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Reflecting back on president Bush I must say I am profoundly disappointed. While I voted for Bush and think that he is smarter than many will ever give him credit for, I have to say that he was not a good conservative president. There are three legs of true conservatism, limited government, social conservatism and financial conservatism. As far as financial Bush has spent more than any president ever and he recently said he sacrificed free market principles to save the economy, even though it won’t. As for limited government, Bush created a whole gigantic new department in the DHS and is all in favor of the government bailing out everybody. As for social, Bush has been the best here but at the same time he really hasn’t done that much. He did sign the Partial Birth Abortion ban and accomplished a few other things but there was so much more he could have fought for and done.

The other thing that I am disappointed in is that it seems President Bush played the religion card to get elected. Many people thought president Bush was a Christian and while I can’t say that he isn’t, it has become more clear that something just doesn’t seem right. When he was running for president the first time he said that and many people thought that he was just a good ole country boy who believed in God and country and evangelicals thought that he was really an evangelical. But when we hear that president Bush has said things like all religions pray to the same God we realize that President Bush is either very uneducated as a Christian or he doesn’t know what it means to be a Christian. The foundation of Christianity and what Jesus basically taught is that He is the only way to the only God. I don’t know if President Bush is a Christian or not and if he isn’t that in itself doesn’t make him a bad president. However for those of us who thought Bush was a Christian and if he wasn’t then it may explain some things. This should also be a lesson that just because someone says

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