The Bush legacy of failure

Some people just don’t get it. “It” being the finer points of presidency, or, indeed, the very basics of being the leader of the free world. George W. Bush is a prime example of this oblivious status. In being the very embodiment of failure, good old Dubya has taken a stable economy and trashed it.

We are now trillions of dollars in debt, and Americans are hated throughout the world for the unpopular decisions the Bush Administration made. He has gotten us involved in an extremely tense situation in the Middle East that should have been handled delicately, like a tiptoeing mouse. Instead he trampled in like a rampaging, and particularly brainless, woolly mammoth, rushing our troops in like some D-Day rehash.

Now Bush and his advisors say that it is too delicate a situation to simply pull our troops out. That’s like saying, “Well, I went for a swim in this pool of quicksand, but now it’s too delicate a situation to pull out of too fast.” You went for a swim in the thing; it’s your own fault. I agree that hastily  pulling  our troops  out would be disastrous, but of course, they shouldn’t be there in the first place.

Now other folks, particularly the good old boys back here in Idaho, are actually applauding our 28 percent approval-rating president. Gee, I wonder where most of that 28 percent came from. Several people have written to the Idaho Statesman to say that Dubya will actually be considered a great president in the years to come. I don’t think so.

George W. Bush is, quite simply put, an absolute and complete idiot. That’s not the kind of person who would go down in history alongside truly great presidents such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and James K. Polk (about whom the band They Might Be Giants wrote a song).

People talk all the time about the so-called “Bush Legacy.” He’s leaving us a legacy, all right, but it’s a legacy of failure. Hopefully the next president doesn’t follow in his footsteps. Whoever our next president is, whether it’s Obama or McCain, that person had better learn from the mistakes the Bush Administration made.

In other words, he better learn from every single decision the Bush Administration made, because every last decision was, in its very essence, a mistake. Electing Bush was in and of itself a mistake, one we have only ourselves to blame. Please, this November, go out and cast your vote, and soon we can forget all about these awful last eight years.

Nolan Koenig is a freshman studying English

NOLAN KOENIG
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