The Legacy of George W. Bush's Presidency »
Posted By Aidenag 1 year, 5 months ago in NewsA look At The Country He Inherited, And The Country He Leaves Behind.
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Shadowolf1 year, 5 months ago
One of his true legacies...nobody in any country around the world will be able to trust the American government for decades to come.
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Will13131 year, 5 months ago
so you prefer the government operate in secret... Nixon would have loved you.....
the president does have power.. but not dictatorial powers...
neither thing you site are GOOD things in the minds of freedom loving individual...
might I suggest North Korea....or Iran... as a place you might wish to reside...
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jaspersneed1 year, 5 months ago
"...he taught the news media to mind their own damn business. "
And precisely what do you believe IS the "business" of the news media?
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NoSpinDave1 year, 5 months ago
YOU PEOPLE are pathetic. How can I take a story on the Bush presidency seriously when it comes from "Dems.Gov". This cant be partisan can it? Naaa, cant be.
LIBERAL MUMBO JUMBO!!!
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truth821 year, 4 months ago
Could someone please make a decent arguement about the legacy of President George W. Bush instead of speaking out of emotions and blah,blah, blah..
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Klarissa1 year, 5 months ago
The EU countries are having problems with Muslim riots and bombers, they are reading the telephone calls and email to keep their countries safe.
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Spadecaller1 year, 5 months ago
Behind that chart of shame are the lives of millions who have suffered from king George's malfeacance.
The deaths of our sons and daughers in Iraq, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees and casaulties, our wounded veterans without adequate healtchare, the impoverishment of the middle class and the poor, the loss of real jobs to unfair trade, the importing of unsafe products, the increasing cost of poor quality food, the burdensome cost of gas, a 3rd pending war with Iran, and the exploitation of the media and government by Bush's corporate cronies...isn't that enough of a legacy? I wish it was.
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donald511 year, 5 months ago
Spade, the chart needs to include the fact that the disparity between the ultrarich and the poor increased to the highest since the government started keeping the data!
Also needs to include foreignors dead as you mentioned, 600,000 plus in Iraq alone!
How about the only pres to say it doesn't matter if he gets the greatest terrorist responsible for over 3000 American deaths... or the pres to let the greatest black marketeer of nuclear technology to be pardoned (Kahn of Pakistan)?
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ameliog1 year, 5 months ago
Once you experience his much-anticipated presidential library and take in the complete and unvarnished presentation of the man, all these present criticisms will be like trivial nuisances. A clean new building, good HVAC and lighting around exhibits, and you'll have a whole new impression. Be patient; it'll be open before you know it.
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BravoSierra1 year, 5 months ago
I hope they find the evidence that the American people will finally consider adequate to prosecute the man for crimes against the Constitution and the people of the United States in that library. Though it may be empty given the tendency of the Bush-ites to destroy all the evidence of their malfeasance.
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hamy1 year, 5 months ago
And how wonderful that his library will have just as many historical mistakes and misinterpretations as his speeches.
What a horrid failure. The blood of millions of both Americans and other human beings and animals stain both Bush administrations.
Shame on them. Shame on their entire family.
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toph19731 year, 5 months ago
What makes me over more upset is the people that decided this imbecile was worthy to vote in not only once but second time.
The British paper put it so well when it said, "How can 65 million american be so Stupid?" I wonder that as well. The Bush administration really took the idea of dumbing down the populace to a whole new level. It worked famously. Unfortunately, I have lost a lot of respect for my fellow Americans.
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 5 months ago
The only legacy Bush has is the outright lies and thievry he contrived.
His complete and utter failure to identify and solve the nations slide into a moral stupor is what he should be remembered for.
He lacks the decency of a gentleman and has the morals of the devil.
Yes he is a legend in his own mind. Albeit a sick and warped mind.
His picture should be in the dictionaries as the explanation of failure. He should lose all benefits and be imprisoned for his willfull crimes against humanity.
This is no president. This is failure on a pedastal of self indulgence and moral inadequacies.
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BravoSierra1 year, 5 months ago
Yes, you need to go on. The people of the US need to hear every accusation and crime against them committed by this man in every venue possible.
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Amazing11 year, 5 months ago
Legacy? How about a Hall of Shame? He and his buddies should be ridden out of town on a rail, their assets siezed and every signing statement burned in the middle of the White House Lawn.
Then, indict and imprison him. I suggest Gitmo as the preferred location.
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texangelwings1 year, 5 months ago
Legacy???
GW will never, in his own mind ever see his own legacy as anything other than the best job of any President past. I truely believe that GW has always had his messes cleaned up for him, all his life. He has never been held accountable for his choices.
GW makes Nixon look like a angel!
Thanks Mark!
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NelsonR1 year, 5 months ago
I will come back to a tired old line but it is relevant,
The only Legacy Bush will live is a multi million dollar library that I sincerely believe will be pelted with rotten eggs plus having minimal attendance.
To think anyone could arrive at any good this president has accomplished for America is unthinkable.
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ProudBlueTexan1 year, 5 months ago
Can you imagine the round-the-clock security that will be in place while they build the thing? Remember the Bastille!!!
Viva la Constitution!!!
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Raiderwall1 year, 5 months ago
It's totally unfathomable that there are still Bush supporters. The only legacy of GWB is what not to do as President.
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Obaku1 year, 5 months ago
Too tired to get all the required propaganda points in?
RIP, GOP.
Nixon - liar, crook.
Reagan - Bigger liar, too senile to be much of a crook himself, but surrounded by crooks and fools.
GHW Bush - Bad liar, but at least he had enough sense not to occupy Iraq. Still managed to ruin the economy though.
'W' - the biggest liar the White House has ever seen, not just an ordinary crook, but a thief and a fraud on a scale never before imagined. Incompetent, illiterate, amoral and lazy. So evil even the Mob won't do business with him.
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kctrixter1 year, 5 months ago
Yes I was hoping he would turn out to be a good president, even though I didn't vote for him. Do you really think people wanted to see the U.S. go into the toilet, I don't know anyone that petty
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NoWayMan1 year, 5 months ago
so, you're saying the dems were wallowing in old ideas during those eight years of record surpluses and record growth just before bush came along?
riiiiiiight.
sounds like someone's out of oxycontin.
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ETproductions1 year, 5 months ago
Bona Fide worst president in the history of this country.
Boosted the divide between extreme rich and all others.
Failed at capturing Bin Laden, Mullah Omar and all the key figures of the Taliban leadership, making the USA less safe.
Launched a disastrous and uncncessary, illegal 2 trillion dollar war in Iraq, making the USA less safe.
Thrashed the US Constitution.
Killed Habeas Corpus, a right established in the Magna Carta IN 1297.
Katrina.
Dubai Ports.
As chief law enforcement officer, ignored the rule of law. His VICE president was quoted as saying that "The Constitution is just a God-damned piece of paper."
Violated treaties that form the law of the land. Illegally spied on American Citizens. Illegally used torture as a form of interrogation.
Blew through the Clinton surplus and ran up 5 trillion dollars in debt and a 250 billion dollar deficit.
Presided over the most massive increase in Government in history.
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ProudBlueTexan1 year, 5 months ago
Seems to me like grounds for impeachment. What do you think?
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Will13131 year, 5 months ago
HUNG... WOULD BE BETTER.. .. cell phone video just like Saddam... circulating on the internet...
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BB641 year, 5 months ago
Well Walden, I don't fully agree. What we the conservatives are not fond of is the over regulation or over taxation we see every day. The one statement that always scares the hell out of me is, "Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to help." When that happens, I've learned what ever we're doing will cost us more money, be less productive and in the long run will be an utter failure 99% of the time. War on Poverty, Non-Proliferation Act, War on Drugs, Katrina Aid Plan and the like. All were started with the best intentions but all ended in failure. Sometimes those we were supposed to help couldn't even help themselves. Others it was too complex a plan to every really handle. More often than not the government really is the problem.
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Charlson1 year, 5 months ago
I can't add anything else to the litany of Bush's failures. You folks have said it all.
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jarheadmoron1 year, 5 months ago
This jerk off will go down in history as one of the WORST presidents ever FRAUDULENTLY elected into office. He and his CRIMINAL CABINET have done NOTHING but LIE to the American people and the World. They're COWARDS in that they will ONLY attack a defenseless, Third World country instead of taking on a REAL THREAT to the USA like N Korea or Iran. But when you look back in time you see that EVERY Repube administration since Eisenhower has been rife with ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES, FELONS, and in EVERY INSTANCE those fiscal Repube GENIUSES have left this country BANKRUPT! Yeah, they're the ONLY party that will protect America and get us on the right track financially. Yeah right, you worthless bastards.
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cleare1 year, 5 months ago
yes the world changed on 9/11, and proved the shrub completely inadequate. changed again with katrina, again totally inadequate response.
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donald511 year, 5 months ago
simon, right out of he Right wing propaganda spin machine handbook... you Bush sycophant! You fools just have to creat excuses for your un-American behavior!
What is your excuse for Dumya saying he doesn't even care if OBL is caught now?
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rathskeller1 year, 5 months ago
I am hopeful that at least one good thing will come from the legacy of this Preznit...From now on, when one goes to the voting booth, we choose the best and brightest amongst us, not whom we most like or would feel comfortable having a beer with. The United States has problems and needs problem solver in charge, surrounded by other problem solvers. We don't need another (I'll be kind) average mind surrounded with average minded cronies addressing our problems. We need the best and the brightest...
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cleare1 year, 5 months ago
you must have been on the receiving end of some of that. the rest of us haven't been. in fact, i'll argue that the increase came as a result of more of our sweat, blood and tears. the american worker is doing more and more with less and less and are the last to profit from all this hard work.
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Will13131 year, 5 months ago
2629.21 ..January 21,1991... first day of Clinton administration
10,587.59 .. Last day of Clinton Administration
Increase in 8 years 402%...
your example....
14% increase.. and when factored in the dollar decline and the rate of inflation.. you're IN THE HOLE about 40%.....
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bigG1 year, 5 months ago
uuuh - bill2936 - when adjusted for inflation the DOW is LOWER than when Clinton left office. Same goes for the broader index(S&P 500). The NASDAQ(techs, etc) is lower period.
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