Anyone Who Was At the Ole Miss Game

He's the greatest US president to have a library on our campus

Having his library on our campus is a great achievement

I feel like Bush Sr. is a middle of the pack president. His son is towards the bottom. Lying about going to war in a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, then cutting taxes during that war to produce a recession so bad that it is compared to 1929...you don't get a lot of good points in my book. Also no child left behind was terrible.

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Did you hear them say how George H. W. Bush was one of the greatest presidents in the history of the US? I got a lot of bad looks when I busted out laughing.

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Give it four years and you'll agree.

Bashing Bush is so 2008 tbh.

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then cutting taxes during that war to produce a recession so bad that it is compared to 1929.

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Can we assume that you don't have a degree in economics?

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Saddam

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Better him than ISIS. He was cruel, but he kept the extremists in line and Iraqis and Syrians weren't dying by the dozen on a daily basis.

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Better him than ISIS. He was cruel, but he kept the extremists in line and Iraqis and Syrians weren't dying by the dozen on a daily basis.

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You think ISIS would have grown like they did had we implemented a better exit plan? If you want to blame Bush for ISIS, that's fine. But Obama deserves some blame too. If you want to compare Saddam to ISIS, go for it. But comparing one evil to another evil and settling for the lesser one is a terrible option. Like it or not, Saddam was a problem that we had to eventually fix down the line. The Middle East is not all black and white and hindsight is always 20/20 with people who like to complain.

If you really want to blame someone for this mess we have, blame the Brits and French. They created this mess after they broke up the Ottoman Empire. They though cutting up regions was as easy as drawing lines in maps, but all they did was piss off the entire region and it made them hate the Western world.

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Lmfao. Apples and fricking elephants.

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Not really. Go look at our past recessions and see the pattern. You can't expect our economy to always be healthy and growing. Recessions are bound to happen in every economy. Sometimes they are as bad as 2008, sometimes they aren't. Could Bush have influenced it? Probably, but not all blame goes to him for the 2008 recession. Want to blame someone? Blame the idiots who bought houses they had no business buying and Clinton for giving them the chance.

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Oh well it worked for you, bust be great!

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We're you in public school during the Bush Administration? Because someone who isn't smart enough to pass standardized testing really has no business walking a college campus. I have absolutely no problem with standardized testing and never understood parents who wanted to protect their little snowflakes from those mean tests.

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Lesser evil is always better than a greater evil. Would you rather someone break in your house and steal your belongings or kill your whole family and post it on YouTube

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I'd rather fight them to protect both my family and belongings.

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Every time you reduce regulation on Wall Street that shite happens. They have no soul or conscience. They make money, the world be damned.

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A lot of that was on Slick Willy's administration for creating a lax credit environment.

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Yes I was, and I happen to be pretty intelligent in spite of not being taught what to learn and now how to learn. I'm pretty sure most a&m grads can say the same, but there are those who aren't so lucky to have parents who put a premium on education and/or weren't gifted with high intelligence. There's always more of them, and just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

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I don't consider myself to be an intelligent person, but even I knew that the TAAS/TAKS was a very basic standardized test full of crap we were supposed to know by then. The History and Science tests were mostly common knowledge and the Math, Reading and Writing portions were easier than the SAT. I never understood why parents hated standardized testing since tests are the only thing a kid will see in college.

Sorry if I sound harsh, but any kid that couldn't pass the standardized tests didn't deserve a HS Diploma. The tests weren't hard and all they required was effort from the student. I went to a terrible HS were half the time we spent flinging pencils to the ceiling to get them stuck and the other half was spent messing with teachers. We had very little learning moments, but those moments were enough to get me through HS and into A&M. Most of a student's success has to do with the actual student and not the classroom.

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Lying about going to war

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Don't tell me you're part of the "Bush lied, people died!" crowd. Virtually EVERYONE thought Saddam had WMD, from Republicans AND Democrats, to just about every major intelligence service around the globe. Turns out they were all wrong.

You want to know why we have President Elect Trump? Partly because of this stuff here. You could fault Bush for not having a good plan for what happened after Saddam was deposed. But the Dems couldn't let an opportunity to demonize the Republican go to waste. No, they forgot their own votes for the war based on the intelligence they saw, so they could turn Bush into lying, blood-for-oil-thirsty BUSHITLER. Bush couldn't just have been wrong. He had to be EVIL.

And then McCain had to be EVIL.

And then Romney had to be EVIL.

When year after year the Dems say the Republican candidate is always a RACISTSEXISTBIGOTHOMOPHOBE then people begin to wonder if the Dems are really just crying wolf for political purposes. And when along comes Trump, who actually does present a target-rich environment when it comes to some of those charges, the electorate is numb to them.

If you want to legitimately criticize Bush, there's plenty of material available. The "Bush Lied" meme isn't part of that.