George Bush's legacy

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"The Bush legacy will not be peace in the Middle East nor an end to conflict in Iraq, but it could be a political earthquake among voters so dismayed by the mess he has made of America's foreign policy and fearful of economic recession that they are deserting his party in droves. " Leonard Doyle in New Hampshire and Andrew Buncombe in Islamabad
Monday, 7 January 2008

www.independent.co.uk/

So, what is George Bush's legacy?
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Four Star Member Joined : 17 Jan 2008 Posts : 298

His legacy, what he leaves behind, will be the fact that he ran the most secretive and uncooperative Presidency this country has ever seen. While doing so he squandered our wealth, took us into a war that spent billions of dollars and got thousands of people killed, and drove the economy down while allowing the oil industry and certain wealthy people to benefit beyond their wildest expectations. His legacy will be the world wild distrust of America, and growing a gap between the haves and the have nots that will never be bridged.

He will go down in history as perhaps the most ineffectual CIC we've ever had.

Subject: Re: George Bush's legacy Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:17 pm

Bush’s Legacy:

His questionable election to office.
Lowest IQ of any president
Took a surplus and turned it into the worst deficit this country ever had.
Turned a nation dedicated to defense into an aggressor nation.
Sacrificed our service men and women needlessly.
Told the most lies.
Destroyed our prestige and credibility as a nation.
Our most unpresidential President

In summary: He took a strong country and turned it into a debtor nation. He took a country of prestige to one now lacking in credibility. He placed the status of America as a super power in jeopardy.

Subject: Re: George Bush's legacy Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:57 pm

Does anyone think the damage can be undone?
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Zada Connaway
Mother's Journals: parts 1, 2 and 3 ISBN # 1-4241-6969-0

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Four Star Member Joined : 11 Jan 2008 Posts : 376

I think you all read too many newspapers and watch too much television lol!

Subject: Re: George Bush's legacy Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:37 pm

Are you trying to tell us to lighten up with the gloom and doom, George? lol!

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Zada Connaway
Mother's Journals: parts 1, 2 and 3 ISBN # 1-4241-6969-0

http://www.zadaconnaway.com/

Four Star Member Joined : 17 Jan 2008 Posts : 298

Do you like George, George, for any specific reasons, or simply because he has the same name as you?

Four Star Member Joined : 11 Jan 2008 Posts : 376

Hi Don, I've never met the guy and don't know much about him. However I understand the media and who runs it and know a little about their agendas.

Four Star Member Joined : 17 Jan 2008 Posts : 298

So do most of us, my friend.

Subject: Re: George Bush's legacy Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:09 pm

It seems there are agendas everywhere you turn. Some are obvious and some are not. It probably depends on how you perceive things and whether they are immediate attention grabbers. Many young people have not been around long enough to have any wisdom about it, and yet, they vote.
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Zada Connaway
Mother's Journals: parts 1, 2 and 3 ISBN # 1-4241-6969-0

http://www.zadaconnaway.com/

Subject: Re: George Bush's legacy Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:05 am

Zada,

Agreed that many young people have not been around and may not have the wisdom of their elders. Yet they are ones on the front line and they are ones who will be paying for the debt left behind. I have known many people in their 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's, quote conservative talk radio announcers as if they were speaking the only truth.

It's entertainment, not fact, spun to garnish ratings. In candid interviews when asked about certain things they have said on radio, these conservative talk show people take that back position of saying, "It's entertainment"

Yeah, George, I agree media spin does pay a major role in our opinions, that is why I read news from domestic, foriegn, conservative and liberal sources and the make up my own mind.

Lynn

Four Star Member Joined : 17 Jan 2008 Posts : 298

Some people make an attempt to keep themselves informed on current events and on the issues that might play a part in keeping our quality of life near where we want it. We do not take on blind faith very much of anything that we hear, read, or see in the media, and many of us try to find as much information behind the stories as possible.

It has been a very long time since I fully believed what I saw on television news, as I have enough sense to know that most political stories are slanted to the benefit of the network that I am watching at the time.

To make this statement:

"However I understand the media and who runs it and know a little about their agendas."

Implies that none of the others posting here have a clue about the media, and that is just a bit offensive. I think for the most part we have a well informed group of people posting here, and I'm reasonably sure that we can make up our minds about most things.

Some see things one way, some another, and we form our opinions. I believe that we all have a bit of truth as well as a bit of falsehood in those opinions, and that the real truth lies somewhere in the middle.

For instance. There are those who like George W. Bush, and those who don't. There are those who favor giving more and more to the wealthy thinking that it will somehow trickle down to the economy, and those who believe that it only trickles down to their bank accounts.

All of the stories about men drinking and farm animals baking will not change the fact that there is a tremendous gap between the most wealthy and the working men and women, and that most of our politicians do the most for those who paid for them to be elected.

The office of the President is for rent every four years, and the people who make the payments get taken care of first.

The media reports whatever side they are told to report.

Four Star Member Joined : 17 Jan 2008 Posts : 298

By the way, I fully support the right for everyone to post their opinion, and I know that mine carries no more weight than anyone elses.

I don't get angry over a discussion on a message board because there is just no reason for it.

We can be friends even if we don't agree, and so long as all of us know that disagreement is a necessary ingredient in finding as much of the truth as possible, we will all be fine.

Four Star Member Joined : 11 Jan 2008 Posts : 376

I've written a 271 page book that documents my over 8 years and thousands of pages of research. I'm not going to rewrite it here.

My main concern here Don is that your comments are basically estranging the majority of our American visitors because, after all, President Bush is your President, elected by your fellow countrymen to office, which puts you in a minority. Everyone is welcome here, even President Bush supporters, of which I am one even though I'm Scottish.

Regards

Admin Joined : 11 Jan 2008 Posts : 2321 Location : UK

You missed one George -- it is the opening quote to the first chapter of The Power of Persuasion:

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
— Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)

I know I keep mentioning by book and it fails to show up. I apologise for this. I am on the final edit and I have promised myself that, this time, it will be final. I only hope I can stick to it!

~Shelagh Very Happy

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