Comments on: President Bush, One Year Left and Counting

By: nooneinparticular

nooneinparticular — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:10:12 +0000

OK… well… let me be the first voice of reason for those who have commented thus far to this post.

1) NO, not by a long shot will Bush be judged kindly by history.
No President, in the history of America, has been so woefully inept and purposefully polarizing.

2) No President has willfully violated international law to the extent Bush has.

3) No President has singularly focused the breadth and width of his administration on the whims of corporate interest the what that Bush has.

4) No President has expanded the power and misdirection of the Federal government the to the extent that President Bush has.

5) No President has been “dead wrong” on matters relating to National Security and terrorism to the extent that President Bush has.

6) No President has managed to negate reason and intelligence to the extent that President Bush has.

7) No President has managed to degrade the functionality and effectiveness of the US Military to the extent that President Bush has.

8) No President has worked to institutionalize the power and influence of America’s corporate elite to the extent that President Bush has.

9) No President has managed to (successfully) advance the notions of 1 branch of American government over another, the way that Bush has. With the help of 6 years of Congressional lapdogs, he has managed to successfully usurp the powers of the Legislative and Judicial Branches of American government into the Executive Branch, to an extent that would envy Nazi Germany. “Checks and balances” be damned.

10) And probably most importantly, you must learn to separate your conservative bias from what is good for America. To suggest that Bush’s Supreme Court nominations are his most important accomplishments tells me only 1 thing: That you’re willing to dispose of what’s “good for America” to advance what you perceive to be “good for conservatives”. Try taking a look at the Constitution for a change. And try balancing what is “good for America” with the notions of Bush and his Supreme Court appointments as a whole. If you perform that simple exercise, you’ll probably disappoint yourself.

Bush is, without a doubt in my mind, the worst President in the history of our wonderful Country. And there is ZERO chance that history looks kindly upon this administration.

By: mpinkeyes

mpinkeyes — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:43:41 +0000

Dee, Thanks. It will be interesting to see how he is judged. I think over years historians will realize he was right, they will also wonder how Americans became so short-sighted and self-obsorbed to realize the fight we were in.
Gary, it must be so frustrating to you and your wife to try to do things the right way only to be met with so many obsticles while people who don’t follow the rules have everything handed to them. I hope the two of you someday finally get everything finalized.
in2thefray, thanks. This was fun, I hope you come up with another topic for us to try this with again. You can count me in.

By: in2thefray

in2thefray — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:33:53 +0000

Two days late but I’m still giving it two thumbs up. Thanks for participating and again great post.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:59:48 +0000

Hello mpinkeyes,

I believe you are spot on for the majority of this post.

No Child Left Behind – Education wise, this was a big mistake. All it accomplished was bringing the level of education lower. To make certain no child is left behind they have to reduce the curriculum to the lowest common denominator. Which does the opposite of what most countries do. It marginalizes or bores to death the truly intelligent who could be a major future help to the country.

Spending – I agree. I think all of Washington failed math class. They were left behind.

Immigration – Seeing as my wife is from the Philippines and we are still in this process 4 years later, I can tell you the exact reform needed. They need to reform their training staff and stop changing the rules. Most of the employees at all levels are confused to no end as to what the rules are. Leave the rules alone and actually enforce them. And teach the staff what the rules are. I had to get my Rep. involved because a service center didn’t agree on 2 pages of their rules. The total amount of pages that applied to us – 2 pages.

War on Terror / etc. – Possibly could be tied to the spending as a knock. But let history be the judge.

Tax cuts are always good. Now if they could reduce the tax code from 65,000 pages to 1000, the country would be better off and a batch of lawyers would be out of work.

Supreme Court – Two major thumbs up.

Good job all in all

Gary

By: Dee

Dee — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:38:46 +0000

Well said!! I especially loved your last paragraph:

“I truly believe that one day in the future, the world will look back on President Bush with more kindness than he was ever given during his presidency. He will be judged well by history. He will be proven right.”

I truly believe that history will judge Bush as one of our best presidents, and far better than how he is being treated now.

I also have to say that some of our conservative Bush bashers really upset me. I stopped listening to Laura Ingraham for awhile because she has been extremely hard on Bush. I finally tuned into her today to give her another chance and I wasn’t listening for but 5 minutes and she was trashing him. I think I’m done listening to Laura Ingraham.