There can be no doubt, President Bush was committed to freedom. Whether you like him or not, you can’t argue that.
In this video, you can clearly see the difference between President Bush and Barack Hussein Obama.
The Freedom Collection is a central feature of the Human Freedom initiative at the George W. Bush Institute. It is an active, living archive that documents the struggle for democracy and human freedom around the world through the personal stories of men and women who have led or participated in freedom movements. Using video interviews, artifacts, collected papers, and other materials, the Freedom Collection strives to inspire and provide insight to the current generations of freedom advocates, expanding access to information and successful strategies for change. It also reinforces for Americans and others living in free societies the moral and practical importance of supporting pro-democracy movements, remaining actively engaged in the world, and safeguarding our own foundations of liberty. The Freedom Collection can be accessed online through an interactive website beginning March 28, 2012.
Remember back in 2008 when gas prices soared under President Bush? It was “Bush’s fault.” Nevermind the Democrat controlled congress that made policy and controlled the purse strings, it was still Bush’s fault.
The Propaganda Ministry which some still refer to as the media were willing accomplices in that Democrat campaign strategy.
You heard personal stories by the willing useful idiots propagandized by the media. Steve couldn’t afford gas to get to work and was subsequently terminated, and to make matters worse, because he was terminated, he did not qualify for a handout. Poor Steve. Now what?
Then there was Rhonda, a poor single mom in tears because she couldn’t afford gas to get to work to make money to feed her children. Those poor kids. She may have had to put them up for adoption because of that. You don’t hear any of those sob stories now, do you?
In fact, there were four times as many stories about high gas prices when Bush was in office as there are today in spite of the fact that gas prices have risen over 100% since Barack Obama seized power.
There are still some leftists that are blaming the high gas prices on Bush, even in the 4th year of Obama’s presidency. And/or, they blame the high prices on everything but Obama, when in fact it is all Obama.
His EPA is considering clamping down on North Dakota’s oil industry, he cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline, imposed a moratorium on offshore drilling, refuses to issue drilling permits for ANWR and other parts of Alaska as well as the rest of the United States. And is refusing shale oil permits as well.
So when you put those roadblocks up, how is that Bush or the Republicans fault? How is that not Barack Obama’s fault? And, instead of issuing permits we get a speech about pond scum. Does that make even the least bit of sense to anybody? Yet the so-called media is silent. They would have mocked President Bush endlessly about the pond scum idiocy, yet say nothing now.
Remember how the Democrats and their media allies mocked and ridiculed the Republican initiative (and bills) of “Drill Baby, Drill”? The Democrat controlled House and Senate shot every one of those initiatives down, mocking them and proclaiming they were ridiculous because it would take three to five years to see any type of relief.
Well… had we drilled baby, drilled back then, we wouldn’t be seeing and experiencing these prices at the pump now, would we? But hey! There’s always pond scum!
Well this is a no brainer. Americans rate Ronald Reagan as the best president over the last 45 years. That’s not even arguable, he was. And is probably one of the top 3 presidents ever.
As for Barack Obama, not really all that great. We all know that he is worse than Jimmy Carter and history will probably judge him as one of the top 3 worst presidents of all time.
George Dubbya Bush’s positives are rising as they should. And Bill Clinton, he’s at the number two slot. Is it Clinton? Or was it Speaker Gingrich pushing Clinton to do what the Republican majority wanted? Probably a combination of both.
PRINCETON, NJ — Americans believe history will judge Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton as the best among recent U.S. presidents, with at least 6 in 10 saying each will go down in history as an above-average or outstanding president. Only about 1 in 10 say each will be remembered as below average or poor. Three years into Barack Obama’s presidency, Americans are divided in their views of how he will be regarded, with 38% guessing he will be remembered as above average or outstanding and 35% as below average or poor.
Americans generally regard Reagan and Clinton as the best presidents in recent memory, back through the Nixon administration. Their positive ratings could be tied to the fact that both were in office during strong economic times. Of the remaining presidents, only George H.W. Bush is rated much more positively than negatively, perhaps because of his strong record on foreign policy.
Views of Bush have improved about equally among Democrats, Republicans, and independents, suggesting that the passage of time may be helping Americans see him in a slightly less negative light.
Tonight, President Barack Obama will deliver his third State of the Union Address–and his sixth address to a joint session of Congress. That’s more than either President Bush or President Clinton had addressed in any single term.
Despite his purported skill as an orator, none of Obama’s addresses to Congress has been particularly successful. They are typically remembered more for the rancor they caused than for any positive effects.
Obama is expected to make his inequality the focus of his address. That’s an important campaign theme, as well as a refrain of the Occupy Wall Street movement….
