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Travelling through The Ether at the speed of light, this photo is making the rounds of the Right Wing Blogosphere:
[Picture swiped with malice aforethought from the TrogloPundit.]
Many of my Friends In The Ether are, in many creative and entertaining variations [Carol, over at No Sheeples Here, has a good aggregation of them], all answering this question with a resounding YES!
I answer the question with a conditional ‘YES’…
-If you mean: Do I miss having an adult as President, then I answer ’YES’.
-If you mean: Do I miss having an honorable man as President, then I answer ’YES’.
-If you mean: Do I miss having a man as President who holds dear Judeo-Christian traditions and values and is willing to go to bat for them, then I answer ’YES’.
-If you mean: Do I miss having a President who understood we are at war and that we are facing enemies who are out to murder us and who was willing to take actions to protect us, then I answer ’YES’.
-If you mean: Do I miss having a man as President who, while realizing we are at war, refuses to acknowledge that the War is against Islam itself, because that’s what the Jihadists believe, then I answer ’NO’.
-If you mean, Do I miss having a man as President who, domestically, was a statist, then I answer ’NO’.
As Denise Richards likes to say: It’s complicated.
UPDATE 10 February 2010 @ 0943…
When I wrote the above last evening, I didn’t realize that Michelle Malkin had beaten me to the punch on this. She’s more hard on GWB than I was [Man, you women are more vicious].
I just answered “more than you know sir” because on the whole , county-club Republican spendthrift Islam=Terror denier though he be, I’d take him back in a freakin’ heartbeat without much thinking about it.
Bob,
I picked a fight with Smitty over Bush’s foreign policy screw-ups…
“Smitty,
I am almost with you on the foreign policy view – but two staggering administration errors keep me from agreeing.
First was our failure to stomp on Saddam and then get the Hell out of there with a solemn promise to return if they were to revert to previous archetype. We had no genuine interest in maintaining a “surgical” strategy when a surge was required – and eventually effective. Rummy and Bush wasted a lot of lives and treasure. Leave a few bases, sure, but that daily cop routine sucked.
Secondly: Iran, NK and Condi. I dug Doctor Rice, but she was not who we needed. We needed her at the UN and Bolton kicking foreign ass – someone Iran’s Mahdists would genuinely feel uncomfortable around. We dithered eight frickin’ years as Iran set-out to built nukes. Ditto NK.
Yeah, I’m not so warm ‘n fuzzy on Bush’s foreign policy. Let me add the Ramos and Compean SNAFU to foreign policy failure as well…”
By the way… “Miss Me Yet” has been Photoshoped yet again. Bush, out; the Declaration, IN.
With you all the way on your two points, Ran.
Condi Rice was an extreme disappointment. She had shown all the signs of being a Bolton in a dress, but she too, like so many others, got to Foggy Bottom and was infected with weenerism. Among the symptoms: thinking constantly about one’s place in history, an obessive desire to be known as a ‘peacemaker’, and having you brain go all squishy. Oh…and treating Israel like dog poop on your shoe.
Bob, I’m with you, perhaps even with a bit more emphasis on the “conditional.”
My greatest disappointment in POTUS GWB is that in his speech to the nation after 09SEP11, he did not say:
“OK my fellow Americans, we are at war, a very big and long-term war that is going to take a lot of money and huge amounts of sacrifice from every American citizen to win, and I call upon all of us to gird our loins, forsake self-aggrandizement, save your money, keep your powder dry and let’s run every Mohammedan out of this nation and tell them to shut up and behave themselves or cease to exist.
“It’s a long, hard road because so many of our own fellow citizens are afraid of them and want to appease them and will do everything in their power, which is enormous, to ensure that they dominate and ultimately extinguish us.
“Our chief enemy in this battle against foreign domination is ourselves. The war is spiritual and the territory over which it is fought is spiritual. Our venality, our greed, our promiscuity, our addiction to psycho-tropic drugs and frivolous litigation, our tolerance of divorce, abortion and step-parents, our embrace of the nostrums of “science” in preference to the admonishments of reason and common sense, our fawning over treasonous, tyrannical college and university professors, our acceptance of liars, cheats and idlers as worthy of deference — these are our enemies. Let us clean up our own act and throw these Mohammedan bastards out of this great country as rapidly as we can.
“There can be no toleration for them at all, because their very ideology commands and requires them to hate and annihilate our Constitution, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, and all loyal to them. Every Mohammedan is a terrorist who must quit this country with the utmost celerity. And they should be hunted down in every country of the world.
“Help me do that by cleaning up our own lives and targeting the lives of Mohammedans everywhere on the face of the globe until such time as they destroy their clerics and scholars and become accomplished in loving the One God the adherents of every religion implore.”
Had he said that, his approval rating would be unanimously positive, no conditions attached. But he did not. He said, in effect, “I want you to go back to the malls and buy what you want, eat drink and be merry.” He wasn’t serious. And worse than that, even.
So less than 1% of the nation carried the burden of defense for the other 99+%. A truly despicable scenario! And all the making of POTUS GWB, although foreshadowed by his father.
I’ve pictures and video of football-field-sized bunkers of WMD chemicals brim full of 50gal drums and arty rounds bearing the crud, in Iraq, in 2004, marked. And POTUS GWB backed off and said there were no WMDs!
My family have been among the 1% since June 1997. So you know how I feel about POTUS GWB. I was up close and saw him in person and saw he is a good man. He’s not stupid, he’s very smart, but he’s very compromised and ignorant-ized by his Ivy League education and fraternity and as POTUS he was badly served by political consultants who presumed to be also statesmen.
And over and above all of that, he didn’t destroy the source of it all, “Saudi” Arabia and its Wahhabist backbone. There was the true terrorist and criminality. It was so easy to do — starting in 1991, when three full Allied Corps were on the ground there. It would have been a walk-over. There is no excuse for not having put them to the task for which they were made. They could have taken down Iraq, “Saudi” Arabia and the Iranian Mullahs in sequence, and should have. Everything was in place to do that, easily. Three full Allied Army Corps! An overwhelming, decisive force. And that was POTUS GHWB. Didn’t use it to the purpose for which it existed. Unthinkable, unforgivable.
Gasoline should be at maybe 50 cents a gallon world-wide, today! Possibly less were one to go by actual cost of production plus reasonable profit. One goes to war to gain a benefit. What have Americans gained from wars in the Middle East since 1979? Heartbreak, terrorism, fear, dhimmitude, loss of sovereignty, Mohammedan domination of the American nations.
Iraq has the most modern electronic infrastructure in the world. Guess who paid for it? I don’t begrudge Iraq that. I begrudge that they and other Arabs aren’t told to f-off when they lecture us on the glories of “Islam” (what they really mean is Mohammedanism, pure idolatry of a man and a flipping book).
Rev: That’s pretty much the speech I thought GWB should have given. He should have asked for a declaration of war from the Congress.
What have Americans gained from wars in the Middle East since 1979? Heartbreak, terrorism, fear, dhimmitude, loss of sovereignty, Mohammedan domination of the American nations.
Yup, pretty much that’s it. It’s time we stopped living in a fantasy world of pretty colors and unicorns.
Good Post ! Well if I were to choose between the two I’d choose without a doubt Bush over Obama. You could say he is the lesser amongst two evils, but not only that he has the leadership and traits to run and govern a better country rather than Obama.