Anyone noticed there seems to be a sudden increase of support for George Bush in his final days of presidency?

I have always supported our President George W. Bush. God bless him!

Well, there is always a tendency to blame the president for everything. The president doesn't control the economy. The Depression was no more Hoover's fault than it was FDR's who presided over the Depression for a full ten years. In other words, FDR did not SOLVE the Depression, unless you want to give him credit for taking ten years to do so. Unfortunately, Americans are so simplistic in their thinking, essentially uneducated or poorly educated, in the modern era, that the "blame the president" mindset gets stronger all the time. I would even concede, as a supporter of Bush, that in hindsight it was a mistake to invade Iraq, even given how successful it has turned out to be now. The cost has not been worth the benefit, but that's in hindsight, and the other side of the coin is that there is a free Iraq on the road to being fully successful and independent.

It's nostalgia because the bumbler gave us so many opportunities to be appalled, ashamed, embarrassed...and to just laugh hysterically at his stupidity.

I hate to tell you this, but we haven't had any nuclear wars since the last one--that we started. Why are you giving Bush the credit that everyone from Eisenhower on has shared? We have more nukes--we can bomb anyone into the stone age. It's not "genius" that prevents others from using common sense.

Bush spent most of his time in office ignoring the progress Madeleine Albright has made with regard to North Korea. He wasted YEARS rattling sabres, and didn't insist that China (NK's overlords) do a little pushing.

Iraq is a mess. It's more of a mess now than it was under Saddam. Everyone knows that, save perhaps you. It's three nations, sloppily stitched together, and at cross-purposes. It's incredibly fragile, and may not survive without the reinstallation of a strongman. People--to include AMERICAN PEOPLE-- had high hopes for Iran after the Shah left, too--people seem to forget that. Those embassy hostages weren't taken straight away, some people in the US actually thought Iran would flower into some sort of great democracy....that didn't go over too well, now, did it?

"Terrorism" is a word to get people who are easily swayed into a fear mentality all exorcised. Good intelligence is what is needed and what, up to now, we never had, to prevent asymetrical attacks on the US. We don't need to be "terrorized" by these attempts if we can circumvent them. George Bush did a great job of getting people to be FRIGHTENED--I'll give him that. He used fear to keep people like you in line, cowering, trembling, and looking to a Kennebunkport cowboy to save you.

I won't bother mentioning the economy to you--you're living in a fantasy world, and the reality of how the "free market" screw-the-regulations/piss-on-oversight nightmare that Bush has presided over has caused this mess will forever be lost on you, because you're unable to grasp the obvious.

I don't think his successor will be much better, but I will guess that, over time, if you liked Bush, you'll be very happy with Obama. They've both got a highly corporatist bent, so you may not notice much if any difference between them.

Wow, what rock have u been living under the past 8 yrs.???????? Even the majority of Iraqis don't c him as the great liberating President u do, & look what he's done 4 their country (& his Dad)!! Ur not a 'Dreamer,' as much as a moron! R u 1 of Sarah Palin's kids who got dropped on his head a few 2 many times or "W"aste Product's illegitimate prodigy from back in his college drinking days or r u just bucking 4 a promotion in the Editorial Dept. @ Fox News? He and Cheney should both go to Iraq and jump on a live grenade for what they've done 2 this country in the last 8 yrs.!!!!!!!! We're 8 yrs. in2 the new millenium & nearly a decade behind the rest of the world because of your hero!

God bless George W Bush? Okay I'll forget about how he sent thousands of american lifes into a war with no end, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. I'll forget that.

I'll forget about Bush and Cheney's ties to the big oil companies, I'll forget how his administration lied to the american people repeatedly about Weapons of mass destruction. I'll forget George W Bush's famous joke "If this were a dicatatorship it'd be a heck of a lot easier just a long as I'm the dictator"

Take a look at the national debt when George W Bush first went in office and take a look at it today. Take a look at our economy when George W BUsh went in office and look at it today.

Take a look at the Patriot act.

The most richest nation on this planet GAVE UP on finding Osama Bin Ladin??? Because Iraq was deemed more important?

More important for Bush's wallet, not more important for the security of the american people.

No, he needs to be impeached just as a message to future presidents, a reminder that we still have rule of law in this country.

About your bullet points - one foreign terror attack on US soil under Clinton and one under Bush,

There has never been a nuclear war under any president

Read a little more about N Korea, none of his tactics worked until he returned to Clinton's policy of actually negotiating with people.

Nice try, hope GWB has a nice retirement and I hope never to hear his name, hear his voice, or see his face ever again after he is out of office.

I have noticed the same thing. I agree that GWB has kept us safe for years, but we don't know what is ahead. I wish him well and I feel bad that people are so unkind to him and his family. I think we will miss him a lot.

I hope your question about a safe independent Iraq will be answered yes.

A year ago I was still supporting GWB, as I do now, as I will always.

People forget that he also had some of the highest approval ratings after 911. He colored us all red, white and blue.

Supporters?

You gotta be joking? DUDE! Nearly all over the world people hate him. He has decreased USA's popularity since he took over. When he decided top invade Iraq, more than 600 cities protested against the invade from all over the world which made also made it to the guinness world records.

Go every where people hate him. No wonder his tv appearances have decreased ause in Australia where I live they were hardly any George Bush appearances.

LOL!

Is this serious?

You forgot to take pride in his mass murder, his lies, his torture camps.

Remember that under Bush, the US started kidnapping, raping and tortuing iraqi children. Where is your pride in that?

No, the US is not a nuclear wasteland. Just a moral vacuum

Uh...NO?

Everybody becomes Mr. Nice Guy when they are worried about their legacy.

He will go down on record as the worst President in history, although, we still have more folks that will have a chance to beat him out on that.

And now the steady flow of teary-eyed Bush apologists. I am so damned fed up with the Republicans lying and whining. Look, you got beaten soundly in the election because you and that idiot Palin take McCain down. You have an idiot retainer in the White House now, as well as his puppet-master Dickless Cheney...who is now under indictment in Texas. You leave the White House in disgrace and shame, with the lowest approval record in the history of the USA. And, one more thing...I am a Republican...and I want my party back from you fundies and kooks who hijacked it from me. Walk on...you and your impotent ideologies are out. Freedom is the new thing...get on board or get the hell out. Like the John Birch Kook bumper sticker used to say..."LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT." You tools made up the slogan, now try to do the honorable thing and do what you so brazenly told other Americans to do...LEAVE!

Anyway, as we used to say in the USAF...let's sing a hymn to him: "Hymn, Hymn, F*** Hymn!"

Only by way of trying to blame Obama for GWB's mess.