Letters to the Editor
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The Rangers, huh?
It must suck to be George W. Bush. Even when you talk baseball, you have to be a Rangers fan.
What's he saying about them? "Sure, they look bad on the field now, but they've only just now got the right guys in place. We won't know how good a team they are until...oh, November at least."
He probably also wants Spring Training extended to the All-Star break.
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I think Timbuktom answered one of the questions
The Bush administration has made it impossible to think about captured terrorists without thinking of the next thing: torture. This hamhanded approach to what is essentially crimefighting has distratced public attention from the criminal nature of the terrorists to the criminal acts of governments that break any rule, trample any right, to make up for not knowing who our enemies ar or how they operate. Or, as a pervious writer prosted, for not even being able to speak the language of the people we are up against.
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He wants to know about his legacy and good vs evil?
Let's just send him a copy of Glenn Greenwald's book. That should take care of it.
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Bush Thinks A Legacy Is Connected To A Footacy
Sooo...Bush is waxing long about his "legacy"? He is, finally, concerned about how history will treat him? He has now become Nixonian, wandering the halls of the White House in the middle of the night...talking to the portraits of dead Presidents?
Here's your "legacy", George: To paraphrase Shakespeare, from The Scottish Play: "Bush is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury...signifying nothing."
Shakespeare was, it seems, clairvoyant...
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You wanted him America.
America, you got him! Congratulations.
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So...do you think they'll name a big airport after me???
Bush's boys have been spending time on his "legacy" for quite a while. Traipsing through Clinton's Presidential Library opening, sneering, sulking and loudly looking for ideas for W's library. His legacy.
Now the man who brags that he partied through one of the most prestigious college educations available is spending time with "big thinkers" trying to paste a philosophical veneer over his rotting facade of a "legacy". Tragicomedy at its best.
And while his legacy continues to snowball into the biggest inexplicable waste of human life, resources, good will and reputation of any president in history, he spends his working hours worrying about whether the fish are biting, or the Rangers are losing. The lazy, indolent, half-witted, somnambulist president who has always gotten rewarded for barely showing up. Or not. This is what I expected of him.
And yet, I still find it unbelievable.
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Bush's legacy
Bush will be remembered as the president who brought back torture.
In a way it is understandable. Reading today about the people under interrogation over the Glasgow terrorist attack, my first gut reaction is to hope that they are being tortured painfully and are surrendering the names of their co-conspirators.
But this is just a gut reaction. As president of the US, you have to take a wider view.
When Henry II roared "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest!" some well-meaning knights took a day trip to Canterbury and killed Archbishop Thomas A'Becket, but when the king was informed of the assassination he was consumed with grief.
One hopes that modern leaders would not make similar errors.
After 9/11 Bush should have made it quite clear to all his cabinet that we needed to get to the bottom of who was behind 9/11, but that the Geneva Convention woud be adhered to and that torture would not be tolerated, and that anyone on our side who used torture, or condoned it, would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
He didn't because he did not have and does not have the leadership qualities and ability to project American values.
Impeachment would be nice, but failing that perhaps funds could be cut off from his Presidential Library and his name deleted from the history books, so that in the long run he will be forgotten. That is the best that can be hoped for. A vain hope, of course, because his place in the annals of infamy is assured.
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George Bush?
"What lessons does history have for a president facing the turmoil I'm facing? How will history judge what we've done? Why does the rest of the world seem to hate America? Or is it just me they hate?"
That's right. Leave it to the intellectuals to decide George. Somehow I can't imagine that the "intellectuals" he invites to flesh-out his legacy will have the same slant that clearer thinkers possess.
He will be remembered mostly as the "poodle" of Darth Cheney, the starter of preemptive wars, the liner of rich people's pockets, the torturer of humans, the incompetent handler of disasters, the hearer of God only, the ruiner of dreams, the taker of civil rights, the politicizer of attorneys, the re-starter of Cold wars, the builder of deficits, and the stacker of courts. He will be remembered as the village idiot who, for some reason still unclear to me, was able to amass 51% of a vote tied directly to people voting diametrically against their own best self interests. A head scratcher if ever there was one...
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Hallelujah !
So be it.
Now is the time to bring Congressman Kuchinich's Articles of Impeach to the House floor. Cheney and bush together.
Amen.
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No More Texas Presidents
"What is the nature of good and evil in the post-Sept. 11 world? The same as in the pre-Sept. 11 world. Torture and lying to start wars of choice were evil then, and are evil now.
"What lessons does history have for a president facing the turmoil I'm facing?" See: LBJ, Vietnam War. To wit: at least have the decency to admit you screwed up and retire asap.
"How will history judge what we've done?" Very harshly, notwithstanding the right-wing noise machine/corporate media cheerleaders, who are trying to forget y'all ever existed.
"Why does the rest of the world seem to hate America? Or is it just me they hate?" They do hate you, more than you can possibly imagine; but, thanks to you, they're starting to really wonder about all of us, and not just the most ignorant 28% y'all represent.