Now, those were not the greatest eight years this country has ever seen, I’ll admit that right off the bat.
Yet, I can’t help but miss having George in the White House. Here’s why. I miss the silence. Seems like every other day Obama is giving a speech or a lecture or tap-dancing in front of the cameras to promote one issue or another. George W. Bush had no need for such antics.
It was never “open mike” at the White House. He kept his appearances among the riff-raff to a minimum. The only times the general public was addressed by the President was during the annual State of the Union speech and whenever we attacked another country.
I miss the honesty. George did not make any promises about getting us out of Afghanistan. He said from the go that we were in this for the long haul. Freedom came at a price, we knew, and each time George asked Congress for another $80 billion, we knew where that money was going – to Iraq and Afghanistan.
I also miss the patriotism. People cheered when Chicago lost its Obama-backed bid for hosting the 2016 Summer Olympics. Sure it would have generated up to billions in local revenue, but it was too much fun to see something Obama was fighting for – such as, you know, America – get laughed at by the Brazilians.
Had George still been in office, the whole thing would have been a non-issue. Since the Olympics would have been too far off in the future – much like the effects of the supposed global warming – to land on his administration, it would not have even been on the agenda.
When the Norwegians announced that they were giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, we all shook our fists. What right do the Europeans have to give a prestigious award to our President? We quickly loaded both barrels and missed no opportunity to point out that the President of the United States had not done anything to earn such an award.
We never had to worry about peace prizes or even invitations to Europe when Bush was in charge. People were simply more patriotic back then. People had some damn respect for their President, even when we did not always agree with him. Hell, we elected him to office twice.
Now that was patriotism. Sure, vicious minds would circulate emails badmouthing Bush about things he had done, or things he had hopelessly mishandled; little things, like foreign policy or the economy. But at least he did those things.
In the absence of any real accomplishments, the conservatives are left with no choice but to condemn the President on things he might do, or things we fear he will do because of his middle name. It’s hard to run a country like that.
Lastly, about all this talk about health care. We have been hearing about this reform business ever since the guy took office, and I am sure I am not the only one who is downright sick of it.
We never had to worry about health care when George Walker Bush was President. You got sick, you died. Your kids got sick, they died. It was just understood.
Government officials from Australia would fly in for surgery while the rest of us bled to death in the E.R. Now that was a concept that didn’t take a year to wrap your head around. *
By MJS at 12/12/2009 - 10:18
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