Bush and His Legacy

Be forewarned that the opinion of the writer of this post is biased because he thinks George Bush IS the worst President EVER! Getting past that editorial comment I can now progress to show you why Bush WAS the WORST President EVER!

First we need to point out that Karl Rove is out of his hidey hole and now pounding the speaking circuit on his former bosses behalf. “W is good, W is great, W is far better than Jimmy Carter.” I had to paraphrase that but you get the jest of the Rovian message. His turdship supreme commander of double speak was in New York to try and pimp the Bush motorcade but came under some righteous boos and hisses. Over at the Washington Times, Jon Ward has this to say on it…

Rove: Bush hardly worst president
Wednesday, December 3, 2008

NEW YORK Karl Rove -- the architect, the one-time senior White House adviser to President Bush -- walked into the lion's den Tuesday night to argue that his former boss is not the worst president of the past 50 years.

He appeared at a formal debate on New York City's notoriously liberal Upper West Side as the most famous, and infamous, member of a four-member panel there to hash out the outgoing president's legacy.

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The most heated moments came during the debate over Mr. Bush's biggest decision - the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The president himself said in an interview this week that his "biggest regret" is that the intelligence upon which the invasion was based wrongly concluded that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Even Mr. Kristol said that Mr. Bush has done "a horrible job of explaining what he's done and what the choices were."

But he and Mr. Rove both maintained that while the initial occupation was mismanaged, the surge of troops begun in 2007 has placed the U.S. on the cusp of victory in Iraq.

Former Bush adviser Karl Rove was greeted with hisses as he took the podium at a formal debate on New York's Upper West Side, but he helped attract a sold-out crowd.
"We've won the war," Mr. Kristol said.

Mr. Rove was incredulous at Mr. Jenkins' assertion that the Vietnam War was better managed than the Iraq war.

"We ended Vietnam in defeat, for which the families of 55,000 fallen heroes had reason to ask themselves if their sacrifices had been made in vain," Mr. Rove said.
Mr. Rove ended by saying that the deck was stacked against Mr. Bush from the beginning. - Washington Times

I think it needs to be pointed out that President Bush ignored all advisors except the ones in agreement with him to go to war in Iraq. If the intelligence did not fit the need, they ignored it. Can we possibly look at every other President in history that decided the United States Constitution was toilet paper. Umm, the list is kind of short but all those signing statements from George W. Bush sure are a giveaway. Legally, not one single bill he signed is according to the law of the land and Constitutional. The President can not define the law just before he signs it into law. That is the Congress job! How about the tapping of phones without a court order within the United States of America? How about privatizing our United States Military (brought to you by Haliburton) and awarding NO BID military contracts to the company that the VP was once CEO of?

George W. Bush was the WORST President EVER but he dares to tell his cowboy discretion story. Now that he can see the exit signs lit up on the White House he is playing the good guy instead of chucking the media the bird at every opportunity. For some odd reason he thinks that history will look at him more favorably if he whistles a happy tune on the way out. Over at The American Prospect they have this little nugget of info post Bush and Charlie Gibson interview…

Bush doesn't care about history, he's just a cowboy who goes with his gut, which is why he's meeting with his flacks to make sure history looks at him kindly. Like all activities undertaken by this Administration, this "Legacy Project" is a transparent disaster, with all the thoughtful preparation of Bush's War. The case being made by Rove and others, that the Administration reacted competently to the intelligence they had, is as transparently false as the original case for invasion. Still, as Sargent noted, you see a number of mainstream news organizations taking Bush's story at face value. Again.

What were those wise words? "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice...can't get fooled again." - The American Prospect

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I submit my vote, I’ll stuff the ballot box (pun intended, sorry Al Gore & John Kerry), and I will endorse no other than George W. Bush as the WORST President EVER!

Cast your vote in the comments. This is the first ever Papamoka Straight Talk WORST EVER President Poll. Any votes for Chester Arthur will be discarded by our ballot tabulating machinery. And any votes for Jimmy Carter, Jefferson, Taylor, Hayes, Hoover, Both Johnson’s, Both Adams, Both Roosevelt’s (New rule, no voting for any duplicate last names unless it begins with Bush and has George W. in it). Truman is out, so is Wilson, Lincoln, Grant, Washington, Ford, Reagan, Kennedy, Ike, Clinton, and any of the other guys that did not have their fingers crossed behind their back while taking the oath of office. You can vote for Nixon but we need to tape record your vote. And you can not vote for any President elected before the year 2000.

Okay, the poll is fixed, you can only vote for George W. Bush! Check back soon for our results.

Papamoka

Is Bush Thinking He is Harry Truman

I think I need to make it loud and clear that George Bush is not Harry Truman. Harry Truman let the buck stop at his desk. He road the waste in government as a Democrat and went after people and companies that tried screwing over the American people in the federal budget. George Bush could not pass all the bucks forward fast enough as President and he was not and will not ever be looked at as a Harry Truman President. Oil companies not excepted, George Bush has never met a military contractor as well that he didn’t like and Haliburton was his favorite son that just happened to move it’s headquarters from his own home state of Texas to Dubai in the Middle East to escape any future prosecution for war profiteering. That was convenient was it not?

President Bush is distancing himself in the closing weeks of his administration from the war on terror or should I say distancing his excuses for it. Granted, the attack on 9/11 happened but the way that it was dealt with was dead wrong. Going to war in Afghanistan was justified because that was where Osama Bin Laden based his attack from and that government justified it as righteous. Iraq however was a personal debt that George Bush owed to Sadam Hussein and his father. Sadam threatened to kill his father for the Gulf War. George Bush pulled a gang land vendetta pay back with the most powerful military in the world for personal reasons. The cost of that personal war on terror is more than all the lives lost on 9/11.

George Bush can not walk out of the office of President lily white and clean and he will more or less not even blink an eye on the pardons he is going to dole out like candy to kids attending a parade. The handfuls of pardons will go out loud and clear to his political base and they are frankly demanding them. There is not one crime committed on his behalf that will not be pardoned. Wire tapping, torture, market manipulation, and just about anything that was good for the rich and bad for the middle and lower class. His record shows how he really feels about veterans and how they are only of use to him if they are actually fighting in the field. After that, those veterans more or less have to go fend for themselves. His backing of the VA is all you need to see how hollow his defense of veterans has been.

How the folks on the right side of the political aisle think that George Bush was a Godsend to America I will never understand. Somehow, President Bush thinks he has a firm record to stand on but from my perspective I see him about to stand on the quicksand of history. And it may take three or more Democrat administrations in the office of President to fix all the damage he has done to the Constitution and common law in the United States.

Over at The Weekly Standard they have this thought on whom President Bush should pardon in his last days in office…

One last thing: Bush should consider pardoning--and should at least be vociferously praising--everyone who served in good faith in the war on terror, but whose deeds may now be susceptible to demagogic or politically inspired prosecution by some seeking to score political points. The lawyers can work out if such general or specific preemptive pardons are possible; it may be that the best Bush can or should do is to warn publicly against any such harassment or prosecution. But the idea is this: The CIA agents who waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and the NSA officials who listened in on phone calls from Pakistan, should not have to worry about legal bills or public defamation. In fact, Bush might want to give some of these public servants the Medal of Freedom at the same time he bestows the honor on Generals Petraeus and Odierno. They deserve it. - The Weekly Standard

I’m thinking that President Bush is going to chuck America the finger one last time on his last day in office with ridiculous pardons that will more or less cripple the Justice Department from investigating the actual crimes he and his Vice President committed. What was good for Bush is off limits to prosecute and the President Elect is left holding his luggage just because Bush and Cheney left him the baggage. History in tens of years from now will show us all how much corruption and manipulation has taken place under President Bush. Only then will he go down in the disgrace he rightfully deserves.

George Bush is leaving the White House with a legacy of ignorance and intolerance for all other nations in the world. He has crippled the diplomatic corps of the United States that has been built up from one President to another over decades and hundreds of years. President Elect Obama has his work cut out for him and the simplest path is to simply say that “We” are not George Bush.

Hold your head up high as an American, the political waters are going to get ugly with facts over the next decade as real reporters talk about the deception filled Bush administration. The truth always surfaces no matter how much it is held under the waters of politics and government.

Papamoka