Is George Bush living up to THIS campaign promise?

Question

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."-- August 5, 2004

Your opinions, pro and con are welcome!

Thad, you are so charitable and understanding of our leader's difficulties!

David, the quote's in Bushisms on salon.com and on a few youtubes

Answer 1

He totally lies if he promised security.. Bin Laden is still walking around and there are less then 20 000 troops looking for him. But over a hundred and fifty thousand troops in Iraq.. Iraq was buttoned up tight after the gulf war one, and wasn't actually a danger.. How is America any safer if Bin Ladden and his network is still at large?

How long would it take to get him if there were a hundred and fifty thousand Americans in Afghanistan right now ? I mean he has supposedly been hiding in a small sliver of a place in south east Afghanistan for the last 4 years..IF the effort were put into getting Bin Ladden (who attacked American soil) as was put into getting Saddam Husein (who didn't attack American soil, or America for that matter, and was trying to go through the diplomatic process to boot when the war started).. Would we have Bin Ladden by now ? you bet your A ss we would.

This has me questioning if they really want to get him or use him to create more instability.. . Haliburton is after all, getting filthy filthy rich off the instability, and we all know who haliburton is the baby of don't we?. I totally get frustrated that you supposed smart, intelligent Americans can't see this corruption . Maybe you do and just done care about it .

Answer 2

The amount of damage done to America, the American people, and our international standing and reputation is incomprehensible. So broad and deep is the damage that you could say it was fantastic, or magnificent – if your goal was the destruction of America.

It goes beyond ‘everyday’ stupidity and incompetence. People that are merely stupid still, at least occasionally, get some things right. The Bush administration is unique in its ability to make decisions and execute plans that consistently fail and harm the United States. If Bush was dinking and blowing coke 24/7 he could not have done a more thorough and complete job of harming America.

So, yes, he is harming the country. It’s just not clear whether it is the result of ‘innovative and resourceful’ strategies or mere bumbling on a scale that sets a new standard for the way we evaluate and define ‘incompetence’.

Answer 3

Yawwwwwwww-n-n-n-n...

Which galaxy have you been vacationing in, these last few years.

Bushisms, aka misunderstatements and mangled grammar are trademark of this president. Freud's got nothing to do with it.

One wonders whether it's an attempt to inject humor of a sort and lighten up the tone. And he does have some funny comebacks, let's admit it.

I chalk it up to the overwhelming job stress. How can any individual take daily grind at such a high decision making level and survive is beyond me. This isn't the relatively sleepy Reagan decade.

Answer 4

Truer words were never spoken: Bush NEVER stops thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people. Since 2000, he has:
Created a police state wherein U.S. citizens are presumed guilty until proven innocent;
Lied to Congress and the American people about 'weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and about CIA secret prisons;
Disregarded the rules of the Geneva Convention, thereby destroying America's reputation as a global leader and world peacekeeper;
Bullied smaller nations into believing their only defense against the new 'evil empire' - the U.S.A. - is to stockpile their own nuclear weapons of mass destruction, thereby creating a more insecure world where Americans (and all others) will not be safer, but will be in more possible peril;
Killed 41,000 Iraqi citizens and 3,000 American soldiers with the definite promise of killing more as he escalates an unwinnable war in Iraq and eventually declares war on Iran (all for the sake of his God, OIL).
Bush is a murderer, a traitor to his country, and a liar. He should be tried before an international tribunal crimes against humanity, and - if convicted - must face a public firing squad. Then he should further be tried for high treason against the U.S.A., along with Cheney, Rumsfeld, and all 535 members of the most contemptible, corrupt, evil, arrogant, incompetent Congress in U.S. history, and - if convicted - should face a public firing squad. -RKO-

Answer 5

Well, certainly that part of the speech is not well expressed. But you're just taking a snippet out of context. Here's the whole speech:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040805-4.html

"President Signs Defense Bill
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT THE
SIGNING OF H.R. 4613, THE DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2005"

Answer 6

I believe he is living up to him promise but not fast enough. The fence should have been built years ago, Iran, Syria and North Korea should already have been blown off the planet, troops should have been sent to Venezuela and not left until American interests are all reimbursed for investments made in the oil fields of that country that have been confiscated by it's mad man leader who doesn't live up to his contractual obligations, all illegal immigrants should have been shipped out immediately and direct racial profiling should have already begun against young middle eastern men, period.
But he's at least doing something.

Answer 7

To quote the late Ann Richards..."Poor George, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth". It seems he has more mis-speak than there is mis-spelling on this site. I remember that quote, but I would not classify it as a "campaign promise". Quit lowering yourself to their standard.

Answer 8

So according to Bush, we are constantly thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people? What a president.


Scary this is a Yale Grad.

Answer 9

No, bin Laden was the goal and we called off looking for him. As to birdsnakes response as a liberal yes I am concerned how we treat POW's, mistreatment shows we are no better than t hose who chopped off American heads. We have no say in them acting like savages but we can avoid being savages ourselves.

Answer 10

He's living up to that, very well. That's the only good job he's been doing. He took a big step yesterday in isolating us, even more, from the few allies that we have left.