08 April 2008Politics
History Will Be A Harsh Judge
George Bush loves to say current opinions about his administration don't matter. That history will be the true judge and we won't know until everyone here is dead whether his policies were a success or not, for example:
"As far as history goes and all of these quotes about people trying to guess what the history of the Bush administration is going to be, you know, I take great comfort in knowing that they don't know what they are talking about, because history takes a long time for us to reach."
George W. Bush, Fox News Sunday, Feb 10, 2008
But not so fast. There's a new report about a poll by historians, 61% of whom rate the Bush presidency as the worst ever.
"No individual president can compare to the second Bush," wrote one."Glib, contemptuous, ignorant, incurious, a dupe of anyone who humors his deluded belief in his heroic self, he has bankrupted the country with his disastrous war and his tax breaks for the rich, trampled on the Bill of Rights, appointed foxes in every henhouse, compounded the terrorist threat, turned a blind eye to torture and corruption and a looming ecological disaster, and squandered the rest of the world''s goodwill. In short, no other president's faults have had so deleterious an effect on not only the country but the world at large.""With his unprovoked and disastrous war of aggression in Iraq and his monstrous deficits, Bush has set this country on a course that will take decades to correct," said another historian. "When future historians look back to identify the moment at which the United States began to lose its position of world leadership, they will pointrightlyto the Bush presidency. Thanks to his policies, it is now easy to see America losing out to its competitors in any number of area: China is rapidly becoming the manufacturing powerhouse of the next century, India the high tech and services leader, and Europe the region with the best quality of life."
Of course, as we all know, statistics, polls and historians all have a liberal bias (because they are founded in reality mostly).
Posted by andrew at April 8, 2008 03:15 PM
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