Bush 43: I Want Obama to Succeed, Won’t Criticize Him

Too Bad the left won’t criticize JIMMAH and SLICK WILLY………but then again they have no CLASS and no guiding PRINCIPLES to judge former presidents. They are governed only by their own VITRIOLIC rhetoric.

oh yea, i almost forgot about dubya… what a loser he was

Say what you want about former President Bush, but he is a class act when it comes to wanting OUR COUNTRY to succeed no matter what party is in power. He stands by his decisions and he will flat out tell you that he is at peace with his decisions. I am a die hard Republican, but I want Obama to succeed in helping this country move forward. However, I am totally against socialized healthcare and socialist policies in general.

Say what you want about former President Bush >>> Really is anything he says relevant? He has screwed up on so many levels. I tried to compliment him today and just could not. He did a few things right but messed up so many more.
I wished he had been the man we thought he was rather than the man he was.

Former president Bush is his own man now and could do great work.

Now that is how an ex-president is supposed to act. Just like when he was in office …… nothing but class & respect. I would like to see a Democrat act this was some day! I will keep dreaming??

In a couple of years people are going to realize what Bush was, with his notions of not abandoning your chosen course because it was tough or unpopular, for willing to be reviled in service of a greater good. It’s call being a grownup. A couple of years of Hopey/Changey wishy washy rule via opinion poll will make people raise the voting age to fifty, so we never get another unqualified, inexperianced chief executive handed to us by twenty year olds. You could fight three Iraq Wars for the amount of debt the current administration has rung up in two months. And despite their laughable lack of plan (where’s that toxic asset plan Sec Geitner?) progress, competence, they continue to lay every problem at Bush’s feet. And still, after all the vitriol unleashed against him for the past eight years, he acts graciously. Obama can’t take criticism from a talk show host without taking time out to get bitch about it. Sheesh.

Posted by Micheal – It is good to read an article on President Bush’s activities. One should remember that he kept the nation safe.
He kept the nation safe? Tell that to the 3000 people that died on 9/11.

So he won’t criticize his successor. That’s more consideration that his democratic predecessors gave him.

does not matter what he said . he is losser

The right man was in charge when America was attacked by terrorists. Obama would have a love-in with the camel jockeys.

“does not matter what he said . he is losser”
Try to work on your spelling and punctuation there, will you?
In any case you’re wrong: he won twice, and on the second occasion he did something Bill Clinton was never able to do: he won a majority of the votes cast. He’s an honorable man who served his country well.

Oh No! Now Will Ferrell is going to run around the country as Bush for the next 8 years saying “I Want Obama to Succeed” :-D

George should call a ‘spade a spade’

Nice thing about Jake’s job he gets to Bond with everyone, Bush, Obama, Gibbs and Will Ferrell :-D

I disagreed (vehemently) with almost every policy decision W made, but at least he has the decency to wish the next administration good luck, and hopes that they will succeed.

Why is the picture of Mr. Tapper so very large?

Typical Bush, take somebody else’s money, squander it and leave the mess for someone else to clean up, just like he has done all his career…hell, he even screwed over the Bi-Laden family who invested in his failed Texas oil company!

Incredible. All those liberals hoping that Bush would fail every day he was in office all of a sudden now find him graceful etc. Bullshiite. Please… Bush, you showed no backbone toward Republican principals when you are in office. You demonstrated that kissing Democratic arses got you nowhere while you were in office. The liberals hated your guts then, they do now, and they always will. The only thing you managed to accomplish was to alienate the Republicans too, while you were at it. And you’re still at it now!

Mr. Bush in my eyes is one of the greatest president ever. It’s all the leftists medias wich got all the leftists libbs to beleived that he lied. I don’t see Mr. Bush lied at all, he made a decision and he stuck with it even till after his term ends.

Bush will always be the WORST President ever, the only thing to keep him from being remembered FOREVER as the largest screw-up of American History, is if Barack Hussein Obama bails out his legacy of failures.

Remember, Bush did as Bush wanted….even when the American People needed him to change course. That’s the example of a Horrible President.

Obama this week: AIG should not give out those bonuses! This is shocking.
Oops. Obama and team knew about them all along.
BUSTED Obama. Love it!

Cheney is lock step with Rush, Hannity and the rest of the GOP loudmouths but Bush just wants to tap dance away? You can tell who was really running the country the last 8 years.

Carter was the worst president, hands down. Remember the 70% tax bracket, getting gas on the day designated by your license plate, the failure to retrieve the US hostages, giving millions to No.Korea on the promise that they wouldn’t build atomic weapons. That’s just a start of his pathetic legacy as the POTUS. He now goes around bashing other presidents. Yup, Jimmy is a piece of work alright.

Listen whether you like him or not he does have a sense of humor which goes a long way in this life right into the 2010 and 2012 elections it may take that long to recover.
As that 11 trillion dollar deficit drops it becomes a sign of our recovery. This is the legacy Bush left Americans. The Democrats, Obamacans and Independent Obama supporters have a right to run against it in 2010 and 2012.

Bush was a complete failure and traitor to conservatives and America because of his fiscal policies. Obama is a marxist/socialist and is leading the US into a downward spiral of financial doom. I hope to God Obama fails. His goal is to create enough of a recovery in the US to subsidize the rest of the world, at the expense of US citizens. Get ready, you idiots who voted for him, I hope you enjoy the reaming.

The bottom line on President Obama:
He’s successful, articulate, highly educated, self-confident, not a token of the GOP and won the POTUS after everything that Rush and Hannity threw at him. He’s everything that bigots hate with every fiber of their being. His actions and policies have NOTHING to do with much of the opposition. He’s got them calling him names using words they can’t even define because it ain’t politically correct to call him what’s really in their hearts.

Bush is good at basic personality decorum. Bush just wasn’t presidential; he could not challenge/compel congress with his poor speech. The sad thing is, Obama has this intellectual ability, but I’m thinking he lacks the will or has a lame agenda which the majority doesn’t support, so he’ll let the congressional dems run the country, and they’ll support his pet issues. He does have a chance at greatness. He’s smart enough to individually challenge/pressure/compel every member of congress.

We don’t have health care because
We Can’t Afford it….
where is my scripts?
oh, my oxycontin?
btw: got my girlfriend pregnant. Thank goodness to abortion.

Obama is already a miserable failure. There is no hope and change.
Posted by: Jo
There is only Carter’s 2nd term.
Adios Obama. Don’t get too attached to the oval office!!
Hey Jo. Wake up, your dreaming again. You better get use to the fact, Obama is here to stay for at least 8 years. Just makes your blood boil even more doesn’t it. Hahahahahahahahaha

Politics apart,Obama is a man of faith.He like most of us believe in loving your neighbour and enemy as you love yourself.
Hate and revenge for political reasons is unamaerican as purporting some filmsy war crimes or crimes against humanity by Bush.No US president will be dragged into slime of hate-mongers.Get over it.Bush should have hanged summarily the master-mind of 9/11 and Jesus would have forgiven him!!!.

You bloody Americans.9/11 was simply a drama. In order to occupy ones land you should make such thing. 9/11 was a plan make before by the Americans, but it was carried out by Bush Administration.
Keep this straight in your minds.

I want Obama to fail. If he succeeds, this country is doomed.
The AIG thing is a perfect example.
Obama and the Democrats GUARANTEED AIG could keep those bonuses and those stupid Democrats all signed it. They wrote it into the stimulus bill! And now they can’t run away from it fast enough.
And not one dimbulb morning show host can figure out to ask why they voted for this language.

Yes, President Bush is a class act. He says what he means and means what he says. Obama will fail because he is so arrogant. When he no longer has Bush to blame then he has nothing to say. I am so sick and tired of Obama. It is always the previous administration’s fault so I guess if something happens now it is still the previous administration’s fault. We love you Preident Bush – Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for keeping us safe and you never gave in to be popular like Obama has done. Obama does not have the experience to be President and now he never will. What a real shame. Thank you for not believing in abortion, thank you for having morals, thank you for never demeaning the White House. We have so much to be grateful to you for – time will prove us right. When the media’s love affair with Obama is over and we see the true man, people will be stunned.

I think that finally President Obama will understand what the President Bush did is right. Understand why President Bush’s hair turn gray fast. The Financial Crisis and 911 is not President Bush’s fault, like the plane crash to river, bird hit the plane, the aircraft commander saved everyone. President Bush saved people from another terrorist attack . In Chinese culture, people always unite in bad situation and stop blame each other, So I hope US people like us, unite and fully support your President Obama’s policy, Even If President Obama did wrong, you can correct it after 4 years, If President Obama get success, it’s good for US and world.

“This is the Good Cop, Bad Cop” bull that this Administration has hoodwinked some of you for the past 8 years. Do you really, Really think that Bush and Cheney don’t discuss their agendas. It’s both of their legacy that they are trying to save. HAVING CLASS IS THAT NO PRESIDENT (EX) OR…………HIS VICE-PRESIDENT CRITICIZE ANOTHER PRESIDENT WITH LESS THAN 2 MONTHS IN OFFICE. NOT ONLY are they Classless, but dumb with a Bad Image that will be written into history books.

Never thought anyone could be as arrogant as Bush.
But I was so so wrong.
Obama takes the prize for arrogance
and smugness(if that’s a word).

I don’t know if it’s arrogance, incompetence or sheer genius! Now we learn that ACORN is going to have a roll in recruiting the 1.4 million workers needed to conduct next year’s census. This is an organization that has a long history of voter registration fraud. Now I guess we will see that a Mickey Mouse and a Donald Duck really are living on every street in America!!

Bush has class, all right drjohn. All of it low.

Afton girl,
This is where you may have a failure of understanding. If you could let go of your rage long enough to understand this, class is an action, not a description of the picture. For him to say the things he did, and not be partisan, was an act of class. Unfortunately, you are so filled with rage prompted by endless attacks by partisan people over the years you refuse to see anything else but what feeds that rage. I actually feel for you. You’ve been manipulated to be what you are, to live with disgust and rage in your heart, all for politics.
Bush didn’t do everything right, but he didn’t do everything wrong either, but I’d bet you’ve been made to believe that.

First rate class act…
Bush may have done many things wrong, but his class and character is on another league.
Obama keep blaming Bush for all his trouble and Bush supports Obama and wants him to succeed… you get the difference!

Considering Bush’s complete failure in life…….whom exactly would he be in a position to criticize? George…..”It’s better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.”

Well, it does seem like Bush has been rather graceful during the transition and beyond!
However, he is still a war criminal.

“Senator Barack Obama received a $101,332 bonus from American International Group in the form of political contributions according to Opensecrets.org. The two biggest Congressional recipients of bonuses from the A.I.G. are – Senators Chris Dodd and Senator Barack Obama.”
From 1989 to 2008, open secrets compiled this list.
Dodd, Chris (D-Conn) $280,238
Bush, George W (R-Texas) $200,560
Schumer, Charles E (D-NY) $111,875
Obama, Barack (D-Ill) $107,332
McCain, John (R-Ariz) $99,249
Baucus, Max (D-Mont) $90,000
Kerry, John (D-Mass) $85,000
Johnson, Nancy L (R-Conn) $75,400
Sununu, John E (R-NH) $69,049
Clinton, Hillary (D-NY) $59,515
Lieberman, Joe (I-Conn) $57,900
Rangel, Charles B (D-NY) $53,582
Giuliani, Rudolph W (R-NY) $50,250
Lazio, Rick A (R-NY) $48,600
Ensign, John (R-Nev) $44,569
Bayh, Evan (D-Ind) $43,700
Larson, John B (D-Conn) $43,000
Biden, Joseph R Jr (D-Del) $41,350
Baker, Richard (R-La) $41,032
Torricelli, Robert G (D-NJ) $39,000
Why do right wingers lie about something so stupid and easily verified?

It’s been a long and very noble tradition for former presidents to refrain from criticizing their successors, and the glaring exception to this tradition is the petty, vindictive failure Carter.
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DOn’t forget Clinton. From what I can tell the noble tradition belongs only to the republicans.

“Obama was not in office for all those years. Proportionally he collect more than anyone except maybe Dodd.”
So “proportionally” and if you throw out Bush’s money then you can call Obama one of the two biggest recipients.
Hell you can even cite that for the last cycle (2008) Obama was in the top 2.
But what it boils down to is you guys have no idea because you don’t bother to investigate, you just parrot.

Why Would W Critize Obama W Knows the Huge Mess he Left him!

“Why Would W Critize Obama W Knows the Huge Mess he Left him!
Posted by: Angie In Pa | Mar 18, 2009 2:12:28 PM”
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Oh Angie, please. Bush was not a King issuing edicts.
Congress is far more important, and far more culpable, than whoever was, and is, in the White House.
Government on both sides of the aisle, along with the Federal Reserve and Treasury, caused this economic crisis.
This crash has been building for decades.

George should practice taking the Fifth Amendment. He will need it at his War Crimes Trial.

“And you gripped about ignoring the fact that Bush was on the list, when of course, the original post stated that, “The two biggest Congressional recipients of bonuses from the A.I.G. are – Senators Chris Dodd and Senator Barack Obama.” See, CONGRESSIONAL. Bush was not in Congress.”
Which ignores the fact Obama garnered most of his AIG (like 90%) contributions while running for President just as Bush had.
The contortions one has to go to to make the talking point true make it worthless.
And that was the point.

Ryan C, no contortions needed at all to make the point. Barack Obama, senator and candidate, was the recipient of more money from AIG personnel on an annual basis than almost any other member of congress. You perjoratively label this a “talking point,” although I’m not sure what you mean by this. I am not part of some organized effort to remind people of that fact. I am simply agreeing with others here who made the point and then bizarrely had to defend it as if it were in dispute.
And yes, I am fully cognizant that Bush and McCain (and Senator Clinton) got scads of money from the same company, too. That’s not great, either. That underscores the point that the vast sums of money given to politicians and particularly to candidates for the highest offices is a source of concern and should be scaled back.

Ryan, ah, yes, campaign finance reform, quite a thorny issue. (I know, what issue isn’t thorny?) And one where I fear my “moderateness” takes over and I am much more comfortable identifying what I don’t like than taking a strong position on what I do want. That is to say, it will probably be a very one-sided debate, because I would be the first to admit I have no answers.
My inclination is to go with complete public financing. I know that has real limitations, but it’s still my preference. Every year, I check that box on my tax return.
I don’t think smaller donations are the answer– in fact, I find the 2300 personal limit sort of an odd number and not terribly useful. But setting an even lower limit and expecting folks to play by the rules seems like a recipe for failure to me. I am sure you will not agree, but I am very suspicious that many people manipulated the system during the last campaign hidden in the “small donors” to the Obama campaign (and doubtless to others, but his numbers were the most outsized and unscrutinized).
But of course you identified the hardest nut to crack– how to tackle the problem of money pouring in to advocacy groups, 529s, etc. Much of the money spent on modern campaigns is not spent directly by candidates’ campaigns. And I have no clue how to deal with that. YOu have any suggestions?

Why bother to criticize him – no one listens to you anyway!

Ryan_C,
“Yes pub financing (especially if mandatory) has its issues because of the inherent advantages for the incumbent in name recognition and free media.”
I mainly agree, but it is not just incumbents who have that sort of advantage and in fact, in house races in particular, they may not have much of a name recognition advantage for the first decade or so. *G* There is the rising problem of the American Idolization of the political process. Celebrities, talking heads on cable, and the super-wealthy are just some of those who also have a name recognition/free media advantage. Remember Jesse Ventura for governor? Who’d have thunk it? Both Larry Kudlow and Chris MAtthews have apparently flirted with the notion of running for the Senate. From Lynn Swann to Ah-nold, plenty of athletes have tried with various degrees of success to break into politics. And of course there are the actors…. So how do we neutralize celebrity and name recognition in a publicly financed system? I have no idea.
“But I also see that as the best solution to a complex problem.” See, we don’t disagree about everything, just about a lot of things. I like that.

Karen Travers: “‘I want to put people in my place on that, when the history of this administration is written at least there is an authoritative voice saying exactly what happened,’ he said.”
Excuse me, Ms. Travers, but George W. Bush actually said “authoritarian voice”, not “authoritative voice.”
Why are you amending his quote after-the-fact? And once you did, why did you not disclose such amendment by placing the amended in brackets, as is pro forma in all such literary or journalistic matters? Do you really hold your readers in such contempt that you’d think most of us wouldn’t know or understand the difference?