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The Spectacle Blog
Andrew Ferguson has reviewed Dinesh D’Souza’s new book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage, in the Weekly Standard. He goes into the many layers of problems with D’Souza’s argument that Obama is motivated purely by some kind of “anti-colonialism.” One insight in Ferguson’s piece is that D’Souza-style suspicions about the presidency are common to the left:
Like Ronald Reagan before him, George W. Bush was reviled for eight years by Democrats driven mad by a sputtering rage-the “most right-wing president in history”!-but it’s only a matter of time until they rediscover him as a mild-mannered figure, the signer of campaign finance reform, funder of African AIDS relief, would-be grantor of amnesty to illegal aliens; an able if sometimes misguided man whose public service stands in stark contrast to whatever revolting Republicans have come after him. The Dubya renaissance will begin the moment President Christie takes his hand off the Bible and begins his Inaugural Address.
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Oldefarte| 10.18.10 @ 1:40PM
W was/is, as stated, a good and decent man and was an able president, although not as fiscally conservative as some of us would have preferred. He had to spend much money on war/military matters understandably, but his seniors' drug legislation was unnecessary and defecit-expensive to taxpayers. In comparison to what we now have to endure, many of us would get upon all fours and kiss the ground if we still had W at 1600. In positivatively wanting to make lemonade out of lemons, I do believe that the liberals' hatred of W brought about the election of El Chosen One, who has [due to his radical extremism] brought about the outrage of the tea party movement and that of taxpayer-voters in general and who will be the singular cause of a gradual and complete overturn of governmental policies and candidates, starting in November!!!!!!!!!!!
Warrior | 10.18.10 @ 6:20PM
You leave off SCHIP, No Child Left Behind, expansion of government (just start with Homeland Security), AIG bailout, UAW savior (face it, they were ready to cave until W advised that he wouldn't let the auto companies go bankrupt), TARP, etc. While I agree with that he was a decent, well meaning man, other than abortion, gay marriage and stell cell research, he was no conservative.
It was the cover that W provided to the moderate republicans to act like liberals that has brought us to the democrat super majorities and ultra left wing presidency. If we allow moderate republicans to continue to blur the differences between the parties then moderate voters are left with no clear choice.