W’s Christmas wish
By Brad on Nov 29, 2008 in America, Bush Administration, Historical, The President, Worse-Worser-Worst | comments(0)
“George W. Bush hopes history will see him as a president who liberated millions of Iraqis and Afghans, who worked towards peace and who never sold his soul for political ends,” reports AFP (via Breitbart.com).
“I’d like to be a president (known) as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace,” Bush said in excerpts of a recent interview released by the White House Friday.
“I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process. I came to Washington with a set of values, and I’m leaving with the same set of values.”
He may get his wish, but not necessarily exactly as he hopes for. He will certainly be remembered, but I doubt it will be a a great liberator or one he “helped achieve piece.” He may be right that his values haven’t changed since coming to Washington; unfortunately for the rest of us, those values should have been left at his home in Texas. Those values brought us arguably the worst presidency ever.
In a survey of 109 professional historians conducted last spring by George Mason University’s History News Network, 107 rated George W. Bush’s presidency a failure. Sixty-one percent concluded that his presidency is the worst in the nation’s history. Here are a few of the specific comments by some of these historians Continued
