Comments on: GWB Gives His Final Presidential Press Conference

By: Trent Sucks

Trent Sucks — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:36:07 +0000

First of all the gov does not owe those people anything and its just stupid to blame the gov for their shortcomming. I also think it is stupid that you support Obama. The worst thing that ever happend to this country!!!!!!!!

Peace!

By: Denise

Denise — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:02:19 +0000

I live in New Orleans and was here for Hurricane Katrina, and I can say firsthand that it was the local and state government that was incompetent, not the Bush administration.

By: gretchen

gretchen — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:56:31 +0000

this is exactly why I rarely read this blog anymore!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:33:19 +0000

I’d like to be proud to be an American again. I’m looking forward to being led by someone who respects our Constitution, our laws, and our tradition of nonpreemptive war. Best of luck to Obama trying to undo the disaster Bush has made of so many things on so many fronts. W, don’t let the door hit you on your delusional butt on the way out!

By: SquareHead

SquareHead — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:41:04 +0000

*Note to self*

I MUST stop reading Trents political posts (and the comments that follow). It’s the reason I’ve boycotted his blog for 2 months. I just started getting my feet wet again because I do enjoy reading and missed his CELEBRITY posts.

By: Cinnamon

Cinnamon — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:01:56 +0000

*oops*

I agree we _can’t_ blame him for all the ills.

By: Cinnamon

Cinnamon — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:01:07 +0000

I agree we can blame him for all the ills. But it’s worth taking a look at the person. This is an analysis of him that was sad and eye opening:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/b.....-violence/

By: jadedsweetie

jadedsweetie — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:31:45 +0000

I read some of the comments, and I don’t know where you went in Europe where they actually liked Bush, but in Paris, Vienna and parts of Germany they applauded the fact there was a chance to elect Obama and that Bush was on his way out. Admitting his mistakes and disappointments came way too late. Its nice that he semi-acknowledged his shortcomings, but it will never make up for the complete disaster that was his administration.

By: Paz

Paz — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:26:18 +0000

i forgot to mention re: keeping the country safe – his presidency did not start after Sept. 11, 2001.

By: tatiana

tatiana — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:55:04 +0000

Here Here! ITA TRENT!

By: Paz

Paz — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:44:10 +0000

Here, here, Lauren.
Yes GWB is only one man, but he is a man with a lot of power, and with that comes heavy responsibility. Everything re: economy is a foreign language to me, so I don’t dump the blame on him for that, but leading a war under false pretenses and the lack of response to Hurricane Katrina are unforgivable.
I don’t understand the praise that he kept the country safe. Tell that to the many Muslim-Americans who have had to live in fear and have had their civil liberties violated in the name of “security.” We are supposedly the banner of democracy yet he stole the 2000 election and had illegal wiretapping and torture.
It’s not just Bush — it’s his whole administration. Rumsfeld, Gonzalez, Ashcroft, Cheney, Scooter Libby (who just took the fall for many)… Obama is no miracle worker, but he seems intelligent, has a moral backbone, and is aware that we have a Constitution.

By: Irma

Irma — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:32:12 +0000

Even though I’m a Democrat and have been since I was able to understand the differences between both parties (since I was 10 actually, I’m 18 now), I sympathize with Bush. I mean, I don’t think he really asked for 9/11 to happen, despite everyone’s weird ass theories. The attack screwed up his entire plan because suddenly everything that happened was tangled in with Operation Saving Freedom. I think Bush would have been a more well liked presidency had he not had the misfortune of being in office during the worst terrorist attack in our nation’s history. And some of you need to read up on your American history before declaring him the worst. There have been some real fuck ups in our past (most notably in the mid to late 1800s).

By: Emm

Emm — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:59:08 +0000

Damn. All i am going to say is, Bye bye Bush, you shall be missed…not.

By: It's Trent, Bitch!

It's Trent, Bitch! — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:35:11 +0000

@H – a single person was posting multiple posts, some inflamatory, under different names … they were weeded out by the spam filter and I had them deleted. People are free to post comments but cannot flood posts with multiple posts and cannot refer to others as “fuckers”

By: H

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:29:54 +0000

posts were deleted?

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:23:32 +0000

I hate Bush with the greatest passion. And I now hate him EVEN MORE now that he can’t admit his enormous shortcomings as president. See ya Bush-no one is sorry to see you go.

By: H

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:17:39 +0000

Oh aso, if the economy is Bushs’ fault then why are many other countries in the world also struggling? He certainly can’t be blamed for all their mistakes too.

By: H

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:07:46 +0000

Bush has made a lot of mistakes but the economy is not one of them. One of the biggest reasons for the recession is that the banks gave out loans/mortgages to too many people that would not be able to follow through and pay them back. Becasue these people could not pay the mortgages they lost their homes and the banks lost the money. The banks felt like they deserved that money (even though they chose to take the risky sub prime mortgages) and the houses (both democrat run) gave them money. Has this money helped…no. Wouldn’t the money be better off put into the economy…yes. None of this was instigated by Bush.

And in general democrats are the ones that spend government money and republicans are the ones that are thrifty (why I consider myself socially liberal and monetarily conservative). Obama has no plans that will help the economy all he wants to do is increase the deficit on all his
“great” new plans. He said as much in the debates. People need to learn more about their party.

By: RBM

RBM — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:41:56 +0000

Amen, JNo. The President is only one man, and I have seen firsthand that it is, without a doubt, the most difficult job in the world. The office deserves our respect no matter its occupant.

It’s time we focus on the positive and learn from the negative, but more importantly, that every American feels a responsibility for the direction of this country.

By: lauren

lauren — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:35:20 +0000

* christine… those are FACTS. Granted, as Stephen Colbert put it, “Reality has a distinct left-wing bias.” Sorry bout that. What don’t YOU do some research instead of dismissing reality?

* JNo: point well taken, and I agree. (I do community service, give money to causes I care about, and volunteer for political campaigns every election cycle. So I feel pretty justified in complaining about Bush f*cking things up, especially the things that I actively work to improve.)

* OK I’m peacing out, I hate it when people take over the comments section in personal arguments….

By: JNo

JNo — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:11:28 +0000

Lauren – first, I wasn’t asking Trent what he has done (he has done a lot to help fight discrimination actually), I was posing that question to everyone. Second, the country was a better place when EVERYONE believed that it was their job to help make the country better, rather than believing it was only 1 person’s job. If every citizen would put forth some effort to better the country, rather than waiting on someone else to and complaining about it, I think everyone would be surprised at how much better we would all be.

By: christine

christine — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:02:50 +0000

mo, again i agree
lauren-why don’t you do your own research instead of spewing what CNN and MSNBC and all your other left-wing media outlets feed you

By: lauren

lauren — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:47:25 +0000

haha to JNo… it doesn’t matter what Trent has done to improve the world. This guy is the PRESIDENT, it’s his freaking JOB to do that, and instead he’s screwed it all up…

MO: how about…. allowing illegal & secret wiretapping on innocent citizens, starting a war for false pretenses that has killed hundreds of thousands of civilians and for which we’re still paying $10 billion per month, taken environmental protection back 30 years, made the whole world hate us by dropping out of Kyoto & Antiballistic Missile & Ozone Protection treaties, totally dropped the ball on Katrina and still hasn’t rebuilt the city, ignored warnings about Osama Bin Laden before 9/11, appointed the free-market economists who oversaw the collapse of the financial system, took his eye off the ball in Aghanistan and now terrorists are running amok there, allowed our military to become dangerously overstretched, turned a huge budget surplus into a huge budget deficit, doubled our trade deficit, allowed energy company CEOs to write national energy/environmental pollicies, imprisoned people in Gitmo without every charging them of a crime, creating major tax cuts for the top 0.1% of the country while the rest of us got a measly $300…..

Shall I continue?

Hey Bushy, don’t let the door hit you in the @ss on the way out!

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:54:57 +0000

I live in Mississippi–and the Hurricane Katrina thing actually hits home for me. My brother in law that lived on the MS Gulf Coast lost EVERYTHING they had–their home, family possessions, everything. Look at the MS Gulf Coast today, it’s not completely recovered but it’s a hell of a lot better than Louisiana. The government of LA failed its citizens more than G-Dub. Trust me, those idiots in the LA governor’s office couldn’t find their asses with a map and a flashlight.

I’m not a huge fan of GDub, but people who live on the other side of the country need to put up or shut up. What did ya’ll do except watch the news and condemn? I’m getting sick of armchair corresponders who don’t know what you’re talking about.

By: las

las — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:41:32 +0000

I cannot wait for inauguration day! President elect Obama gives me great hope for the future!