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To President George W. Bush, From Barack, With Apologies

By LARRY ELDER Posted 05:39 PM ET

The Gulf oil spill opened my eyes.

As with Hurricane Katrina, it happened suddenly. I barked out orders. I pounded my desk. But the oil kept flowing. Worse, the nation watched it all on television and said: "Why doesn't the president do something? Doesn't he care?"

From then on, I fully understood both the expectations and the limitations of this job.

I ran on "hope and change." I said I would bring the sides together. The American people, I told Republicans who opposed my stimulus plan, have spoken. And "I won."

So without any of the bipartisan support you received for your tax cuts, my stimulus passed, and I confidently predicted it would prevent unemployment from reaching 8%. It climbed to 10.2%.

Without a single Republican vote, we passed "ObamaCare." But half of the states' attorneys general filed suit to stop it. And a year after its passage, most Americans want it repealed.

My party lost its House majority and its Senate supermajority. Voters wanted smaller government. Turns out voters wanted to retain the "Bush tax rates" — even for the rich — which I campaigned against. Again, the American people had spoken.

The morning starts, as you know, with an intelligence briefing. My goodness, does America have enemies — hateful, violent, vicious enemies all over the world who are determined to destroy this nation! Our job is to prevent them from succeeding — all of them, all of the time.

He Gets Gitmo

I came into this job eight years after Sept. 11, 2001. I cannot imagine 3,000 Americans killed on my watch. I cannot imagine polls showing that 90% of us anticipated another attack within 12 months of the first, perhaps with chemical or biological weapons. I can imagine how you must have blamed yourself during those long, dark days, and spent every waking hour asking, "What can I do so this never happens again?"

This brings me to the Iraq War, a mission I once called "dumb."

Seventy-six percent of Americans, at the time, supported your decision. You obtained approval from Congress. By contrast, 47% support my actions in Libya, less support than for any military action taken in the last 40 years. Unlike you, I did not seek approval from Congress even though I once said the Constitution requires it.


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Originally posted by Ronnie P.:
I think if conservatives backed off his own people would eat him alive. They still need to defend him to us but inside they know they screwed up. They should have gone with Hillary.


Uh-oh, he forgot to humbly thank Shrub for the legacy of the Iraq war, entered on false premises and pursued at the cost of thousands of American lives, even more thousands of terribly injured young men and women, and the trashing of the infrastructure of a nation that had done nothing to provoke that war, certainly nothing like that old WMD baloney. And nemmine the multiplied billions of dollars spent on that reckless misadventure for 7 years before Obama even came into office. The renovation of GWB will not be accomplished by the blitherings of such cheap shot artists as Larry Elder.

P.S. Should he not have thanked GWB for that particularly egregious part of the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill that prohibits the government from negotiating with Big Pharma on the price of drugs prescribed under that program. He could have said something like this:

"Of course I realize that even though the General Services Administration and the Veterans Administration have long followed the practice of negotiating lower prices for purchases of materials used in massive quantities in government programs, that practice was wisely omitted from the Medicare Prescription Drug Program in deference to the government's obligation to bend over backwards (or perhaps forwards, grasping ankles) to encourage megacorporations to make those huge profits that trickle down to the man in the street."

THAT would make about as much sense as most of the rest of Elder's scattershot diatribe!.
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Originally posted by beternU:
THAT would make about as much sense as most of the rest of Elder's scattershot diatribe!.


Glad you agree with it. He nailed Obama on every point. As for 'shrub', now bitter, is that any way to talk about a POTUS? You always say the office should be treated with respect. If you call GW 'shrub' I'll have to call Obama 'Hussein'.
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Originally posted by beternU:
quote:
Originally posted by Ronnie P.:
I think if conservatives backed off his own people would eat him alive. They still need to defend him to us but inside they know they screwed up. They should have gone with Hillary.


Uh-oh, he forgot to humbly thank Shrub for the legacy of the Iraq war, entered on false premises and pursued at the cost of thousands of American lives, even more thousands of terribly injured young men and women, and the trashing of the infrastructure of a nation that had done nothing to provoke that war, certainly nothing like that old WMD baloney. And nemmine the multiplied billions of dollars spent on that reckless misadventure for 7 years before Obama even came into office. The renovation of GWB will not be accomplished by the blitherings of such cheap shot artists as Larry Elder.

P.S. Should he not have thanked GWB for that particularly egregious part of the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill that prohibits the government from negotiating with Big Pharma on the price of drugs prescribed under that program. He could have said something like this:

"Of course I realize that even though the General Services Administration and the Veterans Administration have long followed the practice of negotiating lower prices for purchases of materials used in massive quantities in government programs, that practice was wisely omitted from the Medicare Prescription Drug Program in deference to the government's obligation to bend over backwards (or perhaps forwards, grasping ankles) to encourage megacorporations to make those huge profits that trickle down to the man in the street."

THAT would make about as much sense as most of the rest of Elder's scattershot diatribe!.

And you forgot to thank your mommy for not flushing the toilet when she shat you out.
Well betrnun, where do I start?

You forget he got Congressional Approval. He had the same info as all of us. Can you imagine
Saddam with WMD's? Sounds pretty scary to me. Do you really think the world would be better off with Saddam still in power? Massacring his own people. Sounds like Lybia. What about that prescription bill? Seems to me like it took two houses of Congress to pass it. Mabey they shouldn't of passed it. You are the tipical Lib.
Blame everything on Bush. I don't agree with every thing Bush did but, those dark and scary times. Bush did what he thought was best to protect this country. The responibility right now falls on you libs. The spending has gone up 80% in the dems watch. Reallity bites don't it?
I'm thankful for a House that is now trying to reverse this countries outragous spending habits. Enough with the gov't hand-outs. Enough with the waste. Let's get or house in order.

Keep Marching,
Skippy Wink
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Originally posted by skippy delepepper:
Well betrnun, where do I start?

You forget he got Congressional Approval. He had the same info as all of us. Can you imagine
Saddam with WMD's? Sounds pretty scary to me. Do you really think the world would be better off with Saddam still in power? Massacring his own people. Sounds like Lybia. What about that prescription bill? Seems to me like it took two houses of Congress to pass it. Mabey they shouldn't of passed it. You are the tipical Lib.
Blame everything on Bush. I don't agree with every thing Bush did but, those dark and scary times. Bush did what he thought was best to protect this country. The responibility right now falls on you libs. The spending has gone up 80% in the dems watch. Reallity bites don't it?
I'm thankful for a House that is now trying to reverse this countries outragous spending habits. Enough with the gov't hand-outs. Enough with the waste. Let's get or house in order.

Keep Marching,
Skippy Wink


Skippy, skippy, everything you post is completely full of crap. Were you struck on the head as a child?
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Originally posted by b50m:
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Originally posted by beternU:
THAT would make about as much sense as most of the rest of Elder's scattershot diatribe!.


Glad you agree with it. He nailed Obama on every point. As for 'shrub', now bitter, is that any way to talk about a POTUS? You always say the office should be treated with respect. If you call GW 'shrub' I'll have to call Obama 'Hussein'.


i remember Bet calling me out, because i said soemthing like ' one of the greatest things about being an american is to be able to call the president an idiot'.. paraphrased.. something like that....

meaning 'as americans we have the right and the freedom and the ability to express a detrimental opinion of the president without ever having to worry about the secret police coming i nthe night and killing us and abducting our families like they do in other places , like N. Korea, for example"..
i took the easy way to say it and bet jumped me and hinted i was a bad bad american because i didn't respect the president.

interesting to see how little respect he had for POtUS as well. Shrub?

shrub? how dare you Betty. what a pitiful example of an American you are.

/snicker
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Originally posted by Opie Cunningham:
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Originally posted by skippy delepepper:
Well betrnun, where do I start?

You forget he got Congressional Approval. He had the same info as all of us. Can you imagine
Saddam with WMD's? Sounds pretty scary to me. Do you really think the world would be better off with Saddam still in power? Massacring his own people. Sounds like Lybia. What about that prescription bill? Seems to me like it took two houses of Congress to pass it. Mabey they shouldn't of passed it. You are the tipical Lib.
Blame everything on Bush. I don't agree with every thing Bush did but, those dark and scary times. Bush did what he thought was best to protect this country. The responibility right now falls on you libs. The spending has gone up 80% in the dems watch. Reallity bites don't it?
I'm thankful for a House that is now trying to reverse this countries outragous spending habits. Enough with the gov't hand-outs. Enough with the waste. Let's get or house in order.

Keep Marching,
Skippy Wink


Skippy, skippy, everything you post is completely full of crap. Were you struck on the head as a child?

______________________________________________________________________

I'm sorry ope.

I'm sorry you again have nothing to add except your same old crappy
comments. Nothing to say nothing to add. What's the deal with crap?
As Sgt.Friday always said,"just the facts mam just the facts." And
following his example that's what I'll keep furnishing you. Wink

Keep Marching,
Skippy
quote:
Originally posted by skippy delepepper:
quote:
Originally posted by Opie Cunningham:
quote:
Originally posted by skippy delepepper:
Well betrnun, where do I start?

You forget he got Congressional Approval. He had the same info as all of us. Can you imagine
Saddam with WMD's? Sounds pretty scary to me. Do you really think the world would be better off with Saddam still in power? Massacring his own people. Sounds like Lybia. What about that prescription bill? Seems to me like it took two houses of Congress to pass it. Mabey they shouldn't of passed it. You are the tipical Lib.
Blame everything on Bush. I don't agree with every thing Bush did but, those dark and scary times. Bush did what he thought was best to protect this country. The responibility right now falls on you libs. The spending has gone up 80% in the dems watch. Reallity bites don't it?
I'm thankful for a House that is now trying to reverse this countries outragous spending habits. Enough with the gov't hand-outs. Enough with the waste. Let's get or house in order.

Keep Marching,
Skippy Wink


Skippy, skippy, everything you post is completely full of crap. Were you struck on the head as a child?

______________________________________________________________________

I'm sorry ope.

I'm sorry you again have nothing to add except your same old crappy
comments. Nothing to say nothing to add. What's the deal with crap?
As Sgt.Friday always said,"just the facts mam just the facts." And
following his example that's what I'll keep furnishing you. Wink

Keep Marching,
Skippy


I would suggest that you and facts are complete strangers.
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Originally posted by Opie Cunningham:
quote:
Originally posted by skippy delepepper:
quote:
Originally posted by Opie Cunningham:
quote:
Originally posted by skippy delepepper:
Well betrnun, where do I start?

You forget he got Congressional Approval. He had the same info as all of us. Can you imagine
Saddam with WMD's? Sounds pretty scary to me. Do you really think the world would be better off with Saddam still in power? Massacring his own people. Sounds like Lybia. What about that prescription bill? Seems to me like it took two houses of Congress to pass it. Mabey they shouldn't of passed it. You are the tipical Lib.
Blame everything on Bush. I don't agree with every thing Bush did but, those dark and scary times. Bush did what he thought was best to protect this country. The responibility right now falls on you libs. The spending has gone up 80% in the dems watch. Reallity bites don't it?
I'm thankful for a House that is now trying to reverse this countries outragous spending habits. Enough with the gov't hand-outs. Enough with the waste. Let's get or house in order.

Keep Marching,
Skippy Wink


Skippy, skippy, everything you post is completely full of crap. Were you struck on the head as a child?

______________________________________________________________________

I'm sorry ope.

I'm sorry you again have nothing to add except your same old crappy
comments. Nothing to say nothing to add. What's the deal with crap?
As Sgt.Friday always said,"just the facts mam just the facts." And
following his example that's what I'll keep furnishing you. Wink

Keep Marching,
Skippy


I would suggest that you and facts are complete strangers.


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Nother goodn ope Wink

Keep Trying,
Skippy

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