tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post1990882785702000388..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-1554969725385225032014-05-10T20:46:57.025-04:002014-05-10T20:46:57.025-04:00'a man who came into office underprepared and ...'a man who came into office underprepared and overly reliant on his [dreadful] vice president' ['made] some tragically bad decisions'. Bush 'is a flawed character' 'you wince at his judgment'. <br /><br />How can these be part of a favorable assessment of Bush? Because Bai is engaged in a transparent piece of setting the bar low and displacing attention from what you might think was the absolutely central issue, viz. 'how good a president was Bush?' to 'was he the devil himself?' The charge is that Bush, who did not wake up one morning and find he was the president, but put himself forward as a candidate for the nation's highest elective office, was a disastrously bad president who made a terrible mess of thing. That's the charge that would have to be answered by someone who wanted to defend him, not the bogus charge 'he was a total cretin animated by Hitlerian malignity and nothing else'. Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16132840751040682025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-2737096685056312712014-05-10T20:45:13.924-04:002014-05-10T20:45:13.924-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16132840751040682025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-62637170319914471872014-05-09T14:25:53.788-04:002014-05-09T14:25:53.788-04:00"Bush "found his footing"? When?&qu..."Bush "found his footing"? When?"<br /><br />Aw c'mon, ask me a hard one. Bush found his footing after he went home to Texas. He was sitting in the bathtub one day looking straight ahead, and there it was – his footing! His footing was at the front of the tub, his feet resting upon it, was feet will do with footings.<br /><br />He was so amazed and fascinated by what he saw he painted a picture of it. You can find it by rummaging around here: <br />http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112377/george-w-bush-paintings-freudian-analysis<br /><br />Very crankily yours,<br />The New York CrankThe New York Crankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04489472134701718697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-46794519445850196402014-05-09T12:44:13.971-04:002014-05-09T12:44:13.971-04:00I definitely gagged at Bai's characterization....I definitely gagged at Bai's characterization. Bush's father used Hill & Knowlton to drum up lies about babies tossed from incubators and to have a diplomat's daughter testify to BS in Congressional testimony.<br /><br />Bush the younger sold multiple lies and half a million Iraqis died because of it. Not to mention the TRILLIONS that war cost.... because it's all those millions of lives that matter more.<br /><br />Yoou nailed it, Steve. The book may be well-done but it's hardly convincing.Even Molly Ivins always said Dubya had a brain. But he clearly used it for evil despite what his apologists claim.<br />Kevin Haydenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12517224395906528218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-17449049130452653772014-05-09T12:02:06.722-04:002014-05-09T12:02:06.722-04:00Funny how they don't see any good intentions i...Funny how they don't see any good intentions in Obama...Unsalted Sinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07388516480935688151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-91546851786238984982014-05-09T11:04:11.012-04:002014-05-09T11:04:11.012-04:00What the great Lance Mannion said!
Death tolls at...What the great Lance Mannion said!<br /><br />Death tolls at US Embassies and Consulates:<br />-Reagan - 241 in ONE incident in Beirut. There was another major one later, killing 20+ and several Americans.<br />There were many, many other.<br /><br />-Bush I - I'm too lazy to look up.<br /><br />-Bush II - 60, in several different incidents.<br /><br />-Obama - 4. FOUR!!!<br /><br />Obama needs good "intentions" to lead to 14 more Benghazi's, to equal Dumbaya.<br /><br />And Obama needs over 59 more, to equal Reagan's ONE Beirut terrorist attack.<br /><br />Why don't the Democrats hold-up something like this, as a scorecard?<br /><br />Yeah, yeah, I know - they can't play "politics."<br />Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-63348981397027870412014-05-09T11:01:15.686-04:002014-05-09T11:01:15.686-04:00Should note, Bai's reaction to the book is pre...Should note, Bai's reaction to the book is pretty close to my own. I'm writing my review now and have already said Bush comes across as much more sympathetic figure than I'd have expected. But like I said, he still did what he did and it's as Bai says at the top of his post "George W. Bush was a divisive and unsuccessful president. Economically, internationally, culturally — you name the category of leadership, and the results pretty much range from disappointment to disaster."Lance Mannionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08063296489181466628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-86167290111651958112014-05-09T11:00:13.695-04:002014-05-09T11:00:13.695-04:00Caring is the absolute minimum qualification for P...Caring is the absolute minimum qualification for President. jabberwockyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05197331958355070298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-67861914894003702962014-05-09T10:51:41.793-04:002014-05-09T10:51:41.793-04:00Days of Fire is worth reading but not as a definit...Days of Fire is worth reading but not as a definitive history of Bush's presidency. It's an insider account told mainly through the eyes of people who have a good reason to put the best face on things they can because who wants to go down in history as working for the worst Presidency ever? Even so, there's nothing they can say that gets them or Bush off the hook. Good intentions don't uninvade Iraq or undrown New Orleans. Lance Mannionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08063296489181466628noreply@blogger.com