With the inauguration of President-Elect, Barack Obama, coming up on January 20th, we cannot help but look back at the legacy President Bush will be leaving behind. After reading this article on Time.com, I felt despondent and discontented with the response a vast majority of our country is promoting regarding his presidency. Instead of looking at the positive, even President Bush himself is being forced to focus on the negative. I made a mental list of every major event which occurred during his 2 terms in office, and I would love to know exactly what all of the people bashing him would have done differently...and I would like to see if the drastically different outcomes they proclaim, would really materialize. I am a Republican, I voted for Bush, and even though I may not agree with every decision he made, at least he respected his wife enough to keep his pants on while in office...Excerpt from the article:
"In the current Administration's waning days, Americans have struggled to find a single word that would encapsulate history's judgment on the two-term presidency of
George W. Bush. The left has offered disastrous, citing the damage they see inflicted on the country by Bush's foreign policy and economic stewardship. The right has countered with secure, arguing that another 9/11 was prevented by Bush's taking the fight to terrorists at home and abroad. But in what the White House says will be his final press conference on Monday, President Bush himself provided the word everyone has been looking for: disappointment."
2 comments:
I appreciate his ability to self-criticize, but hate that he's going down this road.
And, why isn't anyone starting on Obama and his latest:
“I want to be realistic here, not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the pace we had hoped,” Obama said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” program broadcast this morning. “Everybody’s going to have to give.”
Promises already broken. Were we not in the same position today as we were during the campaign? Must have just been all talk.
And, I totally agree.....will never understand how a man like Clionton can be so favored. We are a shameless society.
This really hit a nerve with me today. It will be very interesting to see how many of his so called promises he'll be able to keep.
As for Clinton...He disgusts me. Was he a great President, yes. Was he a respectable person, in my opinion, no.
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