Who else thinks Bush's legacy as President will be failure and incompetence?
913122
Ulysses S. Grant, poor man, will probably hang on to his worst President ranking for some time to come.\n\nHaving said that, this President has, for all his vaunted business experience, done a particularly crappy job in choosing and managing people.\n\nAnd they, in turn, have done a particularly crappy job in running the Administration.
811698
I think Bush and Blair will be given the credit for this defeat. Rumsfeld has already made his excuses and left before the final disaster
913272
I think it could go deep into the Bush administrations, with his signing statements and his war in Iraq for the personal gain of many in his administration it might cause humpty dumpty to drop from the wall and not be fixed.
740770
I believe that Iraq has shown how dysfunctional this Administration and This President are. However, the country as a whole will survive his incompetence and deceit of the American people and the world. We have survived many catastrophes and Bad presidents. We suffered through the second least popular president after George W Bush (NIxon), and came out whole and strong. We survived Viet Nam, so I believe we can survive this tragedy in Iraq.\n\nUnfortunately, it may take a generation to win back the tarnished reputation of the US as a result of this President's complete disregard for the values and opinions of the rest of the world. He has caused more damage to international relations, and increased global terrorism more in his six years in office than I would have ever imagined possible in 3 or 4 times that amount of time.
773877
Actually, I think Bush's respect is at a record low now and will probably head even further south as he has set this country and much of the world on a horrible path that is going to take a long time to correct.\n\nThe needless thousands of deaths he has caused can never be forgiven or forgotten.
370266
At least twice each week I read the rant of another angry American who declares that Bush is an idiot, but if they're just figuring that out now, they're throwing stones from a glass house. Of course he's an idiot. They needed an idiot. If the man displayed any signs of intelligence, evil actions couldn't be  passed off as "failures" or "bungling." If the president were intelligent and scholarly, people would question why he's completely incompetent, \nbut because he's an obvious buffoon, many people accept that as the reason everything's \ngoing horribly wrong. It's also a lot less distressing to believe that your government is incompetent rather than know that they're evil, and most people will cling to that comfort.\n\n               The real problem is that if people blame Bush's idiocy for our troubles, they probably also think that the solution would be to get him out of office, but if they think we'll be saved by "Hillary in '08," or any other politician, they're even slower than Bush. \n\nRegardless of who's occupying the White House, there has never been an idiot running this country. There's  too much power and money at stake for an idiot to gain control of it. If the president is an idiot,  he's only in the White House because someone else has firm control over him. Someone somewhere has a lot more control over the fate of this nation than our "president" does. \n\n               Of course this reasoning begs the question "if this country isn't being run by an idiot, \nwhy is everything going so horribly wrong?" The answer is that it's going wrong by design. \nThe questioner makes the  assumption that this country is being run by people who are acting in the interest of Americans, but nothing can be further from the truth. Instead of accusing Bush of doing a lousy job, or being a lousy president, please try to think in terms of Bush's "boss" being someone other than the American people, and his "job" as being to grab as \nmuch cash as he can for himself and his friends before driving this country into the ground. If you look at his presidency in that light, you can instantly see that he's doing a marvelous job, and he's the best "president" an enemy nation could ever hope to see in the White House.The fact of the matter is that America as we know it (or knew it) is being systematically destroyed, and the politicians from both political parties are making this possible.\n\n             Freedom and justice are fading memories, the U.S. Constitution is "just a goddamn piece of paper," and the election process has been undermined. The jobs have been shipped overseas, the economy is hopeless, the environment is being raped, the Army is "broken," the infrastructure is crumbling, our borders are being dissolved, and every dollar or gold nugget that was subject to being looted, is already gone. With the entire nation and its population deep in debt, crashing the economy is a simple matter of raising interest rates, which will allow the bankers to once again scoop up all mortgaged property, and force its inhabitants out into the street. Instead of calling it illegal immigration, we should be calling it a foreign invasion, because the consequences of this invasion are as terminal to our freedoms and to our way of life as any act of terrorism ever perpetrated against us! The United States is being invaded - FOREIGN INVADERS.  \n\n             The American people need to understand that the United States is under attack! \nNo, not by Iraq or Iran, but by Mexico! Yes, Martha, you had better believe it. \nThe Mexican government is deliberately and systematically working to destabilize and undermine the very fabric and framework of American society. \n             And President George W. Bush and Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy (among others) ar
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In my opinion and the opinion of 71% of the people in this country and an overwhelming majority in the rest of the world yes. It will probably go down as the worst presidency in the history of the United States.
322716
YOU SHOULD START TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT BUSH AND HIS FAILURES, PLEASE READ!!!\nAccomplishments as president:\n\n    *\n\n      Attacked and took over two countries.\n    *\n\n      Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.\n    *\n\n      Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.\n    *\n\n      Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.\n    *\n\n      Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.\n    *\n\n      First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.\n    *\n\n      First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.\n    *\n\n      First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history.\n    *\n\n      Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in US history.\n    *\n\n      In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.\n    *\n\n      Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.\n    *\n\n      Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.\n    *\n\n      Signed more laws and executive orders circumventing the Constitution than any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.\n    *\n\n      Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.\n    *\n\n      Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.\n    *\n\n      Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. (http://www.hyperreal.org/~dana/marches/)\n    *\n\n      Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      My presidency is the most secretive and un-accountable of any in US history.\n    *\n\n      Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (the 'poorest' multi-millionaire, Condoleezza Rice has an Chevron oil tanker named after her).\n    *\n\n      Had more states to simultaneously go bankrupt than any president in the history of the United States.\n    *\n\n      Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.\n    *\n\n      Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.\n    *\n\n      Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission.\n    *\n\n      First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board. \n    *\n\n      Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.\n    *\n\n      Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.\n    *\n\n      Withdrew from the World Court of Law.\n    *\n\n      Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.\n    *\n\n      First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).\n    *\n\n      All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.\n    *\n\n      My biggest life-time campaign contributor presi
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I think it is time to move on with other policies that work. The Bush administration has been nothing, but failure after failure.
691622
It is easy, in America his term will come to an end and he will be forgotten, he will take his graft money and fade into the woodwork. The damage that he has done to America and its people will never be forgotten. I do not look for another repuglican president for a long, long time.
951604
Bush will go done in history as the sorriest President ever. The way he callously mislead countless world leaders with his adolescent college attitude and "better than thou -privileged boy" world view — will have the world recovering from this wound forever.
509959
I also think in terms of... what is America founded on... and how to maintain these freedoms that we hold so dear... some of the things this administration has done (wiretapping, CIA leak) verge on un-American... and this is the president, the man elected to represent America... it's just sad...\n\nI also fear that a future president may take Bush's interpretation of the constitution and stretch it even more... in other words, Bush is  undermining the constitution and that could have horrible effects down the road if future presidents continue to undermine it...
412850
well Bush is going to do what he does best and that is make a mess and leave it for someone else to clean up....it won't be during his presidency he will leave it for the next guy to deal with
915749
I'm not a dem, but will answer anyhow.  Bush is commander in chief, so he will decide the military action...and we will see how his new secretary will advise.  They know better than any politicians how to win this war.  I wonder, though, that if they decide to change the course of action and fail, will the american people blame the dems?  I don't think that anything is going to change drastically before the next two years.  To do so would be political suicide...unless they decide that they will give clear goals and time frames to accomplish them.  i believe that if you give people deadlines, they try harder to meet goals.  That's how it works in the business world...
1178306
one of the worst presidents!!! our economy sucks. soldiers are getting killed over WMDs that did not exist! (and even if they did exist... who cares? we got em too!! but no one is invading us and killing our innocent civilians!) he hasn't accomplished anything good for the american people. the unemployment rate has risen since the clinton administration. we are in soooo much debt and so much more that i wont even get into. bush will definitely go down as one of the worst presidents.
926393
The legacy of Bush's foreign policy is a complete failure.\nHe has proven time and again to be obtuse and incapable of understanding intricate international political winds. He has proven on many occasions to be caustic on the sensitivities of other Nations, only willing to negotiate if it serves his interest even at the expense of the American people. America is an important country and her people do not necessarily reflect the ideological path he has chosen. The next president will have many fences to mend.
513984
I hope so, depends on how the repuglicans spin their failures in the last 5 years. Some people would believe any thing that they say, I for one have never been fond of supply side economics's It has never worked. Clinton's consumer driven economics got the budget in the black and it didn't take long for Bush and his goons to end all of that prosperity.