PATHETIC, THE ONLY WORD THAT COMES TO MIND!

(Holly Bailey, Frank Newport, Washington Post, Huffington Post,)

(Julian Zelizer, CNN Contributor, Telegraph Media Group, Frazer Chronicle)

 

Once again the core supporters have emerged to tip a glass of Champaign, swap old war stories, and for a brief moment, recapture the power that they once held. Some haven’t seen others in years, there is talk about those who have departed this earth in search of eternal peace and sunshine, or…..well, you know that other place that has its own brand of heat!

 

More than four years after George W. Bush left the White House, a new presidential library is being opened on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas at a cost of more than $250 million. Funds are from the private sector, and the former president raised $500 million through solicitation efforts for his library.

 

The celebration probably gives pause to the former president, his collogues, and friends, and a chance to reflect on past glories, victories and defeats. The former president will be judged, not by many of us who were in their forties during the time Bush was inaugurated for his first term in office in January of 2001, we will be dust by the time historians have put together a clearer picture then now can be seen.

 

Bush uses the word comfortable when talking about decisions that he made during his two terms in office, I know I wouldn’t use the term comfortable when I think about George W. Bush and his administrative decisions. Debate will go on for decades about the Bush doctrine, and the things that were established, or waved away by the activity of the Bush cabinet.

 

Bush made himself a war time president, invading Afghanistan was justified and the actions with regards to tracking down Osama bin Laden was a righteous cause. But Bush White House invaded Iraq, and in fact concentrated America’s military might and effort in that invasion, and let Bin Laden wonder around the hills of Afghanistan for 10 years after a declaration of war had been declared on Afghanistan.

 

There are many different (lists) out there that rate the Bush presidency, both from the left and the right, and believe it or not, each has its merits. Lists are like political polis, statistics, or opinions, questions can be phrased to get an agreeable answer, statistics do lie, and opinions are like noses…..everybody has one.

 

I watched from afar the developing saga that was the Bush White House, I watched each aftermath of what I perceived were the mistakes that Bush and his administration were making, and hoped for the day to come when the nation would be done with Bush, his henchmen, and prayed that the country would make it through the process.

 

I HAVE CREATED A LIST OF KNUCKLEHEADED MOVES THAT BUSH MADE

1. Of course invading Iraq was number one; just ask the dead soldiers families, friends, wives and kids.

2. Foreign affairs, if you think that the Bush foreign policies were aligned with what was good for America,           

    you  also are a knucklehead.

3. Tax policies, actually tax cuts to the rich and shameless.

4. Hurricane Katrina, sadly the weather event happened in the United States, if it would have happened in

    Another country, the reaction time would have been almost instantaneous.

5. Credit crisis, regulation, regulation, regulation

6. Breakdown of intelligence on the run-up to September 11, 2001, the failure to understand that there

    weren’t any WMD, even when there was massive Intel that Sadam Hussein was nothing more than a

   joker.

7. Violation of human rights…..Gitmo and a water board…..need I say more?

8. Gonzales-gate, unless you are an X baseball player, you don’t belong anywhere near politics.

9. And finally abandoning the Kyoto Protocol, Bush and Cheney though Kyoto was a comedic actor.

 

There are hundreds more, but I’m saving them for a later blog, Bush 43 needs to simply go away, like the man said, “we don’t mind, cause you don’t matter.” I don’t care what George Bush, ex-president builds, what he says, wishes, or what his hopes or fears are…..George W. Bush was simply a terrible president that was thrust into a situation that he, and most of his staff were not prepared for, and then through their collective ineptenisum made a very bad situation worse.

 

I single out Colin Powell as, for me, was especially lax in the performance of his duties, put until September 11, 2001, I was a huge Powell fan, but after his bungling act with regards to Afghanistan, and Iraq, I begin looking for another hero to hitch my star to.

 

Bush didn’t inspire, he brought people down to his level, and of course he always had his enforcer in his back pocket, Vice President Dick Cheney. Bush 43 was a dark chapter in our history, a page that we still are paying for, a page that yet is to be finished.

 

Do I care how Bush viewed his decisions while he was president…..you must be joking, he will go down in history, long after mine has been written, as one of the worst…..the very worst president in the history of presidents.

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!