The much anticipated interview with NBC's Today Show host Matt Lauer which aired Monday Night.
Mark McKinnon: "The George Bush I know"
I'm glad President Bush has published Decision Points—not so much because I think it will help rehabilitate his image or improve his place in history, though I think it will help on those counts. I'm glad because I believe readers will get a sense of the George W. Bush who I've known for 15 years—a man who is very different than the distorted public image many have come to accept as accurate. Contrary to conventional wisdom, President Bush is very smart, quietly reflective, often contrite, and deeply humble. He is also a strong leader who, while relying on the strong counsel of many around him, makes his own decisions. He was secure enough to hire a vice president like Dick Cheney, and strong enough that it was never in doubt who was the boss. Just ask Scooter Libby, who Cheney said Bush was going to "leave a soldier on the battle field" by refusing to pardon him.
The book does highlight, however, a fundamental difference between George Bush and Barack Obama. Bush never complains. He never blames others. He takes full responsibility for his campaigns, his administration, his life. He accepts the cards he's dealt. That's the George Bush I know.
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Hi CC . . . For a Democrat, Bill Clinton was an okay President - but he disgraced the office. Bad form. Bad legacy.
I and a few others welcomed the first term of GWB and figured he would return some of the traditional integrity of the office. He did, but he also began giving up his campaign conservatism.
By the time of his re-election for term two his bad decisions had started to catch up and he moved under pressure to the left. He had a terrible 2nd term.
Then the savior arrived on the scene. A brilliant, energetic and confident Democratic left voice. Once elected, Obama hit Americans with both barrels and kept shooting. Despite huge reverses, he hasn't slowed down yet.
Too much, too fast and too anti-tradition. Just too far from the Constitution etc. The citizens were unable to absorb Obama's dreadful political moves toward the ultra-far-left, and he further polarized the Conservative-Libertarian-Moderate political right. (Read TEA Party types).
The mid-term elections, a disaster for him, have not changed his overall approach one little bit. He is determined to rush America towards becoming a socialistic state.
He continues to blame GWB for all of his problems and defeats. He's gone so far with this line that a lot of folks think he is demented. Compared to GWB's performance in office, Obama's has been 100 times worse.
GWB was no angel, exhibited no real brilliance in any disipline, and forgot the principles that put him in office - but Obama is an on-going run-a-way train of disasters.
Bump
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We have a press that should be covering PTA meetings and then go back to journal school
and now that I think of it, Obama would make a outstanding president of the PTA
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GWB fails to mentioned what makes him and his administration to make America which has a big foreign reserve to become one of the biggest debtors in the world. His administration definitely take an extra efforts to achieve positive to below zero level in American's reserve. Well done!!
Bush and his Neocon cabal completely conned the Christian Right. The epitomy of this is the book signing at Billy Graham's library. In the very book G.W. boasts of his support of waterboarding:
"Christian Hugs and Handcuffs for George W. Bush"
http://templestream.blogspot.com/2011/02/christian-hugs-and-handcuffs-for.html
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