George W. Bush's Book and Proud Republican Ignorance

Your ignorance is comical! Bravo R.L. Schaefer of CA!!

Did you happen to catch the results of the latest elections...

G. Rushing of KS 1:58PM November 09, 2010

How do people like this, with no facts whatsoever at hand, get to write a column or blog here? It amazes me.

Let's start at the top--and start there, as I really can't get much farther than that. Let's also try to forget the last two dismal years of President Obama and go back, where this writer wants us to stay, to the Bush years.

This character accuses Bush as being as "smug as ever about the bloody war in Iraq." Totally false. The fact is that the failure to find WMD's in Iraq still haunts President Bush--but this idiot blogger has not even read any excerpts from President Bush's book and is inventing stuff out of whole cloth. History would also tell us--but not this goofball Jamie Stiehm--that John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and a whole host of Democrats also supported the war in Iraq. Facts don't matter to this jerk.

Then also reflects on the "deadlock" of the 2000 election. The deadlock was hardly Bush's fault, it was the fault of the inept Florida voting system and punch cards. This writer also, conveniently, forgets to tell us that every single recount during and after the Supreme Court decision showed that George Bush won the 2000 election fair and square.

I'll leave it to the rest of you to wallow further in Jamie Stiehm's misleading and inaccurate recollection of history. You should also know (as you won't learn it from "historian" Stiehm) that because of the political stress and personal attacks directed at President Jackson's beloved wife--before he took office--her health failed and she died without ever seeing the inside of the White House.

sherlockHolmes of NH 12:03PM November 09, 2010

Jamie Elizabeth Stiehm is a liberal with a closed mind. All politicians (democrats and republicans) are guilty of the mess we're in right now. President Bush first, and now President Obama for loosing perspective on what needed to be done and how. Bush is an honest man admitting his faults and owning up to the wrong decisions he made. We miss truly him, although I am a liberal myself.

Carles S. Rodezno of TX 9:44AM November 09, 2010

Ms. Stiehm, 50 yrs from now historians will look back on President Bush and realize that he wasn't so bad of a President. He had no plans to go into the Middle East during his election. Instead wanted to focus on internal and domestic issues. But 9/11 happened. This event was out of his hands and he responded like any good President should. He listened to his intelligence agencies and made the best decision he could find. America, if you care to remember history yourself, at the time was not wanting to sit down and talk with Bin Laden. Instead, America was ready to strike back and with good reason.

Again the intelligence agencies reported WMDs in Iraq, a nation that was not favorably disposed to us or our allies in Afghanistan or in Israel. Again President Bush chose what appeared to be the best option at the time. Hind sight is always 20/20. His only mistake there was wanting to set up a democracy in a land where democratic ideas are completely foreign and incompatible with their way of life.

Katrina was a disaster that no one could have stopped. In fact, Louisianna wouldn't let the national government help until things were well out of hand. And when the administration did get in they found that the entire situation was all but hopeless. An incompetent ninny was mayor who refused to take any pratical solutions in aiding the evacuation. But the citizens of New Orleans deserved him since they re-elected him after the disaster.

The housing market goes back to the Clinton administration. In the words of President Obama, "Bush inherited that mess."

Bush wanted to reform Social Security by creating individual private accounts. This would keep the government out of our retirement savings. Plus, you would get out whatever you put in. But our benevolent and obviously "sane" Democrats at the time decided not to support him.

The one thing he truly got wrong all the around was the No Child Left Behind. Nice thought, but not pratical.

Patrick of KY 8:45AM November 09, 2010