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Jonah Goldberg: “Can Obama Rescue Bush?”
Jonah Golderg has another excellent piece in today’s L.A. Times. His latest piece looks at how President Bush may be judged by history. He concludes that historians will probably not judge the Bush administration as being particularly out of the mainstream as compared with past administrations.
I agree with Goldberg on this one. President Bush has certainly made some controversial decisions, but the picture painted by the radical left is one of a lawless, rogue administration. Like Goldberg, I don’t think historians will reach those same conclusions. As Jonah rightly points out, if Iraq ends up becoming a stable Democracy then history will have a very different view of President Bush.
Time Of London: ‘We’re Winning This War On Terror’
Even if the American media still doesn’t get it, at least a few Brits do. An op-ed in the Times of London by Gerard Baker is titled, “Cheer Up. We’re Winning This War On Terror.”
Baker writes:
If only our political leaders and opinion-formers displayed even a hint of the defiant resilience that carried Marshal Foch to victory at the Battle of the Marne. But these days timorous defeatism is on the march. In Britain setbacks in the Afghan war are greeted as harbingers of inevitable defeat. In America, large swaths of the political class continues to insist Iraq is a lost cause. The consensus in much of the West is that the War on Terror is unwinnable.
And yet the evidence is now overwhelming that on all fronts, despite inevitable losses from time to time, it is we who are advancing and the enemy who is in retreat. The current mood on both sides of the Atlantic, in fact, represents a kind of curious inversion of the great French soldier’s dictum: “Success against the Taleban. Enemy giving way in Iraq. Al-Qaeda on the run. Situation dire. Let’s retreat!”
Thank God somebody gets it. The media here in America have been invested in defeat since day one. When it comes to the War on Terror, the mainstream media either covers bad news or nothing at all. The reason for that remains a purely ideological one.
Bush Derangement Syndrome is so severe in the liberal media that they’re largely willing to throw the entire War on Terror under the bus if it will destroy President Bush and the Republicans.
Barack Obama has liberal horse blinders on that prevent him from seeing the facts on the ground. In his world, the war in Iraq is lost and there’s nothing more to say on the issue. That’s why he hasn’t been to Iraq in exactly 901 days, because for him there’s nothing to see their.
After 9/11 every American was scared. We felt vulnerable and braced for another attack at any minute. However, President Bush said he would do everything in his power to keep us safe from further attacks. The President has indeed lived up to his word.
His decision to aggressively go on the offense and take the fight to the enemy has not only crippled Al-Qaeda, but has kept the American people safe.
It’s been nearly seven years since the horrifying day that nearly 3,000 of my fellow countrymen were murdered.
I’m still alive, my friends and family are still alive, and my neighbors are still alive.
For that, I will forever be indebted to President George W. Bush.
-Chris Jones
Myth-Busting: Europe Hates Bush
The liberal media loves to get all weepy talking about how much President Bush has made Europeans hate America. Lefties love to opine that countries around the world will be celebrating when Bush leaves office. However, when you look at the geopolitical developments in recent years they tend to tell a very different story.
Rachel Marsden sums it up perfectly in her new column:
The foreign media may tell us that the public over there despises Dubya, yet they’re constantly electing folks who share his post 9/11 beliefs and policies. (Keep in mind that before 9/11, even Bush was known as a center-right pragmatic politician who had no interest in nation building or foreign intervention.)
Rachel is absolutely right about that. Every single European leader who was hostile and uncooperative with the Bush Administration has since been booted out of office and replaced with a pro-American leader.
Probably the best example of this is France. When Bush took office Jacques Chirac was President of France. If you wanted anti-American, then Chirac was your man. Chirac personally disliked President Bush and the feelings were allegedly mutual. The French President was not only a constant impediment at the UN, but an asshole to boot.
So if the French are so opposed to Bush and his so-called “cowboy diplomacy” then why did Chirac lose the election to ultra pro-American candidate Nicolas Sarkozy? France is now America’s staunchest ally in Europe now that Sarkozy is in office. Unlike Chirac, Sarkozy is also a reliable ally in the War On Terror.
Sarkozy is in fact so pro-American that he’s known as “Sarko The American” in France. He actually ran on a platform of improving relations with the United States. Now how could a man like that be elected by people who hate America? I guess Bush stole that election also.
Then there’s Germany. Gerhart Schröder was Chancellor of Germany when President Bush took office. Like Chirac, he went out of his way to be uncooperative with President Bush and U.S. foreign policy in general. He also had an unhealthy crush on Russian President Vladimir Putin, but that’s a story best saved for another time.
If the Germans wanted an antidote to President Bush as the media would have us believe, then why was he booted out of office and replaced by Angela Merkel?
Like Sarkozy, Merkel has done everything possible to repair relations with America. She has been a strong ally in the War On Terror and enjoyed a warm relationship with President Bush.
In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi was elected Prime Minister this year. He’s a long time ally of the U.S. and also enjoys warm relations with President Bush.
Britain also remains a close ally. When Tony Blair was replaced by Gordon Brown the media gleefully predicted a colder relationship with the Bush Administration. Unfortunately for liberals, that also hasn’t panned out. Brown announced this week that the U.K. will be sending even more troops to Afghanistan at President Bush’s request.
Are there people in Europe who hate America? Absolutely. In fact we’ve people in America who hate America, but they certainly don’t represent the majority.
The overwelming majority of Europeans do not harbor any ill feelings towards America or to President Bush, the media just wishes they did.
Rather than pushing our allies away, President Bush has in fact made our relationship with European countries stronger than ever. He will leave office with the most important countries in Europe once again on our side.
-Chris Jones
Trent Duffy Says Scott McClellan Is A Damn Liar
Here’s what Trent Duffy says about Scott McClellan and his ridiculous book. Duffy worked for McClellan as Deputy Press Secretary.
· Was it the truth or a lie when you told me, during a series of personal discussions in your West Wing office in late 2005 and early 2006 (at the apex of what you now call your period of “disillusionment” and “dismay”), that you were happy in your job and proud to serve President Bush and that you had no intention of leaving soon? What about in April 2006, when rumors swirled about a change at the podium, and you again told me you wanted to stay?
· Was it the truth or a lie when you told me around Christmas that the excerpts released by your publisher were being “taken out of context” and that your book wasn’t going to be a hatchet job?
· Was it the truth or a lie when you assured your former deputies that you wanted our “full participation” in the book?
· Was it the truth or a lie when, after countless briefings, you complained that the White House press corps was too tough, unfair, over the top and didn’t get it? ….
When the first “teaser” excerpts of your book hit the press in December, my phone lighted up with calls from reporters. Before responding, I called you; you said the publisher had taken liberties, you didn’t mean to attack the president and to point reporters to your 2006 interview with Larry King as your genuine take on things. You told me that your book was still about the poisonous partisan atmosphere in Washington and didn’t breathe a hint about Iraq or Hurricane Katrina. This was long after you were outside the White House bubble, amigo.
You also assured me, when we’ve talked the past two years, that you wanted your deputies to review the book and share our thoughts. Thinking you actually meant what you said, I reached out to you two months ago to take you up on your offer. Radio silence. Why didn’t you keep your promise to me and the other professionals who gave years of their lives working for you?
It certainly looks like Scott McClellan’s version of events during his time at the White House are completely different everyone else’s.
It’s so painfully obvious that Scott and his publisher sexed up his book by adding every single liberal talking point ever uttered by a Bush-hating blogger.
Bush Basher Punches Disabled Teen
Via the New York Post:
A man heckling First Lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna outside the 92nd Street Y was arrested after he punched a wheelchair-bound girl whose parents has told him to shut up, authorities said yesterday. German Talis, 22, was shouting obscenities at the Bushes, who were leaving the building Tuesday, when he crossed paths with Wendy and John Lovetro and their daughter Maureen, 18, who has cerebral palsy.
They had been in the audience to hear the Bushes talk about their children’s book, “Read All About It.”
“He began yelling about Iraq and Iran at Jenna Bush. She was waving at the crowd. I told the guy, ‘What are you doing? Shut up. This is about a child and books,’ ” said John Lovetro. “He was unperturbed. I said, ‘Get out of here! You’re being a moron!’ ”
The next thing he knew, Talis was allegedly punching Maureen – a fan of the first lady since meeting her in 2004…
It looks like Bush Derangement Syndrome strikes again! You can always count on the vicious and ignorant Bush haters to f*ck up an otherwise pleasant event.
-Chris Jones
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