The "Comforter in Chief"

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Here's what I think about Still President Bush:

I suspect people would line up for that.

[ScratchIt 12]

Mr. Bush sees his job as providing comfort to those who have sacrificed so much. "The definition of comfort is very interesting. Comfort means hug, comfort means cry, comfort means smile, comfort means listen. Comfort also means, in many cases, assure the parent or the spouse that any decision made about troops in combat will be made with victory in mind, not made about my personal standing in the polls or partisan politics."

Asked where he gets the strength to meet with the families of soldiers whom he - as commnder in chief - sent to their deaths, he turned stern.

"You have to believe in the cause. You have to understand that - and believe we'll be successful. If I didn't believe in the cause, it would be unbelievably terrible. I believe strongly in what we're doing. I believe it's necessary for our security. And I believe history will justify the actions. ...

So as long as he thinks it OK then he can live with his conscience. What a #######!

[ScratchIt 12]

Here's what I think about Still President Bush:

I suspect people would line up for that.

Should have thrown that shoe 2 seconds earlier. KAPOW!!!

Edited December 23, 2008 by ScratchIt

[Ban Hammer 14,619]

how heartless of you!

you republican!

could be...who knows...

I could actually be incanada or ziquitty3334466

i miss incanada

you don't have to.... we have the ZQT here....

still not the same.

[Danno 1,228]

EXCLUSIVE: Bush, Cheney comforted troops privately

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Does putting a post in big ####-off font make it more credible?

The only reason I did that was to make the headline stand out and to make the thing a little more readable... as it was rather long winded.

[Danno 1,228]

I suspect people would line up for that.

I wouldn't. On January 20th I just want the guy to go back to Texas, never to be seen again. I have no desire to see physical harm come to him, but neither do I want to see one more bit of attention payed to him after he's out of office. The guy just needs to go away and leave us alone. (sadly, this won't be the case. Someone will ghost-write his autobiography and we'll see him on the morning talk shows hawking it in about 8-12 months.)

Bush’s Legacy May End Up Better Than You Think: Kevin Hassett

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=was...id=acJBjLS7oKAc

When I read your post this headline I saw today popped in my mind. (although I hadn't read the story yet).

I happen to think his legacy will depend more on what the future hold for us in the middle East.

It's hard to believe if Bushes Fantasy of... "Democracy breaking out all across the Arab world" were to take place in the next ten years... that this would not remove some of the tarnish from his name.

Lets look at another unlikely possibility.

Lets say in the next 4-8 years our country is attacked on the home-front (multiple times) with many lives lost adding to great uneasiness in the American people, while the true Bush haters would never loose the sour taste in their mouth for Bush, I bet many others would.

Bushs biggest problem is, his legacy is shot and no one cares to "massage it" into a more favorable historical place. Obviously Democrats will blame him for everything he is guilty of as well as things he's not guilty of.

Republicans have no reason to try to shine a better light on him because he did so much damage to the party.

[jundp 191]

EXCLUSIVE: Bush, Cheney comforted troops privately

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Does putting a post in big ####-off font make it more credible?

[bhajishah 4]

Thats good they did seeing how they esp draft dodger avoiding war himself as a young fella..

[Danno 1,228]

Thats good they did seeing how they esp draft dodger avoiding war himself as a young fella..

And you know this because..... Dan Rather told you???

[spookyturtle 9,466]

And you know this because..... Dan Rather told you???

Y'know, when Barrack Obama wasn't being forthcoming about his relationship with Bill Ayers, I was pretty vocal about wanting him to come clean about that relationship. I still feel like he hasn't cleared his relationship up with Ayers 100%, and I think the American people deserve the truth, good or bad.

I think it's also fair to ask Bush to come clean on his time in the National Guard. Regardless of how Rather handled that journalistic disaster, there are a LOT of unanswered questions about Bush's service, and Bush has not been forthcoming about this period of his life. I think the American people deserve to know the truth, good or bad. It's not about politics or partisanship, it's about knowing the truth, even if he's only got days left in office.

Anything Obama does is ok, anything Bush does is bad.

[Ban Hammer 14,619]

And you know this because..... Dan Rather told you???

Y'know, when Barrack Obama wasn't being forthcoming about his relationship with Bill Ayers, I was pretty vocal about wanting him to come clean about that relationship. I still feel like he hasn't cleared his relationship up with Ayers 100%, and I think the American people deserve the truth, good or bad.

I think it's also fair to ask Bush to come clean on his time in the National Guard. Regardless of how Rather handled that journalistic disaster, there are a LOT of unanswered questions about Bush's service, and Bush has not been forthcoming about this period of his life. I think the American people deserve to know the truth, good or bad. It's not about politics or partisanship, it's about knowing the truth, even if he's only got days left in office.

Anything Obama does is ok, anything Bush does is bad.

[NickD 203]

Still way too much power to be given to only one person, whether good or bad as that person may be. Didn't start that way, but sure ended up like that. Caused by congress shifting the buck to this office. Only power the president should have is over congress, and if a crisis is met, hey, we have ten minutes to vote on this, no BS or speeches, make up your minds, do your research, and vote on it. Period.

[ScratchIt 12]

And you know this because..... Dan Rather told you???

Y'know, when Barrack Obama wasn't being forthcoming about his relationship with Bill Ayers, I was pretty vocal about wanting him to come clean about that relationship. I still feel like he hasn't cleared his relationship up with Ayers 100%, and I think the American people deserve the truth, good or bad.

I think it's also fair to ask Bush to come clean on his time in the National Guard. Regardless of how Rather handled that journalistic disaster, there are a LOT of unanswered questions about Bush's service, and Bush has not been forthcoming about this period of his life. I think the American people deserve to know the truth, good or bad. It's not about politics or partisanship, it's about knowing the truth, even if he's only got days left in office.

Anything Obama does is ok, anything Bush does is bad.

That is as simplistic as believing everything Bush claimed as causes to go to war. So far, Obama hasn't caused any deaths. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now.

[zqt3344 21]

But what would Hugo Chavez say or do in response to your post? Why he is the greatest leader of all time according to him. You mean you would wish to limit the Great Chavez's power in V town!

Still way too much power to be given to only one person, whether good or bad as that person may be. Didn't start that way, but sure ended up like that. Caused by congress shifting the buck to this office. Only power the president should have is over congress, and if a crisis is met, hey, we have ten minutes to vote on this, no BS or speeches, make up your minds, do your research, and vote on it. Period.

[Danno 1,228]

And you know this because..... Dan Rather told you???

Y'know, when Barrack Obama wasn't being forthcoming about his relationship with Bill Ayers, I was pretty vocal about wanting him to come clean about that relationship. I still feel like he hasn't cleared his relationship up with Ayers 100%, and I think the American people deserve the truth, good or bad.

I think it's also fair to ask Bush to come clean on his time in the National Guard. Regardless of how Rather handled that journalistic disaster, there are a LOT of unanswered questions about Bush's service, and Bush has not been forthcoming about this period of his life. I think the American people deserve to know the truth, good or bad. It's not about politics or partisanship, it's about knowing the truth, even if he's only got days left in office.

At this point in our countries history it is rather pointless to explore whether a politician dodged his duty at military service. We know Bill Clinton clearly did and who cared? Bush at least did some guard time but what if he hadn't? We are long past the days when "duty" was an expectation of men.

It was just 2 presidents ago when even admiting he had puffed a joint left Clinton with bad press. Bush had to answer for some old Drunk Driving charge but we hardly even heard about Obamas eager admission (in his books) of using hard drugs regularly.

I think this is both due to the unwillingness of the press to attack Obama and the consistantly lower bar we are setting for our most high office.

Anyway The time to discover these questions is BEFORE a person takes office (gets elected) not after.

It may be possible Bush Got Stateside guard service through a connection, though I doubt it for a number of reasons. (some pretty weak)

1. His father served in the Military with distinction and does not seem like the sort to pull strings

in such a dishonorable way.

2. Bush could have got Easy service IN vietnam ...and this would have been a much greater benefit to him.

3. The press have been climbing all over this story for nearly a decade and have little to show for it.

Crawling through peoples public background

is really the job of a "free Press", .. or should be, ....but now it is the job of "partisan-press".

Perhaps "you" were not "In the tank" for Obama but can anyone claim the Press was not?

This is exactly why we failed to get any investigative stories on Obama.

We knew more about Sarah Palins history after two weeks in the campaign than we ever learned about Obama.

With Obama, even the Wacky Reverend story was an "observatory" effort on the part of the media, certainly not something they were "digging up".

So I guess if Bush took easy Guard service it would be interesting to know but that stone should have been turned over long ago if something was under it.