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

WARNING! THIS IS NOT THE ONION! THIS MAN IS SERIOUS. BEVERAGE ALERT



http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122584386627599251.html

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.

APAccording 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."


WORDS FAIL ME.

This was put out to glean pity for Bush, plain and simple.

a political pity puff piece.

He remains despised by the left while continuously disappointing the right.

Hmmmmmmm...why could that possibly be?

The thing to understand about republicans is that they'll say anything to get elected or to give the impression that they're doing the right thing. This is part of the genius of their nonstop marketing of the Republican brand. For instance they run up record deficits and debt, yet somehow the Democrats still get the rap for being the big spending party.

amazing.

'There goes our best recruiting tool EVAH! Too bad there won't be an easily-manipulated fool occupying the Oval Office; looks like the party's over.'

Know they are gonna struggle.

I mean, C'mon, do you really think in the O. Pres. we will have a vice prsident who shoots someone in the face? And then the victim will apologize for it??

They are the perfect raw material for humor, being completely humorless themselves.

because now there's hope that we can be friendly equals, not at war, trying for one-upsmanship, or in a client-master relationship with every other nation on earth.

Not to mention the real possibility that the US will be a better global neighbor on issues like banking fraud, drug crimes, illegal wars, pollution and environment, and above all WAR CRIMES!

with hat in hand in September to beg for $700 billion to bail out profligate Wall Street, please? :wtf:

What planet is this guy living on? As with the OP, WORDS FAIL ME.

IT'S THE WALL STREET EFFING JOURNAL FOR CHRISSAKES.

Don't read that pile of shit. It'll just piss you off and eventually rot your brain. Who gives a flying fuck what this illiterate idiot SAID in an inauguration speech, pay some attention to what he fucking DID since then. And heres a clue for all you "Wall Street" types. Unless you are one of the favored few who got to divvy up the $700 bil, you have lost your ass since the chimp grunted out those noble words. But hey it ain't too late. Just because the WTC was destroyed doesn't mean there aren't plenty of tall buildings you can jump off of.

That especially includes you Jeffrey Scott Shapiro. Have a nice fall.

there is left of it. I hope the world will view him forever as a filthy liar and criminal.

disrespect? you mean the disrespect shown by the bush cadre to the citizens of this country, of the whole world, actually? the disrespect for the constitution? the disrespect for honesty, integrity, intelligence?

as marshall said on IPS several weeks ago, he is the sort of man who demands respect, but does not command it. jan 20 cannot come soon enough.

his oath to protect, preserve, and defend the Constitution of the United States. :P