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Was the question to Mitt Romney about G.W.Bush disrespectful?

Higgins86

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Personally I was suprised that the question made it through! The man was Commander in Cheif for 8 years and was twice elected in by his fellow Americans. Just because that women didnt like Bush doesnt mean she should be given the oppourtunity to disgrace him, bring into question his time in office, force a member of his own party to have to defend himself from his policies and distance himself from them. I just personally thought it was a bit of a cheap shot and was a little unfair on Bush given the fact he has been out of office for 4 years and has made a point of keeping himself out of the media.
 
His answer certainly was, when he threw a former sitting President of his own Party under the bus.
 
I just thought it was an odd question to begin with that really dididnt have much relevance to either man's message and as I said before was a bit of a cheap shot at Bush. The guy has refused to comment on Obama's polcies for the last 4 years and has turned down tv interviews but yet they still brought him front and center on the national stage.
 
Higgins86 said:
Personally I was suprised that the question made it through! The man was Commander in Cheif for 8 years and was twice elected in by his fellow Americans. Just because that women didnt like Bush doesnt mean she should be given the oppourtunity to disgrace him, bring into question his time in office, force a member of his own party to have to defend himself from his policies and distance himself from them. I just personally thought it was a bit of a cheap shot and was a little unfair on Bush given the fact he has been out of office for 4 years and has made a point of keeping himself out of the media.
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No it wasn't. The bush/ Gop policy caused the great recession and the woman has a right to know if romney will repeat those failed policies. And she did start out saying that she was disappointed with obama.
 
Bush was a terrible president, but regardless I don't think that anyone tonight was disrespectful to him.
 
99percenter said:
No it wasn't. The bush/ Gop policy caused the great recession and the woman has a right to know if romney will repeat those failed policies. And she did start out saying that she was disappointed with obama.
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I just thought it was common sense to be honest! Romneys and GWB's backrounds and political views are very different. Romney may be pretty vague at time but anyoen with an ounce of common sense can see how different the two men are whcih is why I thought the question was unnecessary!
 
Voltaire X said:
Bush was a terrible president, but regardless I don't think that anyone tonight was disrespectful to him.
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well the question itself was disrespectful which is my point....
 
It was an odd question. That said, why should Bush be immune from disrespect? He deserves to be disrespected.
 
Maybe it was disrespectful, but Mitt being the turn-around guy he is, made it into an opportunity and showed some of Bush's pitfalls and a lot of Romney's strengths.
 
Higgins86 said:
well the question itself was disrespectful which is my point....
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Yes. I don't think it was disrespectful to Bush so much as it was to Romney and more importantly to all those people with real issues whose potential question instead was not asked. This was about the fakest townhall meeting I have ever seen.
 
David Watson said:
Maybe it was disrespectful, but Mitt being the turn-around guy he is, made it into an opportunity and showed some of Bush's pitfalls and a lot of Romney's strengths.
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Romney isn't a bad guy. He just doesn't hear the people when they want to know what his plan is. Every time he was asked he just discredited Obama's plan, instead of proving his own
 
It was a question from a Democrat, who clearly said I don't want to vote for Obama again... she was looking for a reason to jump ship...

I don't think Romney achieved it... That was an opportunity lost...

He should've focused on balancing a budget, data driven results oriented approach rather than going from his gut... and other things which would've appealed to moderates in both parties and independents...
 
Higgins86 said:
Personally I was suprised that the question made it through! The man was Commander in Cheif for 8 years and was twice elected in by his fellow Americans. Just because that women didnt like Bush doesnt mean she should be given the oppourtunity to disgrace him, bring into question his time in office, force a member of his own party to have to defend himself from his policies and distance himself from them. I just personally thought it was a bit of a cheap shot and was a little unfair on Bush given the fact he has been out of office for 4 years and has made a point of keeping himself out of the media.
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Not at all, she wanted to know information and Romney threw Bush under the bus. Here's what he said answering the question

"I mean for instance, we can now, by virtue of new technology actually get all the energy we need in North America without having to go to the — the Arabs or the Venezuelans or anyone else. That wasn’t true in his time, that’s why my policy starts with a very robust policy to get all that energy in North America — become energy secure.

Number two, trade — I’ll crack down on China, President Bush didn’t. I’m also going to dramatically expand trade in Latin America. It’s been growing about 12 percent per year over a long period of time. I want to add more free trade agreements so we’ll have more trade.

Number three, I’m going to get us to a balanced budget. President Bush didn’t. President Obama was right, he said that that was outrageous to have deficits as high as half a trillion dollars under the Bush years. He was right, but then he put in place deficits twice that size for every one of his four years. And his forecast for the next four years is more deficits, almost that large. So that’s the next area I’m different than President Bush."

Despite President Bush claiming energy independence in six years, which didn't happen despite him being in office for eight.
 
Higgins86 said:
Personally I was suprised that the question made it through! The man was Commander in Cheif for 8 years and was twice elected in by his fellow Americans. Just because that women didnt like Bush doesnt mean she should be given the oppourtunity to disgrace him, bring into question his time in office, force a member of his own party to have to defend himself from his policies and distance himself from them. I just personally thought it was a bit of a cheap shot and was a little unfair on Bush given the fact he has been out of office for 4 years and has made a point of keeping himself out of the media.
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It certainly had nothing to do with this election, but alas, somehow a Republican always gets hit with one of those questions, like last election with the whole Confederate flag question.
 
Higgins86 said:
well the question itself was disrespectful which is my point....
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Boohoo! Bush sucked and I say that with a small fraction of the disrespect he is due. He caused a lot of people to vote for Obama that may not have otherwise and so I would guess the question is somewhat relevant to many.
 
Fair game. Point here, Mitt supports Bush policies and wants to double down. That is the truth. So its fair.
 
Romney handled this question poorly like so many others. He should have asked "where you concerned Obama was going to be a sexual predator like Clinton? John Gacy was an Illinois democrat...do you fear Obama is sexually assaulting and burying young boys under the west wing?"
 
The question is fair, The media has brought up the subject so many times the idea is in the voters minds so it needs to be addressed.
 
One correction. Bush was appointed president by the Supreme Court his first time around. He was not the People's choice.
 
Why would the moderator allow a question that had nothing to do with Obama.

The question was how are Romeny and Bush different. Why would Obama have anything to say on that point?

The questions were supposed to be about the election and what we need to know about the differences between the 2 men running for the office, not one cantidate and the president from 4 years ago.
 
Higgins86 said:
Personally I was suprised that the question made it through! The man was Commander in Cheif for 8 years and was twice elected in by his fellow Americans. Just because that women didnt like Bush doesnt mean she should be given the oppourtunity to disgrace him, bring into question his time in office, force a member of his own party to have to defend himself from his policies and distance himself from them. I just personally thought it was a bit of a cheap shot and was a little unfair on Bush given the fact he has been out of office for 4 years and has made a point of keeping himself out of the media.
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I think it was a very good question, given that Romney has many advisers that also advised GW Bush. It is important to know if Romney is planning on retrurning to some Bush policies.
 
Risky Thicket said:
One correction. Bush was appointed president by the Supreme Court his first time around. He was not the People's choice.
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It must stick in your craw that Gore only asked for a partial recount in Florida.
 
Risky Thicket said:
One correction. Bush was appointed president by the Supreme Court his first time around. He was not the People's choice.
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He won...what was it 31-19 of the states? Florida was never decided on a full recount because all of the recounts insisted on picking on heavily partisan counties and ignored the absentee ballots, especially the military votes. Perhaps if Gore had managed to simply win his own home state...
 
Sarcogito said:
It was an odd question. That said, why should Bush be immune from disrespect? He deserves to be disrespected.
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I have a problem that Crowley picked it as one of the questions to be featured. It has not relevance to this decision - and if anyone wants to know what Romney plans to do, they can ask that.

I doubt that Crowley would have picked a question that cited LBJ as causing the cultural divide that still plagues the country and asking him if he will continue those disastrous policies because he is a DEM too.

I doubt that Crowley would have picked a question that cited Carter as causing the greatest economic disaster since the Great Depression (except for Obama's) and asked him to differentiate himself from the disastrous policies of that DEM.

I doubt that Crowley would have picked a question that cited Carter as giving us the Iran regime and asked how Obama's foreign policy is different from that awful disaster since he seems to be following closely in Carter's footsteps in Egypt, Iran, and Libya.

No - this was just another no-win question for Romney and a no-lose question for Obama that Crowley picked out of the morass to give Obama a boost. Romney actually provided as good an answer as could be expected.
 
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