Posted by
RepublicanEvangelist on Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:38:36 PM
I come to you tonight from the belly of the beast of Obamaland, Chicago. My father and I were talking about Greenspan before congress being blamed for everything and GW Bush. Everyone loved Greenspan when he was called Maestro by Bob Woodward when he was able to keep the economy in an extended growth period with little or no inflation. What have you done for me lately? Which brings me to President George W. Bush. He has been under constant attack from the left since the very close 2000 election. Would anyone have predicted after 9/11 that we would have gone over 7 years without an attack on our soil? Sure we had many problems in Iraq but no one has answered the following question: would it have been better to have waited to remove Saddam until after he HAD nuclear weapons? No one disputes that he way TRYING to get them. It would have been a matter of time before he acquired them either through Pakistan or North Korea or through his own development. The reason we are forced to play negotiation games with North Korea is because they HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS ALREADY. Once they have them, it is too late. I don't fault George Bush for removing Saddam before he got them. You can fault him on his loyalty to Rumsfeld and not adopting a surge strategy sooner. Which brings me to another point. Let's just say in a hypothetical universe that we had not fought in Iraq and only focussed on Afghanistan. I would bet everything I own, Barack and the Democrats and Daily Kos would be screaming about that war. They only love Afghanistan because we are fighting in Iraq. This brings me to the point of the title of this post. George W. Bush is a great man. Great men make decisions and live by them. Sometimes they turn out well. Sometimes they don't. That is what great men do. Barack Obama voted present 132 times. He has never shown any time any courage in decision making. He certainly never went against his party. Even his "decision" to oppose the Iraq war took no courage considering the neighborhood he was representing. It reminds me of a joke they used to tell during the cold war days. An American tells a Soviet citizen that he as an American can criticize the President any time he wants. The Soviet citizen says "same here. I can criticize the American President any time I want." Courage is a trait of great men. Barack has not shown us anything that has any courage or will be a great man and greatness is required of our President, particularly in these times.