Why I miss George W. Bush as one leader of the free world

Yeah, rik. Like the revisionist history that implies Presidents have the power to write or fund budgets. They don't. Congress does. ~ "Illegal war" Right. You reaaaaaaly need a Constitutional refresher, my friend. The ability to declare war is a clearly delineated Presidential power. Congress confirmed the wars by vote and funded them. The only place the wars are illegal is between your ears. I regret marrying my first wife. That was a disaster. But I don't proclaim that the judge who married us was a  criminal.~ The Iraq war is over. We won. Twice. 31 million people freed from tyranny. Twice. All the sand you tried to shovel in the gears of the war effort killed additional Americans and Iraqis by prolonging the war... but the American soldier prevailed anyway. Twice. Suck it.

I feel very offended when Americans describe their president as "the leader of the free world."  Firstly, he's not my leader.  I'm not American and he is only a leader to Americans, if he is a leader at all.  Secondly, his power is very small, mostly the people who run your country are senators, congressmen and civil servants.  Your president's actual power is more that of a figure head.  Much like our Queen, he has veto power he daren't use except in justifiable emergencies.  Lastly, whether the United States of America is actually a free country is debatable in spite of the lipservice paid to that concept.  People are "disappeared," marginalized, impoverished, disempowered and enslaved to minimal wages to a high degree.  Laws tie up the freedom of speech in insane censorships and what you can eat, drink, and smoke is highly regulated.  HOAs strangle homeowner expression and enjoyment while regulations and egotistical enforcers tie up even your business dealings.

One sees a lot from Canada, with the news, entertainment, and expatriots leaking across the border hourly.  My American husband is thrilled to have escaped to a free country.

Are you related to Rupert Murdoch?

Why George W. Bush ought to hide out

America is in a bad mood. They haven’t forgotten the economic fix we’re in that was amassed by a blunder-filled eight years of shoot’m up diplomacy and let the fat cats rob the banks. By contrast George W. Bush was a better actor than Ronald Reagan, and Reagan was a better statesman than actor.

He pretended to have a military record, joining the US Air Force Reserves, learning to fly a jet, and failing to show up for drills. But, that in completion went down as an honorable discharge. Somebody knew somebody’s daddy.

You have to give him credit for getting through Yale and onto Harvard because that is difficult and no one cuts slack in those programs. He made a great choice in marriage as Laura is a wonderful lady and a great first lady.

He ran for the House of Representatives and lost. That’s a damned shame because we could have seen how he would have performed as a legislator.

He moved on to be an enthusiastic co-owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, but you have to note that baseball is not like running a business that produces products for the gross domestic product. For enthusiasm, I would say GW has it.

He took on Ann Richards in 1994 for Texas Governor and defeated her.  I can imagine Governor Bush doing very well in Texas as the states CEO and he did. He was able to get some work done through bipartisanship, and it was hoped he would carry that forward. In fact, he did. He got everybody on board to enter into conflicts where we should not have. GW is a great salesman.

Bush beat Al Gore in a contested election. Some believe he stole it. I do. But, it doesn’t matter. The election was for Al Gore to win convincingly and he didn’t.

Terrorists attacked America and G. W. came through like a champion in stabilizing the nation. I give him 100% ovation for that. As for attacking Iraq, that was out of control, a blunder. Tax cuts for the rich was a blunder too. So was turning down financial regulation.

Social legislation was partisan and wasteful. No Child Left be Hind was a farce. Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act is OK, Medicare Prescription Drug Benefits for Seniors is a plus. Basically, his programs were dwarfed by an unnecessary war and an unregulated Wall Street and Bushes Big Government.

I am not one to jump on the Katrina bandwagon because I think New Orleans should be returned to its natural habitat.

Many late night talk show hosts like Leno and Letterman and hundreds of stand up comedians whole hardheartedly agree!

Gangstalking, Cointelpro2, human experimentation, was started under George Bush. But in this case, there are new chemical, biological and electronic weapons.

Less lethal, *they* will say.

But many innocent victims of these anti-terrorist, domestic surveillance programs have known these constant tortures for years , some since just after The 911 incident, and of course, the enactment of the 'Patriot Act.'

G.W. was as effective during his tenure as Obama has been during his. Obama's advantage is that he doesn't have to come up with foreign policy that can be criticized, just carry on with G.W.'s . Obama can keep the Dems happy in their delirium as moral authority and after two years still blame G.W. for the problems. Which any non-partisan knows were laid at G.W.'s doorstep by the Clinton administration. As it was Bill Clinton who championed and got mortgages for the poor who could not afford them as part and parcel of his idealism that every American should own their own home. Bill Clinton spent eight years lobbing cruise missiles into Iraq rather than declare war or move for any regime change. G.W. got the job done and gave the Iraqi people a course for democracy and self determination. As for the banking crisis the Dems are in that up to their armpits though they still try to blame G.W..  59 top Democrats receive financial contributions from Fanny May from 1989-2010. Obama getting a total of $130,713 to date. Hilary Clinton getting almost $60,000 so far. From 2009-2010 under Obama the top four American banks have contributed more than 6.5 million in campaign donations. The idea that the Democrats hands are clean concerning the financial crisis is propaganda of the highest order and only believed by partisan hacks. The only people who can see the political situation with any clarity are the independents and thankfully their numbers are growing. 

Al Qaeda killed about 2700 Americans. Bush then "liberated" Iraq by killing over 4000 Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis. Al Qaeda was not even in Iraq until Bush opened it for them!And now there's more than Al Qaeda, Pakistan, and Afghanistan out there to worry about. You do the math, "patriots". Always reacting to every terrorist noise like they're the powerful ones to fear, and you made it even worse!

What would you consider an appropriate response to a terrorist attack?