It's natural to wonder how the future citizens of this country and the world will view our departing President, but now is not really the best time to ponder this subject. We are still too close to the disappointment, the memories of lost opportunities and wrong paths taken, to make sound judgement.
As an illustration, my current view on Bush's legacy is negative. Actually, calling it negative is like calling a black hole dark, a vacuum airless, or Wall Street a black hole.
Perhaps I will think differently in the future. Perhaps time and a restoring democracy (and economy) will soften my view.
Perhaps.
But right now, to my mind, the legacy of these past eight years might best be called a 'lunacy'.
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Good Post.
I bet history will be kind to GWB, but I am too close to my outrage to consider any kind of sympathetic view of his presidency, career, or even "life record".
To me, GWB is the man who will, throughout his long days, have again and again completely cheated failure.
Oldiron, you may be right about GWB and his ability to cheat failure. It might be futile for me to wish it, but I will continue to hope for some accountability in the near term, even if history shines up this bad apple eventually.
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