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The presidency of George Bush will soon be coming to an end but what will be his legacy? How has the Bush presidency affected you and your country? Will he go down as the worst president in US history? What have been the greatest failings and biggest achievements of his time in office? How will Bush be remembered in the US and around the world?
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at 17:02 on December 26th, 2008
this debate is still continuing in Aljazeera website. i though it is good topic to have comment about it therefore i was paste it there for dear readers to take part in discussion and express their opinion about bush's legacy
at 19:07 on December 26th, 2008
George W. Bush’s pitiful legacy “The Failed Presidency of George W. Bush: A Dismal Legacy Part I” (Professor Rodrigue Tremblay. Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/5648/32/).
“The Failed Presidency of George W. Bush: A Dismal Legacy, Part II” (Professor Rodrigue Tremblay. Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/the-failed-presidency-of-george-w-bush-a-dismal-legacy-part-ii-by-prof-rodrigue-tremblay/).
“George Bush's Legacy: A Failed Presidency” (Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://www.geocities.com/bill_dietrich/GeorgeBushLegacy.html).
“President Bush regrets his legacy as man who wanted war - Times Online” (Tom Baldwin and Gerard Baker (in Ljubljana). Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4107327.ece).
“Jeet Heer on the Bush legacy: The most damaging president since Herbert Hoover” (Posted by Kelly McParland. Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/11/28/jeet-heer-on-the-bush-legacy-the-most-damaging-president-since-herbert-hoover.aspx).
“The Lethal Legacy of George W. Bush!” (Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=490).
“Editorial: Bush presidency: Bitter legacy” (Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=116056&d=4&m=11&y=2008).
“Bush’s lawless legacy will outlast his presidency” (By: Justyn Dillingham. Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://media.wildcat.arizona.edu/media/storage/paper997/news/2008/12/04/Opinions/Bushs.Lawless.Legacy.Will.Outlast.His.Presidency-3569397.shtml).
“George W. Bush’s Legacy Will Include Two Things: Cocaine and Charity” (By Timothy Sexton. Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/506799/george_w_bushs_legacy_will_include.html).
“Bush’s trip a reminder of a failed foreign policy legacy” (Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://www.nsnetwork.org/node/1139).
“Bush’s Legacy: not pretty” (By Nick Ragone. Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://donklephant.com/2008/10/11/bushs-legacy-not-pretty/).
“Midwest Voices: President Bush’s laughable legacy” (By Ivo Ivanov (Kansas City Star Midwest Voices panelist). Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://voices.kansascity.com/node/2816).
“A legacy of damage to America: The president’s vile precedents etcetera” (By Douglas Drenkow. Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://www.neilrogers.com/news/articles/2006031613.html).
“Bush’s Legacy of Failure” (Robert Scheer. Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/bushs-legacy-of-failure_b_92259.html).
“Bush’s inane legacy . . . Today President Bush put the final stamp on his failed presidency by inflicting his misguided Christian moral agenda on our reproductive health care system. His conscience clause regulation is a draconian attempt at implementing his theocratic agenda. It will not stand. History will highlight this as the final incompetent act of desperately stupid presidency” (Posted by MO JOEY. Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://mojoey.blogspot.com/2008/12/bush-inane-legacy.html).
“America Disgraced! George Bush’s Legacy” (By Ted Lang. Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/04/05/03/lang.htm).
“A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency (Hardcover)” (By Glenn Greenwald (Author). Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://www.amazon.com/Tragic-Legacy-Mentality-Destroyed-Presidency/dp/0307354199).
“Bush to leave a troubled legacy” (By Rob Winder (in St Paul, Minnesota). Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/09/20089334344771155.html).
“George W. Bush And His Legacy Of Debt” (Posted by: Eric Ames. Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://www.nuwireinvestor.com/blogs/investorcentric/2008/11/george-w-bush-and-his-legacy-of-debt.html).
“George Bush’s toxic legacy” (Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/6568).
“Olbermann Demolishes Bush Legacy Talking Points” (Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://www.democrats.com/olbermann-demolishes-bush-legacy-talking-points).
“BUSH’S LEGACY: FISCAL MELTDOWN, WEAK ECONOMY” (Prepared by the Office of Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://majorityleader.house.gov/docUploads/BUSH-BUDGET-FY09.pdf).
“Historians: Bush legacy ‘battered,’ ‘incompetent’” (Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://news.theroot.com/theroot/2008/11/07/243634608-historians-bush-legacy-battered-incompetent).
“Good riddance, Mr Bush: sadly, your legacy remains . . . It’s over. The formalities will not be complete until January and the inauguration, but the era of George W Bush has passed. Launched with hubristic conviction, it ends strangely, as though an eerie silence has settled over the White House and its forgotten tenant. The fair-weather friends have quit the ship. His party has no further use for ‘the most powerful man in the world’. No-one wants to know. The Bush coalition itself has collapsed. Theocratic impulses, globalised capitalism, geopolitical exceptionalism, appropriated patriotism, hegemonic wars on terrorism: one by one, the tenets have crumbled. It is likely that the president has not yet found a need to read Ozymandias, but he would surely get Shelley’s gist. The legacy, as Americans call it, is a mess. Barely one in five of his compatriots now ‘approves’ of Mr Bush. International opinion is less indulgent. Even among those still attempting to salvage something from his brand of conservatism, there are few straws left for clutching” (Ian Bell. Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/featuresopinon/display.var.2465620.0.Good_riddance_Mr_Bush_sadly_your_legacy_remains.php).
“The Lexicon Legacy of George W. Bush . . . As the U.S. lurches towards the end of President George Bush’s reign of terror, it can look back at a number of Mr. Bush’s ‘accomplishments:’ transforming a record-breaking budget surplus into a record-breaking deficit; starting two wars for no good reason, and generally making fascism fashionable again” (Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://www.counterpunch.org/fantina05102008.html).
“YOUR VIEW: Bush’s war legacy will not be forgiven” (By Bruce C. Ditata (Mr. Ditata lives in Wareham). Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080103/OPINION/801030307/1015/TOWN14).
“The Bitter Bush Legacy: In Gall, We Trust” (By Doug Bandow. Retrieved December 23, 2008, from http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5156).
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
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“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/12/george-w-bushs-pitiful-legacy.html
at 22:18 on December 26th, 2008
http://my.nowpublic.com/world/us-citizens-heads-gov-blagojevich-vs-bushs-legacy...
He has destroyed the trust of the American people. He is the most out of touch President since Harry Truman. He is a radical, thought to be a moderate. He is the maddog.. the Maddox, the Saddam, and the axis of evil. More to the point is how Americans allowed him to do what he did? The US is nothing more than an unending crime scene. ..He is responsible for doing 911.
Rev. Jermano
at 21:34 on December 30th, 2008
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Bush’s legacy will be bad, in part, due to his raging racism.
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“WASHINGTON Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the country is not ‘race-blind’ and ‘we shouldn’t deceive ourselves that we’re race-blind,’ but she said the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president was a key moment in history. ‘I think all Americans were quite taken with the fact that we were able, after the long history we’ve been through, that initial birth defect of slavery, that we’ve elected an African-American,’ Rice said in an interview taped recently on CBS’ Sunday Morning. ‘And that’s enormously heartening for people in the country, but also people worldwide who still have trouble with differences.’ Rice, who left segregated Alabama to eventually become the first African-American woman to be secretary of state, warned that the United States still has problems with race. ‘But I do think we’ve gotten to the place that we don’t see a person and say, ‘That’s a black person, therefore they must be ...’ And that’s an enormous step forward’” ((No author listed). (2008, December 29). U.S. still has problems with race, Rice warns. http://www.baltimoresun.com/. Retrieved December 30, 2008, from http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.briefs292dec29,0,6091459.story).
For example, George W. Bush is not race-blind and still has problems with race.
On balance, George W. Bush is a hate-crime criminal (indicated at http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-did-you-think-of-that-naacp-anti.html: “George W. Bush had better stop committing hate crimes”).
On balance, George W. Bush hates Jews (indicated at http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/12/george-w-bush-dislikes-or-hates-jews-in.html: “George W. Bush dislikes or hates Jews in his heart and mind”).
On balance, George W. Bush hates immigrants (indicated at http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/12/george-w-bush-hates-immigrants.html: “George W. Bush hates immigrants”; and http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-did-you-think-of-that-naacp-anti.html: “George W. Bush had better stop committing hate crimes”).
On balance, George W. Bush hates black people (indicated at http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/12/andrew-yu-jen-wang-responds-to-stokely.html: “Andrew Yu-Jen Wang responds to Stokely Carmichael’s comment in Wang’s blog”).
On balance, George W. Bush hates Latino people (indicated at http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-did-you-think-of-that-naacp-anti.html: “George W. Bush had better stop committing hate crimes”).
On balance, George W. Bush hates Arabs and Muslims (indicated at http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-did-you-think-of-that-naacp-anti.html: “George W. Bush had better stop committing hate crimes”; and http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/11/george-w-bush-is-racist.html: “George W. Bush is a racist”).
On balance, George W. Bush hates Indian people (indicated at http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/11/george-w-bush-is-racist.html: “George W. Bush is a racist”).
On balance, George W. Bush hates Filipino people (indicated at http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/11/george-w-bush-is-racist.html: “George W. Bush is a racist”).
Bush is like Adolf Hitler: Bush in such an uncontainable manner wants to maintain that his race is superior to all other races.
Bush’s racial prejudices are shocking to the conscience.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/12/us-still-has-problems-with-race-rice.html
at 21:32 on January 29th, 2009
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The term given to Bush is over. Well, he will now have the retirement benefit. Most American’s vote for Obama for a change. This just means that people is not satisfied with the governance of the former administration. George Bush will be getting a $191,000 a year pension for life, and he has two enormous homes in Texas where he will retire. It seems he won't need payday loans ever again. To date, a few presidents have refused salary, but none have refused pension. See more at the Personal Money Store payday loans money blog.
at 07:19 on January 30th, 2009
And here I make a little over 5,000 USD per year. I don't kill people, or believe in War, and I teach at school...hardly do I intend to leave a child behind...I am about as honest as a bucket of maple sap, and I don't own any Real Estate or my own home. I had to leave the USA because they do not afford me freedom of my religion which is against war. If I stayed in the USA they would take my tax dollars to pay for the War machine. I am 51 years old and follow the advice of Dwight Eisenhower....I also have a wife and 2 children I support out here in the PR China. I don't own or use a car, because of Global Warming, and take it as a personal responsibility to contribute toward saving the planet. I don't own a gun, or believe guns can stop crimes, or prevent them. I believe guns cause crimes and paranoia in the people. I would not support gun ownership. I do believe in self education, because the University System has totally let me down and is more broken than the Mortage and Financial Crisis we face today. Truely if American Universities are Accredited Places of learning and proof of Development...they have failed us miserably by giving us graduates who run our country into the dirt...economically, and lying to go to war, killing thousands of innocent people. I certainly am no hypocrite here...I believe in God....and God does not need or believe in Militaries. I am for the banning of Militaries and support my Institution called the International Institute of Nonviolence. I refuse to join any secret organizations.
Church to me is being at home. I do not support Organized Religion.. I support the Gospel of Jesus of Nazareth...
Now if GW Bush gets all that money a year in Pensions....and I get really to what amounts to nothing....and I do all these real necessary good things...I just wonder truely Lord...where and what will happen to me? I think I will be in good standings if not excellent. GW Bush and his love of money in a financial skeleton thought to be the USA will just be going through that eye in a needle for a very long time.
Rev. Jermano
Have Mercy Lord, have mercy!
at 18:24 on January 31st, 2009
I am in China and still here; coming after 911 hit my homestate in New York...and knowing it was an inside job committed on Americans. Let's be clear that our economic problems have been created by the MIC. That very Military Industrial Complex is very much involved with the planning and execution of 911..to wage a phoney war all for the guise of Oil resources, while claiming we are bringing Democracy to the World.
We all know that in order to stop the War machine we need to stop supporting Wall Street so the MIC guys can no longer use it to keep their war machine going. It may hurt the little guy but at least it stops the bombs on innocent people in foreign countries...at least we live..in poverty.
Let me tell you this...911 is a crime committed by people in both parties in the US. By exposing them would bring down the whole process too, but how it is now they hushup people to keep themsleves out of the spotlight. Otherwise leaders such as Mike Bloomberg Mayor of New York, and Gov.Arnold Schwartneggar of California would support a true investigation to 911. They can not explain the facts to why Building 7 collapsed when no plane hit it. Also that Silverstein was very aware of the cost to demolishing the WTC because of the huge Asbestos problem inside.
These guys came together to create a terror attack to hoodwink the world into the War machines Industrial endeavors. But it has backfired. Look close and hard and you will see how Bloombergs campaign manager had an intimate money contact with Rod Blagojevich of Illinois. Notice how they had him sacked by impeaching him on flimsy charges of a crime he never committed..The rue is Blago, could have stopped the Impeachment by bringing up the 911 issue..but he didn't. Why? He is a smart guy. It doesn't mean he won't yet. The rue is they sacked Elliot Spitzer because he was getting close and exercising his powers of authority against the 911 perpetraitors, when he was successful in bringing down Scooter Libby.
All of that steel from the WTC was sold to China and India to make the 450 million dollar birds nest stadium for the Beijing Olympics..and Bloomberg was instrumental in having that evidence sold right out from under the noses of investigators. Now everything is falling in on them, and they joined forces to get this huge 700 billion bank bailout, and Obama now with his 819 billion economic stimulus has literally balanced the budget debt between the Rich and Poor classes in the US.
The thinking is keep the poor people happy...will thereby stop further investigative threats...and keep those cronies who orchestrated 911 out of jail.. Obama is in on this crime as well...giving him to be the first USA Black President in history, if he does not make waves about 911 and impeaching Bush and Cheney for War Crimes.
Bill Clinton is very much involved with 911 as well...One only needs to see his buddy pal relationship with the Bushes and his connection to Sandy I Weills of Citigroup who repealed the Glass Steagall Act on Bank Regulations that Enron wanted...which was basically too late to change their fall from grace. Enrons fall forced the hand of those to execute 911 to destroy acquired documented evidence. Obama will get his stimulus package passed by the Senate..mark my words. But I and now you know better don't we!
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