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The National Geographic channel ran a program tonight remembering 9-11.\u00a0 There were extensive interviews with George W. Bush, along with videos of his public appearances.\u00a0 It was a stunning reminder of how well Bush handled this.\u00a0 At one point Bush visited ground zero.\u00a0 He talked about how he planned on shaking the hand of every man working there, looking him in the eye and thanking him for his service.\u00a0 This was followed by his off the cuff speech from the top of a ruined fire truck when he said: \u00a0\u201cI can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>That, my friends is what a President sounds like.<\/p>\n

What a contrast with the pathetic speech by Barack Obama Tuesday night.\u00a0 Where did we go so wrong?<\/strong>\u00a0 Where did we forget what it was like to have a real President and why that matters?\u00a0 Where did we forget that honesty, integrity and leadership in a President of the United States should never be taken for granted?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We allowed the liberal media to destroy Bush, by failing to challenge them when they started lying about nearly everything.\u00a0 We allowed people to accuse Bush of lying about the intelligence regarding WMD in Iraq when the hard cold documented facts prove the opposite was true.\u00a0 Even today we allow people to ignore that fact that not only did George W. Bush had strong bi-partisan support for both the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, it was Democrats who were the loudest voices urging him on.\u00a0 Even today we allow na\u00efve fools to pretend that we gained nothing from removing the Taliban from power in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. Those assumptions are absurd.\u00a0 If you think things are bad now, just imagine having to deal with someone like Assad if the Taliban were still in control of Afghanistan providing a safe haven for al Qaeda.\u00a0 Just imagine trying to deal with Assad if Saddam Hussein was still in power in Iraq, with everyone still convinced that he also had large stock piles of WMD.\u00a0 Now add in the real potential that Saddam Hussein would have his coveted nuclear weapon.\u00a0 Explain exactly how Barack Obama, or any other President, could possible deal with that.\u00a0 Obama couldn\u2019t generate the guts to launch a couple of cruise missiles against Syria who is ill equipped to fight back.\u00a0 Explain, once again, how Bush got it all so wrong and why we would be so much better off if he hadn\u2019t cleaned out at least some of the trash.<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re done with that explain why George Bush is responsible for the deregulation of the financial markets that was signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1998.\u00a0 Explain why Bush is responsible for the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, when these organizations exploded in size under the leadership of Bill Clinton.\u00a0 Did you miss the part where Bush was begging congress to give him the power to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, warning congress that failure to act could bring down our economy?\u00a0 Did you forget that we had the quickest recovery from a recession in our nation\u2019s history, in spite of 9-11, under the leadership of George Bush.\u00a0\u00a0Did you notice that we had sustained dynamic job growth up until the end of 2007?\u00a0\u00a0If it was all Bush\u2019s fault, as Obama claimed, how did that happen?<\/p>\n

The economy started to sour in January of 2007.\u00a0 \u00a0So what happened in January 2007?\u00a0 Did George W. Bush change?\u00a0 NO!\u00a0 Did he change his economic policy?\u00a0 NO!\u00a0 What changed was that Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the House and Harry Reid became Majority Leader of the Senate.\u00a0 Both came into office determined to force Bush to surrender in Iraq and to\u00a0end the Bush tax cuts that were fueling our economic growth.\u00a0 They were determined to change things.\u00a0 They did.\u00a0 They made everything worse.\u00a0 When we stupidly elected\u00a0Barack Obama to be\u00a0President our current economic mess became inevitable.<\/p>\n

This program was a wake up-call.\u00a0 It was a reminder that George W. Bush was a real class act and that if we do not honor such men we end up with someone like Barack Obama<\/strong>.\u00a0 The simple truth is that Barack Obama is not worthy to be mentioned in the same sentence as George W. Bush. \u00a0In a little over four years we went from a President who was the most respected and feared leader in the world to a President who is rapidly becoming an international joke.<\/p>\n

It is time we remembered that once we had a real leader and it is long past time we started the search for another one.<\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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