President Bush Arrives in NYC

The Decider in Chief arrived at JFK Airport yesterday: President Bush was welcomed by Mayor Bloomberg and other dignitaries at the start of a trip that will mark his final visit to the United Nations General Assembly as U.S. leader and his first visit to NYC since last week's financial market meltdown. According to NY1, Bush and Bloomberg "spoke about the turmoil on Wall Street, and the president thanked Bloomberg for his ideas on how to curb the current meltdown of the financial markets."

The president's speech at the U.N. is expected to explain the U.S.'s huge $700 billion bailout of financial institutions. White House press secretary Dana Perino said, "He would not have wanted to take this action to help these companies if he wasn't convinced by the considered judgment of his senior economic team that it was critical in order to protect the American taxpayers and the American economy as a whole." His only officials meetings are with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.

Last night, President Bush attended a private fundraiser in NJ to raise money for Republican congressional candidates. Some protesters lined the highway, and a NJ man who lost his job told the AP, "After 17 years, I'm out of work because (Merrill Lynch) lost $40 billion on subprime mortgages. Bush and McCain orchestrated this disaster and made it fall like a house of cards. Now you, me and everyone else is paying for it out of our own pockets."

Photograph of Bush and Bloomberg (above) and of protesters in NJ from the AP

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By Jen Chung in News on September 23, 2008 12:34 AM

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NannyState

Republicans just can't waitg until they can stand atop the smoking ruins of this country and shout "We Win!"

ma bell

we aren't talking about just 8 years. bush sucks we all know that. we're talking about a century of progress. the world has ridden our coattails. we are the innovators, the scientists, the global business powerhouse. we are still the top dog. nationalist fervor? fact my friend. and killing the free markets kills the incentives to innovate.

we do still have the strongest military. hands down. we are the masters at destruction and you can bash the air force if you want but ours is by far the best in the world. we can destroy anything anywhere if need be. one thing we are not is nation builders. we can oust a regime but we have no idea what to do after that. proof in point. iraq. it took us what...3 days to conquer bagdhad? it took russia longer then that to conquer little georgia.

i am no nationalist. the us is wrong plenty of times and our president is a putz. but people like you that just blindly sit around and bash our country piss me off as well. case in point. your thoughts on china. talk to me about china when the average worker makes more then $0.30 an hour. you wanna be more like them? go tell the workers at any manufacturing plant they have to take a pay cut to $0.30 an hour and see what they say.

matthew gannon

What I don't like, ma bell, is 8 years of mistakes, blunders and malfeasance from the executive branch. I also don't like people who are so wrapped in a nationalist fervor (you) that they can't see the true state of our country.

We have the strongest military but its strength has been so compromised by this presidency that it's capable of doing less. Our Air Force is faced with replacing an aging fleet of aircraft at a time when money is short. The Army has a lot of personnel and equipment tied down/worn down in Iraq.

The fiscal mess we are in is so much worse than people like you realize that your economic jingoism is really pathetic. Yes, we built up a lot of the world's economy. But, we did it at the expense of our own future.

Oh, China is catching up quicker than you think.

robingee

Oh, ma bell I love you too. kiss.

soopaman

BUSH? HERE? This is awesome! I get the sense that a lot of Obama-bots are short circuiting.

Pull My Finger

ides_of_march don't waste your breath. When a looney leftish has his or her head up their ass they can not hear you.

ma bell

oh and robingee i see you are still contributing absolutely nothing with your posts. keep up the good work.

ma bell

can somebody answer me something. we are the largest and most powerful nation in the world. by far...not even a comparison. at the current rate it is going to take 30 years for the chinese to catch up to us. and that is at our current crap economy rate. we have built all that we have...every building...every global company...every dollar we have earned...every piece of the most powerful military in the world...on free markets and capitalism. the one flaw in capitalism is that every once in a while the system gets out of whack and the bubble bursts. without free markets, there wouldn't even be any bubble to burst. so what's better, 7 years of progress and 1 year of pain? or is 8 years of mediocrity your flavor.

the republicans and the democrats are all greedy power hungry buffoons. bush is a moron, obama is a moron, pelosi is a moron, mccain was fine until he started pandering to the far right but now he's a moron. and yes, clinton had just as much to do with this mess as bush.

we are the biggest and most powerful country in the world. and we're gonna be fine. lets stop acting like little whiny babies. stop looking for messiah obama and the feds to save us. lets take this shit back ourselves!

the nine worst words you can hear. "i'm from the government and i'm here to help."

ides_of_march

The democrats are up to their neck in this economic mess too. Some people are just too blindly partisan to give a damn and hold those responsibile who caused this regardless of party affiliation.

This started years ago during the Carter administration when the government began forcing banks to lend to people based on race and ethnicity rather than ablity to pay a loan back.

It's only now that political correctness is having a long overdue head-on collision with economic reality.

S.D.

Yessssss, Pres. Clinton was responsible for the last 8 years...

Um, No. "Looney Left" my ass.

Pull My Finger

No but I do not want to use bad words this early.

Rob T Firefly

I hear he'll visit Ground Zero, and kiss the ground in gratitude.

robingee

Heh, PMF you're such a joke. Leftist lefty lefto. That's all you got?

Pull My Finger

#7 get your head out of your leftist ass and you may learn something

#11 what is the democrap congress approval rating?

zodak

"Dana Perino said, ..."

PSILF

babyhitler

#5 - what Did Kasparov think about the penis copter (google it). Anyway, Mike Bloomberg must have heard crickets when he was talking to Bush about Finance.

PKinNYC

I didn't say it first...but once your approval rating gets that low...shouldn't it change to a 70% DISAPPROVAL RATING??? I'm just saying.

...and I like how the leader of the free world and the head of the Republican Party was absent from the Convention...he was scrubbed on the 1st day due to Ike...but he couldn't make it any day...BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT HIM THERE!!!!

gossipgirl

This $700 billion bailout is probably the worst mistake America could make right now.

TK

Bush and McCain orchestrated this disaster

Seriously, do people think the Bush administration is that smart? The reason we have problems in the economy are systemic to our culture as Americans and our desire to spend more than we earn. We are a debtor nation. The Bush and Clinton and Bush and Reagan and Carter and Ford and Nixon and Johnson and Kennedy and Eisenhower and Truman and Roosevelt and Hoover administrations have at least some part of the blame here.