I would be agreeable...Bush has had positive points and negative points. The lack of any real attempt to build the border fence...makes the administration look foolish. This stimulus package stuff this year? A major joke...which I doubt does anything but fluff up Wal-Mart and help buy more Chinese products. The safety of America? Well....tons of foreign students on our soil....from China and Russia...and Arab countries...doesn’t sound like a safe practice to me.
I’m not sure what the build Bush up effort is worth. The guy is indefensible. You can take just about any subject that he is lauded for, and see light on the other side, the defense is so flimsey.
On the ICC for instance, he sat on his hands for something like 15 months until there were nearly all the nations signed on that needed to, before he came out against the plan and cancelled out Clinton’s signature to join. What did that do to convince other nations not to sign on.
He should have been working on this from day one, trying to keep our allies from joining. He didn’t.
He supposedly made a lot of noise after he finally noticed what was going on, but that was woefully inadequate. He abdicated any leadership role whatsoever until after the fact.
This is the way it goes. You’ll see folks say Bush kept us out. Actually Clinton signed us on in 2001, the last day or so he was in office. That’s all the ICC required.
In 2005 McCain stated he wanted us to join the ICC. Now that it’s a reality, we’ll sooner or later join. The way you stop this stuff is by nipping it in the bud. At least that’s what a real leader would do.