Comments on: Mr Bush and Mr Obama get on well – that should be no surprise http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/11/11/mr-bush-and-mr-obama-get-on-well-that-should-be-no-surprise/ Conservative Party Candidate for Wokingham Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:43:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mikestallard http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/11/11/mr-bush-and-mr-obama-get-on-well-that-should-be-no-surprise/#comment-27267 mikestallard Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:43:49 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=2035#comment-27267 Mr Bush is such a Texan! You cannot help but admit that he is telegenic to excess. He is also, for an extremely intelligent man, brilliant as coming down to our level (cp Mr Blair who was also brillian' a' this. Yer know.) But, looking back, he didn't exploit 9/11 to the full. It really wasn't Pearl Harbor. By getting bogged down in the Middle East, he went a long way to destroy America. He should have done, looking back, what his father did - knit together a huge anti Bin Laden alliance including the Muslims. By going along with President Clinton's sub Prime Mortgage mistake, he has wrecked - for how long? - the world's economy. A reporter today said that he had met Bin Laden (before 9/11) who prayed that God might do to America what He had already done to Russia. Well, I am not sure that prayer has not been answered. Mr Bush is such a Texan! You cannot help but admit that he is telegenic to excess. He is also, for an extremely intelligent man, brilliant as coming down to our level (cp Mr Blair who was also brillian’ a’ this. Yer know.)
But, looking back, he didn’t exploit 9/11 to the full. It really wasn’t Pearl Harbor. By getting bogged down in the Middle East, he went a long way to destroy America. He should have done, looking back, what his father did – knit together a huge anti Bin Laden alliance including the Muslims.
By going along with President Clinton’s sub Prime Mortgage mistake, he has wrecked – for how long? – the world’s economy.
A reporter today said that he had met Bin Laden (before 9/11) who prayed that God might do to America what He had already done to Russia. Well, I am not sure that prayer has not been answered.

]]> By: not an economist http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/11/11/mr-bush-and-mr-obama-get-on-well-that-should-be-no-surprise/#comment-27263 not an economist Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:48:06 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=2035#comment-27263 Personally, I think we are about to endure 4 very long years of extensive intervention in the market place. The aim will be to hasten growth. The result will be an extended recession that may very well turn into a depression, as happned in the 1930's as a result of the interventionist policies of first Hoover and then Roosevelt. And yet the blame for this worsening of the American economy will not be placed on Obama's shoulders but those of the Republicans. I don't doubt Bush's culpability for what has happened to date. But its criminal to ignore the role of the Democrats over the last 10 years (esp. in the area of housing), the behaviour of first Greenspan's and then Bernanke's Federal Reserve and the harmful impact of the interventionist policies Obama is destined to pursue. Personally, I think we are about to endure 4 very long years of extensive intervention in the market place. The aim will be to hasten growth. The result will be an extended recession that may very well turn into a depression, as happned in the 1930’s as a result of the interventionist policies of first Hoover and then Roosevelt. And yet the blame for this worsening of the American economy will not be placed on Obama’s shoulders but those of the Republicans.

I don’t doubt Bush’s culpability for what has happened to date. But its criminal to ignore the role of the Democrats over the last 10 years (esp. in the area of housing), the behaviour of first Greenspan’s and then Bernanke’s Federal Reserve and the harmful impact of the interventionist policies Obama is destined to pursue.

]]> By: Stuart Fairney http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/11/11/mr-bush-and-mr-obama-get-on-well-that-should-be-no-surprise/#comment-27261 Stuart Fairney Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:29:30 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=2035#comment-27261 This was the sad choice faced by US voters, very big government conservatives or even bigger government liberals with slick, empty presentation skills. Judging by Mr Cameron's announcement this morning, our menu maybe equally restricted in 2010 This was the sad choice faced by US voters, very big government conservatives or even bigger government liberals with slick, empty presentation skills.

Judging by Mr Cameron’s announcement this morning, our menu maybe equally restricted in 2010

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