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The Bush Legacy
First of all I am not an american citizen. I have being living in the USA for the last seven years, it was thank a resolution that was passed during the Clinton administration that I was able to obtain my green card after seven years. I reserve my comments since I am not a citizen yet. However, I have always wonder what do you guys think is the legacy of President Bush?
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Oh plz, it is the internetz :D
How could ANYONE support him now? Even as a joke?
Bush is a lame duck, and he knows it. His cronies are being shed right and left, abandoning his cause as the end comes crashing down. There is no plausible way that Bush could institute martial law, and if he did, half of America would be on his doorstep with pitchforks and torches, if not guns.
Even if he were to get his name magically back on the ballot, the Democrats are ready to crush everything in their path in 2008. I've made no bones that I'm a Republican in theory because of economics, but a leftist when it comes to social libertarianism. But Bush and company have even estranged their own party, with the exception of the radical Christian right, who, with every supportive claim for Bush, are merely lampooning themselves on the public stage.
With that said, I think Bush's presidency is the most important since Nixons -- not because of great strides made, but because he's put together a playbook for how to destroy a party single-handed. He launched a multi-front, insubstantial war much like Don Quiote charging against windmills. He's backpedaled on ethics, cut freedoms at home, botched foreign policy, withered through scandals, and has unintentionally branded himself and his supporters as backwoods illiterates.
The chapter on Bush II in the history books will be a study in how to fuck up a sure thing.
There are still people who support him though. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
Sorry.
Do you think this has any chance of being effective?
On a separate note, why would a sensationalizing blogger from 'Washington DC' use a .nz domain?
Anyway, I wasn't asking if you applaud the organization. I was asking if you think it will be effective. I personally think there won't be much of a turnout.
Why? Because no one seems to care. Now, if GWB had a BJ - THAT would be something people would care about. Martial law, not so much. I don't think you can ever overestimate the apathy of the American people to something that can't be pretty directly related to sex.
Democrats have fought it, but not nearly hard enough.
Do you blame a tiger for killing or the hunter who failed to kill it as it walked right in front of him?
The democrats could have fed a few tidbits to the media to taint the Patriot Act if they wanted to. Instead they just went along with it because it was "popular" at the time to be for it (much like the Iraq invasion).