My Feelings Exactly

I have already blogged on this, but I found this piece today and I think it is right on the money. When I happen to catch some haughty Hollywood type poking fun at our sitting President, or making remarks about the job he is doing, it makes my blood boil. Left wing comedians, news media hacks, talking heads, low level politicians, and Joe anybodys around the world have made it their lot in life to debase our President. Maybe he is not eloquent, and maybe he doesn't look that comfortable in front of a camera, but I just don't think any of the people I've seen or read to date have done one thing for our country. Most wouldn't have a clue how to talk if it weren't for cue cards. Give it a break. Read this guy.

The Treatment of Bush Has Been a Disgrace
What must our enemies be thinking?

By JEFFREY SCOTT SHAPIRO

Earlier this year, 12,000 people in San Francisco signed a petition in support of a proposition on a local ballot to rename an Oceanside sewage plant after George W. Bush. The proposition is only one example of the classless disrespect many Americans have shown the president.
According to recent Gallup polls, the president's average approval rating is below 30% -- down from his 90% approval in the wake of 9/11. Mr. Bush has endured relentless attacks from the left while facing abandonment from the right.

This is the price Mr. Bush is paying for trying to work with both Democrats and Republicans. During his 2004 victory speech, the president reached out to voters who supported his opponent, John Kerry, and said, "Today, I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent. To make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust."

Those bipartisan efforts have been met with crushing resistance from both political parties.

The president's original Supreme Court choice of Harriet Miers alarmed Republicans, while his final nomination of Samuel Alito angered Democrats. His solutions to reform the immigration system alienated traditional conservatives, while his refusal to retreat in Iraq has enraged liberals who have unrealistic expectations about the challenges we face there.

It seems that no matter what Mr. Bush does, he is blamed for everything. He remains despised by the left while continuously disappointing the right.
Yet it should seem obvious that many of our country's current problems either existed long before Mr. Bush ever came to office, or are beyond his control. Perhaps if Americans stopped being so divisive, and congressional leaders came together to work with the president on some of these problems, he would actually have had a fighting chance of solving them.

Like the president said in his 2004 victory speech, "We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us. And when we come together and work together, there is no limit to the greatness of America."

To be sure, Mr. Bush is not completely alone. His low approval ratings put him in the good company of former Democratic President Harry S. Truman, whose own approval rating sank to 22% shortly before he left office.

Despite Mr. Truman's low numbers, a 2005 Wall Street Journal poll found that he was ranked the seventh most popular president in history.

Just as Americans have gained perspective on how challenging Truman's presidency was in the wake of World War II, our country will recognize the hardship President Bush faced these past eight years -- and how extraordinary it was that he accomplished what he did in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

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.

Mr. Shapiro is an investigative reporter and lawyer who previously interned with John F. Kerry's legal team during the presidential election in 2004.

Our President

George W. Bush, President of the United States of America. How many of you think you could do the job? I for one don't think I would want it. I for one would like to applaud our president for the job that he has done over the last eight years. I know he is not the most eloquent speaker to ever occupy the office, but I think he is an honorable man. I voted for him because I believed this. I do not always agree with everything he says or does, but I rarely agree totally with any man. He took over the office after one of the most detestable presidencies ever. Bill Clinton has to be the low of all lows to occupy the office. We were weakened as a nation because a draft dodging pardoned felon was allowed to occupy the highest office in our land. He and his wife Hillary continue to drain valuable tax dollars from our U. S. Treasury to finance their opulent life styles. Combine this with a true Idiot in the person of V. P. Al Gore and you have the lowest of the low. Our enemies struck on September 11, 2001 and all the nation was with our president as he formulated a plan of action with our military and all the available data gathering sources at his disposal. I for one cheered him on. I continue to support our efforts in Iraq. Now that he is coming to the end of his tenure in office, and our war effort has cost us in lives and finances, the nay sayers are everywhere. Just like Vietnam. The politicians were cowards and refused to use the force we needed to win the war. People were tired of the losses, and rightly so in that case, and so our boys were vilified for their loyal service. I hope we have sense enough as a nation to never let that happen again. We are at war. All of the politicians on both sides of the aisle who do not show solidarity while our boys are fighting are in my opinion traitors and should be tried for treason and hanged in public. What right does the empty suit, Barak Obama, have to go anywhere outside the United States of America to talk to any foreign power about anything. George W. Bush is absolutely eloquent when compared to Barak Obama without a teleprompter. What do people see in this racist boob? If we as Americans are stupid enough to elect this unqualified nobody to the highest office in the land, then I think we are done for. I am going to continue to pray for our president for as long as he is in office. I know the options are not optimal this time around, but in my book there is only one choice.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. - Paul Valery

Click on the title for an entertaining video from Dennis Miller on Harry Reid.

“Who would be afraid of [President Bush]? He’s got a 29 percent approval rating.” —Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who has a nine percent approval rating.

Keen sense of the obvious: “Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s.” —Barack Obama **Thanks for clearing that up.