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Topic: "Worst President Ever"
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jeff house
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posted 20 April 2006 05:27 PM
Historian Sean Wilentz reviews the Bush record: quote: Calamitous presidents, faced with enormous difficulties - Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Hoover and now Bush - have divided the nation, governed erratically and left the nation worse off. In each case, different factors contributed to the failure: disastrous domestic policies, foreign-policy blunders and military setbacks, executive misconduct, crises of credibility and public trust. Bush, however, is one of the rarities in presidential history: He has not only stumbled badly in every one of these key areas, he has also displayed a weakness common among the greatest presidential failures - an unswerving adherence to a simplistic ideology that abjures deviation from dogma as heresy, thus preventing any pragmatic adjustment to changing realities. Repeatedly, Bush has undone himself, a failing revealed in each major area of presidential performance.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042006J.shtml
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GT Snowracer
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posted 21 April 2006 01:37 PM
I love itGT
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jeff house
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posted 21 April 2006 04:44 PM
John Dean has a good take on the explanation by Bush that he's the Decider: quote: Recent events provide an especially good illustration of Bush's fateful - perhaps fatal - approach. Six generals who have served under Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld have called for his resignation - making a strong substantive case as to why he should resign. And they are not alone: Editorialists have also persuasively attacked Rumsfeld on the merits.Yet Bush's defense of Rumsfeld was entirely substance-free. Bush simply told reporters in the Rose Garden that Rumsfeld would stay because "I'm the decider and I decide what's best." He sounded much like a parent telling children how things would be: "I'm the Daddy, that's why." This, indeed, is how Bush sees the presidency, and it is a point of view that will cause him trouble.
http://writ.lp.findlaw.com/dean/20060421.html
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BlueBerry Pick'n
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posted 22 April 2006 02:38 AM
Indeedie: He's the Decider, but a Fascist, too.His ... family is mighty tight with the old Hitler regime BlueBerry Pick'n can be found @ ThisCanadian.com Silent Freedom is Freedom Silenced
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