Hmmm you don't say George.

[R13]

(CNN) ? President Bush told an interviewer that his presidency may have helped Barack Obama win the White House.

"I think it was a repudiation of Republicans," he told Charlie Gibson of ABC News, according to a transcript released by the network Monday. "And I'm sure some people voted for Barack Obama because of me. I think most people voted for Barack Obama because they decided they wanted him to be in their living room for the next four years explaining policy."


As Obama "? who made opposition to the war a centerpiece of his presidential run "? continued to assemble his national security team, Bush would not say whether or not he would still have pushed for war with Iraq if he had known there were no weapon of mass destruction in that country.

"A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein," Bush said. "It wasn't just people in my administration. A lot of members in Congress, prior to my arrival in Washington, D.C., during the debate on Iraq, a lot of leaders of nations around the world were all looking at the same intelligence.

"I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess," he said, but would not say whether he would have pressed forward with the decision to invade Iraq if he had known otherwise: "That is a do-over that I can't do."

Bush also said that his administration had pressed for tougher regulations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but that push had been short-circuited by politics. He also said that many of the decisions that led to the economic crisis came from Wall Street before he arrived in the White House.

"I'm a little upset that we didn't get the reforms to Fannie and Freddie "? on Fannie and Freddie, because I think it would have helped a lot,"? he said. "And when people review the history of this administration, people will say that this administration tried hard to get a regulator. And there will be a lot of analysis of why that didn't happen. I suspect people will find a lot of it didn't happen for pure political reasons."?

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"A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein," Bush said. "It wasn't just people in my administration. A lot of members in Congress, prior to my arrival in Washington, D.C., during the debate on Iraq, a lot of leaders of nations around the world were all looking at the same intelligence.

"I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess," he said, but would not say whether he would have pressed forward with the decision to invade Iraq if he had known otherwise: "That is a do-over that I can't do."

[img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/confused.gif[/img]Figuring a way to finish, after removing Saddamm, would have done wonders for Bush's ratings.

[R13]

"And I'm sure some people voted for Barack Obama because of me."


That was my favorite part. It was the most obvious thing in the world to see, though things like that are hard for George to comprehend.

[centennialdawg]

OK, now the election is over and Obama will be our next president. Bush will go down as one of the worst presidents ever, if not the worst. But there is one thing you can't fault him on and that is his determination. If the "shoe", so to speak, was on a democrat president's foot, would we still hold him in such a bad "light"?

[duckmeat]

It would be alot worse on this forum.

Look at all the negative talk about how Obama will ruin our country, when it seems that has pretty much already been done by dubya.

[Milk3]

I hope Obama does do horrible just so the Bush critics and the people that think he's the second coming will have to eat their words. You can all say that's horrible to say and unpatriotic but i'm giving him the same chance and respect that you [censored] give Bush. I'm no worse than you

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: centennialdawg</div><div class="ubbcode-body">OK, now the election is over and Obama will be our next president. Bush will go down as one of the worst presidents ever, if not the worst. But there is one thing you can't fault him on and that is his determination. If the "shoe", so to speak, was on a democrat president's foot, would we still hold him in such a bad "light"? </div></div>

I will....if he starts a war, hundreds of billions and thousands of lives. And the economy keeps falling apart, even if it would take a wizard to turn this mess around soon. I really expect about the same number of promises to be kept. Few, if any.