Reading the talking points of the Bush Legacy Project, which is being managed by former White House political czar, the outgoing president reprised the Orwellian themes of his tenure: freedom promoted at the point of a gun, occupations framed as "liberations," fearmongering and a cowboy's claim of victory in a "war on terror" that still has no direction, no endgame, no capture of Osama bin Laden. Full Story »
Posted by Randy Morrow
In fairness to the author of this article, it's difficult to report anything where there isn't anything to report. After his "standing room only" press conference, I was expecting more than this ending with a whimper.
Perhaps the reason this speech had all the excitement of wet, day-old noodles is that Bush got so much ridicule and a huge drubbing after his bravado press conference in which he took credit for everything in the past eight years including breathing.
Nichols dissects the 13 minutes well, uncovering the absurdity of the little emperor standing on a platform and bragging about his suit of clothes. The only question is whether it is fabric-ation as Nichols says, or delusion, as Huffington categorized it.
He was puffing himself up, like the Texan who was too big to fit in a coffin. They gave him an enema and buried him in a shoebox. Perhaps bush would deserve an added honorary shoe from Muntatar al-Zaidi. Plenty of room.
“I vowed to do everything in my power to keep us safe,” announced Bush, before proceeding once more to make a link that never existed between 9/11, national ... More »
This is a mix of fact and opinion writing, although for many, the opinion aspects may outweigh the factual reporting.
This is worth reading as a reminder of what we, as a people, unleashed on ourselves and the world by installing George W. Bush in the White House and then failing to hold him responsible for his actions. Maybe that's easier to say because I never voted for the man, but I think it's inarguable that if we don't remind ourselves of the consequences of collective apathy and ignorance, we will repeat the mistakes of 2000 and 2004.
A very biased, anti-Bush recap of the President's farewell address. Like that address, this isn't worth reading.
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