If the voters don’t have that wisdom, why should the president?
The country has survived having lesser men at the helm, I suspect that it will make it through the current unpleasantness as well.
I wish him good health (Cheney would be even worse, IMHO), more humility, and a swift and deep descent into the dust bin of history once he leaves office. It’ll be a just reward in a hundred years when people are hard pressed to remember much about him except he was his father’s son, he was President when the World Trade Center was bombed, and he started a war in Iraq.
By gobear:* “Let’s use today as our Inauguration Day, when we dedicate ourselves to the goals of economic opportunity for everyone, not just the rich; freedom for everyone, not just the religious; and security for our nation, using diplomacy and strategy first, resorting to war only at the last.”*
gobear: You realize that posting things like the above is destroying the image of Democrats as a bunch of bitter, crybaby, sore losers don’t you? So many here have worked so hard to develop that image. They’ve nearly convinced those of us that aren’t fans of either party that the Dems have nothing to offer but whining. Now you would destroy all their hard work by posting a statement of reason and common sense?
What a relief!
Neither James Polk (Mexican-American War) nor William McKinley (Spanish-American War) are revered for their parts in starting their respective wars, nor are they remembered for much of anything else really. I can easily see Bush taking his place in the pantheon of history alongside those two.
Yeah well I don’t give a shit about how the distant future will view him, I give a shit that he’s fucking us and our children up now.
lovely sentiment - I think Mister Bush needs to hear that, too. Or should have heard it before he decided to randomly invade a country because he thought he could get away with it (though so far he has).
No where to go but up, assuming the head of Torture-Memo gate isn’t approved and Rumsfeld is replaced.
Mynn, you seem to be under the impression that things can’t get worse.
You’re right. When people start threads wishing for GW’s death, it’s pretty much bottom of the barrel for the ‘loyal opposition’.
No, we’re approaching the bottom of the barrel when a puppet of neoconservative interests declares that his invisible sky fairy wants him and his Neoconservative puppermasters to decide when and where they are going to impose their will on other countries and proclaim it is in the interest of “freedom” and “justice” and whatever other buzzwords they can throw out to fool the electorate. And if they have to erode civil rights and tolerance along the way, so be it.
Minor nitpick: Old Tippecanoe died 31 days into his first term. If Bush died early in his second term, I believe Lincoln has the record he’d need to break for the earliest second term exit at about 42 days (Mar 4-Apr 15)
And if one believed that GW’s death would prevent future deaths which would otherwise have occurred had he lived, who or what should one be loyal to?
I am a fervent optimist. I’m also still reeling from Karl Rove’s interview on Morning Edition today.
Gods, no. Last thing we need to do is martyr the SOBs.
If that is their belief, they should seek psychiatric care.
Why, it’s a pretty straight forward concept. He he died 10 years ago, then history would have resulted in a timeline of either less death or more death. Since he’s actions have been killing quite a few people, we can extrapolate that his nonexistence would translate to less death.
I don’t think he deserves to die or anything, I’m just making a point.
Like all those who want insert terror leader du jour here killed?
True. Dick Cheney would be president.
Holy shit, that was awful.
IF he died…
Since his actions…
Wibble. Matron?
You guys do excel at making incredibly stupid and bad comparisons, I will grant you that.
No, we can’t extrapolate that. Bush didn’t cause 9/11, Bush didn’t invent Neoconservativism, and Bush didn’t invent the concept of pro-active war. If George W had never lived, I imagine some other Republican leader would be in the Whitehouse right now, and he’d probably be doing basically the same things.