In a somewhat understandably soft ball interview with Chris Wallace, former President George H.W. Bush defends what is by most accounts his son's epic failure of a presidency and defers to "the Google" when asked about which things W could be "fairly criticized for."
So I googled G W Bush failures and came up with 594,000 articles but this one from the Economist bests sums up the disgrace of George W Bush ~
" HE LEAVES the White House as one of the least popular and most divisive presidents in American history. At home, his approval rating was stuck in the 20s for months; abroad, George Bush has presided over the most catastrophic collapse in America’s reputation since the second world war. The American economy is in deep recession, brought on by a crisis that forced Mr. Bush to preside over huge and unpopular bail-outs.
America is embroiled in two wars, one of which Mr. Bush launched against the tide of world opinion. The Bush family name, once among the most illustrious in American political life, is now so tainted that Jeb, George’s younger brother, recently decided not to run for the Senate from Florida.
A Bush relative describes family gatherings as “funeral wakes”. "
The key to truly understanding George W Bush is recognizing his deep fear of failure and humiliation which he constantly felt and suppressed as a child and he is still stuck there today ~ an emotional cripple playing out his role in history.
His karmic fate is to finally face the failure of his presidency and the humiliation of the disintegration of the Republican party as well as the scorn of millions of Americans ~ who rightfully blame Bush for the present economic chaos ~ alone in his Dallas bunker of denial and hubris, while reality rapidly closes in on him.
Allen L Roland
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Cartoon courtesy of Pat Oliphant / Washington Post
