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.
According 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 author goes on to note that Harry Truman was even more unpopular at the end of his term than Bush is now – and how Truman has risen in public esteem since that time. As I’ve mentioned before, I will be writing a retrospective on the Bush years some time next month, but I’ll put in right now my opinion that history will be kind to President Bush and rather contemptuous of the left which hated him and those elements of the right which denigrated him. No one likes a hater or a back-stabber and a lot of people have a lot to answer for.
Obama has now said that he, too, wishes to be President of all Americans – and in that wish, he’s got my support. God help us all, Barack Obama is to be my President. Got that, lefties? He’s mine – not just yours; and this makes him ours. Just as President Bush is ours. You can’t opt out of parts of America – its all or nothing: America, love it or leave it.
UPDATE: Some good Bush and Palin gear here.
UPDATE: Confidence about Iraq rises high. Thank you, President Bush and the magnificent men and women of the United States Armed Forces. Obama – you’ve been handed a war which is won. Don’t blow it.
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