I blame Bush. I blame Bush for everything and will continue to blame him (and Vice President Dick Cheney) for everything long after we’re all dead of gas gangrene. The two terms of George W. Bush’s presidency have been not simply a psychological bringdown but a steady beatdown. - by James Wolcott
NVDL: Many years hence people may refer to a man who was by all accounts a Christian,as 'the antiChrist." Oh I'm sure George isn't, but the doom he has wrecked is of an AntiChrist-like magnitude, and might aswell be misassociated.
That said, George wasn't alone. The party that wrecked America - the Republicans - aided and abetted George, and of course, Americans voted consistently for both.
NVDL: Many years hence people may refer to a man who was by all accounts a Christian,as 'the antiChrist." Oh I'm sure George isn't, but the doom he has wrecked is of an AntiChrist-like magnitude, and might aswell be misassociated.
That said, George wasn't alone. The party that wrecked America - the Republicans - aided and abetted George, and of course, Americans voted consistently for both.
 clipped from www.vanityfair.comIt will be one of the un-nicer ironies of modern American history that a president who prided himself on his crispy optimism should depart office having dyed the electorate a pervasive shade of blue. Not Democratic blue (though maybe that too), but the blue of futility, frustration, and worry, as reflected in the right-track/wrong-track numbers. (In a USA Today/Gallup Poll conducted between August 21 and 23, 81 percent of those participating described themselves as “dissatisfied” with the direction in which the country was lurching. Not only is Bush the Decider—he’s also the Dissatisfier.)
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Yup.
I came across an old NYT article on G W Bush and his administration, from 2004, that explains so much about why the world is the kind of place it is today. It's a long article but well worth reading. Here is one paragraph from it that actually left me in shock:
‘I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''’
the rest of the article is here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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