"BOLD-RESOLVE" IS NOT-GOOD... WHEN YOU'RE ALWAYS DEAD-WRONG

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE -- JOINS THE CHORUS OF EXPERTS & OBSERVERS CALLING BUSH JR. "THE WORST PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY." COVER-STORY:


"The Worst President in History?"
"One of America's leading historians assesses George W. Bush: George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for COLOSSAL HISTORICAL DISGRACE*..."

Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history...
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THE CREDIBILITY GAP: No previous president appears to have squandered the public's trust more than Bush has.
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BUSH AT WAR: Until the twentieth century, American presidents managed foreign wars well -- including those presidents who prosecuted unpopular wars...
(After 9/11 & Afghanistan) Bush... Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, were planting the seeds for the crises to come by diverting the struggle against Al Qaeda toward an all-out effort to topple their pre-existing target, Saddam Hussein...
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BUSH AT HOME: Bush came to office in 2001 pledging to govern as a "compassionate conservative," more moderate on domestic policy than the dominant right wing of his party. The pledge proved hollow...
Bush's domestic policy has turned out to be nothing more than a series of massively regressive tax cuts -- a return, with a vengeance, to the discredited Reagan-era supply-side faith that Bush's father once ridiculed as "voodoo economics."
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PRESIDENTIAL MISCONDUCT: Virtually every presidential administration dating back to George Washington's has faced charges of misconduct and threats of impeachment against the president or his civil officers. The alleged offenses have usually involved matters of personal misbehavior and corruption...Bush's alarmingly aberrant take on the Constitution is ironic**. One need go back in the record less than a decade to find prominent Republicans railing against far more minor presidential legal infractions as precursors to all-out totalitarianism. "I will have no part in the creation of a constitutional double-standard to benefit the president," Sen. Bill Frist declared of Bill Clinton's efforts to conceal an illicit sexual liaison...
Having confused steely resolve with what Ralph Waldo Emerson called "a foolish consistency . . . adored by little statesmen," Bush has become entangled in tragedies of his own making...:::
CONCLUSION: Bush doesn't seem to be concerned about his place in history. "History. We won't know," he told the journalist Bob Woodward in 2003. "We'll all be dead."

* "COLOSSAL HISTORICAL DISGRACE?"
...Indeed!

** "IRONIC?"
...Same!
--Herb.