George Bush's farewell speech: Will Bush apologize for his mistakes?

by SodaHead Politics Posted 2009/01/15 19:31:17

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		No, George Bush will be trying to talk about the positives of his Presidency.
		Yes, George Bush will apologize now that he won't serve another term.
		George Bush will talk about America's future instead of dwelling on the past.
		I think that George Bush's farewell speech...

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	No, George Bush will be trying to talk about the positives of his Presidency.	617 votes	36%
	Yes, George Bush will apologize now that he won't serve another term.	58 votes	3%
	George Bush will talk about America's future instead of dwelling on the past.	335 votes	20%
	I think that George Bush's farewell speech...	705 votes	41%

George Bush will make his last major appearance as President of the United States when he gives his farewell speech. Despite being elected for two terms, George Bush was not a popular President. Bush is proud of cutting taxes, but isn't eager to take the credit for the biggest federal deficit in U.S. history. Americans will also remember George Bush for the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the woefully inadequate federal response to Hurricane Katrina.

George Bush's farewell speech will wrap up his Presidential career and serve as the last impression for historians. Will George Bush acknowledge his mistakes and apologize to the American people or will he continue to project oblivious self-confidence?

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Colleen 2009/01/16 03:05:28

I think that George Bush's farewell speech...

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was fantastic. This man was always honorable and truthful. No, things did not always go as planned but never was there a man that worked so hard so protect his people. You could believe his words during these entire 8 years, whether you agreed with him or not. This did not happen 8 years prior to his presidency and there is not a chance of you hearing or seeing it in the next 4 to 8 years. Promises and ideals have already been broken.
Thank you George Bush..you made me proud to be an American.
I travel to many countries and you may be surprised how many people admired our President, especially those that he was able to give some hope to, a chance for freedom or relief from aids in Africa. A chance to be freed of dictatorships. Man was born to be free. He is at his best free. He MUST be free.
Sadly, with the media throughout much of the world controlled by the far left, people will remain ignorant of exactly how great he is. Not perfect..but a great human being. War is a scurge on man, but till all opression has been dimished..people are free and have hope..there will be war. Opression breeds hopelessness which breeds aggression which breeds hate.
Wake up..this is reality. Let us hope that Obama can fill even one of his shoes.
I hope so.
Colleen from New York
God Bless America!
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rosepetal to Shylee 2009/01/30 01:32:31

And so do I. lol

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Shylee to rosepetal 2009/01/30 16:21:41

:o)it was funny right,

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Mattzero to Kay 2009/02/14 01:28:26

very funny!

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Rchl to Kay 2009/02/14 20:07:41 (edited)

As funny as her being a Texan Cheerleader lol HA HA HA gotta realize what your dealing with on that note

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astron 2009/01/26 19:03:10

I think that George Bush's farewell speech...

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He has no need to apologize for any thing he has done. Nobody is perfect.
He may feel the need to apologize for some stuff that needed to be done that he didn't do because of pressure from liberal whiners and the U.N. (an outfit we need to withdraw from.) Speaking of which I'll be greatly surprised if they don't get a lot of us killed in the next four years.

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Rchl 2009/01/26 17:35:50

I think that George Bush's farewell speech...

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Was wonderful. He has kept us safe, and was honorable. His speech was about America and the troops that fight everyday to keep us out of harms way. Unlike Obama, who has broken every promise so far, and can't get anything right w/out a prompter infront of him. We did very well under Bush. I can't complain.

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rosepetal to Rchl 2009/01/30 01:35:50

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I must have been sleep or in a trance because honorable he is not. Ask the American soliders retuning from Iraq. It is so bad they have formed an organization just to receive help when they return. You war mongers are crazy. You let your boys die for oil or whatever the republicans say. You don't question nothing damn.

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Rchl to rosepetal 2009/02/14 19:03:49

umm that wouldn't have happened w/out the help of Clinton!!! Did I say I was republican no you need to stop assuming things that you really have no clue about

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rosepetal to Rchl 2009/03/03 00:28:11

Can you say Walter Reed hospital with it's rats and roaches, broken down equipment and poor health care?

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Mattzero to Rchl 2009/02/14 01:29:06

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keep me safe baaaa baaaa. I don't need anything but safety baaaa baaaa

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Rchl to Mattzero 2009/02/14 19:05:06

So What has Obama done so far? He can't keep anyone on his cabinet seeing they are all crooky theives so far, What's next Oh yeah out taxes are going to be outrageous Nice Job Bama

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Mattzero to Rchl 2009/02/14 19:55:42

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? I don't care about partisanship Republican Democrat two roads to the same destination us totally screwed. It's about freedom not politics.

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Rchl to Mattzero 2009/02/14 20:06:49

yeah your right but it seems we don't have a say in anything! Hell this huge package they just passed that we have to pay for no one knows what all is in it, no one, guess only time will tell

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Mattzero to Rchl 2009/02/14 20:51:37 (edited)

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I urge you to start making a difference any way you can.

http://www.campaignforliberty...

This is a link to the Ron Paul rEVOLultion. Please give it a good read and listen to what it has to say. I think you will be very pleased to know that there is another party out there, the only party that has liberty as it's goal.

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Rchl to Mattzero 2009/02/14 20:56:21

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Thank you I will look at it today,

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Rchl to Mattzero 2009/03/03 12:59:31

lol I have no idea why this just showed up today, We don't need much more safety here either, good thing about living where we do lol

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criss 2009/01/26 16:27:15

I think that George Bush's farewell speech...

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Why should he apologize? Did Clinton apologize for setting us up for 9/11, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and all the other stuff he pulled? Bush is being blamed for this stuff that the Democrats set into motion before Bush took office. Ask any service man who was serving our country during Clinton's 8 years and he will tell you how the military were cut to bare bones budgets, which Obama is doing right now. His first work against the military is to eliminate the benefits of our retiring forces. The men and women who have fought to protect us and devoted their lives to our country are now being denied their retirement benefits as of this past week. Nice work. Is Obama going to apologize for crossing up our defenders and yanking the rug out from under them?

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rosepetal to criss 2009/01/30 01:39:59

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That is a f...king lie. Obama has been fighting for the returning soilders since he got to the senate. Making sure they received the help they needed on their return. Plus Michelle Obama has worked tiredlessly with the families of our soliders. Now please get your hateful shit straight. You are just like that lying Bush. I am sick of you simple ass repubicans. Every time you get into office there is a war, blood and dying.

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Boozi to rosepetal 2009/02/13 21:36:05 (edited)

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BFS, YOU think u kno EVERYTHING about him, and let me tell u there's ALOT of shit ppl don't kno abou thim....becuase ppl have differatn opinions don't mean its wrong

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Rchl to rosepetal 2009/02/14 20:58:11

Your language is very nice I must say. Just because someone has a different opinion doesn't make you right sorry. Obama has been running for President since he bought his way into Senate actually, he is nothing more than a

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caucasiannation 2009/01/26 15:40:02

I think that George Bush's farewell speech...

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Is irrelevant. It will not change what has happened and it will not influence the incoming administration. Were just going from bad to very bad.

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slim 2009/01/26 02:21:37
astron to slim 2009/01/26 19:05:23

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Another socialist has commented.

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Mattzero to astron 2009/02/14 01:32:54 (edited)

socialist? You sound like you support Bush. You think you can support bush and America at the same time? If you do you are dead wrong. America was founded on Freedom not safety. The Patriot Act has taken the majority of freedoms we had left, away. Bush past that. If you support any leader that takes your freedom away you are a fool and not a patriot of America... Land of the Free, not land of the Safe. Our founding fathers would cry if they saw all of you cloned obedient fools and your "our leader is great" mentality.

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Rchl to astron 2009/02/14 21:00:05

That's how they argue with hate

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Leo 2009/01/26 00:59:47

I think that George Bush's farewell speech...

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was crap - this man was always dishonorable, despicable, a liar, and a tyrant. He listened to nobody but his Vice President "the snake" and will forever be remembered as the corrupt, evil and botched up Presidency this country ever had. Sadly, with the one dimensional people fed on us being savior to the world, with the "King of Hill" mentality, born again, seeing that the entire world has to be a democracy, and this is only a Christian country that advocates war, will never see that. Many countries in the world now hate us, but most I feel don't hate us they hate the dummy dictator we illegally elected twice. Goodbye, Dubya. At no point in my life did you make me feel less proud and more humiliated of being an American citizen. President Obama will be lucky if he can fit one of your shoes? He could fill 15 of them, but let's hope he fills none of them because, after all, you are the village idiot of Crawford. Go back to that shack, hug your money, and shut up.

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Boozi to Leo 2009/02/15 01:32:39 (edited)

oh, and obamas better? Bush is the total opposite of what you said he was...Check out this website to see his MANY accomplishments he made....and how they probably saved your ass....
http://www.freerepublic.com/f...

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kmyers 2009/01/26 00:03:07

I think that George Bush's farewell speech...

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Our latest bombing in Pakistan last week (under Obama's orders) killed 16 civilians - including women and children. Bush should apologize for his mistakes right after Obama and libs apologize to Bush for accusing him of wantonly, irresponsibly and unfeelingly killing women and children in this war against terror.

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slim to kmyers 2009/01/26 02:24:18
Mattzero to kmyers 2009/02/14 01:35:44

local policy is most important in these times. Freedom now and Forever.

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bckish 2009/01/25 14:02:29

I think that George Bush's farewell speech...

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Should ask America to apologize to him. He kept us safe and we treated him like shit.

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Mattzero to bckish 2009/01/25 19:14:32

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Hmm? What do you think America is about bckish? I was under the impression that it was freedom. And George W. Bush and almost every president before him have been trying to subvert that freedom and manipulate the American people. We should apologize to him for having failed to uphold our personal freedom? No we as the people need to demand of all of our leaders; intelligence, respectability and leadership. We have to demand these and if any of them fail us we should remove them from office. Unfortunately America is so blind most of us buy this safety crap, or don't even know it's our right to be free. We are not Free! Any one who thinks that we are free right now is enslaved in their minds as well as their physical bodies. We have just enough freedom to be complaisant. Property Tax is a violation of the Constitution, We have to pay the government rent? well that means we can't ever own property, if we miss our property taxes/rent they will seize our land! that is outrageous and only just occurred in the early 20th century as well as income tax which was to support our involvement in World War One. We are being taxed without representation and our laws are not those of free people only quasi free. The sad part is we unlike our Great forefathers don't even care. The men who drafted...

Hmm? What do you think America is about bckish? I was under the impression that it was freedom. And George W. Bush and almost every president before him have been trying to subvert that freedom and manipulate the American people. We should apologize to him for having failed to uphold our personal freedom? No we as the people need to demand of all of our leaders; intelligence, respectability and leadership. We have to demand these and if any of them fail us we should remove them from office. Unfortunately America is so blind most of us buy this safety crap, or don't even know it's our right to be free. We are not Free! Any one who thinks that we are free right now is enslaved in their minds as well as their physical bodies. We have just enough freedom to be complaisant. Property Tax is a violation of the Constitution, We have to pay the government rent? well that means we can't ever own property, if we miss our property taxes/rent they will seize our land! that is outrageous and only just occurred in the early 20th century as well as income tax which was to support our involvement in World War One. We are being taxed without representation and our laws are not those of free people only quasi free. The sad part is we unlike our Great forefathers don't even care. The men who drafted the United States Constitution were between the ages of 17 and 21! These brave men dared to confront one of the world powers of the time with militias! I wish their spirit was alive today to fight this unjust non freedom perpetuating government. It can start with you. Just ask yourself, What is Freedom? And Am I Free rite now? One love. Let Freedom Reign.
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astron to Mattzero 2009/01/26 19:12:03

Revolution fixed the first dictatorship so lets have another one before it's too late, c'mon wimps, rebel now. Let's arm ourselves and march for our freedom while we still have arms to do it.

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Mattzero to astron 2009/02/14 20:54:31

http://www.campaignforliberty...

the rEVOLution is happening right now, join us.

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astron to bckish 2009/01/26 19:08:04

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Leave us to hope that the democrats give the same respect to the osama obama as they did to Bush.

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Mike 2009/01/25 12:14:47

I think that George Bush's farewell speech...

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matched the Hubris of his entire presidency! George W. Bush will go down in history as the president who couldn't see the forest for the trees when it came to policy. Don't tell me this man has kept us safe ok 9/11 happened on his watch, he didn't capture or kill Bin Ladin, Al Queda announced they would wait a generation b4 executing another attack on U.S. soil, he plungged our country into one of the worst forgien policy disaters called Iraq while taking our focus off the region of Afgan and Pakistan where the Taliban has re-established a stronghold, authorized torture, corrupted the justice department with partisan appointments, dropped the ball with Katrina and handling FEMA, authorized illegal wire-tapping on American journalist and ordinary Americans, and made the housing market worse by removing regulations ect. ect. ect. Now, any person who actually thinks that the Bush presidency has been good for this country shares not only the Bush administrations Hubris, but a fundamental lack in intellectual honesty. Have there been positive points in his presidency? I'm sure there has been, but they do not compare to the rest of it, and now our country has to repair it's values and ideals and to do that we have to wipe 43's legacy from staining the future.

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montana... to Mike 2009/01/26 21:05:45

Yeah he had just been in office a few months and if Clinton had not had his head up his behind and gotten OBL when he had the chance 9-11 wouldn't have happened.

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Mike to montana... 2009/01/28 03:47:07

No no I'm sorry I completly disagree, but I understand it's a tough job being a Bush apologist. First of all Clinton did try to capture Bin Laden, did he drop the ball? Yes he did Clinton could have done more of course, but remember when he sent those missles over to bomb those al Quida training camps, then republicans jumped up and complained that he was trying to change the subject off of Monica. Plus, Bush recieved a national security brief that detailed Osama Bin Ladin plans to attack U.S. with planes!!! Bush had been in office nearly a full year b4 we got hit, why on earth did he not stress tighter securities at all major airports? How on earth did those terrorist get checked when there ID's had been on the FBI terrorist watchlist?

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Boozi to Mike 2009/02/08 23:49:15 (edited)

WTF WAS HE GONNA DO?????? he did the best he could, how much can you do to prevent terrorism?? it happens..we've been safe since 9/11.....and y is it his fault that bin ladin and all them havn't ben captured? our men and women in the war have done there best to search, and capture the ppl causeing this war. they have found major leaders and captured them...................instead of saying the "bad" things that happed ( but rn't even his fault)y dont u look at the good things he did because ther r a lot of things

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slim to Boozi 2009/02/09 15:56:03