I already miss GWB.

Thank you Mr. Impomeni for writing what so many of us feel is the appropriate farewell to our President. He is a decent; who served his country well; who stood steadfast when others fled; and never sullied the Office of the President. May history treat him kindly.

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wouldn’t that mean the losses would be greater than had it not been privatized in the first place? At that time, no one knew that we would end up with a $700 billion bailout of financial institutions toward the end of Bush presidency.

Don’t get me wrong, I still think it’s a smart move, as it’s obvious that government cannot be trusted to manage our tax money…wisely. Such a move would force people to manage their personal finances a bit more closely and wisely. Did we dodge a bullet this time with the defeat of Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security?

How does one respond to this question? Some liberals are asking me that kind of question, and I have to admit, the best defense I could offer is a weak one. I told them that even without Bush’s plan, it wouldn’t change the fact that Social Security is a broken program that needs to be fixed. Don’t know if that is the best answer available.

But overall,, I do agree with your points and will always think President Bush as a decent man who did best he could do.

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Sentences commuted.

Thank God and President Bush.

What’s also ironic is the fact that Obama and the Democrats in Congress are already hinting about enacting policies the left condemned Bush for – even policies he never claimed. For example:

The draft. To my recollection, Bush never even mentioned it but I do remember leftists howling about how he might use it. Now Charlie Rangel is actually talking about it and I don’t hear a peep.

“Bush is Hitler” and “Bush spies on your phone calls!”. Obama is the one talking about creating a “domestic security force with a budget equal to the military”. This should be raising red flags everywhere. Don’t we already have an alphabet soup of DHS, ICE, FBI, DEA, Marshall Service, NSA, CIA? Is this some way of subverting posse comitatus?

Guantanamo. Referring to a possible 180 by Obama, to quote press secretary Dana Perino, “All of a sudden, ‘Gosh it’s so complicated to close Guantanamo Bay.’”

Bush the big spender. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

IN OTHER NEWS: Bush commutes sentences of former US border agents
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95QC3480&show_article=1

Thanks for the eloquent and heartfelt comments. I agree wholeheartedly.

…. From tomorrow onwards there will be no hiding behind “there is only one president” line for Barack Obama. I am happy President Bush will no longer be there to be trashed for everything. We will see how the left fixes everything.

GWB will continue to be blamed by leftists for problems happening this year. He did not defend himself while he was in office. I hope he will defend himself going forward.

I hear Barack already faces 2 wars. One of them is already won. I hope he is competent enough to not lose it.

Thank you again Mark.

Having kept my head in the proverbial sand for all of my life up until November, I was somewhat surprised to hear the very “tolerant, compassionate” liberals speak with such hatred and disgust of our esteemed President. I remember talking to a co-worker – an otherwise lovely, presumably Christian woman, and when I mentioned President Bush, her eyes crossed, her face screwed up, and she pretty much spit as she bellowed “I HATE him!” It was really, really weird. I have to attribute a lot of it to plain old spiritual warfare – what the left hated most about Bush (other than that their guys Gore and Kerry couldn’t quite steal the elections from him, thank God) was that he was a self admitted born-again Christian. So much for tolerance. I suppose one has to read the fine print of the liberal rules book – tolerance of anyone who the right would oppose – like radical islamic terrorists, Bill Ayers, gays and lesbians, and so forth. It’s so sad it’s nearly comical, except that they are going to destroy the country with their misplaced values and socialist propaganda.

As a person, Bush is a fine man, but his presidency was marked by bumbling incompetence.It is not just the left that feels that way, but a majority of Americans. His approval ratings are in the 20′s and there is legitimacy to that.

Here’s the list of failures.

1. A ballooning federal deficit and out of control spending, when he was handed a budget surplus.

2. The failure of the federal government to come to aid of American citizens when New Orleans was submerged underwater.

3. The rise of the Taliban despite fighting the GWOT for over 7 years, even though he commands the most powerful fighting force in the history of civilazation.

4. The failure to fully secure Iraq after several years of occupation.

5. A recession, perhaps heading into a depression, because we failed to correctly police the capital markets.

After September 11th, Bush had the opportunity to be a great president. In times of national crises we have often been blessed to have leaders rise to the occasion (Lincoln, FDR etc.) Unfortunately, Bush failed us.

I know we have not been attacked since Sept 11th and that can be counted as a success, but it is a success belied by the soft bigotry of low expectations. I expect our government to protect us from guys hiding out in caves. We were never attacked for the rest of the Clinton presidency after the 1st WTC attacks. So what! Our government should protect us as a given. I look forward to the next generation of conservative leaders, sans Bush.

Well said.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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… and was very conscientious of his duty as President, I accept. That he did his job well and faithfully, and that he deserves a grateful nation’s thanks, I also accept.

But …

… he failed as the head of our party, and that, as decent a man as he is, is something I would not soon (or ever) forgive him for. I completely reject the notion that there was anything honorable or worth admiring in his incomprehensible “refusal to … forcefully counter his critics.”

He recklessly endangered the continued existence of an institution that has been the political home of some of the nation’s greatest leaders and heroes (from Lincoln, Frederick Douglas down to Reagan) thanks to that utterly selfish decision.

And by doing that he may just have helped put an end to the United States continued existence as the envy of the world – I shudder to think of how the triumvirate of Pelosi-Reid-Obama are going to rule this nation with the GOP in its current state.

I don’t feel like repeating something I wrote a while back so I’m just going to copy it here; when we gave George W. Bush our votes and made him our nominee for President in 2000, we also gave him stewardship of our brand as the titular head of the Republican Party.

Once he stood on that stage and accepted our nomination, he relinquished his right to choose to sit back and let himself be ripped apart by the opposition for any reason, because, for good or ill, upon his acceptance and his subsequent victory on Election Day, our fortunes became tied to his.

That he did just that was a betrayal not only of himself but the millions upon millions of men and women who stood behind him, voted for him, donated to his campaigns, walked the streets and made the calls to get him elected and re-elected four years later. It was a betrayal of the Party that held this nation together.

And worse, it was a betrayal of his own Presidency and the Presidency itself as an institution.

A President has no right to refuse to aggressively defend his own honor. It is in fact the duty of every President of the United States to safeguard his own credibility on every front, not just to ensure that the people have faith in his ability to make decisions – but as a matter of national security; nothing terrifies America’s enemies more than a President with the solid backing of the American people.

Bush meekly allowed his Presidency to be made into a laughingstock at home and weakened himself abroad.

It really doesn’t matter whether or not it was unfairly done by the opposition with the help of a partisan Press Corps, the President had opportunities, means and outlets for setting the record straight available well beyond what the Reagan White House would have killed for and he did nothing.

And there’s nothing to admire in that.

without recommending the diary.

I think when all is said and done GWB will have done more damage to America the especially to the Republican Party through his lack of strong leadership in the face of the enemy (Democrats and the media) that can see now. His performance in office laid the foundation for BO’s election and for the Congressional wipe out that has moved the Congress slightly to the left of the Duma.

I am so sick of the “he kept us safe meme” I could puke. He did keep aQ & Co occupied for five years. And now we have an Administration that will aggressively work to cut military funding and weaken the intelligence community in ways that Frank Church could only dream about while strengthening the the idiots at State. Our national security is about to be thrown to the wolves and we are in a position to basically do nothing but watch thanks to GWB.

I’m not looking forward to the next few years.

I believe that GWB always did what he thought was best for this country. I wish I could believe that The One who takes his place tomorrow will do the same. Thank you Mr. Impomeni, for a fitting send off to a man who truly did put “Country First.”

President Bush may not have been the most eloquent of men . No he was never the editor of the Harvard Law Review but he was on MY SIDE. I would rather have someone of average intelligence with superior morality than someone like Obama.

Had Bush been a dishonest man he would have PLANTED WMD in Iraq just to save face for himself and the Nation. I know I would have.