"Wrongheaded" is the key word in Bartlett's statement. He forgot stupid,stubborn,liar, and

lots more. Instead of allowing him to go back

to Texas he should be sent to some federal penal institution for all of his crimes. While he is going there he should be accompanied by his counsel, Alberto Gonzales.

1) Bush ever made a single decision about anything ever in his entire life, let alone within the Cheney/Rove administration.

2) Bush had not lost both the 2000 and 2004 elections. He wasn't "re-elected" in 2004, he was re-deafeted. And, just like the first time, we were the only losers.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .that's "A" for A-S-S-H-O-L-E.

brings new meaning to the academic phrase: Grade Inflation. It should be closer to a "D-" . What would keep me from giving him an "E" is the fact that at most academic institutions you can repeat a course if you receive an E. He's the type a professor wouldn't want to see again...

Of course Bartlett says this. Just like Baghdad Bob standing in the streets of Baghdad and proclaiming the victory of Saddam over America even as American tanks could be seen driving past in the background.

It's called lying.

According to Bush and his minions, results are irrelevant; intention is all that matters. So, using the same reasoning, if I sell all my family's possessions for one big stock market scheme, and it fails miserably, and we end up living on the streets, all that needs to be said about me is, "A great man who risked all to secure the American dream for his family. Though he failed, he was doing what he thought was the best for his family." Sounds noble, doesn't it?

We didn't know how true to life the Will Ferrell Bush sketches on SNL were going to be...we're all just working very hard - ha ha

The Bush resume shows abject failure at everything he's 'tried his best' to do. His father was right; GW was the wrong son and the Bush legacy from grandfather to the present has been disaster for America.

The full quote from Pope's famous epigram is, "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer." Barlett's statement is clearly assent, and for that he deserves some faint praise himself.

A damning comment would be like this: "Well, it is true that President Bush has subverted the Constitution, authorized war crimes and corrupted the Justice Department, but he really did mean well." The statement must be redolent of damnation, otherwise it does not, you known, damn.

And damnation is indeed what the situation requires.

Bartlett's comment on Boy King's well-meaning wake of destruction is an apt tribute to the weak and lazy mind:

OFTEN WRONG, NEVER IN DOUBT!

as another poster had it, more-or-less, whether Bush was competent, or did his best, or whatever, is entirely a matter of where you're sitting.

If you're an oil-company executive, or a defense-industry executive, or a Big Pharma executive or share-holder, or you're in investment banking, or you are an executive in a polluting industry, or the auto industry, Bush has been the best president in the last 100 years. Maybe ever.

Bush was *always* just a sock-puppet for the rich and powerful. He said it himself in that famous speech near the beginning of his first term..I forget where, or exactly what he said now, but he was making a joke, and his colors appeared, bright and sharp. The richest and most powerful people in this country are Bush's true base..not the shit-kicking southerners he's spent the last 6 years deluding.

His father was a similar sock-puppet.

Anyone with any doubts about who *really* runs things in the good ol U. S. of A should have no doubts now.

The rich and powerful do. Always have. Always will. From their point-of-view, Bush has been a gift of the greatest proportions.

Those same rich-and-powerful just better hope that they're not in the blast-radius of the inevitable small nuke that someone will almost surely light up in one of our major cities in the next decade, almost solely because of Bush's abject failure to secure our borders against such a threat, and because of his utterly irresponsible foreign policy. Hell, only a few of them will likely die anyway. The cost-benefit of that isn't even worth discussing, from their point-of-view.

Bush did his best to screw over working class Americans, and he succeeded in spectacular fashion. That's why I don't think of him as incompetent, he was very competent at what he set out to do, he even got the people he screwed sideways to vote for him 4 years later. I mean, when you have a president that gives tax breaks to companies to send jobs overseas, actually pays them to do it, and then convinces the people that lost their jobs because of it, to vote for him, that's an effective politician. Of course it helped that Kerry chose not to make a big issue of it, if I had been running, I would have mentioned that at every campaign stop.

It should rather be an I for idiocy.

Dan Bartlett's 36. The recruitment cutoff is 42. As a longtime booster of the Iraq War, he's supported sending plenty of husbands and fathers older than he is to fight and die in Iraq. Is it his time to step up?

The best of intentions would have been nice but I fear that in many cases we got the worst of Bush's intentions. The intention to make life worse for everyone else so the rich would be more comfortable, the intention to set the Middle East on fire to bring it to heal and the intention to rape a beautiful planet to mollify his right wing cynics who hate the idea of leaving a decent environment for future generations as they see it as communism.

I expect someone who is elected to the highest office in the land to leave the country in at least as good of shape as he found it. I don't think that "benchmark" is too unreasonable. But I do think we should expect a departing president to beable to say things are better.

When he was "elected" in 2000 I doubt anyone, even his detractors, thought for one second he would turn the country and the world into a cauldron of unrest and disaster.

Even if 9/11 had never happened, his end story would have been the same. He served (our presidents aren't kings) with contempt. 9/11 merely put him on the fast track.