Busheron: a retrospective
One way of ignoring the divine pharaoh’s ascension and focusing on something positive for the next couple of days is to think about the loser we are losing. So, as the worst president ever—the president who,
inter so many
alia’s, launched an unprecedented pre-emptive invasion of a foreign country on the basis of its possession of weapons of mass destruction, and, when the weapons turned out not to be there, never felt he owed the country an explanation for this—leaves office, below is a selection of VFR entries about him from over the years. Listed here are the first 137 items that came up in Google, a small fraction of the total number of VFR entries referencing Bush, which number in the thousands. But, as you will see, they cover the gamut.
How the neocons went along with Bush’s Iraq disaster and with his …
Two years ago, a bunch of leading neoconservatives, including Richard Perle and David Frum, publicly turned against President Bush, arguing…
In dealing with Muslim extremists, how different is Obama from Bush?
The Guardian (via Diana West) reports: The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon George Bush’s doctrine of isolating Hamas…
A real difference between Bush and Obama
Dick Morris and Ellen McGann write in the New York Post: Bush’s legacy shows one clear achievement: He kept us…
The Bush and McCain ideology of national extinction
extinction…. According to Senator McCain, as a nation conceived in an idea, in liberty, our “one shared faith” is that our nation “will prove better than …
Bush’s past promises on Supreme Court nominees
Now that our president is openly talking about nominating to the Supreme Court his friend Alberto Gonzales, whom no one…
Bush’s victimological view of America as seen in his first …
Jul 8, 2003 … In his disgraceful speech in Senegal about American slavery, President Bush portrays America as under a permanent racial guilt. He…
Pro-war neocons turn on Bush, washing their own hands
Nov 5, 2006 … Here are two quotes from Vanity Fair’s bombshell preview of an upcoming article about the apparently apostate neocon war-supporters Kenneth.
Bush’s condemnation of slavery
Here is President Bush’s first speech in Africa, an extended condemnation of black slavery. Leaving out any mitigating factors, he…
The fundamental irrationality of Bush’s democratism
Bush’s position, enunciated in his inaugural address, is that we cannot be safe in our own country unless people everywhere…
E-mail to a pro-Bush blogger
I wrote an e-mail to “Captain Ed” at Captain’s Quarters, one of those useful but off-puttingly triumphalist pro-Bush weblogs, about his rah-rah support for …
Farah’s doomsday scenario about Bush
Joseph Farah, no friend of President Bush’s, predicts that if the Democrats win control of the Congress this year, they…
The sum of Bush’s political character
A reader writes: President Bush says he gets mad when people criticize his friend, Gonzales. Why doesn’t Bush get upset…
More on my nickname for Bush
I asked a respected traditionalist writer and friend of this website what he thought about a reader’s criticism of my…
To make Iraq seem better, Bush/Rice make America seem worse
Aug 17, 2005 … How many times have we heard President Bush and his twin brain, the cute if overrated national security advisor turned…
How Bush has replaced natural rights with family values
Oct 26, 2004 … Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how natural-rights liberalism, the founding philosophy of America, has been changed into openness…
An open border too far? (Or a Bush attack too far?)
What is the meaning of the events of the last couple of weeks? Are we experiencing what I have called…
View from the Right
His ranch in Crawford, Texas, is the perfect place for G.W. Bush to … George W . Bush addressed the nation tonight and denounced Americans as cowards. …
Norquist Republicans and Bush Republicans
From a small e-mail list I participate in, here are some thoughts on the evil Grover Norquist, who, it turns…
Bush’s leaden, ideological, neo-Jacobin inaugural address
Jan 20, 2005 … There are no words to express how off-putting, arrogant, and offensive President Bush’s inaugural speech is, with its theme of…
A reader displeased over my attacks on Bush
A reader had criticized me a couple of weeks ago for calling our president ” George W. Boilerplate.” On reflection, I…
Bush puts the burden on us instead of the Palestinians …
Put on your seat belts. Here’s our president in a speech today in Brussels: Our efforts are guided by a…
The total lie in Bush’s renewal of the “peace process”
Must reading from Barbara Lerner on the real situation in Israel. She brings home the total fraud of Bush’s present…
Bush’s global “freedom” also means Blair’s global welfare state
Feb 2, 2005 … An important article by James Pinkerton about the real direction of Bush’s politics of.
Al Qaeda takes Bush at his word
According to Agence France-Presse, a captured Al Qaeda document said the US plan in Iraq is.
More nonsensical Bush rhetoric that no one questions
Oct 26, 2004 … Bush keeps talking about his. … One of the many indictments of the Bush administration is that all of the advisers who have given Bush …
Bush/neocon paradigm made explicit
President Bush’s overall view of the Moslem issue, explicated by me below, is identical to Mark Steyn’s view, discussed by…
Powerline’s reluctant, passive criticism of Bush for …
Two days ago I wrote to Scott Johnson of Powerline: Mr. Johnson: May I respectfully ask how you could condemn…
George W. Bush: the master spirit of subprime mortgages
Correcting Ann Coulter’s article that lays the whole situation at the feet of the Democrats, a reader sends a speech…
Bush adopts VFR’s definition of victory
All along, Bush and his supporters have defined victory in terms of establishing a democracy and having elections, while I…
“We have no strategy to win”
Aug 29, 2005 … To my knowledge, this is a question that Bush has never … President Bush and his handlers are saying that he misspoke when he told a tv …
Bush’s “laying on of hands” routine with visiting foreign leaders
Here are some delicious observations about our president from Rupert Cornwell writing in the Belfast Telegraph: George Bush, expert diviner…
Bush’s supremely prejudicial position that his opponents’ position …
A prime example has been President Bush’s and Condoleezza Rice’s repeated … Bush’s mainstream conservative supporters never criticized the White House for …
Noonan: conservatives are divorcing themselves from Bush
I know it sounds egotistical of me to be constantly repeating that the mainstream conservatives are just catching up with…
The unspeakable behavior of Bush and his team
What words are adequate to describe a president who tells American airline companies to exercise the greatest caution against possible…
Did Bush misspeak or did he speak the truth?
Sep 2, 2004 … President Bush and his handlers are saying that he misspoke when he told a tv interviewer,
Analyzing Bush’s unintelligible war slogans
Oct 25, 2004 … “We will strike the terrorists abroad,” Bush said in a speech in Mason City, Iowa, last week, “so we do not have to face them here at home.” …
Iran’s nuclear program must be destroyed
Jan 13, 2009 … Last week The New York Times reported that President Bush had rejected Israel’s request for weapons and other help in…
About Laura Bush: Is there any there, there?
This is a disrespectful question, but there’s no way to soften it, so I’ll just come right out and ask…
My Bush epiphany
Wednesday, September 20, 2000 by Lawrence Auster—A few weeks before he was nominated as the Republican candidate for president of the United States, …
Bush’s open-borders politics transcends politics
May 11, 2006 … Once again, the rest of the world has caught up with VFR. For years, contributors at this site have been…
The logos and telos of Bush’s policy revealed
President Bush discussed the London bombings in a speech today at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia: The attack in…
Phillips: The Iraq disaster is the generals’ fault, not Bush’s
Jan 8, 2007 … Some odd statements by Melanie Phillips in her January 5th Diary: Encouragingly, there are signs that Bush may have now…
Bush’s leadership method capsulized
Oct 28, 2004 … Here, based on the very revealing interview he gave recently to the New York Times Magazine, on an equally revealing…
The real reason Bush seems so resolute
Republicans admire, and in many cases literally adore, President Bush for his resoluteness, his unyielding and tenacious determination to.
Tancredo: Bush doesn’t want America to be an actual place
Exactly right. And of course that is what liberalism is all about. WorldNetDaily reports: The president of the United States…
Cal Thomas skewers Bush “democracy” speech
Nov 12, 2003 … Cal Thomas has written an insightful critique of President Bush’s.
Sailer on the IQs of Bush, Kerry, and Kennedy
Oct 26, 2004 … Through admirable research and logic based on IQ-type tests they book took as candidate military officers, Steve Sailer has reached…
The personal roots of Bush’s open-borders treason
Newsweek, in a story about President Bush and the immigration issue, has finally found something for which it can treat…
We’ll guard that border, after it’s gone; or, Bush admits the …
Critics of the Bush-Kennedy immigration bill have been saying that the supposed enforcement triggers that must occur before illegal aliens…
Bush’s and Rice’s alternative reality breaking down
I’ll start by quoting Barry Schweid’s article for the AP in which he summarizes Secretary Rice’s recent woes: WASHINGTON (AP)—It…
Impeach Bush
According to the US Constitution, the president shall be impeached for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” This large-sounding phrase is not…
Episcopal parishes withholding donations
So Ben Domench, along with Cal Thomas, thinks the Bush Africa speech is one of … I no longer support George W. Bush and will not defend him in any way. …
Pinkerton contra Bush on borders
[W]e might conclude that angry Muslims just don’t fit in very well here in the West,” writes James Pinkerton. He…
Summing up the Bush disaster in 122 words
A reader writes: I try to understand how Bush could be surrounded by so many.
Frum echoes VFR on Bush’s folly
On March 11 I posted at this website a blog entry about President Bush’s proposed amnesty for illegal aliens. It…
Many Lucianne posters angry at Bush
Check out this thread on Bush’s immigration proposal at Lucianne.com (threads there are taken off the Web after two days)….
How can Bush and Rice criticize the Hamas victory?
Now that an organization of terrorists and would-be Israel-destroyers have come to power as a result of democratic elections in…
Sailer on Bush’s self-undoing
Steve Sailer’s grasp of numbers is clearly superior to that of our president and his strategic wizard: [If the Karl…
More on Bush’s opening to terrorists
Providing further support for my indictment of President Bush for his contradictory and deceitful policies, a reader writes: Now I’m…
Bush’s irrepressible desire to honor America’s enemies, cont.
George W. Bush, who promised before he was elected to respect the honor and dignity of the presidential office, has…
Bush’s speech
Paul K. writes: I watched President Bush’s speech tonight and I’ll tell you my reaction: I immediately drove to an…
The latest conspiracy theory: Bush got “messages” during debate
Oct 9, 2004 … What follows is an e-mail exchange with a person who has made intelligent contributions to VFR discussions, but whose soundness…
Collecting the Bush/neocon war slogans
Sep 20, 2007 … Based on my comment that “in the Age of Bush and Podhoretz, … It will be a running catalogue of Bush/neocon war rhetoric. …
For once, Bush does reality
In his second big speech in two days, President Bush dispensed with his usual reality-free boilerplate and told us about…
Bush’s open-borders bull has gone as far as it can go
Here is a cartoon that, as a reader writes, shows our fearless leader in all his monomaniacal glory. But as…
Bush supporter calls for permanent occupation of Iraq
J. Peter Mulhern proclaims forthrightly that we must keep our forces in Iraq forever, since, if we pulled out at…
Bush knifes his conservative base
Bush’s attitude toward his conservative base is one of undisguised contempt. Remember that it was Bush himself who said repeatedly that his model of the …
The Bush administration: globalist Jacobins
Condoleezza Rice, the Secretary of State, supports global revolution for democratic change, warmly endorses the UN, and gives her unconditioned…
Bush administration legitimizing Hamas
As the Bush administration has continues to pursue its worst principles, such as open borders, and its most deluded principles,…
Conservatives against Bush’s globalism
Joseph Farah sums up the rising conservative opposition to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. Many observers have…
Bush is arguably a traitor
Jun 15, 2007 … But what excuse does Bush have for his heart being elsewhere? … I have been uneasy, in the past, about calling Bush a traitor. No longer! …
Lowry on Bush, 2006
In a February 2006 blog entry that I just came across and is worth taking a look at, I analyze…
Does anyone ever challenge Bush on his immigration boilerplate?
The messiah from west Texas, also known as the President of the United States, met with GOP congressmen in a…
Bush: optimist on restoring order to Iraq, defeatest on restoring …
Dan Stein of FAIR quotes Richard Lowry of NR, who, as we can see below, on occasion says something useful…
A technocratic theory of Bush’s leadership style
Nov 12, 2004 … Many theories have been offered at VFR for Bush’s so hard-to-read motivations and his equally strange modus operandi. (Of course,…
Bush, FDR, and the Hitler-Stalin pact
President Bush said in his speech in Latvia on May 5: The agreement at Yalta followed in the unjust tradition…
Thoughts on hearing Bush’s speech
Our quasi-religious faith in America as the spreader of freedom around the world grows in proportion as our actual America…
How Bush fulfilled his pledge to pick a judge like Scalia
In an article in the Weekly Standard, Fred Barnes purports to show how hard the president and the White House…
The silly syllogism that justifies Bush’s policy
Jan 28, 2005 … Defending Bush’s inaugural address, Daniel Henninger of Opinion Journal reveals the amazing intellectual lightness of Bushite conservatism.
Conservative editor praises Bush for adopting Democratic positions
In a typically, stunningly empty column by Emmett Tyrrell, a man whose paid writing career somehow continues on and on,…
Bush is a Macchiavellian genius, cont.
Oct 21, 2005 … There are always people who discern a secret genius scenario at work behind President Bush’s apparently least successful acts and…
Pro-Bush blogger calls Moslems of Middle Ages “Islamists”
Years ago a left-wing female acquaintance of mine came back from a vacation in Norway and, in enthusiastically describing her…
Conservative Book Club rejects Fred Barnes’s encomium to Bush
Jan 23, 2006 … A reader writes: As a member of the Conservative Book Club I enjoy reading Jeffrey Rubin’s “And Rightly So” column…
The Declaration of Independence, according to Bush and the neocons
Nov 13, 2007 … The below updated version of the Declaration of Independence is copied from the blog entry,
Did I “eternally” give up on Israel?
Remember, only days after the September 11,2001 atrocities, President Bush unveiled his vision for a Palestinian terrorist state in Israel’s Biblical …
Why Jews hate Bush and excuse exterminationist Jew-haters
Nov 11, 2005 … A reader writes: Mr. Auster, As a result of your post today on anti-semitism, I found your previous piece for…
L-dotters have an actual disagreement for once, about Laura Bush
It’s a shame the threads at Lucianne.com only stay online for a couple of days, as some are worth preserving….
Man bites dog—excuse me, Bush defends himself from leftist lies
President Bush replies—finally—to the Democrats’ lying charges that he lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and the Washington…
Strong words about Bush from a long-time devoted supporter
Scott of Powerline writes: To the extent that President Bush denies that he has significantly shifted course in his…
NR supports Bush’s big-government conservatism
The editor of National Review, Richard Lowry, supports President Bush’s proposal to spend $500 million for vouchers to allow poor…
Obama joke (actually a Bush joke)
Dec 18, 2006 … From Saturday Night Live: Barack Obama was in New Hampshire Sunday. When informed of this, President Bush excitedly asked, “Did…
A look back at Bush: The personal roots of his open-borders treason
From VFR during the big immigration debate in May 2006, when the Senate passed the Bush-backed immigration bill S.2611 (which…
Bush’s dream (immigrants underbidding Americans for jobs …
Paul Henry has posted at the 2 blowhards blog an epitome of the process by which low-wage immigration drags down…
Bushes said to be in a sick, manipulative relationship
May 3, 2005 … Most of us, whatever our criticisms and even our thoroughgoing disapproval of President Bush, regard him as psychologically a pretty normal …
Bush urges legalization of illegals
Jan 6, 2004 … President Bush urges the legalization of illegal aliens….
What Bush seems to be saying, and what he’s really saying
In a speech in Salt Lake City, President Bush said, “We will accept nothing less than total victory over the…
Why the only alternative to Bush’s immigration policy is resentment
Alan Levine writes: I had noted the mention, in your comments about Bush and the CIA, of Bush’s statement in…
A chicken in every pot, a Ford in every garage, a homeowner in …
Last week I quoted a talk by President Bush in 2002 in which he strongly backed the expansion of home…
America and the Method of Bush: Why do we simply assume …
Below, from a reader, is a discussion of the type of central, unavoidable concern about democratization that, as I indicated…
Bush comes—not for the first time—to the Clintons’ rescue
(Bush’s agenda to normalize the Clintons was one of the two key reasons I did … Morris also grasps the Bush behavior I’ve often decried, of giving back …
Bush follows in Clinton’s footsteps
Phyllis Schlafly enumerates seven bad Clinton policies that George W. Bush has perpetuated. It ain’t a pretty picture. …
A new theory of Bush
As we consider President Bush’s amazing, unrelenting, robot-like, “Undead”-like efforts to push though his staggeringly ruinous and unpopular immigration …
Ingraham on Bush
Ok, so Ingraham now understands that Bush is harder on his own Republican … But I don’t think she yet gets what that really means—that Bush at bottom …
Is Bush really a right-wing genius?
A reader argues that President Bush, despite all appearances that he is lost in a liberal/neoconservative haze, is actually pursuing…
The undisguised bankruptcy of Team Bush
In this proposed speech for President Bush in Opinion Journal, neocon social scientist James Q. Wilson apparently feels that he’s…
Bush and Rice: Worse than Oslo
To understand the essence of the Hezbollah peace process, let us begin by recalling the insanity of the Oslo peace…
Is the Vanity Fair article on neocons a dishonest hit piece?
Such as Frank Gaffney’s saying that Bush’s acts don’t track with his rhetoric … Frum quotes his comment about President Bush that is quoted in the article …
Between Iraq and a hard place
The Bush administration and its supporters, such as Ralph Peters and the editors of … Mr. Bush has made us appear weak with the appeals to the U.N. and to …
Bush’s character revealed
Accusing Miers’s critics of bigotry against women was just the beginning for this tribal, closed-in-upon-itself White House. According to John…
Sharpton’s legitimization consummated
I am about to speak unspeakable words. Al Sharpton was a guest of President Bush’s at the White House this…
The media’s different treatment of anti-black and anti-white violence
Sep 26, 2005 … I guess Bush said, “Nigga’s been used to dying!” … George Bush ain’t a goldigger, but he ain’t fucking with no broke niggas …
Bush defends the single most discreditable act of his presidency
In an interview with the editors and writers of National Review, President Bush says that Harriet Miers was a good…
Paul Craig Roberts: Still crazy after fours years
Nov 3, 2005 … Naturally he sees it as confirmation of everything that it is not a confirmation of: that President Bush, under the control of a sinister …
The best traditionalist conservative scenario of a Bush victory
Assuming that Bush wins, what would be the best possible outlines of this victory from a traditionalist conservative point of…
An anti-white president? Obama wouldn’t be the first
Mar 16, 2008 … The stain is on us—and Bush, along with his twin brain Condoleezza Rice, loves to remind us of it. Which of course is also the Jeremiah …
Coulter “baffled” by Bush’s support for open borders
Ann Coulter is interviewed by the Jewish Press. VFR reader Ben is not impressed. He starts by quoting from the…
Bush adoration, 2005
Today almost everyone, including the Republicans, including the conservatives, including the careerist extraordinaire David Frum, is negative toward …
Bush rejects thought, makes decisions by instinct, backed by faith
Ron Suskind’s long article about President Bush in the October 17 New York Times Magazine,
Bush immigration plan will bring new clarity to American politics
There may be one very welcome consequence of Bush’s amnesty-in-all-but-name-for- illegal-aliens plan: it will separate the sheep from the goats in…
Tenet and Bush
Maureen C. writes: George Tenet is bringing up the hot-button issue of interrogation techniques in a national interview!! By bringing…
The psychological dilemma of the disillusioned Bush lovers
Note: further down in this entry, see my discussion of the theory that it is Bush who is angry at…
The latest defense of the Bush doctrine
An article at Powerline demonstrates the lengths to which President Bush’s convinced supporters will go to defend his unsustainable democratization…
Bush’s nepotistic choice to head immigration agency
Ever since January 7, 2004 when he first made his two-part proposal for ” temporary” amnesty for illegal aliens working in…
Bush and NR: the marriage may really be over
Earlier this month I took David Frum to task for having seemingly threatened to drop his support for President Bush…
Further reflections on the Bush crisis
Reader to LA: In your post today titled “Why Bush Must Choose a Conservative,” you make the case for why…
How a supporter of Bush’s Iraq policy became an opponent
After he wrote to me the other day, I asked Rick Darby of the Reflecting Light blog to tell what…
Sharif on Bush; Goldberg on Sharif
We’ve often wondered, before Busherino the Magnificent invaded Iraq with the millennial intention of turning it into a democracy, did…
The Times on Bush’s speech
Here’sa once-in-a lifetime event: I agree with almost every word of today’s New York Times editorial about President Bush’s…
Bush supporter calls his actions “destructive”
The guys at Powerline love President Bush and defend him at every opportunity. But his gross insanity on Israel has…
Even K-Lo can’t stand Bush
Among the NRO-cons who are outraged at President Bush for his refusal to take seriously his duty to protect the…
Putin the realist versus Bush the utopian
At a news conference at the G-8 summit in St. Petersburg, President Bush, describing to reporters his meeting with Russian…
Frum’s interesting comments on Bush
David Frum, establishment neocon, is saying the same thing about President Bush that so many of us less establishment types…
What makes Bush so knowledgeable about Islam?
In President Bush’s speech last week to the Islamic Center in Washington, says Daniel Pipes, Bush showed that he has…
Bush’s betrayals—and their consequences
The other day I came upon a brief item that spoke eloquently to President Bush’s effectiveness as a war leader….
A few L-dotters disgusted with Bush for embracing Clinton
Today at FrontPage Magazine, Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey have an article reminding the world of what Clinton did to…
A leading Bush supporter says Iraq may be lost
I wasn’t going to post anything more today, but this is big. Ralph Peters, a long-time gung-ho optimist on Bush’s…
Why mainstream conservatives fail to oppose Bush’s leftward moves
In the midst of our extreme unhappiness with Republicans and mainstream conservatives over their failure to oppose forcefully President Bush’s…
Mrs. Bush’s absurdity
And here is another very apt reply to Mrs. Bush’s moronic sexism charge, by John Podhoretz: “Okay, we confess. We…
What can Bush do, short of sackcloth and ashes?
As Peggy Noonan sees it, President Bush is in “the first political crisis of his presidency, a crisis unusual, even…
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