Will bush end his days in bitter isolation and madness? I hope so.

[Philosoraptor]

They say he's talking to the paintings on the walls over there at the white house, all his buddies are leaving him, rats abandoning him to his ship of state. He knows they are going to take away all his war toys and call him a bad boy and it's starting to mess with his teeny tiny brain.

He is not strong mentally, but cowardly and childish, he hasn't got the brains or the guts to handle the next two years of lame duckiness.

All the experts and historians agree, he's the worst ever, and that will be his legacy, that's got to wear on the poor boob's head, having once been referred to as our greatest president ever by his millions of idiot supporters.

I just WISH I was a fly on the white house wall to watch his slow torturous fall from grace, and his descent in his well deserved hell of shame and madness.

[ixion]

1. If you've ever watch Oliver Stone's 'Nixon'

I hope it's something just like that. ;-)

[Journeyman]

4. I was in Minot in those days, on the SAC base . . .

and witnessed the world go to DefCon 3 in an insane effort to feed Dick Nixon's paranoia. That was in the fall of 1973, during the Israeli-Syrian tank battles of the October War.

I'm going to guess you've never seen a SAC base gear up for war, never heard the commanders deploy missiles to ready, never witnessed waves of B-52 crews grab gear and head to the tarmac.

It's not a movie and it's nothing to hope for. Years later, Kissinger said Nixon was drunk that night.

No, nothing to hope for at all.

I learned one lesson from it all: In the nuclear age, the difference between the home front and the front lines is only a sense of perception. If you know we're going to war, you're in it. And if you don't know, you're still in it.

[whistle]

5. Also, "The Madness of King George"

<snip>
The Madness of King George
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Madness of King George is a 1994 film. It was directed by Nicholas Hytner and adapted by Alan Bennett from his play The Madness of George III. Bennett refused to sanction a film version unless Hawthorne was given first refusal for the title role after having a highly acclaimed performance in the theatre.

The film tells the story of King George III's deteriorating mental health, and the equally declining relationship between him and his son, the Prince of Wales, particularly focusing on the period around the Regency Crisis of 1788. Modern medicine has suggested that the King's symptoms were the result of porphyria.

It stars Nigel Hawthorne as George III, Helen Mirren as Queen Charlotte, Ian Holm as Dr. Willis, Rupert Graves as Greville, Amanda Donohoe as Lady Pembroke, Rupert Everett as the Prince of Wales, Julian Rhind-Tutt as the Duke of York, Julian Wadham as George III's Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, and Jim Carter as Whig MP Charles James Fox.

It won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Nigel Hawthorne), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Helen Mirren) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. <MORE>

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

[izzie]

2. Well lots of people have to give up power and make out fine.

It seems to be the ones that always 'know' they are right that have the trouble. Ex-kings were really pretty sad people and seemed to think they would be asked back as they were sure they were right. Maybe the English had it right, send them to an island.

[Philosoraptor]

3. Napoleape

He will forever be referred to as the standard of terrible leaders, the lowest of all politicians in history, the standard for shameful abuse of power and incompetence.

What a legacy. He will be banished in the public eye, and no luxury will make it any easier for him. He's the most hated man on earth right now, but be nice I guess.

[PurpleChez]

7. Napoleape?

I'm just glad that he is young enough and presumably healthy enough that he may have many, many years ahead of him as the worst president ever and the most hated man in the world. Fuck him.

[izzie]

9. Not so sure he was not just ahead of his times.

The thoughts with one money exchange and his new laws had some good points. The way he went at it was what was so far off. Interesting man. I always have a thing about just who is a leader and who just gets in front of the pack. He seemed to be a leader but the pack was not with him. Took 200 more years to see some of what he thought was good. It is like how our constitution has moved around the world. It seems to have got to people but force it on to them has worked badly. It does seem people like to rule them self.

[Frank Cannon]

6. I only hope they've taken the "football" away from him

and replaced it with a Nerf football.

The dumbass would never know the difference.

[GeorgeGist]

8. Your philosophy...

is painful... be careful what you WISH for.

[UTUSN]

10. Neh, he's a pschopath. Experience makes NO dent in him. n/t

[gratuitous]

11. Isolated? Almost certainly

But bitter and insane? Well, no brains, no pains, as the saying goes. I don't think Dubya has the mental firepower for self-examination. And his family has the money it takes to shield him from every bad little thing. While former presidents such as Nixon, Carter, the first Bush and Clinton appear from time to time to comment on current events, other folks like Ford and Reagan spent their post-presidential time away from the political scene. I think Bush the Younger will be in that vein, and there aren't going to be too many journalists who will seek out his "wisdom" on events after he's finally out of the Oval Office.

[Philosoraptor]

13. He'll be the worst ex president in history.

[yojon]

12. He has 100,000 acres in Paraguay

to avoid a one way trip to the Hague. He can buy lots of Paraguayan beer and senoritas.