Bush’s ’Ultimate Exit Interview’

In Last News Conference, He Opens Up on Ups and Downs

Asked about mistakes he had made while in office -- a question that once famously stumped him -- Bush rattled off several examples, saying that he regretted his decision to focus on Social Security reform after the 2004 elections, a drive that proved unsuccessful, instead of first addressing immigration issues. Full Story »

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James Staley
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by James Staley - Jan. 14, 2009

This is quality journalism -- balanced, accurate, and fairly thorough, though I wish his "joyous daily" quote had been included. If journalists won't say it, we should at least be exposed to the phrase that more than any other showed Bush's relation to the citizens of his country and the world was one of dissociation.

Though Bush is a proven, chronic, pathological liar and his "joyous daily" words were also probably a lie to impress equally disconnected religious types, Bush, Like Nero as Rome burned, painted himself as "joyous," as he trampled our Constitution; as people were washed away by Katrina; as his policies dumped extra hundreds of millions of tons of toxins into our water, land, and air; as a mountain of Iraqi women, children, and grandparents were killed; as our economic structure burned to the ground. Such joy is dissociative and evil. It gives us an idea of what Hitler's "exit interview" might have been like.

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