In his farewell speech, the president mentioned 911. From the AP: "'That morning, terrorists took nearly 3,000 lives in the worst attack on America since Pearl Harbor'...Many Americans moved on, Bush said, 'but I never did.'"

This attitude among Bush and many conservatives has angered me the most. Translated, it reads: "Those who disagree with me on policy are unpatriotic." Personally, I feel as if those on the right who made such claims have tried to steal the hurt and sorrow from me from those attacks. They have tried to claim they own the rights to the tragedy. It's a sick attitude and I hope they all burn for it.

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Bush Completely Confirmed The Absolute Worst Fears About America The World (Friends, Foes, And Citizens Alike) Has Ever Had.

and then reconfirmed it -over and over and over again. for 8 years. this is the president whom called the very document he swore to uphold, just a piece of paper. and managed to trample on foundations even deeper and greater than it, our very Constitution. it has been stark and dramatic in this way. literally, we are unconstituted as a people.

that overkill, that he misses and mitigates and dismisses disingenuously to the point of the loss of civil reasoning -this is what George W. Bush will be remembered for.

For the greater context of W's history will be the entirety of the Bush dynasty from Prescott down to Jeb and beyond.

Jeb Bush:
"The truth is useless. You have to understand this right now. You can't deposit the truth in a bank. You can't buy groceries with the truth. You can't pay rent with the truth. The truth is a useless commodity that will hang around your neck like an albatross all the way to the homeless shelter. And if you think that the million or so people in this country that are really interested in the truth about their government can support people who would tell them the truth, you got another thing coming. Because the million or so people in this country that are truly interested in the truth don't have any money."

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Flushed down the toilet in 8 years of deceitful disasters, many executed in broad daylight w/the complete cooperation of the MSM monster.

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this guy is just a fall guy for Amerika and its litany of crimes since its existence - religious pogroms, wiping out the Native Americans, fomenting war around the world, stealing Hawaii, the illegal Indochina wars leading to the rise of the Khmer Rouge, central American death squads, Iran-Contra, supporting Saddam Hussein then turning on him, and now Iraq 2.

GHW Bush was involved in JFK's murder, Snr idiot Bush set up Reagan to be shot, failed, then failed as President.

Vapid son of idiot father then steals 2 elections, sets up 911, and basically fucks America. His wife is a murderer - she killed her ex-boyfriend so they are a good pair - both murderers. Maybe when Bush fucks Laura she yells out "kill me George, kill me"

It's like Malcolm X said "The Chickens have come home to roost" and any person who hasn't spoken out against Bush is as guilty as he is.

However there is no statute of limitations on war crimes, so maybe there is a chance to hang both Bushes and Cheney.

The house of Bush is a house of crime.

And the American Government is a criminal body

America is going to explode soon - I see civil war - all those guns, all the SRVs, Hummers, and stupid Americans who believe in "god"

There is no god, no justice and America is rotten

Leave the rest of the world alone, we are so sick of your shit

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Dear George,
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Damned near eight miserable years into what can only be described as the most murderously corrupt and incompetent administration in the annals of human stupidity - with four more miserable days to go. Or, if you will: four-hundred and seventy-three miserable days until you're history. Miserable. Miserable. Miserable - a mind-numbingly depressing scenario any way you slice it or dice it!

Can you believe it's finally come to this, George? By now you must surely realize that with respect to the office of president of the United States, you were in way over your head, were you not? The question that most intelligent people are asking, though, is this: You were such a perpetual fuck-up from the day you were born, after failing at every single thing you ever attempted throughout your entire life, what defect in your psychological make up made you think you could possibly succeed at the most intellectually taxing, complex job in the entire Milky Way? Enquiring minds want to know, George!

But it is not merely the fact that you screwed up royally at everything you ever tried. There is also the undeniable fact that you were one mean little bastard - even as a small boy. Your former childhood playmates like to tell the the story about how, as a kid, you loved to catch frogs at a creek near your home in Crawford, Texas, stuff two or three firecrackers down their throats and blow the little darlings to smithereens in mid-air. Excessive and gratuitous cruelty to animals. You know what that's a sign of, don'cha, George? That's an alarm bell sign of severe mental illness. It is also a trait which is the common childhood denominator of most mass murderers! (Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacey, Jeffrey Dahmer, etc.) Gee! It all fits neatly into place, doesn't it, George? Given your positively perverted penchant for torture and the carnage you've created in Iraq (1.2 million dead and counting), the sad tale of those poor little Crawford froggies makes perfect sense!

I need to know: What made you want to run for public office in the first place, George? Surely it was not out of a desire to do right by the people, that's for damned sure! And it certainly wasn't out of any religious calling to do the work of the good Christian you profess yourself to be. Then what was it, George? When the dust is finally settled and historians are able to siphon through the wreckage of your nightmare of an administration, not one positive achievement will be said to have come from the long years of your disgusting reign of error - NOT ONE!

What motivated you, George? I think I can answer that question. Your motivation was never to preside over a "government of the people, by the people, for the people". It was, instead, to "alter or abolish" that form of government. And the funny thing is, you were almost successful, George! Maybe you're even stupid enough to believe that you have succeeded. Well, here's the big surprise, pardner: Are ya ready for this? Can you hear that bell faintly ringing in the distance? It tolls for thee, George. It tolls for thee.

Go away, George. Just go away.

Your biggest fan (Ha! Ha! I'm just kidding),

All in the First Crime Family

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY

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The jig is up, George, and you can deny it no longer. The chickens will soon be coming home to roost for you, Dick Cheney, and the tsunami of walking, talking shit that comprises most of your administration. Oh, it's not going be a pretty picture, Georgie; not by any stretch of the imagination. You've called tune, Buster, and We, The Pipers must be paid. At the risk of sounding sadistic, I've got to say that it is, indeed, going to be a beautiful thing to watch you being severely punished for your crimes against the human race. Living as a citizen of the United States for the last six years, eight months, two weeks and one day has been like being a passenger in a speeding car with an insane, half-witted, out-of-control drunk at the wheel. The damage that you've done to this once-great nation is impossible to accurately assess. Your tax cuts for a class of people who already had more money than they knew what to do with - at the expense of the poor and the middle class - can only be described as the most despicable deed of any American president in history. Your criminal recklessness and disdain for the tenets of governance put forward by the Founding Fathers over two-hundred years ago will still be palpable one-hundred years from today. Because of your actions, the "American way of life" - that most of us have taken for granted all of our lives - is gone forever.

Compassionate conservatism, huh? What a fucking joke.

Well, George, as your knucklehead of a Father would say, you're in deep doo-doo, son! Honestly, you've got to grow up and face some uncomfortable truths: you've failed yet again. Not only that, but you've also committed serious felonies too numerous to adequately catalogue. From the genocide in Iraq to the warrantless spying on American citizens; from the looting of our national treasure to the perversion of the Constitution....To quote the Sheriff of Boone County Kentucky, "You're in a heap a' trouble, boy!"

Oh, why, George, why??? Why couldn't you just have left well enough alone? You were a rich kid from a prominent (if somewhat disreputable) family who was destined to inherit a fortune from your two hideous parents! Why couldn't you have been content to live out your life as a dim-witted country squire and leave the rest of us be? Why did you do it, George? Can't you see the heartache you've caused for untold scores of millions of people across the globe? Can't you see the misery you've unleashed across this small and fragile planet? Are you unable to perceive the magnitude of the suffering that has been the result of your arrogance and foolishness? Do you not comprehend the death and destruction you've wrought? Are you unaware of the grief you've brought into the lives of so many innocent people? What the fuck is the matter with you, George?

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Your day is coming, George. Man! I'd sure as hell hate to be you, buddy! What I'd love to know is, how will you face your just deserts? Knowing you, you'll try to flee the country. That one-hundred thousand acres your family purchased two years ago off the coast of Paraguay had a certain stink to it when I first read about it - just the place for a fugitive war criminal to hide out. How are you going to react when you're finally cornered? Will you take the cowardly, Hitler way out? A well-placed, self-inflicted bullet through the brain? Nah! You're too much of a coward for even that method! I imagine they'll just end up dragging you out of your bunker, screaming and crying like a pathetic, frightened little four year old. By that time you will be such a sorry, gnarled figure of a human being, even I will feel some measure of sympathy for you.

Miserable. Miserable. Miserable.

You had a great opportunity for a while there, George, and you blew it - BIG TIME! You might have taken all of the sympathy and good will that was beamed on the American people from all over the world after the tragedy of September 11, 2001 and ushered in a new, golden era of peace, understanding and cooperation. You might have been able to force even the most unbending, intolerant leaders to look at the senseless carnage of that dark day and made them see the tragic meaninglessness of it all. You could have done great things, George. You had the unprecedented, overwhelming support of the American people. Hell, you even had my support, George! I said as much on a live radio program two days after the attack! So many people like me who were initially bitter towards you because of the stolen election of the year before wanted to believe that the trauma of that day would transform you; that you would put behind you the extremist doctrine of the criminals and sociopaths who have hijacked your party and do the right thing by the country you claim to love so much. But then you thoughtlessly - criminally - rendered all of our hopes and prayers futile. All of that good will was foolishly squandered, scattered like ashes to the wind.

Go away, George. Please, just go away.

Your biggest fan (Ha! Ha! I'm just kidding),

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
"The Rant

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The Bush Presidency should be known as the disappearing presidency. When the twin towers were hit Bush DISAPPEARED. The Iraq nuclear missiles DISAPPEARED. The CIA tapes of interrigation DISAPPEARED. Bush was nowhere to be found when 'shotgun Cheney' disclosed that Valerie Plame was a (covert) CIA agent which was classified information. When our embassy in Serbia burned Bush DISAPPEARED. Bush's Robber Baron presidency has made our money DISAPPEAR. With Voodoo Economics Georgie has made most of our jobs DISAPPEAR. But what would happen if Bush really disappeared? Can you imagine 'Shotgun Cheney' with his finger on the nuclear trigger? If that were to happen everyone might just DISAPPEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Of course, since Bush was never really President, he gets off on a technicality.

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Rant and rage as you will about this appalling period of American history and the incompetents who ran the show but it was you, the American people who voted them into power - twice.
And don't take cover in the line that both elections were stolen.

Where was the groundswell of anger against these election thefts, the riots and protests. A number of you certainly published angry articles and fulminated at length but, for the vast majority it was an echoing silence.

The "democracy" you so often invoke and claim to enjoy didn't provide any protection. Your millions of supine, ignorant, uncaring, comfortable people just got on with their lives.

You got what you deserved. Unfortunately the rest of the world also has to live with the results and I would be prepared to wager that sweet F.A. will be done now to bring these crooks to justice.

We expect better of the Obama administration and he has promised much. For the moment scepticism would seem to be the best attitude.

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Bush's original sin - the very first in a long line - was this: after the debacle of the 2000 "election," he FAILED to govern the nation from the center, in a manner that would have reflected the deeply divided election results, but instead pulled the country as far to the right as he could.

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the author correctly lists problems botched or created by the "late" Prez Bush. But he was not a conservative, and by the end of his terms few conservatives supported him either in foreign or domestic policy. Big spending and reckless foreign intervention are not conservative values; they go back to FDR and continue on through nonconservatives like LBJ, Nixon and Bush I. To learn more about conservative values and positions, read the Lew Rockwell newsletter on the Web, the Chroniclesmagazine.org site, or even Pat Buchanan's American Conservative site. None of these well written source of conservative intellectual thought are Bush supporters. Nor will they be Obama supporters, as Obama relishes foreign wars, massive printing of currency instead of productivity in the private sector, and outdated climate change policies that will spread unemployment in the working class even more.

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Barack Obama has a great example of what not to do as US President. If George W. Bush did it, it probably was harmful to the people of the United States. George W. Bush took environmental protection out of the Environmental Protection Agency, diplomacy out of the State Department, and justice out of the Department of Justice. Then he finished it off by destroying the US economy. The people of Marion, Ohio can rest easier now, knowing that their hometown son, Warren G. Harding, is no longer the worst US President.

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When anyone talks about this administration as just being a failed experiment in neoconservatism I have to laugh. This has been the most successful administration to install a fascist regime in this so-called "democracy" in the history of the world (Except for Germany which was supported by fascist element in this country, which included the Bush family).
This kind of viewpoint reminds me of the bumper stickers I see that say "War is not the Answer". Of course war is the answer for those people who are perpetrating it. Wars don't occur due to the continual ongoing generation to generation mistake that wars will be the answer. they are propagated and funded by the international private bankers such as the Federal Reserve Bank and the Bank of England and the military industrial oil complex.
The Bush agenda was intentional and purposeful and it has brought the world much closer to a one world government with one monetary system and complete absolute control by the powerful elite.

Go to www.911insidejob.net for more videos and articles.

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Over the last nine years I often thought of Dubya as a total idiot who has no real sense of what is happening around him. At other times I have thought of him as an evil genius who is putting on a marvelous act of being an idiot.

In either case it is good to be now moving on without him, but I still don't know what to make of him. And I still don't know what to make of all the people who voted for him.

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People here are labeling bush a failure. Cheney says that their administration has been very successful. which is it? the truth is that for bush and his class of people he has been very successful. they presided over the biggest transfer of wealth from the middle to the top. started wars which further paid out money to his rich buddies, and put the nation in debt so that future administrations would find it very difficult to start social programs. like health care. i won't go thru the litany of offenses becasue we all know what they are, but when viewed from this perspective then you will understand why bush feels he's had successful presidency. they got into office on the biggest coup anyone has ever seen, in plain view and no one had the balls to stop them and then they proceeded to rob the country blind in full view, lying and lawbreaking as he went. and now people are saying that bush is a republican but NOT a real conservative. let's not forget that bush's policies were given to him by the right wing think tanks like AEI. CAto. Hoover, et al.
so please let's not let them get away with this too or they'll be back sooner than we expect.

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while idiot boy's handlers were working their butts off writing his 'farewell address' (a tradition since Washington) palatable to a disgusted and broken nation, a heroic pilot with an air force background upstaged wombat and deadeye...

this pilot worked on a project on how to get people alive off a downed plane and managed to surf the hudson successfully just yards from the site of the downed towers and all the horrible deaths that went with that event...

feels like a little hope in the air again, like the spirits of those dead people wouldn't allow another tragedy to happen...

may you george w bush and richard chaney suffer to the end of your days... death is too good for you both, may the world courts lock you both up for crimes against humanity forever and make you stay alive to receive more punishment... (secret service note, this is not a threat, wishful thinking only)

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Oh, no, its not over yet. This is just the end of the second act of the Bushco Tragedy.

In a bit of foreshadowing, GHWB was recently promoting the idea that we should endorse JEB for the job.

Can the American public be so gallingly stupid as to fall for the Bushco charms a third time? Time will only tell.

We would do well to heed Nancy Reagan's advice... Just Say No.

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Good Riddance Dictator Bush! Good Riddance to the Bush Regime! Adios! Please let the door hit ya on the way out!

RT
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Bush and Company rigged up elections in such sophisticated ways that the old Daily machine looks almost childish in comparison. Also think about the dolts we now have on the Supreme Court thanks to his legacy.

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There are at least 3 worse than GWB:

1] A Lincoln. Every nation in the world got rid of slavery. Nobody made such a costly mess of the job as did Lincoln

2] H Hoover. The Depression was a lot worse, second only to Lincoln in the damage done to the nation

3] Reagan. GWB is a Reagan clone. It was GWB's use of Reagan's philosophy that led to the current mess.

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Worst - LBJ, Vietnam, millions dead, accused in some circles of covering up Kennedy's assassination.

Carter - seed money for Bin Laden, miserable economy, highest interest rates in history and a demoralized nation.

FDR (not the worst but has the distinction of the first and only concentration camps for American citizens - what a party that was, also circumvented congress in involving america in WW2 before Pearl Harbor! wonder where Bush got his ideas from!)

Bush - kept the nation safe from terrorists attacks for 8 years after democrat intel failures led to the only attack on this nation Since the revolution!

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Why do you, and most people, keep saying that there are 35,000 US wounded from Iraq and Afghanistan? Didn't the Rand corporation report over 300,000 traumatic brain injury (TBI) wounded American soldiers and vets so far from this war alone? Or are you drinking the Veteran's Administration (VA) kool-aid, too? The VA keeps denying veterans the testing (CAT scan, MRI) they need to prove the TBI, and then the VA claims the symptoms are all PTSD. This is because PTSD is outpatient Zoloft and psychologists, whereas a TBI diagnosis would be lifelong disability compensation and real cognitive therapy. Veterans, accused by the VA of being malingerers and liars about their TBIs, are going to start speaking up. I wish you might consider speaking up for them better as well.

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America watched GWB say at least three bald-faced lies in last night's address - his comment about protecting our environment is blatantly untrue - as evidenced by one of his last moves - to make it easier for mining companies to blast off the tops of mountains and block rivers with the debris. As to his self pat on the back about turning Iraq into a beacon of Democracy in the Middle East - wrong again. Iraq is well on its way to becoming another Islamic state; and of course Afghanistan. Yes we did HAVE the Taliban on the run, but due to our switching focus to Iraq, theyyyy're back in force - which will be one of Obama's first big problems. One question Mr. Bush didn't address was, um, Osama? Wasn't he supposed to get him "dead or alive"?

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This article should be posted on the front page of AlterNet and HuffPO and all the major progressive non main media. This writer has TOTALLY CAPTURED ALL MAJOR COMPONENTS OF WHY BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER TO WALK THROUGH THE WHITE HOUSE DOORS!!!
This guy Nailed them ALL!!!

This article says it all, and completely covers all the failed and flawed pompous, greed, Bush*sh*t and his sorry-a$$ policies.
The best thing about Bush right now is this:

IN THREE (3) DAYS, HE & SNEAKY SNAKE CHENEY ARE LEAVING!!!-----------GONE, GONE, GONE!!!

What a mess OBAMA and his team have in trying to get the country back on track and cleaned up!!! It will be like taking $700 BILLION SHOVELS in order to get rid of all the Bush Sh*T left behind.... and that's a lot of shovels for a ton of sh*T, he left behind.


Pray and Support OBAMA!

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He created and spread the concept of Red States and Blue States, and just ignored the overall best interest of all America and only sought his own agendas, and his goodbye fairwell, so-long, speech demonstrates that well. He is encompassed in his own self centered egotistical self absorbed delusional air bubble. Anything outside that box, is out of his realm of reality. He truly was the worst, is the worst, and probably will hold that title as the worst president to ever walk through the white house doors for years and years to come.

It will also be noted that the best thing he ever did for America as its president for 8 LONG YEARS....

was to finally LEAVE OFFICE!!!!!

GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!

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So I didn't listen to it. I decided to read all the 'morning after' discussion. I was happy to see that Bush was made to disappear by a real American hero. An airline pilot who made history in a way that George Bush could never imagine. He was all but ignored. Exactly what he deserved. ANNA

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Broken Government: Executive Branch Failures Since 2000

They call it a "full list" which it almost certainly is not, but there is a link where you can "suggest additional failures".

It's worth remembering two things:
1) Bush was NOT an anomaly, and if we keep up the "Worst President Ever" line, that may soon be taken as truth. There is almost nothing he did that Reagan and/or his dad didn't try to do but couldn't push it through. W was especially bad because his party controlled the whole government for 6 years, but his policies were not new ideas.
2) A good deal of the failures were completed with Democratic Party complicity- either through spinelessness or direct support.

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My fellow Americans,
As we conclude with the "Nightmare on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave", that has been the Presidency of George W. Bush, can we say NEVER AGAIN!? I mean W. may be a "nice guy/gal", but much like Sarah Palin, neither one need be in charge of this or any other nation! They may be someone you can "have a beer with", but is that what is really needed from a "leader of a nation" (maybe it's a side benefit), not necessarily. The leader of the free world is not, I repeat, not coming to your house any time soon to have a beer, that is not what he's/she's paid to take care of!

The office of the President of America is a job, not for the dim-witted, intellectually stunted, immoral yet proclaiming that they follow "Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior", ideological sheep! The way that I see it, if my President "believes, I mean really believes in God", than his policies will reflect that belief. You know, take care of the poor and the least of these, stop allowing BIG BUSINESS to run rough-shod all over the citizens, take care of the environment, and have quality health-care for all! See, as the leader of my country I want someone that is able to communicate - and won't leave me embarrassed whenever he opens his mouth! I want someone that can read and process much more information than I do! I want someone in office that doesn't believe that it's all about what he/she wants! I want someone that the rest of the world doesn't mind talking to because - they believe that he/she is smart also! I want someone that realizes war is not only serious and a huge sacrifice, but understands that it should be used only as the last resort - after all other options have been worn out!

So America in future, please, don't listen to the platitudes and those "feel good" lies of the "actor politicians", "good ole home boys", "mean cheerleaders", and most importantly "ideologue anti-intellectuals", and most importantly keep them out of the White House!

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This post need some serious editing and proofreading. There are multiple copies of the same information. I read the original article and it would fit on one page instead of four.

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As much as I'd like to pin this solely on Bush, I can't. At least every administration since Nixon owns a piece of how we got to this point, and probably every administration prior to Nixon.

Nixon took the US, and thus the world, off the gold standard because the US didn't have enough gold to meet it's debt obligations due to another wrong and unpopular Imperial War - sound familiar??? At that point US currency became the world standard and let the debt games begin!!!

Reagan started union busting with the air traffic controllers and was the champion of deregulation - remember the S&L failures???

Clinton repealed Glass-Steagall especially for Sandy Weil and Citi - Travellers back then. Clinton also continued along the Reagan lines of never meeting a regulation he didn't want to get rid of.

The Chimp, aka Bush, aka Curious George goes to Washington, well, we all know what he did.

And last of all, Congress. If anyone owns this mess it's Congress for failing to put a stop to ANYONE for over 40+ years!!! As bad as Bush's approval ratings were/are, don't forget that Congress's ratings are WORSE!!!

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Although - thankfully - GWB is almost out the door, he's going to an 8,000 sq. ft mansion with all the perks. no doubt one of his first projects will be his memoirs where he will finish whitewashing and explaining away the last 8 years. in his mind, he's a distinguished Elder Statesman who did his best. uh-huh... the ONLY way to wake him up to the fact that he is not a beloved public figure is for people not to buy his book in droves. Let it go from full price to the remainders bin in record time. He'll still get big bucks for speeches - but any company dumb enough to hire him for his oratory skills gets what they deserve.

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.......such as no brain, no guts, no feelings, no confidence, no awareness of anyone else. In other words, he's like a stupid two-year-old. I'm surprised he doesn't suck his thumb. Why did the voters give so many votes to a stupid two-year-old? (I deliberately do not use the word "elect." The Texas Turd was never elected.)

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for one thing the worst president award goes to Jimmy Carter. But Bush and Clinton both are a close second. I hope Obama is better but I know better. He won't be worth a damn either.

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......Oh, the words I could use are not for human consumption.

Thanks to all you Responders here on the the Alt.
I need add nothing more. I am happy that at least we are all on the same side.

We are all the torch of truth carriers.
It is our responsibility to push forth for full documentation and justice. Other wise there is no "United-ness"
as one people. Those that hide in denial and are ignorant of truth are virtually unconscious. Those that believe they have to hide the truth from the masses are guilty of treason and lack the faith they say they have, hiding behind their own veil of ignorance and fear. Diplomats they are not. But conspirators they are.
We will fight you for ever. here on the front lines of the war for truth and justice. Those front lines are not outside beyond our own country but right here at home.

Now we have to pray (but I have no hope) that the democratic congress lead by Pelosi, have been holding their trump card very close to their chest until Obama is in office. That card being held until they have full power over the Executive, and legislative branches to implement full proceedings to disgrace the whole Bush administration and make them accountable.

Please pray with me. For real Americans, that know and call this continent home, want a level paying field. Where a true sense of Hope can manifest. But we also know,
"Without Accountability Hope will not Manifest"
As long as there is no Accountability for the power elite, from those that brought down 911 to the financial debacle, to revealing the truth of "their" plans for humanities future, to the use of WMD's by the United States & Israel, Like depleted Uranium and white phospheros then....
"The United States Government can never be trusted in any regard"

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Hey, at least he declared the Marianas Trench, the deepest ocean bed on earth, as a protected area so no oil companies can prospect there. Foolhardy attempt to come off as environmentally friendly.

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I am pushing the concept importance of no longer calling this movement "Conservative" any longer..!

It is important that we take back our Lexicon this movement was never in any way conservative and i mean that in the simple definition of the word not in a political context..!

Until we strip these fascists or authoritarians or corporatism of this conservative nomenclature our entire political discourse will be perverted..and thus communication itself perverted and inaccurate...

I am not defending "conservatism" as a movement I am saying none of these corrupt ghouls from their pundits to their corrupt politicians are or ever where in any way conservative..

They are radical corrupt disingenuous lying enemies of egalitarianism and in fact American fascism..

Simple as that..

Bush's "Conservatism" may have failed but his corporate fascist agenda learned from his grandfather succeeded...

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Bush is awful. He is evil. But I am so tired of seeing commentary saying he is the worst president in US history. To accept this proposition, we have to dismiss Andrew Johnson and his role in opposition and frustrating reconstruction after the Civil War. The man was a straight up drunkard and bigot, who used his office to destroy blacks.

Also, why do Democrats ignore the pervasive inequality that exists in BLUE America? Separate and Unequal Public Schools: "Liberal" Blue States Have Worse Records Than "Dixie".

Demonizing Bush and other conservatives allows liberals to ignore how policies in their own jurisidications contribute to pervasive inequality.

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I live in Miami and went through Andrew and over 20 hurricanes.Besides what was in the article, and beyond, what sticks in my mind Because it shows his distdain[SP] and lack of compasion for all citizens of this great country, and especially for the impacted cities}was when Max Mayfield, the head of the Hurricane center in Miami in a video call told Bush that he expected Katrina to be the worst hurricane to EVER hit the US. He expected the city to be completely flooded.Remember Mr. Mayfield never did this before.Thats how concerned he was. Anyway, Bush just sat there, NEVER asking even one question. Not one.He thanked him and hung up.Remember he was on one of his 100 vacations in Crawford.Couldnt be bothered.The day after it hit, his staff had to bring him a CD with pictures of the dead bodies in the streets. He had no idea. He didnt care. Read about what he and Dr. Rice were doing in the first two days after it hit.It sticks in my mind because for me it emcompases his entire 8 years. If you didnt have bucks or oil, you didnt exist. I think 27% is way to high.

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I don't know what is more frightening ... the lingering effects of the theft and atrocities that Bush and his friends have perpetrated on us and the world, OR delusional people that continue to deny the obvious criminal behavior and total disregard for our Republic that Bush, et al have forced on us. The latter, unfortunately, may be responsible for others to gain positions of power, where they too can drive our great nation farther into a state of degradation and decline!

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"And I still don't know what to make of all the people who voted for him."

My mother voted for him in 2000. Why? Because she didn't like Clinton. Yes, Clinton, who wasn't even running. Here's a perfect example of the stupidity of the average voter in this country, and why the entire system is such a farce in need of a complete overhaul.

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In his own lovable way, in his Bye Bye speech, there was a jaw dropping moment when Bush said that no free people would elect leaders who would wage campaigns of terror. We did elect such leaders (or got them due to vote tampering). He was boldly telling us we are not free, and it appears that reporters have yet to pick up their dropped jaws to talk about it.

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If Yang is W and his Ray-gun-esque unsustainable, unregulated global capitalism, and if Yin is Marxist communism, then perhaps now really is the time for BALANCE. Perhaps now is the time for global government. Global problems, global solutions. Perhaps we can get a UN with no vetoes, a democracy of nations...? Or perhaps another alpha-male gorilla will eventually become king of the world? Hmmm... The crystal ball is a little murky. Good luck Obama! Are you a miracle worker?

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James A. Swanson, Los Altos, CA
"The Bush League of Nations"
www.bushleagueofnations.com [for FREE download of entire book]

For Number 11 on the list, I would add Bush’s slimy misuse of Christianity and religion in general.

I’m a progressive Christian who is appalled at the Christian Reich’s upside-down version of Christ and Christianity—Pro-Rich and Pro-War—and the GOP’s war on the U.S. Constitution, including the separation of church and state.

Thanks to America’s warmongering Christian Reich, being “a Christian” has become a negative in the eyes of much of the world, and I can empathize with the increasing number of Americans—especially our younger folk—who have no use for Christianity.

As for me, I have chosen to stay and fight to reclaim my faith from those who use it to support a rightwing imperial agenda.

Christianity remains a powerful weapon in American politics, and we abandon this weapon to the extreme right at our peril.

This and much more is discussed in, "The Bush League of Nations: The Coalition of the Unwilling, the Bullied and the Bribed – the GOP’s War on Iraq and America," by James A. Swanson (2008, CreateSpace Publishing, 448 pages).

As a gift to patriots everywhere, the entire book can be downloaded for FREE at www.bushleagueofnations.com.

I ask for nothing in return, except that you consider using my book to help restore and build America.

Jim Swanson, Los Altos, CA
www.bushleagueofnations.com [for FREE download of entire book]

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The forces that put Cheney/Bush in the Whitehouse (Privitizers, Corporate Socialists, authoritarian loving Police Staters) are the same forces that own the media. They will convince enough people that these criminals were misunderstood and ahead of their time.
After all most people actually believe our politicians (especially the Republicans) promote the Free Market when nothing could be further from the truth.

TRC

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impressed, NOT, by the number of adult black people attending the big farewell speech with them all smiling and clapping and bowing. Wonder where he found them and if these are the "black Conservative" we sometimes hear about?

In my 67 years living in three states, visiting many others, working in several jobs professionally, I have never met another black person who claimed to be "conservative". If they were they certainely hid it very well.

Usually (95%), the Bush photo-ops have him with a bunch of little black children in attendance, grinning, and dancing and trying to look like her cares one fig about them and to try to make the republician party look like something other than bigots.

Why are there no photo-ops of Bush with little white children? Or little Asian children? Or little Native American children?

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But the damage will last for a generation. We need to have a truth and reconciliation commission. The neocons have brought this country to a new low. There must be public inquests to restore this country. The entire world needs to know the crimes these Repug bastards committed.

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So what's the big complaint?

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The Bush administration was all flash, no substance and they tried to cover up their tracks. Now that everyone acknowledges what went wrong, our government needs to uphold the law. And that includes facing up to international law. We need to make sure that there is oversight in the executive branch no matter who is in that office. The American people deserve full transparency, full disclosure and justice. The people who knowingly committed crimes need to pay for their crimes as any other American would.

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3. The worst foreign policy mistake in the history of this country. That's what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., correctly called the Iraq war. This pre-emptive war -- based on phony pretenses -- is now the second longest in our nation's history (after Vietnam). Some 35,000 Americans are dead or wounded, as well as an enormous number of innocent Iraqis. And even today, more than five years later, can anyone explain why Bush marched us into this quagmire?

Are you really wondering why? Cause it's not the smartest question.

It was done for the oil - plain and simple.

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We can recover from a catastrophic recession, from a stupid war, from assaults on the Constitution, from a loss of standing in the world--these sorts of things happen to countries all the time, and rarely lead to their demise. What can destroy our civilization is global warming. Environmental degradation did in the Mayans, arguably the Romans...many other civilizations that had a lot more longevity than we have managed thus far. A lack of respect for science was #7 or something, which is an inadequate step in the right direction. #1 without question is eight years of not dealing with climate change. That is the real threat to our world, and that is what is truly unforgivable.

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1. In a nuclear world, W. Bush made conventional war between nuclear powers much more thinkable. If the world inherits a nuclear exchange, this makes #1 on my list. We saw nuclear brinksmanship with North Korea, a proxy war in Georgia with Russia, and a nuclear-armed government approaching a failed state in Pakistan.

2. I'm with Schubert, encouraging global warming is a biggie. I'm realizing now that keeping the genie in the bottle may not be as hard as we imagine, if we work.

3. This man has made a mockery of Christianity. Whatsoever he did to the millions of poor Iraqis caught in some dragnet, whatsoever he did to the Iraqi vets, . . . (long list here) he did to Jesus. Those thrown shoes were heartfelt.

4. He took the United States Treasury and spent it. No drunk in Vegas could have done more. He is a curse upon everyone's grandchildren.

5. He and his office institutionalized the stealing of American national elections. Much trust is broken. In a similar vein, he shredded the United States Constitution with his signing orders.

6. He lied the country into a disposable-income war.

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dropped from 90% to 80%. How interesting. Was he causal. You tell me.

On the Monday before election Tuesday a gentleman dropped into our Morning coffee group just to tell his story. Sunday morning the preacher had told the congregation to vote for John McCain. He said that he got up and walked out. You know and I know that that would not have happened if the church board had not approved in advance. These preachers are not being fired and these church boards are not being replaced at the next election. Some churches just don't have elections.

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Bravo! The arrogant ignoramus about to leave the White House is unable to admit to himself that squandering $1 trillion on a totally unnecessary war in Iraq, was a mistake! Bush's utter incompetence as a commander-in-chief, and his resolute dishonesty with the nation, the world, and even himself, present a spectacle unmatched in the history of the Republic.

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Get a Grip People: Bush Is not the Worst President in U.S. History

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What kind of crap is this? The worst crimes in history, in our times, the crimes of 9/11 lies and the coverup..........and Alternet decides this doesn't rank up there with how Katrina was handled?????
This is preposterous. It is a conspiracy of the media, including the alternative media like Alternet, that this crime is ignored.

We are being kept from the truth by Alternet, by a self censorship that is almost unparallelled in all history.
Any cursory look at the evidence and facts of 9/11, would show a blatant coverup and many lies about 9/11, and eventually anybody with a brain would realize that our government was complicit in the crimes of 9/11.
Go to www.911truth.org and www.AE911truth.org, and www.infowars.com and www.prisonplanet.com, to see how real journalists, courageous journalists and architects and engineers and just plain patriotic people deal with the crimes and horrors of Bush. Alternet deals with Bush/Cheyney by ignoring the most glaring horrors and crimes, and picks at the fringes.

Why? Because, well.............they won't tell us. Are they pressured? Are they threatened? I guess if I were threatened, and my family threatened, I might back down. But I swear, if I were a journalist, without kids, I would stand up to threats. Alternet writers don't............they succumb to the threats, and black out truth and ensure the American people never hear the truth.............and the lies and horrors, the wars, the occupations, the loss of freedoms, the trashing of the Constitution, the wiretapping, the torture...........all this will go on. It goes on because Alternet, and antiwar.com and counterpunch.org, and common dreams, and the Nation mag, and Mother Jones.........and more..........all of them have made a conspiratory decision to ALL keep the truth of 9/11 from the American people. HOW DARE THEM!!!
If they want to do this, fine, but don't tell us they are for bringing us the real truth. Tell us, then, that they are part of the propaganda campaign that the mainstream press brings us. Democracy Now tells us they are there to bite back at the lies of government and power.............but they don't. Amy Goodman backs down and serves the power structure.

So sad. So dangerous for us all. I'll be dead in a few decades, for sure, but my kids will live on in a world of horror.............because Alternet has decided it didn't want to do its job.

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That is a list of ten good reasons to condemn Bush, but there is one more, and it is the worst. It is his response to the warnings that an attack was imminent prior to 9/11. Either he made no response or the wrong response. Here is a new paper which makes it clear that he did respond but it was the wrong response. Go to the Journal of 9/11 Studies,
http://journalof911studies.com
and select the paper titled The Missing Jolt.

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I think that making Bush the fall guy for what America has become is going down a dangerous path that doesn't address the real problem.

Don't get me wrong, no one has been more critical of Bush than I have. But he was elected twice by the American people (or at least in the first election, got a huge number of votes...). Remember, he is a servant, a employee of the American people.

There is no question that he and his neocon buddies have helped move America down the wrong path, but think about this. He didn't create the shady stock market deals, he didn't make the bad loans, he didn't overvalue the housing market. He wasn't involved in "welfare reform", didn't create NAFTA, or caused the republican revolution in congress.

The American people did.

The reality is that Americans have become more and more greedy, self-centered and uncaring towards their communities over the last 26 years. (I might note that the trend away from resource equality and towards resource inequality corresponds with the amount of resources the babyboomers have. It is easy to sit a field in the '60s and whine about being poor guys. Now that you have all the money, your sense of economic justice has seems to have disappeared.)

Yes, everyone will support Obama if he fixes the economy, because the economy is hurting everyone. But make no mistake- as soon as middle-class people stop feeling the hurt of the recession, the necons will be back, pushing their "me first" agenda.

And it will probably be another easy sell.

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The whole system of government in America is corrupt, that's why Bush was allowed to do what he did.
Anyone that thinks that Obama will correct this corruption is dreaming. I'm not saying that Obama is evil like Bush, but the system will stifle him.
Democrats are as guilty as Bush and company, so until we get a third alternative, we are domed to fail, again and again.
Obama by indicating that he will NOT pursue an investigation into Bush crimes, makes us all guilty in this mass murderers actions.
Money is what makes the American government run, but only for those who have the money.( Large corporations )
Bush and his administration have done more harm to America and the world, than Osama ben Laden could ever have done.

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We have Barack. Even though we elected W twice, now we have Barack to take his place, but didn't we elect him, too?

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I'm a lifelong liberal (or progressive depending on how one defines these terms). I've looked up the words "liberal" and "conservative," and even using the most flattering definitions of conservative, I am not a fan of conservatism. However, there is nothing conservative about the Bush administration or his cronies.

Although I believe progressive politics and social causes are better for society in general, I can respect true conservative ideology. In the truest sense, environmentalism is conservative. Maintaining the ideals of democracy, human rights, and integrity are conservative goals. Fiscal responsibility is also a conservative notion.

Some of the more positive definitions of conservative are traditional, cautious, stable, and conventional.

Some of the less positive definitions are obstinate, inflexible, and unprogressive.

Yes, the Bush cabal is obstinate, inflexible, and unprogressive, but they are not traditional or cautious. They are reckless lawbreakers. What is conservative about this?

For a great look at the willful damage done by the Bush reign of terror, check out The Regressive Antidote by David Michael Green. Now THAT is a great label: "regressive." It fits a lot better than "conservative."

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While your anger at the actions of the US in the last 8 years are certainly understandable, I think it's misplaced and you have a basic misunderstanding of the situation.

You would have it that all of us are to blame for what happened...without giving any of us any credit at all for the magnitude of the struggle we've just been engaged in - and won.

As I've said before, and evidence increasingly supports, we had a coup - where the country was illegally taken over by a criminal gang...much as in the situation in Germany, or even in France and other criminally occupied countries. Did large numbers of American voters support this coup? Of course. Just as large numbers of Germans and French supported or went along with those governments.

What I think you fail to appreciate, is the enormity of the task to fight back in a country where ALL the major organs of politics, economics, law enforcement, military and media were controlled by the people who took over the country...and to do so without resorting to illegal acts, ourselves.

Much as the French Resistance did, we continued to fight, with what methods we had available to us. Unlike both the German people who opposed the Nazi regime and the French resistance effort, however, we were able to eventually - without outside aid or action that eventually helped free them - to free OURSELVES and reclaim our country.

Would you condemn us now for our efforts and success, because you believe it should have happened sooner or more easily? I hope this situation never happens in YOUR countries, but - unless it does - you simply can't comprehend the agony of watching the events taking place in YOUR name...regardless of your protests and efforts to block it - and the certain knowledge of how wrong it was.

Yes...the same bad elements that initiated this horrible series of events are still out there...as are their supporters. We must be vigilant and continue to fight to maintain our principles and democracy. The key point here, however, is we fought as hard as we could, using the few resources and legal methods available to us...AND WE WON! While none of us should forgive the perpetrators or their supporters, I think credit is certainly due to those of us who kept fighting for our ideals and eventually prevailed.

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