But....he made the tough decisions.

[kentuck]

Arianna captures the truth once again.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/bushs-farewell-address-st_b_158382.html

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Another striking moment was watching the great pride the president took in saying that even though we might not have liked all of his decisions, we have to admit that he "was willing to make the tough decisions." The Crawford Cowboy to the end.

Yes, he made tough decisions... but what is the value in that if the decisions you make are consistently wrong? And Bush has made the wrong decisions again and again and again.

He was wrong about Iraq and Saddam and WMD. He was wrong to take his eye off the ball on Afghanistan. He was wrong about tax cuts being the answer to our economic woes. He was wrong about Wall Street being able to regulate itself. He was wrong about Katrina. He was wrong about torture. He was wrong about extraordinary rendition. He was wrong about warrantless wiretapping. He was wrong about Gitmo. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

The speech was spin at its most dangerous. It's easy to feel a pang of pity for a guy who was on top so long and is now heading out the door. But the more sympathy he evokes, the more susceptible we are to the lies he is telling. Before we know it, his revisionism becomes accepted as the truth.

So if there was any value in the speech it was this: it should remind us of the importance of refusing to allow this delusional revisionism to stand.

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[DontTreadOnMe]

1. Don't Forget Poland!

And ya know, he also kept us safe from another attack on the homeland.


He totally fucked the country.
He totally fucked the Republican Party.

Other than that, I think he did a good job.

[patrice]

2. It's like someone who can barely handle Algebra bragging that s/he answered a Calculus

problem, even though s/he got an answer that was not only WRONG, but also wasn't even Math.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

3. I've always thought this about Bush, when he talks about tough decisions:

What I really hear him saying is, "Look, I'm the only one who had the courage to make the really, really bad decisions."

[kentuck]

4. He calls it "courage".

Others might call it a crime? Or arrogance? Or mental illness? We must question those that sat in the audience to applaud this Criminal in Chief.

[Johonny]

5. he did not make tough decisions period

global warming, fiscal responsibility, obeying the law, ending the wars he started, placing responsible people into power... Bush time and time again made the lazy thug decision. All the tough decision are now left to Obama to make because Bush wouldn't make them.