We Never Deserved Him
Yesterday’s WSJ Opinion Page carried this choice bit of wankery, claiming that The Treatment of Bush Has Been a Disgrace Even by the WSJ Tin Foil Hat (that was for Joanne) standards, this is off the charts rich:
The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous, proving to the world what little character and resolve we have. The president is not to blame for all these problems. He never lost faith in America or her people, and has tried his hardest to continue leading our nation during a very difficult time.
Our failure to stand by the one person who continued to stand by us has not gone unnoticed by our enemies. It has shown to the world how disloyal we can be when our president needed loyalty — a shameful display of arrogance and weakness that will haunt this nation long after Mr. Bush has left the White House.
I think that this says that the reason that Bush is a failure is because we were mean to him. One way or another, we are to blame for the man’s total failure. And our failure helps the terrorists. Which is true, since as we’ve seen just one day after the election, the proud marching of the Soviet flag during daylight hours in Sussex County.
If I had only clapped harder Tinkerbush would have lived.
lest we forget Rupert Murdoch owns the WSJ….
Actually his point is that the vileness spewed at him damages not just the man but the office.
This started with endless vitriol at Clinton and worsened under Bush. It’s bad for the office and bad for the country. As a nation we need to respect the office even when it’s occupied by our worst enemy.
@DV –That’s true, but the WSJ has long been a very fine paper with an editorial page wrapped in tin foil.
Actually his point is that the vileness spewed at him damages not just the man but the office.
Bullshit. Nobody disparged the office, only the man. Anyway, the Wall Street Journal didn’t have a problem with the “vileness spewed at” Bill Clinton.
The Right’s conditional ethics are showing.
Damn straight we never deserved him. What did America ever do to deserve such a catastrophe?
Duffy….
Thus you are saying that this is yet another problem facing America caused by the right wing. Thanks.
Duffy, I suppose that is one way to read the article , but it seems to argue that the business of failed leadership is our fault. The fact that Bush spent much of his time working at cleaning up bad decisions or strongarming the interests of a narrow few is the reason that he is so very unpopular — not that people disrespected the office.
Bush is a total failure as president. Why should we stand behind him? I wish he, Cheney and the rest of the gang would resign today.
The guy is an asshole and I’m calling him an asshole. Maybe he didn’t respect the office enough to do a decent job.
Umm . . . I’m kind of in agreement with Duffy on this one: we must respect the office of the Presidency.
This tit for tat shit has got to stop.
Nice…take the effect and make it the cause.
WSJ = Intellectual and reasoning capacity of an 8 year-old.
Might I point out that this country elected W twice, and for most of his tenure he enjoyed decent favorability ratings. Up until two years ago he’d received a free pass and a blank check from most Americans.
And Democracy isn’t about blind loyalty.
Respecting the office does not mean you can’t critique the actions and policies of it or even the competence of the people in the office.
I’m sympathetic to reducing the tit for tat stuff, but it is over-the-top to equate criticizing policy or legislation effectiveness with disrepecting the office.
Criticism, yes (it’s called Patriotism); call Bush a “fuck wad”, no.
Spoken like a fuck wad Nemsk.
LOL
The criticism of GWB is accurate and overdue. Not much of it has been personal, and a substantial percentage has come from those within his own party. How many GOP candidates wanted Bush within 100 miles of their fundraisers?
His idea of bipartisanship was that both Republicans and Democrats would vote for everything he wanted without asking any questions. This is a far cry from how he governed in Texas. Says who? Scott McClellan, who worked with Bush in both Texas and DC.
Bush had a free ride from the media and Congress for way too long. Perhaps with some oversight we could have avoided some of these problems. (I’m not leaving Democrats out of this; if they had used filibusters and other parliamentary tools available to them, some of these missteps could have been avoided.)
I don’t need righteous indignation from the WSJ and its wingnuts any more than I do from the far left. They never cared about the office of the president when all the talk was about a stained blue dress.
Bush = fuck wad.
There. It’s official.
Thanks Smitty!
Bush is getting the respect he deserves, which is not much. Bush squandered any respect I had for him by lying us into a war and not getting any better after that. The office of president is a job, probably more powerful and stressful than most, but a job is not the same as a person. People who say you “must” respect the president are just acting like authoritarians. I’ll respect the person who does the job if they earn my respect.
If anyone should be blamed, it should be Pres. Cheyney and V.P. Rove. They are the true masterminds. .
After Bush leaves the White House on January 20, will he ever be seen again? Would anyone ever consult him for his sage counsel?
What does he do?
Retires to his 50 gazillion acre ranch in Paraguay (a country with no extradition agreements with anybody).
Trying to compare the treatment of Bush with the treatment of Clinton is off by orders of magnitude.
Clinton was accused of putting hits out on people.
Clinton was impeached for offenses that should make Americans blush after the past 8 years.
Clinton’s wife was accused of being a lesbian.
Clinton’s young daughter was called the “family dog”
Republican leaders (McCain) joked that Chelsea’s Father was Janet Reno.
Need I go on?
I forgot to mention Bush’s infamous “signing statements,” through which he decided he would not follow parts of a law he just signed. The first that comes to mind is the Detainee Treatment Act, co-sponsored (then apparently disowned) by Sen. John McCain.
The new world dictionary first edition.
Bush = a county that is left in a state of FUBAR.
Yet, were I to write about the incoming 44th president using the terms y’all used for President Bush, you’d be the first to scream. It should be noted that throughout all of my blog writind and comments here, I always referred to our next president as Senator Obama or Mr Obama, despite the fact I think his policies are entirely wrong, and that he was deliberately lying concerning his pledge to cut taxes for everyone earning less than $250,000.
After January 20th, I’ll refer to him as President Obama, even though I won’t like that situation being true.
One difference between conservatives and liberals: conservatives understand common courtesy.
You probably don’t want to paint everyone with that broad a brush — especially since there is a veritable smorgasboard of wingnut blogs to fact check this against.
Dana Pico is a horse’s ass.
Dana baloney! Charlie Copleand a conservative who understands common courtesy. No insult intended but were you paying any attention this campaign season.