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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 11:47 AM
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AP's Ben Feller on Bush's legacy: "He seized a bullhorn and united a country"
AP: Bush Legacy -- Grim Times, Gloomy Nation

BEN FELLER | January 10, 2009 08:08 AM EST | AP



This is his tenure: eight years bracketed by the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history and the worst economic collapse in three generations. In between came two wars, two Supreme Court appointments, a tough re-election, sinking popularity, big legislative wins and defeats, an ambitious effort to combat AIDS, a meltdown of the housing market, a diminishing U.S. reputation abroad, and more power invested in Dick Cheney than any vice president in history.

Bush got his tax cuts and education law in the first term, then swung hard and missed on Social Security and immigration in his second. He seized a bullhorn and united a country devastated by terrorism, but stumbled badly when a hurricane swallowed the Gulf Coast.

Many of his original campaign promises are dust. Sept. 11, 2001, changed everything.

Bush pushed all legal limits in targeting terrorists. They have not struck America again.

The president's defenders may well be right that his decisions will be viewed honorably over time.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/10/ap-bush-legacy-grim-times_n_156800.html
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 11:48 AM
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1. No, that was just a stud horse he was trying to milk.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 11:49 AM
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2. he didnt unite. we the people being bigger than he was, gave it to him. then HE abused
Edited on Sat Jan-10-09 11:49 AM by seabeyond
it.
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 11:49 AM
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3. Another stand-up comic
is born!
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 11:50 AM
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4. LOL! Yes, united the country AGAINST him!
How delusional can a person be.

If he did anything positive after 9/11 (big IF) it was obliterated from his legacy by what he DIDN'T do during Katrina.

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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 12:04 PM
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5. Nobody NEEDED to attack us again after September 11
All they needed to do was sit back and watch as we destroyed ourselves.

And we've done a fine job. We've become a nation of panicky wusses.
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frogmarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 12:23 PM
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6. he seized a bullhorn and
shoved it up America's ass.

Feller is a fucking idiot.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 01:39 PM
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15. Feller=idiot. nt
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 02:07 PM
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18. It's also Feller's second "Bush Legacy" article in less than a week...
...he's really picked up the flag and rallied 'round the Chimp, boys...
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Ezlivin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 12:23 PM
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7. The whole bullhorn scene was carefully managed stagecraft and PR, nothing more
As someone here has noted, this administration deeply believed in "governance through PR."
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 12:49 PM
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8. Indeed. One people, one nation, one Leader.


HOORAY FOR UNITY!

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democrank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 12:52 PM
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9. He seized the Constitution and
ripped it to shreds.
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mw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 12:55 PM
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10. More like: "Bush siezed the bull by the TAIL and faced the situtation" nt
nt
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mascarax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 01:00 PM
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11. Looks like Ben's on the payroll!
Pathetic.

"honorably"?!
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 01:01 PM
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12. The country was united the minute the planes hit.
Bush seized a sovereign nation or two and split the country in half.
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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 01:02 PM
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13. With this article and the one previous to it, Feller has richly earned the nickname
"Ben Fellatio."
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 01:04 PM
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14. All Ben Feller Is Missing Is A Skirt And Pom Poms
Been Feller devotes a whole story to felating Bush in a way that makes me want to ask if he left a tip on the night stand afterward. Think I am being too harsh? Well lets examine his story entitled "Analysis: Bush's personality shapes his legacy"

"Bush demands punctuality and disdains inefficiency. Every meeting better have a clear purpose. And it better not repeat what he already knows.

He is up early and in the Oval Office by 6:45 a.m. By 9:30 to 10 at night, it's lights out. He likes to be fresh and won't get cheated on his sleep."


Then I wonder why it took him so long to get his punctual ass to New Orleans after Katrina. Maybe if he was a little more punctual in reading his own PDBs we wouldn't have had 9-11. Oops I forgot we aren't supposed to bring that kinda stuff up. Especially in a story that lauds all things Bush.
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 02:43 PM
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19. "And it better not repeat what he already knows."
Not much danger of that happening.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 01:40 PM
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16. how about 'his administration looked the other way when warned of 911'
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Kansas Wyatt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 01:41 PM
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17. Then Bush promptly drove the country off a cliff.
End of story.
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hankthecrank Donating Member (490 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 03:20 PM
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20. If you watch the clip bushie is taking into the bullhorn he turns it right into the fireman ear
bushie the unfeeling lower than dog shit ass
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