactly what that is. Whatever his agenda, the only consistent items I can pick out are his blowing off the American people and caring more about his rich friends, foreign and domestic.
One thing for sure, George W. Bush, does not give one damn about the American people or the founding principles of our country. GW was born rich, grew up rich, lives rich and has never had to worry about how he was going to pay this months expenses. GW has no context in which he undestands on thing about the American people.
He is a lost individual with no morals, in control of one of the world’s most powerful arsenals. That is how this former GW voter sees George Bush Jr. today. A loathesome and despicable man!

The President has done the best job he could with the info he had. All naysayers remember, most of the worlds intelligence services believed the WMD theory. Wait until Iran gets a nuclear device and gives it to a nut that blows an American city up. Of course this will be the Presidnts fault beacause he failed to protect us.
Especially since the democrat party offered so many helpful ideas and new laws. Like stopping illegal wire tapping of terrorist phone calls in the US and trying to cut funding for our troops in the field ala Murtha. I just hope we don’t get stuck with some hippie wacko President that would try to talk peace with the jhihadis or give this nations sovereign rights over to the UN.

Everyone keeps posting about Bush’s fiasco in Iraq. Well, an even worse legacy will be the wholesale offshoring of American jobs and technology. How many people realize that, under Bush’s watch, we have more than 4 million Chinese and Indian “guest workers” as engineers, that while unemployment for American engineers is at an all time high, with more than 40% of engineers age 45 and older unemployed, nine out of every ten new engineering jobs *in this country* goes to a foreign worker (who makes on average $10,000 a year less than their Amercian counterpart AND works an average 65 hour work week without any overtime compensation whatsoever; essentially, these guest workers are indentured servants, slaves). Not only that, slightly more than 3 out of every ten new jobs announced under Bush went to foreign workers and half, 5 out of ten, of those new jobs paid less than $10 an hour and had no benefits….those are the jobs that American citizens got. George Bush will go down in history, not just as a failure, but as the man who headed up a group of self serving thugs who oversaw the complete destruction of the United States.

It seems to be time for a good ol’ fashioned political cleansing right here in the USA. The liberal agenda consistently violates the trust of the American good and unnecessarily endangers the US military and the homeland. Sounds like treason and sedition to me. Time for the libs to go. They have done nothing to build or protect this country and have very little cause for claim. Either leave or have leave forced upon you. If the cowards in the American government have no thrust to carry out justice than others will have to do the heavy lifting.

I don’t think the bond is broken – but it is severely strained. I wish he would close our borders and start deporting illegal aliens. While he continues to say you can’t deport 11 million people, you can at least make a start. We might not get them all, but we can sure make a dent. After awhile, potential illegals might just get the point and realize they aren’t welcome. Who knows, they might even stay home!
As far as the Iraq battle is concerned, we should just turn the whole place into a glass factory. No matter how many times the president says that Islam is a peaceful religion, that doesn’t make it so.
I voted for President Bush in 2000 and in 2004. If I knew then what I know today, I would still vote for him. The alternatives were just too scary.
Until something gets done about those two areas, my dollars will stay in my pocket. The Republican Party might as well save their phone calls.
Toots

America is a ghetto dump filled with so-called “Christians” and ignorant fools. All you people writing into this talkback are pathetic and America deserves to go down the toilet thanks to the uneducated ignorance of its people. Once a great nation, now a fat, lazy, selfish bunch of pseudoChristian fools. At least you got your SUV and your cheap gas, while exploiting the global environment and treating the rest of the planet with contempt. You get what you give. Nice one you Republican Bush loving idiots. Thomas Jefferson thought the American people would be smart enough to rise up and have a little revolution every so often, but Bush/Cheney and all these rightwing morons have destroyed your minds with their empty rhetoric. You should stop putting your “support our troops” magnets on your giant gas sucking SUV and tell your all volunteer citizen soldier neighbor the truth that he/she is NOT a hero, but a perpetrator.

Amazing how many people in the US trade freedom for security. First because they constantly imply the people of Iraq were better off under the tyrany of Saddam because “at least they could goto work and live in peace”. Then they surrender all kinds of rights in order to protect us from the “Terrorist” when historically tyranical governments are responcible for 40% of all human suffering, behind religion which is responcible for 50%.

President Bush’s bond MAY be lost? Are you kidding? MAY be lost?
President Bush long ago put his bond with his consitutents on the guillotine…. Lets just hope The Bush-Clinton kabal is not planning to put our real heads to real guillotines, but by the way things are going, it’s inevitable….

The Bush presidency is severely flawed; I can’t see how a reasonable person could disagree with that. It appears as if his administration cannot articulate a clear message to the public. For example, consider the Iranian-weapons-to-Iraqi-insurgents situation. There are two or three different scenarios, depending on who you listen to. How are we suppose to know who or what to believe? It’s stupefying!

George Bush…” may have lost his bonds with the American people” is the understatement of the year. He is even reviled here in the reddest of red states. He has betrayed every conservative value known to man. He is the worst president in history, and I predict he will become even more reviled as the damage he has done to our country, our economy, and our security is revealed in the years to come. I ask one question: Who has benefitted from the war in Iraq? Follow the money: the defense contractors. $300 billion and counting. Cheney and his warmonger pals are laughing all the way to the bank.

I can only hope that those whom write posts praising the work of George Bush can just for a moment look at the negative impact this presidency has had on the world. Even the brightest painted scenario for this presidency will reflect graft, incompetence, devicive tactics and greed. These are dark days for America. I just wish there was true accountability for this administration…And those that support it.

The article highlights Bush’s real problem. It is his advisors who are out of touch, starting with Karl Rove and obviously including this “guru” who just got wind of the fact that most Americans are not listening to George anymore. He’s an intransigent, one-trick pony who can’t adjust to changing conditions. In his first administration, he demonstrated much greater balance. Once he was reelected, the media began to say it was the Christian Right who put him in office again, these people who usually don’t even bother to vote, and Bush obviously believed it. Right off the bat, almost, he lost all semblance of good judgement. Not only has the occupation of Iraq gone into the commode, but Bush has refused to address domestic problems that won’t go away, such as the way millions of greedy, incompetent doctors and dentists serve only the rich and the upper middle class and blatantly rip off everyone else, or the price of gasoline, which has nothing to do with the current availability of the refined product OR the price of oil. We could conserve on millions of gallons of gas per day if someone would just lower the speed limits on highways and interstates by a mere ten miles per hour and dare to suggest that Americans start buying smaller cars again or using alternate forms of transport more often, but none of these irresponsible representatives will dare to suggest it. Bush is nothing but a shill for Big Business and everyone who is awake knows it by now. In 2006, the country handed over most power to the Democrats again, and as we all know, they are nothing but stooges for Big Labor. They were supposed to get us out of Iraq and investigate Bush’s domestic spying program, but what have they done so far? Nada. America, as a country, is a has been society. We’ve spent so many years suppressing good ideas and killing off all of our creative people, while everyone strives to emulate “family values,” that we no longer understand how to think, yet alone how to live. George Bush, this clown advisor, and all the rest of you morons in positions of prestige and influence, bringing down a good salary because of your connections, your ability to lie, cheat, and steal, and the mere fact that you have 2.2 kids and a shallow, acquisitive wife to support, are the real problem. The whole bunch of you ought to be fired. It’s not just Bush’s fault. It’s all your faults.

Have you ever known and liked someone who had a habit of fibbing, exaggerating and lieing? Before long you just don’t want to be around that person and will never trust him again.
I wish he’d put on his cardigan and reading glasses and spend as much time as possible the next two years at Camp David and the Crawford Ranch.
W…just leave us alone.

I still support my President and my troops. Some of the time the correct way is not the easy way. If Democrats would stop cheering for the terrorists it would help (so much for the term “loyal opposition”)greatly.
Watch what happens when “Mother Pelosi” takes Iran under her protective wing. Hopefully , it won’t be like the Madrid Train bombing after the elections.

Following Matt Dowd’s successful work reelecting of President Bush in 2004 he took up a guest lecturer position at the University of Texas, teaching a class called U.S. election and the Media. I was enrolled in this class, which seemed to be a victory tour touting his election strategies and advocating that President Bush and the Republican majority controlled public policy because unlike the Democrats the Republicans were not all caught up with building a relationship or consensuses, treating the inter working of government like a big business, focused on an idea called A.R.M.D (Audience Research Message Delivery), which was their method to achieving victory in 2000 and 2004 as well as selling the war. This “gut bond” he speaks of was in reality a persona created by endless focus group testing and spinning of the facts. The truth is it seems now Mr. Dowd can’t spin the harsh realities anymore and rather then go down with ship he created, he is jumping over board. Sad but true although it not his first time, he was a democratic strategist in Texas prior to jumping on the Bush band wagon when Karl Rove took him and Ann Richard down in 1998. Flip flopper!

The economy is in the strongest state it has been in since the mid-80s, despite 9/11, the war, the corporate scandals and the recession that Clinton behind.
I wish people would stop referring to the death count in Iraq. Of course people die. It is a war. It is a terrible thing and very tragic, but the success of a war cannot be measured by the death count.
During his time, Abe Lincoln was a thoroughly hated president. People thought him to be the worst. 600,000 American lives were lost during the Civil War (since it seems you people like to count deaths) and everyone was against him. People were telling him to stop fighting. His entire cabinet was advising him to give in to the South and forget about restricting trade (ending slavery). He was a fool for developing the Emancipation Proclaimation. He was then labeled the “worst President of all time.” It turned out that his persistance was a good idea, regardless of what the “popular” thing to do was.
Sounds familiar.

Greed Phil? Exactly what does the Bush presidency have to do with greed? Graft? Dark days for America?!?! Come on!
You want to live in “dark days”? Spend 6 months anywhere in Russia without your bank account. Or anywhere in Africa. Or anywhere in South America. Or China. Or India. Or Turkey. Or the Phillipines.
Dark days for America….puhleeze!!

Lets see the the former NSA guy Sandy Berger just suddenly admits when he’s caught sneaking documents out of the national archive in his pants. People this was his fourth trip they were watching him because the thought they saw him do it before. All of the prosecutors now are Democrats and he got off with:
1. 3 years loss of Security clearance.
2. $50,000 fine
QUESTION- When did a Clintonite ever admit and go along quietly.

Bush’s bonds are not for Americans. It is clear Bush is a globalist. How can he be serious about security when our borders are wide open, prisons overcrowded, TB on the rise etc. I believe the Iraqi war for most of us is just a diversion; facts indicate the main issue is the porous border and 15 million illegal aliens and growing. If it keeps up our language, culture and way of life will surely change. The media and even Congress are in on this diversion.

Just a few observations:
1. The “Liberal Media” that you conservatives love to bash is a MYTH. The mainstream media is now onwned and controlled by large corporations which make lots of money from Bush and his policies, they are anything but liberal.
2. Bush has been destroying our country ever since he got into office. Those things that once made America unique, a “shining city on a hill”, have been destroyed by his many unconstitutional policies: torture, habeus corpus, domestic spying, wiretapping, etc, etc.
Those of you willing to give up our freedoms because you’re scared of the “islamo-fascists”, are the real traitors to America (if anyone should leave the country, it should be you)!!
3. There is NO way to “win’ in Iraq! Why, because the war was already won (by us!) after the first 3 weeks! What is going on now in Iraq is an OCCUPATION. The only way to win an occupation is to either: a) win the hearts and minds of the people (too late for that now!), or b) become a brutal police state (like the Nazi’s did in France, etc). The second would require many more soldiers to implement, soldiers we just don’t have. The reason Bush has no real strategy to WIN in Iraq is that the goal is to occupy Iraq until we can install a puppet government, which will let us have our permanent (“enduring”) military bases and our oil contracts.

This administration has only done one thing aggressively, and that is make war. It has not pursued any other major issue (ie, social security, education, polution, medical insurance costs, border security, etc.) other than the infamous “War on Terror.”
When you finally get beyond the loud rhetoric the conservative media and administration mouthpieces sling, you begin to realize the actions don’t actually engage to match.
This man has initiated the kind of bloodshed only the worst tyrants in history have bestowed upon the world.
Let’s see.
Steps on those who don’t have the money or power in favor of those who do.
Claims that respecting our brave soldiers is best done by keeping them in harms way and away from their families for second or even a third tour in Iraq/Afghanistan.
Refuses to engage on the issue of border security, effectively flooding our economy with a plentiful source of cheap labor, while pretending our security is important enough to send others children to die for.
Is too stubborn to talk to countries he has issue with, choosing rather to be provoking and threatening.
Rolled back EPA standards in an effort to ensure better profits for major industry.
Ignored a trade deficite that set another record last month.
Has allowed our national debt to balloon to three years worth of Gross Domestic Product. (Can you imagine running up three years salary worth of CC debt?)

What saddens me the most about this blog is the fact that people can’t seem to see past their political affiliations. Bush’s mistakes (and that of all past presidents for that matter) affect ALL of us as humans, not just as Democratics or Republicans.
Bush doesn’t see people as humans, but merely dispensible peons to carry out his agenda. He sent us to Iraq to finish a war that his father wasn’t man enough to finish himself.

Man, you people are so pathetic. All I can say is that I have been able to sleep for the most part knowing that Bush and co are trying to do their best to protect us from what happened during 9-11. So quick are you to criticize and make fun of a man with the weight of the world on his shoulders and no one to help carry the weight.
Maybe you people need to support this country and our leaders with the same intensity you bash it now. Freedom of speech is great, but remember, it always shows who the traitors are.

Waht i think is that bush is really crazy cuz why wont he give a chance to people who are fom mexico we are the ones who make america everyone you see around is realted somehow to mexico and if you dont give us a chance america would be nothing you should watch the movie A DAY WIHTOUT A MEXICAN!!!
aNYWAYS IF YOU WOULD LOOK ALL THE MEXICANS DISSAPERand that is waht america would look like if us mexicans werent here think about it i know this isnt about iraq but people fighting from iraq fight for their familys and do you know from were are their familys are from that is right mexico