Comments about ‘For better or for worse, Bush is distinctly Bush’

I love and honor this fine man...regardless of the many critics who rip him to shreds.

but a worthless President.

Haha, he's not a fine man. A poor excuse for a President. If people like him, they're the same that demand mediocrity in a leader - someone dumb enough for the public to relate to and understand.

His aides wish we could have seen his better side. Hmmm, well, you had 8 years to form your message and show us. I guess the "liberal media" just wouldn't allow it.

I know people in Utah that call the Deseret News liberal media. It's a laugh a minute at times!

If you still think Bush is a good Christian, then I can no longer break bread with you.

Sure, he's a nice guy but he's not the caliber of person that should be the President.

Incompetent, uninterested, narrow minded....... not words you want to describe someone who is the most powerful man in the world.

Every aspect of our country has been weakened by the worst president of the last 80 years. Historians won't have to wait a generation to write Bush's dismal legacy.

When he was coming up for re-election, I decided I'd literally vote for a Disney character before I voted for him again. I wish more of Americans had decided the same. What an awful president. I would have admittedly done 100x worse, but then I wasn't president, and didn't make myself out as such. I appreciate the story, but many parts of it don't ring true-like does he really like to read a lot? I doubt it, although I wouldn't be surprised if he had some history books on his nightstand to help him go to sleep!

I'm proud of George W. Bush for leading our country during eight years of unprecedented tragedy and trial. In my opinion, he was placed in the position of President of the United States because of the kind of person he is. I can't believe any of the other candidates who ran against him could have handled the pressure as well, or have accomplshed as much in the tremendous adversity he faced. We have been blessed; let's pray we can look to Barack Obama to do as well.

When given the chance to vote for him in his last relection battle, why did Utahs help return him to office with the highest approval rating in the Nation?

Also if he had such a high approval rating four years ago in Utah what is his approval rating today and how does it compare with the rest of the nation?

Where did Utah's get their information to support such a high approval rating?

Bush and his whole cadre are a bunch of greed-driven WAR CRIMINALS who have nearly destroyed the psyche of our once great Nation (not to mention the financial and societal devastation caused by BUSHCO). Thanks to Barack Obama and the Americans who voted for him (no thanks to sore loser Utahns) we may yet be able to regain our place as a respected World-leader.

Bush's PLACE IN HISTORY should be IN PRISON!

Surprise!! Being born and raised in Utah (and lived there for 40 years)I still read the News and Trib. I must say that I am grateful that history will judge the value and quality of the Bush Presidency rather than the vitrolic hate in these comments.

I always felt that Heavenly Father got Bush in the White House because He knew that an LDS could not be elected as yet. This column as well as the way Bush has done his job has done nothing to change that feeling. It merely reinforced it.

You do not know enough factors to be judgmental; this has been a war-time President never easy, for war does not run in an ordained fashion? Every President is given too much credit and too much failure when things do not go as planned; constitutionally they cannot really legislate, affect the economy--so look at Congress and you will see failure---partisian politics has been the norm!

I'm not saying Bush is like Reagan, because there are significant differences. Reagan was the great communicator. But what I will say is that when Reagan left office, the liberal media and the country were down on him also. It was only after he left office that people began to see the great things he did. I'll look forward to seeing what history has to say about Bush in 2048.

I guess I expect more of our chief executive than someone who has to get their 7-8 hours of sleep a night, has a ballgame on in the background, is fussy about his lunch, has the time to work out 6 days a week, and comes up with lame nicknames for everyone. Not a bad life, but hardly one that indicates a hard-working exec, much less the leader of our nation.

George Bush was a puppet, being played by conspiring men behind the scenes. We are the fools who bought it.

"There is something behind the thrown greater than the king himself."
-Sir William Pitt, House of Lords 1770

"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."
-Benjamin Dislaeli, English Statesman 1844

"The real truth of the matter is that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, US President 1933

"Ye hear of wars in foreign countries... but ye know not the hearts of men in your own land."
-D&C 38:29

President Bush is one of the most honest Pesidents that the country has ever had. He did not answer his critics because he felt that it demeaned the high office of the presidency. I was irritated that he didn't come out swinging against the leftist press and the low class leaders of the democratic party. If the nation had of backed this president the wars he got us into would be over now. But he was undermined constantly, enboldening the enemy. Those of you who do not see President Bush in a good light are cool aid drinkers of the socialist press and democrat party and are the true closed minded and uneducated people of this country. It is my hope that we as a people get behind President Barack Obama and support him when he does the right thing. I just hope his moral compass is as well tuned as President Bushes is.

Mr. Bush's administration determinedly subverted many of our finest institutions, while lashing the public into a panic over the "war on terror". Our better angels were muzzled, our baser instincts were pandered to. God will bring the final judgment on him as well as on me, but those of you who think he'll look better to historians 20 years from now - you're dreamin'!

From the day Mr. Bush became President I felt that the nation was being tested. A man with almost no qualifications and little knowledge of the world at large came to power in an election in which more people voted for the other guy by a large margin. Less than a year into his presidency, the country was thrown into chaos. The test was genuine. The response was pathetic.

Things just went downhill from there. Mr. Bush had a nation that wanted to support and even love him. When he faced the biggest leadership challenges in his administration, he almost always made poor choices.

He lost the support of the people. He made the nation look foolish.

I felt he made a mockery of the position we, and God, entrusted him with.

Having him gone will demonstrate the genius of our constitutional system. If only we had had four less years.

Bush is a great President. He understands democracy and freedom and how more government cuts into our freedom and prosperity. He believes in low taxes. God put him there, in office.

Bush is incompetent. Probably not a bad guy, a middle aged fratboy whos probably good helping out around the place, but CEO of the nation? Not enough does he bring to the table. This, by the way, is an opinion I arrived at by observation, and not from some scary 'leftist, liberal, socialist' media information.