Will History Be Kind Or Harsh To Bush*

[arwalden]

Can we expect that history will portray the Bush* presidency using the same rose colored spectacles (with blinders) that the media uses today? Will it be kinder (if that's possible) or will it be as cold and realistic as we are being ourselves here at DU?

Or something else entirely?

-- Allen

[Sirveri]

1. Look at the Reagan Admin, and then sit and wonder.

[Cleita]

2. Absolutely not.

History won't judge any Reagan/Bush or Bush2 administrations kindly. It will take awhile for unbiased evaluations of those administrations to become the accepted story of what happened, but they won't get four stars, perhaps minus four stars would be more like it.

[stevedeshazer]

3. Harsh

He is going to go down in history as the worst U.S. President.

We will become the media; We have to. It's already happening.

Can anyone name another U.S. President who is held in lower regard worldwide?

Good question, arwalden. I plan to outlive these magnificent bastard Bush boys somehow. I hope you do, too.

[oasis]

4. Chimpy will be remembered as either a dumbass dupe or lying sack of shit.

He empowered Ashcroft, Halliburton, Cheney, Enron w/ Harvey Pitt, "no child's behind left" (sic), Tom Delay and Pat Robertson get an 1.7 billion dollar faith based Easter basket.

And an invasion of Iraq which was clearly not a war of necessity.

[jpgray]

5. Well, short term he'll be in the Reagan/Bush I grey zone

Everyone knows the scandals and disasters, and has at least the suspicion that his administration was a cesspool of corruption and warmongering. Long term I think he'll be viewed very critically, like McKinley, Polk or Harding.

[candy331]

6. Will have to wait until November

to tell or maybe sooner if all hell breaks loose before then.

[shraby]

7. Historians will be able to

connect many dots in the story of Shrub's administration that are unconnectable right now because everything is shrouded in secrecy at the white house. When things are declassified and obtainable with the freedom of information act the light will be turned on and historians will be extremely harsh to this administration.

[Morning Dew]

8. dunno about history but

to me he'll always be an "ass"terisk.

[DieboldMustDie]

9. It doesn't matter, we'll all be dead.

At least that's what Gee Dubya told Bob Woodward. :scared:

[katusha]

10. he lost a war

he will be remembered like LBJ but without the civil rights act or war on poverty etc.

[amjsjc]

11. Bush is going to get spanked six ways from sunday in the history books

At least in mainstream history books. If Vietnam could permanently scar LBJs reputation, then Iraq'll torpedo W's. That, and the fact that he squandered the best chance any President'll have to deal with the nations fiscal problems and just made them far worse.
However I predict that he'll have the same semi-deranged cult-like following amongst conservatives that Reagan has now. So you can expect that for the foreseeable future you'll have to put up with gibbering right wing idiots trying to get W's picture on the ten dollar bill and whatnot.

[Fear]

12. Depends on the amounts of oil pumped out of Iraq, that will draw Bush's

History

[Hekate]

13. It depends so much on whether we remain a democracy or not

On the bright side, uncounted numbers of people know the truth: that this entire administration is a fraud and a disaster. There are now a couple of shelves of books saying so, many of them written by former insiders.

On the other hand, the theocrats have done a bang-up job of rewriting American history as another chapter of the Bible, and they've put this version into the textbooks of homeschoolers and conservative Christian private schools. Even if Bush loses in November (please please please God, deliver us from evil), the people who brought him to power won't be done with us because they are on a mission from God.

Eternal vigilance is the price we pay for academic freedom, just like everything else.

Honestly written, I think any history of Bush the Lesser's reign will deal very harshly with him.

Hekate

[fujiyama]

14. Honest historians

and those that lived through these insane times will remember him as an incompetant lunatic - a psychotic man with a messiahnic complex.

There will be apologists. Nixon has his...but in the long run, he'll be seen as a failure...Iraq, reckless tax cuts for the rich that would have left the treasury empty, alienating allies abroad, fanning the flames of hatred. Even his "leadership" after 9/11, which was praised prematurely and foolishy by some, will be seen as nothin short of a joke....(and possibly worse, much much worse)...

[Norbert]

15. shrub is style over substance.

History tends not to be very kind to presidents like that. Fluff fades away over time.

[Kinkistyle]

16. Half of America and the rest of the world will remember him unkindly.

But the other 50% of America will probably remember him as some sort of Prophet or Arch-Angel/Saint.