Comments on: Personality, not principle

By: Bob Miller

Bob Miller — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:39:47 +0000

President Bush and the Republican Congress could have done far more to open up domestic oil production and refining, and to encourage nuclear generation of energy. I saw no urgency to their feeble push for energy independence. Maybe Prince Bandar can explain.

By: Ron Coleman

Ron Coleman — Tue, 08 May 2007 15:53:52 +0000

Not quite yet, Ara, but we’re getting there. Can you explain to me how the President of the United States controls gasoline prices, by the way?

Bush was, “sadly” as liberals like to say, elected not once but twice. And, “sadly,” unlike Carter, he was — no matter what you think of the first election — re-elected.

How has Bush been disgraced, exactly? By being unpopular among liberals and Europeans?

By: Ara Rubyan

Ara Rubyan — Tue, 08 May 2007 12:37:26 +0000

Oh, and gas prices at an all time high!

George W. Bush: The New Jimmy Carter.

By: Ara Rubyan

Ara Rubyan — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:47:56 +0000

These guys, as you suggest, thought they were getting [a conservative]. Now they want the most liberal Senator?

I’m suspicious too — but not of Obama.

Your point about Jimmy Carter, Ara, makes no sense.

What’s so complicated? Elected one time, a lover not a fighter, a born-again Christian who speaks from the heart, and disgraced and disrespected in his own time. All that’s left is the Nobel Peace Prize!

By: Bob Miller

Bob Miller — Sun, 06 May 2007 17:30:55 +0000

If enough people strongly want to believe Obama is one of them, or at least on their side, that becomes their reality and he gets in. So his job is to ward off anything that will clarify his future direction.

By: Ron Coleman

Ron Coleman — Sun, 06 May 2007 16:05:24 +0000

Bush may or may not be a conservative. I think he is one who has failed to govern conservatively, if that has any meaning. It doesn’t matter. Say you’re right: These guys, as you suggest, thought they were getting one. Now they want the most liberal Senator?

Your point about Jimmy Carter, Ara, makes no sense.

By: Ara Rubyan

Ara Rubyan — Sun, 06 May 2007 12:51:03 +0000

…you could not have been a conservative in the first place.

Whoa, Nellie. It’s Bush who wasn’t the conservative. The others are just figuring it out now.

As for the opinions of Bernstein, Dowd, Kagan et.al. there’s some suspicion among the netroots that things aren’t what they seem.

…any move from Bush to Obama says far more about the moving man than either politician.

Same as it ever was. But it might make sense to also look at some unique trends: the latest Newsweek poll shows Bush at his lowest approval rating yet in their polling – 28%. Yeah, I know Rasmussen shows him at 39% and everyone else in between.

But maybe instead of invoking Harry Truman, Bushies should start invoking a more recent president who tanked similarly and then gained redemption out of office — Jimmy Carter.

Why not? They’ve already got a lot in common — they’re both born-again Christians.