Comments on: Long Campaign Threatens Bush Legacy

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

[ricknuber]

I''ve never read such vomit in all my life. The Bush legacy will be remembered exactly as it should: rife with deceit, lies, disregard for the Constitution, collusion with partisan media, destruction of prosperity for the American family and, most of all, a very loose grasp for the English language.

Noo-kyoo-lur. Enough Said.

[trillion1]

After over 7 years of unsurpassed ineptatude and corruption the neonuts still wear rose colored glass. Most of the nation has wised up.

[rafterman1]

If Mr. Hanson is suggesting that historians will look more kindly on Bush 50 years from now, he''s actually right. Time makes even the worst president look a little better. But when you look at the state of the country now and in 1952, we are a lot less hopeful now. But the Truman 20 percent comes a lot from the fact that Americans were expecting a lot better in 1952. After all, we just kicked the a$$es of the Germans and Japanese in WWII and we were clearing the biggest kid on the block. But if the same group of Americans from 1952 were judging Bush now, he would have a 5 instead of a 30 percent approval. They just expected more than we do now.

[noloyalisti]

This dude ought to start finding some attorneys for when he is done. He is a lying cheating stealing white trash war criminal. He has done more damage to this country than even Reagan did. What a scary monstrous nightmare of a man (although he is just a dumb puppet of the neo con men and their big corporate providers). Impeach and imprison. ASAP.

[quatermass2]

Ah, the jumped-up raisin farmer once again throws in his lot with the objectively worst President in the history of the Republic. Note the spin:

"5 percent joblessness rate in April that was lower than the March figure;"

Read: lowset job growth in history. Hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs lost, never to return, and additional hundreds of thousands of jobs outsourced. The relatively low percentage rate hides the fact that many, MANY have simply given up looking.

"95 to 96 percent of mortgages not entering foreclosure in this year%u2019s first quarter;"

Ignoring the indisputable FACT that the current housing crisis is the worst on record, that equity losses have not been as high in any period since the Great Depression, and that government BAILOUTS have neen required to stabilize the industry

"0.6 percent growth during the quarter (weak, but not recession level)"

Feh - that''s like saying you''ve only lost a limb, what are you complaining about, you''re still alive?

"historically low interest rates;"

Panic measure by a spooked Fed,you dolt

"and sky-high stock market prices."

Gee, then why is my 401K about $100K low er than it was LAST YEAR, fool?

Hanson is a paid shill for the current junta, and boy, is it obvious.

[sebastian27-2009]

History will tell us whether the Iraq war was a mistake, though I am not sure that it will be a clear-cut decision.
As far as the economy is concerned, the person that should get blame for the financial mess is Alan Greenspan. He enjoyed patting himself on the back in front of the cameras too much. And by the way, I didn''t vote for Bush either time and think that he has been and over-all lousy president.

[mbburch06]

Leave it to the neocons at NRO to defend Bush and Truman in the same sentence. Bush''s record speaks for itself. The Iraq war will go down as the worst mistake this country has made since Vietnam, and for making that decision, history will rightfully judge him harshly.