Throughout his two terms in the White House President George Bush was unfailingly respectful and civil to his political adversaries, in spite of the most vicious campaigns of personal slander and calumny by the Democrat leadership and the highly organized far left wing that any recent US president has had to endure. We even see this pop up on Goanet from time to time.
Through it all, he kept his focus on his three top priorities, a) keeping the country safe after 9/11, which he did, b) keeping taxes low to revive the economy from the recession he inherited, which he did, c) improving the public educational system by setting standards, which he did, and d) changing the regimes in Iraq and Afghanistan to eliminate what he saw as threats to the national and global security and to give the citizens in those countries a chance to experience freedom and democracy, which he did as well. Most of us take our freedom and democracy for granted, the lack of which our Goans in the Gulf are forced to temporarily cope with for economic reasons - until they retire back in Goa to face challenges of a different kind. President Bush's major failures lay in a) failure to use his veto power to curb wasteful federal spending, b) failure to protect the borders from illegal immigrants towards whom he showed a curious compassion, and c) failure to go beyond warnings to force the Democrats to acknowledge the weakening banking system from years of substandard lending due to government regulations by taking his case directly to the American people. Here we see President Bush continue to show his respect for the Office of President by refusing to criticize his successor, who has been relentlessly blaming the previous administration even for the financial crisis which was created largely by his party, with his help. While Sen. Chris Dodd was the largest recipient of political contributions in the US Legislature from Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and AIG, who were all major players in the build up to the current financial crisis, President Obama was the second largest overall, and the largest recipient per year since being elected to the Senate: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090317/ap_on_re_ca/canada_bush_first_speech Excerpt: Former President George W. Bush says he won't criticize President Barack Obama because Obama "deserves my silence," .... [end of excerpt] Memo to President Bush: You will need a ghost writer to edit your Malapropisms and creative inventions of new words like "strategery" and "misunderestimate". I hereby volunteer because my experience on Goanet enables me to defend you better than you can:-))
