The link above leads to a photo essay by TIME magazine showing President Bush during his time in office.
I enjoyed the video. I hope you do as well.
Hat Tip: Hot Air Headlines
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Once again, thank you for your service and protecting freedom and liberty in America, President Bush.
Thank you for freeing 50 million people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Thank you for saving 10 million lives in Africa. Thank you for giving the African people life-saving AIDS and malaria medicine.
Hat Tips: Hot Air
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Click on the link above and send an electronic Thank You note to President Bush for keeping America safe!
I just posted a Thank You note.
The Mission 1 Accomplished webmasters are planning to present the comments and logs to George W. Bush’s Presidential Library on September 11, 2011.
Hat Tip: Little Green Footballs
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The new White House website unveiled by President Barack Obama’s team Tuesday includes a shot at former President Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina.
Under the “agenda” portion of the site regarding Katrina, it reads: “President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur.”
“President Obama swiftly responded to Hurricane Katrina,” the statement on the site continues. “Citing the Bush Administration’s ‘unconscionable ineptitude’ in responding to Hurricane Katrina, then-Senator Obama introduced legislation requiring disaster planners to take into account the specific needs of low-income hurricane victims.”
The site also points out that Obama “visited thousands of Hurricane survivors in the Houston Convention Center and later took three more trips to the region” and worked with the Congressional Black Caucus to help rebuild in the aftermath of Katrina.
In interviews prior to leaving the White House, Bush defended the federal government’s response to the hurricane.
“The truth of the matter is the response was pretty darn quick if you think about the fact that the Coast Guard and a lot of brave kids were pulling 30,000 people off of roofs as soon as the storm passed, as soon as they found people on those roofs,” Bush said during an interview with CNN last week.
Bush also said his lowest point in office came when he heard “people saying George Bush is a racist because of the response” to the hurricane.
The lessons learned by Hurricane Katrina were implemented during Hurricane Gustav.
Why do liberals continue to insist that President Bush broke promises or responded slowly to Hurricane Katrina? Trillions of dollars in aid were pumped into Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi in order to rebuild.
Hat Tip: Hot Air Headlines
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The Hill reported:
The crowd packed on the west side of the Capitol grounds serenaded President Bush in mocking fashion when he took to the inaugural stage alongside Vice President Dick Cheney.
“Nah nah nah nah, hey hey, good-bye,” a section of the crowd chanted.
The crowd packed immediately below the podium received Bush in stony silence when he took his seat on the stage surrounding the podium where Barack Obama was scheduled to take the oath office to become the 44th president of the United States.
The jeers are among the final public feedback Bush will receive as president.
First Lady Laura Bush and Lynne Cheney received light applause when they were announced to the crowd.
Bush is scheduled to depart from the East Front of the Capitol by helicopter after the swearing-in ceremony.
Obama received the loudest sustained cheers from thousands who chanted his name.
Liberals, I am being nice today.
Tomorrow, and for the next four years, I can promise eternal hostility against liberalism and against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit
UPDATE 1: Here is the video.
Idiots.
UPDATE 2: Another video.
Yeah, we are united.
The LEFT and the RIGHT are going to verbal war for the next four years.
UPDATE 3: AllahPundit at Hot Air writes: How classless is this? Even Chris Matthews is embarrassed.
I doubt Matthews has the ability to feel any type of shame.
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MSNBC.com
WASHINGTON - Continuing a White House ritual, President George W. Bush left a note in the Oval Office for President-elect Barack Obama, wishing him well as he takes the reins of the executive branch.
The White House on Tuesday declined to provide intimate details of the message the two-term Republican left for the incoming Democrat, saying only that Bush wrote it on Monday and left it in the top drawer of his desk.
“The theme is similar to what he’s said since election night about the fabulous new chapter President-elect Obama is about to start, and that he wishes him the very best,” White House press secretary Dana Perino said Tuesday.
I wonder what the note says?
Guesses, anyone?
Hat Tip: Hot Air Headlines
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On his last full day in office, President Bush commuted the controversial sentences of two former Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug runner in 2005.
The imprisonment of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean had sparked outcry from critics who said the men were just doing their jobs and were punished too harshly. They had been sentenced to 11- and 12-year sentences, respectively.
Their sentences will now expire on March 20 of this year.
Ramos and Compean were sentenced in connection with the shooting of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, who was shot in the buttocks while trying to flee along the Texas border. He admitted smuggling several hundred pounds of marijuana on the day he was shot and pleaded guilty last year to drug charges related to two other smuggling attempts.
The pair’s case ignited debate across the country, as a chorus of organizations and members of Congress — many of them Republican — argued that the men were just doing their jobs. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., was particularly outspoken on the issue, at one time describing Ramos and Compean as “unjustly convicted men who never should have been prosecuted in the first place.”
Rohrabacher applauded Bush on Monday, telling FOXNews.com “his own stubbornness was overcome by better parts of his own soul.”
“The order … reaffirms our faith that the system works, if indeed the American people are willing to work at it,” he said.
Nearly the entire congressional delegation from Texas and other lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle pleaded with Bush to grant them clemency. Conservatives hailed Bush’s decision Monday.
“The whole thing was ridiculous from beginning to end, and two years was way too long for them to serve,” said radio talk show host Laura Ingraham. “Conservatives are very happy across the country.”
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said in a written statement that Bush had “responded to the calls for compassion that came from across the country and made the right decision in granting these two men commutations.”
The border agents argued during their trials that they believed Davila was armed and that they shot him in self defense. The prosecutor in the case said there was no evidence linking the smuggler to the van that contained the marijuana. The prosecutor also said the border agents didn’t report the shooting and tampered with evidence by picking up several spent shell casings.
The agents were fired after their convictions on several charges, including assault with a dangerous weapon and with serious bodily injury, violation of civil rights and obstruction of justice. All their convictions, except obstruction of justice, were upheld on appeal.
Bush has been cautious in his use of pardon powers, and particularly careful when it comes to commutations of prison terms. A pardon is an official forgiveness of a crime (typically requested at least five years after the completion of a prison term); a commutation is a reduction of sentence.
Before Monday, Bush had granted 189 pardons and nine commutations. By comparison, President Clinton granted 396 pardons and 61 commutations, many on his last day in office. President Reagan granted 393 pardons and 13 commutations.
The White House has until noon Tuesday, when President-elect Barack Obama is to be sworn in, to grant any more clemency requests. But White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said Monday’s commutations would be Bush’s last acts of clemency.
Drug dealers usually carry guns, so I am glad Ramos and Compean shot Davila in his ass, even if Davila was not armed.
Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin
UPDATE 1: Glenn Beck interviews the wives of the border agents.
Hat Tip: Hot Air
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No love for America in Beirut, Lebanon.
Leftist protestors burn an effigy of U.S. President George W. Bush and U.S. President-elect Barack Obama during a demonstration displaying solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, near the US embassy building in Awkar, north of Beirut, January 18, 2009.
Leftists women hold mock babies during a demonstration displaying solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, near the US embassy building in Awkar, north of Beirut, January 18, 2009. Posters of U.S. President George W. Bush (R) and U.S. President-elect Barack Obama are seen in the foreground.
But I thought everyone loves Barack Obama?
Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit
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Well, liberals in general do not believe in freedom.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: The scary thing about the last eight years is that George Bush, whatever you think of him, came to office pretty much tabula rasa in terms of philosophy. He didn’t have much. He was a rich kid driving his father’s car. He got to be President because of his father, let’s face it, the same way he got into school and everything else, the same way he got his car probably. But the scary thing about Bush is somewhere he came to meet people like Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby and Paul Wolfowitz and Feith and the rest of them. They had this ideology that he bought in to, this ideology that somehow the United States in waging war and taking over countries somehow was fighting for freedom, and somehow in doing so we would encourage a moderation in the Arab world. Well, history would have taught him, and I know he just put down history by quoting Jefferson which was unfair to Jefferson, history would have told him that in the Arab world, it’s the Arab street, it’s the regular people out there, the vast population in numbers, who oppose the state of Israel, who have always been radicalized. It’s been the leaders that you could deal with, the potentates, the kings we set up over there, the British did, the people that were propped up with oil wealth. We could deal with those people, but the minute the street had a hand in the politics over there, it was radical.
He decided he’s going to start listening to the intellectuals, so he said this Paul Wolfowitz is such a smart guy, let’s go with this neo-conservative idea, let’s go into Iraq. He listened to Dick Cheney, he listened to the rest of them. And, all of a sudden, he became this new scholar of freedom, and he’s going to spend the rest of his life selling this stuff. This stuff cost the lives of 100,000 Iraqis, it cost the lives of 4,000 U.S. service people, and we don’t know what’s coming around the corner in Iraq. The Brits took over that part of the world and turned it into a series of monarchies. We’ve taken over and we supply it with our ideology. Well, we’ll see if it lasts because, in the end, the Arabs are going to have their own culture, their own politics, and down the road, we’re going to have to make peace with the elements we can find to make peace with.
The idea that we have some brand new neo-conservative ideology of freedom that’s going to bring peace over in that part of the world is not true, and he’s still selling it, and that’s the tragedy of the last eight years. He’s learned the wrong lessons, and he’s out there selling them again tonight.
Chris Matthews list the Iraqi and American dead, yet fails to mention the millions of lives lost in Saddam Hussein’s personal genocide of the Iraqi people.
Chris Matthews actually believes that Saddam Hussein and other dictators should have free reign to rule and should not be disposed of and defeated.
The scary thing about Chris Matthews is that 53% of the country agrees with him.
Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In his farewell address to the nation, President George W. Bush is acknowledging that many of his decisions are unpopular with the American people. But he says there can be no debate about the results.
Indeed, a text of the speech comes with a laundry list of what Bush says are successes.
In the text, released by the White House in advance of the address Thursday night, the president says Afghanistan and Iraq have changed for the better.
Bush credits his administration for improving public schools, creating a new Medicare prescription drug benefit and finding more money for veterans.
What about the bad economy? Bush says his team took decisive measures to safeguard it.
The bottom line, Bush says, is there have been good days and tough days during his term.
On that, even his critics would agree.
(I just corrected two misspelled words in the Associated Press article. And these liberal idiots are considered “professional journalists”?)
President Bush made many socialist decisions to “safeguard” the economy.
Why are liberals complaining? Liberals should love President Bush when it comes to the economy.
Well, what goes around, comes around, and when President-elect Obama takes office, it will be my turn to disrespect Obama and give him an EPIC FAIL every time he screws up.
I cannot wait to be called a “racist”, too! (Will liberals dare call me, a Puerto Rican, a “minority”, a racist?)
Let us grade President Bush’s tenure:
Response after 9/11/01: A+
Afghanistan: B+ (The job is not done, yet. Victory is within our grasp, though.)
Iraq: B+ (Again, the job is not done, but victory is within our grasp. Our brave military will have to mop-up the terrorist bastards that are still hiding.)
Al Qaeda: B+ (They are still out there, however, they have been severely cut off from the outside world.)
Osama bin Laden: Grade pending. President Bush still has a few more days to find him and kill him.
AIDS in Africa: A+. Not even liberals can spin this as a “failure”.
Pro-Life: A+. Abortions have dropped during the past 8 years.
Economy: D-. President Bush inherited President Clinton’s recession, 9/11 and Enron screwed the economy, President Bush then cut taxes, the economy rebounded and the Dow Jones index went past 14,000 points. The economy tanked in September of 2008, especially with Bear Stearns becoming worthless, and John McCain lost the presidency due to the economy. More and more banks lost money, the auto manufacturers lost money, more businesses spanning several different sectors went out of business, Bernard Madoff ripped off the world (including his own sister) of $50 billion dollars, and now the nation is facing 7.2% unemployment.
Final Grade: B-
Those are the only issues I really care about.
Oh, wait. One more issue.
Pissing of liberals: A+++
Sweet.
Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin
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How terrible to happen to such a beautiful woman! It is soo sad....
