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Nice job, Joan -- it's good to look back at times even as most of us are rather desperately looking forward.
Bush seems to think that history will vindicate him. I won't be around to see that, I'm sure. I'm also sure that in the short-term future, at least, his presidency will keep looking worse. Never in my 60+ year memory has one president left the next with such a horrible mess, and the details keep coming out.
Examples abound, and are well documented. The Iraq war was probably the worst, with his reckless debt-financed economic policies a close second. But fundamentally it was all about him: wilfully ignorant, arrogant, self-righteous -- the list goes on. He is fundamentally incompetent and it was a punishment of us all that he ever achieved the presidency in the first place.
Personally, after 1/20/09 I'd be glad never to hear from him or of him for the rest of my life.
