Shrub had his final news conference as President today. He actually admitted he made some mistakes today, not the least of which was the now infamous "Mission Accomplished" banner just two months after the war started and which the White House later attempted to censor on pics of the event at its website.
Bush isn't as stupid as many of us would like to believe. An idiot just doesn't come off the street and earns an MBA and / or runs a professional baseball team.
His initial leadership in 9/11 was quite admirable, but then he fumbled it. Out of the worst disaster to befall America since Pearl Harbor, he could have brought the country together but instead decided to go on the foreign money markets to finance a disasterous war that has made the world much less safe and a relatively stable country a failed state. As far as Afghanistan goes, well he gave Osama Bin Laden a six week head start and seven years later he's still the world's most wanted man -- and even with bounties from over a hundred countries totalling well over $100 million no one is yet willing to rat Voldemort out.
Rather than seek to make America energy independent, Bush made the world even more dependent on oil sheiks who fund terrorists. Nice way of shooting us in the foot, sir.
There were warning signs that the economy was also in trouble, but Bush chose to ignore what was obvious to most. Rather than make lemonade out of a lemon, he tried to make plywood out of sawdust and instead turned it into muck. History may be kinder to him, as it was to Herbert Hoover, but for now he's going down as the worst President that America has ever had.
Even his father wouldn't have made the kind of risks that Dubya did. I don't pity the man, but this was the most pathetic presidency of my lifetime.
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I have to take issue with this bit:
"Bush isn't as stupid as many of us would like to believe. An idiot just doesn't come off the street and earns an MBA and / or runs a professional baseball team.
If your daddy is a grad, and Vice-president, then yes, any idiot can get an MBA. As for the baseball team, that was a gift too, and he nearly ran it into the ground.
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