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Former President George W. Bush's greatest sin: Obamacare.

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December 22, 2009 – Comments (14) | RELATED TICKERS: USA

If President Bush’s eight years in office facilitated the rise of Barack Obama to become president, then former President Bush must take partial credit (or blame) for Obamacare.

 

For those who did not like G.W. Bush’s presidency but support Obamacare, this must give them pause.

 

For those who enjoyed the benefits of G.W. Bush’s presidency but realize the implications of Obamacare, this must give them pause.

 

So Presidents Bush and Obama have fulfilled their election promises in uniting the country in a state of “Pause”.

 

I suspect that President Bush’s greatest failure will not be the bubble economy which he supported, but the promotion of “Change we Can Believe in”, which we now understand to be Obamacare.

 

Hope you have a nice holiday season.  Reflect on what is still good in this world and that adversity has led to great accomplishments.

 

I suspect that 2010 will be an interesting year.

 

God help up.

14 Comments – Post Your Own

#1) On December 22, 2009 at 3:20 PM, blake303 (29.99) wrote:

I suspect that the invasion of Iraq was Bush's greatest sin

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#2) On December 22, 2009 at 3:27 PM, uclayoda87 (29.97) wrote:

More people will die or be injured due to Obamacare than in the Irag war, when the full effect of these changes have taken effect.  Unfortunately, these casualties will all be on our side.

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#3) On December 22, 2009 at 3:32 PM, ease1 (67.27) wrote:

No, I disagree.  His greatest sin was bowing down to Democats, and being a fiscal socilaist.  Iraq was bad and yes it's costing tons, including the lives of our brothers and sisters, but not his worst sin I don't think.  Opening the door to socialism and to BO, through fiscal policies, uhhh, the worst.

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#4) On December 22, 2009 at 3:33 PM, RainierMan (95.87) wrote:

To give Bush credit for Obama's Presidency is a huge oversimplification.

As for Bush: 

I agree with Blake: the idiocy of going to war in Iraq was a pretty big blunder.

Ditto ignoring Afghanistan for years leaving us in a potential no-win there. 

Falling asleep at the wheel for 8 years while the financial crisis was brewing was pretty bad.

Oh, moving the country back toward major deficits  when they were headed down under Clinton was inexcusable.

I guess that's enough for now.

 

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#5) On December 22, 2009 at 3:35 PM, IBDvalueinvestin (99.50) wrote:

Obama gives in to HMO's

http://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-should-say-no-to-healthcare-reform-2009-12

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#6) On December 22, 2009 at 3:35 PM, russiangambit (29.95) wrote:

> I suspect that President Bush’s greatest failure will not be the bubble economy which he supported, but the promotion of “Change we Can Believe in”, which we now understand to be Obamacare.

Talk about politically slanted. What about two unprovoked wars?The cost of wars, not only economic but also human, moral, goodwill costs are never immediately known. They manfiest themselves over 20 years or so. I would say it is very likely  that it is those two wars that really sent the US economy into tailspin when you peel back all the layers. 

If everybody started wars over terrorists acitivities this world would've been a complete chaos. But I guess US is allowed to do what nobody else is allowed to do. It is a gross misuse of the superpower status.

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#7) On December 22, 2009 at 3:36 PM, wrongdog (81.70) wrote:

blah, blah...1000x more people will die from obesity than all of the rest of this b.s. combined. if a politician wanted to make a real impact, they would address food policy.

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#8) On December 22, 2009 at 5:09 PM, selfdestruct2 (59.03) wrote:

Food policy ? Government should have zero control over "food policy". Government should be limited to destroying the economy and crushing perfectly fine automobiles... and taking your money to give to wealthy bankers...and trying to trick Americans into thinking that we are ruining our planet...and, above all else, getting re-elected.   Ya, we're screwed.  Merry Christmas

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#9) On December 22, 2009 at 5:28 PM, grube397 (43.66) wrote:

From reading these comments about Bush and Obama,I can only assume that you are all blind to the truth.Stop listening to talk radio and think for yourself.....Pleas. If you must spew, spew the real truth.That will require that you know the truth ,so seek it.

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#10) On December 22, 2009 at 5:35 PM, miteycasey (99.89) wrote:

How about FDR for starting Social Security?

Or Truman, JFK, LBJ for Medicare?

 

The blame can go where ever you want.

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#11) On December 22, 2009 at 9:40 PM, uclayoda87 (29.97) wrote:

grube397

Where do you seek the real truth?  The media?  The internet?  NPR?

If you mean truth like the in the Bible, I've read it.  There is nothing about Obamacare there, although the Old Testament does have a long history of wars and destruction, when the society turned away from God.

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#12) On December 22, 2009 at 10:13 PM, uclayoda87 (29.97) wrote:

russiangambit

Russian history is not exactly free of wars and aggression. For all the complaints of the Afghan and Iraq wars, if the purpose was to prevent another attack on US soil, it has been successful so far.  As for the morals of war, is it any better to declare war on your own people than on another country?  We have too many examples of this in the last 100 years and the results have been just as gruesome as any conventional war.

We are very early on in this transition to Obama's America.  Eliminating the old people who are owed Social Security and Medicare money is on par with nuking China because they own our debt.

The Jews found out the consequences of being passive in the face of Nazi terrorists, would you have us follow their example?

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#13) On December 22, 2009 at 10:43 PM, russiangambit (29.95) wrote:

>Russian history is not exactly free of wars and aggression. For all the complaints of the Afghan and Iraq wars, if the purpose was to prevent another attack on US soil, it has been successful so far.  As for the morals of war, is it any better to declare war on your own people than on another country?  We have too many examples of this in the last 100 years and the results have been just as gruesome as any conventional war.

For this exact reason russians have much better understanding of wars, up close and personal understanding. If you get 10% population wiped in a war, the memory leaves for a very long time.  

As for preventing attacks on the US soil - what army was going to attack the US? You mean terrorist attacks, right?  War is not answer to terrorism as Israelies learned over and over again.

I know I am not going to convince you. To understand certain things one has to experience them first. I am just saying, any kind of war ends up being evil whatever the initial reason for it is.

 

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#14) On December 23, 2009 at 12:32 AM, RainierMan (95.87) wrote:

For all the complaints of the Afghan and Iraq wars, if the purpose was to prevent another attack on US soil, it has been successful so far.

Afghanistan was a war on a government that harbored Bin Laden; a necessary war. Too bad Bush gave it a back seat to Iraq which was related to 9/11...oh, wait, Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11 even though THAT was the priority.

More people will die or be injured due to Obamacare than in the Irag war, when the full effect of these changes have taken effect.  Unfortunately, these casualties will all be on our side.

I'll bet it's kinda fun to just make stuff up and throw it out there, mistakingly thinking that everybody buys it. 

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