I Miss W.

Yes! I miss W too!

The purpose of Obama's candidacy?
He's the Coup de grâce, the killing blow for America, prepared and delivered by the Globalists. You think it's bad now? Just wait. All that Hope and 'Change you can believe in'... that was merely laying the foundations for the biggest psychological trauma America has ever known. Obama is the symbol that completes the Spell of Destruction being slowly written across the Nation of the Free. Obama is the catalyst that will set fire to every class and race division tension that has been building for the last 50 years. After Bush, even Republicans loved the idea of what Obama promised. Blacks loved him, Liberals loved him, poor people loved him, the rich thought he was one of theirs and sent money (but love they do not understand)... EVERYONE put their emotional chips on him. And now he is going to disillusion them all, not deliberately or accidentally, but inescapably, because of what he IS, and cannot avoid being. He's going to make America look like a high speed 100 car pileup on a freeway in fog. He's going to bring it all down, in ways that will make everyone hate everyone else, and so badly that killing will be the only way.

If you like Chaos and Destruction and Darkest Despair, Obama is perfect. And he's no accident either - he's been groomed for this all his life. He's 'Change' all right. The only way it could get worse, would be if Yellowstone finally blows before Obama is done changing things.
It's such a clever plan by the Globalists.

There's only one way out of the trap America is falling into. And that's for some last spark of Justice and Constitutional Law, surviving somewhere, somehow in the morass of corruption that is America today, to get it's act together and arrest the entire nest of snakes. Thousands of them, crimes that will fill halls of stacked volumes of charges. Culprits enough to fill all the secret camps and still overflow. War crimes, treason, high financial crimes, corruption, conspiracy, perversions, lies, deceptions, staggering thefts to make Madoff look like a petty pick pocket...

Give me $57,000 and I'll shut down my house for the winter so there will be no leakage. Zero . . .

Send the cheque to my winter residence in Puerto Vallarta.

Miss W? The guy that led us here? Is that like saying your so hungry that you would eat at Arby's?

Shawn said:
EVERYONE put their emotional chips on him.

Not me Shawn.
Knew he was a lightweight from the word go.

shawn - might I suggest that a glass of wine and a sit by the fireside would be of any use? Your conspiracy theory sounds like something out of Dante.

I really don't think that there is a cabal, secret or not, of globalists. Yes, one could call the UN such a cabal but their agenda is not globalist power but more power for each defunct undeveloped state.

I miss Bush as well. He kept the jihadists on the run. Obama has provoked them into resurgence by his massive ego, wherein he feels that all He has to do is 'talk to them' and both they and the oceans will cease to rise and peace will reign over the earth. All due to him, sorry, to Him.

Many things I miss, and some I don't -- but more of the first than the second.

As significant as the article itself is the venue in which it appears. If the NYT-West can print this, can the NY Times itself be far behind? Answer: Yes.

Cheney, speaking at CPAC has just predicted that Obama will be a one-term president, suggesting that he'll be defeated in 2012.

My own view is that Obama won't run in 2012. He'll move on to Greater Things in the Virtual World. He'll move to the UN, the epitome of pure rhetoric and fictional perspectives.

You see, what Obama did in the 2008 election was to present a virtual world to Americans - where, as he said, 'the rise of the oceans would begin to slow and our planet began to heal' and peace would reign over the world'. Gosh. The arrogance of such an assertion is unbelievable. Why is it arrogant? Because the cause of such a momentous change is: Him. And the cause of the morass before Him is: Not-Him.

Americans fell for the epic Hollywood movie of Obama: Hope and Change. But now, they've left the cinema and the Oscar awards and gone back to reality and have realized that Obama's virtual world is a sham and has no relation to reality. Indeed, it is harming the real world.

So, I predict a one-term presidency and Obama the Narcissist moving further and further into the realm of pure fiction.

Wow, oddly, I don't miss the guy who laid the foundations for the present massive increase in state by increasing federal government spending by over 75%. Anyone who misses him is not the least bit serious about smaller government. And ET, it is a myth that he kept jihadis on the run. GWB turned what should have victory in both AfPak and Iraq into a massive resource drain with his stupid, stupid idea to establish democracy in these places. Yaron Brook wisely called it the 'forward strategy to failure'. In the initial Afghan invasion, there were instances where the air force had to get permission from lawyers to okay an air strike! W let Iran and NK go nuclear and continued America's senseless "friendship" with the House of Saud.
A question for both liberals and conservatives: if you liked Bush, why don't you like Obama and vice versa?

cytotoxic - I disagree with your rejection of enabling democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan. I think that policy was and remains, the absolutely correct and necessary policy.

That's because the lack of democracy, which is the political mode that enables and empowers a middle class - is the root cause of Islamic fascism or jihadism. Once you enable the majority of the population to be, economically and politically, middle class, which means to be in control of the govt, then the fundamentalism of fascism disappears.

As for enabling Iran to 'go nuclear' such has to be put in the hands of and only of, Obama.

I agree with your concern about the US's friendship with Saudi Arabia; it too, as a tribal political and economic system, has to move into a democratic mode. I think that the Bush policy was to enable democracy to emerge first in Iraq and diffuse throughout the region.

Obama has stalled that agenda if not deeply harmed it by his denial of the reality of jihadism and Islamic fascism, by his rejection of the war in Iraq and his rejection of helping Iraq to maintain democratic stability, by his refusal to support the dissidents in Iran, by his renaming jihadists as civilian criminals and by his arrogant assumption that all it takes to stop Iran's nuclear agenda is to Talk one on one With Obama.

By the way, Rubio has set out the basic principles of the conservative movement in the US at CPAC:

"Rubio called for across-the-board tax cuts along with a simplification of the tax code and elimination of taxes on capital gains, dividends, interest and death. He voiced his opposition to cap and trade and called for tort reform and “a series of simple changes that would put the consumer in charge of health-care spending in America.”

The former speaker of the Florida State House also vowed to bring terrorists to justice “in a military tribunal in Guantanamo, not a civilian courtroom in Manhattan,” which drew a standing ovation from the crowd.

Rubio saved his best for last, ending with a plea for the preservation of America’s free-enterprise economy and arguing that the Democrats are attempting to increase the government’s role in economy so it more closely resembles the rest of the world.

“Americans chose a free-enterprise system designed to provide equality of opportunity, not compel equality of results …

Now, this is reality. Counter that with the virtual rhetoric of Obama and the Democrats, with their 2 million jobs created and saved, no new taxes all the while planning to raise them and so on.

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is obama really that different?

Funny though... when it's President McDreamy pullin' the trigger...
as opposed to that nasty "Oiljesus Bush-Hitler"... it all smells like
newborn babies & candied unicorns.

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ET, the matter of nuclear Iran is objectively Bush's fault. He let it happen. So did O but Bush had more time and all the political capital he needed to end states that support terror. The establishment of democracy has not led to a middle class but rather the other way around. In countries with per capita income less than 3k USD, democracy increases violence and instability. Giving our enemies a vote is worse than pointless-see Palestinian elections, 2006.
This article explains it very well, as do others from ARC http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=24235&news_iv_ctrl=1063

One particularly good paragraph:

If Afghanistan now seems unwinnable, blame Bush and Obama. Bush crusaded not to destroy the Taliban but to bring Afghans elections and reconstruction. Obama’s “new” tack is to insist we spend billions more on nation-building and bend over backwards to safeguard the local population. Both take for granted the allegedly moral imperative of putting the lives and welfare of Afghans first--ahead of defeating the enemy to protect Americans.

I miss W as well, and it's no wonder business is in major trouble in the US of Eh. In Canada we operate the same. Our county went to replace a bridge over a creek that you can step across. We had to do a navigable waters study for the coast guard, a fish study for the feds, a fish study for the province, a archeological study, and a palentology study. Thats before we could start work. This doesn't even include the engineering rules, workplace rules, labor rules, traffic control rules, wiping your butt rules (you get my point. It's no wonder the chinese are wiping out North American business.

Same story Murray; tried to install a creek crossing and it got to the point where I looked at the snivelling servant of the Alberta Environment dept. and said "if a child was being raped on the hillside above the creek, and you were there and saw a chunk of dirt fall off one of my machines on to a fishes head, you would dive in to save the fish" That riled the little dweeb to the point of shutting down the operation.

Topping the list of things I miss about dubya: Class.

Cyto

Many that supported W are critical of him on a number of issues, immigration and increasing the size of government to name a couple big ones. That said, I for one approve of his overall performance and disagree with you that he and his successor are the same.

Also, any perceived failure in Iraq and Afghanistan IMO has been the failure of the international community. Had so called friends and interested parties contributed to the effort in a meaningful way instead of leaving the worlds mutual security to a few, we likely could have wipe this scourge off the planet by now. Job one for dubya was keeping America safe, and the rest is philanthropy plain and simple; job done! What people miss about W is they don’t FEEL as secure today as they did in 2008. Time will tell if these feelings are warranted or not.

Bl@ckbird

You have oversimplified the issue to the point where your POV can't be take seriously.

I do not miss bush - either one - they are symptomatic of what is wrong with the POTUS nomination proces. Both ran for POTUS with no philosophical convictions and no policy objectives they wanted to achieve.

"i miss w" sentiments are wrong-headed and jeoparize the opportunity to make meaningful and necessary changes to the GOP.

I agree Indiana. Obama thinks adoration is class. I don't miss some of GW's policies but they weren't any worse than the new ones. GW had what I perceived as a calm respect for other people. He never put on airs or pretended to be something he wasn't. bambam's whole existence is an uncertainty. GW was asked one time why he met with so many families of soldiers lost. His reply was 'I sent them there.'

Fascinating...the Bush apologists are basically making a list of non-substantive "attitudes/styles" as his pros, and then diss Obama on the grounds that he's all style and no substance. I can see why conservatism is dying and deserves to. "Hey, Bush ramped up spending until our country faster than LBJ and FUBAR'd 2 wars, but he said some tough-sounding stuff that appeals to me, so it's okay".
America's government does not need the "international community" to win wars, they just need the moral clarity to see that their only imperative is to maintain American security. Bush did not have moral clarity. Or brains for that matter; he really was as stupid as he was portrayed to be.

cytotoxic - you have a lot of opinions. Problem is, they are just your personal opinions. No evidence, no substantiation, no argument.

Obama isn't 'all style and no substance'. His substance is real; he's a pathological narcissist. That's real. And it affects everything he does, including his insistence that IF he says something, THEN, that becomes reality.

He's also embedded within a far left radical socialism. That's real and the agenda of this gang to insert statism into the US is what the conservative movement, which is very strong now in the US, is fighting against. You should check out the Rasmussen polls for an analysis of conservativism and its strength in the US.

Might I suggest that instead of opinions without substantiation, you provide some evidence? After all, rants aren't an argument.

I am tired of hearing that Bush caused the world wide recession. The sub prime mortgage market was created from laws enacted by Clinton.

Obama did not inherit this mess from Bush, he got it from a Democratic led congress elected in 2006.

Congress prevented Bush from reining in Fannie and Freddie. And Obama has done nothing to prevent the problem from getting worse.

Don't "argue with fools" mark. As I said above, Bl@ckbird comments can't be taken seriously.

Cyto said regarding GWB: "Or brains for that matter; he really was as stupid as he was portrayed to be.'

I guess that makes you a 4TH year education student as well...eh?

That's 'the facts' mark.
I recently had a short discussion with a gentleman who claimed simply 'Obama is way better than Bush'.
I simply asked: Have you heard of Pelosi, Reid and Barney Frank?
When he said no, I suggested we could carry on the discussion of American politics after he educates himself.

"I am tired of hearing that Bush caused the world wide recession. The sub prime mortgage market was created from laws enacted by Clinton.

Obama did not inherit this mess from Bush, he got it from a Democratic led congress elected in 2006."

How pathetic. I thought conservatives were big on personal responsibiity. But according to you guys Bush was responsible for nothing that happened in his 8 year presidency.

Take your head outta your nether regions, dudes. The general public knows the truth: that Bush owns the financial meltdown as he owns 9-11. That's why he left office as the most hated president in US history. Remember?

I mean: it's all Clinton's fault? Pathetic! While you're at it why not blame LBJ or FDR....Jeez...

mouth...tell us what you know about Pelosi, Reid and Barney Frank.

The sub prime mortgage market was created from laws enacted by Clinton. Period! Although, Bush did not clean it up when he had the chance before he lost the Congress.

murray @ 2:20 and bartinsky @ 2:30, ditto in Saskatchewan. Bloody make work bureaucrats. If a culvert through a road collapses and it is in any potential waterway, we have to call in Oceans and Fisheries before we repair it. D*m, who mislaid the phone again.

mouth - did you know you are using a fallacious argument? The 'ad populum' tactic of trying to tell us that 'the general public' supports your personal opinion - is a fallacious tactic. You have to speak only for yourself.

Now, could you explain how Bush 'owns 9/11'? Since I'm assuming that you aren't saying that he caused it, which would be an inane comment, then, what do you mean?
Certainly, Bush kept America safe since then, something that Obama has failed to do.

As for the financial situation, do you know who set up the mortgage situation? Clinton. And do you know who controlled Congress in 2006? The Democrats.

Now, without insults and without fallacious tactics, try again.

Ken: the primordial roots of the debt crisis began in the carter sdministration when ACORN including a community activist named Barry Obama lobbied the dems to order banks to lend to high risk customers. They accused banks of "redlining" neighbourhoods as being high risk and not lending to anyone living there.

Cytotoxic at 2:58 PM

Bush's IQ is about 132, and yours is?????

as to the financial melt down, it has it's roots rite back to the depression, Fannie May was born of the depression, and subsequent liberals efforts have pushed this leftist agenda along to the extreme, and this agenda is still alive today!!

Bush did two things, he never stepped into curtail this mess earlier on in his terms, and he took the word of liberals (barny frank) as truthful

I missed W. before he left the Whitehouse - thank you for pointing out that W, had a demo congress in his last 4 years, Mark.

Shawn: I take what you have said very seriously because I happen to think that you are absolutely correct about Mr. 0. I hope with all my heart that you are wrong (I am certain that you do too!) but I fear that you are not wrong. All a person has to do to make your assessment credible is listen to the tapes Mr. Monckton made prior to and after the 'Hopin Hag an' meeting of the Global elitists all smacking their chops as they led the citizens of their nations to the chopping block. Our Prime Minister, BTW, was booed and shunned for his lack of substance to support the 'settled science' and for his non- committal. Mr. V. Klaus of the Czech Republic, was so against the temperature 'alarmist-fest' didn't show up!

The route the USA is heading down is very similar to that of pre WWII Germany. And, like you Shawn, I see the President pushing the people over the brink with his fanaticism and his spending. Why else would he be doing what he is doing?

Bush was every bit the far-lefter O is. Remember TARP and other massive government expansions? And this stuff about him being saddled with a Dem congress since 2006? Boo-hoo! Cry me a river. Maybe if they hadn't done such a terrible job prior to that election they wouldn't have gotten thrown out. Conservatives only hate big government when it's the other guys building it. I wish Kerry had won.