History: We Misunderestimated Bush

[DesertFox]

As he leaves the White House at the end of his second term, the President has a poll rating of only 23 per cent, and is widely disliked and even despised. His foreign policy has been judged a failure, especially in view of the long, painful, costly war that he declared, which is still not over.

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History may place President Bush in a far better light than
he currently enjoys. Or, it may rank him with Wyatt_Junker
He doesn't get on with his own party's presidential candidate, who is clearly distancing himself, and had lost many of his closest friends and staff to scandals and forced resignations. The New Republic, a hugely influential political magazine, writes that his historical reputation will be as bad as that of President Harding, the disastrous president of the Great Depression.

I am writing, of course, about Harry S Truman, generally regarded today as one of the greatest of all the 43 presidents, and the man who set the United States on the course that ended decades later in the defeat of Communism.

If the West wins the modern counterpart of that struggle, the War Against Terror, historians will look back in amazement at the present unpopularity of George W Bush, and marvel at it quite as much as we now marvel at the 67 per cent disapproval rates for Truman throughout 1952.

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[DesertFox]

Mad as I am at Bush, I have tremendous respect for the man. He has kept his equanimity despite the hostility of the press, the treason of his own bureaucracies at State and the CIA, and the shenanigans of such as Scott McClellan.

[DesertFox]

From the article: ... four great facts will emerge that will place Bush in a far better light than he currently enjoys.

The overthrow and execution of a foul tyrant, Saddam Hussein; the liberation of the Afghan people from the Taliban; the smashing of the terrorist networks of al-Qa'eda in that country and elsewhere and, finally, the protection of the American people from any further atrocities on US soil since 9/11, is a legacy of which to be proud.

... these great achievements have been won at a cost in human life a fraction the size of any past world-historical struggle of this magnitude.

[Wolfcounsel]

I have zero respect for the public servant who tried to mess with our border security, and tried to make it like a sieve for cockroaches.:flame:

[DesertFox]

He did some good and some bad. I respect him for the good and vilify him for the bad. He has both coming, IMO.

[MSGT]

Mad as I am at Bush, I have tremendous respect for the man. He has kept his equanimity despite the hostility of the press, the treason of his own bureaucracies at State and the CIA, and the shenanigans of such as Scott McClellan.Don't forget Jim Jeffords, O. Snowe, J. Mccain, A. Spector, L. Chaffee and the other Rinos that cut his throat at every opportunity.

[DesertFox]

Okay.







:D

[Naturalized-Texan]

I have often said, and I'll say it again: George W. Bush will go down in history as one of our greatest presidents.

[Taylor1]

N-T exactly. He's fighting the very people who are degrading europe and will adventually turn that un-filled hole into a filled one as TR said I believe.

[Beowulf]

For all of his faults, W has one trait that I greatly respect:

"He means what he says, he says what he means."

I often don't agree with him but I give some credit to someone who sticks to their guns despite what others think. Why? I'm very much the same way.