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DEL.ICIO.USBush at Glynco: The strain starts to show
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Elsewhere you can read about President Bush speech at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco. This is just a passing note of how he gave it.
He seemed tired.
Granted, even presidents have the right to come off that way every now and then. But we couldn’t help thinking back to the big rally Bush attended not far from here in the closing days of the 2002 congressional campaign, when everything appeared to be going the Republicans’ way and the future, though threatened by terrorism, seemed bright for this president.
It could just have been the rigors of an early-morning flight that caused Bush to speak more slowly than usual, as he tried to gin up support for the newly minted compromise on immigration. But thinking back over the trials the administration has faced since that triumphant 2002 rally, it was easy to read more into it.
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By RWB
May 29, 2007 5:33 PM | Link to this
Kill the S 1348 treason bill. Resign George Bush. Defeat Saxby Chambliss ‘08!
By Jonathan Davis
May 29, 2007 6:19 PM | Link to this
Kinda new to blogging, but it seems like there are some real reasonable folks that get onto these blogs….
By mike from Alpharetta
May 29, 2007 7:37 PM | Link to this
Defending the indefensible is tough work. Leading Senators into sure election losses is tiring. Claiming your base doesn’t care about the USA can wear a guy out.
From my side, I’m fired up. I will work my butt off to defeat Zaxby and Juan in the primaries. They will never have my vote.
My Republican party is dead. What remains is a maggot infested shell.
By James Pulliam
May 29, 2007 7:40 PM | Link to this
It seems all that Bush does, is travel around the country and make irrevelant speeches and then flies off to another picked audience to bore into stunned silence. Does this man think that governing is just flying around the coubtry and boring us into submission on his idiotic priorities, all at the taxpayers expense. Stay in the White House Mr. Bush and learn to govern before you leave.
By John Sobieski
May 29, 2007 8:05 PM | Link to this
Schafly nailed him as a committed Globalist. There is no America, just a mass of people, the more the merrier. Bush is a democrat in Republican drag. I voted for him but now I have to wonder, would Kerry be any worse?
By Trusslady
May 29, 2007 8:26 PM | Link to this
Tired? Or hungover?
By TW
May 29, 2007 9:04 PM | Link to this
So, the Republicans who make less than 1.5 mil are starting to wake up and realize they weren’t on the guest list. Here ya go - Don’t you support the Commander in Chief?
By Will Jones
May 29, 2007 9:15 PM | Link to this
America is tired of the pervert traitor Bush. He must be impeached and tried for his 9-11 treason and false war. One Nation will come together as we should when his guilt and that of those who back him in Rome’s Rockefeller BIG OIL Fifth Column are brought to justice.
By Joan
May 29, 2007 9:16 PM | Link to this
Its embarrassing that the Republican Party wants to put this President out front to promote anything. Don’t they know that he has the lowest approval rating of any President in modern times? They need to hide from this man and this policies and embrace someone who endorces core Republican principles. Instead they elect Mel Martinez to the RNC and compromise with LaRaza. They just don’t seem to understand what the rest of us see.
By Glenn
May 29, 2007 10:26 PM | Link to this
So Saxby Shameless was the only Senator or Congressman to escort Bush to Glynco. He must have been real easy to spot. Real close to the Prez with those puckered up lips!
By zombieboy
May 30, 2007 7:31 AM | Link to this
I support President Bush, but he is flat out wrong on this issue.
This marks the beginning of the end of the Republican Party.
There will be a large turnover of seats or retirements come next election.
It does not have to be that way…..
By Hotrod
May 30, 2007 8:23 AM | Link to this
Its Official…. Most of the world hates the USA or doesnt trust us.
With Russia aiming the missiles on top of all the other stuff reported in the past year from North Korea to Muslim extremists and throw in Venezuela, our foriegn policy has four flat tires.
Trade deficits are all screwed up, immigration is all screwed up,and we have yet another country picking up its not so nice rhetoric against us.
I think there is so much the govt. is with holding from the US citizens that we are in the dark of what our actual foriegn landscape looks like.It is probably 10 times worse than what we read in the papers and internet.
I just had to get this off my chest.
By GodHatesTrash
May 30, 2007 8:24 AM | Link to this
You filthy Georgia rednecks selected this moron for pResident. Reap the whirlwind, trash.
Burn in hell.
By lucky
May 30, 2007 9:08 AM | Link to this
If Bush were serious about securing the borders, they would have been secured on September 12, 2001.
Vote for Tancredo in 08, it is our only hope.
By MOC
May 30, 2007 9:17 AM | Link to this
By mike from Alpharetta
May 29, 2007 7:37 PM
My Republican party is dead. What remains is a maggot infested shell.
I agree with you 100% on that one Mike. But it was dead before the immigration issue ever came up. Right wing talibaptists and the miscellaneous trash that found a home on the Republican right killed the party. The only way it survives is for TRUE conservatives and moderates to take control and never let go. It is way past time to hoist the middle finger in the direction of the wacked out right wingers. They gotta go!
By debbie
May 30, 2007 9:26 AM | Link to this
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0507/4243.html
Fred Thompson running for president
By Brian Curtis
May 30, 2007 9:53 AM | Link to this
I think you guys ARE reading too much into Bush’s fatigue.
Granted, his presidency is a colossal failure. Of course he’s been an unprecedented disaster for our nation.
But the idea that Bush is somehow AWARE of that? Now you’re in fantasy-land.
By lucky
May 30, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this
Our immigration system is not broken as the President stated. It is just not being enforced, to the detriment of this country and its citizens, and to the benefit of big business and its money.
Chambliss and Isackson do not care about the next election. They have already been paid off by the money people and have lucrative jobs as lobbyists awaiting.
By Elephant Man
May 30, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this
You know the GOP base has abandoned Bush and now Chambliss and Isakson when conservative editorial writers absolutely trash them on this immigration bill. Read this from Cartersville Daily Tribune: http://www.daily-tribune.com/NF/omf/dailytribune/viewpointstory.html?rkey=0042967+cr=
By Shar
May 30, 2007 12:11 PM | Link to this
So Bush is getting tired? Not as tired as the people he has forced to stay in Iraq on longer and longer tours. Two thousand and counting of them have had to take The Big Sleep. It must be exhausting to make massive mistakes in every aspect of a presidency. Perhaps Mr. Bush should consider the rest cure he has handed out to so many others.
By Fmr. Republican
May 30, 2007 4:00 PM | Link to this
He isn’t half as tired of his job as the entire nation is of him. Sadly.
By poor baby
May 30, 2007 4:08 PM | Link to this
of course chambliss was there. he has taken his marching orders from bush every step of the way, from impugning the patriotism of a veteran who lost three limbs in war, to supporting the foolish and reckless invasion of iraq, to the breathtaking mismanagement of the war, and now to this “immigration” fiasco that would guarantee a supply of cheap, disenfranchised workers for big corporations. what will chambliss do after bush is gone if he manages to get re-elected?
By EARLE
May 30, 2007 6:23 PM | Link to this
There is hope! The Republican Party has Gingrich, Fred Thompson, Rudy and other NON-INCUMBENTS to rebuild the GOP.Look and listen to them and look at the alternatives and VOTE. DONOT STAY HOME OR YOU WILL GET YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE!
By Will Jones
May 30, 2007 10:52 PM | Link to this
Gingrich, Thompson, Giuliani…GOP’s “hope”?
Draft-dodgers all…who else would endorse a draft-dodger, pervert-in-chief?
By Mike
May 31, 2007 12:01 AM | Link to this
Draft-dodgers all…who else would endorse a draft-dodger, pervert-in-chief?
Someone mention Bill Clnton?
By Anti-NeoCon
May 31, 2007 8:38 AM | Link to this
Republicans “are gonna REALLY hate ‘08!”
By Will Jones
May 31, 2007 2:09 PM | Link to this
Clinton, like Bush, is no man. He, too, is working for Rome and Rockefeller…the “good cop” to homosexual Bush’s “bad cop.” Were Clinton a man he would have used his presidency to bring to justice those who killed JFK, his supposed idol, to keep us in Roman Catholic Vietnam. It is no coinciddence that all of Clinton’s schooling before law school was Roman Catholic.