President Bush... the single most powerful president of all time?
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Our President..... President Bush no. 2.... must indeed be the most powerful President this nation has ever known..... but only the far left thinking liberals have really known that.. at least as far as I am concerned.
It has taken them and their newscasts and reports to make me realize how powerful he really truly is.
The report that really woke me up to the fact of his power is Nancy Pelosi's findings on global warming via her very recent trip to Iceland. She says she saw the evidence there with her own eyes... the result of this tragical global warming... and that it is not the fault of the poor people of Iceland... but.. the fault of this administration.... of President Bush. He caused it.
There is death all over in the small developing countries in the world.... many in Africa... and it is somehow our Presiden't fault... he caused it ... somehow.
9/11..... it was brought on by the Unitied States. More sinister sounding than that.....somehow our very own President brought it upon us by his arrogant behavior. He caused it.
Hurricane Katrina and the destruction of so much in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi was somehow directly caused by President Bush.
All of the illegal immigrants from the southern border.... they have come because of President Bush somehow.
I guess all we need is look around us and whatever tragedy or destruction done by weather, man's hand, or animal's path. or whatever... as long as it is something negative...... we can be assured it has been caused by the power of our President.
He certainly has accomplished a lot.....
and all in a mere six years time.
Amazing power.
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but you must agree.. it is rather hilarious all he is given "credit" for... in a mere six years...... no one on earth could "cause" all he has been accused of "causing" in ten lifetimes.. much less six years....
and...........
if the problems were there ... left for him to correct..... who brought them on? who was our President before him? how were SO MANY PROBLEMS left UNNOTICED even..... until President Bush took office?
Amazing.
I don't agree with you. He destroyed "Eraq". He is totally ru***sh. He is responsible for 9/11. Now he is creating viza problems.
I have written an article against Bush's Bad decisions
What will you say about 9/11? What will you say about Iraq after Saddam?
True story!!!! History!!!!
W.T.C. is History and Zero ground is True Story.
What you will say about our shoulder's death in Eraq. Are they only for death? I am thankful for our shoulders, they are doing their job very well in Eraq. I prey for America Bush, not again.
Only Bush is responsible for these problems. Why are you talking about ex-presidents. They are not responsible for falling WTC.
I say history and time will tell the true story because as of today there have been no repeats of 9/11 ... since President Bush declared war on those who caused 9/11 and took the fight to them.
Time will tell the story.
History will stand through time.
Click on World War II.. the Lost Color Archives on this site... it may be very helpful.
Yes, time and history will tell the story of a president who needlessly and recklessly invaded another country on false pretenses and is responsible for the deaths of 3,400 deaths of American soldiers, and at least 100,000 Iraqi citizens. He ignited a sectarian civil war, created a magnet and training ground which attracted terrorists from all around the Middle East, alienated people around the world. In addition to the 100,000 Iraqis killed, there are thousands of refugees who fled their country to avoid being killed. Saddam Hussein was evil man, but under his regime people could walk the streets without fear and dirive the highways and support themselves with jobs or businesses. Now, most Iraqis apparently wish we would withdraw our troops ASAP.
I won't go into how Bush used his power to turn environmental issues over to timber, mining and oil companies and undermined OSHA's role of protecting worker health and safety and how his education department helped banks rip students off on their loans.
I won't bother getting into how Bush has ignored the constitution and abrogated the Geneva Convention and politicized the Justice Department.
Bush's incompetency and rash actions have been recognized and deplored by honest Republicans as well as Democrats.
Wow! Kim you show your intelligence by your second grade spelling, most Bush haters are of the same intelligence as you. Unable to think for themselves they listen to the highly educated on TV and in the movies aka Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Moore, and Sean Penn. Wait a minute do any of them have real college Degrees? I don't think so, they much like you have no clue about what goes on in the world. If you want to believe every hair brained America hating thought spewed from the mouths of Rich know nothings like these, maybe you should consider moving to a third world country with a dictator. Then let us know how terrible the evil USA is.
I think the scariest thing, is the media. What you see on TV in the US, compared to Europe, Asia and Oceana is just so dramatically different. Perhaps if we had less bias coverage of the war, not so many people would have voted for Bush. Who knws?
Thanks for the hub.
I agree that Bush is very powerful. He had a Republican congress for most of his tenure, and he appointed the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and an Associate Justice.
Whether or not people agree with Bush's policies, I think it's fairly objective to say he's the most powerful president in recent memory.
Here's what Robert Hormats, Managing Director of Goldman Sachs, had to say in his recent book "The Price of Liberty."
War finance is not rocket science. Wars are usually too costly to pay for exclusively out of taxation. So, wars tend to be financed by a mix of new taxation and borrowing.
There are three ways to borrow: 1. Borrow from a subservient central bank, which prints the money to pay the soldiers and arms makers, in return for IOUs called Treasury Bills. Easy but leads to inflation. 2. Sell bonds to the public which diverts its savings into government debt. This avoids inflation and spreads the cost of war over time and BETWEEN GENERATIONS. 3. Sell Treasury bills, bonds and other financial assets to foreigners. Provided the various securities are denominated in your own currency, you retain the option of devaluing the war debt through currency depreciations. This may seem like the smartest way to proceed until you remember that he who pays the piper (or lends to him) may call the tune. And even if you end up fooling the piper by inflating away what you owe him, he is unlikely to fall for the same tick twice.
Among the best Treasury Secretaries, according to Hormats are Alexander Hamilton, Salmon P. Chase, William Gibbs McAdoo. Hormats also gives credit to Congress where it is due. The federal income tax would not have passed in 1913 without the efforts of legislators like Cordell Hull. Surprisingly, Hormats hero is Dwight Eisenhower. As Hormats shows Eisenhower's genius was to steer a middle ground between the competing demands of an insatiable "military-industrial complex" and an OFTEN IRRESPONSIBLE TAX-CUTTING CONGRESS" [similar to that of the Bush administration] By restraining military spending and MAINTAINING SENSIBLE TAX LEVELS, Ike made certain that the U.S., unlike its Soviet rival, waged the Cold War without ever losing it's fiscal cool.
"Under conditions of high peacetime prosperity," Eisenhower declared in 1956, "WE CAN NEVER JUSTIFY GIVING OURSELVES A TAX CUT AT THE EXPENSE OF OUR CHILDREN." His farewell address was a paen to of praise to sound finance: "WE CANNOT MORTGAGE THE MATERIAL ASSETS OF OUR GRANDCHILDREN WITHOUT ASKING THE LOSS ALSO OF THEIR POLITICAL AND SPIRITUAL HERITAGE. WE WANT DEMOCRACY TO SURVIVE FOR ALL GENERATIONS, NOT BECOME THE INSOLVENT PHANTOM OF TOMORROW."
These are the words that Mr. Hormats WISHES PRESIDENT BUSH WOULD LEARN AND DIGEST. FOR, IN HIS VIEW, THE U. S. IS LIVING BEYOND ITS MEANS AND THEREBY JEOPARDIXING ITS ABILITY TO FUND ITS NATIONAL SECURTITY REQUIREMENTS. Calling for curbs on nonessential spending and a "TAX POLICY THAT AVOIDS CHRONIC DEFICITS," Hormats laments the growing dependence of the U.S. Treasury on foreign capital. "Another terrorist attack could precipitate a dramatic reduction of capital inflows and a spike in U.S. interest rates and collapse in the value of the dollar. The U.S. is living in a post 9/11 world with a pre-9/11 fiscal policy... a heavily debt-laden, over-obligated, revenue-squeezed government, highly dependent on foreign capital creates major security vulnerabilities.
This will be the legacy of George W. Bush, the absolute worst president in my lifetime and probably in the history of the country.
[I'm indebted for the above to a book review in today's Wall Street Journal by Niall Ferguson.]
This has not much to do with the hub.. but I agree... taxes should not be lowered to the point where the debt is all passsed on to the next generation. However... our debt laden country is much the result of over zealous high spending liberals in government as well as a very highly over spending government on excesses in government. The government needs to do what every single corporation in America has had to do..... cut back.. cut superflous stagnant government elements which do nothing but eat up our ... taxpayer.. money. Common sense.. reason... the government needs to begin to use those two elements of the human mind... in all things.
High spending liberals? Tell me what you would cut--the FDA, SEC, Social Security, Medicare, OSHA, the Defense Department, the FTC, Homeland Security or what?
go ralph!
"A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida ; the one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work." From the REAGAN DIARIES…this entry is dated May 17, 1986.
And that comment is false.....Reagan did not write that. Reagan and Kinsley .. the New Republic?
That's correct. This quote is a fake which has been circulating on the Internet. It was not in Reagan's diary. It was written as an imaginary quote by Michael Kinsley in The New Republic July 7, 2007 after he saw an erroneous item in Reagan's Diaries indicating that he was a luncheon guest of Reagan in the White House. So, Kinsley wrote what he intended to be a humorous column imagining what Reagan might have said to him had he been at the White House luncheon. Turns out Reagan apparently mistook Kinsley for conservative Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer.
This is but one example of all kinds of misinformation that has been circulating in this election year. I would not have put it in my comment above if I had known it was not a legitimate Reagan quote, however, accurate and plausible it may be.
Exactly. Humor.... just as Kinsley intenfed it to be. If we take three steps back from the emotions.. we can see humor everywhere ... and it is good to laugh.. especially at ourselves. I read somewhere .. "Man takes himself way too seriously."
I can agree and plead guilty to that!
George Bush sucks!
Lighten up.. he did quite well indeed. Look at all he caused .. according to people like you.. blackjack. What other man ever had that kind of power?
At least we had no more buildings blow up.
"He did quite well indeed?" are you from the same planet as the rest of us?
I sure am ... and he sure was powerful.... :)
And we had no more buildings blown up.
you must be a republican, because anyone with an ounce of common sense would have to definately disagree with you. this man is the most hated man in the world right now. i am an ex-marine and have been to Iraq 4 (count them) 4 times and "we" (his pawns) do not agree with his policies or irrational decisions. how many times have you been to Iraq at wartime? What's the longest you've been away from your family? How many friends have you lost in a four year period? How many birthdays, christmas' have you missed of your loved ones? how many pieces of a roadside bomb do you have in your body? Do you have all four limbs? Well I don't. and I speak for hundreds of us when I say George Bush can kiss my ass. try preaching about how great he is to a bunch of veterens. we'll see how far you get.
I had a special dear friend give his life so I .. we Americans ... can go to sleep at night in peace. I admire your service to this country. I am sorry you do not seem to see its worth. May God bless you. There is no more serious service a man .. or woman .. can give than service to the defense of this great nation of our. President Bush understands that... too.
Worst President ever.
Wow Ralph,
You said a mouthful. Silverstar8, we are blessed by the ones who sacrifice much, so we are able to speak our minds. You have got to both agree that it is a wonderful thing we have here. I say it is time to put more power in the people. Rallph, why don't u run for President???
John says:
3 years ago
His amazing powers come from his lack of correcting problems. He might not have caused these things you pointed out, but he sure as hell didn't make it better.