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demokatgurrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 03:13 PM
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Historians call Bush right


“No individual president can compare to the second Bush,” wrote one. “Glib, contemptuous, ignorant, incurious, a dupe of anyone who humors his deluded belief in his heroic self, he has bankrupted the country with his disastrous war and his tax breaks for the rich, trampled on the Bill of Rights, appointed foxes in every henhouse, compounded the terrorist threat, turned a blind eye to torture and corruption and a looming ecological disaster, and squandered the rest of the world’s goodwill. In short, no other president’s faults have had so deleterious an effect on not only the country but the world at large.” ...

...“George Bush has combined mediocrity with malevolent policies and has thus seriously damaged the welfare and standing of the United States,” wrote one of the historians, echoing the assessments of many of his professional colleagues. “Bush does only two things well,” said one of the most distinguished historians. “He knows how to make the very rich very much richer, and he has an amazing talent for f**king up everything else he even approaches. His administration has been the most reckless, dangerous, irresponsible, mendacious, arrogant, self-righteous, incompetent, and deeply corrupt one in all of American history.” ...




Much more:
http://hnn.us/articles/48916.html
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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 03:16 PM
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1. Didn't think one idiot could cause so much permanent damage.........
but it is all true. uncle dick helped too!
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 03:16 PM
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2. And in a hundred years, historians will be saying the same thing or worse.
And I am glad for it.
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FightingIrish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 03:22 PM
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3. It's amazing that even the eloquent words of historical scholars
cannot adequately describe how really bad this idiot was.
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Dervill Crow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 03:40 PM
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4. With all the words available in the English language, when a distinguished historian
chooses to use the term "fucking up" to describe a man's actions, you KNOW it's bad.

Don't quite know whether to :rofl: or :cry: -- just glad he's out of office and desperately hoping he and his pals are brought to justice.
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Mme. Defarge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 04:05 PM
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7. Good point! n/t
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BattyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 11:56 AM
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21. Sometimes, that's the only term that truly fits!
I can't think of a more accurate term to use, except maybe something like, "completely fucking up" or "fucking up in a way that surpasses what the world has come to know as 'fucking up'" :rofl:





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Dervill Crow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 02:10 PM
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22. You nailed it! nt
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trusty elf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 03:57 PM
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5. Shub, your place in history is assured!
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Window Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 04:16 PM
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8. OMG! That graphic is too funny.
:rofl:
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 04:03 PM
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6. georgee
had the 'midass' touch.
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namahage Donating Member (678 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 04:40 PM
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9. Yeah. Everything he touched turned to shit. n/t
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immoderate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 04:45 PM
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10. He's a fuck-up's fuck-up.
--imm
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Number23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 04:52 PM
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11. I don't understand why your thread title is "Historians call Bush right"
The title of the article you reference is "HNN Poll: 61% of Historians Rate the Bush Presidency Worst"
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Wednesdays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 10:48 PM
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17. I had to re-read it twice, too
A better headline would be worded, "Historians make the right call on Bush's presidency."
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Usrename Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 05:07 PM
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12. Historians are wrong to compare him to other presidents.
They should begin comparing him to other despots.

"He's worse than Saddam Hussein or Slobodan Milosevich, but not as bad as Pol Pot or Joseph Stalin."
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FightingIrish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 05:27 PM
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13. Bush shouldn't be disappointed
In his first year of eligibility for the Presidential Hall of Shame, he cracks the bottom ten. The full extent of his devastation won't be fully realized for years. I have no doubt he will eventually assume his rightful place at the bottom of the list.
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kath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 05:33 PM
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14. Note that this article was written 10 1/2 months ago - well before the economy really tanked, and
before some of the recent allegations about torture.

Worst. Occupant. Of. The. White. House. EVER.
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 08:25 PM
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15. Wikipedia entry, 2025:

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) was the forty-third and worst fucking President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001 after an obviously let's-rape-the-USA partisan Supreme Court intervened on a state-decided-election and usurped the rightful position of the Democratic Candidate Albert Gore. Bush was first selected in the 2000 presidential election, and, thanks to a little more theft and fraud . . . and a fuckton of American voters sharing the same brain, re-selected for a second term in the 2004 presidential election. He previously served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, shitting that state all to hell in just about every category, and is the annointed son of the late former shitbag United States President and CIA spook George Herbert Walker Bush.

Following college, Bush worked in his family's oil businesses before making an unsuccessful run for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before returning to politics in a campaign for Governor of Texas. He defeated Ann Richards through an assload of dirty trickery from Karl Rove, playing strictly on the homophobia of the Republican voters, and was elected Governor of Texas in 1994. Bush won the presidency in 2000 as the Republican candidate in one of the most blatant thefts in American history, in which he lost the nationwide popular vote, but won the electoral vote. He mostly got away with it due to a complicit media, spineless Clinton-and-Democratic-hating public, fucked up court system and unprecedented corporate power and dollars.

As president, Bush burned the surplus by pushing through a $1.3 trillion tax cut program, mostly for the wealthy who didn't need it and the No Child Left Behind Act, also proven to be a miserable failure to America's youth. In October 2001, after the MIHOP attacks on September 11, 2001 (© 2001, Republican Party, All Rights Reserved), Bush pretty much was given carte blanche to just about anything he wanted and announced a global War on Terrorism . . . "War on Terrorism" . . . hoo boy, did he actually declare war on a noun? . .. anyway, and ordered an invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban, destroy Al-Qaeda, and to capture Osama bin Laden, which he failed at.

In March 2003, Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, asserting, through falsified evidence, that Iraq was in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1441 and that the war was necessary for the protection of the United States. Of course, the tits-up Congress that rubberstamped everything he threw at them approved this debacle, and the blood on their hands will never be cleansed. It cost 43,934 American soldiers lives and an estimated 3.5 million Iraqi lives and did not completely end until 2016, the longest occupation or war of a sovereign nation in American history. A memorial in Washington D.C. is being planned for the Americans lost in Iraq and Afghanistan. The "War On Terrorism" was regarded as "the failure of failures". Anyone see a pattern here, or is it just me?

Running as a self-described "war president" in the midst of the Iraq War,<5> Bush was re-elected in 2004 by a whole lotta fraud and a steaming pile of 50-some million idiots who cowered to and believed the thought of "them Ay-Rabs invadin' mah town!".<6> His presidential campaign against Senator John Kerry was successful despite controversy over the fact that Bush's administration didn't do a single goddamned thing right in four years.<7><8> After his re-election, Bush continued to send America on a rocket-ride to the abyss. His domestic approval had declined from 90 percent (the highest ever recorded by The Gallup Organization) immediately after the September 11, 2001 (© 2001, Republican Party, All Rights Reserved) attacks to a low of 26 percent (in a Newsweek poll taken in June 2007),<9> the lowest level for any sitting president in 35 years.<10>

When asked about the Bush Presidency, most Americans generally have four reactions: they either decline to comment, make obscene gestures followed by anti-liberal, anti-Clinton and/or anti-homosexual remarks, sob uncontrollably, or just shrug their shoulders and walk away shaking their heads in shame.

Hey, I think it would make a HELL of a historical tidbit!

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damonm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 01:28 AM
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20. MIHOP?
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 09:56 AM
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23. Made it happen. On purpose.
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tomp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 09:44 PM
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16. but obama won't go after him. change? nt
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pink-o Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 11:40 PM
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18. I have to disagree with "glib"
While fatuous, "glib" implies that words come easily to one.

Chimpy boy couldn't string a complete thought into a glib sentence if his life depended on it!
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Bryn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 01:05 AM
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19. Why was he allowed to run America into ground?
While we here at DU watched helplessly.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 10:38 AM
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25. Evidence of a Flawed System....unable to self cleanse in a timely manner.
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 09:59 AM
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24. Wow! Those words may be the best put together that I have ever heard to sum up Bush
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Samantha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 07:15 PM
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26. After reading their assessments very carefully, I realize
they STILL have a much higher opinion of him than I do. They are TOO KIND.

Sam
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