People made fun or criticized Bush for not being smart or intellectual enough as president. Yet what people don't realize is that Bush was probably the most skilled president in terms of being able to ask a question and embed the answer in it. If you follow Bush's rhetorical questions you will realize that they are not rhetorical at all. The answer is always embedded in it. Here's an example the media often cite to show how ungrammatically sound Bush is when all he is trying to do is weave the answer in the question. (read more)

If only Bush had governed the same way he handled the transition period, he would have made a much better president. All Obama said about Bush in his speech was to thank him first for his service to the country (way too general) and then for his generosity and cooperation during the transition (as good as it gets). He basically acknowledged that Bush existed and that he was at his best as a president-in-transition. Obviously Bush was not as good in transition when he 'snatched defeat from the jaws of victory' from Al Gore in 2000 but 8 years changed him a lot. In any case, what a cordial thing of Obama to say about Bush...

McCain said the following in the first debate with Obama: "I have opposed the president (Bush) on spending, on climate change, on torture of prisoner, on Guantanamo Bay. On the way that the Iraq War was conducted." President Bush did all of the above in the last 8 years. So, if they oppose each other, then one must Not be a Republican. Which one? Why is McCain running as a Republican? Or is Bush Not a Republican? (read more)

Don't get me wrong. I support Obama. My whole point is based on a very simple question.
Is Bush who's well hated among the world wasn't the president for the last 8 years, do you think Obama would have won McCain so easily?
My question isn't finished yet. IF Obama was white and Bush wasn't the president for the last 8 years what do you think the result would be? (read more)

The US was able to torture terrorists captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere using 'enforced interrogation' techniques on 'enemy combatants' whom it refused to call 'prisoners of war'. That's because 'prisoners of war' are covered by the Geneva Convention which strictly bans torture. Yet our so smart former President repeatedly stated the country is at war all those years and kept calling it 'The War on Terror'. It follows by definition that in any war, prisoners can Only be prisoners of war. Duh! Do you see why Bush should never have, not even once, called it 'The War on Terror'? Define stupidity if you can't see the imbecility and you'll figure it out. (read more)

Following the shoe incident with Bush in Iraq, press conference organizers are thinking of instituting new rules and manners. All participants will be asked to take their shoes off and wear paper-thin slippers. The measure is expected to improve the hygiene and ambience of the press room and make everyone relax and feel more comfortable. (read more)

Mirek Topolanek, the prime minister of the Czech Republic and head of the EU presidency described Obama's bailouts and fiscal policies as the "Way to Hell". This is unusually harsh language that European politicians never used even when Bush was president despite the fact that negative/angry feelings were running very high back then and despite the fact that European politicians, on the whole, were completely opposed to Bush's policies in Iraq and his handling of foreign affairs. Why such language now for Obama? (read more)

As all Canadians know, we are on the eve of having to show a passport in order to cross the US/Canadian border. In our 200 history as neighbors, this is a disturbing precedent, and yet both Clinton and Bush confessed to having absolutely no knowledge of it when they came to speak together in Toronto. The two former US Presidents came to discuss global and domestic challenges facing the U.S. and Canada and both of them were ignorant about it. That such an important step is implemented without their knowledge is beyond belief. How are we Canadians supposed to feel?

After President Bush's apt ducking of two shoes thrown straight at him, the State of Texas announced that a shoe rack will heretofore be called a Shoeraq in memory of the incident and spelled as one word. Those hunting trips Bush took with Dick Cheney in Texas were a hell of a good training. If nothing fatal came out of dodging bullets thrown at him, they sure developed excellent reflexes in Bush. In Iraq, the government decided that the pair of shoes thrown at Bush will be auctioned and the billion dollar proceeds be sent out to GM, Ford and Chrysler as a first bailout handout so that their poor CEOs can fly back to Congress on private jets and ask for more money. (read more)