Image source: bonnieflood.com
Former president George W. Bush’s painting teacher is speaking out.
Georgia artist Bonnie Flood said she spent a month with Bush teaching him to paint. It turns out the former commander in chief is pretty talented with a brush.
“He has such a passion for painting, it’s amazing,” Flood told WAGA-TV. “He’s going to go down in the history books as a great artist.”
Flood, who’s based in Cumming, Ga., holds occasional workshops in Florida, which is where Bush connected with her. She packed up her supplies and, for one month, spent six hours a day teaching him the finer points of mixing paint and proper brushstrokes.
Images of some of Bush’s paintings were revealed last month after several Bush family members had their email accounts hacked.
“He started off painting dogs. I think he said he painted 50 dogs,” Flood told WAGA. “He pulls out this canvas and started painting dogs and I thought, ‘Oh my God, I don’t paint dogs!”
Flood said there was one initial — and basic — question: what to call her pupil. She quickly figured it out.
“I called him ’43′ because that’s the way he signed his paintings,” she said. “When I really wanted him to do something, I would say, ‘Mr. President you know that you don’t do it that way.’”
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Guitar Master
Mar. 9, 2013 at 10:07pmzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
From THE REPORTER
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As bad as Bush was we’d probably all give a year’s pay to have him still sitting in the oval office.
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nighttrainno9
Mar. 9, 2013 at 10:46pmYour right, as bad as bush was, he’s still preferable to the jughead thats
in the WH.
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athanasius1812
Mar. 10, 2013 at 12:27amAre you kidding? We have already given several years pay to have Obama in office….
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TROONORTH
Mar. 10, 2013 at 10:56am’43′ will go down as one of the most under rated Presidents in the history of the United States. And a pretty good ‘brush driver’ too.
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LookTowardsTheLight
Mar. 10, 2013 at 11:56amUnder 43:
– I paid less to fill up the tank in my car
– I had better income
– I never got laid off
– My 401(k) was on a steady methodical rise
He would have gotten a lot more credit If only he vetoed more of the Pelosi non-sense and got out of Iraq and Afghanistan faster.
So if somehow his brother does run and is nominated, I’ll vote for him. Though under Rand Paul, I’m sure all the above would apply to.
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jayshay
Mar. 10, 2013 at 1:27pmSorry ’bout yer luck. He wasn”t all that bad!
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vonstro
Mar. 10, 2013 at 3:55pmAbsolutely! What we have now isn’t worth spit!
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sillyfreshness
Mar. 11, 2013 at 2:02amA better artist than he was president.
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jerrywalters
Mar. 11, 2013 at 7:53amYou have got to be kidding. Obama has dug this country out of the deepest hole ever, or at least the deepest hole since the Great Depression, which was what w left for America. w was the worst president in our nation’s history and he should honestly be painting from his jail cell not as a free man.
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ERP
Mar. 11, 2013 at 11:31pm@jerrywalters
Slow down on the kool-aid before you aspirate. On second thought…DRINK FASTER.
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Libertyluvnmomma
Mar. 9, 2013 at 8:42pmGee, I was sure he would be remembered for screwing us over with the Patriot Act.
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The_Jerk
Mar. 9, 2013 at 9:39pmHe’s already gone down in the history books as the best thing that ever happened to the Democrat party.
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GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
Mar. 10, 2013 at 10:00amPainting won’t be the only parallel to Hitler, the Nazi’s Reichstag fire and the illegal invasion of Poland will come up often as well.
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ERP
Mar. 11, 2013 at 11:33pm@GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
Comparing GWB to Adolf Hitler….YAAAAWWWWWWNNNNN.
D- Bag.
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nighttrainno9
Mar. 9, 2013 at 8:33pmMy memory is not as short as some. I remember 9-10 when it was announced
2.3 trillion dollars was missing and the DOJ was looking real hard at bush.
Then came 9-11 with buildings falling into their own footprints and building 7
( which was where the DOJ records were) came down all by itself. Yaa, I
voted for the SOB, but I haven’t forgotten the B.S. he ran on us either.
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sagrzmnky
Mar. 9, 2013 at 8:48pmNighttrain09,
Did you get that story from Jessie Ventura? You are out of your freaking mind.
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revelation2012
Mar. 9, 2013 at 8:57pmYou are LACKING .a. MIND
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revelation2012
Mar. 9, 2013 at 8:58pmre: SAG
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nighttrainno9
Mar. 9, 2013 at 9:02pmOh really, check the news stories for 9-10, then turn the page and go
to AE911 truth .org (an org. with1700 registered engineers and architechs).
You might just wake up a little.
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nighttrainno9
Mar. 9, 2013 at 9:05pmI was right, memories are indeed, VERY short.
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Keatonc333
Mar. 9, 2013 at 11:22pmNight train.. I remember that too actually! and for those saying night train is crazy…
http://rense.com/general75/folow.htm
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread689050/pg1
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nzkiwi
Mar. 10, 2013 at 12:57am@ Nighttrain
I remember when that theory first cmae out. I looked at it briefly and found that there were a number of very large holes in it.
That is not to say that these things shouldn’t be investigated, they should. That’s the thing about conspiracy theories; every now and then, one of them turns out to be right.
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Honestybefore truth
Mar. 10, 2013 at 2:56pmNighttrain;
Any sane engineer will tell you how wrong you are about this stupid 9/11 conspiracy bs. The towers had unique structures, that being unlike most high rises much of the support and integrity was provided by the perimeter shell. Compromise that, with even the limited number of floors above, and you get failure. Any one else, with half a brain, would realize the enormity of the conspiracy that would be necessary for a cover-up of the type nut jobs envision would fail. This falls under Ocamm’s razor, and the simplest answer is that plane hits structure, structure collapse. Now, was Bush terrible on domestic policy, yes. Should he have tried to rein in domestic spending and make a larger push to counter the rising likelihood of the mortgage system collapse, absolutely! But he was no Nero, or any other such approximation, simple limited political capital and to focused on international issues.
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vonstro
Mar. 10, 2013 at 4:06pmAre you still wearing they tin-foil hat too?
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RJJinGadsden
Mar. 10, 2013 at 5:02pmKEATONC333, So, just who financed the 1993 attempt? and what are the Alex Jones type conspiracy theories surrounding albeit smaller catastrophe?
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jerrywalters
Mar. 11, 2013 at 7:56amAgree — worst potus ever and a criminal through and through. He should be painting from his jail cell.
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media-bias-steals-elections
Mar. 9, 2013 at 7:54pmI imagine it would be fascinating and fun to take some classes from him on painting, his enthusiasm is clearly something anyone would want to be a part of.
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pandora665
Mar. 9, 2013 at 5:29pmDidn’t need Bush’s instructor to say his work is good, all one had to do was look at his work to see an amazing talent level. Absolutely floored when I seen his paintings, the man has serious talent.
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cknapp
Mar. 9, 2013 at 5:22pmBush a failure? No attacks on U.S. soil after 9-11, a man who loved the Troops, believed in America, did what he thought was right despite “stupid American (as in stupid American Idol watching, non-tax paying, yet have the right to vote) public opinion polls”, still could launch a man into space, no world apology tour (tell the French to kiss our @ss repeatedly for preventing them from speaking German today), etc., etc. I got to shake the man’s hand while stationed at Fort Bragg, he had a firm handshake, looked me (and everyone he shook hands with) and said something unique to each of us (ignoring cameras and media) focusing on YOU for just a second, I felt he was confident and honest. I think I would refuse to salute the current Commander in Chief let alone shake his hand as he does not believe in American Exceptionalism. Someone has to be number one, nature abhors a vacuum.
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neverending
Mar. 9, 2013 at 7:49pmYour feelings are shared by many.
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widowofanAirForcevet
Mar. 9, 2013 at 8:30pmCompared to what we have now I miss Bush like crazy. He was not perfect and really somewhat progressive. But he has honor and he is humble. He loves America. With the White House filled with America haters now it makes me sick to my stomach. I hope we can endure this He!!.
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Keatonc333
Mar. 9, 2013 at 11:23pm“Bush a failure? No attacks on U.S. soil after 9-11,”
As long as we forget the dozens of biological attacks via anthrax..
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TH777
Mar. 10, 2013 at 1:35pm@CKNAPP: I share your feelings as well!
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TH777
Mar. 10, 2013 at 2:52pm@Keatonc333: I’m curious….who in your opinion has been the best president during your lifetime?
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Keatonc333
Mar. 10, 2013 at 3:11pmDuring my lifetime.. Bill Clinton. I was born in 1990. Out of curiosity, would you agree? given the timespan.. I mean theres just Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama.
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Honestybefore truth
Mar. 10, 2013 at 3:38pmKeatonc333;
If you believe that the record DOW is a true bellwether for the economy, I hope you have all of you money in the market. You will likely lose most of it. Because it has more to do with the devaluation of the dollar than any other factor.
Bin Laden’s death is more attributable to Bush policies, and the resulting intel, than anything that Oh-bummer did.
Iran failure? I would suppose that would depend, did it keep most of Al-Qaeda attention out of the U.S. proper: Yes
Did it end the threat posed by Saddam(a truly mad and warped person) and his Republican Guard: Yes
Did the administration fail to protect Iraq from incursions of foreign extremists (Iranians, Jordanians, etc, who were many fighting us in “Insurgency”) that was wrongly reported as civil war: Yes
No Child left behind: Was a mixed result. And, much of what is wrong with it has more to do with the Teacher’s Union and their active opposition and a growing parental culture that allows failure than the actual policy.
Katrina was another mixed bag, Local and State authorities refused pre-landfall assistance (knowing this Bush and his staff should have done a better job at staging resources). Corruption and Cronyism within local and state agencies weakened the infrastructure so that it was untenable, limiting response from any source.
Continued below
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TH777
Mar. 10, 2013 at 5:50pmNo Keaton, I would not agree. Sorry!
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jerrywalters
Mar. 11, 2013 at 8:00amYou are impressing no one with your idiocy. w = worst ever and the world, and you too, knows it! Thank God Obama finally fixed the debacle that was bush’s 8 years in the white house (first 4 clearly stolen from Gore by his half-wit brother jeb).
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Grover_Standpipe
Mar. 9, 2013 at 4:29pm“Georgia artist Bonnie Flood said she spent a month with Bush teaching him to paint.”
The guy’s a fast learner, I have to give him that. That happens to also be how long he spent studying government and international relations after they told him he should run for President.
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pandora665
Mar. 9, 2013 at 5:45pmA little hint: Backhanded compliments tend come across as childish, snotty, and envious.
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MisterSarcastic
Mar. 9, 2013 at 6:47pmSo you’re saying he spent more time than Obama?
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Grover_Standpipe
Mar. 10, 2013 at 1:18ampandora665
Look who’s talking. You’re the one who wrote, “all one had to do was look at his work to see an amazing talent level. Absolutely floored when I seen his paintings, the man has serious talent.” Wait a minute, were you being serious? You were actually impressed by his painting ability?
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pandora665
Mar. 10, 2013 at 12:14pm@Grover: Your point? Have you heard of the word relevance? Do you know the definition of non sequitur? I will help you out here, saying the man has talent and chastisement over a backhanded compliment are not relatable in any logical way. Considering the petty fake compliment of your first post, being devoid of logical reasoning, and a lack of knowledge in art; I’m beginning to hope you are my mother-in-law, as I would hate to think there are more than one person with the same exact flaws.
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jackact
Mar. 9, 2013 at 3:02pm‘Great’, now there is a word that can never be applied to Obama in any way, shape or form.
Can’t wait for what the commie acolytes consider as Obama’s legacy.
It will be the ‘Greatest’ joke ever written.
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neverending
Mar. 9, 2013 at 2:57pmDidn’t always agree with him but he loves this country and he has a devotion and love for our military. He never ran around the world bowing to our enemies and blasting our United States of America. I sure do miss him and would give anything to have him back again instead of the commie ruthless, arrogant thug we have in the whitehouse.
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joey g
Mar. 9, 2013 at 3:26pmGeorge Bush Sr.
gave us the Iraq war….., higher taxes….., more powerful EPA ,….signed on to un’s new world order……
,gave up on the MIA’s in viet nam,…..Ruby Ridge…. then bj clinton,
George Bush jr
gave us the second Iraq war,…… Afgan War, ….John Roberts on supreme court which gave us obozo care…..
and then gave us obozo.
what in Gods great holy name would jeb bush give us??????
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joey g
Mar. 9, 2013 at 3:27pmloved it so much he gave us obozo…what a man
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BehindBlueEyes
Mar. 9, 2013 at 3:32pm@NEVERENDING
Its amazing how much the country has gone down the tube since 2008. Up until that time I always felt democrat or republican the president was a true American with the country and our military’s best interest at heart. Not now with this commie in office. Obama is working for Soros and the puppet master wants world wide communism (a.k.a new world order). But first he has to destroy America and its economy. That’s Obama’s role.
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Keatonc333
Mar. 9, 2013 at 3:37pmLoved our military enough to send them to Iraq to die in vein. with inadequate equipment and inadequate medical care after return. What a compassionate American!
George Bush was a complete disaster and we are much better off under Obama. I mean lets look at these policies.
Afghanistan- expensive Failure, couldn’t even get Bin Laden
Iraq- Expensive Failure and a repulsive showing of fiscal irresponsibility
No child left behind- left millions of kids behind, and couldn’t even fund it
Bush tax cuts- added almost 3 trillion to the nation’s deficit and weakened the middle class
Failed to take preemptive steps during Katrina, and failed even further after the hurricane hit.
Failed to address rising costs in health care
Knew about 9/11 ahead of time and did nothing to stop it.
failed to address the Iran situation.
Failed to follow up on Clinton’s productive peace talks between Israel and palestine.
Just in general he failed completely in every aspect of foreign policy.
failed to prevent the fist biological warfare attacks in America (anthrax)
failed to maintain the US as the world’s #1 economy, as it had been for over 60 years.
failure to take any steps towards energy independence..
I could go on and on.. Bush will be remembered as one of the worst presidents in American history, not for his dog paintings.
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Keatonc333
Mar. 9, 2013 at 3:40pmbehind blue eyes… stock markets at an all time high.. CEO’s reporting record profits, unemployment at its lowest since the market crashed… Apparently Obama is also failing at the whole destroying the economy thing.
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soybomb315_II
Mar. 9, 2013 at 3:40pmi’m sure nixon and jimmy carter love this country too….
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neverending
Mar. 9, 2013 at 4:13pmhey JOEY – such ignorance. People like you deserve obama and hope you enjoy all that he is going to bestow upon you and your family and I hope your share is bigger than anyone else. What a sorry dumb sob you are that you can;t give a decent human being, a great American patriot some credit. I was NOT speaking about all the rest but then you arsehole would have to have a brain to figure that out and obviously don’t – go shove it where the sun doesn’t shine unless you have something else up there. You can kiss my whatever. You are part of the problem!
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neverending
Mar. 9, 2013 at 4:23pm@SOYBOMB- oh yes soie baby I am sure they did – I am sure Hitler, Stalin, mao, Chavez, Putin all just loved this country. you match joey
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neverending
Mar. 9, 2013 at 4:25pm@BEHINDBLUEEYES – thank you for your comment. So nice to see there are still some decent people out there with some common sense.
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exilemusic
Mar. 9, 2013 at 5:08pmKeaton, are you completely stoned or are you just extremely into trolling every article on here? Eveything you listed is either total BS or I can relate an even worse incident Obama caused. Better off with Obama? You are about as hopeless and illinformed as a person can get. You’ll realize far too late how foolish you’ve been.
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BehindBlueEyes
Mar. 9, 2013 at 6:35pm@keaton
George did have some problems but I never doubted his patriotism. If you know Obama’s past as a child, particularly his teenage period when he was being mentored by a notorious card carrying communist named Frank Marshall Davis, you will come to understand why Obama is a communist.
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mr skeffington
Mar. 9, 2013 at 7:24pmKeatonBlubberButt: Obama is the disaster. If Bush had served another term, we would have been in better shape than we are now and I say that with the knowledge that George W was a big government conservative. That is just how bad Obama and our economy under Obama is. The war efforts were worthy enterprises. But they were both launched under the guise of winning hearts and minds of people who don’t share our values instead of winning a primary objective of turning out their tyrants and installing secular governments that had some hope of bringing enlightenment to their respective countries.
I can understand your dislike of No Child Left Behind as it has a provision for school choice and I know giving people a choice on removing their child from a failing school is verbotin to the leftwing. Your motto is “let them stay and be stupid like us”
The Bush tax cuts were brilliant and the deficit was going down until the democrats took over the congress.
Before Katrina, it was the state’s job to take preemptive action in natural disasters and the federal governments role to take over when the state requested it. Now, thanks to the incompetence of Nagin and Blanco, both democrats, that has all changed.
I work in the healthcare field. The rising cost of healthcare is largely due to government meddling and regulation.
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mr skeffington
Mar. 9, 2013 at 7:49pmKeatonBlubberButt: (continued) Blaming Bush for 9/11 takes some mental gymnastics, especially if you exonerate Clinton since there were several terroist attacks that occurred during his administration including the 1st attack on the twin towers. Bush knew about 9/11? Please.
There hasn’t been peace between Israel and the “palestinians” since…..well never..but you want us to believe that we were on the brink of it if only Bush had adequately followed up. At the time, Clintons talks were considered a failure by the illustrious and “unbiased” NPR but enjoy your fantasy world where peace would have broken out if only Bush hadn’t been President.
The economy was downgraded under Obama in 2011, 3 years after Bush left office and Obama had a majority of his party in both houses of congress for a full two years enacting pretty much whatever they wanted.
Failed to prevent people from mailing Anthrax. Again…Please. That is grasping.
Energy independence? Obama has done more to thwart America becoming enery independent than any President in recent history. And he has wasted more taxpayer money chasing boondoogles that will never create energy independence.
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Keatonc333
Mar. 9, 2013 at 11:42pmMr.skeffington..”The Bush tax cuts were brilliant and the deficit was going down until the democrats took over the congress.”
brilliant is one way to put it.. at least we can all agree that they added over a trillion to the deficit. and made many of his policies unable to fund. I.E Iraq and Afghanistan. Oh and the nation debt was not going down. http://zfacts.com/p/318.html
“Blaming Bush for 9/11 takes some mental gymnastics,” No it doesn’t.. Bush was informed on multiple occasions of an “imminent attack on US soil with airplanes used as weapons” yet he did nothing! That all came out during the 9/11 commission.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html?_r=0
“The economy was downgraded under Obama in 2011, 3 years after Bush left office” yes, though not because of Obama’s policies. or the economy at all for that matter. It was because of congress’s gridlock and failure to get anything done.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/business/us-debt-downgraded-by-sp.html
and finally “The war efforts were worthy enterprises.” HOW!!! please tell me how they were worthy enterprises? they’ve cost us near 3 trillion dollars. 3 trillion that bush didn’t even try to pay for and it would still be on a credit card if not for the democrats fiscal responsibility. They cost thousands of american’s lives and all we have to show for it is higher debt and a less stable middle east.. Worthy? really?
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mr skeffington
Mar. 10, 2013 at 12:59pmKeatonBlubberButt: zfacts…really..hahahahahahahahahahaha…breath…..hahahahahahahahahahaha. zfacts is bs and everybody knows that including those who try to pawn their statistics off on the ill informed. The deficit under Bush went steadily up until 2004. Than it started to go down and was continuing to go down until the dems took control. Check the deficit from 2008 and onward. It is an inconvenient fact for the left that the deficit was going down in spite of the war and the Bush tax cuts. Now under Obama we are in the debt stratosphere and yet you believe things are so much better than under Bush.
1993 World Trade Center Bombing:6 dead 1000 wounded. 1995 car bomb explodes at the office of U.S. program manager for the Saudi National Guard in Riyadh. 7 killed including 5 Americans. 1996 truck bomb demolishes the Khobar Towers apartment complex. 19 U.S servicemen killed and hundreds wounded. We knew during the Clinton administration of the danger of Al-Qaeda including their plans to use planes as weapons and their continued desire to take down the twin towers. How many notices do Presidents get concerning terrorist activity on a daily basis. Did Clinton also receive warnings. Why didn’t he stop these incidences and these are only some of the terrorist attacks that occurred during his administration. Yes it takes mental gymnastics to foist all blame on Bush while exonerating Clinton.
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mr skeffington
Mar. 10, 2013 at 1:10pmPeople should read the 9/11 commission report as it is informative instead of the leftwing opinion piece from the NY Times that you cite.
America’s rating was downgraded because of gridlock. Obama had a majority in both houses of congress for his first two years and spent that time spending like a drunken sailor on shore leave. His stimulus packages and bailouts and let’s not forget the behemoth legislative fiat, Obamacare. No that had nothing to do with the downgrade. It was “gridlock” and “failure to get anything done”
Removing Sadam and the Taliban were worthy enterprises. But we allowed the installment of Religious wackjobs who have allowed sharia law rather than encouraging secularism in their governments which could have possibly given their people a better future. And as I cited earlier the debt was going down, not up. But the democrats have certainly managed to stop that train. Congratulations.
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TH777
Mar. 10, 2013 at 3:03pm@Keatonc333: People like you crack me up when they say Bush sent this men to Iraq. He didn’t grab them by the hair while they were kicking and screaming and ship them off! Do you remember the fact that so many men and women signed up for the Military after 9/11? They were willing to risk their lives to kick some a$$ in Iraq. They knew when they signed up there was a chance they would end up fighting in the war and they were more than willing to do so to protect this Country. No one was “drafted”!
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Keatonc333
Mar. 10, 2013 at 3:14pmTH777…. they signed up to fight against our enemy.. Al queda. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.. nor were they harboring terrorists.
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Keatonc333
Mar. 10, 2013 at 3:18pmand skeff.. Last I checked the Taliban is still there.. And though having Sadam out of power is nice.. A war was not the right way to do it. Nor was that the reason the American people were given to go to Iraq.. And as far as the middle east is concerned. Sadam’s Iraq was actually one of the more stable governments in the region at the time. Now Iraq is a decimated terrorist hideout..
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Keatonc333
Mar. 10, 2013 at 3:19pmAnd do you have any clue where our economy would be right now without the stimulus and bailouts?
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Honestybefore truth
Mar. 10, 2013 at 4:00pmHealthcare is a systemic problem, big enough that so single President’s tenure will result in its reversal (and certainly not O-bummer’s something for nothing “solution”) Health Insurance is so expensive because it is no longer operated as insurance but as health maintenance. (Does your car insurance cover oil changes, tune-ups, and maintenance?) Also, the U.S. subsidizes the cost of medicines for nearly the whole world. Companies have pricing dictated by most governments, almost all lower than what the U.S. government allows. Hence, those companies charge more here to try to recoup those losses. And that is just a small part of the problems.
Most of the rest of you list of supposed “failures” are sops to your personal opinion of the man, and your limited life experience. Clinton’s talks were a failure, no peace was established, no true basis for future peace established (and I hate to say, won’t be in even your grand-children’s lives). My best advise to you (admittedly unsolicited and put as nicely as I can manage) pull your cranium out of your nether orifice. The Marxist based philosophies and solutions that you likely tend toward (and O-bummer whole heartily embraces) are a delusional scam. The don’t and can’t work, EVER.
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RJJinGadsden
Mar. 10, 2013 at 5:19pmKEATONC333, Sorry, but you are dead wrong on one thing. “unemployment at its lowest since the market crashed…” Where in the world have you heard that this economy has produced enough jobs to make your statement true. You are falling for the numbers game that is being played by the administration. And, I have to admit every administration has played this game since Carter changed to this particular number game. Its not an increase in jobs that has reduced “unemployment” in this tactic of counting. It has been that the economy has been so piss poor that huge numbers of the unemployed simply fall off the unemployment benefit roles. That is a major reason we see this nation’s welfare roles on a continuous increase to levels never, ever seen before. Frankly, your age belies you naivete. I was born a few months after Eisenhower assumed office and right after Stalin did the world the favor of dying.
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TH777
Mar. 10, 2013 at 5:44pm@Keatonc333: I applaud your interest in politics at such a young age. All I can do is pray that at your young age you will keep your mind open to the possibility that you may be wrong. Don’t be “proud” in your stance. Open your eyes and ears when doing research. Don’t go after research with the intent on proving what you think is right. Go into your research in a “neutral” position. That’s the only way you will come up with your own “personal” opinion.
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SSN637
Mar. 9, 2013 at 2:37pmThose arent just any dogs – look closely- you can see their WH press badges
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PATTY HENRY
Mar. 9, 2013 at 2:57pmIF that is an example of this “art” then either the teacher is full of it (good chance) or the camera taking the photo is broken (doubtful) I’m glad he’s having fun… too bad the boys/girls who died overseas
can’t enjoy their ‘later life’ … If you go to fight a war, you go to win. You don’t drag it out, you don’t play politics and you sure as hell don’t let Saudis dictate what our oil policy is. HAD his daddy knocked off Saddam, then hundreds of thousands of Iraqis would have been spared Saddam’s sword; (or his rot-in-hell sons’) and we’d be almost 100 % OIL INDEPENDENT right now…10 years goes by fast…but the subject is art : NO, he is not even as good as some of the other amateurs we see on the side walks most SPRING Sundays in USA. But whatever…. some people will collect them because he was President.
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Holy_Crap
Mar. 9, 2013 at 2:00pmObummer is an artist too….but, in a much different fashion.
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Mapache
Mar. 9, 2013 at 5:24pmyou mean when he shoots skeet?
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sandrunner
Mar. 9, 2013 at 1:50pmYou mean the most naive. Spending 4trillion, the condescent light bulb ban and over regulation is not my idea of a president who pretends to be an artist. Should of stay as an artist wana-be.
and the successor sucks just as bad.
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jackact
Mar. 9, 2013 at 2:40pm…6 trillion.
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LazloWhoopingcough
Mar. 9, 2013 at 3:21pmHe banned snarky light bulbs?
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Sharon Rose
Mar. 9, 2013 at 1:48pmDo any reported comments get deleted?
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stumpygrim
Mar. 9, 2013 at 3:04pm@Sharon.
Not if you’re encinom they dont,otherwise, yes, all the time for regular posters…..
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BlaisingCain
Mar. 9, 2013 at 3:07pmI don’t know. Shut up and report this!!!
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mr skeffington
Mar. 9, 2013 at 1:40pmWhat hyperbole. Bush did not “bankrupt” the country by starting two wars. However Obama is well on his way to doing just that. Isn’t it interesting that the deficit was going down in spite of the war effort and the Bush tax cuts. It continued that downward trend until the democrats got control of congress. And historical “polling” a mere 4 years after a president steps down says more about the political leanings of the “historian” than the presidents performance. Let’s give it a couple of decades before we lend any creedence to historians views.
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turkey13
Mar. 9, 2013 at 2:34pmRight you are- money talks and poor people walks. A lot of those wall street bums and evil bankers Obama talked about have and still get great $ 1 million + Xmas presents. I read that the Obama’s were worth a little over $ 1 million 4 years ago and now are worth $ 16 million.
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AmericaMustBeFree
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:51pmIf the liberals have power over what is being taught in our schools, I can almost guarantee that you will never see in any history book about Goerge Bush’s paintings! It is all about removing our national heritage and replacing it with lying liberal bullroar! And if American’s don’t wake up soon and protect their children from the onslaught of evil men and women dumbing down generations of children who will be mindless adults, brainwashed just like Hitler’s minions!
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JessieGirl
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:49pmHe likes to paint. Enough said. Art is in the eye of the beholder. From the glimpse I got of it, it looked beautiful to me. I’m sure his time painting gives him some peace from this crazy, hyper political world we are living in.
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Displacedsoutherner
Mar. 9, 2013 at 4:43pmAt least his painting lessons didn’t cost the taxpayers the millions that BHO’s golf lessons did.
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Ghandi was a Republican
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:40pmBush would and still may go down as a great President. He brought Democracy to the middle East despite Demcorats. Obama is doing everything he can to undo it and create an evil empire. If he succeeds He will blame Bush of course.
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SendTheMeteors
Mar. 9, 2013 at 1:07pmI’m glad the history books will remember Bush as a great painter, because they are unlikely to rank him as a great President. According to historians polled by Newsweek magazine, Bush is ranked as one of the worst President’s in American history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States
Next to the Vietnam war, the invasion of Iraq is probably the greatest blunder in American history. Democracy is Iraq? A fragile one maybe. The weakening of Iraq has allowed Iran (you know, the guys making atomic bombs) to become the dominant military force in the region.
He also bankrupted the country by starting two wars AND lowering taxes. Try to find another example in the history of the world of anyone, any country starting a war and lowering taxes. You won’t, because the idea is just as stupid now as 3000 years ago.
And of course the economy collapsed a year before he left office. There’s that too.
dissentnow
Mar. 9, 2013 at 1:08pm“He brought Democracy to the middle East”
And he spent us into oblivion to do so ( along with 5,000 dead Americans troops ). Also, what democracy are you talking about? The one in Iraq that is crumbling? Show me the Iraqi Thomas Jefferson that has stood up for freedom in Iraq. How about the free and fair elections that he pushed for in Gaza? You know, the one in which Hamas was elected. That has helped us out soooo much. Or how about the ungrateful leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan? How much blood and treasure did we give to them? How much money did we borrow from communist China in order to give to General Musharraf? How’d that work out for us?
Or how about his domestic policies? You know, the patriot act, the TSA, domestic spy programs, warrantless wiretapping……do you want me to continue?
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TRILO
Mar. 9, 2013 at 1:22pmI did not know that it was in the Constitution that the USA is the arbitrator of democracy around the world. Democracy is never won at the end of a gun. Iraq and Afghanistan are no where near a democracy. All the other countries that have fallen due to the Arab Spring have voted themselves a theocracy run by the Muslim Brotherhood. The fall of Iraq has left a power vacuum.
Bush brought us the Patriot Act, TARP, stimulus, Medicare Part D, deficits, two endless wars, nation building abroad when our country is falling apart at home, continuation of open borders. At this point I would say his paintings are far better than his legacy as President.
stumpygrim
Mar. 9, 2013 at 3:17pm@meteors aka dissent aka encinom.
Here’s a little history lesson for you,it involes the viettnam “war”. The first president to get us involved in it, was, no not Bush moron, but Harry s Truman, Eisenhauer comes along, and escalates it slightly,then of course Kennedy,he throws more fuel on the fire,and finally LBJ,who put a few hundred thousand troops there.Lets look at what party was in office when we first got involved and stayed in it, for more than 10,000 days,democrates, thats right, you know,your war mongering buddies,with of course the exception of Eisenhauer.Oh yeah, and how many dead,over 50k?! And who got us out, Richard m Nixon, a repub.So keep bad mouthing Bush moron,and i’ll keep teaching you a lesson. F-n idiot….
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catty
Mar. 9, 2013 at 3:40pmare you on drugs?
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dissentnow
Mar. 9, 2013 at 9:16pm@Stumpy
Did you drink your breakfast this morning?
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dissentnow
Mar. 10, 2013 at 7:33am@Stumpy
Listen, idiot, i am NOT a democrat. I’m a libertarian.
You didn’t address any of my points. Instead, you rambled on about Vietnam.
If Nixon is your shining example of a republican ( the EPA, affirmative action, removing the gold standard, universal healthcare ), then i can see why you like Bush so much ( TARP, stimulus, bailouts, no child left behind, the TSA, the patriot act, domestic spy programs ).
The next time that you want to give me a history lesson, please use a spell check program. I had to get someone who spoke “inbred moron” to interpret your post for me.
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dissentnow
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:39pmFor some reason, the first thing that came to my mind was this scene from Goodfellas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlyXZG2dupo
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Lloyd Drako
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:35pmBush will have to be Titian, Boticelli, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Cezanne and Picasso combined for his reputation as a great artist to offset his reputation as a failed president.
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Ghandi was a Republican
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:44pmYou have been successfully brainwashed by the alinsky media. Bush overcame the economic crush from 9/11 and the tech bubble with hardly a hiccup. The banking crisis came with Democrats in ful charge of all the related committees. They dumped it full force at merket opening 3 days after obama drooped to -5 points against McCain/Palin for maximum impact (with no plan to sooth the impact whatsoever). Bush is not at fault for either of these.
Just remember – Alinsky radicals, their media and the AP have been found out. They manipulated the truth beyond recognition. To ‘fall’ for it is to reward them and become a co-conspirator in their evil.
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Lloyd Drako
Mar. 9, 2013 at 1:09pmBush put two wars on the nation’s credit card, without asking for the slightest sacrifice in the way of tax increases from the American people. No other war in US history has ever been financed so irresponsibly. For that alone Harvard should rescind his MBA.
whatthecrazy
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:27pmAt least he is not out flapping his gums like Billery and Jimmy the SECOND worst Prez in history.
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freeberty
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:24pmIt’s nice to know that he’ll have at least 1 thing in history being great at.
Then again art is subjective, and those little lap dogs don’t quite cut it.
malbro
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:19pmBack in your hole….
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TemperBay
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:16pmHitler too was an artist.
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DLV
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:20pmYeah he was rejected from art school which caused him to spiral and get involved with groups that had Nazi leanings. Interesting fact.
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jman-6
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:23pmA sorry one at that, thus we had WW2 because the crybaby got rejected from art school! Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
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Lloyd Drako
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:31pmHitler was an artist. So was Churchill.
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Grover_Standpipe
Mar. 9, 2013 at 5:24pmHe wasn’t really bad, he just wasn’t really good. Technically he was a very skillful watercolorist. He was weak on composition and design, and showed no signs of real creativity, but many artists don’t really develop until after they get to art school. All of the death, all of the horror, the suffering, the destruction, it may all come down to failure to apply to a couple of safety schools.
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malbro
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:12pmBush has his paintings and O has his Peace prise.(GAG.)…O will be remembered for rolling a big fat one…………….
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AUsername
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:06pmhe should he sent to the hague for war crimes. also this guy destroyed education in America though no child left behind. also he allowed 9/11 to happen by ignoring intelligence kind of what happened in Benghazi. they probably wanted it to happen to push an agenda of their donors.
spfoam1
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:14pmYou are a babbling idiot.
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UBETHECHANGE
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:22pm@SPFOAM1 You took the words right out of my mouth.
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Workingthedirt
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:25pmYour insulting babbling idiots.
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jman-6
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:26pmausername- Those that live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones! Look at LA Unified School District, NYC Public Schools and convince me those are bastions of learning? Nuff said!
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AUsername
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:27pmthis is how stupid your neo con messiah bush was
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/bushquotes/a/dumbbushquotes.htm
FlagWavingPatriot
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:32pmI’d like to see him auction all those paintings off at some fancy dinner party and give the money to Wounded Warriors and other veteran organizations. I’m not saying he should do it, just suggesting that it’d be a great thing to do.
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mr skeffington
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:35pmPresident Bush committed a war crime? You’re going to have to elaborate on that little gem. Our public school system has being going down for years. Certainly since the jack a s s leftwing idiots of the 60′s grew up and infiltrated the teaching profession. He allowed 9/11 to happen? Wow! You are a product of the public school system, aren’t you? He had been President roughly 8 months when the attack occurred. The hijackers had been here for years. Does Clinton and Gore bear any responsibility in your little mind at all? So Benghazi occurred because Obama’s administration ignored intellegience. Hmmmm, interesting but, again, you are wrong. It happened because they were too stupid to provide a security detail to a consulate on the anniversary of a bloody attack that occurred on US soil 11 years previously. And than ignored the pleas for help of those who were trapped there. Actually our Jack Ass in Chief went to bed. He had to be up early for a campaign appearance you know. That is extreme incompetence.
George W Bush’s administration will go down in history as a paragon of virtue and competency compared to the Idiot in Chief and his leftwing compadres that currently, unfortunately occupy Washington.
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mr skeffington
Mar. 9, 2013 at 12:56pmauserbuttmunch: Brilliant comments by dear leader, the messiah, Barack Obama: “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes–and I see many of them in the audience here today” “Let me be clear, Israel is a stong friend of Israel’s….so that policy isn’t going to change” “We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad.” “The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.” “UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.” this bon mot was said in an attempt to make the case for government run healthcare. Priceless. There are too many to cite in this space but let me end with “My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.” Mission almost accomplished.
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resme
Mar. 9, 2013 at 1:06pm“George W Bush’s administration will go down in history as a paragon of virtue and competency compared to the Idiot in Chief and his leftwing compadres that currently, unfortunately occupy Washington.”
The creation of the DHS alone is deafening to any person getting molested daily.
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Comeandtakeit
Mar. 9, 2013 at 2:05pmYou know you are reading an immature liberal troll when:
The person cannot spell, use proper grammar, capitalization or punctuation.
The talking points the handler has given are obviously garbled and being spoon fed to the poster from another source.
Are “they” paying you $9.00 an hour or $11.00 an hour to post here? Trust me; you’re overpaid for the job.
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