8 years on and only a few days before George W leaves office. Will anyone really miss the man who has wrought so much carnage and mayhem in office? In fact, is it possible to point to even one positive thing he did or achieved in his presidency?
The Guardian reflects:
"The gaffes, the gibberish, the gurning. Admit it: there's a part of him [George W] you're going to miss."
Oliver Burkeman writes on Bush's comic legacy. Just one small example [read the entire piece here]:
"During Bush's first campaign in 2000, the consensus among many liberals was that he was an idiot, a barely literate simpleton in the Chauncey Gardiner mould. Many of the greatest Bushisms date from those early days. "Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?" a windcheater-clad Bush noted during a campaign stop in South Carolina, a couple of weeks before inviting a New Hampshire audience to imagine themselves in the shoes of a single mother "working hard to put food on your family".
The Guardian reflects:
"The gaffes, the gibberish, the gurning. Admit it: there's a part of him [George W] you're going to miss."
Oliver Burkeman writes on Bush's comic legacy. Just one small example [read the entire piece here]:
"During Bush's first campaign in 2000, the consensus among many liberals was that he was an idiot, a barely literate simpleton in the Chauncey Gardiner mould. Many of the greatest Bushisms date from those early days. "Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?" a windcheater-clad Bush noted during a campaign stop in South Carolina, a couple of weeks before inviting a New Hampshire audience to imagine themselves in the shoes of a single mother "working hard to put food on your family".
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