President Bush Has Stood Solid

I get tired of the self-styled, know-it-all writers, both nationally and locally, who declare Presidnent Bush a dumbell and absent of intelligent--now compared to the brilliant intelligence of President-elect Obama.

Its a lot like the critics of Abraham Lincoln in his day. He was fixed on saving the nation from permanent separation, showing great strength of character in the face of terrible conditions and opposition. President Bush declared on the day after 9/11 that the threat of terrorism was worldwide and he would lead the effort to overcome it wherever it may be, including those who harebored terrorists, supplied them, and hid them. He said then that it would not be a quick, short-term effort. Everyone was for it, backing the President. Liberals soon forgot.

Liberals have wanted to classify the 9/11 attack as a mere police action and not a war, thus accusing Mr. Bush of not going after bin Laden directly. They would not have done it. Clinton never did, nor any before him. Jimmy Carter could not get our citizens out of Iran's captivity. He was putty before Iran.

Critics launch attacks at Mr. bush as if they had sat in on national security briefings and new all the facts about a situation, so their wisdom, so--called--is so much better than the President's. The conclusion that Iraq never did have weapons of mass destruction because none were discovered there is one of the most stupid, ill-informed conclusions to come out of this era. All intelligence before Mr. Bush came into office was that they had WMDs; they had used them against Iran earlier.

They were capable of supplying and hiding terrorists, given the attitude of Saddam Hussien and his ignoring of UN resolutions. Thus, the move into Iraq was within Mr. Bush's declaration on September 12, 2001. He has stood on principle.

The liberal left, led by the liberal news media, have developed in this nation a disdain and hatred for President George W. Bush that is ill-founded, based on lies and fiction. Liberal writers, like those of the New York Times, write of Bush's "failed policies" in a blanket sttement, yet can they name any of them?

Here are some that did not fail: 1) Tax cuts stimulated the economy and increased and sustained employment; 2) The war in Iraq was right, the surge worked, and all would have been done much sooner had the liberal faction put the nation ahead of their socialistic and anti-American agenda. I am not afraid to call a spade a spade: many of those liberals and Bush-haters are clearly
unpatriotic, and some are traitors!

In the matter of Mr. Obama's intelligence being so much better than George Bush's, do you wonder about what motivates the news media leaders? On the night of October 31, 2008, on the Charlie Rose program on National Public Television, he and Tom Brokaw were asking each other what they really knew about Obama. About his foreign policy positions and other high-level issues of critical national importance. Neither of them could come up with anything. Both of them admitted they knew very little about lMr. Obama, though they had delighted in embracing and promoting his candidacy throughout the campaign. THEY KNEW NOTHING ABOUT HIM!

Why did they not think of asking for his records of his schooling, his law school teaching, writing, positions, etc.; his associations with political and radical figures in Illinois; his records of birth? Mr. Obama has seen that all those records have been locked up. Why? The next day after Sara Palin was nominated, the media went to work to dig up anything tey could find about her that could be used to dishonor her before the public. They did the same on "Joe, the Plumber" and he was not even running for office! I see great effort for DECEPTION in all of this.

Why does a bank robber pull a silk stocking or ski mask over his head when he goes into the bank? Because it's stylish? Or, maybe his face is cold? No, it's to hide his true identity.

October 31, the night of ghostly things, and Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose, with seemingly little concern, disclosed a very scary thing!

That's my take on things political.

Gene Lawley