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Flashback: In 2006 51% Of Democrats Wanted Bush To Fail
Democrats have been carping about republicans supposedly wanting president Obama to fail based on comments from Rush Limbaugh they knowingly took out of context. But let’s take a trip down memory lane and see how democrats felt about president bush…
If you recall, democrats were quite vocal about their hopes that president Bush would fail and that the surge in Iraq would fail. In fact, they hoped the war in Iraq would fail right from the outset. The left worked towards Bush’s failure from the second he set foot into office to the time he left office. They pelted his car with eggs on inauguration day in 2000 and didn’t let up for 8 years. Hell, they haven’t let up yet and he’s out of office.
In a 2006 poll, when asked whether they wanted to see president Bush succeed or not, here’s the breakdown:
Democrats: 40%(want him to succeed) 51%(want him to fail)
Republicans: 90%(want him to succeed) 7%(want him to fail)
Independents: 63%(want him to succeed) 34%(want him to fail)
Think about this poll and the many other polls just like it next time you hear Rahm Emanuel or some liberal shocked and appalled that anyone would want to see Obama fail (even though Rush was taken out of context and never said that).
WSJ: The Treatment Of Bush Has Been A Disgrace
An Op-Ed in today’s Wall Street Journal touched on a topic that most people are either too stupid or too cowardly to talk about — the disgraceful treatment of president Bush.
Jeffrey Scott Shapiro deserves major kudos for bringing this issue up, because it’s a stain on our nation that may never be washed away.
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.
Demonizing and slandering president Bush has become a sport. Most animals are treated better than we’ve treated the president. The way the media talks about Obama’s election win in the context of him “saving us” from the blood thirsty tyrant currently living in the White House — is an outrage.
As a final slap in the face to our president, Obama supporters jeered and chanted outside the White House last night:
The most remarkable scene unfolded after midnight in front of the White House. Under the watchful eye of the Secret Service and the Park Police, a predominantly young crowd waved huge American flags and sported signs that said “Yes we did!” Some climbed fences around the construction site where inaugural reviewing stands are going up.
A group of about a half-dozen Georgetown athletes said they jogged spontaneously from campus after hearing of Obama’s victory. “This might be the best day of my life,” said Danielle Bailey, 18, a freshman from Florida.
Kyle Poole, 48, a financier, said he brought a flag because he felt “honored and proud.”
“I was once a Republican,” he said. “Then George Bush came to the White House and now I’m thrilled to be here with the flag.”
As late as 2:30 a.m., revelers were streaming south on 16th Street by car and foot. In front of the darkened White House, chants of every stripe continued.
“Biden! Biden!”
On a chain-link fence erected by inaugural construction crews, someone hung the sign: “Welcome Home Malia and Sasha!”
President Bush has had to make some tough choices over the last eight years. Instead of always doing the popular thing, he chose to do the right thing — or at least what he felt was the right thing.
The far-left has brutally smeared and undermined his administration from the very first day he took office. But as Shapiro points out in his piece, the attacks haven’t just been from the left.
Many republicans have abandoned the president to the point they dare not speak his name. I thought it was disgraceful for the RNC to make our sitting president speak via video to his own party during the convention.
Every single American who’s enjoyed going to work each morning safely since 9/11 has president Bush to thank for that. He has done whatever it takes to keep us safe — even when it made him unpopular.
You don’t abandon a good man simply because his poll numbers are down. Nobody has to agree with all his decisions or even his particular brand of conservatism, but George W. Bush is still the president. He’s our president and he should be respected as such.
I don’t think Barack Obama is ready to be president. I fear that many Americans will regret taking a chance on such a inexperienced and far-left candidate.
Having said that, I’m proud of my country for putting the sins of the past behind us and electing a black man. I think all Americans should be extremely proud regardless of party affiliation.
I didn’t vote for Barack Obama, but he’s still my president and no matter what happens in the months to come — I will always respect that.
-Chris Jones
Scott McClellan: Finished At 40
The more I think about Scott McClellan’s book, the more I wonder what his motives are. I’m far too cynical to believe he just wants to “do the right thing” and “come clean.” In fact, that’s the least likely motivation but one the Democrats are sure to play-up.
Whether or not the allegations in the book are true is irrelevant, it’s McClellan’s motivation for basically spitting on every person who helped him get ahead over the last 10 years that I wonder about. Scott is only 40 years old, but his book will guarantee that he never works in Washington ever again, at least not for any Republican.
I’ve actually met Scott’s mother, Carole Keeton Strayhorn, a few times when she was running for Governor here in the great state of Texas. Scott got his start working for her after he graduated from college when she was running for Mayor of Austin.
So Scott’s roots in Texas politics run deep and the most powerful family in Texas is of course the Bushes. George W. Bush’s longtime friend and confidant Karen Hughes hired McClellan to be then Governor Bush’s deputy press secretary.
To make a long story short, for someone who wants a career in Republican politics, working for the Bush family is about as good as it gets. So Scott worked for Bush throughout his two terms as Governor of Texas and continued through the 2000 election.
In early 2003, President Bush appointed Scott to the prestigious post of Deputy White House Press Secretary. Later that same year he became White House Press Secretary when Ari Fleischer stepped down.
Then in April of 2006, Scott announced his resignation.
Now in 2008, Scott has apparently decided that everyone he’s ever worked for can just go to hell. He’s decided to adopt nearly every left-wing talking point word for word and throw it at the President in an election season no less.
He’s even decided to commit the ultimate betrayal and appear on Countdown With Keith Olbermann next week to tout his book.
Even if everything McClellan says in the book is true, why would a person be that disloyal? He was part of an ultra-exclusive club in which few people can ever claim membership to.
Once your “in”, the only cost for keeping your membership is simply to “dance with the one who brung you” so to speak.
Maybe I’m just overly ambitious or morally bankrupt, but if President Bush had given me my career and considered me a friend, I would never even think of betraying him like that.
One thing President Bush is known for and his family is known for is their fierce loyalty. If your a loyal “Bushie” they don’t forget that. In fact, Scott’s brother Mark is the current Medicare Director and the former food and drug administrator under President Bush.
The bottom line is that Scott McClellan is a f*cking idiot to have destroyed an otherwise bright future at the ripe old age of 40.
He’s finished in the Republican Party forever, but I guess like everyone else he’s hoping Barack Obama throws him a few bread crumbs. However, I wouldn’t count on it.
-Chris Jones
Scott McClellan Lashes Out At Bush White House In New Book
We’ve heard rumors about former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s new book titled, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” for some time now.
Just last November McClellan’s publisher released an excerpt from the book that seemed to implicate the Bush Administration in the Valerie Flame Plame leak case.
Just a few days after the controversy erupted that same publisher told the media that McClellan’s statements were being taken out of context and misinterpreted.
Today we learn a very different story. This according to The Politico, which managed to get a copy of the book ahead of its Sunday release.
It seems that excerpts released last year about McClellan’s book were indeed accurate after all.
Here are some of the highlights:
- McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war.
- He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.
- He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”
- The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them — and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.
- McClellan asserts that the aides — Karl Rove, the president’s senior adviser, and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff — “had at best misled” him about their role in the disclosure of former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.
I’m actually pretty surprised McClellan came out with such strong allegations given his long friendship with President Bush. Some of his assertions are standard liberal talking points which is odd coming from a long time Republican.
We now know that the Plame leak originated from Richard Armitage who leaked it to Robert Novak, so that pretty much kills McClellan’s credibility on that issue.
I’m going to read the entire book before I make any judgments, but it sounds like he may be a bitter ex-White House insider with an ax to grind.
You can buy Scott’s book HERE
-Chris Jones
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