An excellent insight:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/15/bush.farewell/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
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I’m only 3 minutes into it, and I already want a refund. Talk about being completely out of touch.
Surges worked… yep, right.
Iraq a success… right again.
Not his fault economy is down… maybe, but you’re the leader/figurehead
Ugh. I’m closing that window before I smash my computer into 900 pieces.
So you won’t be watching his farewell speech tonight? Will they be tears of sadness or joy…who will know. I do see Bush tried to screw us once more by putting his speech in primetime on a Thursday…no doubt in an effort to get The Office and 30 Rock delayed and/or cancelled, fortunately cooler heads prevailed at the networks and they just eliminated Kath & Kim.
As Trudeau said today in his comic “given to vacant statements, faith-based certainties, and inexplicable self-confidence.”
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I am a Canadian viewing this, but I would have to think that the legacy of President George W Bush will not be that good at all. It’s one thing to have to make tough decesions as President Bush said he had to do, it’s another to make tough decesions that were wrong - wrong at the time, and given time, will look even more wrong.
Quite honestly, his record on just about every front be it economic, social, forgein policy . . etc was dismal. He leaves office with the U.S. on less secure footing and in a far lower position in all of those key fronts. How this could ever be turned around, into looking good for him, as it has for some outgoing presidents, I am saying, is next to impossible.
Bush’s mess and his extraordinarily low approval rating both in the U.S. and abroad have of course made the expectations heaped on incoming President Barak Obama, almost ridiculous. Obama is going to need to “walk on water - to try and turn this all around in the short term”, is how I heard one pundit put it this week. Obama is indeed a special sort of person with all the right stuff, but even he is facing a monumental task. I wish him the best