Laura Bush: My Husband's Not A Failure

WASHINGTON — First lady Laura Bush says she disagrees with critics who say her husband's presidency was a failure.

In an interview aired Sunday on Fox News Sunday, Mrs. Bush says she knows her husband's eight years in office was not a failure, and says she doesn't feel as if she needs to respond to people who view it that way.

She says history will judge the two-term presidency of George W. Bush.

Mrs. Bush notes that under her husband's watch, the nation has been kept safe from attack since Sept. 11 and that his administration toppled Saddam Hussein and liberated millions of people in Afghanistan and Iraq from oppressive governments. She also talked of her husband's work to provide treatment for disease to millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa.

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[x2009]

The biggest joke ever.

[x2009]

More likely Laura's been infected by her husband stupidity.

[x2009]

-----Yeah,You're right,Laura.Your husband SUCCESSFULLY DESTROYED your country.

OR

-----CONGRATS USA.You can't have another failure president from now on,'Cause even Bush could be a successful president.

[rabiddog6708]

From NBC's Mark Murray
A "Then and Now" to show what the United States looked like when Bush was entering office and what it looks like now as he's leaving.

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
Then: 4.2% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2001)
Now: 6.7% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 2008)

DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE
Then: 10,587 (close of Friday, Jan. 19, 2001)
Now: 9,015 (close of Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009)

BUSH FAVORABILITY RATING
Then: 50% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 31% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

CHENEY FAVORABILITY RATING
Then: 49% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 21% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

CONGRESS APPROVAL RATING
Then: 48% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 21% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

SATISFIED WITH THE NATION'S DIRECTION
Then: 45% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 26% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

CONSUMER CONFIDENCE (1985=100)
Then: 115.7 (Conference Board, January 2001)
Now: 38.0, which is an all-time low (Conference Board, December 2008)

FAMILIES LIVING IN POVERTY
Then: 6.4 million (Census numbers for 2000)
Now: 7.6 million (Census numbers for 2007 -- most recent numbers available)

AMERICANS WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE
Then: 39.8 million (Census numbers for 2000)
Now: 45.7 million (Census numbers for 2007 -- most recent available)

U.S. BUDGET
Then: +236.2 billion (2000, Congressional Budget Office)
Now: -$1.2 trillion (projected figure for 2009, Congressional Budget Office)

[HolmesMusic]

well, of course. everyone who agrees w/George W Bush sees him as heroic and a great
president. The rest of the world has a few other memories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw9bxJb--3c

[monoxboogie]

Yes he is a failure. End transmission.

[lunchlady]

Have another cocktail and make an appointment with your plastic surgeon- he pulled your face too tight and your brain's starting to swell

[rich misty]

The bottom line is Laura can lie all she wants... It will never change the fact that GW Bush is the worst President in US history, bar none.

[the-lexicon]

All the posters thus far on this thread are COMPLETELY wrong.

Laura Bush is correct. Bush will be judged by history to have been a highly effective, successful president.

...but of course, the devil is in the details...and how you define the word "success".

See...He brought a list of goals with him, and he has accomplished every one. Let's review:

A) Pack the Supreme Court with Right-Wing Federalist Society members....check.

B) Liberate the Oil under Iraq from the oppressive foreign oil companies...check

C) Transfer the balance of the wealth of the nation to the upper tier....check

D) Continue the battle to dismantle unions...check

E) Remove industry regulation...check

F) Disassemble the regulatory apparatus that prevents money from freely flowing across borders...check

G) Secure the rights to water, minerals, oil, logging, on federal lands, to corporate interests...check

H) Continue the work to dismantle New Deal...check

I) Continue the work to privatize government functions...check

J) Continue the "militarization" of the economy...check

K) Increase the general level of global tension, increase the spending on defense/military...check.

by my reckoning...if you view the list under the context of what he was TRYING to accomplish, you have to admit that he was very successful.

Of course, the agenda that the REST of us would consider a "good agenda", is hell and gone from Bush's agenda.

lexicon

[lunchlady]

Sigh, yes you are right. He feels very successful. I keep making the mistake of thinking that Bush and pal must at least sort of see things the way I do- but they don't of course. When will I remember this?

[HolmesMusic]

ha, ha, ha...you win! that's brilliant.

[bobtr900]

No GW is not a failure, he is a disaster.

[instagladiator]

Chris-a-mighty! How many mothers does this dimwit have?

[ptsd6869]

LAURA, LAURA, LAURA-
TALK TO MY WIFE re: COVERING FOR YOUR HUSBAND. FOR YEARS MY WIFE MADE EXCUSES FOR MY OBNOXIOUS BEHAVIOR. NOT UNTIL SHE REACHED THE BREAKING POINT & GOT INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING DID SHE CONFRONT ME WITH TOUGH LOVE. UNTIL THEN I DIDN'T REALIZE I HAD PTSD FROM MY SERVICE IN A SMALL SE ASIA COUNTRY. IT'S TIME FOR TOUGH LOVE LAURA. TELL HIM WHAT AN -HOLE HE'S BEEN & MAKE HIM SEE THE DAMAGE HE'S INFLICTED ON HIS FAMILY (IN GW's CASE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE). COUPLE'S COUNSELING IS ALSO IN ORDER.

[igorz]

Evidently, PTSD makes one incapable of disengaging the caps-lock button. It is there for a reason. Use it.

[ZellaBee]

Methinks GHW must have given her one of his cia brainwashing sessions when she joined the clan.

[instagladiator]

You mean she was waterboarded until she consented to give in?

[lunchlady]

The plastic surgeon must have done a little extra tug that affected her brain. Or maybe they did a lobotomy while she was under.

[carrierobertson]

http://www.pubrecord.org/nationworld/578-media-ignores-cheneys-admission-he-signed-off-on-waterboarding.html

Media Ignores Cheney's Admission He 'Signed Off' on Waterboarding

Author's note: Cheney"s admission during an interview with the Washington Times this week about his role in approving the waterboarding of three Guantanamo detainees and the so-called "enhanced interrogation" of 33 prisoners was, disturbingly, not covered at all by the mainstream media.

Vice President Dick Cheney, in another stunning admission during his campaign to burnish the Bush administration"s legacy, said he personally authorized the "enhanced interrogations" of 33 suspected terrorist detainees and approved the waterboarding of three so-called "high-value" prisoners.

"I signed off on it; others did, as well, too," Cheney said about the waterboarding, a practice of simulated drowning done by strapping a person to a board, covering the face with a cloth and then pouring water over it, a torture technique dating back at least to the Spanish Inquisition. The victim feels as if he is drowning.

[HolmesMusic]

wow. lest we forget http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXxTooNIsBc&feature=channel_page

[richdibo]

Laura, one thing is very clear: you don't know when to apply the brakes.