Video: Beloved ex-president gets rousing ovation at baseball game
posted at 5:55 pm on April 6, 2009 by Allahpundit
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His approval rating’s somehow gotten worse since he left office, but no matter: In Texas he can do no wrong. Dubya’s used to that, though. Did you know that his job approval at the start of his first term was the most polarized by party in modern history? Oh, wait — I mean second-most polarized.
For the record, this isn’t the most enjoyable baseball-related story of the day. This is. Click the image to watch.
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Yet still, this ‘defeated pariah’ will be remembered 100 years from now as a great president and a man of impeccable character that ignored the polls, followed his Lord and did the best for his country.
You, however, will be forgotten in a decade.
carbon_footprint on April 6, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Except no libtard ever defeated him.
Speedwagon82 on April 6, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Psst – they did attack us on a routine basis by shooting at our aircraft patrolling the no-fly zones. I was piloting one of those aircraft, but you already new that because I told you the same thing 2 nights ago.
You are a fraud go back to the hole you crawled out of
Danger on April 6, 2009 at 10:24 PM
I am not sure what exactly your problem is with me, but the fact is that I really don’t care what you think of me. People like you that are so full of hate usually don’t need a reason to be nasty.
TXMomof3 on April 6, 2009 at 10:24 PM
I doubt that he’ll buy a vinyard even though Texas is the home of a budding wine industry…
However, I was thinking more on your original topic before you tried to angle the deflectors.
unclesmrgol on April 6, 2009 at 10:27 PM
I don’t think he’s trolling for anything.
unclesmrgol on April 6, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Good see ole W. Not nearly as horrific as those on the left make him out to be. Stuck to his guns on foreign policy, and deserves credit for that. His domestic policy left a lot to be desired, though. Socially, did a good job…1.5/3.
therightwinger on April 6, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Naustrodama speaks.
unclesmrgol on April 6, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Well, dear Capitulus, I have a j o b (you know one of those 4-letter words your man Biden was talking about) so I will bid you good night.
TXMomof3 on April 6, 2009 at 10:32 PM
I miss George W. Bush’s sense of honor and common decency. This is one of the things I will always remember about the man:
In an unscripted moment, with no teleprompter, the President took Ashley Faulkner into his arms to comfort her.
– Initial news report from the Cincinnati Enquirer.
YouTube Video
Loxodonta on April 6, 2009 at 10:41 PM
I’m contemplating the Austin Tea Party myself.
Sekhmet on April 6, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Capitulus checked out about this same time two nights ago.
As one of the posters that night said ” I guess he ran out of money for the trollway”
Danger on April 6, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Actually, he defeated the empty suit he ran against in 2000, and defeated the empty suit he ran against in 2004.
Remember Gore in 2000? He would never have needed to steal the state of Florida to win, all he needed was the Electoral Votes from his own home state of Tennessee. But those people told him to getalife.
As for Bush’s “polling numbers”, he never cared about them.
The fact that the “pollsters” today have to cook their polls by sampling 20% more Democrats than Republicans to achieve the result their Masters demand shows anyone smarter than a piece of lawn furniture that the O’bama Magical Mystery Tour is nothing more than an elaborate house of cards.
You’re dismissed.
Del Dolemonte on April 6, 2009 at 11:04 PM
I miss President Bush & will never forget the way the MSM brainwashed people into hating him.
So today I was subjected to listening to CNN bashing Bush, vilifying the Republicans & telling the world that The One was loved by all. I finally got so fed up that I announced that nobody with any brains listens to CNN anymore so can we please change the channel. People were surprised but thankful for the information. Of course I had to add that MSNBC/NBC/CNBC are the worst offenders of lies & misinformation.
So from now on if you want my business you’d better not have CNN or MSNBC etc. on or I’ll be sure to enlighten you.
It may be lame, but I feel betrayed by the MSM, especially, these stations. I want them to FAIL. I seriously want to have some sort of organized tea party in front of their stations.
Luckily I live in Texas & my vet only has the Fox News Channel on & my dentist always has Rush on.
And of course, we have President Bush x 2!
redridinghood on April 6, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Bush bent over backwards to appease those loons, and they called him a child-murderer and a failure to Americans and overseas every chance they got.
But that was Bush’s fault, right?
amkun on April 6, 2009 at 11:51 PM
I actually think it all traces back to Gore and his poor sport loss.
I don’t think Bush had a chance to be thought of highly after the “re-count” debacle Gore put the country through. I wonder if our Democracy will survive the total loss of confidence we now have in our election process.
I certainly don’t think Obama got nearly the vote count attributed to him. I don’t think he lost but I now believe that the Democrats do everything they can to throw elections.
I saw what happened in Washington State and I’ve seen the Minnesota Senate race. I have so much less trust in our process because of Al Gore inability to lose with grace.
Democrats have made cheating the way it is done.
petunia on April 7, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Allah- How come you are working for Keith Olbermann now. I noticed the “Accessory to Murder” and “Nazi” running script on “your” chosen picture fot this thread but the link ed video doesn’t have that…have you been a troll this whole time?
RedLizard64 on April 7, 2009 at 12:49 AM
I’ll take a Texan over a Kenan any day of the week as my President. I maybe the only Republican who has more love for Bush than Reagan.
lavell12 on April 7, 2009 at 12:57 AM
Truly this man was one of the best real Presidents we had in
decades…..GW is a real leader. Wish he was still Prez.
dec5 on April 7, 2009 at 2:04 AM
Unfortunately, the linked video is not available. But another video (which you can see if you do a search for “bush ranger pitch”) does have the offending text. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBH5NBriO1c
unclesmrgol on April 7, 2009 at 2:14 AM
I love when the same people who whine endlessly over The Great Special Olympics Gaffe say “libtard.”
benny shakar on April 7, 2009 at 2:34 AM
Miss you, Dubya.
SCOOPTHIScarlos on April 7, 2009 at 3:56 AM
Defeated by no one except the media. His military still loves him.
How about Donks, is that okay?
How about Rethuglicans.
I’m putting in my earplugs as that high-pitched whine on this thread just keeps increasing.
hawkdriver on April 7, 2009 at 5:13 AM
Nice pitch too.
BTW, all this remaining hate for President Bush by our resident trolls is a large part of what fuels my snark against Dear One.
Sophomoric? Check! Satisfying? Check!
We learn and adapt from our opponents.
hawkdriver on April 7, 2009 at 5:20 AM
I understand what you’re saying, Speedwagon, but my point is that it doesn’t matter to me what “the polls” say about Pres. Bush’s popularity; be it 80% or 25%, I admire him for the man he is and the president he was. In fact, I’m rather proud of the fact that I am one of the few that see it correctly! ;-)
Least of These on April 7, 2009 at 6:57 AM
I don’t care about what the polls say about Bush either. He has decency and character.
Frances on April 7, 2009 at 7:59 AM
What do you mean “somehow” AP? The guy continues to be bashed by the current president, who has been appearing on every television show save for Maury.
I think the lesson for future would-be presidents is to make sure your VP nominee can run for office at the end of your term to at least attempt a defense of your administration. Leaving that job to a “maverick” doesn’t seem to do the trick.
cackcon on April 7, 2009 at 8:09 AM
Bush brought character back after 8 years of the Clintonistas. Theres a lot we’ll never know that he did after 9/11. People seem to forget 3000 innocent Americans were killed on our own ground. That set the direction Bush had to go in.
Pulling Saddam out of power had a few purposes and was probably the original main thing Bush had planned before 9/11 happened.
johnnyU on April 7, 2009 at 8:14 AM
He threw a strike. Had good speed to it too. Not professional, but the only Man among our Presidents who can actually play a sport. All the others are just posers.
I’m glad W is home where he is loved and admired for being a better Man than anyone in politics today. As Kipling says, “if you can bear to hear the Truth you’ve spoken, twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools…..” Sounds like exactly what Dhimmicrats and the news media did to W and to every Republican they turn their sights on (How’d that adoration of the press work for the Maverick, John?).
Folks, you’d better learn that there’s a reason you don’t deal with liars, cheats, and thugs. They always turn on you, and they never can be counted on to actually help a good Man. So W did it on his own, without help, and without allies. He knew he was poison to incumbents, because of the lies told about him AND his administration. And he just didn’t believe in retaliation for smears and those lies. So Republicans abandoned the Man when he needed help the most, and he did what was needed anyway without them, and without our support or input either.
That makes him a better Man and a far better Leader than anyone else in US politics today. The rest of them, including our current and past Presidents, are merely politicians who say what they need to say to get elected, and then do something different when they are in office. (Okay, Ronnie Reagan didn’t do it that way either). I despise the lot of them, but have to respect the job they did while in office because none of them actually tried to make America lose power or has been as bad as the lies and misdirection we have to deal with today…not necessarily from President Obama (although he gets a large part of the blame), but from a Soros/media/Dhimmicratic/Liberal cringe inducing cowardice in the face of foreign enemies and domestic sleight of hand worthy of the Wizard of Oz. I think the media got bought and brainwashed by someone who wanted to make money off of changing the American economy into something that they could have more control over, and W and capitalism was the only thing in the way.
Now we’ll all pay, and our children and grandchildren will pay. The world is headed back to the early 20th century, and World Wars will happen again once America is no longer the only superpower. We will lose our preeminence in economic matters, and that will lessen our military defenses, and our influence in the world in favor of other countries which allow manipulation and oppression through other means.
Welcome to the Brave New World Order. Where Kim Jong Il has more power than an American President because the press says he does (even when his missiles can’t fly far enough or straight enough to hit the broad side of a barn). Where Mohammed Khameini and ImaNutJob speak only the Truth, but American businessmen and Generals speak only lies according to Congress and the press. Where up is down, right is left, and Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Stalinism is alive and well and coming to a Congress near you.
Thanks to the media not reporting the underhanded financial dealings of Dhimmicrats as a whole, and the foreign sources of money that bought the election, legally and illegally.
It is going to be a long hard couple of decades to fight and defeat our domestic enemies and try to return Freedom to its rightful place in America. And those of you who don’t believe your country is being stolen right from under your nose because you think it is impolite to call Dhimmicrats Cheats and Liars are a major part of the problem. How else can they keep getting elected in every single city they get elected to run into the dirt?
You will have the form of governemt you allow. Right now, you folks allow an awful lot of bad things to be done in your name because you wanted change. How’s that working out for you?
Subsunk
Subsunk on April 7, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Barack Obama’s not fit to shine this guys shoes.
We have a two-bit, snake oil selling, neo-commie, classless, Malcolm X wannabe in the White House now, what a let down from when there was a man with class, integrity and character in the White House.
Here’s to you, President Bush.
NoDonkey on April 7, 2009 at 9:10 AM
Well, hell’s bells. It looks like Bush was right on a lot of things, wasn’t he? I’ll tell you who will be regarded as pariahs. It’s Pelosi, Reid, Obama, Frank, Dodd, Kerry, Kennedy, and anyone who witheld War funding to advance their anti-constitution, radically liberal agenda. Those criminals used that CRISIS to legislate their plans, and for that, they’ll go down in history as the disgraceful zealots that they are.
marklmail on April 7, 2009 at 9:34 AM
I still think he was a helluva President, but oh, how I wish he had never screwed up the economy.
Mr. Grump on April 7, 2009 at 9:37 AM
You’re right.
Vashta.Nerada on April 7, 2009 at 10:24 AM
I miss the strong, unwavering character that this president had. He did things that he knew were right and did not let the polls decide for him. His love and patriotism for our country were so obvious every time he spoke. No he was not perfect. But, when I look at W. I see a president who is proud to be an American. When I look at Obama, I see an apologist. Obama has to make excuses for what he sees in America as a country that needs to be changed. George W. Bush will be remebered by history as a great president, no matter how hard the MSM tried to brainwash us!!!
sweet92169 on April 7, 2009 at 10:31 AM
You will learn to love this guy as your superhero’s policies take effect…Get ready to become an indentured servant to your hero as trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see have to be paid for in some fashion. Take your pic taxes or inflation or more likely both…As well, his naive energy policy which is effectively no policy is setting up the sword of Damocles over our collective necks as future oil prices will double and triple as the world economies recovera and grow, although ours will muddle along in stagflation…China is building a coal fired electric plant every week as well as buying oil rights around the world as fast as they can why? Because they know that energy is a necessary building block for prosperity. We on the other hand are tilting against the global warming windmill with a President who threatened to bankrupt our coal industry…Good luck with your superhero and god bless George Bush for holding back the lunatic fringe for eight years…
Nozzle on April 7, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Well said sir! (the whole post not just the quoted part)
Please keep pushing back and I might still recognize the country I left when I get back from my deployment.
Danger on April 7, 2009 at 11:43 AM
I think Bush was a good and honorable man. But even though I voted for him twice he did have some short commings, such as: He pushed for open borders, Free trade and Amnesty for illegal aliens. Did not use Liberal tactics of exerting authority when given to you. Was not an effective communicator and did not defend himself or his administration from lies from the left. Expanded the size of Government and also raised the national debt. When realizing that the banking industry became one huge real estate ponzi scheme he should have pushed harder for corrective action to be taken. Of course he was not the only person in the Republican party not defending Conservative principles, but he was where the buck stopped.
SGinNC on April 7, 2009 at 11:54 AM
It’s funny how Bush and Palin are still under constant attack. Now, I’m not the smartest chap in the schoolroom, but I think that liberals have come to the realization that GLOWbama is a major dud. Thus the reflective attacks on a man who’s out of the arena and a woman who’s just off stage.
I’ll sum up the way liberals feel about OHbama. I remember I would buy an artist’s cd because the radio would constantly play the HIT SINGLE. But then after listening to the entire cd, I realized that it was not as good as the HIT SINGLE. But I forced myself to listen to the entire cd a few times because I figured I paid $13 and I’m gonna get my money’s worth.
So even though liberals know that BLOWbama is less than half the POTUS Bush was, they’re gonna stay until GObama’s $13 runs dry.
squasquashi on April 7, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Ltlgeneral64 on April 7, 2009 at 5:22 PM
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