So do the 10,000 comedians out of work. That's why unemployment is so high.
-- Posted by howdydoody on Sun, Nov 8, 2009, at 9:14 AM
Me too. I miss his expensive wars and massive debt.
-- Posted by Ike on Sun, Nov 8, 2009, at 11:43 AM
Still have the same wars and even more debt.
-- Posted by Red_Rhino on Sun, Nov 8, 2009, at 11:58 AM
After election of 2012, some of you will have opportunity to display this bumper sticker:
I Miss Obama
-- Posted by voyager on Sun, Nov 8, 2009, at 12:08 PM
Voyager-you mean,"I Miss my Money and Obama" don't you?
-- Posted by John in Jackson on Sun, Nov 8, 2009, at 1:10 PM
Move to Crawford, Tx where he spent so much of his presidency or Dallas or wherever he's hangin out now but he sure is quiet, isn't he.
-- Posted by unsubscribe on Sun, Nov 8, 2009, at 6:14 PM
Move to Crawford, Tx where he spent so much of his presidency or Dallas or wherever he's hangin out now but he sure is quiet, isn't he.
-- Posted by unsubscribe on Sun, Nov 8, 2009, at 6:14 PM
I really wish all ex presidents would be quiet.
-- Posted by Red_Rhino on Sun, Nov 8, 2009, at 7:15 PM
Kinda like the "Had enough yet?" and the BO stickers. I don't see many of them anymore
-- Posted by Mr. Wiffle on Sun, Nov 8, 2009, at 8:00 PM
Wiff,
The stickers went with the clunkers just recently.
-- Posted by Have_Wheels_Will_Travel on Sun, Nov 8, 2009, at 10:21 PM
Me too. I miss his expensive wars and massive debt.
-- Posted by Ike
I guess he missed the news that if you would add up ever single dollar that every president from George Washington to W it would NOT equal the totals dollars Obama has already spent since being in office.
Can't keep our head in the ground forever you know.
-- Posted by Skeptic1 on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 7:07 AM
BadMomma
Please provide an accounting for every dollar spent by Obama this year.
Yours truly,
Reality
-- Posted by FriendO on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 7:38 AM
BadMomma
Please provide an accounting for every dollar spent by Obama this year.
Yours truly,
Reality
-- Posted by FriendO on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 7:38 AM
Good luck!
-- Posted by blogbudsman on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 7:59 AM
Actually there is great irony in the works here. When you sit through a pre-flight safety review, the flight attendants warn that in the (unlikely) event of a loss of cabin pressure, and the oxygen masks drop down, to be sure that you put yours on first so that you are able to assist those who may be flying with you. We are told the Lord helps those who help themselves - of course meaning those who find strength can help the weak, therby properly spreading His passion. That's what this is all about, isn't it. Being passionate toward others. The great irony is, that having our government take from those who could be strong, and weaken our ability to help those who need that help, it is the very people we are trying to help that will suffer.
It seems like half the people in this great country of ours are causing harm against the half that ultimately helps them - biting the hand that feeds them.
Yes Pogo, we have met the enemy, and he is us.
-- Posted by blogbudsman on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 8:19 AM
Why is W's socialism acceptable to you but Obama's isn't?
-- Posted by Ike on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 2:03 PM
Actually, President Bush's Compassionate Conservativism was not a big hit among conservatives in the Republican Party or moderate Independents. And his attempts to team with Teddy Kennedy and pass bipartisan social legislation was used against him just like you are now. His failure to reel in Congressional spending is a strike against his legacy. Unfortunately hope and change is leading us down the same wrong path on a more slippery and steeper slope. If we don't find and elect wiser and stronger leaders, our children are going to be the first generations of Americans living worse off than their parents.
-- Posted by blogbudsman on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 2:24 PM
Is this post necessary? Seriously, the Missourian should strip this from the blog.
-- Posted by Egotistical_Bigot on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 2:41 PM
Nationalizing banks is the hallmark of socialism. W did it as soon as the right "crisis" came along and allowed him to do it. Where were Glen Beck and the tea partiers then?
-- Posted by Ike on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 2:29 PM
Actually Glen Beck has been consistent in his condemnation of this. He is far from a fan of George Bush on economic policies.
I agree that those policies were a mistake.
Bush being wrong does not make Obama right.
-- Posted by Red_Rhino on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 4:43 PM
Betcha ol' George is kinda glad to be outa the Glass House.
Nowadays, he can sit out on his front porch in a rockin' chair down at the ranch with a quart bottle of Jack Daniel's with a loaded shotgun across his knee and yell,
"Now y'all bloodsucking left wingers, git the Hell off my grass!"
-- Posted by voyager on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 4:52 PM
Is this post necessary? Seriously, the Missourian should strip this from the blog.
-- Posted by Egotistical_Bigot
seriously, isn't that the pot calling the kettle black?
-- Posted by Skeptic1 on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 6:00 PM
Ike,
Some were, but not as many certainly as with Obama.
I really try not to get involved in name calling, while I don't agree with President Obama's policies, I didn't with President Bush or some of his predecessors either.
I have also said many times before that we do not elect Kings and in reality a President's power is pretty limited, but they still eagerly claim credit for all good things that happen while they are in office and they are held responsible for success and failure by their supporters and detractors. That is just the way it is.
-- Posted by Red_Rhino on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 7:27 PM
Ike, what are you thinking? Would you feel better if I tell you I also miss Clinton - a Reagan Democrat if there ever was one.
-- Posted by blogbudsman on Tue, Nov 10, 2009, at 5:32 AM
Good one blogbud- I agree
-- Posted by Skeptic1 on Tue, Nov 10, 2009, at 8:18 AM
The natives are restless.
-- Posted by blogbudsman on Tue, Nov 10, 2009, at 9:57 AM
-- Posted by blogbudsman on Thu, Nov 12, 2009, at 8:32 AM
Very interesting, thanks for the post. While I too did not like many of his policies, I remain convinced that he is a good man and respect how he has handled himself since leaving office.
-- Posted by Red_Rhino on Thu, Nov 12, 2009, at 8:53 AM
Hey gang, what do you suppose has cadillacman so upset? Somebody scatter cracker crumbs between his bedsheets?
-- Posted by voyager on Thu, Nov 12, 2009, at 9:11 AM
"The reason for this is simple and obvious: Obama's singular arrogance. Only arrogance can explain the way Obama has treated Gordon Brown. Only arrogance can explain the president's snubbing of Germany and repeated refusal to learn the proper protocol for greeting other world leaders.
"Obama might be cultivating world opinion by insulting his own country in speech after speech and undermining its interests with his foreign policy, but the joke is on him. For his transparent disdain for other world leaders and customs is making him every bit the image of the buffoonish American president he tries so hard to convince the world he is not.
-- Posted by blogbudsman on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, at 7:14 AM
Why is it the people who gave Bush a pass for 8 years are so quick to criticize Obama?
-- Posted by lumbrgfktr on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, at 8:51 AM
Uh, because Bush wasn't as bad as liberals and media made him out to be ... and Obama is 10 times worse than they feared - worse than Carter. Yepper, ol W is looking better by the day. Has Jeb been to Iowa yet?
-- Posted by blogbudsman on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, at 9:18 AM
Blogbudsman,
Your right, he was an great at finances and well respected international diplomat.
-- Posted by lumbrgfktr on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, at 9:24 AM
Yes We Can't!!!
-- Posted by Cape's Advocate on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, at 9:39 AM
Blogbudsman,
Your right, he was an great at finances and well respected international diplomat.
-- Posted by lumbrgfktr on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, at 9:24 AM
Yes he was.
-- Posted by blogbudsman on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, at 9:52 AM
Blog,
Seriously? You think that is accurate?
-- Posted by lumbrgfktr on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, at 10:06 AM
Wiffle,
Yeah, that contradiction is almost funny. We are spending too much money...so lets take on a 900 billion dollar elaphant.
But for fiscal responsibility, you don't miss bush. You miss clinton.
-- Posted by lumbrgfktr on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, at 10:51 AM
Well, give Theorist a big hand for a good Idea. Visit Presidential Libraries and he/she will pay for it (don't hold your breath).
Easy trip, too. Interstates all the way. I-55S to I-40W into Little Rock for the Bill Clinton Presidential Library and Massage Parlor. Then I-30S to Dallas for the Bush Palace.
Plan on an extra day to check out that Massage Parlor thing.
-- Posted by voyager on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, at 10:57 AM
Clinton rode on the coattails of Reagan. In 6 years he had us back in a recession.
I gotta get back to work.
-- Posted by Mr. Wiffle on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, at 10:53 AM
Road the coat tails of Reagan? How so. Reagan was a spend, spend, president (for good reason). the National Debt soared under him. IT was actually reduced under clinton.
-- Posted by lumbrgfktr on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, at 10:59 AM
If I remember right all those great budget no.s
at the end of Clinton's term after he backed down
from a veto overide by a conervative congress were projected figures and not reality. It is similar to a tax cut that raises taxes but
decreases the rate of increase.
-- Posted by Old John on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, at 11:12 AM
Blog,
Seriously? You think that is accurate?
-- Posted by lumbrgfktr on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, at 10:06 AM
Wasn't completely sure you were being facetious. Congress has done a horribly job with spending, from both sides of the aisle - and President Bush wouldn't or didn't make that the issue he could have. But ultimately it's Congress that crashes that plane. There's even an indication that Obama is beginning to regret that he let Pelosi and Reid run off with his agenda. As far as the respect from the international community - that bone has been chewed so badly that it's ludicrous. **** right President Bush commanded respect from our allies and fear from our enemies. I think Obama misread his 'mandate' and has performed incompetently in this regard and hurt us dearly. Now that China is taking over as the primary world power, the world will suffer greatly.
-- Posted by blogbudsman on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, at 1:14 PM
Wasn't completely sure you were being facetious. Congress has done a horribly job with spending, from both sides of the aisle - and President Bush wouldn't or didn't make that the issue he could have. But ultimately it's Congress that crashes that plane. There's even an indication that Obama is beginning to regret that he let Pelosi and Reid run off with his agenda. As far as the respect from the international community - that bone has been chewed so badly that it's ludicrous. **** right President Bush commanded respect from our allies and fear from our enemies. I think Obama misread his 'mandate' and has performed incompetently in this regard and hurt us dearly. Now that China is taking over as the primary world power, the world will suffer greatly.
-- Posted by blogbudsman on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, at 1:14 PM
I can agree with that.
-- Posted by lumbrgfktr on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, at 1:56 PM
Hey look what I found. Seems to be a lot of these kind of articles floating to the top:
"The nice thing about elections is that they give you a choice not only of people but of policies. In the 2008 primaries, for instance, Hillary Clinton offered a health care plan that required everyone to get insurance, while Barack Obama's blueprint had no such mandate. That was about the only difference in their suggested solutions.
It was a big one, to hear Obama tell it. He aired a TV ad attacking Clinton because her scheme "forces everyone to buy insurance, even if you can't afford it, and you pay a penalty if you don't."
He, by contrast, stressed that he would encourage more coverage by offering federal help in paying for it, while trusting in the ultimate wisdom of individual Americans to make their own decisions.
Voters had a clear choice, and they chose Obama and his voluntary plan over Clinton and her compulsory approach. That settled that.
Or so we thought. But something happened after Obama arrived in the Oval Office. His deep faith in the free decisions of ordinary people soon evaporated. Last summer, after the House included a mandate in its legislation, Obama suddenly had a change of heart."
Enjoy!! And have a great day...
-- Posted by blogbudsman on Thu, Jan 21, 2010, at 11:01 AM
With hindsight, it is remarkable how restrained the Bush administration's response to the terrorist attacks was. At a time when our government knew that more attacks were planned, but had no idea what those attacks might be or who would launch them, our officials comported themselves honorably. Was it worthwhile to deprive a few would-be terrorists like Binyam Mohammed of a couple of nights of sleep and create an intimidating atmosphere so we could prevent attacks that could have been even more destructive than those of September 11? Are you kidding? The question answers itself.
-- Posted by blogbudsman on Thu, Feb 11, 2010, at 8:33 AM
Items featuring a smiling former President George Bush and the question, "Miss Me Yet?" are doing a brisk business as sales of pro-President Obama items lag, reports the Web shopping site CafePress.
-- Posted by blogbudsman on Thu, Feb 18, 2010, at 6:03 AM
A modest proposal for Bush apologists...
MOVE TO IRAQ OR AFGHANISTAN
Hear me out...
Iraq and Afghanistan are "free and democratic" -- I've seen you people declare so a million times. There are very few liberals in Iraq and Afghanistan, so you won't be bothered with the awful truth about BushCo's COLOSSAL failures. On the other hand, Iraq and Afghanistan are chock full of fundamentalist religious wackos who should make you feel right at home.
Oh, and Iraq and Afghanistan are also chock full of terrorists, so YOU can actually FIGHT THEM, instead of sending other people's children to die or spewing opinions about "liberals."
Think about it...
-- Posted by SmokeRing on Fri, Feb 19, 2010, at 12:42 PM
A good history needs to wait at least 100 years after the fact to be more creditable and objective. That principle would be best in this case.
A good historian is just now about ready to take up the administration of Teddy Roosevelt.
-- Posted by voyager on Fri, Feb 19, 2010, at 1:09 PM
Smoke: Great post. It makes me furious that I didn't think of that. Maybe they can take those family values with them that we no longer hear about. Wonder why? I wonder how many of them would rush into a burning building to save a petre dish with cells in it? They love the fetus but when the fetus exits the womb they are out of here. Your on your own. Love the fetus...forsake the child.
-- Posted by howdydoody on Fri, Feb 19, 2010, at 1:18 PM
smokering, you've got to be devastated that Obama has signed onto so many of W's policies. Is that why so many libbies are wetting themselves these days.
-- Posted by blogbudsman on Fri, Feb 19, 2010, at 1:26 PM
I never said I supported Obama or his continuation of many of the Bush Admins failed policies, I merely gave a modest proposal for GW Bush apologists. I think a lot of the same problems are there under both administrations.
Spin, deflect, lie, misconstrue, and repeat. Your modus operandi is apparent to anyone with an inkling of intelligence.
-- Posted by SmokeRing on Fri, Feb 19, 2010, at 1:46 PM
Yawn.
-- Posted by voyager on Fri, Feb 19, 2010, at 2:57 PM
My comment: Like I said, because it's so much fun.
The March 8 cover of Newsweek reproduces the famous 2003 photograph of Bush on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Lincoln. The president is in the left of the picture, striding away from the famous banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished."
Those words haunted Bush for the next five years, but now, Newsweek reports, they may play differently because -- and this is emblazoned on the cover -- we may have "Victory At Last."
It has to be said, declare the cover-story's writers, that "now almost seven hellish years later . . . something that looks mighty like democracy is emerging in Iraq"; and, they add (eerily echoing Bush's words in 2003), this development "most certainly is a watershed event that could come to represent a whole new era in the history of the massively undemocratic Middle East."
-- Posted by blogbudsman on Tue, Mar 9, 2010, at 5:55 AM
I am one Republican who will proudly claim President George W. Bush as one of us. And, yes, I miss him.
I didn't always agree with him, but he told us what he stood for and he seldom waivered.
As for the 'massive debt', a large part of that is his Medicare Prescription Drug Programme, which were all told we needed. He tried to reign in entitlements, including a plan to Privatize a small portion of Social Security in order to save it in the long run, by taking some of it out of the hands of the government. He was one of the few to show the guts to tackle the problem, but the Democrats killed his proposal. Now, Social Security is in the red, the Democrats have no plan to fix it, and Nancy Pelosi has the gall to blame President Bush for 'doing nothing' about it.
Then there was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Republicans tried to reign them in financially, to put tighter controls on their excesses, but Democrats kept that from happening. Then-Senator Barack Obama, in one of his rare instances of actually showing up for work, was one of the staunchest defenders of Fannie & Freddie and Mr. Raines fiscal improprieties. Fannie & Freddie eventually failed, despite Mr. Obama's and Mr. Raines' assurances that they were sound, and they dragged the economy down with it.
As for the wars, President Bush laid out his objectives, both before the Congress and before the United Nations. Even when the war in Iraq began to go badly, he stood his ground, turned the war around, and set the groundwork for the victory that Vice-President Biden has the gall to call "possibly the greatest success of the Obama administration." Come to think of it, Mr. Bush's victory probably is the greatest success of the Obama administration, given that he doesn't have any others to challenge it. Pathetic.
President Bush, and his Republican Congress did increase the deficits during his term, amidst a recession, two wars, expansion of entitlements, etc., but the deficit was coming down, until Nancy Pelosi took over the purse strings. The Democrats won control of the House in 2006, taking their seats in January of 2007, and enacting their first budget in October of 2007. Curiously, the Dow Jones began its long downhill run also in October of 2007, and economists trace the beginnings of the recession to there, as well. Coincidence? I have trouble believing so.
President Bush, for all his shortcomings, was a real President. He didn't blame others for his shortfalls, he took the punches and shoes thrown his way with good humour. He stood like a man in the face of adversity. Would that Mr. Obama had half his fortitude.
He has my respect, and I think history will regard him better than his successor.
[Claudius: "Why do you allow Caligula to act like that?"
Livia: "Because it amuses me. And because he will be the next emperor of Rome. You don't believe me?"
Claudius: "If you say so, grandmother. You know I don't concern myself with higher politics. Still, what about Castor? And Caligula has two older brothers."
Livia: "Castor is ill and Thrasyllus says he won't recover. He also says Tiberius will choose Caligula to succeed him."
Claudius: "Why?"
Livia: "Vanity. Tiberius wants to be loved, at least after his death if not before. And the best way to ensure that..."
Claudius: "Is to have someone worse to follow him. He's certainly no fool."
Robert Graves "I Claudius"]
-- Posted by Shapley Hunter on Tue, Mar 9, 2010, at 9:24 AM
Shapley: Earth to Shapley. Can you see us from your space ship?
-- Posted by howdydoody on Tue, Mar 9, 2010, at 9:46 AM
Depends, Howdy, how far out of our solar system you are.
-- Posted by voyager on Tue, Mar 9, 2010, at 10:22 AM
I have been trying to notice those bumper stickers as I go through parking lots. It seems to me there are less dem stickers as before. But a trip to get car liscense cast some light on my survey. As I waited at the end of the line I was able predict 2 of the 3 that would slow down the works with wrong or missing paperwork. I noticed when they went out to their cars to get needed paperwork [as we all waited] they both displayed the Obama sticker on the bumpers.
-- Posted by Old John on Tue, Mar 9, 2010, at 10:57 AM
John: Aren't you the observant one?
-- Posted by howdydoody on Tue, Mar 9, 2010, at 12:01 PM
Wiff: Please tell me what joke I was trying to make about Palin. I must be missing something in my own post.
-- Posted by howdydoody on Tue, Mar 9, 2010, at 4:40 PM
RONALD REAGAN liked to say that there was no limit to what a man could accomplish if he didn't mind who got the credit. The transformation of Iraq from a hellish tyranny into a functioning democracy will be recorded as a signal accomplishment of George W. Bush's presidency, and he probably doesn't mind in the least that the Obama administration would like to take the credit.
This week's parliamentary elections in Iraq brought 12 million voters to the polls - a remarkable 62 percent turnout, notwithstanding a wave of Election Day bombings that killed 38 people.
"Iraqis are not afraid of bombs anymore,'' a middle-aged voter named Maliq Bedawi told a New York Times reporter as they stood amid the rubble of a Baghdad apartment building destroyed by a Katyusha rocket. If anything, the jihadists' violence only intensified the refusal of ordinary Iraqis to be intimidated. "Everyone went'' to vote, Bedawi said. "Even people who didn't want to vote before, they went after this rocket.''
-- Posted by blogbudsman on Thu, Mar 11, 2010, at 5:43 AM
Howdy, You've missed a lot that isn't in your post.
-- Posted by voyager on Thu, Mar 11, 2010, at 6:56 AM
Menu
Here come the bumper stickers:
http://www.zazzle.com/i_miss_w_bumper_sticker-128323334916925836
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