Bush looks to his legacy
By Sean Aqui | Related entries in General Politics, News
As President Bush’s administration begins winding down to a much-anticipated close, we’re starting to see some attempts at legacy burnishing. This is where presidents on the downslope of their time in office propose a series of ambitious or laudable initiatives that they hope will get them remembered as visionaries and big thinkers.
When a president is as weakened as Bush is, the burnishing takes the form of proposals that he never felt merited serious effort or political capital earlier in his administration, and that will not even be seriously considered until the next administration is in office. It’s risk-free, pain-free posturing for the history books.
(continued at Midtopia)
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June 6th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
There’s nothing this man can do to change my opinion of him. As far as I am concerned he and his corrupt colleagues in the White House have done grievous harm to this country and I don’t mean that lightly at all. In my view this guy is the second or third worst president in the history of this nation and the first worst president in terms of corruption.
In my opinion the worst president in our nations history is Andrew Johnson then tied for second; Richard Nixon and Woodrow Wilson. Bush is right there with Nixon in terms of his deceptiveness and Woodrow Wilson in terms of his foreign policy bungling. Just my personal take.
June 7th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Andrew Johnson was certainly unsuccessful. But, from what I’ve read, not ill-intentioned. Which takes him out of the running for worst five Presidents.
For all time worst, I’ve long inclined to Harding. But it’s looking like Bush will edge him out — probably a dead heat on corruption, but Bush gets the nod for massive foreign policy bungling. Taking America from general sympathy (right after 9/11) to general disgust in just a few years took real work.