History will remember President Bush well.
And btw, it will comment on just how screwed up the mainstream media was during the past eight years.
That will be one of the ‘big things’ history discusses and writes papers about for the next couple of centuries.
That won’t be pretty, but it will be accurate, unlike say CBS or NBC news.
I hope and pray you are correct. Despite the missteps, I have loved President Bush and his absolute respect for the job and its trappings. His emotion and honesty have always been apparent toward all members of our military. He is a decent, honorable man who “re-elevated” the status of the office after the despicable previous eight years.
I have to think that today's media will eventually come to be seen in the same negative light as the "yellow journalists" that brought us the Spanish American war.
More than anything else, I think the long-term view of Bush's presidency will be shaped by its response to Islamism.
Mr. Bush faced the same sort of decisions that Neville Chamberlain did; and his decision could not have been more different from that of Mr. Chamberlain.
We need to be very clear about the fact that the Islamists are not going way anytime soon. They will continue in their violent ways, and they will probably even gain a few victories.
But in responding aggressively to Islamic terrorism, Bush set the tone for how the rest of the world will respond to terror; and he showed that it can be defeated. Unlike Nazi Germany, which was allowed to spread unchecked, the consequences of Mr. Bush's strategy has caused Islamist to become unwelcome even on their home ground. They don't have any unhindered breeding grounds.
Obama's naivete and arrogance can (and probably will) screw some things up pretty badly; but his mistakes will be judged against what Bush has done -- and will be corrected as best as possible by reverting to Bush's approach. Obama's successes (if any) will be judged in relation to how they diverged from or agreed with what Bush has put in place.
That's as good a working definition of "success" as one is likely to find in the real world.
I think not. The coming Hispanic majority in the country will certainly be a monument to his catastrophic presidency. Perhaps when their history of the 'reconquista' is written they will think of him as sort of their founding father. Perhaps their history will look kindly upon him.
Americans should have a very different view of him.
He has changed the demographic make up of this country forever. We now have a huge and growing population of people from the third world that are going out re-produce Americans and will be a huge voting block for the democratic party. As these people learn more and more that they can tax the rich (meaning the indigenous people who have wealth) they will do so. The government will be come even larger than it is now (hard to imagine). Bush ignored his constitutional duties to protect our border. In fact he encouraged the invasion (is that kind what traitors do?) He then sought to legalize millions of people who flooded into the country under his watch. That would have finished off the GOP. Well, actually that might be a good thing. Perhaps the GOP needs to die so we can have a conservative party again.
The debt our grandchildren will have from Jorge will also be an achievement that it will be hard to forget.
The nationalization of industry that Bush has pushed for is something that leftists in Latin American only dream of. Frankly, aside for Roberts and Alito (remember that he wanted Harriet Myers) there is very little that Bush did that was either conservative or successful. He could justly be called the most left-wing president in American history. He is expanded government power unlike anyone since his fellow catastrophic Texan Johnson.
I regret my votes for him more than most things. He and his fellow neoconservatives have destroyed what Goldwater, Nixon and Reagan built. May he go back to Texas and never be heard from again.