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6 More Months of President Bush

Topic Author: Ralph Hipp

Posted: 11:03 PM Jul 21, 2008

Replies Posted: 14 comments

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6 More Months of President Bush

Next January 20th, Inauguration Day, is a Tuesday. So we're pretty much exactly down to six months left in the Bush 43 Presidency. This President Bush, unlike his political idol, President Reagan, is not turning over the Oval Office keys to the man he trained for the job. (That being the first President Bush.) There is no continuing the legacy, and 72% of Americans apparently believe it's not a legacy worth keeping. President Bush is banking that what happened to President Harry Truman will happen to him.

Leaving the White House in 1953 (also with a 28% approval rating), Harry Truman walked out of the White House frustrated and financially strapped, to tell you the truth. I don't recall how he did on the money end of things while he and Bess lived out their final years in Independence, MO.. we hadn't reached that time where ex-presidents make a fortune on their book deals. But our current leader, half a year away from headin' to Crawford.. is agreeing with his insiders that not a lot of people like him. He may be upset by that, but Bush hopes that 25 years from now, the decision to stake his presidency on the war in Iraq turned out to be an excellent idea in hindsight.

As we approach the 6 months mark of President Bush departing office, let me know if you basically think he's a good guy and may be judged much later on as a good president.. or if President Truman's luck "won't" rub off on him. RH

Posted by: jerry Location: topeka
Ralph, I'm disappointed with your news group. Tonight (9-2) your copy read "The Rep. convention was derailed by news of Gustov and the Palin pregnancy". This statement is false. It seems to me your station took the opportunity to introduce the pregnancy issue in the hopes that the more something is reported on, the more germane that issue becomes. The convention schedule was not derailed by the Palin pregnancy story and your station is well aware of that fact. It sounds like news managment rather than news reporting. We expect better from our local TV. On a completely differnet note, we really appreciate your efforts for the MDA fund raiser.

Posted by: eg It saddens me to think of his term ending. I scares me thinking who might get in and what will happen then. If we think 911 was bad I shudder to think what might be in store for us if Obama gets in. I think the man is evil and red flags are flying everywhere around him. I don't mean American flags because he does not believe in that. I mean warning flags and I hope enough voters see that before election day. McCain wouldn't have been my choise either, but I will sure play it safe and vote for him.

Posted by: Susan Location: Topeka
President Bush has done a fine job. A job that former Prez Clinton could not and would not do. If only all of the naysayers would go back in time and look at 1998, as a result of issues surrounding personal indiscretions with a young woman White House intern, Clinton was the second U.S. president to be impeached by the House of Representatives. He was tried in the Senate and found not guilty of the charges brought against him. He apologized to the nation for his actions and continued to have unprecedented popular approval ratings for his job as president. The people of the US are blinded by his charm and he is a devil in disguise. President Bush had to do something to tell the world that we were not taking any more crap after the horrific events of September 11, 2001. Did Clinton stand up to the middle east and tell them "no no"? He slapped them on the wrist and let them go about their evil and twisted ways only to terrorize us. President Bush is a fine man!

Posted by: Paul Location: NE KS
President Bush was twice elected to the office. When the "Army was rolling along" through Iraq and Afghanistan, and the American military was demonstrating its incredible power, he was wildly popular. A combination of media bias, economic conditions and the fact that this nation has somehow lost the resolve to finish what it started and see things through to the end have eroded his once wide spread popularity. Dozens of legislative leaders bought into the same intelligence reports as the President and voted to go to war. Now, they blame Bush. They are like the voters who were all for him and now have bailed on support. I think the issue we will have to watch is whether the Patriot Act and other restrictions on the freedoms we hold dear will result in America becoming something of a police state in the future. I thinki it is there and on the waterboarding isse that he got it wrong.

Posted by: sam Location: its a secret
YYYEEESSS!!! i'm only 12 and i actually watch the political news . i cant believe he hasnt brung the trrops back,lowered the number of school days LOL, lowered gas prices,taxes. i dont like him!!! OBAMA 4 president!!!

Posted by: Anonymous There is no value that can be put on freedom and safety in this great country. Wether we like it or not there is a war going on in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere in the world. We were drug into this war on 9/11/2001. President Bush didn't start it, but I wish he could stay in office long enough to finish it!! I'm glad we have had President Bush to lead us into this unprecedented war on terrorism. History has proven what happens when there is a war going on and we try to stay out of it......Dec. 7, 1941.(Pearl Harbor) Every generation in history has seen war. It might be a feeble attempt to try to end all terrorism in the world, but if trying could mean that possibly the next generation (my children), wouldn't have to experience war, I say keep trying!!!! The economy is a small issue when you weigh in things like a safe homeland. I think history will honor and thank President Bush.

Posted by: Samantha Bracken Location: Topeka
Oh dear ... what a royal mess Pres Bush has made. I'll be brief in my response - suffice it to say, a bumper sticker I saw had the exact date of his last day of presidency and the words "THE END OF AN ERROR" next to it. 'Nuff said!!

Posted by: john Location: topeka
his only legacy is record debt,and starting an unprovoked war. i just hope obma and the dems can still dig us out of this mess. god bless america!!!

Posted by: Philip Location: Carbondale
With him wanting to fill his wallet (and simultaneously destroy the environment) by drilling for oil and natural gas off the coast of the U.S. in protected zones, we're in for a long six months.

Posted by: Lois M Location: Topeka
History writers can be so fickle, Ralph, that I think it will be interesting to see just what they do with him. I personally think that a lot of misinformation went to him and then on to us, the population. I know we are doing a lot more good over there than what media will tell us from what I've gotten on e-mails from vets that have been there. I've also talked with some of the Ft. Riley soldiers who have been over there and they told me the same thing.....so time will tell, I guess.

Posted by: PS I am the minority. I can't blame Bush for what has happened. I truly think he is a good man, with more "heart" than most in politics. People forget that there are many more under him that make the decisions. Those people are the ones that WE voted in. If WE don't like how things went, WE need to vote them out! Its easy to sit on this side a judge, as human nature does. All the dissecting blame won't do any good, it won't change where we are and it sure won't change where we are going. The American public needs to stand up and be counted, in other words VOTE! But remember, it's not only the President that makes most decisions effecting you and me.

Posted by: pds Location: Kansas
6 more months until out longest national nightmare is over. The end of the Cheney-Bush regime can't come soon enough. Junior won't be going back to Crawford. He never lived there until he was enthroned. It was a pig farm that they erected a house so he could look like Raygun. He will move to some toney neighborhood so he can enjoy his millions he made off of his oil and war profiteering. I will do everythingI can to remind future generations what a miserable failure Junior is/was

Posted by: Don Location: Junction Cty
Bush #2 is the "worst" President that we have ever had!!! A balanced budget was handed to him and he placed it in the tank very quickly...a tank of red ink!! In the final analysis, he won't rank very high!

Posted by: Corey Location: Topeka
I do think that history will vindicate him, People dislike him now because of actions he has taken. But deep down inside he truly believes that anything he has done was to protect the people of the United States of America, after all that is what he was sworn to do. The fact is that there has not been an attack on our soil since that fateful day of 9/11 speaks volumes. Fight them elsewhere so that we don't have to fight them on our shores HAS worked. Osama even said he saw how weak America was after our troops were pulled out of Somalia. Saying we lacked the fortitude to withstand a long drawn out fight like what is happening in Iraq. About Iraq, all the news media ever reports is the bad things that are happening over there, why not anything good that is happening?...In the end my life is no worse then it was when Clinton was in office, actually it's better, I make more money, and I don't think my rights have been squashed like some on the left want you to believe.