Too early for evaluation!
President Bush was handed an economic recession from the Clinton years and then 9/11 which was a disasterous blow to an economy already in recession. Those NASDQ losses were in the 98-99 years.
The rest, the constant battering from the left and the media which was unconscionable will go down in history as a hideous example of out-of-control partisanship.
The “stolen” election which wasn’t, Katrina and the democrat Governor who had everything at her disposal on her command as governor and didn’t use it because she froze, and everything else incompetent in LA isn’t mentioned, I see.
Also not mentioned is the demise of a sacred tradition that politics stops at the water’s edge.
The democrats in Congress, Former President Bill Clinton, and others used the media in foreign countries to bash Bush to politicize their cause for the future.
President Bush’s presidency was unlucky. Everything that could have happened, did.
The current economic problems have their origins in the Clinton admin, although this admin helped it along.
I am glad he was there. He’ll be written as a good president, not great, but good for the times.
*In about 200 years....
You’re spot on. Some of Bush’s problems were self-inflicted, some was just bad luck, but most was a media hit-job that started the day he took office.
It’s impossible to tell how he’ll be viewed in 50 or 60 years, but one thing is certain; The hit-job will continue full-steam-ahead for the next 4 years or longer. Bush will be blamed for everything that goes wrong in Barry’s New Amerika. It is going to be very painful to watch.
In the few cases where people have asked me, as a history professor, to rate Bush, I tell them that two years into his successor’s term (at the time, didn’t know who it would be), George W. Bush, for all his faults, will be FONDLY remembered.
Bush is like Truman who left with very low poll ratings, Korea War was viewed as an unnecessary war and was refer as “Truman’s War”. By the mid 1970’s people revisited Truman and conclude he was a good President because he was the first to deal with the Soviet threat. The rise of a modern, prosperous and now democratic South Korea exonerates his decision and the sacrifice of the American soldiers.
And that I will never forgive the Democrats for doing! And Obama going to Berlin frikin' GERMANY and bashing the USA I will never forgive him for doing.
Your entire post was excellent!
When Bush failed to oppose RU 486 and spent like a drunkin sailor, he lost my confidence.
One thing I agree with Obama on — Iraqis should spend their surplus to rebuild their country.
Talk about ‘welfare’ — the Iraqis have become Welfare Queens extraordinaire.