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Badwater

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
President Bush is hardly right wing and hardly a fool. Also, I noticed that your post doesn't address left wing fools. In fairness, have you considered that former president, Jimmy Carter was a left wing fool who did left wing foolish things?
Bush is right wing and he is a fool. And he'll never be in any danger if winning a Nobel Peace Prize, either.

Ullr

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Here's an article bringing together a few viewpoints on GWB's 'cultural legacy' (David Simon's being the most succinct:

Enron, Afghanistan, Iraq, New Orleans, Wall Street. An untenable drug war. A non-existent energy policy. An obliviousness to climate change. An unwillingness to recognise our problems, much less begin the hard work of solving them ...[text shortened]... t I'm sure you have views on Bush's legacy, cultural or otherwise. Let's have them ...
I'm thankful for presidential term limits. Now can we get that for congress please?

ale1552

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Originally posted by Crowley
Here Here!

😕
And YOU make me laugh everytime you say,"here here". That should be, "Hear! Hear!"

F

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Originally posted by kmax87
George Bush - Legacy? - President MIA. All but invisible to the corporations and complexes that ran him.
I read somewhere recently that he spent over 3 of his 8 years in office on holiday in Texas. Is that true?

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Steamin transies

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Here's an article bringing together a few viewpoints on GWB's 'cultural legacy' (David Simon's being the most succinct:

Enron, Afghanistan, Iraq, New Orleans, Wall Street. An untenable drug war. A non-existent energy policy. An obliviousness to climate change. An unwillingness to recognise our problems, much less begin the hard work of solving them ...[text shortened]... t I'm sure you have views on Bush's legacy, cultural or otherwise. Let's have them ...
Yes. Blaming him for a hurricane, Enron and a 20 year old drug war seems, well, expected.

And yes, I have a view on culture. mY view is that politicians should stay the he!! out of it.

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Steamin transies

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Originally posted by shavixmir
I think his greatest mistake, the one he's going to be judged on, is letting himself be surrounded by Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc.

Even the CIA called them "the crazies".

Yes. He did make me laugh. However, I still hope his carcass rots forever in hell.
History isn't going to remember Cheney or Rummy at all.

CliffLandin
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Originally posted by Merk
Yes. Blaming him for a hurricane, Enron and a 20 year old drug war seems, well, expected.

And yes, I have a view on culture. mY view is that politicians should stay the he!! out of it.
You can't blame him for the hurricane, but you can certainly blame him for the national response. Let's not forget "You're doin' a heckuva job, Brownie."

Natural disasters happen all the time. It is how we respond to them that forge our legacy.

CliffLandin
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Originally posted by Merk
History isn't going to remember Cheney or Rummy at all.
Maybe not, but their cellmates will.

F

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Originally posted by Merk
History isn't going to remember Cheney or Rummy at all.
Ah yes, well then, from a Republican point of view that's that taken care of then.

F

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Originally posted by Badwater
Bush is right wing and he is a fool. And he'll never be in any danger if winning a Nobel Peace Prize, either.
Bill Clinton, as he was leaving office in 2001, summed up the matter of George W. Bush's intelligence acutely after Bush beat Al Gore. "He doesn't know anything," Clinton said of Bush. "He doesn't want to know anything. But he's not dumb."

kmax87
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Originally posted by FMF
Bill Clinton, as he was leaving office in 2001, summed up the matter of George W. Bush's intelligence acutely after Bush beat Al Gore. "He doesn't know anything," Clinton said of Bush. "He doesn't want to know anything. But he's not dumb."
Its like why confuse the agenda you want to implement with mere details like history, trends and actual verifiable facts. That would only slow you down and give you cause to consider the way things really were as opposed to the way you wanted them to be. There are advantages to being willfully ignorant. It means not having to compromise ones vision, even if that vision blights the landscape for everyone that follows.

divegeester
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The most worrying thing to me about GWB's 2 terms is that the American people GAVE him the second term at all...😳

"Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything."
Frank Dane

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