President Bush held his final press conference this morning, covering the full gamut of questions. MSNBC gave the following overview:
He said the “most urgent threat” that Obama will face is the potential for an “attack on our homeland.” Bush said the new commander in chief will be facing an enemy that “would like to inflict damage” on Americans. He said that will be the major threat facing Obama and those who follow him.
Bush said he would be willing to ask Congress for $350 billion more in bailout money if Obama wanted him to do so. A little more than an hour later, White House press secretary Dana Perino said Bush, acting on Obama’s request, had asked Congress to release the $350 billion.
He said North Korea was “still a problem” — and that it was important that talks on that country’s nuclear program bring about a “strong verification regime.”
Bush also described Iran as “still dangerous.”
Bush said Hamas must stop firing rockets into Israel in order for an effective cease-fire to take hold in Gaza and said Israel should avoid harming innocent people there.
He offered advice to his successor on how to deal with critics. Obama ultimately will have to “do what he thinks is right.” If he doesn’t, Bush said, “I don’t see how you can live with yourself.”
Bush said he wishes Obama “all the very best.”
It is a new day, and the new President will have his hands full on day one. Best to be forward looking here, but I cannot help but state that the Bush Presidency has been a failure. The idea that history will treat him better than contemporary opinion is a pipe dream.
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Definition: BDS Bush Derangement Syndrome
A schizophrenic obsession with the presidency of George W. Bush
George Bush had problems. However, as I have said before, Since his election, George Bush has been under attack by the Democratic Party and the Left Wing religion. The drive to denigrate him (including in the entries of this blog) have been mean and manacle fed by idiots spouting mindless word bites supported by a leftist media.
I only hope history is written by scholars who judge their material in a neutral mindset.
I think George Bush will be viewed in a different light than he suffers now.
Now you had better pay attention to the incoming president, who, in his president elect position has been stumbling around. Campaign promises are beginning to fall.
Jules
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Jules,
I agree with everythin you say.
Frank Raciti
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I’m hoping we can now finally do away with the term ‘homeland”. It’s always struck me as smacking of nazism, and we’ve suffered enough through hearing that term and other fascist policies for the past eight years…
Frank: welcome to the mayor’s blog. Judging from your website locale, you are to California, what Jules is to Massachusetts.
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Jim,
Is Frank a conservative? I don’t know, he sounds like one. At least it sounds like he has a brain in his head and does not get sound bites from the little red book.
What do you say Frank?
Jules
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Whhops!!! Lest my last sentence of my last post be misinterpreted, I’m only suggesting that both of you gentlemen vocalize views that place you amongst the minority in each of your states….
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Jim,
I’m proud of that.
Jules
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Ah, Mr. Speaker, another invented illness? Why do you always need enemies?
It could be all that you say. Or, it could be something much simpler …
Face it, George the Younger had no credible opposition. He did everything he wanted to do. Spineless Democrats voted with him at most every turn. The liberal media? I’m trying very hard not to laugh. The Rove/Norquist playbook was run to near perfection. With a little Goebbels thrown in just to keep it interesting.
What we’ve lived for the last 8 years is Republican rule as it was intended to be. Cut taxes on the wealthy and business, spend wildly, deregulate business, tell people government is the enemy, prove it, then attempt to place the blame elsewhere when things blow up in your face.
Where is the sense of responsibility I’ve heard so much about? Your party had the con. And here we are.
Even my conservative friends are cringing after the last 8 years. I’m still trying to figure out why you persist in trying to bluff such a bad hand – fold already!
What is it you see that’s been good that the rest of us don’t?
-FM
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