Second-term climbdowns might salvage scraps for Bush legacy
During a farewell news conference on Monday, US President George W. Bush once again expressed the belief that his eight-year presidency - particularly his foreign-policy record - will be vindicated by history, the portents are not particularly good.
Already last spring, nearly two thirds of 109 professional historians polled by the "History News Network" rated Bush the worst president in the nation's history, while another 35 percent said he was ...
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Bush will not ever rebound in historical esteem as Truman did, for Bush's history of skirting or trampling on our Constitution, Katrina negligence and ineptitude, disastrous environmental policies, ruinous economic policies, widespread cronyism and corrupt sweetheart deals, and his dangerously ignorant battle with science -- all these domestic legacies (and more) will make certain his bottom-dweller status among ranked US presidents is cemented.