Ellen Goodman: Don’t Be Fooled by Bush’s Farewell Tour

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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081224_ellen_goodman_rocking_chairs/

Don’t Be Fooled by Bush’s Farewell Tour

Posted on Dec 24, 2008

By Ellen Goodman

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The 43rd president is going home with less remorse and fewer regrets than my grandchildren express for spilling their cereal.

This is the tenor of the farewell tour being conducted across the landscape from ABC to the American Enterprise Institute. It’s the No Regrets Tour, the nonreflective “reflections by a guy who’s headed out of town.”

George W. Bush will be remembered with names such as Abu Ghraib, Gitmo and Katrina. With phrases such as “weapons of mass destruction” and “mission accomplished.” He came in with a budget surplus and leaves with a massive deficit. He blew the good will of the post-9/11 world. But being this president means never having to say you’re sorry.

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But Princeton historian Sean Wilentz has a simple way of assessing presidents. “Great presidents rise to the occasion; poor presidents fall to the occasion.”

So Bush is headed to Texas with his rocking chairs and we’re headed into a new year with Barack Obama. I am reminded that January is named after the Roman god of beginnings and endings who looked forward and backward at the same time.

There are no do-overs. But there is no forgetting either. George W. Bush fell to the occasion.

[opihimoimoi]

1. The PETER of ALL PETERS....Bush is a miserable failure...Inept, Incompetent, InSane, and Incapable

He is proof we need a Bush Filter....he was never supposed to reach the Oval...only the Lawn...

[underpants]

2. I loved this paragraph

Leaving office, he takes credit for seven years of safety and no debit for a day of disaster. He takes credit for the boom—“it’s hard to argue against 52 uninterrupted months of job growth”—without taking responsibility for the deregulated bust. He takes credit for the surge, not the disastrous pre-emptive war.

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3. None of Ellen's assertions will ever get Bush impeached

We want criminal charges, and we want them five minutes ago.

Happy Holidays, everyone!

[Cha]

4. bush can give all the no mea culpa tours

he wants but his record is forever imbedded in history and nobody is buying his shit except the brainwashed viewers at fauxsn00ze.