Comments on: Long Campaign Threatens Bush Legacy

National Review Online: The President Has Become An Easy Target And Must Defend His Record

[b-easy63]

Bush should NOT take his case to "the people" no one wants to know that mf is even alive, let alone still President--and since we think most of what slops out of his pie hole are LIES--he has no case---he needs to plan his exit--stage RIGHT.

[tylenol6]

Bush legacy will be: FRAUD, FRAUD, FRAUD and more FRAUD.

[observantx]

Legacy.

Such a big word.

Too big a word for such a small man with a diminutive intellect, a vast disdain for knowledge and an utter disregard for history, our Constitution, Justice, and common decency.

I have a dismal prediction. This man and his sycophants will not go quietly into the sunset. They will spend the rest of their lives. sheltered by the $$ they have stolen, trying to whitewash their actions.

First there will the ghost written books, then the speaking engagements hosted by their deluded and fawning admirers. Then attempts to revise the facts and muddle the history.

Let''s hope they all end up clutching their chests as their hearts spasm and stop while the faces of those they sacrificed in a false war, those they rendered and tortured, and those they threw under the bus for their own profit pass before their eyes.

Let no man in this entire world pay any heed or attention to these criminals, unless it is to imprison them for their crimes.

[cruzn66]

Maybe, as we really look at this administration, it will be given nothing more than a footnote in historyas a disaster looking for a place to happen. Very little will be seen as positive as this administration worked very hard to try to force some kind of greatness on the world, when, in truth, there was little within the inner circle of this administration to warrant any time of historical greatness. It was more like the firefighter, who for lack of better things to do, started a fire just so that the potential for being a hero might present itself. In reality, when the truth comes out, the fire fighter, like this administration, will be remembered for what it didn''t do, serve the people''s interests before their own.

[ubrew12]

Article: "[My liberal friend] scoffed when I suggested that the answer was...a 5% joblessness rate; 95 to 96% of mortgages not entering foreclosure; .6% growth during the quarter; historically low interest rates; and sky-high stock market prices... There are serious problems..."

You liberal friend is right, and you are wrong. Wall Street has NEVER displayed such a disconnect with Main street, which has been devastated under Bush. Housing is losing money because THAT is the equity of the middle-class, not their investments. Only the rich hold sizeable investments so, of course, for them Bush will keep the stock market high.

Victor Davis Hanson is a rightwing neocon propagandist, so his blaming of Bush''s image on the ''long campaign'' is to be expected. Most of those posting here got it right: Bush''s legacy is a richly deserved record of total failure. Now, if can only consign Hanson to Crawford with Bush, our success would be complete.

[mattgersz]

I expected little of George Bush seven+plus years ago. I expected too much.

His ill-advised war, his penchant for secrecy, and most damaging, his dangerously warped view of Constitutional powers and his (and Cheney''s) pursuit of the ultimate in imperial presidencies have created a legacy that can charitibly be termed a mess.

Defend his record? The best this president can hope for is that we won''t remember it.

[mcvet]

Posted by ourtomorrows at 09:03 PM : May 08, 2008

HE LIED TO ALL OF US! HE STARTED A WAR BASED ON PURE DOCUMENTED LIES! ROFLMAO Truman was standing up for PRINCIPLE for God''s sake. HE''d made the Military Color Blind and was being trashed by the FASCIST in McCarthy and the Southern Fascist, headed by Thrumon!! BIG DIFFERENCE!! 935 times the Bush Administration LIED...they are there and they ARE LIES... every last one of them. SIEG HEIL BUSH!!

[joyous88]

ourtomorros;

what planet are you from?

you are one of the 17 % that think Bush is your own personal God;

good luck to you, but why ruin our country with your craap

[joyous88]

what legacy?

The first un american president in US history,

the first truely criminal president in US history,

the onlt thing worse than this crime family would

be four more years of McBushCain

[ourtomorrows]

Like Truman, President Bush''s legacy will be looked at more fairly and in the end, positively, by historians. There are a great deal of positive things that have come out of his time in office, not the least of which is the largest ongoing US financial commitment to Africa in American history. His much maligned foreign policy and his war on terror will be vindicated as not the easy, but the right choice. The Bush legacy is far more complicated than saying everything he did was bad. Historians will understand that, those who hate the President never will. But then again, those who spout hatred for President Bush also can not, will not, and have never, been able to accept the notion that the United States can not always do what is popular with the rest of the world. To be fair, the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century were not caused by the US action, but by inaction. We did not start World War I, we did not start World War II, we did not start the Korean War, we did not start Vietnam, we did not start the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, we did not start the first Iraq War but more aggressive action earlier could have stopped or lessened the horror of each.

[imnho]

One question. How do you endager a legacy that is already dead?

This is the first time a president has screwed up a wet dream.

[messiahx4eve]

I remember meeting this idiot (bush) in college when he was gov. of texass. He announced he was running for president and at the time, I thought to myself keep talking bud because the minute you open your oil filled mouth, you LOSE all credibility as being intelligent. I thought no intelligent thinking human being would EVER vote for this blubbering idiot but I underestimated his father and brother in setting the stage for lil'' george to win no matter what. As I shook hands with him (not by my choice) I felt as though I were being caressed by maggots breathing cheap wine in my face. God I needed to go wash my hand before I got some sort of infection.

[jerr11]

Bill Clinton%u2019s legacy is all over Monica%u2019s dress. Maybe JFK%u2019s legacy is on the beaches of the Bay of Pigs. How LBJ%u2019s legacy, Vietnam. Jimmy Carter%u2019s 18% interest rate and 18% inflation rate. Those are some impressive Legacies.

Posted by wernet2 at 07:04 PM : May 08, 2008



The most impressive has to be:

935 lies

4071 Dead Americans

3,000,000,000,000 squandered in Iraq.

The dollar worth 60 cents of what it was worth before Bush took over.

Gas at $4 a gallon.

And the best part - Halliburton''s profits through the roof.

[trillion1]

The rightwing is getting so pathtic most of their posts are out right laughable.

[wooleywews]

Bill Clinton%u2019s legacy is all over Monica%u2019s dress. Maybe JFK%u2019s legacy is on the beaches of the Bay of Pigs. How LBJ%u2019s legacy, Vietnam. Jimmy Carter%u2019s 18% interest rate and 18% inflation rate. Those are some impressive Legacies.

[bizwiz_27]

Oh yeah!!!!
I had to fill out an entire information sheet just to comment on this absurdity of an argument. The not so suttle effort to ease Bush''s legacy in to a more moderate less repulsive place - which he worked hard to earn! I campaigned for this guy in 00'' and I believe in certain republican principles and believe some are more conducive to the sustainability of this country with respect to social policies and "thoretically" since they don''t practice what they preach with respect to the general economic ideals of the republican party. But I had jumped off the bandwagon of the republican party relatively shortly after 9-11 and watched in utter horror as the iraq disaster unfolded. Don''t waste viewers brainpower by writing an article numbing the viscious wounds the Bush administration has inflicted on the greatness of America that has taken hundreds of years to build. Republicans think they can "play the game" in perpetuity but they are very shortsighted and expose the lack of wisdom that led them to most of their historic failures. I hope this country never forgets the DISGRACE THAT GEORGE W. BUSH HAS BROUGHT TO THIS NATION. AND THE DISASTER THAT HIS MANIPULATIVE AND IDEOLOGICAL ADMINISTRATION HAS WROUGHT. Bush makes Clinton look like a priest. Go Obama 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tawpdawg11]

And by the way, I didn''''t vote for Bush either time and think that he has been and over-all lousy president.

Posted by Sebastian27 at 03:34 PM : May 08, 2008


Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tawpdawg11]

There is talk that Dubai MAY let him have his presidential library there. But keep it on the down-low! He don''t want anyone to queer the deal.

[irliberal]

Hahahahaha... very funny article, thanks NRO.

Of course, the only thing that threatens the so-called "Bush Legacy" is GW Bush. NRO is worried how history will remember him. Worry no more. History and future generations will look back in amazement and say - how were enough of the American people so inept, so frightened, so bitter and so backward as to elect this charlatan ONCE, much less TWICE? However, unlike the great mysteries of the pyramids or stonehenge which continue to enthrall and amaze, this buffoon will eventually be reduced to a few footnotes about the dangers of mindless aggression (i.e. "pre-emptive war"), the interference of religion in government, the rape and destruction of the natural world and it''s resources, and a quick how-to on blowing record budget surplus into a record budget deficit in four years.

He''ll be a shining example of how NOT to lead a free country. Shame on us, for the future will blame not the inept shrub, but on US, the American people, for enabling his party and regime to make us the laughingstock of the free world.

[crater7]

Long Campaign Threatens Bush Legacy;

MAKES BUSH AN EASY TARGET. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

THIS IS THE MOST BLUNDERING PRESIDENT IN HISTORY.
HE, DESERVES WHAT HE GETS.

BUSH, IS A TOTAL FAILURE.

BUSH HAS NO LEGACY.......