Didn't Bush say he didn't care about how the public views him

[Proud Liberal Dem]

and doesn't make decisions on the basis of "focus groups"? I believe that he has also said that he doesn't really worry about how history will judge his (P)residency because, after all, like he said, people are still evaluating Washington's Presidency? :shrug:

It seems like him (and his supporters) have been busy this past month polishing his turd of a "legacy". Cheney has been especially busy in trying to boost his own image and justify their many (unconstitutional) power grabs in the press. Last night I posted a link to a recent article in Newsweek by Stuart Taylor (Brookings Institution) and Evan Thomas (?) that is IMHO little more than an apologist piece for Bush and Cheney's controversial if not illegal methods for fighting terrorism and subtly recommending that Obama consider continuing them in some fashion (basically it wasn't WHAT GWB & Cheney did-it's HOW they did it).

This recent flurry of discussion in articles and interviews about GWB's "legacy" just seems weird (to me anyway) for a (P)resident and party whom repeatedly profess to NOT really care what the public thinks about them. Does it strike anybody else the same way?

[phantom power]

1. That was always a case of him protesting too much.

He's a man-child, and WATB. And it absolutely bothers him that the whole world thinks he's the worst president ever.

[Dangerously Amused]

2. 'Zackly.

I love the fact that he will soon have to face reality and see what the world REALLY thinks of him... that he will no longer live in his "happy bubble," will no longer have his handlers filtering out all the critical and negative analysis of him, will no longer be protected from even having to see Americans giving him the finger, or shouting out a protest. And it will make him DEEPLY unhappy.

Good.

[MissDeeds]

3. It is really strange

But then he is really strange. I fully believe the guy is a sociopath who feels that he is right, no matter what public opinion says, and no matter what the evidence reflects. He has no conscience and probably "knows" that history will vindicate him and time will prove his choices to be correct. What a magical place dim-son inhabits - all of his wrongs are right.

But the last desperate effort to save his legacy is interesting, to say the least.

[Booster]

4. Before any historian says anything positive about Bush

he will be long dead. In the meantime he's going to have to listen to a whole lot of negative shit.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. IF anybody EVER says ANYTHING nice about Bush

And that's one monster "IF"!

Although my ability to be objective about GWB is probably severely compromised by my "liberal/left-wing rage" at the mess he and his comrades in the GOP are leaving for Obama/Biden and Congressional Democrats, I really can't think of anything GOOD Bush should receive any credit for. The only thing that I ever agreed with Bush on :puke: is his decision to go after the Taliban/Al-Queda post-9/11 but, as history has revealed, he was too incompetent to do THAT right then simply gave up trying when he got bored with Afghanistan and decided to invade/occupy Iraq (which is something he almost certainly wanted to do from the start- 9/11 just gave him an "opening" he might not have had). Other than that, :shrug:
Maybe helping elect Barack Obama?

As I put in a post last week, GWB has really made nearly every contemporary President seem better. Even with Nixon, the worst of the worst until Dumbya staggered onto the scene, had some positive domestic accomplishments during his Presidency. Even Nixon's crimes seem piddly compared to what Bush/Cheney have pulled off while in office, which makes the failure to even subject them to impeachment proceedings nearly criminal. :banghead:

[WI_DEM]

6. Bush is destined to the trashbin of history along with Buchanan, Pierce, and A. Johnson.