Even to his defenders, Bush's legacy is 'debatable'

[babylonsister]

Even to his defenders, Bush's legacy is 'debatable'

By David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON — George W. Bush was supposed to be a president schooled in consensus building and tough, effective management.

However, the first chief executive with a master's in business administration — from Harvard, no less, and the son of a president known for his foreign-policy expertise — is leaving President-elect Barack Obama a nation that's arguably in the worst shape since Herbert Hoover left Franklin Roosevelt the Great Depression and a world in which fascism was on the march 76 years ago.

"Obama gets Pearl Harbor and the Depression all rolled into one," said Gleaves Whitney, the director of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies in Grand Rapids, Mich.

While scholars estimate that it takes at least a generation before a president's legacy can be analyzed objectively, many already are unflinching in their assessment of Bush.

The 43rd president presided over a "free-for-all in which powerful insiders . . . have played roles as policy entrepreneurs," said Karen Hult, a presidential expert at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.

"We can certainly talk about his remarkably sloppy decision-making process. That did have consequences," added George Edwards, a presidential scholar at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

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[HughBeaumont]

1. Boy, if this doesn't win the "No shit Sherlock" award.

Legacy?

Imperial Presidencies Cripple your Grandchildren.

Mark and Remember, Dumberica. Never put a neo-clown in the White House again.

[babylonsister]

2. I like this title better myself-same article...

http://www.freep.com/article/20090104/NEWS07/901040400

Scholars unflinching in negative assessment of Bush's legacy

[opihimoimoi]

3. The TRUTH will Prevail...Bush was a Collosal Fuckup....still is...he is

an utter Failure...

Unprepared,

Uninterested,

Arrogant,

Lazy,

Myopic,

Bigot,

and worse of all...Apathetic...no Empathy at all....


He is the Ultimate ASSHOLE we all love to Hate....

Not a Solver...more of a Problem maker...a true NPD

[Paladin]

4. You KNOW Bush Is In Deep Shit, When Somebody From Texas A&M Trashes Him.

For years he's been regarded as some sort of deity on that right-wing campus.....

[babylonsister]

5. And it's downhill from here for this worthless person. Why did

it take so long for people to wake up? There's the travesty.

[HughBeaumont]

6. You're fishing for travesties . . .

. . . how about 55-57 million (not sure of the number, but it's pretty frightening) people who voted for a cranky bastard whose campaign was more or less the same Bewsh-shit that got us into this mess in the first place, and his running mate that would barely qualify as a Burger King manager, much less the second-highest office in the land?

I mean, Sarah PALIN? The woman speaks in talking points, she's a tabloid publisher's dream candidate and she can't seem to take reign of her own damned family, much less her state.

Is this not a neon sign stating we no longer take Presidential elections seriously?

Sarah Palin.

56 million people.

Astounding.

[babylonsister]

7. There's no accounting for

brains, party loyalty, racism, or even people voting against their best interests in these United States.
Yes, that is (another) travesty to add to the list.