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Is our perspective simillar to yours?

From our perspective [Polish] Obama is crazy and not well prepered, but Bush is good, of course not perfect, but he has so much good things too.

Thanks that Americans are starting to wake up. Yes Bush is an idiot, yes Pat Rob is also a divider preacher. But let point the finger to ourselves for electing these idiots to run a great country with plenty intelligents people. I always wonder how all of this could not have been discovered when the entire world had noticed that Bush was an idiot. To Christians, on this xmas day, let call for Jesus to teach us again "love" which is the epicenter of our well-being. If this country is in deep hole right now is because we Christians are not living to the real christianity.We have lost love for eachother and put greed at the first spot.
Merry Xmas to all.

I do not see what the problem is with Bush. It's nice to know that we, as a country, employ the handicapped.

I wonder where has Pat been for 8 years? It's too late trying to figure out Bushes intentions. We finally get an intelligent person in the white house and NOW he says Bush does not know what he is doing. Wow.....wondered who did Pat vote for since he's critizing his own party.

So the preacher has finally understood the Revelation .......

Hey, stop yelling. Some people are trying to leave semi-intelligent

comments and don't need yelling sore-losers around when doing it.

Larry wrote: "You are correct, but…it is in the Bill of Rights, which was was penned by Thomas Jefferson, who was, as you know, probably THE most important framer of the Consitution."

Larry, please show us where in the Bill of Rights the term "separation of church and state" can be found.

Also the Bill of Rights was supported by Jefferson but Madison had a greater role.

This is why we are regressing – power hungry politicians in pastoral clothing. Shame that millions of Americans allow themselves to be controlled by these so called 'pastors', 'ministers', 'evangelists', whatever. It's even sadder when they name their ministries after themselves. Sad.

So I wonder who he voted for in this election????

@WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please do us all a favor and have a seat. Don't you all get it, Bush didnt create the problem, Bush IS the PROBLEM. What we needed was an intellegent person. Watch the clear diff between the Obama admin and the Bush admin. Merry christmas!

An Egyptian man said on Wednesday he was offering his 20-year-old daughter in marriage to Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush in Baghdad on Sunday,

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over whether the government can indefinitely detain people suspected of being enemy combatants without charging them with a crime

Do you realize that there is no mention of "seperation of church and state" ANYWHERE in the U.S. Constitution?
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You are correct, but...it is in the Bill of Rights, which was was penned by Thomas Jefferson, who was, as you know, probably THE most important framer of the Consitution .

To: Welcome to the Obama Show,

You said.......

1. MAKING FOREIGN PEOPLE AMERICAN CITIZENS AND THEN LETTING THEM STAND IN LINE WITH THE REST OF THE LAZY PEOPLE FOR FREE HANDOUTS.

Excuse me but there are hard working citizens in this country that are not making enough money to survive and must get a little extra help in order to live. What about the people who bag your groceries, who stock your food, who drive you to work everyday (transit), who cleans your streets and pick up your garbage. They work and they are not lazy. I know people who have jobs like these and still are unable to make ends meet. You are a very ignorant person.

2. GIVING FREE MONEY AWAY TO PEOPLE WHO COULD WORK.
IT PAYS TO HAVE LOTS OF BABIES AND LIVE OFF THE GOVERNMENT RATHER THAN WORK.

Excuse me but no one is doing that now. These people must work or be working on a degree. They (government) do not allow you to sit on welfare anymore like the late 80s – early 90s. People are becoming more sensible and are now working and seeing the value of working. Bush may not have started it but he sure didn't stop it. You are obviously out of touch with the what is now going on.

4. SENDING JOBS OVER SEAS. LOOK AT JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU BUY ITS MADE OUT OF THE US.

Bush is who pushed for jobs to be sent overseas. I remember quite well because I was in college at the time and my professor was asking us how we felt about the jobs being sent overseas, and if we thought Bush should be supporting this. Bush's thought was that it would come back around in a positive manner for the Americans by bringing prices down.

I don't blame Bush for everything. I think we should respect Bush – yes he has made some mistakes but we all do. I believe he tried to do what was best for this country.

Your problem is that you are blaming the American people – specifically minorities. You obviously don't like minorities, you think that the poor are lazy, and just want a handout. What a ignorant thought process because there is a great deal of minorities that are working hard everyday and becoming quite successful.

Well, and "MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU".

Pat Robertson is the Antichrist. Look it up.

What's hard to believe is some Americans are still trying their best to defend Bush by blaming liberals and democrats. To those who consider themselves educated and those who have found their way to the comment section of CNN and still don't know their rear-ends from a hole in the ground (dummies). Bush made some serious errors in policy making. Almost every screwed up point in our present economy can be traced back to serious error in the bush policies and the conservative agenda. You can dig Karl Marx’s out of his grave if you would like, but you will have a hella of a time trying to convenience all the capitalist, democratic and republican alike, that Obama is leading us down a socialist path. Pull your fingers out your ears and butts and get a clue. It's going to take all of us to regain what we've lost.

The Looney toon who spewed out the hate about the ethnics being on welfare having babies and receiving checks from the government being the problems that got us in the economic situation.....ohhh and the medical law suits that has driven up our medical cost. You have a lot of incorrect opinions. Law suits make up .5% of medical cost and greed makes up the other 95.5%, that a true statement. I would tell you where to find it, but your type would prefer to spread lies and hate. Heck, you are more than likely another Joe the Plumber fussing about your tax dollars going to people on welfare and you yourself is a product of or will be a product of someone's welfare system. I've learn in 2008, what you put out there, you divinely get back. Take notice or be on notice. I'm not a prophet, but you will be depending on the kindness of a stranger. Who knows.... we all might be after George Bush.

Pat is right but he is kissing butt like all republicans. Another clown.

Palin/Robertson in 2102 !!!

(Just kidding folks. Calm down. Just kidding!)

I think Pat has gone off the deep end! Is he wanting a job from Obama?

Even the creepy delusional evangelicals are jumping the sinking ship (as are the rats) of the GOP.

George W. Bush, the first MBA President, failed in every business venture he attempted. Of course he brought the US economy down.

Oh, the Texas governorship? a do-nothing job. The Legislature has the power in the Lone Star State.

Pat Robertson's comments? There is a God! Not the one that chats to Pat all the time, but still ....

What will Rush say now...........? Will it be about the "race"........?
And what about Shean Hannity........? Will he lift his blinders and see the light...........?
Guess what,......... Pat Robertson has shown now that "CHANGE" is possible in AMERICA.
And you may call this the eleventh-hour conversion if you like

@WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW

Sadly you are right and there are even more points to be added to your list, but even more sad is that America will not wake up until one day they look around and realize they are not free anymore. Unfortunately, they will be rocked into a deeper slumber by the media and other politicians and they will continue to give up their freedoms willingly until then and then it will be too late.

How funny- Bush was so bad that even old fascists like Robertson are against him. Of course they're mad because he is losing money like the rest of the old repugs, and down deep that's all they seem to care about. Guess what Pat- its nitwits like you who backed this fool for the past 8 years....you perpetuated the lies and backed the deregulation that has got us into these wars and this economic mess. So stand up and take it like a man. Do something most repugs do- and that is take a little responsibility instead of deflecting the blame onto someone else just as deserving as you- what a concept!

"Richard Rhodes" get a life! I hate when you people use Obama's middle name-as if he had a choice in choosing it–like he's some terroist–and demeaning him.He hasn't been sworn in yet, and already is making moves on fixing the economy. GOP don't understand what it's like to be hungry, and to not have enough money to pay bills. They are all fed on a silver spoon. Yes, immigrants shold have to get here legally, and I think they should be required to learn basic English and fend for themselves. They don't all take handouts.In fact MANY bust their butts doing jobs that you think you're too good to do.I'm an American, and I feel that Obama is going to do the best, given the opportunity, and the support of ALL Americans.

Brian how can you say Jessie Helms (racist), Ronald Reagan (Put Drugs In Black Neighborhoods to support Iran Contra, and oh yea what makes Dan Qualye and Newt Gingrich a great Americans. Also nut, capitalism failed. Funny this country was built on the principles of the bible, which means we own nothing, god allows us to have everything we have. I see you worship things.

Certain groups and individuals are chaning their tune... one by one. Mr. Robertson has been an outspoken Republican represenative for many many years. I believe him. God Bless America.

To OBAMA SHOW...

what are you talking about? If things were all rosy, you bet Bush would be taking the credit for it, right? It's called POLTICS, friend. He owns the bad news because he's the top dog, period.

and while i agree that not all can be blamed on him, his administration has made some really stupid mistakes that almost everybody now acknowledges. so you'll be hearing about it until he leaves office.

Thanks, Pat – that was refreshing!
I sincerely hope that you can get through to the idealogues of BOTH parties that an honest re-evaluation of direction is necessary. Party rhetoric just simply will not do it any more. Congratulations on speaking out.

hey all! just keep playing the blame game and we will, as a country, get nowhere....from this day forward get positive and quit pointing the fingers....it doesn't do much good! Learn from mistakes of the past and strive to do better.

Some will never be happy, thats their call!

Believe me there are a lot of good/great folks in this country from all walks of life and from every point on the planet – when you see folks failing – get them help – give them direction – I'm not talking "coddling" everyone needs to be as responsible as they can for themselves and their neighbors and their families.

Pat Robertson, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and the multitudes more including myself and you are only human and we won't take nothing with us – but we can leave where we were a better place!

This comes from one wack job about another. George Bush is an Idiot and Pat Robertson is the village Idiot. Jan. 20th , Noon can't get here soon enough. This country can use someone with common sense to lead.

This is the same Pat Roberston, who along with former religious, gas-bag, Jerry Falwell, blamed 9/11 on God's wrath against all things liberal, abortionists, gays and tree-huggers. Sorry, but the credibility is in a Bombay, or is it Mumbai(?), sewer!!!

To: Jeffrey E. Salzberg

Your comment is unfortunately uneducated. Bush is not merely the worst President because he was arrogant or incompetent, or sent us to war in Iraq. He's the worst President because he has fundamentally destabilized the country over the past 8 years. More than doubling the national debt will have heinous repercussions for generations to come. Nixon can't touch Bush in terms in total damage done, even though Nixon's behavior was more condemnable to ordinary citizens.

I don't care what YET another old, white, rich guy has to say.

And I'm white too so shuttee already!

A C- for Bush is laughable, hate to see the pres who would get a failing grade.

I don't usually agree with Rev. Robertson, however in this case he is correct!

Pat's probably mad that he can't get those tax free donations due the to shape of the economy. LOL

C minus? Robertson is a very generous grader.

It would be nice, Mr. Robertson, when you criticize others, to at least get some of your facts correct.

The events surrounding Hurricane Katrina were hardly Bush's fault. If you need to seek blame so badly, start with Nagin and Blanco.

The situation in Iraq has rebounded brilliantly. The lack of media attention is atleast one of many forms of proof for the improvement in Iraq.

The handling of the economy and the current crisis are not Bush's doing. Decades of government meddling with the housing market was a major, if not THE, reason for the current crisis. If anything, Bush made repeated warnings over the last year. He (and McCain) were not only ignored, they were told by the arrogant and ignorant Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, and others that everything was just peachy.

To Richard Rhode:
It'sobvious that you are a Retardlican supporter even though they are the party that is choking the life out of America. Either you are a rich Retardlican or a Retardlican that is so ignorant that you can not look outside the world that Rush and Hannity have described for you. I really wish all you Retardlican's would go lick a window at Rush's or Hannity's house and let the Dem's rebuild this country.

Leave the dark side Robertson. Despite jumping off the sinking ship called the Republican Party, Pat Roberston has been just as divisive and evil as Sarah Palin was during the election. I hate to see so-called Republican Christians insult and degrade others and then claim to be so religious while the Democrats are deemed by them to be the Anti-Christ. And that is what Robertson has been doing for years.
Nevertheless, I'm glad Robertson can acknowledge how the so called 'Party of God' (or so the Republicans believe) that let innocent people die in Katrina and Iraq is out of touch.

Best of luck to our future President Obama!!!

I second that emotion Pat.

Oh, be quiet, old Indian woman, she said to herself! No one is listening anyway...

Jeffrey E. Salzberg... you really had to scrap the barrel to find worse presidents than Bush.... wow! And in this day and age...a president should be better than the historical past presidents you mention! Have we learned nothing?

As far as Jefferson being the first to mention separation of church and state... what do you think he IS.... but one of the founding fathers with whom many many others have a greed all through history. And if the present MESS is any sign then it is clear that the thinking was indeed SOUND!

Get over it repubs.... your man is responsible for the mess... suck it up and get over it! You are either Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem.... it's up to you... I hope you make the right choice for the sake of this nation!

By golly Pat, I think you "seen the light". Too bad so many others want to stay in the dark about what is happening.

walcome to the obama show: u are not the smartest person on here. sneding all the criminals to jail first off would b impossible and second wouldnt do any good considering that the jail system doesnt rehabilitate anyone. the problem with this country is that we are too divided. we have people in this country that only care about themselves. and we elect presidents that have way different views and they spend four years changing everything that the party before it did. Not all our problems arent because of Bush but he sure made them worse.

Any of you stupid enough to believe the crap Obama tries to say(cant think on his own, must read it in BIG letters) are just dumb enough to think you know something. DOPES!

FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT GOT A BIG DOSE OF HATE IN YOUR

MOTHER'S MILK, TRY REALLY HARD TO REGURGITATE IT, FOR

YOU WILL BE THE FIRST TO BE POISONED BY IT. THIS IS A NATION

OF IMMIGRANTS. THERE ARE NO NATIVES OF AMERICA EXCEPT

THE NATIVE INDIANS WE ALL FOUND HERE. EACH OF US THINKS

OUR WAY & OUR RELIGION IS BEST. LETS GIVE OTHERS THE

RESPECT & DIGNITY WE WOULD APPRECIATE OURSELVES.

DOING SOME SOUL SEARCHING & SOME READING WILL DO ALL

OF US A GREAT DEAL OF GOOD. WITH THAT,

I WISH ALL OF YOU A HEALTHY & VERY HAPPY HOLIDAY.

What? What?!? Pat Robinson was part of the problem. He couldn't praise Bush enough and whipped is followers into a neo-conservative frenzy that helped the Bush regime get away with so many crimes against American and, indeed humanity.

What is good about this is that it shows that Obama really is good at pulling us back together as a nation with common goals. Thank God, the politics of division and hatred are gone.

Reading all of the comments from the dumbocrats. Obamas four years are really going to be a lot of fun for those of us who are lucid and have brain. 60% of the voters didn't.

I must have stepped into the 'outer limits.' Anything Pat Robertson says must be held as suspect, even if it is something I would normally agree with. There is something wrong with this picture. I think we had better take a closer look, grab the garlic and hold up the 'kills vampires' crosses.

DOES ANYONE STILL LISTENS (OR PAY ATTENTION) TO WHAT PAT R. SAYS???
If you still do, sorry, BUT you should realize that HE is completely out of reality. Just humor him. If he now says that Bush screw it, well, that's too little, too late.

It is funny that there are a lot of people critizing Obama being bad for this country which is very confusing. I especially like the person who mentioned about the stock market levels but failed to mention that the market is higher than during the election cycle whenf the Dow was below 8000 (with this in mind – BUSH IS STILL THE PRESIDENT).

The thing is that President Bush will be recorded in history as the stupidest and worst president in this country's history. Looking back at the last 8 years of Bush, I do not know if I can pick out a high point.

With this said, Obama brings energy, good ideas, intelligence and science back to the US.

To Richard Rohde who was referring to Barack Obama as Hussein.

I wish Obama's name was not Hussein but Mohammad to get on your racist nerves even more. Barack or Hussein or Mohammad Obama will most likely serve us and the world much better than your George and Dick named friends who spent their years in the white house empowerishing and killing people with their arragont policies.

Pat Robertson is nothing less than a devil. An ignorant, hateful ,evil man – just like Bush.

From one loser to another!

WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!! You must also blame PE Obama for your broken cap locks that you always seem to keep on whenever you want to type a message. It's okay, just release the cap locks and we will still read your craziness.

All of you hata's stop faking like your angry with obama's win..because you will be glued to the TV 1/20/09 like everyone else..!! who can't fly here to DC>>

Go away Robertson you were never relevant.

Pat Robertson, right after Katrina hit, blamed the hurricane on Ellen DeGeneres. She is from New Orleans and is a lesbian so God created Katrina to get revenge. His words, not mine. He's an idiot!

Welcome to the obama show

..suck it up and get in line for the handout u may be begging for soon..At least you may get it with Obama, Bush is going to dallas and sit back with a forty and laugh at all of mcshames supporters...LOL!! GO Obama

Come on Pat! C- for "goofs". How about F- incompetence!!

I am not a Bush fan, as a matter of fact i wouldn't have missed with the shoe, but Robertson has no room to talk about Bush since he supported him. He waits until McBush is walking out the door before he says something abouit him which is the easiest thing to do!

It seems Mr Robertson has lost a ton of money in the current financial mess (may be he had investments with Madoff). Suddenly, he wants an intelligent, educated person in Whitehouse, who may be able to think for himself. Suddenly, abortion and school prayer is not the defining issue any more. Middle of the road is good, he says. How things change...

well,, ir-regardless what people think of robertson,, hes right,, ush has messed up in so many ways, and it will take many years to fix it all,,, all bush thought about was the war,,,,(send more troops in,,we need em)< inhis opinion,,, but yea guys,, be honest with yourselfs,, bush messed up,, he wont ever admit it,, but he did, and im glad obama is in,,,,tg,,,

Maik F.:

Yes, that is true that "separation of church and state" only appears in a letter written by the man who also happened to pen the Constitution. A man who was acutely aware of the cost of allowing religious dogma to dictate policy, and mentioned so in those letters.

Yes, it is true that the phrase "separation of church and state" does not appear in the U.S. Constitution...but neither does the word "God". Before you berate others for not doing research, I suggest you do some of your own, but this time, without selective memory to fit a forgone conclusion.

Brian : December 24th, 2008 11:46 am ET
What a spin! So, all in all, Bush is no responsible for anything? Or perhaps he is responsible, but not as much as EVERYBODY else claims him to be? And let's not forget that as bad as Bush was and still is, Obama is going to be badder...
Maik F. : December 24th, 2008 12:14 pm ET
Actually, the fact that the Constitution grants freedom of faith to everybody IS the separation of Church and State. Before that, either the people HAS to follow the beliefs of the King (or whatever was called the governant of the land) or whoever the King saw as 'heretic' was legally persecuted. Freedom of faith means that NO ONE CAN SHOVE HIS/HERS FAITH/RELIGIOUS BELIEFS down my troath... even if he's in a goverment position.
As for Pat Robertson comments... who cares about this guy anymore?

Pat Robertson is not worth listening to no matter what he says. Google "Pat Robertson quotes" and you'll see what a nut case he is.

What's wrong with this country is people who use all caps...

As a born-again Christian myself, I have not been happy with much of what Pat Robertson has said. I think he does not represent the views of many Christians and I hope that people realize that we are not all a bunch of wackos who think we should go into foreign countries like Venezuela and kill their leaders just because they are anti-U.S., etc. Nor are we all anti-human rights or anti-choice, etc. There are many things not specifically mentioned in the bible, no matter how much you try to read between the lines which is what many of my fellow believers try to do and it galls me to no end. They should rather be working out their own salvation with fear and trembling, rather than casting splinters out of the eyes of others while they have a log in their own. Well, that having been said, I have never believed for one minute that Bush was a true Christian, as evidenced by things he has said and done over the years. This latest interview where he said that he does not take the bible literally is just further evidence of that. Now, to hear Pat Robertson criticize Bush, I must say, perhaps Mr. Robertson is finally coming back to his senses. I hope and pray so.

Roland
St. George, UT

Why does anyone care to report what this clown says? please keep your eye on the ball and stay away from pandering to this guy. He has never been worhty of the attention given him. there are serious issues in this country we have to deal with. isn't it remarkable that after being a Bush lover for all those years he is now critical. next time do a story on something that matters

You make no sense. "Making foreign people an American and letting them stand in line with the rest of the lazy people".....and then saying that our jobs are being sent over seas.

QUESTION: Who is sending them overseas??? BUSH.
QUESTION: If there are no jobs available to be worked, do you steal
what you need (CRIME) or do you STAND UP for your
right as an American for the privileges (PROGRAMS)?

QUESTION: Were not these foreigners invited to the US by Bush
back in 2004 to ensure the hispanic vote? YES

QUESTION: Do not these foreigners labor for cheap? YES

QUESTION: If someone will take any job for any pay, labor for close
to nothing, how is it possible to collect unemployment?

QUESTION: Since these "foreigners" are willing to work the jobs that
you believe you're too good for as a stuck up American
during a time of crisis and recession ( it's been this way
for about the whole Bush Administration) and are willing
to do whatever it is that they need to do to support their
families (majority still in Mexico), HOW is it that you are
finding so many of them standing in your unemployment
lines??? YOU DO NOT.

Perhaps it is your attitude and haught that has you in hell. And perhaps the one representing you, leading you, and commanding you, is exemplifying you!

Don't worry. I will give Obama the same RESPECT that you liberal Democrat Bush-haters are giving President Bush.

It's past time for the "political cleansing" of America and time to get rid of the Republicans for good. They are truly "life unworthy of life."

Guess what?? I know whose to really blame for the economic crisis. The American Citizen! We've driven ourselves into billions of credit card debt, buying homes way over priced.. believing that tax cuts for the rich somehow was going to equal a big pay raise and lower prices for the working man. HAHAHA.. We must be really stupid. Now were truly screwed. Obama will probably set the course for recovery but the results wont be seen for years.. enjoy your home while you can afford it.

WELCOME TO THE OB AMA SHOW- Could you tell us how foreigners get citizenship here in the USA?How about the immigrants who came to the USA in 1700's, 1800's and 1900's got their citizenship? You must be a third or fourth generation US citizen talking non-sense. Go and ready American history to understand how immigrants have contributed in the development of this country. Have you heard about Igor Sirkorsky and Welheim Boing. Have you heard about the Sirkorsky Company? Peace!

Who the hell is Pat Robertson?
Does he get paid money for his opinion? If so, what a deal!
(GW is not one of my favorite people either, but the attitude of Roberston is silly....He should hang it up, and live off the fat bank account that his followers have given him.)

But then again, that's just another opinion!

The ...US will only get justice!! ..once we procecute and

jail... Bush...for the needless waste of lives and money!!!

The fat lady is singing. It's pretty bad when even Pat Robertson is dis'ing Bush. The entire world has finally caught on to the fact that George Bush is a moron and has zero leadership skills.

What kind of a grading system would give Bush a C-?? A C- means 75% right. This administration has gotten less than 63% right. He hasn't even got 50% right. That's a failure, in anybody's book. F.

Obama Show had better quit smoking crack. Even Pat Robertson, a die hard Republican who ran for President, can see that Bush has been an abject failure. It's easy to blame (pick one) aliens, lawyers, the poor or diminishing job markets for the issue that our country faces but the fact is that Bush has done a terrible job as President.

When Pat Robertson comes out against Bush, what's next? Rush Limbaugh? Hannity? O'Reilly? At least Robertson has the character and courage to speak the truth. I have much more respect for him now than I did before. He just went for a zero to about a .25.

Next: Cats and dogs will be living together

The problem with Bush isn't that conservative didn't work, it was that Bush wasn't conservative.

We have just been fleeced by our own government and voting won't stop it.

I read that we should wake up and quit blaming Bush for everything

What planet has the person been living on that wrote that garbage

He has done so much damage to this country, thank goodness he has only enough time left to kick us one more time with his pardons and then will be gone

History will not be nice to him, he is a failure

Robertson is an amazingly self righteous, bigoted, religious nut and Obama would be doing well to repudiate any "praise" from this moron.

Bush was never qualified to be President and I continue to be amazed that more people did not understand that. I was truly shocked when he was elected in 2004. Just because your father has a certain job does not automatically qualify you for that position. People need to stop voting for someone because he belongs to his or her party and actually look at and learn about the person.

I am a Christian and do think for myself. I always have.

Reading the postings here confirms something that I have always observed ever since I immigrated to the US, that most American Right-wingers are pea-brained, unintelligent, semi-literate morons!

-An American

typical judgmental republican. i can't stand bush for his ideals, or total lack thereof, however, Robertson's words are as good as a snake's. jump to judge and polarize, wreaks of Palin-type speak actually. when did republican ideals become manipulative, power-seeking christianite tools??? God bless the open minded. I've heard about all I can take from these right-winged Fox types. The lack of intelligence amongst this sludge is staggering.

One more comment..... There have been alot of Presidents worse than Bush. Probably the worse was the one right before "W". For some reason everyone seems to have finally fallen into the trap set by the liberals in this country Mainly because they are weak and cannot tell what is really going on here. The modern day press has helped get out the nagative word also,because they are basically a negative entity when conservatives are in the White House. That's what they do and all they can do well. But wait until the next 4 years are over. We will all probably agree who is the worse President then....

If a conservative Republican would give Bushie a C-, imagine how the world would grade the dynamic duo.

Bush an F.

Cheney would be an F- (that grade needs to be created for malice).

Both should be in jail for treason.

KC: what you have to do is join Obama's army of concerned supporters who will inundate Congress with calls, letters and emails if they try to act crooked and hold up his agenda of change and rescue of America. If people cared and made their voices heard Congress might have to do the right thing every once in a while.

Pat Robertson!!! Like he has any clue – still believes there are missles in Cuba. Cut from the same cloth as Jim and Tammy Fae, parasites perying on the naive and illiterate.

I would give Bush an F.

Cheney would be an F- .

Both should be in jail for treason.

And yet Robertson still supports Bush's policies such as denying global warming or trying to start a holy war with Muslims. These guys are turning on Bush not for his bad morals or ideology, but his failure to execute better. Where were all these guys in 2000, 2004 and November 2008? Oh yeah, campaigning for Bush, McCain, Palin. Just a few months ago he was trying to destroy Obama with lies and fear mongering; what changed? I don' trust guys like Robertson as far as I can throw them.

you better take another look at yourself.

He's supporting Obama because Obama is against human rights for gays. How can Obama be the President of tolerance and unity if he would deny marriage rights to a minority?

hey SG
Pat never said anything about Obama handling the financial situation he just praised him on his cabinet choices- honestly and really It took BUSH 8 years to mess up the economy do you really really believe its going to takea month for Obama to fix it if it can even be done?!

another thing everyone needs to realize Obama isnt pres – YET
everyone keeps saying he will do this or that, but no one really knows exactly what he will do till he does it.

and no I am not an Obama supporter but you know when you try to get some idiot like Palin in the office what did you expect? 45 mill and + didnt want her in office so you got Obama = reps have no one to blame but themselves for it.

What would Drew do? Choose not to wait for his first comment to load, evidently. But then, the second comment was better, wasn't it?

Pat Robertson is as much to blame as George Bush and all your fellow republicans.

Pat Robertson doesn't even mention starting the Gulf War which is one of the biggest mistakes of the century.

Pat Robertson, another opinion that we don't need or care about. Over-the-hill multimillionaire that he is.

Poor Bush, even the "true believers" are bailing on him now. However, I have to ask this of Mr. Robertson, why didn't you divert Katrina and save New Orleans, like you did that time in Florida?

You people make me sick. Dogging on christians because u think they want to control the politics and legislating our morality. If christians wanted to control the thoughts and behavior of people we would have done it a long time ago , before you liberals with no morals came along and shoved God out of everything He made great. Our country was great, our churches were moral and our government had God in it and was the most successful government in history, until the 60's when you liberal came along and decided God does belong because YOU don't think he does, and now look at the mess we have. Morals on all levels and accounts have fallen off since then. Also it was ur democrats that decided the banks had to give loans to people based on ethnicity instead of their credit. Grow up and grow some morals. Liberal bigots

I think one of the problems is the excessive use of all caps when typing comments.

by faaar bush is the worst president in american history. he and many of his administration staff should be labeled as terrorists in the US. they knew about 9/11 and did nothing about it. they took the country to war, eventhough our millitary intellegence told them iraq had NO WMDs!!! US image and reputation has gone out the window. it is all a conspiracy! the bush family is actually related to the british royal familly, the same people who we fought to obtain our INDEPENDENCE!!! since they cannot wage war, they will mess up our image, way of life, and reputation!

Not exactly sure why Pat Robertson's opinion actually matters, or why it is news none the less.

hey all you bush-haters out there have overdosed on the koolaid and it has destroyed all brain cells. it is amazing to me that 53% of the amercian people voted for the most unknown, inexperienced, radical candidate in the history of our country. and please do a little homework about the economy....it was pretty much brought down by barney and chris and their cronies with the home morgage scandal. they screwed up with fannie and freddie ...they should have been run out of washington by now. please don't be stupid and blame everything on bush. he will be vindicated ON EVERYTHING and you frothing at the mouth liberals are going to look like fools. hussein is not going to save this country....might be a "cool" guy, but is going to make things much much worse.... unless you are a koolaid drinking idiot who thinks that big government, less liberty, small military, higher taxes, socialized health care, and a global society are the way to go. god help us.............

Pat Robertson disgusts me. I loathe the man and all he stands for.

As for criticizing Bush, he's just as bad, maybe worse. At least Bush doesn't preach outright hatred.

Hey People!!!

One thing i want to understand from all of you!!! why these any
Religion People or any Religion group is getting in to politics. i thought
they have only one connection which is GOD right??? if we humans or
politicians do something wrong which GOD does not like it then he'll
give us punishment. but why in the hell these people/group taking GOD's
law in to their hand. we all know that our human society is not fair. we people are creating all problems then we'll try to fix them.

So politics is not for religion people. it is a dirty business. so you religion people please pray for everyone and keep in touch with GOD then he'll do his magic on his way and right way. please pray for
all of us. i am sure he'll listen to you earlier then me.

Robertson is an evil money grubbing hate and fear monger who has no right calling himself a christian. He should shut up... Katrina and aids are gods punishment according to him......Hell will be his I have a feeling..

A Republican giving Bush a C minus, How kind. The remaining millions give him an F. He was the biggest mistake in the last century. How he could bilk so many is really his legacy. And shame on all that voted for him twice. Evidently, voters woke from their stupor and elected Barack Obama, but still some fuzzheads wanted to keep the Republican nightmare team going. How sad.

Brian I'm sorry but you are so off base. It always amazes me how people revise history. I don't have the time to go point by point how absurd you truely are but I will take umbridge with one statement from your post. "Bush kept America safe". Remind me who was president when over 3000 people lost thier lives on 9/11? Which president was a sleep at the wheel when American soil was attacked? Who continued to read to school childern while decisions needed to be made? No response needed I already know the answer "George W. Bush", the worst president in my lifetime.

Thanks for sharing Pat Robertson's insight. Be sure to send me a "Breaking News" email when you hear from Britney Spears.

There is nothing conservative about Pat Robertson. The only thing that is conservative concerning Pat Robertson is media outlets like CNN consistently, and mistakenly, linking him to conservatives.

It's akin to linking Che Guevara to Democrats. Same political stripe, but the methodology is all wrong.

RE: WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're such an ignorant person to say the least. As an immigrant, you may need to read "your" US history a little. THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON THE BACKS OF IMMIGRANTS AND CONTINUES TO SUCCEED ON THE BACKS OF IMMIGRANTS.

As an immigrant from Africa, I came to to this country with nothing. However, I've worked hard, become well-educated (grdauate school level), have a beautiful family and doing very well in corporate america. For your information, no one gave me a "handout" along the way. This situation is not unique to my wife and I. There are countless number of immigrants from various countries doing this throught the US every day.

You represent "shrinking" minority American that tend to blam immigrants when something goes wrong in the US. For most Americans (especially those who have travelled abroad), they understand significant positive impact that immigarnts continue to have on this country. Even those without a decent eductaion, they continue to work hard and do their best educate their children.

I have a simple advice for you – "Continue blaming immigrants for everything and not take the time to develop yourself and your family. I can promise you that Barack Obama will not be the last immigrant's son or daughter that is elected to the highest office in the US."

In an attempt to alter an old saying...Education Rules and Blamers Lose!!!

Wow, what a Republican manifesto Obama_Show laid out! Just more of the same old "blame the other guy" fodder the GOP keeps dishing out. I even heard one blame the current financial crisis on former Pres. Clinton the other day. Good luck with that line, boys – looks like a good majority of Americans have seen that the emperor has no clothes.

welcome to the obama show,

all those things you listed happened during bush's watch, while he had a repub congress for 6 of those years; yet, he did nothing to stop it. so why are you so enamored with bush? shouldn't he have stopped that kind of sh-....thing years ago?

BTW, using all caps is like a sports car...what deficiency are you trying to hide?

Hmm, which one does Pat Robertson want to be this time, the pot or the kettle?

So when do the War Crimes, and Treasonous act of outing a covert CIA Agent come to trial ?

Enough koombyya – Start & finish investigations, repeal "Patriot Act" and restore the integrity of our Constitution, and our civil liberties.

Prosecute the most criminal Bush / Cheney Regeme

How about it Rev. Robertson ?

Robertson needs to stop editing-out parts of Scripture that conflict with his attention-getting urges, such as "JUDGE NOT LEST YOU BE JUDGED!" Where did this showoff come from?

(that means YOU, WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW!!!!)

...maybe leopards can change their spots.

I am now fully prepared for another 8 years of stupid postings against Obama...made by the same idiots who supported all things bush/cheney the last 8 years.

Merry Christmas to everyone, anyway!

Kathy in Florida, be thankful that you live in a country where you don't have to worry about being arrested, imprisoned, and hanged/stoned yourself for such irresponsible comments. You, like so many others, are safe in your stupidity.

Pat Robertson is desperately trying to remain relevant and in the public eye. Pat, be quiet and retire, you backed Bush for 8 years, don't try to hide it now.

Ecclesiastes 9:18 says "Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good."

This has been my favorite bible verse since this idiot of a president decided to invade Iraq. It describes Bush and Chaney to a T. Two other sayings have always enjoyed:

An arrogant dragon will have cause to repent.

A dragon stranded in shallow water amuses the frogs.

its real sad, when you see all these Obama haters out there that still cant get over the fact that he WON,. and your game is now UP, get ready for real change,.... IN YOUR FACE !

Gee, Pat. Way to jump on this bandwagon. I guess you were also the one who said, "Hey, you hear something?" about five days after the Pearl Harbor bombing. You're really on it, Pat. Where have you been for the past 8 years, huh?

all of you that are obama haters and don't like him, he was elected fair and square, get over it and live with it.

clinton

I give him "F"

He can not read notes properly
He can not talk properly

He has been a disgrace, I do not know how he graduated from Harvard or did he?

He is a disaster, he calls himself the DECIDER, I feel he is a DESTROYER and a BULLY

No History will how he is one of our worst President – a total failure

Mr Richard Rohde, you need to watch other news besides FAUX. Hypocrisy should never be mentioned by a repub.... Get a life.

Goofs???
My God Bush is a criminal who stained the honor of this country. He led us into an illegal war, bankrupt the country and forever created hatred for America. Goofs? Katrina was an disaster that will be with us for years to come due to his total incompetence and will never recover. He water boarded and used torture in our name when he invaded an innocent nation.
Goofs? He threw our constitution in the mud and created millions and millions of dollars for Halliburton and Cheney and his Wall Street frienda.
Goofs? Bush should be tried, convicted and never see the light of day again.
History will be kind to bush if he gets an F!

Ain't he the same dude that follows ancient scripture? Like I would really listen to him anyway. He and GW are both gay losers. Not anything wrong with being gay, just speculating on them being gay, as I know they are losers.

Isn't it PAST TIME taht Pat Robertson shuts up?

Isn't it PAST time that Pat Robertson shuts up?

Pat's true color has come through. There is nothing positive about him. He's taken the easy road and jumped on Bush just like alot of others. I guess he thinks this stand will make him look more favorable among the people that support the new regime. I'm leaning toward he is just another politician with no backbone.

Pat who?

please take your holyier than thou self and clean your own house before trying to clean anothers house..........

Why are you still reporting what this nut job has to say? This is not news. Please ignore him so he will go away.

To the "screamer" that claims that this country is going down because of foreign-born US Citizens, among other things: deal with it, OK? The ideology espoused by the Republican Party is well on its way to the trash can of history. Conservatism has proved to be just a hollow shell that works only for those who enrich themselves from its implementation. Deal with it, man. If you don't like it, move somewhere else. Unfortunately for you there aren't any Fascist dictatorships left in the world but you still have Alaska. I'm sure Mrs. Palin will take you in a heartbeat.

So where was Pat Robertson's "honesty" the last 8 years as he championed the crimes of the Bush/Cheney regime?

Finally something worth hearing from someone that I never thought I would even bear to listen to. I am goald though that he has come tod eal with his republican party demons.

@WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW!!!!!

1, Bush's brain is smaller then 5 yr kids.
2, America is free for everyone.
3, Most Immigrants are hard working people too. and they have rights
to become a citizen too.
4, All Doctors and Lawyers and All Corporations are greedy too.
5, Isn't these big Corporations are using tax payers money??
6, So stop crying and move on with your life. if you don't like it then find
better place where you can get all kind of help.
7, Obama has common sense too.
8, Don't forget unwanted Iraq War too. i am sure which you also have
supported too right??
9, My friend life is not fair with anyone. we should be able to take it
the way it is.
10, Pray and thanks to god for Good health.

Pat Robertson is not someone whose opinion is held in high regard by very many people. His politically oriented and profit motivated ministry is ridden by scandal, self dealing, and greed. A man of the cloth he is not - a man of greed and self promotion, he is. Robertson is trying to catch the eye of Obama to try to get back into the spotlight -- anything that comes out of mouth nowadays has a self interest motive

When a right wing yoyo like Roberts gives Bush a C-. What should the rest of us give him? Somehow an F just does not seem to cut it. I think this article says it all. Is it just me or are more and more on the right starting to bail?

Obama show is a total fool...Everything you name as problems in this society currently are the very things that were facilitated by the Bush Administration..but then you say not to blame him?!?The illegal immigration issue is much deeper and complex than you make it out to be,and the Bush administration did nothing..The economy has crumbled in large part to rampant deregulation of the markets,then watching the current administration sit on their hands why it all collapsed.Sending jobs overseas?!? Guess who facilitated and caused that buddy......BUSH? you are a flat moron,and part of the problem..Citizens like you whos IQ is flat out too low to be able to understand complex issues and problems,then act as pessimists before Obama even takes office...shut your mouth fool

This is incredible. Pat Robertson is pulling a Jennifer Aniston.
These type will say and do anything get media attention, and pretend to be relevant. Because who do you really think Robertson voted for?

Now this is new....

This is also the result of a Ponzi Christianity, placing party politics above
truth and what is best for the Nation

I would like to debunk most of the comments regarding Christians made by the radicals on both sides in these posts. As a Christian, I take great offense at the implication by many of you that all Christians are Religious Fanantics (the connotation in this instance being something evil) and Right Wingers. All Christians are not Right Wingers and we definitely are not all Republicans. Likewise all Democrats are not Atheists or Agnostics. I have many friends who are both Christians and Democrats. Pat Robertson, just like you and me, is an individual. He does not speak for me or express the beliefs of ALL Christians. He speaks for himself, only. So please leave out the stereotypical comments in your posts. If you want to comment on Pat Robertson, fine, but don't paint all Christians with the same brush strokes as you are painting him.

Maik F., you are a perfect example of why the Republicans like to keep Americans undereducated. You claim the Constitution does not say, "separation of church and state" and you cannot even see that the part of the Constitution that you cite, speaks of that, "Congress shall make no law..." Apparently, everything must be spelled out exactly for you. But, sometimes it is not and that is why we have a Supreme Court (although, admittedly, even they were unable to figure out that the second amendment was based on having a militia).

If Pat Robertson gives Bush a C-, you can imagine what the grade for the worst president in history really is: it's an F.

If believe Bush administration isn't responsible for the mess the US is in then your either a hardcore Republican or an idiot

Pat Robertson is a babbling old fool that does not represent most Christians. Take the camera away and he is nothing. I appreciate humble servents of the Lord, not celebrities that will say anything to stay relevent.
As far as Bush is concerned, my opinion is that he is insulted the most because he has done the most. Clinton was popular because he talked a lot. Thus, the Dems found another talker in Obama. I am looking forward to Jan. 20 so that I can blame Obama for everything bad that happens during his time in office.

Hmm, Robertson praises Bush for 8 years then castigates him a month before he leaves office. How brave. I give him until the first crisis hits the Obama Administration for him to turn around and criticize Barack.

To Welocome to the Obama show,
The illegals are here because the Republicans wanted them here for cheap labor. Remember Ronnie Reagan gave them amnesty in 1986. They probably don't talk about that on Rush's show though. Free(not Fair) trade is also a staple of the Republican party. Another republi-troll parroting the neo-con talk radio morons.

God bless you, Pat Robertson!

I also agree with what he said about Palen being a category 5 moron.

As an actual fan of George W., I must say that I will NEVER vote to re-elect a president again in my lifetime. Every president since FDR would have been better off with running for office just once and then moving on. Heck George W. might have been remembered as one of our greatest, what with 9/11 and all. The voters did his pop a tremendous favor by not re-electing him and I hope that Mr. Obama has that good fortune as well. The Office of the President is just too much for any human being it seems, at least over an eight year stretch.

A guy named Bush was elected in 2000 ...by the supreme court. Destroyed the Republican party. Destroyed the US dollar. Destroyed America's reputation. Destroyed capitalism and revived mercantilism. Destroyed trust in government. 9/11 happened on his watch. Mishandled Katrina. Created the largest deficit on record. Asked for 700B to crash the stock market so his friends can short the DOW and global markets. Foreclosures at all time high. Unemployment rising. Gas price manipulation. Decimated 401Ks and pensions. Health Insurance catastrophe. 4000+ dead marines in Iraq. 50000+ gravely wounded marines. The court of America asks: how do you respond to these charges?
All the while Pat Robertson stood silent....until now. He now realizes there is no way oil can fall from $148 to $36 in 3 months on its own...And that cutting taxes for the ultra-rich does not produce a single job but instead creates crumbling infrastructure and bankrupt state governments....And that fighting 2 wars and cutting taxes at the same time is suicidal...And that dogma will always be inferior to pragmatism. Only Bobby Jindal can save the GOP....if the party can get over its dogmatic theme.

Who gives a toss what this tired old bigot has to say, even if he does want to jump on the bandwagon and bash the worst President in US history now, after supporting the man for over 8 years. Pat Robertson is nothing more than a con artist interested in separating fools from their money...

Robertson is right about Bush but probably not being honest about what he really believes about him. He knows that he must 'get in good' with many of his viewers esp. the Afro Americans and younger Americans who voted for Obama. If Robertson would spend all of his time denouncing what he believes to be Obama's 'Liberal Ideals' and condemning him then he would loose financial support.

bush is a buffoon and had no business being president. If we had elected a bucket of sand, or a sheet of plywood as president, would we be any worse off today?

I wish the goof best of luck with the building of the bush library. Will that be for the books that he has already colored in all the pretty pictures?

The current economic mess has its roots in the 1950's and has steadily picked up momentum since the 1980's and went into warp drive with the Bush/Cheny administration and congressional control by the Republicans aided and abetted by the Democrats. What is killing our economy is the same thing that killed the goose that laid the golden eggs... Greed at the Top.

@Welcome To The Obama Show – What tool did Obama use to win the election? How come you haters can't get over the fact that you lost the election big time? As far as giving away free money to people who could work, what people are you talking about? The folks in Wasilla, Alaska? The majority of people on welfare are white, so what folks are you talking about. Obama hasn't sent any jobs overseas – Bush and Cheney did. And as far as prision, if anybody should go to jail it should be George Bush, Dick Cheney and Carl Rove. Talk about crooks! Obama will be the 44th President of the United States so get over it racist pig. Happy Holidays!

Let's see: Bush has carried water for Robertson for eight years. Bush only did what Robertson and others of his ilk wanted him to do. And now he gets slammed for it.

Who's slimier, Bush or Robertson? Gee, that's a tough one.

It's pretty bad when even Pat Robertson criticizes a Republican president. I mean Pat is a nut case himself and not someone I find credible either. I wish he'd just shut up and go away.

For once, Pat Robertson is right – GWB has been a terrible president. Of course, Mr. Robertson is a genuinely bad person. Supporting the murder of the Venezuelan president? That, in addition to his well-documented intolerance of whole swathes of society, is not indicative of a particularly Christian mindset.

Uh, yeah.....right, Brian.....Bush was, uh...."liberal"....and....uh.... that's why he failed. Wow, what a perfect example of a mind unable to comprehend any occurence that cannot be described in black or white terms...in other words, a moron. Yeah, Brian, let's return to the days of Dan Quayle, that's the answer. Because Quayle achieved so much. People should be forced to take IQ tests at birth and then put into concentration camps if they score less than 130. Any guess as to where you'd end up?

Pat Robertson, a former candidate for president himself, has thrown in the towel like many other so-called Republicans. I wonder if Rev. Robertson is "remarkably impressed" with Obama's position on social issues. Can Mr. Robertson be impressed with the fradulent or ignorant refrain of building the economy "from the bottom up"?
Maybe Pat Robertson is just a "Ross Perot populist" after all – these comments disqualify him as a serious leader in my party.

Brian, the "no child left behind" was Bush's idea not Kennedy's. Bush had that "no child left behind" running in TX long before he became President. Maybe he had Kennedy twik it a little but it was Bush's baby. Do your research on that. Also, I am a harding working American and I have been working 2 to 3 jobs for the past 10 years with NO vacation or benefits. So if Obama wants to help out those that are less fortunate than those at the top, those that make $250,000/year, is fine by me. And I am all for the national health care plan he has. The Mayo Clinic refuses me medical care because I owe them $900 and I cannot afford to pay it. I barely have enough to pay all my bills and I am 2 months behind in my mortgage. Hey I welcome any change, Obama can't do a thing right now, he hasn't taken office yet. Instead of running him down like so many do, wait and see what he does. He just might surprise you and all the rest of us and turn things again. You said we will see the economy go into a downward spiral that will take years to fix when he takes office. Where have you been Brian? That is what has been happening the past 8 years with Bush and his cronies in office. I have HOPE Obama will do this country GOOD. Thats all I have left, is HOPE!

This is the first time I ever agreed with this hate monger but having said that why he has credibility with anyone is beyond me. Like Bush and Cheney he shoudl just go back under the rock he comes from.

GO AWAY PLEASE NOBODY CARES WHAT U SAY ANYMORE. BELIEVE ME GUYS HES LYING. HES JUST LIKE BUSHEEEEEE

About time the republicans admit that "W" put the screws to them and the nation.

Amazing how long CNN leaves these comments open when it's a chance for the lunatic lefties to knock republican. If it is a possible negative story about Hussein or the weirdo damocrats they close it as soon as they can.

that's the christian way. point, point, point that finger especially just before that almighty, uh, something that happened so impacting morons just like this turd.

I will truly miss Pres. Bush and Laura. I had always hoped to meet them both and wish them the best as they go bakc to their normal lives

A Very Merry Christmas: Mr Bush.... A very Merry Christmas "John McCain.... A Merry Christmas "Wolf Blitzer".... But not "Mr Cafferty"; Just jokeing: Jack!!!

Either the end of the world is near or Robertson knows which side to cuddle up to for at least the next eight years, it not longer!
LOL

Wow, gotta love this. Even Pat Robertson is an Obamican. Joy to the world. Welcome to the side of the Good Guys Reverend. Peace on Earth Goodwill to all (even those haters of Team Obama)

Re: Welcome to the Obama Show

Chill out little guy or gal.

Obama is just what the doctor has ordered for this country. He will make our country great, whereas Bush & Cheney have been asleep at the switch watching the nation become tangled with two very costly wars (i.e. Iraq & Afghanistan), a bungled natural disaster relief program (i.e. Katrina), a corrupt and de-regulated economy that only benefited greedy rich people (i.e. oilmen, investment bankers, incompetent executives) creating our current financial crisis of privatizing profits and socializing losses, the corruption of our nation's Constitution (i.e. wiretapping, firing of prosecutors, Valerie Plame affair, torturing of Guantanamo Bay prisoners and prisoner abuse at Abu Gharib), and conflict of interest and overcharging of taxpayer money to various companies tied to Bush & Cheney (i.e. Halliburton, Exxon Oil).

Not only that, we have a 5 time draft dodging Vice President (aka Dick Cheney), stating in ABC that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan IS justified. Hmmmm.

Really, with all these issues blowing up as the Bush & Cheney Administration winds down, the brainwashed right wingers, composed of the educated but closet racist variety, the uneducated blue collared or service sector workers, religious right wing nuts, and just average individuals not pigeon holed in any of the described categories above, susceptible to the propaganda of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Neal Boortz, Michael Medved, and company, are getting desperate to explain away these issues and blame it all on Obama who has not been formally installed as President yet.

Blah blah blah....the whining continues....

Someone who believes that the earth is 6,000 years old should not be on the front page of a respectable news organization.

KATHY IN FLORIDA:

IT WOULD GIVE ME A GREAT COMFORT TO HEAR THAT ONE OF THE STONES FELL OFF YOUR TRUCK AND TURNED YOU INTO A GREASE SPOT.

Wow Wack Job Robertson is bashing Bush?? Dumb and Dumber I can't wait until Jan. 20, 2009

Why is he now just saying this? If he had the nuts he would have said this years ago. Oh. because he probably wanted some of that church money Bush was throwing around. Robertson and Bush both make me want to vomit.

To "WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!"

other than your point #4 you prove to be a raging maniac...and typing in all caps does not make you "righter."
#1 is pure speculation and show's xenophonbia
#2 is generalization and generalizations are generally wrong...
#3 really?...you don't think insurance, pharmacuitical, and the gov't have vested interests in an unhealthy populus?? get a clue, if you think lawsuits are the major thing dragging down our delapidating health care sys.
#5: you think having the largest prison population in the world – larger than the next two countries combined has done anything towards crime? all imprisonment has resulted in is high costs to tax payers. other solutions are needed like tighter REGULATIONS to avoid white colar crimes and social progrmas to deter crimes occuring as a result of perverty.

get a clue

C- is remarkably generous.

But I guess it would make America feel better about itself if we keep telling ourselves that we elected a president who was only slighly below average twice, instead of a dismal failure.

History will judge Bush harshly, and history will judge the America that elected him twice even harsher.

How amusing and yet sad to see those Repubs who'd turn on one of their own in a New York minute for DARING to criticize their President, or for that matter, their party. Loyalty in the GOP? Are you kidding me?!

While I am not happy with everything President Bush has done and he needs to pardon Ramos and Compean, Robertson is just a bunch of hippocirticle hot air.

For Robertson to side with Obama is just more hippocracy. Robertson claims to be a Christian and then praises a man that supports infanticide.

Robertson needs to retire and stay out of the media.

Robertson stopped being both a Republican and a Christian years ago. No one cares what he says anymore.
Yes, Obama looks good, but his principles – pro-abortion, pro-gay – are not Christian as he claims to be.
The constitution does not say separation of church and state – it says the state cannot establish a religion. The founding fathers expected everyone to have a faith and base the laws on their common religious morals. (You cannot have laws without some basis in morality.) People today are misinterpreting it to mean freedom from religion, the exact opposite of the founding fathers intention of freedom for religion.

Pat Robertson grades Bush as about a C minus. That is consistent with George W's academic record. Unfortunately it has become consistent with the Republican Party (The Evangelical Party, The Party that put up McCain and Palin as their best, The Party of Polarization, and unfortunately, until recently.....it was my party). How sad it is when a country as grand as the US can't produce better candidates than what we have seen. People don't trust their government anymore. They see a lot of incompetence, special interests, waste, poor information, overkill with regulations, devisiveness, lack of education, and plain absurdity. Government needs a redo. the Repub;ican Party needs a redo. Just remember this. George W might be a C minus or lower BUT WE ELECTED HIM....so what does that say?

I'm sick of hearing people defending Bush and Cheney. There is more than enough evidence to suggest that there was much wrongdoing during the Bush administrations 8 miserable years. I say, let the investigations begin and let's find out really happened. Let the facts will speak for themselves. If Bush & Cheney have done nothing wrong, then they should have nothing to hide. They should have no fear whatsoever of an investigation and would be eager to tell their side of the story – under oath and in public. You would think that they would be DEMANDING proper investigations in order to clear their good names.

Unfortunately, I don't hear either Bush Or Cheney crying out about being wrongly criticized and demanding formal investigations. Instead, they continue to try and twist the truth into something more palatable than what it really is. Therefore, the Bush/Cheney legacy will be one of secrecy, dishonesty, and wrongdoing. The stench of sinister and illegal activities will never go away.

Brian – you had me going there. That was until you referred to great Americans like Jesse Helms and Dan Quale. I almost wet my pants I laughed so hard. Thank you!

But enough jokes, it is time for a new chapter in American history. The People need a government that will work hard, and smart, in an effort to help improve everyone's quality of life. Constructive criticism is one thing but some of this stuff is just so irrational...

Hi there, WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

People like you, who lack the capacity for abstract thought, who limit their vocabulary to mostly single syllable words, and who think only in the most concrete of ideas, are also a huge part of the problem.

Peace, and Merry Christmas...

Of course. Bush is to blame for everything bad that has happened since the beginning of time. It was he that brought the Twin Towers not the Terrorsts. He was flying the planes, all four of them so what else in new. Katrina, Bush , the Housing Crunch, Bush, the failing Auto Industry, Bush. And now the bad weather, Bush.

Using all capital letters does not validate your point. Bush is the reason the country is where it is. Period.

...a "C-minus" ?... he must be a Republican...

But wait...didn't Jesus tell Bush he was destined to become President? And didn't Pat Robertson and the rest of the televangelists who give religion a bad name jump on board?

The blame game and smoke screens.
Why do we waste our time and effort in trying to determine just who is to blame for the condition of this country. The reason lies way beyond who the president is at any particular time. We are a divided country and as Jesus Christ said in Luke 11:17 …., Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth. Folks, we are falling because we are divided.
Actually. if you want to blame something or someone, then maybe we should look to the hidden government that is controlling things from behind the curtain. Take a closer look at the Federal Reserve System and Board as well as the IMF and all the international bankers. The debt money system is driving the economy of this country into the ground. Stop the madness and abolish the Federal Reserve and give the power of printing money and coin back to the United States government and take it from the private multi-billionaires who are raping the good hard working citizens of this country. They create money from nothing but a piece of paper and then charge interest on top of that… and you and I are paying the piper.
This debt money system was never tolerated by God in Old Testament times and should not be tolerated today either. The Children of Israel were not allowed to exact usury upon their brothers.
When are we going to wake up and see that what God has decreed for us is not to our hurt, but to our benefit. But we choose to disobey and so we pay the price for disobedience.

Okay..does anyone know how the government work??? Yes the Dems have been in Congress for 2 years! However, they only come up with the bills...the President is the one who has to sign them! For 6yrs the congress was controlled by Rep. The president is a Rep. so it goes without saying that when the Dems became the speaker of the house and the President is Rep nothing was going to change! Hello...read a political science book people!!!!

To Welcome to the Obama Show: Forgot to take your meds this morning, did you?

One worthless, useless old man criticizing another always leaves a bad taste in one's mouth. Guess Hussein Obama is Robertson's newest flavor of the month. How's the taste, Pat?

FIRST THINGS FIRST! richard rohlude get a life you crybaby, and give Pat Robertson some credit for goin against the Bush , we must not let his goofy brother get back into politics, i mean Jeb or is it jethro? At any rate keep his goofy self out of it. GW has given all of us pain and even gave his old mother ulcers!

Bush indeed does have a lower approval rating than even Nixon. WHAT HAS BUSH DONE CORRECT? Oh, Obama is not a baby killer. Grow up, its not like abortion was legalized by obama.

Pat Robertson CRITICIZES George Bush?! He PRAISES Barack Obama?! Are you kidding me?! Where'd THIS come from?! I thought Robertson and Bush were on the same team! I wonder–is this from a combination of Bush saying he didn't literally believe everything happened in the Bible (which I disagree with), and Obama's inviting Rick Warren to his Inaugaration to give the opening prayer? Or perhaps Robertson's trying to suck up somehow (though I don't know why) to Obama to get some sort of inside track, or something? What in the world is going on?!

I'd slam every idiot, including every "fundamental" idiot like Pat Robertson, Dobson, Fallwell etc., who voted for Bush and brought this disaster upon us.

They are all responsible.

Indeed, just thank your local neighborhood republican. Get after those even within our families.

SMOOCHIE,SMOOCHIE,SMOOCHIE.SORRY REPUBLICANS I LOVE YOU, I JUST COULD'NT HELP IT . AND TO RICHARD ROHDE THST'S MR PRESIDENT HUSSEIN TO YOU BUDDY. CROW ANYONE!!!

Finally, after all these years, and many goofs of his own, old Pat has for once told the truth. But, being a loyal Republican, he couldn't help fudge on a final grade for Bush – he doesn't deserve anything over a D-

Pat Robertson is being to kind. I would give Bush an F and I would Impeach him.

A C-? For Bush? Must have been one heck of a curve on that test!

Who is to be blamed for putting Bush into office, granting him the ability to do all the damages we are now paying for? To top it off, he was granted a second term!!! As angry as I am about having somebody that stupid and that clueless as Commander in Chief, I have to say the american people takes the most blame.

He's only repeating what most of us know already, Bush has done a very poor job of running this country and what a sad legacy he is going to leave with.
The only bright spot now is the fact we are going to get a great replacement in PE Obama.....he is going to make such a difference to this country.

So, when Robertson says something in favor of Bush's administration, he's hailed by the right wing as a smart man who has his head screwed on straight and is pointing America in the right direction. But now that he's allowed to say what he really thinks, pointing out the shortcomings of that same administration that we all know are there, the right wing says he's out of touch and useless?

I guess it'll take longer for the rest of the right wing to look beyond their own noses and see that Obama isn't just hype, but showing behavior of a responsible, thoughtful statesman. Only jealousy and zealotry keep one from seeing that this guy is doing better at this stuff than Bush.

it's not the republicans fault or the democrats, its both parties as well as the people, so stop stereotyping party supporters as the problems like gun crazy rednecks as all republicans and all democrats as cowardly liberals. do any of you think Obama will just immediately solve all the crises and like Pat Robertson how do we know if Obama will be good for the country or not like what will happen with our problems, only time will tell.

Sorry Salzberg, Grant and Harding were nothing compared to Bush. They were just guilty of petty corruption. Bush was criminally inept across the board. Everything from his stem cell policy to 9/11 to the Iraq war to the Patriot Act to prisoner interrogation and on and on and on was handled wrong. Nixon was criminally paranoid, but he did a number of great things including opening up USSR and China which lessened international tension. Bush the opposite with his doctrine of preemptive war. Bush has not a single good accomplishment, never mind great.

And 50% of American idiots voted for the shrub, not once but twice.

Hey Pat Robertson: What do you mean by 'Rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible"? The destruction was terrible and it was destroyed by us with your support. You don't seem to be talking like someone who fears God. You are fake!!!!

@WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!! you are crazy

To the moron listed as "welcome to the obama show". So everyone is on welfare, and everyone is a crook, and your answer is to put everyone in jail, where they once again are supported by taxpayer money? Well thought out plan there, with that wonderful attitude I am sure you will earn every negative thing that happens to you in life!

F for failure all the way around.

Dear Drew: Lots of us Christians think for ourselves. We're just not the ones trying to shove our religion down the throats of others or wearing our religion on our shirtsleeves, or judging everybody else for not being "saved".

Toooooooo late, Mr. Robertson. You've marched lock-step with Republicans Bush & Co. The slow/delayed response to Hurricane Katrina was the crown-jewel example of the TOTAL DISCONNECT of the Bush administration– you're doing a "heckuva job Brownie" while people were stuck in the Superdome. Hmmmmm

Another self serving public message from Pat Robertson,
His insight and forsight are so limited to today and all of the past 8 years his selective memory will allow. So now he comes to this conclusion. I guess he has his sights set on all the moderates in the country who have rejected his ideas of christian control of our government.
Sorry Pat, seen your stripes for decades now, the flip flop from your acidic preachings doesnt wash.

Dear WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!,

Your premise on the decline of America is truly flawed. The American Dream rotates around immigration and making a better life for you and your family. Illegal immigration is definitely a problem. I wonder if you have a problem with the immigrants that are coming here from European countries, or if its just the "minorities"? Law suits against our Insurance companies are also not the problem, if the Insurance companies weren't so corrupt then the amount of law suits might fall. The way our health care is run is the actual problem. Also, typing in all CAPS...really?

A reply to:
WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
I became American citizen and never got a penny and always worked hard and helped other... don't blame the immigrants
A doctor screws up and causes someone’s death; he and his insurance are liable for his mistake. You can blame the high insurance on him not my friend who died because of a doctor or a hospital’s mistake.
Pat Robertson’s opinion shouldn’t count any way. He’s someone who spreads hatred against other faiths. Just because the republicans screwed up he now likes Obama. Who is he kidding?

It appears that the Pat Robertson freak is applying for the position in the obama administration that Monica Lewinsky held in the Clinton administration.
Put another way, Pat Robertson sucks.

Why is this even news? who cares what robertson thinks?

Wow...Pat tries to make nice with whomever is in power doesn't he?

One of the big reasons this country got in the position its in is because of people like him. Who preach things, but don't practice them.

He's such a parasite! Go and leg press another ton of something! Maybe all the BS you've spread over your whole life you pointless little man.

Wow.

Even the repukes who use religion as a wedge are jumping ship.

I guess they forgot that GOD belongs to everyone and not just rich, old, white men and women.

Ah hahahahahahaah!

What a bunch of tools.

Amen Pat!

Pat Robertson is just as bad as Bush, so I'm not sure exactly what he's criticizing. Robertson's extreme intolerance to anything other than his screwed up brand of Christianity has only propped up the Bush admin for the last 8 years. He's using religion for his own personal and political gain.

Pat Robertson just needs to go away!

welcometotheobamashow, you come across as being a bitter deluded living in denial idiot. First, using all caps demonstrates an inferior and pitiful mind. Second, that is one of the most blatant examples denial that I have ever seen. Anyways, people like you are an anachronism now and you have no credibility whatsoever so there goes whatever argument you tried to make down in flames. History will not be kind to the village idiot and anyone and I mean anyone defending this man is either stupid, a corporate CEO, a religious fanatical christian wannabe or is mentally ill. I could write 15 pages of posts and that still scratches the surface! No doubt he will be remembered as the worst president we've ever had and I knew he would be from day one. He stole the election from Gore in 2000 and convinced enough sheeple fools in this country to go for him over Kerry so that's it righties. You have nothing to stand on and should be ashamed and atoning for your choice of this man instead of doing some pathetic limp argument trying to make Obama look bad. But do keep doing it because you'll just keep losing elections! As the song goes and it meant towards Bush... "hit the road Jack and don't ya come back no more no more no more no more:!

@Maik:

Perhaps there is no defined "separation between Church and State." However, I certainly do not feel worthy enough to lord my religion over all the peoples–I prefer to let each and all seek their own path toward the Light, whether Christian or no. Who can judge another's enlightenment?

@Texas Teacher:
The Unitarian Church in general is extremely tolerant and kind willed towards all seekers. I visited one this past Sunday and was quite pleased.

@SG:
Obama can't do much about the economy yet–he's not the President, nor is he a Senator any longer. Thus he cannot participate in the legal process until he is officially sworn in. Until then, all he can do is influence the process–not create it.

Thank you.

Well Far right Religious nuts what do you think about this the Pastor is right Bush was a complete Failure he sold us out Barack is gonna be a great President !! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

A grade of C-minus sounds appropriate, given the lack of intellectual talent in this administration. If the needed answer wasn't spelled out in the neo-con or PNAC palybook, there was no hope of getting anything done.

This is sort of like the pot calling the kettle black. Robertson has done his share of harm, too. Oh well, at least he's getting wiser as he gets older.

When will people wake up and realize that the only thing that Pat Robertson cares about is furthering his own fortune. He can deliver all sorts of predictions from God as long as people keep sending the checks. He is just some guy. He has always been just some guy. He doesn't speak for God!

Why should we even care what this nutcase thinks. He and fellow evangelicals got us a Bush for the past 8 years. It must be a real slow news day!

PEOPLE WHO WRITE IN ALL CAPS ARE IDIOTS!!!!!!

WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!

Where was Pat Robertson the past 8 years? Sounds like he just woke up from lingering coma.

Let the republican circular firing squad continue indefinitely!

Never listen to people who type in ALL CAPS LOCK.

It's the online version of a screaming retard.

Bush and Cheney are both war criminals and they both deserve to be taken in front of a world court and tried for crimes against humanity. And then maybe we can all have a necktie party that was afforded Saddam.

Pat, did God lead you to make political criticisms of another Christian? Do you really know all the facts, or have you just been listening to the hate-Bush media? You need to apologize to the President of the United States for remarks of which you know nothing.

I never thought that I would say it but I agree with Pat although he is way too kind. I would use much harsher language.

Personally, I have a very low opinion of Pat Robertson so any comments he makes about anything I take with a grain of salt.

Stop blaming Bush. He stunk, yeh, but if Clinton had done his job, there would be no 9-11. Then the country was in a recession when he took office, again, from Clinton. Bush sucked yep, but Clinton didn't leave a good mark.

Come on you left wing nuts, let me have it about your two saviors Obama and Clinton.

Bush and Cheney equal a two-headed monster.... I'm so happy that they will retire in comfort and that they handed so many profits to big oil.

I HOPE THEY ROT IN HELL

TO WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know what your problem is when you say:

". MAKING FOREIGN PEOPLE AMERICAN CITIZENS AND THEN LETTING THEM STAND IN LINE WITH THE REST OF THE LAZY PEOPLE FOR FREE HANDOUTS."

We too came from another country, and became US citizens.
When the nation called, my son, like thousands of others, joined the US Marines, and ultimately gave up his life so that someone like you also has the freedom to spew hatred in blogs.

So, here is a Christmas present to you – enjoy life, while my son is at his final posting station.

People like you make me sick!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pat Robertson a Christian? I don't think so, he's the nasty person that wanted to have Hugo Chavez taken out by the CIA. Who cares what this idiot thinks. Why is CNN even giving this person any credibility? His opinion is worthless. He belongs in a sci-fi world.

Middle ground is hard to find. The main issue on both sides of the fence is morals.. Good mean you should be willing to give and help others while on the other end it should not mean that everything goes.. The liberals especially then to feel that people should tolerate sinful practices while the right then to be self-righteous about what is really right to help people grow..

Pat Robertson a Christian? I don't think so, he's the evil person that wanted to have Hugo Chavez taken out by the CIA. Who cares what this idiot thinks. Why is CNN even giving this evil person any credibility? His opinion is worthless. He belongs in a sci-fi world.

To Bush and Cheney, I give a big lump of coal and my sincere wish that they are tried war crimes and placed in jail. To all of you who think different, go to hell.

AMEN!!!!!! Bush is the worlds most hated man and has been a royal fuc up as a president...I hope he rots in hell
WE LOVE OBAMA!!!!

The reality is that President's are niether "all good" or "all bad" but somewhere in between. For example GWB led our Country into War w/o preparing the public properly and seeing through the intelligence failure as he calls it. But GWB turned the good guys loose to chase and eliminate the bad guys , keeping us safe. On balance not a very good Pres. by measure today, but let history judge.
Remember noone like JCarter but if you look back he was right on many things including energy conservation. Just think where we would be had we stayed on this course. We would not need the oil we shed teasure and life on today.
Agree, I thought so.

Hey Mrs.Obama....Are you off your medicine? The elections are every 4 years....not 8!!!
Get a life

Robertson is one more neocon who needs to clam up.
IS IT JAN. 20TH YET???

"The Katrina matter was terrible. The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible"
I remember what he said at the time of these events. He blamed gays for Katrina, and he promoted the war as a second crusade.

Well well. Somewhere in hell there's a snowball sitting comfortably. Christmas still has miracles.

This sorry excuse for Elmer Gantry is the biggest hypocrite I have ever seen. He was all over GWB during the last 8 years. Now all of the sudden he had some issues with the guy? Pat, we aren't that dumb.

For any one of you who actually care to look at the entire picture, Robertson has criticized the Bush administration on several occasions throughout both terms. Do you really think that CNN publicizing this one makes it 'special'? There's such a lack of critical thinking skills on *both* sides of the political spectrum it seems.

i am just wondering y this moralist didnt say anything BEFORE??????. the right wingers need to get in line. THE LIBERALS WON DO YOU GET IT?????????????????????????all you right wing crybabies just shut up ok? people are tired of you whining all the time. get with the program and be productive instead of trying to always run the show............you guys ran the show and look what happened!!!!!!!!

Totally awesome that he waited to say any of this until Bush's last days in office. Completely believable, too; I can understand why this man is considered a moral beacon by so many.

"THIS COUNTRY IS GOING DOWN FOR MORE REASONS THAN BUSH!!"

Indeed. Add people who write in all uppercase to your list of the reasons the country is going down.
Your keyboard has lowercase letters. Use them.

CAN YOU SAY BACK STABBERS????

The same OLD WHITE REPUBLICAN MEN BEING TWO-FACED whenever it's convenient for THEM!!!!

Pat Robertson denouncing President Bush is like Satan denouncing sin. I have news for you Mr. Robertson, he was your candidate and you had “visions” from God that he would win. You Christian Coalition types have done a real number on this country by backing this disaster of a man. I think it’s hypocritical to be criticizing him now. You goons should just do what you do best: go on the air and fleece your flock. Stay out of Washington, for the love of God.

Serious goofs? Ya think ? Thanks, Einstein for that input. Bush is an idiot and so are you. Go drop off the face of the earth somewhere, Pat.

Hey Obama-Mama...do you even know where the term "redneck" came from? I doubt it. I actually do not take offense to that slang term. The term stemmed from a reporter calling the miners (who traveled from Charleston, WV to Wingo in protesting of the abuse by mine-owners of non-union mine workers) "rednecks" because to distinguish themselves from the gangs these mine-owners hired, the miners wore red bandannas around their necks.

Calling DROOLING KNUCKLE DRAGGING rightwing reactionary SH!T-F0R-BRAINS VERMIN like palin and coulter and SCUM limbaugh "conservatives" is an ABSOLUTE insult to the term "conservative". No, VERMIN like palin and coulter and SCUM limbaugh are VERMIN and it's that simple.

The last eight years are the "lost years". Just unbridled supply-side, figure it out for yourself while we send more jobs overseas economics.

Gee Pat, buyers remorse? You and the other millionaire religious freaks are why we had GWB pushed down our throats. You are the ones the made your gullible followers think that abortion was the only issue that was important in a president. Did you really think GWB cared about those issues? Grow up, hopefully lessons learned and you will keep out of future elections.

Texas Teacher--The Unitarian church is not a Christian church. They are humanists who do not believe that Jesus Christ is God's Son and our Savior. Don't call that church Christian when it isn't.

Where is Borack Obama today??? After all the promises he made, to all the Toto's.... He must be Sad-da Clause,,, I know the Toto's......
"Change you can believe in", 50c in Pennies......

My oh my. Tracy Chapman sang a song one entitled "Please give the President, my honest regard, for disregarding me. "W" is coming back to Texas and I am just sick about that. Dick Chaney is headed to Wyoming. These two criminal(s), along with Condi, Karl Rove, (studid)Scooter, Donald Rumsfied, all should be hanged. This team did single handed what the "terrorist" could not do, destrod our cpuntry.

Bush, move to the cave w/ Osabama, and take your posse with you.
Loser,Loser,Loser Texas is in BIG Trouble. $2 million home in the swany Dallas suburd. Meanwhile, many Americans are sleeping. I hope you have night mares for the rest of your life.

/jw

C'mon folks! Give the devil his due...You know that Pat ios being honest & forthright. LOL!!

The most significant value that the Bush Administration and the Republican party have given us over the past 8 years is that "greed" is a good thing! Greed has invaded this entire country in every aspect and it has become the highest praised attribute that a citizen can have now. What ever happened to the United States where everyone looked out for each other. We still have these good virtues in this country's soul we just need to have someone lead us out of our current values and let's all start working together for the common good. WE CAN DO THIS!

Come on now.....W deserves way worse than a C -.

He wasn't slightly below average. He's the worst president in modern history hands down.

I admire him for his honesty, and for being supportive of Obama. It's a good sign for the country that some of the divisiveness is starting to melt.

Anyone who believes in their religion that was told to them by there parents which was told to them by theirs which was written down thousands of years ago is just s stupid puppet unwilling to admit that the world as they know it is a fraud. We should not hate these people but feel sorry for them because they are not free. They are prisoners and are to be pitied in the same way that we pity addicts. The only reason this idea seems a bit crazy is that they have the power of numbers or what they call group think. The funny thing is many religious people know everything they think is a sham but to admit it would estrange them from evryone they care about so they just go along with the lie and turn off the critical thinking section of their brain when it comes to spirituality and religion.

I heard him make those comments on CNN and I have to say I thought it was pretty remarkable. I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

To "Welcome to Barack Obama show":

I am an immigrant who has become a citizen. Just FYI, I do not stand in line for hand outs. I probably pay more taxes in a year than you have paid a life time. So, stop this immigrant bashing and focus on people like you. You are the reason why America is in this state now.

Let us keep in mind that it's people like Pat that have had this country's ear for the last decade – THEY are largely to blame for all this, as they were the ones beating Bush's drum the loudest. Add to that list Hannity, Rush, etc.

Time for the US to learn the meaning of 'credibility' and dump the voices that led us to disaster.

I agree with Robertson about Bush's mistakes and I applaud him for coming forward. All these mistakes are partially his–and other prominent Republican leaders–fault, though, because they were silent about his mistakes until now–when it's too late. If they had spoken up throughout his presidency, correcting him when he was wrong, things might be in better shape now. Instead, Robertson stood by silently and watched, making him culpable in the whole mess.

He hit the nail right on the head this time.I hope some of our people read this with an open mind and join with us to help Obama right this ship. HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Once again we find someone that can't spell questioning someone else's iintelligence, Thank you Dr. Mimi you and those like you make this SO easy!

If Bush had not been so bad a president, the country would have never found the nerve to elect Obama. I hate the incompetence of Bush, but I like our prospects with Obama. I'm afraid the second required the first. WHJ

Maik F. , Correct separation of church and state isn't specifically mentioned in the constitution but that is what it has been interpreted to mean within the context of the law. The supreme court has used this very phrase in several opinions. So whether it is specifically written in those exact words in the first amendment, that is how it has always been interpreted by the highest court and thus, every other court in the land.

Dr. mimi de la cruz – Welcome to America, now type English!

The welcome to Obama show is an IGNORANT,

Incredible, some Republicans just won't give up and GET OVER IT !! No matter how many of their party leaders come forward like this, they just don't seem to get it. If Robertson's and Powell's comments were the opposite of what they said, these same people would be cheeing. Instead, they consider their comments not credible.

Keep it up. All this negative talk just makes it that much easier for the Dems to win in 2012.

Gee Pat, I really have a problem with a businessman who makes his money off his religion. There is something just un-palatable about it. You remind me of one of the moneychangers Jesus threw out the temple. Then add your foray into politics, and it makes you look like a Pharisee. I'm sorry to be so critical.

It MUST be true. You're saying it in all capital letters.

Yes, Pat, that's right. Obama is not an IDEALOGUE like YOU and the President you supported through two elections. Obama has shown himself to be a PRAGMATIST, and I see him continuing as such after his inauguration.

Wow what does an F require? Bush running down the sidewalk of Sesame Street gunning down everyone with pride?

Goofs? You call destroying the economy, failing to prevent 9-11, ignoring Katrina, eliminating what little health care children have, and starting pointless wars we are losing – goofs? Bush should sign a pardon for himself. The country should lock him and his accomplices up for life.

The real problem is evident from reading some of these other posts. People expect the President to run the show, to take care of every problem that comes along. That expectation IS the problem. Take responsibility for your own situation. What is going on now should stand as a great testament to the inefficiency of government. They have a $3 trillion budget at the federal level, and can't live with that. Estimated GDP in the US this year is going to be around $14 trillion, and probably slightly less next year. If certain campaign promises are carried out, the feds will spend about $6 trillion next year. At what point will we finally have had enough and put an end to this?

@Chip Lusko – Apparently you still cling to the false statements of the campaign season. If you catch a few news programs you will learn that the slander thrown about by McCain, Palin and company were lies and misrepresentation in an effort to get your vote. You seem to be one of those that actually believed things you were told without looking up the facts. The internet can be used for that also. Then U can once again embrace the 8th commandment with pride.

Pat Robertson is absolutely right Bush Adm is horrible and he, Bush, did not know how to run the country nor his cabinet.

Obama and his cabinet will have to consider many things and the way business is done here and else where. No more free rides for CEO's, Bankers, Handouts and Non US citizens. If think if there is a website for us to inform the President elect about our concerns then these issues can be addressed.

I'm no Bush fan, but I can't believe a nutcase like Robertson is even getting an audience for his comments. The guy is deranged. Remember, it was Robertson that said Katrina was god's revenge for the evil people of New Orleans.

thanks to the religous right for how they made my miniestry work even harder to get those on the other side tobelieve in God because of their support of the R's. and the way they live and preach. give me a break give up all of your riches [to those who do not live like you are able] if you truely love god.

So "Welcome to the Obama Show" exactly how is PE Obama responsible for your list of "causes" for the economic meltdown??These all happened on Bush's watch!!

And for all of those complaining that PE Obama hasn't done anything...he is NOT the president YET!!

Seeing as 82 % of Americans approve of what Obama has done so far, it must be lonely being in the 18% and spending your days whining and criticizing over and over again on all the blogs!!

A grade of C-? There's grade inflation for you.

welcome to the Obama show

If your not an american Indian. You are foreign as well.

And why not! It's Obama's Birthday Tomorrow..... Idiot....

Hey Pat!
Maybe you haven't heard this one yet..."Let he who is without sin cast the first stone!"

The totality of leadership deceits and mistakes weighs this administration down like no other in recent memory. Nixon's 'Dirty Tricks' were minor criminal bung-lings compared to what W. and his trusted minions have foisted upon the citizens of this country.
Recovery will be a long time coming, and we must cope with the scars from this unnecessary war and economic melt-down.
The President Elect has virtually appeared out of nowhere and seems to be the man to lead us out of the wilderness. It almost has biblical interpretations, if one is so inclined.

While he usually spouts religious babble, for once Rev. Robertson makes sense. I take offense at comments such as those made by – WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!! – . I work in a mental health clinic with many people who live below the poverty level. Hearing people go on about lazy folks who don't want to work/just want to get free hand outs, etc. incenses me. The folks with whom I work would love to have a job, to make their own way – to have their pride and dignity. People who go on about the "free money" that President Elect Obama will be handing out are really broadcasting their ignorance of how entitlement programs work. Usually I also hear them going on about what great Christians they are too... One day they may find themselves standing in line only to discover that their attitudes and behavior has bought them a ticket to the hot place down below!

Rev. Pat, you are as guilty as Bush. You and the Right Wing Nuts in this country made him do what he's done to us in this country and around the world. You only cared that he was against abortion and that he was a self proclaimed born again. You justified the war in Iraq on your show. I, for one, I AM not buying your ...........**. You chose idiology over intectuals like Gore and Kerry. Then you tried to give us Sarah Palin on the same principles but, this time you failed. Changing your tune now will earn you no invitation to W.H. We know that's what you are working on – your relevance has been greatly diminished – you, Rev, no longer matter. I just hope your followers wake up too.
GO AWAY!!! AND DON'T COME BACK!!!

"C-minus!?!" I think that's being charitable... but then that's what the "right-lovin'" reverend is all about, isn't it?

WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

First anyone who types an entire comment in caps is someone who has nothing meaningful to say. Lets see, foreigners and other lazy people standing in line for free handouts? I thought the foreigners were taking jobs away from Americans? Find a bigoted position and stick with it sir.

Oh, and as much as I hate Pat, he isn't blaming him for everything or he'd not haven give him only a c-. Bush has made a lot of mistakes and everything isn't his fault but as POTUS the buck does stop with him and he needs to own. If he didn't want the responsibility he shouldn't have taken the job.

Actually Pat Robertson does a better job reporting news on his network than most cable stations. His network newscasters are 10 times more professional than CNN

bush pro drug dealer reward criminal and love illegal either obama too , he is already lie even before in office yet,bring 200 mills illegal and be new democrats

Oh, gawd. The kiss of death........

I'm not sure about that C-. History will probably consider Bush to be America's Nero.

Why PAt Robertson still relevant?

I have read the bible. I was raised by a Christian family in a Christian church. I was taught that God loves the truth. I was taught that thy shalt not kill. I was taught that torture was an ABOMINATION. I was taught that the earth was a GIFT FROM GOD, and that humans had a responsibility to take care of it. I was taught that greed and covetting material things was not how we should be spending most of our time. I was taught that it was better to give than to receive. I was taught do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I was taught to help those with less than I.

Pat Robertson, if you can look at the Bush Administration and give it anything less than an F- from a Christian point of view, then was I taught a pack of lies?

I don't think so. Think about it.

All, Peace on Earth, Good Will to ALL of God's creation, and have a very wonderful Christmas!

Bush had a whole lot to deal with. I give him the benefit of the doubt. We had a burgeoning recession, 9/11, Afghanistan, an il-prepared military, Iraq, Katrina, stock market crash. These are extremely complex problems which Mr. Obama will soon find out.

Mr. Robinson and the nonsense he presents as religion is a waste of time.

One thing Bush gave us is plenty of quotes from which comedians to stay gainfully employed. You can't fault him for that other than to say his command of the English language wasn't the best among U.S. presidents.

I think we are in trouble when Pat Roberson praises Obama. Is this all a part of that global warming thing?

This is turning into a ephidemic!
Honestly it's sad to see how republicans now are denouncing the mostruosities they created!
Remember General Powell?
They made me remember NAZI germany
Republicans of course, always a little too late.

Well, to paraphrase Tina Fey paraphrasing Sarah Palin, I guess Pat Robertson is now part of the Anti-America America. He had a choice: could've been pro-America or Anti-America.

And this is news??? Who gives a crap what Pat Robertson thinks, he's just another far right wing nut job blabbing out of his mouth once again. I doubt that it's good news for Obama to have Robertson on his side. Sheeesh, why do people pay attention to these crazies?

Bush and all of his partners in crime deserve the electric chair for this calamity they have put the world in.

Why is anything Robertson says considered news? He is a bigot that steals money from the ignorant. Everyone knows Bush is a bad president (time will tell how bad), he is just now figuring this out 8 years later? Jeffrey, I disagree, I think it can be easily said that Bush is worse then Nixon. Nixon helped start the EPA and cooled relations with China. Bush hasn't done anything.

Honestly...enough already!!! I find mixing religion and politics sacreligious. To further one's agenda by saying it's God's will is awful. That said, I commend Mr. Robertson, as I do Mr. Gingrich and Mr Powell, all conservative republican's. But more that that, they are displaying themselves as true Americans, who in these times of crisis are putting aside their opinions and prejudices to rally around our dully elected leaders in support of our GREAT nation. Divisiveness and intolerance will never cure what ails us nor is it what our Lord's teachings were all about. Face it folks THERE IS NOT GOING TO BE A RECOUNT!!! Mr. Obama WILL be our next president. Instead of criticizing and fighting him at every turn, join the effort to raise America back to the status it once held and the model of democracy aspired to by others. God bless America and may God bless each and every one of us.

Pat, you are an idiot and nobody cares about you. Shut up

Well Obama show,
it's called grammer.

News Headline: "Pastor tells the Truth."

Like a broken clock... happens to tell the right time twice a day.

Intolerance is just an excuse for one's ignorance.

So where was Robertson when all these things were happening that he thinks are mistakes? Where was his voice then? Sorry, Pat, while I agree with the substance of your remarks, you're far too little and far too late.

To Brian, in what world are you living? Keep making yourself believe that the democrats are responsible for the mortgage crisis. Remember, anytime they tried to introduce legislation, Pres. Bush vetoed just about all. He never vetoed anything in his first 6 years in office. So explain exactly which legislation the democrats introduce, that affected the ECONOMY directly. Obama is going to inherit a broken home, so obviously it will take time for him to fix the damage the Republicans inflicted on the country and the world.

Pat Robertson: The poster child of the gutless arm-chair quarterback.

All of those people who voted for Bush TWICE, like Pat Robertson and his right-wing religious nutjob followers, share the blame for what has happened to our country.

For him – or them – to start pointing fingers is just a reprehensible attempt to avoid responsibility. They need to look in the mirror and admit what they have done to our once-great country.

Pat Robertson likes Obama ??!! Hey Barack be afraid be Very Afraid

I actually agree with something that Pat Robertson said..........has hell frozen over?

Get it done Obama!

YAHUSHUA-remember that name!

Pat, are you mad that you weren't asked to swear him in? As a Christian man, are you really pleased with this pro-abortion, pro- infanticide, socialist, smiling tool of the devil? Is there anyone who is willing to stand up for the truth anymore? Thank God for James Dobson. None of the rest of you deserve any respect anymore.

My family comes from a long history of republican voting and I have to say this guy, if he does a good Job could be good for our nation, that said as of this election, we did not vote republican due to the disgraceful nature the party has shown over the last 8 years. Until Obama makes a huge mistake as an American, I will support him, He will be our President and in the days since his election has already done more for our economy (stock market numbers), simply by speaking to the people, than W has in the last 4 years. Let Pat say what he wants in this case I happen to agree. If Obama is successful so then is our country. ....think about it !

I just got done reading all the posts here and amazed at the hate from either side. Our Pres. elect is trying to bring a dialog together with all Americans and all I see here is people throwing stones at each other. I am a Christan who was a Republican for years and I voted for Obama for he was the best men out there and he is a Christian too.
I finally see Martin Luther Kings dream coming slowly into fruition in a country which has been a country so long divided by racial hate. Maybe for once you all can participate in bringing this dream into reality for it is also what the God I serve wants to bring forth. I am asking you to all look at yourself this season and give someone a break or a chance as we all gave Pres. elect Obama in spite of Sarah Palins ravings. You state all Republicans are hateful, I am not, but I switched to Independent. You speak tolerance but you will not give this man the right of his opinion without throwing eggs. A lot of us Christian Republicans voted for Pres. Obama since we thought he was the better man and his intelligence, integrity and fairness to all were some of the attributes who made that decision easy. But what I read here I think some of his followers need some lessons from Pres. elect Obama a lesson of tolerance and listening to all opinions without destroying the other person. I was not on board right away with Obama but always defended him against all the slander coming out the same as I would defend Mr. Robertson against hateful rhetoric. Hate does not build bridges but Love conquers all. You all have a Merry Christmas and even that might offend some of you, but I meant it well and that is what should really matter. Take your stones and put them to rest. And by the way why all the capital shouting. "Welcome to the Obama show" I once was a foreigner who came to this country, proud to be a citizen now and worked all my life and now unemployed due to being job stalked by criminals who were tied to a Republican congressman, but you would never understand that. I would love to work, but since someone hacked my computer Mr. Feeney's boys come visiting before every interview. I lived in FL and now GA and certainly saw law enforcement looking the other way and governors who pride themselves being all Republican run states, certainly saw nothing but corruption first hand. I am not lazy and would love to work. I should say shove your hate, but than that would bring me down to your level and I would not want to go there ever.

Pat Robertson ought to be in the business of saving souls. And that goes to any Preacher. And, leave politics to the politicians.

Robertson is homophobic and a spreader of hate. But even Hitler was right once in a while.

@ WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

You really got a serious problem. Why don't you channel some of that energy towards working to correct the bad situation we are in now in this country. Now is not the time to be laying blame but rather coming together as a nation and working to make our country a better place to live again.

Try it. You might like it.

Pat Robertson was the first “reverend” who said the we deserved 911 but he blamed the gays and feminists, there were some complaints from the left but the right-wing complained that the liberals were blowing it out of proportion, funny how things changed when a black minister (Rev Wright) says comments about 911, you would have thought he was the pilot of one of the planes that hit the World Trade center. Not one comment about what this idiot said but any mention of Rev Wright would generate hundreds of comments from the left & right with false outrage. God Bless America

Let's just see how Obama does in the next few years. Remember the Clinton administration started this economic mess when they forced banks to give out high risk loans to people who are not qualified for a loan and along with Clinton blame Barney Franks and Dobbs who took money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and never looked back. Many people should be blamed for the weak economy and it's not just the President. Rats jump ship when it's going down.

Hey Roger,you can't find one thing right in the Bush administration,how about keeping all of us safe from terrorism,even uneducated, biased loudmouths like you. Dave

robertson must walk in bush's shoes before he gets critical. US is also conrolled by a democratic congress which has fought bush every step of the way.

OK. Bush is not to blame for everything that's gone wrong. The Iraq War, mishandling the problems of Katrina, 9/11, torture, financial crisis. Nope, not all his fault. Robertson, Limbaugh, Falwell ... Cheney, Rove, Libby ... Enron, AIG, Lehman Bros., ... Gramm, Foley, Newt .... It took a lot of people actively supporting him for things to get this screwed up. And that includes every single person that voted for him.

I particularly look to you 28-32% who still think he and the current administration are doing a good job. If you get to have grandchildren and if they are lucky enough to survive the effects of global warming, they will never forgive you ... not any of us.

During the election the Evangelical\Fundamentalist leaders claimed Obama was a Muslim, funded by terroists, the anti-crist and foreign born! And now the likes of Robertson are giving him praise?

First Newt then Pat.
I am a Republican whose family voted for Obama.
Way t0 go PE. With all the new revelations about and from Palin and the Joe the Plumber we got it right this time.
Merry Christmas.

C- always worked for W in college.

pat robertson and his ilk are most of the reason we're in this fiasco. I will believe in god, the day he dies. If I go to Hell for this statement, so be it, cause he'll be right there with me. Because it wouldn't be Hell without him.

robertson, you may as well forget trying to rid yourself of that republican stink and dumb look, it's natural. go confess your sins and ignorance to the church pastor and ask for forgiveness.

What absurdity. This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

It is because of the misguided agenda of the Christian Conservatives that this man was elected to two terms in office. They fell in love with Bush when he was asked who is role model was and he stated "Jesus Christ". After that they did not need to know any more about his background or intelligence to elect him. They were sure that divine providence was going to help him righteously rule this country.

See now how wrong Pat Robertson and company were. The American people need to retain this memory for years to come because the Christian Conservative Political Machine is far from dead. It is in hibernation, poised for the next opportunity to make its' mark on American politics.

Is it April 1?

As a person who has never been a fan (mostly a harsh critic) of Pat Robertson, I find this to be an amazing thing for him to say. Frankly, as a supporter of the need for all of us – Democrat, Republican, and Independent – to come together and to stop the bickering and fighting between the "Reds" and the "Blues", I find this heart warming. THIS is what President-elect Obama has been calling for ever since his speech to the Democratic convention in 2004. It is thrilling to see it starting to happen. May more of us from opposite sides in this great country come together like this.

Yeah Pat Robertson!!

Bryan – whatever you're smoking, please share!! Obama just hired most of the Clinton Administration, why would those crooks look into these crooks? President Clinton – one of only 2 presidents EVER impeached – the charge – he and his cronies lied during an official Congressional Hearing!

The past eight years underscore the importance of getting the right leadership in the White House. The Bush Administration has botched every aspect of policy it has touched, leaving the country in terrible shape. We all hope the new President can right things, but he's inheriting a very damaged nation.

Robertson is dead on except for the grade of George W. Bush. It is worse than a C-. He has mismanaged Iraq and Afghanistan. His cabinet selections in many cases was marginal starting with the FEMA Director. The Foreign policy in most cases has been a D grade. Plus, the president is not very intellectual, which in this writer's opinion, has not been able to figure things out and make a decision that promotes excellence. The days are going fast and it's less than a month when the president and the Treasury Secretary will leave office.
Their legacy along with the Vice-President's will not be well received.

The first thing we need to do, is to ignore anything Pat Robertson says. He's little more than the right wing's copy of Michael Moore.

Does anyone care what Pat Robertson says?? And "drew" who said that christians don't think for themselves, you must belong one of those open minded religions that kills people in the name of their God. First time I've ever seen a poster slam of 50% of the worlds population

Just remember this, read the post of the person before and after you and know that they are brothers and sisters. We are in this together.
Have the happiest of holidays and may God bless you all.

Thanks for your comments Pat. Maybe next time you could speak up while the right wing is screwing up, and not after wards. How much courage does it take to condemn someone who's been universally criticized?

As for all the right wingers who think that immigrants are the problem, my grandfather emigrated to this country with the clothes on his back. He had the equivalent of a 2nd grade education.

He raised 8 children, 6 of whom went on to get master's degrees and great careers. He built a business even though he struggled to learn english.

This country was built by immigrants and it's going to get its second wind because them.

It's truly funny how these so called "experts" jump from ship to ship when the going gets rough. Robertson never did seem very "religious" to me after some of the things him and Falwell "preached" about. Why should ANYONE take him serious now? It tis' the truth about Bush tho'...

Excuse me, but did you say a C-minus? How about giving the idiot a "ZERO!" Robertson, if ever you had any credibility with anyone at anytime, guess what, dude . . . you just lost it! Your dumb statement ought to be listed among the top ten stupidiest quote made in 2008. Take a loooooong hike, dude!

Obama Show "the screamer" must be a Native American. After all, he rails againts "Foreign People". What reservation are you from?

Whatwhatwhat what what? Am I hallucinating? Has this medieval Elmer Gantry actually had a change of heart?
Fat chance. He never had one, that I could see.
It's rather pitiful, actually, to see him scrambling to change sides now that the election is over.
Oh, the confusion and chaos this flip-flop may cause in the ranks of the bigoted and intolerant ... maybe this is a Christmas gift to the country at large?
If so, Merry Christmas, one and all, and best wishes for a brighter New Year than we have seen for many a day!

Gee, SG, Obama is not even in office yet and you are already blaming him. You're an idiot.

So that's Obamas fault? Not president yet! Moron

Pat Robertson is a turn-coat and a coward. He should have been denouncing Bush & Co. YEARS ago, as well as the crowd that was wheeled out to continue their policies (Guliani in particular, who Robertson said god TOLD him was the best candidate)...

Gee, SG, Obama is not even in office yet and you are already him. You're an idiot.

As someone who grew up in the "religious right," I am very pleased that Pat Robertson finally appears to be coming to his senses. It was Jesus Himself who said, "My kingdom is not of THIS world,..." The very idea that the Republican party is "God's party," and the Democratic party is "Satan's party," is absolute nonsense. Jesus is neither Republican nor Democrat.

I greatly appreciate the fact that a noted member of the "religious right" is finally making an honest, intelligent, and objective accessment of both Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama.

I'm waiting for Dr. James Dobson to follow suit.

Brian,

I am a democrat but after this disaster and I starting to rethink my views. Maybe only certain people should be homeowners. The only thing is Capitalism will not grow an economy. Poor people should be exposed to opportunities. If they are not taught or have exposure, we can not expect them to grow on their own. Ignorance is self destructing. Eventually it will affect everyone. Maybe our country should not be overwhelmed with material things. Buy Buy Buy Want Want Want Media Media Media. I think this is what brought us to our knees. Even wealthy people are making bad decisions based off of greed. Americans are going t have to change their mind set or we will go under.

Wow Brian...where have you been?
"People that foolishly took out house loans they couldn't afford"?
There's an approval process for home mortgages. In the past, lenders would honestly tell people whether or not they could "afford" to have a mortgage. The current crisis was caused by greedy lenders giving loans to "anybody" just so they could collect their signing bonus and commissions. How does the average home buyer know that these "experts" are conning them into a contract that they can't afford, by giving them ridiculously low "adjustable" interest rates and then a year or two down the road, boosting the interest rate to criminal levels with no warning at all. It was a big sham for the lenders to get their commissions and then the banks to foreclose and gain ownership of the properties at no cost to themselves. This is criminal, but do you see anyone in jail? NO! We see them being rewarded for their criminal behavior with OUR tax money. Just because it didn't happen to you and you weren't caught up in one of these scams, doesn't mean you're now the authority on what really happened. Unless of course you are a loan agent for a mortgage company, in which case YOU should be in jail. These people knew exactly what they were doing the whole time.

One of Bush's biggest goofs was aligning himself with Pat Robertson and other hate-spewers, operating under the guise of being "good Christians". This is the guy who said that Katrina hitting New Orleans was because of the area's acceptance of "homosexuals". When a tornado hit Pat Robertson's home town, the story wasn't the same. The day I never have to hear another word from hateful windbags like this will be the day I realize I've gone to heaven.

Pat Robertson, as far as I can tell, has no experience in foreign or domestic policy, economics, science, or anything other than making a babbling idiot of himself on television. His error rate for future predictions rivals that of Sylvia Browne. This man is an utter buffoon, and CNN is reporting his opinion on the Bush Administration as though it is something we should pay attention to.

This fawning over what religious authorities have to say on serious issues affecting our nation and the world is exceedingly tiresome. It's time for the fourth estate to grow up and stop following the doctrine of "if it's popular, it must be true." Would have saved us a lot of trouble in Iraq, that's for sure.

it feels like our country is findly coming together, right, left and the middle and that's a nice change

"So Robertson is pleased with Obama's handling of the financial mess? What has Obama done?? "

Not yet being president, he can't "do" anything. He can perhaps announce plans he'd like to do next year, but that's about all he can do. He can't implement policies, nor make changes ... yet.

The handling of the crisis has been coming from the current administration.

To "blah-blah-Obama Show':

What led to this country's imminent financial collapse was the elimination of government oversight, government regulation, watchdog programs, and plain common sense.

It started with Ronald Reagan. We stopped gathering revenues to finance our infrastucture and started borrowing against the future.

We allowed very greedy people to loot the nascent wealth of this country up to the point it has been bled white.

The future has now arrived. A economy based upon service industry and borrowing against credit cannot stand for very long. Collapse is inevitable, and that is what is happening.

What is really criminal is that the people who brought this on, knew it would happen, that's why they bundled all the insolvent debt into investment 'instruments' and sold them all over the world to spread out the debt as a global Ponzi scheme, hatched here in the good ol US of A.

Don' it make U proud to be an American.

Richard Rohdes comment below, seems to be delusional. HE is one of the problems with this country, and anyone else who thinks like him – no matter whom they are speaking of.

You forgot reason #6, which may be the most important reason why this country is going down........YOU!

It is idiots like you who are allowed to vote and end up electing criminals like Bush.

So when will Pat apologize for misleading his flock into voting for a lying war criminal who has bankrupted the country...both morally and economically? When will he take responsibility for the deaths he helped cause?

"The liberals, who have had control of congress for the last 2 years, put out legislation and made Americans believe that everyone should have a nice house and nice things"

Last I heard, the housing crisis started actually showing up at the end of 2007, when the recession started happening. So that would have been 6 years of Republican policies (which also stressed home ownership, and little to no regulation or enforcement), and 1 year of Democratic control. No doubt you think the Congress completely reversed all the events of the past 6 years, in the space of less than 1 year.

The rest of your comments are the same. Weak attempts at straw man arguments.

Trust me, there's lots of blame to go around, on both political parties. As well as on the businessmen who made incredibly stupid loans to people who should never have gotten them, to the people who took the loans, without any planning on how to actually live with the consequences.

Blaming is a fun way to kill some time, but how about we spend more time implementing fixes for the mess, instead?

he is a brother God bless his soul..... he is right on the KATRINA AND THE LIKELIHOOD OF ANOTHER GREAT GREAT DEPRESSION.

Roger – In your struggles try to remember the fact that there have been NO terrorist attacks on our soil since September 11, 2001 for starts. I know that's a long time for Democrats but try really hard. I will grant there have not been many more but there's the "biggie". American lifes may not be more important to you than the "innocent Iraqis" but there you go.

A straight up F. The worst president in 100 years. A goof ball that never got it. An immature man that never grew up.

@ Chip Lusko
Pleas don't start blaming Obama for the abortion thing because he is not president yet! And no president in the American history has touched , hinted or even talked about the abortion rights. For the reason that you can't please the religion nuts without taking the rights of woman away. There are still more woman in America then there are christians. Sorry for you but the majority rules.

@ Brian
What are you talking about Bush made America safer after 9/11 yea fine oke....its the rest of the world he made dangerous for EVERYBODY. Americans being attacked in several western societies . Let me guess you forgot about the London bombings or Madrid bombings which now have been proven direct corrolation due to Bushs handling the international community. But in your mind of thinking thats oke because they are not american.

People we need a WORLD leader, and for 3/4 of the world, that will be OBAMA.

Wish the world and its citizens happy holidays

If Pat Robertson is criticing Bush, the Rapture must be near!

Wow! What a profile in courage criticizing Bush as he is leaving office.
Saying he is a C minus president, is like saying a burned down house need a home improvement. A blind man can see that!!!

The comment from the "Welcome to the Obama show" individual clearly came from a Native American – since the rest of us are "foreign people" granted citizenship.

Hey Welcome to the Obama Show....

Your ignorance is proven in the words you write.

Obama didnt need to use it as a tool to get elected. The Bush presidency was evidence that it was time for a change all on its own.

I have many foreign friends who have become or are working on becoming American citizens (I am an American born citizen) and all of them are gainfully employed and most have more than one job.

Sending jobs overseas... guess whos doing that... Large corporations. Corporations run by Republicans... buddies of your friend Mr. Bush...

And who are all the crooks that are so greedy... Oh yeah, they're Republicans as well....

The old guard has been left behind and a progressive more tolerant nation is showing its true colors.

It's amusing to see one fool betray another.

re:"Bush worst President ever" side debate-
I think if you evaluate Presidents based not necessarily on their behaviors(Nixon's criminal activities, Harding's general incompetence), but rather on how badly they screwed things up for the next generation, Bush would be the worst President in history. A surplus turned into record deficit, a war initiated on falsehoods and badly conducted, and the list goes on...
Frankly, Nixon was one of the better and most capable Presidents of the century. No more a criminal than any other, ESPECIALLY bUSH.

I think Robertson is an opportunist jumping on the Obama band wagon. Am I supposed to make my decisions based on what Robertson, or any other "media'" person says ? I don't care what Robertson or Oprah or anyone says or whom they support. Their opinions are not less than the opinions of my mailman, child's teacher,et.al. I can decide for myself, and I do not think Bush is the worst president we have ever had.

You democrats are amusing, if nothing else. Your comments usually go something like this: "George Bush is satan himself and I hope after we prosecute him and Dick Cheney for all their crimes and give them the death sentence they both rot in hell and hey, all you republican haters on here, please stop your terrible nasty comments so we can all unite and support our wonderful new president."

Well, I knew it would'nt be too long after this article before the haters would show themselves. So, it's not Bush who's the problem , it's all those foreign people, those lazy people, and lets not forget those people having babies so they can stand on line get all that FREE money. According to these haters if it were not for these people and the Liberals who cater to them every thing would be coming up roses. All of these problems in our nation stem from the people who vote the least, have the least amount money, the least amount of power, and thus the least amount of influence. Not to mention the fact that we spend less than 5% of our national budget giving the FREE money to these lazy, foreign, baby making people. I don't know what it is about you haters I find more amazing, your out right stupidty and ignorance or the fact that you have the gall to display it publicly. In either case, I can only wish you well, because anything else would only make me just like you.

pat robertson's grade for pres bush was too generous ....i'd give him a big fat...f. we're now paying the price for his administration which i predicted form the start. now comes the pain, too late for regrets!!!!

Remember, our Presidents are only as good most of the time as our congress is. The Dems have been incharge for the past couple of years. Obama will have some of the same problems and then again probably not as the Dems are in charge. Only God can help this Country....Stimilus package is the old Pork.

Kudos to Pat, for finally coming clean with what's really on his mind. Sad thing though, is to read the comments of the negative Obama-Haters who are committed to keeping our country from unifying and having the civility to "Disagree without being Disagreeable".

Even when these same people realize benefits from the future performance of the Obama-Biden Administration, they'll still cling to the security of ignorance and hate. Thank goodness they're becoming the minority voice of our country.

yes, well, who care's about YOUR opinion. too much credence is given to YOUR KIND who preach division, inequality and fear. when are thinking humankind going to wake up and turn to THEIR INNER SELF for innate TRUTHS.

I wish these republican criminals could be punished for what they have done to this country, they deserve to suffer so much, they deserve to die

It is absurd to claim George W. Bush is the worst president. I agree with Robertson's C- grade, though.

Imagine what the world would be like if GW Bush had not invaded Iraq....it would be very different for sure .....

Pat Robertson is a hypocrite. I trust and hope Obama does well. Robertson is also unpopular and is trying to do a CYA by throwing Bush under the bus. PTL? – Robertson has a lot of nerve. Let's see who is among the first to jump off the wagon when Barrack does something deemed wrong or foolish.

RE: WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

After reading your post, I know what you want from Santa for Christmas... a G.E.D. Well I hope you have been good and Santa brings you what you want, but if I were Santa Claus I would want you to sound a little less douchey before I gave you a G.E.D. for Christmas.

pat needs to be put in adark room way back in the dungeonand never heard from ever again

chip lusko: how do you know God is not happy ?

Did he/she call you ?
Did you get an email ?
Did God text you maybe on your blackberry ?
Did you have a vision ?
Did you hear a whisper in your ear when no one was there ?
Was the message on a potato chip ?

Thanks for sharing God's mood with the rest of us.
Idiot.

I used to support the religious right. No more. I voted for Obama, and I hope he can bring us together. We are far too divided, and for no good reason.

"Welcome to the Obama show" is a terrible human being. How dare you call the unemployed "lazy." Go back to the 1980s when this kind of ignorance was tolerated.

Robertson is such a slime ball.

This is nothing more than trying to back pedal.

I can't believe people still follow this stereotype of a televangelist.

Not in a "professional manner", Pat?
How about a CRIMINAL matter.
Too little too late.

Texas Teacher – You are an absolute moron. How in the world did you ever get a teaching certificate? Wait, never mind–NEA.

Pat Robertson and others like him are prime examples of why our founders held dear the separation of Church and State.
If ANY religious group that wants to play in the politic sandbox of our SECULAR nation then they can simply give up their tax exempt status, be subject to all the rules and government regulations that all corporations must abide by.
This includes ALL religions, not just the Christians who somehow feel they should be treated differently than all other religions practiced here in the US – they simply can't have it both ways and NEVER will!

Bush is the worst President in history. He started a war that was not called for and 700,000 Iraqi civilians have died. 700,000 men, women and children that would be alive today, and 4,500 American soldiers. How could anyone live with themselves with this knowledge, he is not human. Other Presidents have presided in wars that were unavoidable and even they were troubled by the deaths that couldn't be prevented. This guy isn't bothered at all, he doesn't even think it's his fault! For any preisident to be considered worse, he would have to be responsible for 800,000 senseless deaths.

Only one good thing came out of the Bush Administration: The extension of Daylight Savings Time.

I welcome the refreshing change that Obama will bring........

I am a born-again, evangelical Christian who did not vote for Obama, but I also am impressed with him so far. He has my prayers and support.

However, on the other hand, Pat Robertson has been a joke for at least two decades. He is such a non-person that it's pitiful, and I wish you guys would quit giving him the press he so fervently desires.

Make him the non-issue he deserves to be. Who really cares what he thinks of Bush or of Obama? My Christianity has everything to do with the Jesus Christ of the Bible and absolutely nothing to do with Pat Robertson of TV. He means nothing. He's a loud wind bag.

Richard Rohde: calling Obama "Hussien Obama" doesn't take from the fact that he won the election. What did you hope to achieve by doing that? You call yourself Richard Rohde; did you choose this name or your parents gave it to you? Have you forgotten that Obama's mother was WHITE and yet she allowed herself to be laid by a BLACK man? Mean-spirited people like you don't have any place in this country anymore.

To the ignorant brainless ignorant the blame the foreign people. People like you are the problem with the country. Most foreigners do not take hand outs, they come to this country because this country has offered opportunity to prosper through HARD WORK. YOU IDIOT!!!

OBAMA i know u want to bring the country together but dont trust this man . he claims god talkes to him .!!!!!!!!

"It's pretty bad when Pat Robertson praises the opposition. Next he'll be supporting gays, abortion and who knows what else."

Isn't Christmas a time for miracles..?

Apparently Pat Robertson's brain finally woke up and he's rediscovering what it means to be a tolerant Christian and work for the common good.

Let's hope the same happens among all the mean spiritied religious right wingers who have no idea what Christianity really means. Miracles do happen.

Peace...

We need someone who is willing to use his God-Given BRAIN to THINK with GUTS and do something. If your car is stuck in the snow, you have to try to push it out, go back and go forward, ask your neighbor to help out and then call the BIG TRUCK. Do something is the code!!!

Robertson is one of the most terrible TV preachers ever... he sits on a golden throne like every other TV preacher, criticizing others and begging for money. Then, they turn around and buy glamorous backdrops with giant golden seats.

I don't trust anyone like this. Go away, Robertson.

Oh Geeze......give it a rest. Another sore loser republican ranting in capital letters again. At least Robertson is man enough to admit that even though he is a republican, his president hasn't been doing a very good job. So many Obama haters out there and the man didn't even take office yet. I hope the secret service reads this crap. I have a bad feeling that they have quite a job ahead of them. So many looneys and racists out there just watching O's every move and every word. I feel bad for the guy. Can you people just take your bitterness and move to another country for the next four years. We really don't need your negativity at this time in our nation's history. Please just shut up and go away....Thanks in advance.

And yes, Obama is not the SAVIOUR. Right now, we need someone who is willing to think, to act, to be proactive, to do something, to move, to try, to pick himself up.... and HE's IT.

Pat how about instead of giving President Bush a C- join me and the rest of thinking America and giving the President a half "A".

Tis the season to criticize...

C- is a generous grade for BUSH in my humble opinion....

I guess Christmastime is as good a time as any for a MIRACLE!
Pat Robertson praising the dem pres elect?????????

WOW!

maybe senility has him forgetting his time-honored values.

L.B.J. was much worse. He took away hope in the black family and make black women and children wards of the state. He ordered over 40,000 men and women to their deaths in Viet Nam. He was crooked as a snake...see Duval County. Nixon was bad as well. Jimmy Carter wrecked the economy, who remembers 13.5% mortage rates, Iran hostage mess and stagflation.

I'm not happy with Bush, but the worse?...that's is debatable..unless you are under 35 and have lived under nothing but the Reagan boom. What do you expect ...

Let's not forget that Bush poll ratings have always been higher than our do nothing democratic controlled senate and congress.

Come on folks, give the guy a break. He is saying something that took guts and courage to say-for a Republican..so I will give him props for that. I don't expect people to change overnight. We will certainly not agree with him or other religious intolerant folks but his statements are a start in the right direction.
Anyways, there is no where else to look but UP. I guess Repubs are getting the message. (crossing fingers)
They might as well be a part of the change or stand on the side and bicker, hate, spit venom, point fingers, be hyprocites, criticise, be judgemental–oh my, I just described the entire set of Repubicans.

I thought Robertson was dead. Too bad, this means we'll see his comments in print for a while longer and they will be as useless all others he's transmitted.

Why is it that many individuals believe President Bush has no standing in history? Time will reveal President Bush's true worth to this country even in retrospect. Merry Christmas President Bush and thanky you for the wonderful journey.

We will see how the new administration really is when the terrorists come back to the U.S., this time with a dirty nuclear bomb in the heart of our country. Then we can see how the new administration holds up to that conflict and also more and stronger natural disasters, then we can judge them and how they respond.

Pat Robertson is an irrelevant treasonous fool. President Bush is the greatest presnident despite the fact that the Democrats have held power in the Congress.
President Bush didn't cuase Katrina, the Democrats did.
President Bush didn't cause the financial crisis, the Democrats did.
Nancy Polosi and Harry Reid are the real moves and shakers in the government and they have hobbled the Republicans from allowing the free market to right itself.

There is honestly no pleasing some of you Liberal whackadoos! If a Republican actually says something good about Obama, he gets crucified...say something that is true and anti-Obama...you get crucified. What your Democratic flock of sheep needs to do is figure out how to control/eliminate your hate. America does have some issues...and like it or not, Bush is not to blame for everything you continually scream about. The Democrats have plenty of housekeeping to do in their own party. Robertson is a disgrace in my eyes for not holding strong to his own Christian standards that he preaches...Republican or Democrat is secondary (or lower). And for those who like to attempt to bash Christians, please point to one philosophy or preaching of Christ that is not based on love, truth, and faith in God. Merry Christmas.

Maik F.: Although the phrase "separation of church and state" may not be found directly in the Constitution, that does not mean the ideas it embodies were not behind that part of the First Amendment. I think you'll find that separation of church and state is exactly what the First Amendment was intended to accomplish, and that the courts have consistently ruled that it was, as well. It doesn't matter if you're a progressive or a conservative; the intent of the clause is generally accepted as being precisely the separation of church and state, in all its various forms.

Yes Bush is going down in history as the WORST PRESIDENT EVER.

I am amazed at the stupidity of the comments comming from people on this blog.
Talking about impeaching Bush, trying him for crimes, etc.
I can see blaming him for the Iraq war, (hell more than half the democrats voted for the war and not one dimocrat blames them), but the banking crisis is Clinton and the dimocrats, this deficit we're building is firmly supported by Obama, Reid, and Pelosi, (real dimocrats, although the jusry is still out and hopeful for Obama).
The economy was good during 75% of Bush's term with record growth, job creation, etc. yet the policies of Clinton with the banking industry finally caught up with us. Let's put blame where it belongs for the economy which is right in the dimocrats lap.

Pat Robertson, every one has to bury their own dead !

These rethugs are politically blind, they dont want to see what actually out there but want to live in their imagination world that bush and cheney are angles. Wait a min, I am not supporting dems here, I will wait until Obama 8 year term completes and then comment. I do think Bush is stupid and cheney is criminal, I can see that in his face.

To Jeffrey E. Salzberg (am I allowed two posts to the same thread?):

I consider myself a knowledgeable student of political history, and I'm well aware of the failings of Grant, Harding, Nixon and (in my opinion, Reagan), not to mention Millard Fillmore and Franklin Pierce. But in the final analysis (and I agree, history may alter this viewpoint), Geroge W Bush is INDEED the VERY WORST. He entered the office with limited political credentials (governor of a weak-governor state, elected with absolutely no background). He then took the country in the wrong direction, getting us into an avoidable war on false pretenses and then mishandling it, failing to deal appropriately with a natural disaster against which he had access to adequate technology and funding, championing his personal religious and moral views, cynically presenting himself as a uniter while pressing unilateral positions, and being outflanked and abdicating command to a manipulative Vice President and his own hand-chosen political strategist. Some of the others you have named may have been either more self-serving or more malevolent, but none were both of those as much as George W. Bush.

This guy is an idiot!!!! Obama hasn't gone in and done anything yet plus we can not say what he is going to do will even work. What we are seeing is failed Congress not Busch and Failed CEO's that cover thier butts, like Congress. What we are looking at is failed Goverment Housing that should have never been. Loans given to people who should have never had them.

Wait a minute, Obama is still on his honeymoon, we will see how the first-term senator, with a mystery past and no experience, handles his own Katrina, Nine-eleven and Cuba crisis. Human nature is not perfect, ever since Adam and Eve, and those who work for him are even worse. After all, can we trust any Democrat or politician or lawyer from Chicago, Illinois? Is he a smoker, addicted to nicotine, an abortionist, a liberal and a socialist??

To Brian

The 700 billion bailout went first to the banks. They took the money and hid it in the vaults. They didnt even do anything with it until people started SCREAMING at them.

Pat Robertson, who declared for months that a vote for Obama would be a vote against God, all of a sudden woke up and realized he's slipping closer and closer to irrelevancy. Robertson is the cultural equivalent of a Nazi.

all repugs should be rounded up and sent to worker prison camp. then all would be right with the world.

Same grades he got at Yale. What do you expect?

Wow, what a slap to the face of Conservatives. Up next is George Bush senior to endorse and commend Obama LMAO

welcome to the Obama show:

Ignorance is bliss.... or so I have heard! I think your kind of ignorance is just plain stupidity... sorry.... if the truth hurts, let it hurt! (As my old daddy used to say.)

I think it's about time his own party admitted they weren't happy with the last 8 years. I'm just happy to see the end of the Bush era, it's the best Christmas gift ever!

Oh boy will the new year be awesome, I can't wait for Jan 20th.

Obama/Biden

Pat never did have good sense !

i think pat robertson is too generous to bush, i'd give bush a big faf...f for failure, ten times over!!!!

Mr. Robertson is the devil in disguise,he pledges alliegence to whom- ever is in power. His ministry is a sham ,and should be investigated! Why? This guy is to political ,and has gotten filthy rich off his send money,but credits cards are better "pay-for-sermon" shister fork-tongue venemous snake! Just another Berny Madoff in sheeps clothing. His kid is no better, and probably buying some more "Arabian Through-bred Horses at this very moment in Saudi Arabia,...for his "Racing Stables"!

Ok so I just read your list of reasons that our country is falling apart. And yes they are very good points and are a lot of the reasons we are coming apart, but you also have to look at the creator of most of the issues. Most of those problems stem from President bush and his policies he has set forth. But what we as country need to do is stop pointing fingers at what caused the problem because it doesn't matter now, we are in the middle of it. We have to come together as one, and you republicans need to get over the election Obama won and thank god he did, but regardless of what you think about him or his cabinet we have to back him and help him as a country to get back on track to where we need to be as a country. We need to stop thinking about things as republican controlled or Democratic controlled, and come together and work together as one to rebuild our country because in the end we all share this place and want to live a prosperious life.

Thank you for the support for Obama, Pat Robertson, but it's too little, too late. Barack Obama is going to be sworn in as President any day now, and George W. Bush is hiding in an undisclosed location to avoid being shot at by Dick Cheney. I agree with most of what you said, which is surprising, because I'm a Democrat and I thought you hated us. I do a pretty good Sarah Palin impression, and I hear you are a fan of hers. Sarah Palin is like what you would get if you crossed George W. Bush with... well... umm... me! Anyway, I heard you were friends with God. Can you buy me some tickets to heaven? I heard that place was awesome and I wanna go check it out! I have enough money to afford indulgences, don't worry.

I guess the membership drives for the 700 Club has taken a big hit in this economy. My hope for the new year is that the Obama haters get spell check for their long winded posts.
(Brian December 24th, 2008 11:46 am ET) wrote: The liberals, who have had control of congress for the last 2 years, put out legislation and made Americans believe that everyone should have a nice house and nice things. That is not the case. You work for what you get. If you don't work you don't eat.

Brian, I challenge you to post those pieces of legislation (bill #'s) which states that everyone is entitled to a nice house and nice things without having to work for them. And since you didn't mention the bank bailout, what do you think about that? Funny that Obama isn't in charge yet, but your magic 8 ball you received for christmas last year has advised you that Obama will do an even worse job.

To Welcome to the Obama show: At least Obama isn't the KING of domestic terrorism like Bush! REFUTE THAT!!!!!!!

Isn't it nice that Repubicans can admit their mistakes, even if they aren't wrong. When was the last time a damocrat admitted a mistake or resigned when caught red handed breaking the law, Blago, Rangel, Kwame Fitzpatric, the Fords of Memphis, William Jefferson (he finally got voted out) but the rest of the damocratic criminals are still there,and its scary that Hussein, the sainted President elect has so little knowledge of goings on in his own state or with his fellow damocratic governor. Strains credibility, doesn't it? You know this is probably dangerous, those damocrats absolutely hate anyone who did not drink the Kool Aid.

Pat Robertson is as irrelevent and out-of-touch as Jimmy Carter...and I wouldn't expect a story like this NOT to be on the front page of cnn.com...All Hail Obama HEIL!

Pat Robinson is an evil influence on politics. What did he do to help the victims of Katrina? What force did he bring to bare on Bush at the time to help them? Republicans are reptilian in their pursuit and understanding of power. Cold-blooded and carnivorous; particularly those who claim they are god and god's hands. I can't even fathom good intentions in anything they do at this point. Robinson should have been laughed out of any prominence long ago.

The poor lives on pennies and dimes. The rich on Trillions.... Go explain the madness...

To all the tolerant people here I say Merry Christmas and God Bless you on this holiest of weeks. Thank God there is freedom of Religion in this country.

Christianity is cool.

Like I said...the Raving, Ranting Right Wing Rabble thinks Robertson is a race traitor. Many of the previous posts just prove my point.

For once Robertson is right, not right wing.

Thank God for President Obama.

WHO IS JOHN GALT?

Robertson is entitled to his opinion. My opinion is Bush has earned an F-

To Welcome to the Obama Show

Excuse me, but $1.00 a day to help people on welfare does not equate to 5 trillion dollars which went straight to FAT and LAZY RICH people. Shame on you!!!

@@@ WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good list of accomplishments by 8 yrs of Bush administration ...

Katrina wasn't all that bad ultimately. Once the levees broke it was going to be bad no matter who was in charge. All the sensational coverage turned out to ultimately be wrong. Bush didn't do a bad job; there was just a matter of perception.

America and the world is at a crossroads and need to drop the phony labels and work together to solve domestic and global problems

LMAO! The right-wing lunatic fringe is coming on board again.

IF Robertson gives him a C-, imagine what he REALLY deserves. Considering his shameful record on the environment and social issues, that gives him a D- to F right from the beginning – and the only place to go is dowwwwwwwwn.

"serious goofs" isn't exactly the terms I'd use. It's more like gross incompetence, criminal, arrogance, and just plain out out of touch with reality. I don't just blame Bush/Cheney, Congress and many of Americans went along for the ride when they should have been taking action or screaming in protest.

To Chip Lusko:
What do you really know about the likes of "God?" I think that you project way too much of your judgmental attitude on to your God.

As for Robertson, it's encouraging to see what appears to be him putting truth before party affiliation. Surprising. . .but encouraging.

I'd give Bush more than a c minus but at least it nice to see that even former supporters of Bush are sick of him.

Obama! Obama! Obama!

We need him badly.

Hey Kathy in Florida; that is WAY tolerant of you, but then again, I have come to expect nothing less from all you 'open minded and tolerant' people. Have Merry Christmas, hate monger.

Yo, SG

Pat made no comment whatsoever about crediting Obama for handling the financial mess. Did you pull that out of your rear end boy? girl? And stay with me now, Obama is NOT yet President. I know you Limbaugh listeners have been spoon fed the sophistry that Obama is somehow to blame for the recession, but you really do need to test your logic once in a while. Your processing of thought will only continue to be hampered by prolonged exposure to insidious half-baked Hannityisms and Limbaughlogic.
The good news is that if Pat can come around when reality is too compelling to ignore, there may still be hope for you too.

Merry Christmas!

Robertson is an idiot. Glad to see he is finally wising up some.

I love George Bush.

Mr Robertson,

You are very generous in grading Bush with C minus

Satyam

SG .... thank Obama, DOW hasn't dipped any lower. It would have easily crashed though 5000. In fact, there were several pundits predicting it to go as low as 3800. Obama at least helped stop severe bleeding by appearing in public and demonstrating leadership, while Bush and Paulson totally playing a disappearing act in time of crises.

"A" from delusional Neocons

"C minus" from thinking, Republican, Evangelicals.

"F" from most everyone else.

Campaign Diaries just released its first Senate rankings of the 2010 cycle, with detailed analysis of all 36 races. They find Democrats once again in a dominant position with Republicans playing defense for the third cycle in a row.

Americans amaize me sometimes. What is all the hell about talking about Peoples qualifications and records, when it was always clear that President Bush has had a good record of running down companies in the past. Do they think that running a country is much different from running a company?. You mean nobody ever looked at his records before he was elected and reelected?.

Bush has become a scape goat for all the right-wingers who pushed their policies onto Bush on the first place.

Bush never really was a politician. He simply was a puppet for the right wingers and signed on to whatever their cronies – Dick & Don had to say. So please stop blaming Bush. Look in the mirror Pat, and you will see, it is you and likes of you, who are failures and not him.

Texas Teacher

Nevermind Pat Robertson and the type of religious intolerance that he and his ilk preach! I just read the next article about the memorial service for Obama's Grandmother. Frist Unitarian Church is a nondenominational church that preaches religious freedom and tolerance! I hope that the Obamas will bring this church to the national front.

Yea... His preacher choice for the 20th sure inspired that kind of thinking... LOL

wow brian- you're scary- if that's all you see as Bush's mistakes- you really have no sight at all...the rest of the world can see it, it shoudl be obvious to you- protect us? how about nearly BREAK us? and who do you think has taken the world economy down- your wonderful Bush baby....you really need a shot of reality brother...

Mr Robertson,

You are very genwerous in grading Bush with C Minus.

Satyam

blah blah... everyone here just spewing hate on each other. Society is so sad. Progressives and conservatives are both idiots.

Hell has frozen over! Or maybe ole' Pat just received a "word of knowledge".

Wonder what all of the neocons/wingnuts will have to say now. . . What was that ?

**crickets**

Oh please. Who cares what these self anoited, self appointed "preachers" have to say? They hide behind religion soliciting donations from the ignorant and add nothing to our society except devisiveness and intolerance. I include Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and a few others in this stew.

Yes, Bush was a miserable President, yet we elected him for a second term. We, the people supported his failed policies and lack of effective leadership. We said nothing as he appointed political cronies instead of competent qualified leaders. When he proposed his personal lawyer for the Supreme Court it should have set off the alarm that this President was not qualified to lead.

President elect Obama is far more intelligent than President Bush. So there is hope. We already see that his appointments are far better and more well thought out.

Is it any wonder than even a political phony like Pat Robertson would recognize the difference?

I'm a Christian and I think Pat Roberson is wrong, doesn't he "prophesy" that on 2007 it would be a terrible terrorist attack , did it happen ?.
That "prophesy" make him a false prophet according to the bible that he knows and I know.

Feel the Christmas love...

Scott (11:07 AM ET), I'm not sure honesty and forthrightness will solve all of the Republicans' prioblems, but I guess that's a good place to start.

You are either a fool or very gullible if you believe that Mr. Robertson word and words are anything more than self serving. He has no creditability and you in the news services should stop trying to pretend that he does by putting up his statements or even interviewing him on television. You do not have to take my word for this. Please go back or the last eight years and listen to what the man has said.

call it a Christmas Miracle!

I've been praying that God would cause Pat Robertson to relocate his sense of reality.

Now, how long before he backslides into his divisive partisan ways?

Hey Robertson.....I thought God told you that Bush was the chosen one for President in 2004.

Was God wrong or were you?

Hard to believe, but some people still follow this gasbag.

Maybe its time for a little less fundamentalist christian in our politics.
Bush's actions have never been a representation of his "proclaimed faith" but Robertson still supported him during two elections and now only complains because it effects his pocket $$$

I don't think Pres. Bush is an awful person, just made awful decisions.
I don't think Pat Robertson is alone is seeing we are moving forward.
What concerns me is those that don't believe in God's role as protector of his people...which surely God is doing for America.

Don't be bitter Pat because your own party never let you near the White House. People quit listening to you long ago. I'm a republican and I've always thought you were a few french fries short a happy meal.

Not gonna lie I didnt even read this story. I am an Obama supporter and a total Bush hater, but Pat Robertson is insane (although I skimmed through it for what I'm about to say).

This is the guy who claimed homosexuality caused 9/11 and other horrible disasters. He should be totally be ignored of any comment he makes whether intelligent or not because he is simply insane.

Spin THAT, Limbaugh!

How about a grade of F++++++!

Does he really mean this, or is he just pointing in the direction the wind is blowing? These days it seems like everyone is out for something and everyone is working the angles.

BRIAN, BRIAN, BRIAN! How is it that you Repubs can always find a way to blame the DEMOCRATS for YOUR mistakes? I am amazed and overwhelmed with your logic!

Go back under that rock you have been living under for the last 8 years! Put your blinders back on and hope that anyone can see your logic besides pure idiots! You and your Party got us into this mess ALL B Y YOURSELVES! Like it or not, YOU were the party IN CONTROL with a republican president and a republican dominated congress!

Get over it.... Seriously... suck it up.... your emporer is wearing no clothes and you seem to be one of the few who cannot see the TRUTH of IT!

i really do wonder what the man above is thinking right now after hearing what this mumbo jumbo on the right said?, then again it has ne wondering if there is a man above. you do the math

I'm a bit concerned with all of these Republicans coming for ward now to say what a terrible job President Bush has done. Duh!

How about their apologizing for all of the money they spent getting him elected. Twice. And all of the time they spent organizing on his behalf. Twice.

The Republican party will not turn itself around until it can acknowledge their inherent corruption and all of the misdeeds they have done over the last eight years.

A trillion dollars is gone. 5,000 American lives are gone in two wars with little to show for it. And 50,000 Americans are now injured or disabled - and without the Walter Reade scandal, we'd never hear about the shameful ways we've treated our honorable returning vets.

This administration and the Republican congress and senate will cost this country dearly, for many many years to come. They need to turn off their Obama-biting press machine and look inward a bit more.

Ben

I was at first opposed to Obama, now it appears that he is more consertive then John McCain. It seems like that this point conservatives like him more than the liberal who bought him into office. I am conserative, not Republican.

It Doesn't take a Genius to recognize Stupidity and It doesn't take all day to recognize the sunshine. Thanks for finally coming on board, Pat!!

George Bush is the Adolf Hitler of the 21st century! May God NOT have mercy on his soul!

This is the guy who's father kept him out of the Inchon landing in Korea .
He has no integrity and is a total hypocrite

I appreciate Mr. Robertson's willingness to be equitable, but honestly, his opinion does not count for much with me one way or the other. But Merry Christmas to him, anyway.

THIS COUNTRY IS GOING DOWN FOR MORE REASONS THAN BUSH!!

OBAMA USED THAT AS A TOOL TO GET ELECTED!!!!!!!

THE REAL REASON THIS COUNTRY IS GOING UNDER IS MADE UP OF SEVERAL ISSUES.

1. MAKING FOREIGN PEOPLE AMERICAN CITIZENS AND THEN LETTING THEM STAND IN LINE WITH THE REST OF THE LAZY PEOPLE FOR FREE HANDOUTS.

2. GIVING FREE MONEY AWAY TO PEOPLE WHO COULD WORK.
IT PAYS TO HAVE LOTS OF BABIES AND LIVE OFF THE GOVERNMENT RATHER THAN WORK.

3. LAW SUITS AGAINST INSURANCE COMPANIES AND MEDICAL DOCTORS/COMPANIES WHICH HAS DRIVEN OUR RATES THROUGH THE ROOF.

4. SENDING JOBS OVER SEAS. LOOK AT JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU BUY ITS MADE OUT OF THE US.

5. AND GREED AS LONG AS CRIME PAYS NOTHING WILL EVERY CHANGE IN THIS COUNTRY. WE NEED TO PUT ALL THESE CROOKED PEOPLE IN JAIL.

SO PLEASE STOP BLAMING BUSH FOR EVERYTHING AND WAKE UP!

I beleive that Bush will rank as th worst president of all time because of his lack of concern of what others think...in his last couple of interviews him and Cheney both said "so what" to the interviewer when they were told of how unhappy the American people were about the IRAQ war...What do you mean so what? People have lost family and friends in a war most of us did not agree with. I hope that when Jan 21st comes they try to press criminal charges against him and Cheney for misleading and misinforming the "people". Even now Bush is no where to be seen..last time I saw him he was getting shoes thrown a him but Barack has been in the front and he isn't even the president until Jan 20th. So I agree with Pat!

BUSH is not only the worst president, but he is a criminal. Send BUSH and Cheney straight to PRISON. I'm okay with a public hanging too. And if we decide to stone them, then I have a truck load.

@ Brian (11:46 a.m.)

That was quite a rant and then you totally sealed the deal with your last line:

"Hopefully the Republican Party will return to the days of Dan Quale, Ronald Reagan, Jesse Helms, Newt Gingrich, and other great Americans who have given America its' better days."

Dan Quayle!? Jesse Helms, the spokesmodel for segregation!? CLEARLY you are insane.

...these right-wing nuts are all responsible for the demise of our economy and the bad reputation of the US all over the world.

it's too late now for the politically irrelevant Robertson to be jumping ships after being a sycophant to GW for 8yrs.

these republicans are snakes and their words should never be trusted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pat who?? Nobody cares what this fraud thinks. And Bush's grade should be an F, not a C-.

Those cry for GOD and ECONOMICS at the same time, are real cheaters of everything. Robertson is a proven racist. The relgious people are unproductive people and fool the people mentally! Thier main production is RACISM and HATE.

I hope Robertson will pardon Bush for his sins. Then Bush claims he is not a sinner. This is the simple GOD business.

Robertson is an example how these RELIGIOUS people want to hang on with people in power! They need CASH without working!

Brian – Very well written comment. You clearly care. But every basic
idea is so very wrong. Return to Dan Quale. You must be joking!

I THINK TELLING THE TRUTH SHOULD COME BEFORE PARTY.

YOU CAN'T HIDE THE WHEREABOUTS OF A RELATIVE WHO HAS

BEEN CHARGED WITH A HORRENDOUS CRIME JUST BECAUSE

THEY ARE YOU RELATIVE. YOU HAVE TO THINK OF OTHERS.

Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus. For Pat Robertson to criticize George Bush, there has to be a Santa Claus.

Merry Christmas to all and a stocking full of switches for George and Dick!

What would Jesus do? Use his message to gain political power, evidently. Pat Robertson is a joke.

I agree with Pat Robertson – he speaks the truth about the Bush Administration! NO-NOTHING!!!!

What would Pat Robertson do? Choose not to think for himself, evidently. Of course, when have Christians ever thought for themselves?

i struggle to think of one thing that went right during the bush administration. roger

Nevermind Pat Robertson and the type of religious intolerance that he and his ilk preach! I just read the next article about the memorial service for Obama's Grandmother. Frist Unitarian Church is a nondenominational church that preaches religious freedom and tolerance! I hope that the Obamas will bring this church to the national front. We need a dose of this kind of Christianity....

Just saying... this from a NonChristian.

So Robertson is pleased with Obama's handling of the financial mess? What has Obama done?? The Dow has not recovered to the same election day level. It dove on 11/5/08 and has not closed at the same level or above as on 11/4/08.

I am aware this violates CNN's don't say anything bad about the democrats or Hussein Obama policy, but is there any new news on Charlie Rangel and his crimes that Nancy Pelosi and the damocratically controlled house are letting him get away with? What about the news that Biden says there will be no earmarks in the stimulus package and its all over the Nevada papers that Harry Reid has promised the state a billion dollars. Any damocratic hypocrisy you manage to report will be greatly appreciated by those of us who weren't bamboozled by your biased coverage of Hussein and the damocrats.

Did I wake up in Bizarro world?

Those who call Bush - as incompetent as he may be - the "worst president ever" reveal themselves as being amongst those who believe that history started at the moment they became sentient.

As bad as Bush is, there have been several who were worse - Bush is not even the worst in my lifetime (Richard Nixon, remember, paid people to keep quiet about felonies they'd committed in order to keep him in office, a coup d' etat in anyone's book).

Harding was worse than Bush. So was Grant.

On another note, given that Pat Robertson thinks Bush was inadequate and yet supported him in both elections, what does that say about Robertson.

IT IS SAFE TO SAY THAT PRESIDENT-NOT ELECTED BUSH

HAS NOT DEALT "PROFESSIONALLY" WITH ANY OF THE

NATIONS NEEDS, WANTS OR DREAMS. BUT THEN AGAIN

THERE ARE SO MANY HOURS IN THE DAY. & WATCHING TV

TOOK QUIT A FEW. THERE WAS THE IQ DEFICIENCY AS WELL.

& LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT THE LEAST BUSH COULD NOT CARE

LEA ABOUT AMERICANS OR AMERICA. HE WAS IN IT FOR THE $$$$

THERE IS AN OLD SAYING "BE CREFULL ABOUT WHAT

YOU TOLERATE FOR YOU WILL GET MORE OF IT".

Even Pat Robertson is seeing what a failure the Bush Administration has been and still is. But why didn't they (The Right wing fundamentalists) say or do anything about Bushco until now???

Ouch!!!!

Ok...I see everyone talk about "seperation of church and state" thrown around all the time.

Do you realize that there is no mention of "seperation of church and state" ANYWHERE in the U.S. Constitution?

Heck, the phrase only came about after Thomas Jefferson mentioned the phrase in a letter he wrote to a Baptist church. And the only thing ACTUALLY IN THE US CONSTITUTION say "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."

Progressives take the idea of "seperation of church and state" completely from an out-of-context reference and then claim it to be mandated in the Constitution when the case is quite the contrary. Do some research progressives!

Not caring about Mr. Robertson veiws..even if he's right.

Brian, you really have a long post, but after reading it, I agree with you wholeheartedly. Especially about Obama. Where I disagree with you is in your final line. I do NOT want more of Jesse Helms or Newt Gingrich or Dan Quayle. I don't know how you can consider Dan Quayle a great Republican to admire. I'd never heard of him before he became Vice President, and he was so mediocre, you don't hear of him anymore. And, mediocre is putting it nicely. Other than that, great post.

'Orphan Train' carried children to new lives CNN

Great story – someone should do a moivie "ORPHAN TRAIN"

likely will hit "number one"

A real pastor wouldn't judge and criticize another human being. Funny how Obama followers like to say keep religion out of politics then when a man of God speaks down towards another person they are all about it. Obama followers are quickly showing their hypocritical ways.

Pat Robertson is a cutie!

He thought history would be kinder to "W", but I think a C- was pretty generous. I would graded him as failling, or an F for his handling of the economy, Iraq, and Katrina; for all the lies and scandals the man should've been impeached by now. God bless America and Obama.
27 MORE DAYS!!!

Bush made Pierce look good

And Pierce was up till now the bottom of the barrel

Wait, he is related to Pierce!

Barbra Bush is Kin!!!

Go figure, 2 big loosers in the same family tree

Dubya, I wish you the worst Christmas you have ever known. I hope your dog bites you, I hope your wife files for divorce, I hope your children never speak to you again, and I hope you spend the rest of your useless life in prison!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

question for everyone. Since the US believes in separation of church and state (I wholeheartedly agree by the way) why does the president take his oath of office at the inauguration using a bible? Isn't this a blatant violation of church and state?

I am very surprised that Robertson spoke up like this and to be in support of our next President. I am and will continue to be very wary of this oncoming President for the U.S. I agree, Bush made mistakes, but I am only taking things said about Obama, with a "grain of salt".
Time will only tell........

Pat are you crazy... praising Obama for not showing his birth certificate.. the USA will find out in time what kind of jerk this guy is and all the poeple who think he is the chosen one. will have egg on their face. heaven help us after he get sworn in. this guy has a lot to hide from the public

Way too late, Rev. Way too late... The damage has been done, the chickens have come home to roost, and the US has been crippled. "Goofs?" What's next, you're going to forgive Bush? Pathetic.

My first reaction was one of those Chris Mathews laughs! HAUH kinda LAUGH

You liberals are a funny bunch. Obama has never done anything but bullsh1t you guys, there is no way he can do a tenth of what he has promised. You go ahead and keep bashing Bush, but he has kept your sorry butts safe for the last 7 years hasn't he. If you would pull your head out long enough to realize that, you are no better than the things that you call him. I do not think he has been perfect, nor has any other president especially your beloved Clinton, who was the biggest joke ever. I will never stoop to the level of you morons and bash a president like you have done. Some of you need to take a look in the mirror and maybe do a little judgment of yourselves. As a christian and republican I wish Obama all the best as I am a proud American.

You democrats would just love to rule the world with an iron fist wouldn't you? Your don't want a democracy or free country, you'd rather have government run everything. And why is this? Talk about intolerant. Most of your democrats can't stand an opinion different from your own. And mike h..sounds like to me your the racist! I have never heard the man speak against ANY other race. And let me just tel you there are other races beside black, so get over it. Not every white person you don' t agree with is racist you idiot. And I, like Obama, am bi-racial. Neither entirely white...nor entirely black...

I really think some of the posters here are lunatics. I just come here sometimes when I want comic relief, and it it works every time. LOL!

It's just the rat's deserting the ship long after it sunk.

"I think the fact that we have prevented terrorist attacks on American soil in the past 7 years speaks for itself." – DICK Cheney.

"I think the fact that you have killed 3,000+ American soldiers with the BS war you sold to us speaks a little louder." -Tyler Derden

PS, Dick: Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

How about that?

George W Bush said he was a "uniter" not a "divider". After eight long years of the most divsive time in at least 100 years he has finally come through. United as we are in the joy of his departure.

I think it's funny that Pat Robertson still thinks his views are relevant.

A C- grade is the same as a D+ for Dud, Dunce, Dunderhead, Dolt. I seldom agree with Robertson about anything, but he's right on target on the grade. Shrub has been C-, D+ his entire life. An extreme underachiever. It's a shame it took the right eight years to see through his facade. Given his current approval rating there are still some on the extreme right fringe that are still wearing blinders.

History will remember Bush even more harshly than today's critics do. He destroyed the world economy, invaded a nation with no provocation, created extreme chaos in the most volatile area of the globe, set science and medicine back decades... the list is endless. History will analyze his "regime" in minutia as the shining example of exactly how NOT to be a world leader.

Although I find Mr. Robertson's view on religion absolutely deplorable, you guys all need to realize that the very fact that Conservative Republicans are warming up to Obama means that Washington may actually be able to get some things done over the next 4 years... on important mainstream things like the economy and health care. We may have to put fringe partisan issues like environment on the back burner, but that's perfectly fine.

I really don't understand why so many of my fellow "liberals" are behaving like intolerant bigoted right-wing conservatives, attacking Barack for reaching out to Republicans and bringing in ordinary everyday rural Whites and other conservatives into the big tent. After all, these people are a part of our republic too. Isn't that what "tolerance" and "inclusion" is all about?

Barack Obama stated time and time again, that he will be President of the United States, not president of the Blue states. Get over it.

Rev. Robertson, your opinion lost its relevance on the world stage through your own actions and words. You are not a serious thinker or speaker. That is unfortunate, because you are speaking for a large group of followers.

Robertson is completely irrelevant. He's a hateful bigot who filters his hate through old superstitions. His own handling of Katrina was to blame a meterological event on homosexuals. He blamed 9/11 on gays, feminists, pagans, the ACLU. The man is incapable of a logical thought and the idea that anyone takes him seriously is very disturbing.

Sad. Not really sure why this is relevant though since Robertson exited the stage years ago. That Robertson (a long-time pro-life supporter) would embrace Pres.-elect Obama and kick Pres. Bush on his way out the door reflects his integrity or lack thereof.

Where is this middle of the road cabinet everybody keeps talking about? Gates is nothing more than a fall guy if Obama's Iraq/Afghanistan policy goes bad. Clinton is the least experienced Sec of State in History and the Sec of Ed is in charge of a School district that less than 25% of the 8th Graders (indiviuals under his regime) read at grade level or higher. Can somebody name one quality cabinet position pick yet?

Trying to gain some credibility now. Robertson is admitting to the obvious. I guess better late than never, but what if? What if he and others of power in the their segment of society had spoken up when it could have mattered, even just a little. Instead they "stayed the course" for political and social ideaology reasons to benefit themselves personally and finacially.

C-minus? That's being generous.

Obama is going to screw up a bad situation even more. He's going to do what he shouldn't do: implement higher taxes and socialist programs that don't work. After, people will come to their senses and consider the Republican Party again. Take my word on this (and I hope I'm wrong), people will start to turn on Obama after everyone sees who he really is (a complete and utter phony). Give him 1-2 years of high approval, then the fascination with this weak president will come into fruition.

Romney 2012. Bank on it.

Well thats like the kiss of death.Doesn't Pat have some blood diamonds to sell or some "donations" to give to African dicatators or abusing his "charity" jets or maybe even buying oil refinary ?
(Please look it all up, all of those things are things he has done).

Gee, what was Father Patty saying when these disasters were occuring?

He called Democratic criticism of the Iraqi war as treason. (700 club , Dec 7 2005)

aaaaaaaaaand he linked Katrina to abortion (Sept 2005);

We have killed over 40 million unborn babies in America. I was reading, yesterday, a book that was very interesting about what God has to say in the Old Testament about those who shed innocent blood

And he used the term that those who do this, "the land will vomit you out." That - you look at your - you look at the book of Leviticus and see what it says there. And this author of this said, "well 'vomit out' means you are not able to defend yourself." But have we found we are unable somehow to defend ourselves against some of the attacks that are coming against us, either by terrorists or now by natural disaster? Could they be connected in some way?

I guess the economy was the wake up call?

Follow the money Robertson and the rest of you religious fanatics that's what you're good at. You need to re-evaluate your relationship with God.

How did Bush get into office? TWICE?!? He was there for the wrong reasons, just like Cheney. That is the true test to use when voting – is this person a PUBLIC SERVANT here to serve their constituency? If not, don't vote for them. Especially if they are there for money and power!! OBAMA strikes me as a public servant there for the right reasons. I pray I am right, because this great nation has a LOT of recovering to do and it will take a great leader to do it. GO OBAMA!

The likes of Mr. Robertson supported Bush vs. intellect. The joke is on people like him and blind believers.

Does anyone really cares what Mr. Robertson thinks?

Robertson is correct....Bush has to be the worst president ever...may be a nice guy but sure doesn't know how to run a country, period.

I love it! God bless you Pat. Merry Christmas.

KC

Dose the K.C. stands for KENTUCKY CHICKEN?

As the Bible says, Beware of the wolf in sheep's clothing.

I am shocked that Pat Robertson said anything against Bush or Republicans for that matter. I hope he is being honest.

As an Obama supporter, I'm worried. Pat Robertson is the guy who said 9/11 happened because God was "mad at America," among many, many other ludicrous, uninformed and bigoted statements. If he's jumped to this side of the fence, how much more will we have to put up with from him?

Tom, 11:40 a.m.,,,great comments! Couldn't agree more. Robertson is a hateful divisive man.

Pat Robertson talks out of both sides of his mouth. Before the election results were in, he was talking about Obama's link to William Ayers on his show primarily because he was constantly praising Sarah Palin. So - now he thinks Obama is great? Give me a break. I can't stand the fact that he uses his television show as a political platform anyway. It's totally disgusting to me. He is such a hypocrite.

Is my first times to see a honest and truthful republican .

thruly CHANGE HAS COME .may GOD bless America and OBAMA.

i must agree, this guy is a wind bag. who sits on his butt week after week after week and goes on and on about, well heck i rarely even know what he is talking about to be truthful. this man does nothing but sit and collect money from idiots who give money to him. Church???? What church??? This is no church. Its Pat up there just taking in the cash. Please don't call this scum bucket a head of a church. He is the head of a money making racket. rat

Thank you Mr. Robertson!

Even though you and I are on opposites of the spectrum in our social views, and I am so happy that you are able to see what a great person Barack truly is, and that you are able to see that he is indeed reaching out. Perhaps this is the beginning of something truly wonderful- UNITY.

After all, we may be a federation of 50 culturally/politically unique and sovereign states, but we are all united as ONE people in our love for this country!

I am both surprised and pleased that Robertson admits he is pleased with Obama so far and that "he has the makings of a great president." I only hope more conservatives will make the effort to view the new administration with an open mind. Our country needs to unite to address our many challenges.

*LOL* Hey, I wasn't finished with that RANT!

Crazy old fingers get carried away and tap the wrong key and there I am... on the screen before I finish.... well, surfice to say, I think I got it all in there.

I do hope the Fundamentalists have learned their lesson that Church and State is WISELY SEPERATE as per the wisdom of our Founding Fathers!

Just perhaps this announcement by Robertson is an acknowledgement that they are starting to GET IT! They have divided the Nation and aided the Bush Administration in Raping the Nation of its honor and its economy! This is the very closest we have come to a dictatorship in our history! And how the Religious Right can look themselves in the mirror without feeling pure shame is a mystery to me. Ahh.... man's inhumanity to man.... will we never see the end of it?

And the leaders of the Christian Right are the ones who are responsible. They have blindly lead their followers right to the cliff's edge, and they are just waiting to be led over by the right voices... such as Sarah Palin. Perhaps... just perhaps McCain/Palin campaign has made them cast the scales from their eyes, and face the reality of what they have done!

When will it end..... I don't see an end in sight. Their is way too much polarization between Religious Fanatics and the REST OF US! But perhaps.... just perhaps.... Barack Obama will be able to unite the People again. I pray it is so!

P.S.

Obama/Biden The Future of America.

We finally got the election right.
Of course Bush stole the last two.

Robertson is a money grubbing mega-church televangelist, what do you expect.

His "flock of sheep" for the shearing is dwindling so he'shoping to pick up so low information rednecks from the Obama camp.

This hypocrite mixes church and state – don't trust 'em anybody...

Pat, I was Republican also till Georgie and the first step to recovery is admitting we have a problem. This is not our father's Republican party!!! Our nation has suffered in many ways under this administration and will continue to suffer in the future. We can only pray that President Obama or somene can inject some integrity into our government or the future is lost!!!

"Some serious goofs???" What the? People DIED in Katrina's aftermath because of his bungling. People died by the THOUSANDS in Iraq due to his bungling. And they are dying on the streets because if his current bungling of this financial crises. That's not a "goof" - that's totally indefensible. C-? Try D-!!!!

Pat Robertson is Sarah's grandfather.

I am a true christian and believer! is Mr. Pat Robertson is a real christian or just mumbo jumbo one with one track mind?

Dear Rev. Robertson:

It is so easy for a successful corporation preacher to access blame. Personally, I feel that you have always followed the money and not the party. Shame on you.

Can't wait to hear the religious right-wing bible-thumping reaction to THESE comments.

Myself, it makes me re-check my feeling for Obama. Naaaa. He's going to be magnificent. That's why MOST die-hard Repugs are so disgusted and still desperate to find fault.

If Obama can only carry out HALF of what he's stated he clearly wants to do, by comparison to the past eight years, we're in for a good solid 12-16-year run for the Democratic party - and possibly the Republican party changing dramatically or fading into oblivion.

Who knows? It could actually make a third party VIABLE.

'Sall good.

MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone - even the idiot hanger-on die-hard Repugs. You're idiots but I still love you and wish you the best.

Pat Robertson is an agent of hate, racism, ignorance, and intolerance.

Obama's going to (one would hope) move the country towards the light of reason, acceptance, and rational thought.

Pat's just trying to stay relevant like someone else posted here. He is afraid he's going to be left lying face-down in the dust as the nation moves away from religious extremism.

Like a flea, or any other ectoparasite, Pat's trying to attach himself to the body politic and ride along hoping to inject his style of venom at a later time.

Dear Mr Robertson.

First I would like to say goofs and mistakes are not the terms the American people are using.
They would be Failure, Illegal,War Crimes, Treason, Illegal wiretaps of Americans phones.
Of course this is just to name a few, there are hundreds more.

Bush will forever be remembered as the WORST PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY and he will always be refered to as just that.
Right there with his corrupt sidekick Mr Cheney and all the other cronies.

The Obama Administration are going to review everything Bush and his cronies have done. If they find illegal documentation they will turn it over to the FBI and maybe finally we can have them arrested and indicted and show the rest of the world that Americans do not condone what the Bush and cronies have done.

Good ridence to bad rubbish

Worst president and vice president of all time. What we need is self-awareness as a nation and as individuals. I see the light at the end of the tunnel...

Reverend Robertson is correct about Bush. Only my grading the current President gives him a solid F for *failure* to properly carry out his duties to the American people in a Presidential manner. It's amazing how he's going to receive diplomatic immunity for all of the laws that have been broken and the injustices that have been committed, while the average Joe, would be bound for vigorous prosecution and prison time. But I guess that's the American way huh? If you're President, you get to do anything you want to and get away with it, whether legal or not.

Well at least we now have something much more promising on the way to lead this country. There is a God!!

C-. Are you kidding us? thats how he got thru college and became Prez. Throw the bum out now.
And Pat, give yourself a pat on your back for backing him.
Remember what goes around comes around.

This is going to confuse my Father greatly, for he is one of the hardcore
fundamentalist right wingers that absolutely believed in President Bush.
This is a great thing For Pat Robertson to speak up about because it is true and the truth will set you free.

it is telling when Pat Robertson is compelled to let CNN know that he is content with president-elect Obama. perhaps is a new dawn in American politics; if so... it is about time. we must look for that which unite us not that which will divide us. good for him

Wow – Bush always referred to God and Religion to excuse his behavior. He used it as a hammer to invade and kill in a country that did nothing to us. Now the Religious are biting his legacy. Karma is a great thing.

When history looks back on this it will be even more critical as all the corrupt details have not come out yet. The fun is that Bush is young enough to be around to see the fall out. The sad part is it took this fool destroying the economy on a global scale for people to finally say. Hey this is a bad president.

Who gives a rats butt what Robertson has to say. He doesn't speak for everyone.

"Serious goofs"? Understated, but coming from this guy, we'll take it.

I think most of the American people share the same view as Mr. Pat Robertson. But what strikes me the most is that WHY! Mr. Robertson did not speak out a year, two or even three years ago? unless he has motives and he always go to where the wind blows for his own benefits witch I believe is the case now. Bush is out Obama is in let's get him on our side.

As a Christian I find it absolutely amazing, what a reveation for Pat Robertson. For almost eight years he (Robertson) has defended Bush's blunders and shot down those that opposed Bush. He in fact continued to defend the worst president in the history of the United States until recently and now Robertson has the "revelation" that Bush has messed up "a little". His words are, in this case true (finally), however his credibility is about the same as Bush's. Just another Elmer Gantry working the crowd and using Christianity as his vehicle. Too bad he couldn't following in his fathers foot steps and be what he really wanted to be, a politician.

The problem with this is two fold. Bush did make mistakes. The education policy has failed. Blame Bush? Sure he made the mistake of allowing Ted Kennedy, a very liberal senator, the privilage of writing the education bill; hense we are now stuck with "no child left behind." Bush tried to "reach across the aisle", which was his biggest mistake. Instead of standing up to the liberal non-sense of the Democratic Party, Bush tried to become "buddy-buddy" with the Democrates. I have great respect for Bush, however, I feel that he has failed the country in one main area. President Bush failed to be a conservative. He showed liberal characteristics of a big spending government. The bailout bills for the auto industry and the housing market are absurd. For instance, if someone cannot pay their auto loan then they get their car repo'd. The same should go for a morgage payment. If an individual cannot pay their monthly morgage payment then they should get their house taken away. It is not the responsibility of hard working Americans, who can pay their bills, to have their tax money spent on people who foolishly took out house loans that they could not afford. The liberals, who have had control of congress for the last 2 years, put out legislation and made Americans believe that everyone should have a nice house and nice things. That is not the case. You work for what you get. If you don't work you don't eat.
Bush has failed Americans, and so has the Republican Party, for not standing up to the liberal non-sense in Washington. When the Republicans had control of Congress they did not live up to the principles of the party. The Republicans became big spenders, Bush signed these Congressional acts into law: that is how Bush failed the American people.
On the other hand, it seems that the majority of Americans are looking to Obama as the savior of our country. I dare say that Obama will do an even worse job of regulating the economy than his predicesor. Obama has propossed legislition that will bring our economy to its' knees. Obama's views are Marxist and Socialist at its' core. Simply put Obama is a modern-day Robin Hood. He will steal from the hard working Americans and give it, or in his words "redistribute the wealth" to people that don't deserve it. Why punish someone who has worked hard their whole life, gone to school to get an education; then turn around and give it to someone who has done neither of the two. It is ridiculous and absurd.
In summary, sure President Bush has had his flaws as President. His greatest achievment would have to be that he kept America safe. After 9/11 he took the war to the terrorists and kept Americans safe. However, do not look at Obama as our saviour. His big spending, Marxist ways will drive our economy into a downward spiral that will take years to fix. Hopefully the Republican Party will return to the days of Dan Quale, Ronald Reagan, Jesse Helms, Newt Gingrich, and other great Americans who have given America its' better days.

Mr. Robertson should with hold judgment.
He is welcome to his opinion. However, a 'middle of the road' cabinet
does not speak to Mr. Obama's radical view of killing babies in the womb,
or just out of it for that matter.
About this, we know God is not pleased.

I agree that this guy is just trying to stay relevant. He is agree and disagree with anything and anyone to keep the donation checks from the gullible flowing into his bank account! No difference between this nutjob fraud and a wall street fraud.

Looks like Robertson knows the direction that power is going. What a shrewd politician...I mean pastor.

I'm glad to see someone that "looks" like Pat Robertson actually offer a sincere, heartfelt opinion....it gives me hope for some/

The fringe members of the Raving Right Wing Rabble will accuse Robertson of being a RINO – Republican in name only.

The Raving Right has stuck this label on every single prominent Republican who has come out in support of President Obama.

Arkansas Obama is right – We did it!

Amen, Scott. But the honesty, admitting of errors and mistakes goes for the Democrats too.

I'd give Bush a solid F-, and add that he should be on trial for war crimes" – but then again, I'm not living in cloud cuckoo land like Pat Robertson.

It's amazing that Pat Robertson is even listened to anymore.

Now they are criticizing him, what hogwash! You had 8 years to be critical, but nooooooooo, they chearleaded that modafoka, now 3 weeks out they are jumping ship, its yalls monster, go down with him!

And yet another fat rat jumps ship.

I loooove it, "I'm not one to judge but....." this segment of christianity is so completely full of crap, so completely hypocritical! very bad people hiding behind religion, this guy is totally judgemental and always has been, if half of these "evangelicals" actually followed their own supposed beliefs they wouldn't be lead by the nose by the lieing republicans into allowing money hungry inept fools like bush/cheney into office to rape our country and push their fairy tale ideologically driven agenda above the good of the country, this guy is pathetic and his followers are fools, NOW he can see that bush is inept, yeah well thanks for putting him in power TWICE, thanks for helping him to take our country to the brink of ruin, robertson and his kind are JUST as guilty, he used his pulpit to put him in office!!

Probably the first and ONLY time I'll ever agree with Pat Robertson!! But "goofs" is the understatement of the year! I have no doubt that 100 years from now people will look back and say "You mean those idiots put Bush into office TWICE!!!!????!!!!"

Nice try Robertson but it wont work sorry. Everyone knows what kind of a hateful divisive person you are and this is just a pathetic attempt to be on Obama's good side. Of course like the rat you are, you are the first one to jump a sinking ship.

I would rate Bush 43 one of the worst presidents ever. He just could not establish any leadership, direction, or a command presence in any aspect of the Presidency. Except for running Generals who disagreed with him over Iraq and Afghanistan.
Name one significant piece of legislation he initiated. Iraq, the Economy, and Katrina. Too bad for the USA. But we will recover. And be better than ever.

I think he is just overstating the obvious. It would be best for us not to focus on the past or rub salt in rebulican wounds, but focus on what we can do to make things better in the future.

For all of you that are giving Kudos to Robertson for this statement....hog wash. I am a conservative Republican and a Christian; however, I have known for years that Robertson was losing it. That doesn't mean that Bush doesn't have a lot to answer for but so does Frank, Reed, Pelosi, Dodd, etc., etc. This was a two party melt down....and those responsible should be investigated and criminally charged when found guilty of the fraud the helped to create. Also, Bush was the President of the United States...not just the Republican party. I for one, hope and pray that Obama and his administration can come up with a miracle for this country....but with the same pack of vultures in the Congress and Senate I just don't see how it will be possible.

Right on, Scott! Robertson is being very honest and objective. I seriously would've never expected such a comment from him. It comes as a pleasant and comforting surprise.

Robertson = racist zealot hatemonger.

Scott NYC Independent – Great comment but LMAO because it will never happen.

PRAISE THE LORD !!!!!!!!!! thanks Rev Robinson, now all we must do is pray for this country to wake up and stop hating, our new Prez. Obama and his Party, and Team of very good chocies.

Prayr for us to come together and make this a better World/USA for all mankind.
I know that Prez. Obama will be the best Prez. we will have ever had. he will do fine towards all mankind.
May God Bless Him and us all.
Happy Holiday
Obama/Biden 2009-2016 in the name of the Father, amen

George Bush has had the same effect on the Republican Party as Firestones on Ford Explorers had for Ford. The wheels came off.

Amen

Wow, when even Pat Robertson can't be nice to Bush, you *know* it's over!

I just wish he didn't feel like he was wrong to be critical of his own party. As Americans, we should always be critical of all our leaders, regardless of party affiliations. If we don't like what they are doing, we need to let them know. We get to do that freely in this country.

And we should care what Robertson has to say.... right or wrong?

The Christian Right ALONG with the Republican Party since Reagan is responsible for the mess we are in right now. Their divisiveness and pure hypocrisy in their political posturing has resulted in Political Chaos which is the best proof positive for the wisdom of separation of Church and State!

I pray that the Religious Fanatics of the Evangelic Movement can see what they have done to this Nation and its people with their goal of dominating politics and legislating THEIR morality

TOO LATE PAT–It was you and your brethren that so staunchly supported Bush's candidacy when he was running for President. While many of us easily saw his incompetency, you and your flock blindly voted for him. Instead of your after-the-fact criticism of Bush, you surely owe Americans a sincere apology for putting this buffoon in office. Without an apology, you should just shut up.

ROBERTSON IS A HATEFUL, BIGOTED KOOK. ANYTHING HE SAYS IS MEANINGLESS. THIS MAN IS A THREAT TO THE WORLD.

change has come? yeah I see what people are talking about when Obama is handling hands with Blagojevich under the table
and there is more to come I guess............

And this after eight years of being a cheerleader for Bush. What ever Robertson has to say has no meaning to me.

How soon beforee thus usual suspects (Hannity, Limbaugh, ingraham et al ) dismiss Robertson as a crackpot for his latest remarks?

It doesn't get any better than this – the right wing falling apart like a dollar watch.

In my opinion you can blame Bush for a lot of things, but blaming him for ignorant individual who refused to evacuate during a hurricane is not his fault. These people were given ample time to leave, yet they decided to stay. It is a shame when a President is blamed for this catastrophe when their own mayor, governor and city officials are the ones to blame. When these people re-elect a mayor who did nothing, then guess what they get what they deserve.

I really took notice of "Real Change's" comment. Also, "Scott NYC". It is about time Hannity and Limbaugh take note, but I doubt that will ever happen.

I am very hopeful and think PE Obama will be one of the best presidents this country has had. I pray for his success.

Thanks Pat, both for the rave review of our next president and the stating of the obvious failings of Bush.

You have accomplished two things here:

1. Angered more neocons with your criticism of Bush (19% of polled Americans still love him).
2. Reminded the progressives that you're still out there, somewhere...waiting to remain irrelevant on something topical (we won't forget the many bizarre things that you've said or preached over the years).

Who's your Messiah now, Pat?

Pretzelboy has to fact the truth – when even the Ayatollah Robertson is against you, you have NO legacy......

Finally a Republican with common sense. I salute his credibility for being able to verbalize what has truly happened with the Bush Administration, but his grade is much kinder than what history will prove. Bush gets a big fat F-– THE WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY!

Merry Christmas!!!!!

Happy Holydays!!!

I pray for Obama in the coming weeks...that he may trust in the faith that America has placed in him...I pray that he will not be overburdened by the enormous hope and expectations of the American public and the rest of the world...and I pray for this country as we will surely be tested in the beginning of his administration...

I pray that Obama is just as successful as so many people hope that he will be...

May God bless this country as we strive to choose that which is right for the good of all people everywhere...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

The Truth shall set you free!!

"Robertson said Tuesday he was optimistic about the incoming Obama administration. “I am remarkably pleased with Obama,” he told Malveaux. “I had grave misgivings about him. But so help me, he's come in forcefully, intelligently. He's picked a middle of the road cabinet. And so far, if he continues down this course, he has the makings of a great president. So, I'm very pleased so far.”

I'm telling you, not only liberals are gonna have their dreams come true but Conservatives have a surprise for them. Hmmm, you know, I've always talked about the errors and judgement of the GOP that I hardly bring up any positive talk BUT what if I told you that if you think Conservatives are not gonna be pleased, then you are wrong. Little that people know but I haven't expressed my point of view to what it'll do to Conservatives. I've said about the party but not Conservatives...

Let's just say the lord works in many, many ways. I ain't gonna tell them though, they will have to figure it out the hard way...unless I'm cool that day and give out some pointers, LOL!! This only happens once a time in our nations history and I knew it from the very beginning...

Interesting enough, Robertson must have believed all the lies his party had perpetuated about Obama for him to be pleased with him now. Really, did he expect him to nominate extremists and radical muslims to his cabinet? I think most people are please because Obama's doing exactly what we expected of him.

Robertson give Bush a C-. LOL. Bush at most is an F-.

Rev Robertson can see the obvious, there in no longer time for the petty liberal/conservative drivel.

All hard working and honest Americans should realize the stakes are just to high, not to be honest with ourselves, while we fight to regain the american dream after 8 years of incompetence in DC

I think a C- is too generous for this failed Administration. 9-11, Iraq, Katrina, the Economy have all been major failures. And then we have the corruption and lies from the Vice President, as well as the culture of deception in general in Washington. History will judge Bush in the same light as Nixon and Grant. WORST PRESIDENT EVER

This man (the Reverend Robertson) is one of the best arguments for the separation of religion and government. I am ashamed that he caims to be a republican. I sincerely hope that there is no room for someone like him in the "new and rebuilt" Republican Party of the Future (Palin too for that matter).

For the first time in my life I can say," Yes Pat Robertson, I agree with you".

Make that a D minus, just short of an F. George Werewolf Bush has sucked the blood out of the country–he's run the country into the ground morally, economically, culturally, and spiritually. The only thing he did right is to stand up against the fundamentalist global warming bigots.

OMG hell has frozen over and the devil is ice skating. Is that really Pat criticizing Bush? Wow Bush is going to be one lonely drunk come New Years Eve.

You liberals need to hedge your bets a little. There will be a republican in office in four years after Obama fails. You have put to much faith in one man. Only once in all of history has that turned out well...that man was Jesus. And in case you don't now (which some of you apparently may not), Obama is NOT Jesus.

This is rich hearing Pat Robertson blame someone of being unprofessional. Isn't this the guy who knows exactly what God is thinking at all times and blames natural disasters on gay Americans? Does anyone really give a rats _ _ _ what Pat Robertson is spewing on any given day? Apparently CNN is happy to stoop to the lowest common denominator.

Hell is freezing over!!!!!!!

who cares... why is this news?

Republicans do not equal Christians. Christians are in both parties. It is good to see some Christian leaders make objective comments.

Pure Capitalist Republicans are the real problem. They wrap themselves in Christianity when they are attacked. Then tell the Christians they are being attacked and should support them. Not all of us are fooled.

Jesus would not support Capitalism. If we can't get rid of greed, it may be the best we can do. Socialism may not be the answer, but why aren't we looking for a better system then Capitalism?

Well I'll be darned, I agree with something that Pat Robertson said. I better get outside to see if cats and dogs are falling from the sky.

What about the money that evangelist take out of the public and proceed to live high on the hog with while the brethren scrape for a living with no guaranteed gain of anything? I don't see any difference with them than AIG.

How much more can Bush take? I guess he can't wait to high tail it out of the White House.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year all!

Oh the hypocrisy

He hates to be critical - he's a republican?

Excuse me?

They've been the most critical bunch of absolutely everyone else over the last 8 years!

Denial isn't just a river in Egypt, isn't it?

Amazing how much those two guys look alike in the posted picture. I don't pay anymore attention to what Pat Robertson says than what Jerry Falwell said. Neither have ever said anything of relevance. It's just their opinion, but everything they say is supposed to be taken as the gospel. At times I agree, but tomorrow Robertson will be stating something entirely different. Just as long as he gets his name in print somewhere.

very funny Real Change. you see his 'predictions' on wiki? amazing

I think my head just exploded.

Pat Robertson, the same guy who described Sept 11 as the fault of "America’s abortionists, feminists, gays and A.C.L.U. lawyers" thinks that Katrina should have been handled "more professionally".

Pat, from the whole nation: STFU already, you tired, tired hack.

How much more can Bush take? I guess he can't wait to high tail it out of the White House.