Bush: 'I Did Not Compromise My Principles'

[bullypulpit]

You have to have principles to be able to compromise them. In his soft-ball interview with Charlie Gibson, Bush tried to whitewash the failures of his presidency.

On everything from 9-11 to the invasion of Iraq...from the response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to the current economic melt-down...he takes responsibility for NOTHING.

But that should come as no surprise to anyone. denial of responsibility has been his modus operandi for his entire adult life. His mealy-mouthed denial of responsibility is also typical behavior for alcoholics to engage in, and he had an administration chock full of enablers, yes-men and cronies.

You can find the interview <a href=http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/story?id=6354012&page=1>HERE</a>.

[Psychoblues]

The interview reveals that he blames his failures on his own father and Bill Clinton. Interesting read, indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You have to have principles to be able to compromise them. In his soft-ball interview with Charlie Gibson, Bush tried to whitewash the failures of his presidency.

On everything from 9-11 to the invasion of Iraq...from the response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to the current economic melt-down...he takes responsibility for NOTHING.

But that should come as no surprise to anyone. denial of responsibility has been his modus operandi for his entire adult life. His mealy-mouthed denial of responsibility is also typical behavior for alcoholics to engage in, and he had an administration chock full of enablers, yes-men and cronies.

You can find the interview <a href=http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/story?id=6354012&page=1>HERE</a>.

Did you expect anything less?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?

[Sitarro]

You have to have principles to be able to compromise them. In his soft-ball interview with Charlie Gibson, Bush tried to whitewash the failures of his presidency.

On everything from 9-11 to the invasion of Iraq...from the response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to the current economic melt-down...he takes responsibility for NOTHING.

But that should come as no surprise to anyone. denial of responsibility has been his modus operandi for his entire adult life. His mealy-mouthed denial of responsibility is also typical behavior for alcoholics to engage in, and he had an administration chock full of enablers, yes-men and cronies.

You can find the interview <a href=http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/story?id=6354012&page=1>HERE</a>.

Hey bedpan,
How should President Bush have responded to the so called "devastation" of Katrina? Mississippi was actually the area devastated by Katrina and I never heard a peep from them. Old Orleans was devastated because it is a silly town located in a stupid spot....... it was inevitable and has been known for decades that it's days were numbered, why is that President Bush's fault.

[Psychoblues]

You just don't get it, do you, zero? No surprise there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Psychoblues

[Yurt]

The interview reveals that he blames his failures on his own father and Bill Clinton. Interesting read, indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Did you expect anything less?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?

link to that, i "must" have "missed" that in the article...

[actsnoblemartin]

new orleans was devastated, but why do we only blame the president for this. what about the mayor of the city or new orleans and the governor of louisiana. and how come other states hit by katrina faired better.

Why was new orleans levees ignored for so long yet only bush is blamed for the leevees breaking, the last 50 years no one gave two snaps about those levees so why are we only blaming bush, when its not all his fault. are we really being fair, or is this just bush/republican bashing?

as far as iraq, no one has proved to me bush lied about iraq, many other countries believed saddam had the weapons, and while bush is responsible why do we still responsible for the initial failures of iraq, why dont those of you who criticize him for that also give him credit for the successes such as the massive cut in troop casulties, the fact security is vastly improved and that an end , and honorable end is near, that iraq and the u.s. are close to agreeing to. It just seems some of you are stuck in 2003's mistakes and not in 2008's progress

[Missileman]

You have to have principles to be able to compromise them. In his soft-ball interview with Charlie Gibson, Bush tried to whitewash the failures of his presidency.

On everything from 9-11 to the invasion of Iraq...from the response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to the current economic melt-down...he takes responsibility for NOTHING.

But that should come as no surprise to anyone. denial of responsibility has been his modus operandi for his entire adult life. His mealy-mouthed denial of responsibility is also typical behavior for alcoholics to engage in, and he had an administration chock full of enablers, yes-men and cronies.

You can find the interview <a href=http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/story?id=6354012&page=1>HERE</a>.

So you would blame Bush for 9-11 because he didn't act on intel passed on by the Clinton administration? Which counter-terrorism plans of Clinton's would have prevented 9-11. He must have had plans in place, right? He was sitting on actionable intel, right? Provide a shred of evidence that Bush stopped any Clinton operations that would have prevented 9-11 or admit that Clinton was as culpable as anyone else for what happened.

[stephanie]

Liberals NEVER get over their hatred for anyone, especially for a Republican President..

hell, there's still some here who hate on President Reagan and he's passed on, at Du they even hate on the Republicans wife because they were married to them....

sad life it must be..

[bullypulpit]

Liberals NEVER get over their hatred for anyone, especially for a Republican President..

hell, there's still some here who hate on President Reagan and he's passed on, at Du they even hate on the Republicans wife because they were married to them....

sad life it must be..

If Bush were half the man Reagan was...even as he was slipping into senility...his presidency would not be the unmitigated disaster that it has become. Hell, I voted for Reagan...for his first term...When it became clear that his brand of conservatism had nothing to do with that of Goldwater, Bill Buckley or any of the other real intellectual fathers of American conservatism, I turned my back on the GOP and the conservative moevment.

The Bush administration is the ultimate expression of the "Reagan Revolution", From his feckless foreign adventurism to his cheerful undermining of the Constitution...From gutting social programs to wrecking regulatory agencies the Bush administration has embodied the anti-government, anti-intellectual and, ultimately, anti-American ethos of the "Regan Revolution".

Hatred has nothing to do with it. Bush isn't worth the energy real hatred demands...More like the feeling you get when you step in some dog-pooh.

[red states rule]

If Bush were half the man Reagan was...even as he was slipping into senility...his presidency would not be the unmitigated disaster that it has become. Hell, I voted for Reagan...for his first term...When it became clear that his brand of conservatism had nothing to do with that of Goldwater, Bill Buckley or any of the other real intellectual fathers of American conservatism, I turned my back on the GOP and the conservative moevment.

The Bush administration is the ultimate expression of the "Reagan Revolution", From his feckless foreign adventurism to his cheerful undermining of the Constitution...From gutting social programs to wrecking regulatory agencies the Bush administration has embodied the anti-government, anti-intellectual and, ultimately, anti-American ethos of the "Regan Revolution".

Hatred has nothing to do with it. Bush isn't worth the energy real hatred demands...More like the feeling you get when you step in some dog-pooh.

Gutting social prgrams??? BP the Federal buget is now over $3 trillion and the Dept of Health and Human Servies now gets the biggest slice of the budget

That does not include what is being spent in state and local budgets. We have the richest poor in the world, and all we hear form libs like you how we need to spend more

Your irrational hate is amazing to watch. On Jan 20, 2009 who will you direct that hate toward?

[April15]

You have to have principles to be able to compromise them. In his soft-ball interview with Charlie Gibson, Bush tried to whitewash the failures of his presidency.

On everything from 9-11 to the invasion of Iraq...from the response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to the current economic melt-down...he takes responsibility for NOTHING.

But that should come as no surprise to anyone. denial of responsibility has been his modus operandi for his entire adult life. His mealy-mouthed denial of responsibility is also typical behavior for alcoholics to engage in, and he had an administration chock full of enablers, yes-men and cronies.

You can find the interview <a href=http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/story?id=6354012&page=1>HERE</a>.

The last eight years are just another failure added to his resume.

[Sitarro]

The last eight years are just another failure added to his resume.

At least he has a resume(including Governor of the second largest state in the union and President for two terms), unlike the empty suited community organizer that you voted for President.

[bullypulpit]

Gutting social prgrams??? BP the Federal buget is now over $3 trillion and the Dept of Health and Human Servies now gets the biggest slice of the budget

That does not include what is being spent in state and local budgets. We have the richest poor in the world, and all we hear form libs like you how we need to spend more

Your irrational hate is amazing to watch. On Jan 20, 2009 who will you direct that hate toward?

And the budget ballooned on whose watch? The budget deficit reached unprecedented levels on whose watch? Borrowing from foreign governments reached record levels on whose watch?

As for your assertion that HHS gets the biggest slice of the pie you are, as ever, wrong. Defense gets the biggest slice of the pie.

Under the Keynesian model that helped lift this country from the Great Depression, government spending, even if it increases the deficit, for infrastructure projects, social safety nets, and sensible regulation of business practices are necessary.

Unfortunately, that is not the model we have followed for some time. We can look to the the "Chicago School" economic policies espoused by the late, unlamented Milton Friedman. This system, where it has been fully and freely implemented in other countries, has led..not to prosperity for all...but to prosperity for a select few under tyrannical and despotic regimes. Chile under Augusto Pinochet is a prime example.

For a complete budget picture, go <a href=http://www.wallstats.com/poster/>HERE</a>.

[red states rule]

And the budget ballooned on whose watch? The budget deficit reached unprecedented levels on whose watch? Borrowing from foreign governments reached record levels on whose watch?

As for your assertion that HHS gets the biggest slice of the pie you are, as ever, wrong. Defense gets the biggest slice of the pie.

Under the Keynesian model that helped lift this country from the Great Depression, government spending, even if it increases the deficit, for infrastructure projects, social safety nets, and sensible regulation of business practices are necessary.

Unfortunately, that is not the model we have followed for some time. We can look to the the "Chicago School" economic policies espoused by the late, unlamented Milton Friedman. This system, where it has been fully and freely implemented in other countries, has led..not to prosperity for all...but to prosperity for a select few under tyrannical and despotic regimes. Chile under Augusto Pinochet is a prime example.

For a complete budget picture, go <a href=http://www.wallstats.com/poster/>HERE</a>.

I want to see liberals like you Bully scream about the deficit as Obama, Reid, and Pelosi piss through even larger amounts of our tax money

However, I suspect you will give them a pass, and blame Pres Bush

And as usual, HHS does indeed get the biggest slice of the Federal budget

http://www.federalbudget.com/

Now do what you usually do when you are proven wrong - duck, spin, ignore, and/or run away from the thread

Federal spending did nothing to end the Great Depression. In fact, the ecoonomy got much worse as FDR taught people to depend on government

Only the Japs attacking Pearl Harbor ended the Great Depression. 10 years of liberalism and government handounts did NOT end the Depression - it only made it worse

[April15]

I want to see liberals like you Bully scream about the deficit as Obama, Reid, and Pelosi piss through even larger amounts of our tax money

However, I suspect you will give them a pass, and blame Pres Bush

And as usual, HHS does indeed get the biggest slice of the Federal budget

http://www.federalbudget.com/

Now do what you usually do when you are proven wrong - duck, spin, ignore, and/or run away from the thread

Federal spending did nothing to end the Great Depression. In fact, the ecoonomy got much worse as FDR taught people to depend on government

Only the Japs attacking Pearl Harbor ended the Great Depression. 10 years of liberalism and government handounts did NOT end the Depression - it only made it worse

Man oh man are you out there on this one. If not for the New Deal this nation would not have been able to respond let alone win any war.