Posted on 12/01/2008 5:07:30 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush says history will judge him, but he is getting his own crack first. Bush is using his final 50 days in office to tout his legacy, hoping to leave a lasting impression of overshadowed progress. On Monday, World AIDS Day, Bush was heralded for his leadership in fighting the disease, a point that even his Democratic critics readily concede.
The anti-AIDS program Bush championed in 2003 has delivered lifesaving medicine to more than 2 million people in five years, up from 50,000 people before it began. Many of those helped live in impoverished sub-Saharan Africa, where AIDS is the leading killer.
"I would hope that when it's all said and done, people say, `This is a guy who showed up to solve problems,'" Bush said at a global health forum. "And when you have somebody say there's a pandemic that you can help, and you do nothing about it, then you have frankly disgraced the office."
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Thank you George W. Bush for the safety you have provided us.
He needed to have spent more time paying attention to the spending and the economy as well as being harder on the WOT. Also, making sure we have better leaders in the military than those who a shocked as the aggressiveness of pirates.
I rather wish he’d considered his legacy somewhat sooner than the last 50 days.
He’s doing a terrific job of beating himself up lately.
Also trashing Conservative principles in the process. Just GO AWAY quietly!
“Touting a legacy”, now that is a really ambitious idea for GWB to pursue. But mostly sheer folly! Seward’s Folly was AK, Bush’s folly is _____.
Presidential libraries to boycott:
Carter
Clinton
GWB
Oprah’s Choice
Compean and Ramos, and “See you at the signing.”
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yeah , what you said....
GWB’s folly is “Justice” Harriet Miers.
Dear George W....
You really went out of your way to ignor some very glaring problems. Those Border Patrol Agents need to be addressed. It is shameful to see the way they have been treated.
Sincerely
Voter with a memory.
Are you aware of GWB’s friendship with the prosecutor of the border patrol agents? He has a vested interest in seeing them incarcerated.
Good Luck!
With the economic crisis, Bush’s legacy will be rival Herbert Hoovers.
He hopes his legacy is that he sent a catrillion jillion of our dollars to fight a disease on a foreign continent while our own economy sank in the toilet, our government got bigger and Compean and Ramos rot in prison? Things that make you go “huh??”
Just go on home, son...
History will sort it all out...
For better or worse...
Presidents wholly recognize that legacies are not created or bolstered in the final three months. They also believe, rightly, that it is unseemly and unnecessarily (and ineffectually) activist to try to get anything accomplished in the waning days of the administration. So every president goes on a farewell tour, speaking to friendly crowds, and bringing up the highlights of their tenure. There is absolutely nothing to see here.
Clinton was quite possibly the closest to actually impacting his legacy in the final days, by pardoning people who didn't deserve it.
Heck, Ford's pardoning of Nixon was originally considered the ultimate black mark, and is now considered a reasoned act of "national healing". Let the historians decide.
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