The leftist media is going bonkers over this billboard paid for by an as yet anonymous American exercising his God-given and Constitutionally protected right to free speech:

I can't find a non copyright protected image of the billboard in question, so I show the below as something similar gleaned from Google Images:


The billboard is driving the left wild because they know.  They know Obama is failing badly.  They know the marketing campaign to get him into office has faded away to hard realities of an ideologue more interested in his leftist legacy than in solving real problems in the here-and-now facing millions of Americans.  Many in the center have come to realize the sickening error of their vote.  I speculate that Obama's poll numbers are artificially high, not because of pollster manipulation, but because the people being polled are not yet willing to admit they've been played, and they've been had. 

So, do I miss President George Bush?

Yes and no.

I miss a White House that at least had a working knowledge of how a capitalist economy functions.  A White House that would have moved to spur economic growth through private sector incentives rather than the most massive Federal Government spending program on Government itself in the history of the country.  

I miss a White House that saw through the diplomatic double-speak bullshit to recognize that no amount of "negotiation" was going to get Iran to abandon it's ambitions to be a nuclear power.  The charade going on right now would be laughable if it were not so serious.

I miss a White House willing to thumb it's nose at waffling "allies" unwilling to stand up to the enemies of freedom and democracy.

I miss a White House that understood the importance of keeping captured terrorist enemy combatants out of our criminal justice system.

I miss a White House willing to call the War on Terror, the War on Terror. 

I miss a White House resolute in staying in a hard fight until it was hard won, rather than turning tail and running away as Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Murtha, Kerry and others demanded.

I miss a First Lady not embarrassed to be an American.

I don't miss the stuttering bumbling speaker who sometimes fought to put a single sentence together.  Not a measure of a stupid man (or a retard - obligatory apologies to Mother Palin), but probably evidence of too much cocaine as a youngin', and paying the price.  Presidents need to be able to articulate their policies effectively.  George just didn't have the right stuff.

I don't miss the hands-off aloof style of management that lead to nearly catastrophic bungling of the Iraq War.  I've said it time and again, I think the Iraq War was the right war for the wrong reasons.  But even if Bush stupidly laid the case for war all on a single false threat of Iraq's desire for nuclear weapons, it wasn't the war itself that appalled me, it was the post combat management of Iraq that appalled me no end.  The paralysis of in-fighting between titanic egos in Bush's cabinet while Bush himself stood by and did nothing led to the deaths of many hundreds of American soldiers.  Bush opened the door to the Iraqi Insurgency.  This I cannot forgive.  But, do consider this:  If Saddam Hussein were still in power, with a hostile and bitter foe working hard at obtaining nuclear weapons, we would already be in an even more dangerous nuclear arms race in that region. 

I don't miss a "conservative" President willing to drive the country deeper in debt by enacting hugely expensive new Social Security benefits without provisioning for how it would be funded.  The prescription benefit plan was, and is, a fiasco.  The only good to come of it, a shining example of how Government can completely screw up a new "entitlement", and a warning of the shape government run national health care would take.

I don't miss a "conservative" President who refused to pay for the war in Iraq, and instead shoveled the debt onto succeeding generations, after promising not do just that.

Even so flawed, net-net I would take George Bush over Barack Obama on George Bushs' worst day?

Oh yes, I would.