Does anyone remember what it was like at the White House before George and Laura Bush? There was a guy who pursed his lips and wagged his finger as he lied to the nation on television, asserting he did not have "sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." You could not believe anything Bill or Hillary Clinton said, no matter how sincere they attempted to look, while saying it. I have not seen this mentioned by anyone in the closing days of the Bush White House. I guess we prefer the guy who can communicate well, even if he knows he is bulls---ing us.
Here is a more substantial tribute to President Bush by Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal. I like Karl Rove. When asked by Sean Hannity about Obama's changes in the War on Terror, such as closing Gitmo and using the Army Field Manual to interrogate terrorists, Rove replied about Obama's team, "They're winging it; and you don't wing it when you are fighting a war."
Bush's methods were working; we are winning the war in Iraq, completely humiliating al-Qaeda. If the tactics you are using are successful, you don't drop them to please your left-wing base. Bush kept us safe. Obama is taking a huge gamble; that if we play nice, the terrorists will play nice. If the gamble is unsuccessful, Obama will be history, and so will our country.
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I will always and do consider Bush one of our greats. He met the challenge of 9/11 and played cassandra about our current problems. It is not his fault we did not hold Congress more accountable.
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