Originally Posted by Sally Jo

Cassie, yes, the military is doing a great job. Bush is the commander in chief of the military. Besides the military there are all kinds of behind the scenes groups working to protect us. CIA etc. I don't think Bush is hiding. The media is only interested in singing Obama's praises. By the way, if a Republican president elect had a sign in front of his podium that said, "office of the president elect", the media would go crazy.

Originally Posted by SteveZ

And just what would you expect Pres. Bush should be doing right now?

Your dislike for the sitting president is quite evident. However, the need to take parting shots at random with no substance or basis is strange.

What you apparently don't see is the amount of work involved in transitioning administrations. While the national business du jour continues, the continuous briefing of the next guard, and preparing for potential problems that can occur the day before, the day of, and the day after the handover is immense. If the only time anyone thinks a president is doing something is when he's mugging for a camera, then there is little knowledge of what really goes on inside an administration.

If "hiding" is taking responsibility for all of the preparatory efforts for transition while doing everything possible to insure what happened when the UK had it's changeover doesn't happen here or is mitigated to the best efforts possible, then Pres. Bush and his staff are "hiding" very well.

And as far as the military goes, they are indeed doing their jobs very well. But don't forget the federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, intelligence agencies and homeland security offices working in partnership on counterterrorism. Their work goes unnoticed by the public at large, but their productivity has been made much more effective by the actions, policies, resources and dedication to fusion-of-efforts by this administration.

Pres. Bush and his cabinet are not perfect - no administration has ever been. However, a lot of that dislike has been nurtured by a liberal media determined to accent the negative and disregard the positive - and there have been positives.

When Mr. Obama's administration takes over, there will be a 6-month press honeymoon during which time whatever errors he and his staff make will be written off as the result of not knowing "how bad" things were. However, if the Obama administration does not kiss the media's collective rumps and give them unfettered access to everything, to include credit for being the intellectual spirit guide for the administration, then the camera will be focused in a different manner to show all of his faults and shortcomings. That's just the way of things....

If you look at the history of the Islamic attacks in the U.S., Israel and Great Britain, they are spaced out. If things go according to the past, there should be another attack within the next two years. Barring a disturbed individual, I would have been very surprised had there been attack in the past 6 years.

Most Muslims are very patient people. They understand that they've been around for centuries and will probably be around for many centuries more. That means waiting 5-8 years in between attacks is nothing to them.

There are many things I blame Pres. Bush for. However, whether or not there is an attack I honestly believe has nothing to do with who is president of this nation. It has more to do when plans, including all funding and training, are in place. I sincerely doubt the radicals care what party or individual is in charge -- just whether the training is complete; whether they have all necessary materials; whether the leaders can escape (the lower-echelon are simply cannon fodder in their eyes, anyway); whether the plans are in fact viable and will create havoc and fear.

And just what would you expect Pres. Bush should be doing right now?

Your dislike for the sitting president is quite evident. However, the need to take parting shots at random with no substance or basis is strange.

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If this is what this new administration has spawned, and I am not saying it is true..just basing it on what I am hearing.....that President Obama is blessed and does no wrong and everything will be someone elses fault, then we have spawned something that is more scary than I thought. I thought that would go by the wayside after the campaign.

I do not understand the narrow minded, party FIRST folks, and never will !

he hasn't even taken office yet. He has already been managing expectations down from all the campaign promises. Maybe all the wisdom from the staff he is pulling together is advising him to back peddle. Until he takes office he has no clue about what he will be able to do or not.
Anticipation doesn't get the job done...promises kept VS promises made.
What keeps ringing in my ears are all the promises made when the Dems took over the Congress two years ago. How did their promises kept VS promises made turn out two years hence. Not too good as they managed to earn the lowest approval rating in history. But we don't see or hear much about that. And there is no bashing of the incompetent incumbents earning those low numbers. And that is not a surprise.
That is exactly how it will be with Obama. His honeymoon with the media will go far, far, FAR beyond the first 6 months.
Talk is cheap....and that is ALL we have to date.
One year from today will allow a more substantive call regarding what he achieves. And no I am not expecting him to fix all the things wrong in the world the first year. Only deliver on some of the shorter term promises made...not " it is going to take longer than expected " that's called waffling already.
We shall see.

BTK

The political left has done great harm to this country both here at home and abroad through their uninformed and unreasoning hatred of President Bush. IMHO, it would be extremely damaging to the country to have conservatives react to our next President in the same manner.

We need to support the President's positions when we agree with him and serve as the loyal opposition when we disagree. The emphasis is on the word loyal - we should always respect the office of the President and remember that partisanship stops at water's edge. If we emulate the actions of the dumbocrats, then we are no better than them at supporting our country.

Seems to me that a President, any President...if you give him the sole blame you must also give him the sole credit.