Bush's Legacy

[Bankermane]

If he ever comes to Jackson, I'll throw my shoes at the ignorant "illegitimate child".

[mudsucker]

If he ever comes to Jackson, I'll throw my shoes at the ignorant "illegitimate child".

Not your Bruno Mali's?

[billjohnson]

My big problem with the "loans" to the auto industry is Chrysler. Hell, we bailed them out once before! Where is there incentive to stay straight and manage their business. They should have never received another dime. I don't care if they did emerge from virtual bankruptcy last time and paid it back, which we'll never know if they did. It was bad enough buying off the banks but the car industry should have not been helped. They are too big as it is! That is exactly their problem. There is a guy over in Georgia that is storing 15,000 cars for Hyundai on an old military base that has been closed and is collecting .65 per car per month. Dude used to run a junk yard and is now collecting 117k a year storing new cars for Hyundai. There are just entirely too many cars being built and they know it.

[crow]

President Bush made one mistake that has killed what would have been a pretty incredible legacy, especially in the aftermath of 9/11. Before a the US is called to go to war, there has to be either a strong moral reason or a strong and evident political reason. I know some will say the WMD's were a strong reason. Look, if you for one minute believe our intel agencies didn't know what the Iraq's had, you have your head in the sand. They knew! But, Pres. Bush had a hard on for Sadam, and was going to finish what his old man did not. Had he stayed focused on the Taliban and not gone into Iraq, he would be a hero to this day.

I am convinced that he was hungry for war, fed by a military that sees any conflict as proper and an opportunity to get the funding they should have anyway, and listened to folks who had personal and professional biases ahead of national concerns. Same thing happened to JFK and Vietnam. After the Cuban crisis, he decided he would show the Russians who was boss. After sending troops, he thought better of his decision and decided to pull out. It got him shot!

Katrina would not have been a blip on Bush's legacy; everyone knows what really happened there. Pure and simple, Iraq has spelled the doom of Bush and what would have been a much better than average tenure and put the Dems in a tremendously superiour position. I think it will take 12 years before se see another Rep. president or balanced congress. And, you will see a reduction in our military...not the extremes of the 70's, but significant.

This is one time I would truly enjoy being wrong!

[Deltaquack]

Iraq war.....a mistake? absolutely not. We only did what NATO didn't have the balls to do.....they want to be politically correct. Put Saddam in 90% of the countries in the world and he'd have been dead years ago. He had to be taken out....for whatever reasons that were given didn't matter....a reason was given just so we didn't have to say "hey, we just think it's a good idea to kill the sob."

Bush, doesn't have a lot of power...no president really does. It's the whole idea of checks and balances. To have a truly Democratic Gov't and society you have to have Republicans in charge of either the house or senate and the Democrats in charge of the other. What we'll have with Obama will be neither and that's why we'll be in trouble. Bush, didn't get us into the mess we're in. Most of the corporations out there did......it's all a roller coaster ride and will happen again in years to come. Most of society that knows nothing about how the gov't operates and won't take the time to investigate or think it out thoroughlye just want to put blame on someone and it happens to be the president. I don't think Bush has done a bad job at all. Put either one of the Democrats that ran against him in office and see what a cluster it would have been.

[tombstone]

worst president in the history of the USA...He will not be missed..

Don't worry, that is fixing to CHANGE. You ain't seen nothing yet

As I have said before, You people will be begging for 4 more years of freakin Jimmy Carter before this is over.

[MSDawg870]

There's one less crazy dictator in the world today.

Thank you Mr. President.

[Deltamud77]

I don't think people truly realize the groundwork that the Bush administration has laid for Obama in truly making this country's government just like France. People, we have the government buying out private businesses!!! Also, during the Bush administration we have seen eminent domain laws strengthened to the extent that the government can take your land and give/sell to a private entity as opposed to using it for government purposes such as infrastructure.

[JLT]

Please don't take offense, but I am convinced that nobody really knows anything. Only time will tell the future.

[TODO]

Please don't take offense, but I am convinced that nobody really knows anything. Only time will tell the future.

True. I truly do think Bush is a dumbass thou.

[jacksbuddy]

We, as Americans, have this unusual ability to hire the right person for the time. Historically, that is true, even when that person is elected by a less than majority of the popular people. Right now, it appears that we believe that we need someone other than a Republican in the White House. To be honest, I wouldn't take this job right now because everything is completely flocked up domestically.

But don't worry. We'll get to elect a new Congress in a couple of years, and even the Democrats cannot screw up our country completely in 4 years.

"The Americans will eventually do the right thing, after exhausting all other possibilities." - Winston Churchill

[Bigpoppa]

Bush was and is an idiot. Obama is not going to save us. I hope he does well, but even if he does well it is scarythat it was so easy with all of the questions about his background and muslim ties that we just gave him leadership of the country. Good or bad , that shows we are sitting ducks and that minorities and liberal idiots now run the country. My .o2.