On Jan 21, 11:11*am, John H wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:20:20 -0800 (PST), wrote:
On Jan 20, 6:26*pm, wrote:
On Jan 20, 6:14*pm, Keith nuttle wrote:

jps wrote:
What a bittersweet moment it was watching GW and crew lift off for
Texas. *I wanted to savor the moment but couldn't wait for his
departure.

The King is dead, long live the President.

We have not seen such class in a departing President for many years. *If
I remember right clinton did not even attend the event. *President Bush
lead and made his decisions from the facts, and did the right thing;
which was not always what his detractors wanted.

He got blamed for many things, one of the most outrageous was when the
officials in Louisiana would not request federal assistance until it was
to late. *Because of State's Rights issues President Bush could not
respond and was blamed for not responding fast enough. *However the US
Coast Guard was there before the winds died down rescuing people from
the storm.

I hope that obama gets a spine before it is to late and tries to
measures up to President Bush. *It would be a pity if the first black
man to be President turns out to be a total failure and pushes this
country into another 8 years of depression as the democrats did in the
1930's

Yup, and Bush was very helpful in the transition according to the
incoming administration, unlike Clinton and his aids who were more
interested in pardoning huge campaign contributors, steeling the
silver ware, and destroying tens of thousands of dollars worth of
equipment and defacing the whitehouse.. Even the San Fransisco
Chronicle agreed with the pardons Bush did in the end. Bush is class,
hopefully Obama can keep Pelosi, Reid, and the rest on track... I
doubt it though, I say over in an over under bet on how many useless
investigations the congress will take up, the base number is 200. I
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While I don't care for Bush and his tactics, etc. I will say he went
out with grace and dignity. And Obama came in with the same. It was a
nice transition, and both did their share to make it so.

Except for some of the antics of some in the crowd when Bush was leaving,
that is a very true statement.
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John H

*A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. *- Hide quoted text -

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Niether Bush nor Obama can control what protesters are going to do.