Diners surprised by President Bush at central Texas cafe

Really hard to dislike president bush.

Never understood the raging hatred ppl had for him compared to his flawed and crooked advisors and mentors.

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Never understood the raging hatred ppl had for him

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Because he had a (R) next to his name during the rise of fake cable news and social media.

Voted for him, but have realized he's a globalist piece of shite who's part of reason were where we are



But I'm sure he's a real nice guy

I'm not a fan of several of GW Bush's policies, i.e. TARP, offshore royalty revenue sharing, Stimulus, etc...

But he is a really hard dude to dislike. He had some shite advisors around him with other interests in their heads. He genuinely felt hurt sending soldiers to war, knowing many would be killed and maimed.

W was a good man and a nice guy.
He ran for a office where that don't mean sh!t in the end.
He wasn't a astute hardball politician and thus got trucked by astute hardball politicians and DC players of all stripes.

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He had some shite advisors around him with other interests in their heads.

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I think that history would have judged him more kindly had he not had such overt cronyism. Michael Brown and Dick Cheney come to mind.

Still like him better than his pos father though.

That's fun. Plus, he practically wrote the affordable care act. Obama tweaked it a bit but he gets credit for that one.

W enacted some really shitty policy, violated civil liberties, and gave the ME a "just frick my shite up" haircut.

But, genuinely, I do believe he was just doing what he thought was best for the country. He has more pride for the office and his country than his bookends.

Bush didn't do a single conservative thing domestically his entire presidency other than put Alito on the bench.


That's right, just Alito.

The hate he gets is because he started a war in Iraq that cost trillions of dollars, thousands of US lives, hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives in the ensuing decade, destabilized the Middle East, created the power vacuum that ISIS filled, thus causing more billions of dollars and loss of life, the refugee and immigration crisis, etc.. on completely false pretenses.

Also, he pushed through an enormous tax cut while doing all the war spending that took a virtually balanced federal budget and created huge budget deficits that was the kindling for the dumpster fire of debt we are in now.


I voted for him twice, voted for McCain, voted for Romney voted for Trump. Agree totally GWB is a super nice guy of the highest carachter, and I'd be honored to have him over for beer and Bbq, but his presidency was an unmitigated disaster both domestically and internationally. If you can't admit that, you're simply a partisan hack that loves all republicans and hates all democrats regardless of results.