"At the moment, Bush is entirely focused on his legacy. All he wants to talk about is his library."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Tina Brown: Bush's endless 'debacles' made him 'punch drunk'
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Wednesday November 19, 2008

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Tina_Brown_Bush_legacy_a_series_1119.html



As the last days of George W. Bush's presidency wind down, it is becoming clear that he expects to leave the urgent problems of his final months for the incoming Obama administration to sort out.

Tina Brown, editor of the journalism and celebrity gossip site, The Daily Beast, appeared on Tuesday's Rachel Maddow Show with guest host Alison Stewart to speculate about what might be going through Bush's mind.

"I do feel right now that he's very stunned," Brown suggested. "I think that the financial collapse was one debacle, one disaster that he honestly didn't anticipate. ... And so he has to recognize he's going out in a cloud of disaster. And I think that's really almost paralyzing him. I feel he's fading, he's becoming the invisible man as we look at him."

"At this point, Bush has had so many disasters on his watch," stated Brown, "that I honestly get the sense that this is not a president who's looking back in a mellow fashion on his presidency -- or even feeling that he has busy things to do -- so much as a president who's kind of punch-drunk, really, with a series of debacles which even he -- in his great sort of denial and his refusal to really accept his own failures -- has to accept at this point has been a, really a chapter of hideous accidents, if you want to be charitable about it."

"One of the things that I'm told at the moment," Brown noted, "is that Bush is entirely focused right now on his 'legacy.' ... All he really wants to talk about is his library, because he wants to build a legacy. But you know, quite honestly, one can only think of that library as almost like a Halloween house of horror ... from the Guantanamo room to the Abu Ghraib room to the Hurricane Katrina room."

Brown concluded by commenting with regard to Laura Bush's proposed memoirs that "Laura really wants to pop. Laura is fed up with being silent, and she will have things to say."

This video is from MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, broadcast Nov. 18, 2008: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Tina_Brown_Bush_legacy_a_series_1119.html

[Lerkfish]

1. Its kinda hard to gin up any sympathy for his "reputation" since it comes at the cost

of our blood, our money, and our future.

poor, poor, chimp. no one loves your torturing incompetent ass.

[Stuart G]

2. And who would pay to go into this libary??? Library of what???

[Contrary1]

3. Good. Let him talk about his Lieberry...

It will keep him occupied. Now, what can be done to distract Cheney?

[Marr]

4. Laura Bush won't say jack shit.

Miss Stepford will dutifully remain three paces behind her chosen nincompoop. It's not as if she's going to step out of their pseudo-aristocratic circle after leaving the White House, after all.

[nichomachus]

11. She will blame liberals and the "liberal media"

for attacking Dubya and she will blame the Dems in Congress for "obstruction."

If it hadn't been for those three, she will claim, Dubya's presidency would have been stellar.

[Ganja Ninja]

5. I can see it now ...

A library full of redacted documents. What a legacy.

[burythehatchet]

6. so many disasters on his watch

riiiiight, on his watch, he had nothing to do to cause them, right Tina?

[AndyA]

7. Fuck him! He can go straight to hell, which is where he belongs.

The man is a liar. A crook. He has no morals, no ethics, no scruples. He sacrificed every American so that his rich buddies could get richer.

He told us lies to start a war that has killed thousands of innocent troops.

He spied on us, broke the law, and then lied about it when he got caught.

He outed a CIA agent during a time of war like he was playing a fucking board game.

He stole one election, and had his Daddy's friends on the Supreme Court give him the job in another, despite losing the popular vote.

He trashed our economy, looted our treasury, and wasted millions of our tax dollars.

He appointed unqualified people to positions that cost American citizens their lives ("Yer doin' a heck of a job, there, Brownie...")

He ate cake and played guitar while New Orleans drowned, and while dead bodies floated in the streets to be eaten by rodents.

Legacy? Bush is concerned about his legacy? His legacy will be lies, death, and destruction. Adolph Fucking Hitler couldn't have a worse legacy if he tried!

Fuck you, Bush. Fuck you and your legacy. You have been the WORST PRESIDENT EVER.

[Beausoleil]

9. At least Hitler took himself out

I'm reminded of Ackroyd's Nixon, speaking to Lincoln's portrait: "Well, Abe, you were lucky. They shot you."

[opihimoimoi]

8. The First Dufus Legacy is the BUSH DEPRESSION which is DESCENDING ON AMERICA

Its the Bush Fuckup and the Depression will be named after him even tho it was the GOP who snuck him in there...winking and a smilin all the time...

He will bear the brunt of the Blame...it was his policies that weakened America Fiscal strength...from a hugh Surplus to record losses...his policies have been fucked from Day One...

He has displayed aggressive Losership like never seen in the longest time...He deserves the title of LOSERMAN and his DEPRESSION should be his lifetime and beyond .....LEGACY

[BB1]

10. Will the library be made out of those

funny little pictures, like they have at McDonalds?
(Yeah, that's right George, we call those icons.)

[GodlessBiker]

12. They haven't told him what a library is yet, have they? He's going to be disappointed.

Homer: What on Earth are you doing?
Lisa: Practicing tennis.
Homer: *That's* tennis? Oh, then what's the one where the chicks whale on each other?
Bart: Foxy boxing?
Homer: Yes! That's what I wanted.

[gratuitous]

13. "One disaster he honestly didn't anticipate"

Bull. Shit.

Bush knew that the economic house of cards was going to collapse. He just figured it would have the decency to wait a couple more months so that Obama and the Democrats could be blamed for all of it. Sometimes guests show up early.