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twitterLETTER TO THE EDITOR:
Giving Obama chance few gave Bush
Monday, Dec. 15, 2008 | 2:02 a.m.
As a devout conservative, I was naturally disappointed with the outcome of the election. However, the voters have spoken and Barack Obama is to be president of the United States.
Unlike many of the ultra-liberals who wrote letters to this paper in 2004 to show their contempt and disdain for President Bush, I am willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt.
I will reserve my judgment until he has spent some time in office and I get a chance to see some of the things he has done. This is a far cry from the position of those liberals who were going to leave the country (or something more drastic) after the 2004 election. Many of them couldn’t say a decent thing about a decent man.
I admire two of the choices Obama has made. By appointing Hillary Clinton and Bill Richardson to Cabinet positions, he has virtually removed two of his would-be competitors for 2012. It is unlikely either of them would want to run against their “boss.”
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Obama has the guts to appointed people from the Bush crowd of friends too, like Gates for Defense and Timothy Geithner.
Timothy Geithner is one of Bush's key men on his bailout program.
Geithner is also the chief regulatory dude in charge of overseeing the banking and financial markerts in New York area.
As we all know the Feds and Geithner did an excellect job overseeing the financial and banking area.
Obama's election was different than that of Bush in 2004.
In 2004 we had already had the poor, misguided administration of Bush for 4 years. The ultra conservative and conservative said they did not want to change presidents during a war! Even though the war was started and justified by Bush and he had lied to us all.
We knew what we were getting in 2004 when the right voted for Bush and now we all have to live with the failed war, failed economy and failed internation policy.
Anyone have a shoe I can throw?
too bad our "DEVOUT" Conservative doesn't know that Mr. Bush was elected in 2000, giving Americans 4 years to assess and then reject his incompetent leadership. It didnt start in 2004, Mr. "devout". and BTW, how does "devout" apply to politics as well as religion?
"Giving Obama chance few gave Bush"
We DEVOUT liberals don't like having the notion that we are "unpatriotic" shoved down our throats simply because we don't agree with the president. You might want to look at some of that B.S. as a reason why many liberals resent Bush and the republicans, in 2004 and especially now.
Koolaid Bush haters can not say one single good thing about Bush.
If that is not a sign of hate then I do not know what is.
That is a great deservice to our country and greatly harms the health of politics and relationship between citizens.
It takes a mature person to see both good and bad in all our presidents. They all have done good and bad. Saying that somebody did no good is a sign of hate or a sign that you are fool. You should say what they did bad because we need to have the conflict of opinion to have a better chance to find the truth but also you should have some class and reconized the good.
Hate just breeds more hate which is the point of above letter.
People who resent Bush and being called "unpatriotic" for not supporting him are not haters Jim. That's just your easy out for anyone who wont jump on your pro-Bush bandwagon.
I would say, however, it is clear that you hate Bill Clinton. Of that there is no doubt. That's why you always couch him as a felon. Felony is all you can see from your disjointed discompassionate hateful perspective.
In fact I would say that most of your anti-johnevegas posts are intended you show how much "I" hate and "you" don't. Or how smart you are and how stupid I am. Not deep, but definitely polarized.
I have said good things about Bill Clinton.
People that full of hate are incapable of saying good things or accepting others that say good about the ones that they hate.
You and your follow koolaid drinkers are so full with hate that if the truth was a 2 ton truck full of good things about Bush and parked in front of your face.....you keep saying, "Bush has never ever done anything good."
As President did Bush ever did anything good?
"As President did Bush ever did anything good?"
I assume you mean "do"?
I thought his faith based initiatives was an innovative and well considered effort. I do wish it was less specific about Christianity, but it was a good effort.
His efforts as a leader were very good after 9/11. Right up to the point where he blamed it on Saddam. Then he went back to being a lost cause with a predetermined agenda.
Thanks
Last time I looked.....Bill Clinton was a felon..... I know most of you excuse him by saying it was only about sex, but he lied about it under oath. This is not something the president of the United States should do............ EVER !!
and Bush NEVER lies, right? Give me a frickin break -
Also when was Clinton convicted of that offense? I know he was impeached, but was he convicted? I already know the answer but I want to hear it from you tom.
Bill admitted to his crimes.
In a agreement with the Justice department, he admitted to lying under oath and he agreed to give up his law license and paid a $25,000 fine.
He made the admission and entered into the agreement with the Justice department on his last day in office.
One can only wonder if GWB will ever admit to the horrible lies he has told this nation, and the world. Lies which have cost real human lives in the tens of thousands at least.
That anyone would excuse this, while chastising Bill Clinton for his sex lie, is the height of hypocrisy and or pure stupidity. If Clinton is a felon, surely George Bush is a War Criminal.
That's nice, and....
No conviction, OK...
And where's the "OMG he's a felon, EVIL!!!!!!!!!!"
Saying someone is a felon more than implies they were convicted in a court of law. Just saying that the overdramatic rhetoric can be toned down from an 11 to an 8 and still make some sense. You can be ticked that he lied, you can proudly claim he was impeached and narrowly beat a rap from the Senate, but that he's a felon... Nope.
If you are saying that Bush lied about WMD's then you also have to say that Clinton lied about WMD's.
Both men were relying on very similar intelligence that were saying that Saddam had WMD's. Clinton and many of his former cabinet leaders, like sec. of state and sec. of def., all said that the intelligence agencies up to the very end of Clinton's term were saying Iraq had WMD's.
And, yes, Clinton used the WMD argument to order bombings on Iraq where people died.
Clinton order bombings on a country that never attacked the USA nor did that country ever said it wanted the USA to be destroyed nor did Clinton ever claim that country was a threat to the USA. He was also in the process of having the US Army to invade the country but the leaders of that country wisely surrendered.
Yes, people died in those attacks.
No need to pin it down to the WMD Jim, I think Bush and Cheney's lies about Al Qaeda being in bed with Iraq and that Iraq was behind 9/11 are enough.
On the WMD, I'm curious. Why do you suppose Bush needed shill at the CIA to reinterpret the intelligence with a preference? If it should have been enough for Bill, once can only wonder why Bush felt the need to trump-up the data to make his case. Seems to me like a pretty clear agenda for war.