What will the historians say about the chimp 50 years from now?

[Puglover]

Out of all this horror one of my small comforts is KNOWING that he go down in history as the worst president presiding over the most corrupt adminstration in the history of the US. I just hope the SOB knows it somewhere in his black little heart.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Worst US prez ever. Destroyer of democracy. Puppet for the

Govt/Corp/Entertainment complex.

[Lost4words]

2. Worst president ever, responsible for starting class wars in the USA

[abluelady]

3. George Who???

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. "Americans: What the hell were they thinking that this goofball

didn't wash out in the first primary?"

[Catchawave]

5. The only thing he did well.....

...was clearing brush from his Texas ranch.

[NJCher]

6. he won't even go down as a president

This time (2000-08) will have to eventually be blamed on someone because it is so pivotal. Blaming bush and the r-w for stealing the office that led to America's downfall as a superpower is most likely what will happen.


Cher

[indepat]

7. The example of what happened when America put all its eggs in one extreme

RWer who purportedly had said being dictator would be easier and then largely supported his so-called pre-emptive war which turned out to be a war of aggression based mostly on lies.

[mtnester]

8. George W. Bush, the second Republican President since 1974

to resign in disgrace

[patdem]

9. Well, in May of 04, while bush* was enjoying higher approval ratings

Historians already were calling bush* a failure..

Check out this link: http://hnn.us/articles/5019.html

Too funny for words, but here are a few comments: Of 415 historians who expressed a view of President Bush’s administration to this point as a success or failure, 338 classified it as a failure and 77 as a success. (Moreover, it seems likely that at least eight of those who said it is a success were being sarcastic, since seven said Bush’s presidency is only the best since Clinton’s and one named Millard Fillmore.) Twelve percent of all the historians who responded rate the current presidency the worst in all of American history, not too far behind the 19 percent who see it at this point as an overall success.

Read more, you will not be disappointed!

[BlueIris]

31. RICHT. ON. Thanks, patdem.

The typo in the subject line? A mistake on my part, but I decided to leave it.

[Pacifist Patriot]

10. Hopefully they'll mention what prison he was in when he

passed on.

[CWebster]

11. They will be studying how he got away with it

and why no one stopped him.

It is always the case that moral failings can be comfortably addressed after the fact.

[rhett o rick]

12. Destroyed in 8 years what it took to build in 250 years. nt

[corkhead]

13. will there be any historians 50 years from now? eom

[nookiemonster]

39. True. I think the qualifier should be

"Will we still be around in 50 years?"


:scared:

[omega minimo]

14. He'll be remembered as the inventor

of the biggest catapult EVER.

[Steely_Dan]

18. Too Funny

Not sure why that struck me as funny....Maybe it's the pure randomness of it.

-P

[omega minimo]

32. The high-velocity, automatic version will be favored by

The National Catapult Association :hi:

[Historic NY]

15. He will be remember as being worst than Hoover.......

why because he thinks he has never made a mistake. Fails to recognize any, and will not even admit to maybe having done something different. He will be dispised.

[AntiCoup2K4]

16. "Who cares? We'll all be dead!"

I believe those were Monkey Boy's own words.

[AJH032]

17. global warming

you know, that thing that doesn't really exist, will destroy our air supply and nobody will be around to remember.

[kodi]

19. they'll say only the reign of Phillip II of Spain is comparable to Bush's

no head of government besides Phillip destroyed the might and vigor of a society as Bush has. and where it took Phillip a generation to do it, Bush has done it in less than a half a dozen years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Spain

in mathematical terms, under Bush (the Lesser) the equation for the arc of the history of the american nation fell to a negative second derivative. we have lost any acceleration of the american experience and we are now in decline.

history will not absolve him and those who supported him. history will damn them all.

[NJCher]

36. some amazing similarities there

Wonder if George is Phillip II reincarnated. Trying again but getting it so wrong.


Cher

[kenny blankenship]

20. The Emperor George I was the smartest kindest warmest ruler of all time

, with the exception of our current ruler (God save Jeb the Sixth!) who saved our nation and liberated a large fraction of our close primate relatives from despotic rule and the perpetual night of ignorance of their Savior Jesus Christ.

That what historians will say because Americans don't have it in them to resist Fascism anymore, and sooner or later having thoroughly corrupted electronic media and brought all communication there under its control, the Fascist takeover will reach out for the universities and book publishers, too.

[Flying Dream Blues]

21. I hope the historians aren't living in caves with the rest of us. nt

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

22. They'll say he was a seriously defective

mutant, not up to the normal high standards of the Chimpanzees of the world.

:P

[warrens]

23. That despite all the good points about a free, unfettered vote

There ARE arguments against it. Exhibit A. George W. Bush.

[rinsd]

24. Realistically or optimistically?

Realistically, look at how Nixon was treated 20 years later.

Optimistically, he'll be looked at as much worse than Nixon.

[DavidDvorkin]

25. President Anheuser G. Bush

today lauded his grandfather and predecessor, George W. Bush, as the greatest president in American history.

[rurallib]

26. There will be 2 histories written

One about George, son of God and Saint Ronnie. The other for the rest of us.

[dave29]

27. When can we finally write about this guy's evil reign of terror? -

and how did Emperor Bush manage to live so damn long?

[kenny blankenship]

29. When will it be safe for them to examine the theft of the whitehouse?

And to call a coup d'état a coup d'état? Or to call warcrimes, warcrimes?

I'm guessing not for a long long time, long after the details are lost to historical investigation.

Events like we're living through tend to be inflection points for societies. They don't immediately snap back to normal after the criminal exits the crimescene. The reality of One Party Rule and near monarchy that Bush has brought with him isn't going away after 2008; so we will see the continued polarization of life in this country, with partisan political implications loaded into EVERYTHING, with ever more amazing contortions of viewpoint required to stay within the official "consensus", within the official "mainstream" of opinion, and with a continued rising tide of denial about THE ROOT OF IT ALL.

In order to reverse this societal decline, to reverse the One Party rule and the Oligarchy it serves will take a willingness to address the fundamental rot in our basic institutions. People will do ANYTHING to avoid confronting such intractable problems so things that were bad under Bush will continue to fester and worsen after he's gone. In order for the history you wonder about to be written and become our history, our common reality, would require a society-wide transformation and return to democratic values. Values are forged in foundational events of cultures and political societies. It would require a... transformational event... for America--a new birth in liberty someone once called it--for the history that you know already as a member of Democratic Underground to be written and accepted as Our History as a people.

That is a very steep price but it is the precondition of a true history, as long as we're talking about the straight, textbook, consensus, historical version of what went on during the reign of George I, and not some "Underground" counter-narrative. Without a transformation of politics and values, future American history of this time will read very much like contemporary headlines. It will be complete crap, in other words, with brilliant dissenting versions to be found only in the Academy's margins, produced by marginalized scholars for marginalized students.

[BlueIris]

28. Just lately, I've been worrying about how history will portray him.

Considering the amount of monkeying neo-cons and their supporters are currently doing to the information distribution systems, how extreme the bias in media has become, and how guiltless even our most esteemed journalists seem to be about those issues.

[mwb970]

38. Guiltless, or Gutless? (n/t)

[Eurobabe]

30. nothing, we'll all be dead

<insert mushroom cloud here>

[Touchdown]

33. Nero reincarnated.

:cry:

[GRLMGC]

34. WORST PRESIDENT EVER

Seriously. This fuck has not accomplished anything positive during his reign. Nothing at all.

[Jack Rabbit]

35. !!

D

[truthisfreedom]

37. worst. president. ever.

but they'll use caps.