Headline: Lonely and lame, Bush agonises over legacy

[Kadie]

Lonely and lame, Bush agonises over legacy


· President avoids limelight after Libby backlash
· Republican ally withdraws support over Iraq

Ewen MacAskill in Washington
Saturday July 7, 2007
The Guardian


President George Bush turned 61 yesterday but he had little to celebrate at the end of a week in which his isolation has been exposed as never before.
Laura Bush held an early family party for him on Wednesday, to which a few professional golfers were also invited, and on Thursday the president made a rare outing to watch a baseball game. But these few birthday celebrations apart, it has been a relentless week for the US president.

A backlash against his decision on Monday to commute the jail sentence of the former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby was followed on Thursday by the withdrawal of support for his Iraq strategy by Pete Domenici, a Republican senator for 35 years. The loss of such a loyal senator is ominous for Mr Bush's war plans.

More defections are expected, and Mr Bush cuts a lonely figure, holed up in the White House fretting over his legacy.

Professor Robert Dallek, author of several books about the presidency, said that while it was not unusual for a president to limp to the end of his term as a lame duck, he saw Mr Bush as a particularly pronounced case. "If you are looking at defeat, no one wants to be associated with the person responsible. This is the case with Bush. You do not see his party rally round. He has united opinion against him and it makes for a lonely, isolated position," Prof Dallek said. "Once a president loses trust, he cannot govern effectively."

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[TahitiNut]

1. "Now watch this drive!"

The psychopathic bastard isn't capable of being concerned with anyone but himself. :grr:

[jaysunb]

11. Amen...

n/t

[Cha]

28. Arrogant asshole can

reminisce on the glory days.

[malaise]

2. Not a lame duck

a cooked goose. :D

[Vincardog]

3. jr could never govern effectively all he ever could do was loot and steal It is a family tradition

[loyalkydem]

4. makes sense

look at how many of his people are jumping ship. Being a Bush man isn't so popular any more. But I hope the voters remember what they got when they voted these bastards in.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. Sounds like Nixon in his last days in the WH.

[Botany]

6. must be awful for him

[Cha]

29. Poor things!

All those magnificent beings shattered by greed and an unholy alliance for oil.

[stevedeshazer]

7. Boo Fucking Hoo

[Double T]

8. "Once a president loses trust, he cannot govern effectively.".........

bushco needs to do the right thing and resign, effective immediately.

[durtee librul]

12. Well that would be a true statement if

lil boots ever did govern effectively....however since he never did, it's a moot point.

So lil boots is lonely and dejected and limp - has anyone called Gannon/Guckert Escort Service for limp leaders lately? (course not that we would ever know about it since the visitor logs are all top secret now and only on as 'need to know'basis.)

[BuyingThyme]

9. I've never understood the concept of legacy.

I figure if you have to work at your legacy, it's not much of a legacy.

[Purveyor]

10. Scary as hell as this man is at his most dangerous now that he has nothing to lose.

Be afraid, be very afraid...

[durtee librul]

14. yep....he'll take one last swipe at all of us

for 'not liking' him...just watch.

[katsy]

18. You got that right. nt

[BlueIris]

25. And how. nt

[Edweird]

13. He's certainly earned it, and much more.

[Grandrose]

15. "bottom feeder"...indeed!

But Prof Dallek remains unimpressed. Rating the worst presidents, he said: "Hoover was a disaster. Warren Harding rates very low in the pantheon of presidents and it is likely that Bush will be seen as a bottom feeder."
:rofl: :kick:

[Solly Mack]

16. Bush isn't fretting over anything much less his legacy

So-called GOP loyalists want to be re-elected. They also want to give the impression that the party as a whole isn't grounded in Bush - but they're not exactly looking to hold him accountable - just hoping to wave the blame and the stench away from themselves.

If it's Bush - the man - then it isn't conservative policy - it isn't the GOP itself. And they have been preparing for this blame game for a long time now.

To be lonely (with his choices) or isolated(by his choices), Bush would have to give a damn what people thought of him...and he doesn't.

Has Rove abandoned him? Hughes? Have any of his Texas loyalists completely left his side?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

17. Perhaps if he fretted about the war

or the economy
or global warming
or gasoline prices
or any other of a thousand things he's responsible for that he's utterly and completely ignored over the course of the last six years of his reign of terra

Po' little boy and his "legacy".

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[kurth]

19. The sociopath doesn't agonize over a damn thing

Wishful thinking.

[candice]

20. He does have a legacy--the worst President in American history.

Shrub is a product of Karl Rove's ambitions and his family's position. Had Rove been richer and better looking, he would have run for office.
Competence or public interest were never issues. Had he the slightest bit of integrity he would have demanded a recount in Florida (or course Jeb and Katherine Harris had already pulled most of the strings. Didn't you have a sense of dread during that month in which he would pop out in front of flags and announce that he had won, clueless as to what was happening?

[Old and In the Way]

21. Cry me a river.

He should have thought about that 7 years ago.

[roamer65]

22. How soon b4 he's drunk and talking to Bill Clinton's portrait in the WH?

"They look at you and they seewhat they want to be, they see me and they see what they are..."

:rofl:


I wish the absolute most horrible birthday to that son of a bitch.

[riderinthestorm]

23. Bullshit. W doesn't give a shit about legacy, he's all about BFEE

and extending the "family's honor" in global transactions/criminality. As a criminal enterprise, GW Bush has upheld the family honor and taken it to a new low. He has certainly earned street cred as a first-class-thug.

This article is all about trying to "humanize" Bush and paint him as some kind of empathetic character when instead he is a delusional sociopath just like all the rest of the oligarchic monopolists. I can't believe any DU'er would fall for such a schmuck article - GW Bush doesn't care about the proletariat, or what they may think about his "legacy". He is all about how well he performed in raping international institutions, manipulating global systems and impacting transcontinental trade. And he is especially concerned with how well he gamed the system and wasn't caught. At these types of games, GW Bush's legacy amongst the crowd that HE cares about is A+++ plus.

[spartan61]

24. Lonely and lame, Bush agonises over legacy

Why doesn't he agonize over all the dead and wounded soldiers and Marines instead of his legacy? It's always just about him, isn't it?

[FloridaJudy]

26. How soon before he decides

that it's all Clenis' fault? Sounds like a lapsed alkie sitting on the pity pot to me.
:nopity:

[cascadiance]

27. Tomorrow's 07/07/07... That was my predicted downfall date from our earlier pool...

Kind of the opposite of 6/6/6...

I knew his birthday was around this time. So was Cindy Sheehan's. As well as Jimmy Carter's wedding anniversary... Perhaps if I "wish I may, wish I might, see him resign after the end of tonight!"

[TexasThoughtCriminal]

30. Will Daddy bail him out again?

"Waaahhhh, it's not fun anymore. Rescue me again, Daddy!!"

[jgraz]

31. Jesus, you guys are harsh. Can't you show some simple human compassion for your fellow man?

Just kidding -- fuck that little worm.

Here's hoping he gets to experience some true agony before the end of his miserable existence.

[SeattleGirl]

32. Hey George. If you are so worried about your fucking legacy, perhaps

you should have been a better President!!!!!!

Since you are incapable of that, however, then I just have this to say: FUCK YOU!