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- Goodbye, W.

20th January 2009
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Goodbye, George.

You were our least legitimate, most willfully ignorant, most damaging president this country has had in the past century -- quite an accomplishment.

You traded our liberties for security, our wealth for poverty, our International friends for foreign dictators. You broke the government agencies that worked and created new ones that didn't. Time and again, you rewarded failure and punished competence. You called your foreign policies "wars". Distrusting America justice, you built a dungeon in Cuba and authorized torture. You were overshadowed by your own Vice President, a grimacing, hateful psychopath your own party didn't like very much.

It's not all your fault. House Republicans took full advantage of your flaming ineptitude to further their own agendas. Luckily, your opposition was mostly supine during your tenure. But no one wanted to rescue you from you.

So, this day has been a long, long time in coming. You're probably not a bad man, W. You were just not very good at your job. You were a disappointment to your supporters and a monster to your opponents.

Now please, get the hell off the People's lawn.

5 Comments | Add comment | Tags: politics
Deja vu
:: 22nd Jan 2009 - 23:01
:: Archie
And once again, George Bush leaves behind a mess for others to clean up after being handed a job which he did not earn. This time "others" includes my children. Good riddance.
oh, and, ahem
:: 27th Feb 2009 - 07:02
:: pudge
No one seriously blames Bush for the economic problems. What part was his fault? The housing bubble that started before Bush and was spurred on by Fed policy? The regulatory framework created by Congress under Clinton? Which part?

People usually say "tax cuts" at this point, but at worst, that's only a problem because it contributed to a greater deficit ... but obviously that's not the problem, else the Democrats wouldn't be propsing FAR MORE of it ... right?

Congress, even when the Democrats controlled it, resisted changes that might have averted the problem. This was an institutional problem, and the Fed and Congress -- especially congresses before Bush got elected -- bear much more responsibility than Bush.

Yes
:: 27th Feb 2009 - 07:02
:: pudge
Bush was the least legitimate President. Also, the most legitimate. Every President has exactly the same legitimacy.

He was less damaging than Jimmy Carter by any measure.

And "willfully ignorant" is a poor euphemism for "disagrees with me."

Oh, and Gitmo and its policies predated Bush. FYI.

Thanks, pudge
:: 27th Feb 2009 - 07:02
:: jjohn
I was wondering how long it would take you to reply to this thread. :-D
yvw
:: 27th Feb 2009 - 21:02
:: pudge
Over a month! That's how long it took me to get over the depression! ;-)

I think much of the hatred of W is unfair and revisionist. Like, for example, the "mission accomplished" thing: if you listen to the actual speech he gave, not only did he never say "mission accomplished," he actually explicitly stated the whole mission was NOT over, that there was still a lot of work left to do in Iraq. But the immediate "mission" of overthrowing Hussein WAS accomplished, in the most dramatic fashion the world has ever seen.

So why such a big deal about it? Because people dislike Bush, so they turn everything even potentially sorta negative into a big deal. We saw this with Clinton, and we're seeing it with Obama. (ZOMG did you hear that Joe Biden didn't know the name of the WEB SITE!!!!! WORST VICE PREZIDANT EVASR!!!!!!)

I was hoping we had learned our lesson with Clinton; unfortunately, we learned the wrong lesson.

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