There are people who still like him?

That was my question exactly.

I refuse to believe that anyone still likes him.

Fairly conservative, libertarian guy here. I like McCain, and voted for him. I think Obama's an overhyped celebrity who doesn't respect the Constitutional limits on Presidential power, and who'll lead us further down the shithole of federalization. I think he's derailed the _real_ "change" that we were quietly moving towards, in the form of Supreme Court justices who were finally standing up to federal power after a century of obediently finding justification for Presidential excesses.

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And even _I'm_ thrilled we're finally getting rid of Bush. Ding-dong, the witch is dead.

your remark is so contradictory it's insane. putin is probably even more democratic than bush in terms of limits of presidential power. bush will be forgotten for everything except his utter stupidity and his determined attempts to destroy every single element of our fragile democracy to suit his single-party overlords

what part of "free market" is bailing out the fcuking banks! now (and again and again, from reagan and bush sr) we have fewer more monopolized banks

the only thing that didn't piss me off about your post was your really cool icon and the fact you still manage to hate bush even though you don't see obama as the resolution of it all

mccain even voted against MLK day!

and sorry if this sounded like a personal attack, it's not. i just am amazed at how vitriolic the anti-obama camp is when he's not even sworn in yet! this after 8 years of bush destruction of the world! even a cardboard box would be a better CEO of america

As far as I'm concerned, out of the huge list of terrible things Bush did in office, one of the worst was the way he took a hundred years of federalization and misused executive privilege to pull that power into the office of the President. The result is more power in the President's hands than at any previous point in our history, and that's extremely dangerous.

At the moment, the best hedge we have against Presidential excesses is the Supreme Court which, again, has finally grown some balls and started standing up to our Presidents.

Obama's a big-government Democrat who sees the federal government as the answer to our social ills. He isn't likely to appoint Supreme Court justices who believe in obstructing Presidential power.

I don't see what's contradictory here. Bush was a despicable wannabe-emperor who didn't respect the Constitutional limits on his power. Obama's a well-meaning (if misguided, IMO) reformer who doesn't respect the Constitutional limits on his power. McCain's a more traditional Republican who wanted a larger federal government than I'm comfortable with, but who's spent his whole career advocating originalist Supreme Court justices. I hate Bush, am uncomfortable with Obama, and kinda like McCain. My biggest issue is preserving the mechanisms by which the Constitution safeguards our freedom (in this case, the separation of powers and states' rights), and I think I'm drawing some pretty consistent conclusions from that. :)

i'm sure nobody predicted how the bush regime would turn out, much less that 911 would come out under his watch, or even if cheney himself orchestrated that.

conspiracies aside i find it irksome how anti-liberal theologists love to write democratic epitaphs before they even get sworn in.

give the guy a chance. after all FDR saved the country from republican mismanagement, and frank-ly we'd have been better off if nixon hadn't come in to start us down the slope that led us to reagan-bush-quayle-bush-cheney-mccain-palin

clinton rocked the economy and the budget, and much more. he was crucified by the same sort of nega-logic you espouse. i say enough is enough. the republicans have raped this country far too long and torn it far too many assholes (to say nothing of electing them)

turn the page. obama is just the start of what could be a new legacy for america and what is incomprehensibly needed at this time.

as for constitutional logic, he's a professor of the subject! what cred did any bush or reagan have to claim about that?

puh. leez.

I think I've misjudged this conversation.

G'day to ye, and I hope all works out well for our country.

I'd answer, but I don't want my LJ turning into a flaming river of comments by people who still like him.

Not to worry. If my statistical calculations are correct, there are exactly eleven people on the planet who still like G.W. Bush, and none of them are on LiveJournal. Facebook, maybe. But not LJ.

I hated him and i am glad he is gone.