What Bush Got Right

This is typical liberal ignorance. Starts with the "liberal is always right" BS and doesn't get any better. Bush sucks and Obama will be worse. We had this choice already, years ago. We thought inflation was bad and things were rotten, so we elected Carter (the worst President EVER). We found out what ROTTEN really was. We ar ready to repeat our mistake...

The scariest part of the past eight years is that a significant percentage of the American public continue to BELIEVE and SUPPORT the discredited neocon ideology that spawned Bush's shameful and ineffective policies in the first place.

Thanks, Newsweek. Perfect timing, just befoe the election, to come out and try to vindicate the most disastrous eight years in American history. Why don't you run an article now on how logical and detached Rush Limbaugh "really" is. I laughed when you said this adminstration had changed because of an "admission of failure" when The Decider, himself says he does not admit to failure, and has never done so. Tememebr, how he likes to boast that he goes by his "gut." When you haven't anything upstairs that may be okay, but not to run a country. I'd take Reagan's deference to Nancy's stargazing over Bush's "gut."

I think Fareed,you have been spending too much time on the beach,this is the kind of journalism that falls into "the dog days of summer "standard. Poorly thought out piece, the writer seems to be more concerned about being the first journalist to write from this perspective rather than the actually merit of the arguments.. Disappointing .

Hats off to Fareed Zakaria for a well thought out 20/20 view of the Bush Administration as it was and as it has changed over its two terms. Posters should take a page from Zakaria's book and offer reasoned views, as well. Too much to hope for?

It will take 25 yearsd to undo the harm caused by George W. Bush and his supporters.....This is assuming that Obama is elected. A McCain presidency will not only keep the United States o the wrong path, but will be absolute proof that we are indeed an empire in decline.

He makes America look a lot worse then what we are. If people didn't have a reason to hate Americana before, they sure do now! Thanks Bush. Now off to your 'island of immunity' in Paraguay.

He makes America look a lot worse then what we are. If people didn't have a reason to hate Americana before, they sure do now! Thanks Bush. Now off to your 'island of immunity' in Paraguay.

wow is all I can say for now. I can't think of anything else...lol

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wow is all I can say...


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Hind sight as usual is "near" perfect and Monday morning quarterbacks can still "almost" always call the game right. I do believe that the reason the terriost are there and not here is because we are there. I spent a lot of time in management and had a very old and wise advisor inform me that I was paid to make decisions. He also said those decisions will not always turn out to be the best or the right ones and even when right some will judge them to be wrong. I believe in the two party one president system. The president may not always be right but he is always "our" President and we should give him all of our support. It doesn't matter if they are a stupid Democrat ot a dum Republican.

great story. while the iraq war was badly planned it still showed that we had some cahones. the problem for bush started with democrats who degraded the man on a daily basis for political gain. as you stated measures were being done and progress was being acheived. but the so called press refused or even hid this from the public. it was like a nightly democratic talking points show. as aesop said a lie told over and over will become true in a persons head. this is the democrats strategy. you lie enough and debase people with the media not responding. public educated people will believe it. also if ob gets in expect more twin towers for america. god help us!!!

"That president, of course, was George W. Bush. His decision to blindly repudiate anything associated with Bill Clinton is what got us into this mess in the first place. "
I am sorry Mr. Fareed. In my humble opinion Bill Clinton got us in to the mess weare in.

Zakaria's praise of the current "progress" in Iraq is akin to saying: "Bush should never have tried burn down the house in the first place, but let's applaud him for putting out the fire." The real danger is that McCain, if elected, will embrace many of Bush's failed pollicies.

Man is it obvious that Zakaria is on the McCain payroll. The GOP would love America to forget about this disaster of a presidency but we do so at our own peril. The current negative campaign McCain is running is proof positive that the Republicans havent learned a thing from the last 8 years and are ready to charge off and do it all again.

There are a great deal of people who depend on the news to make a living. That is why we see so many things presented as "News" but really aren't. It is like hyping the weather to make money: "There is a big storm coming," details at 11:00.??? If it's that important, why make us wait until 11?

Barak Obama is ahead in every poll. He returned from an international trip where he appeared presidential in every capacity. (Remember Bush, giving Angela Merkel a surprise back rub? How charming.) Obama was articulate, intelligent and someone who we should be proud to have as a representative of America. (Unlike our current buffoon, his Dark Lord and the other unqualified people in the administration who have no skills, but were hired on the basis of their "Loyalty to the President." ) Obabam can look intelligently at an issue, examine the details and come up with numerous solutions. I am surprised that the voting public actually elected GWB, someone without intellectual curiosity, who relies on his gut feelings and isn't really interested in details.

The next president will be faced with a the biggest budget deficit in history, a war of choice, and many economic problems. He is also going to have to explain why we torture and hold people without due process. The US lost a lot of credibility in the world for electing GW twice. Unfortunately, republicans are the most successful with getting people to vote against their own best interests.

Suffice to say that CONSERVATIVE POLICIES ARE FAILURES.

People who buy the offensive republican line that Barak Obama is elitist or ???Uppity??? or focus on The National Anthem, lapel pins, The Pledge of Allegiance, should stop feeling so foolishly patriotic for a minute and Think...

All those things REPRESENT America. They are not America. YOU are America. You are just as much a part of America as your neighbor and John Roberts. The decisions our leaders make affect YOU.

You should have a union with collective bargaining and job protection.

You should make a decent living wage for what you do.

You should be able to afford to go to the doctor.

When you buy a toy at the store it should be safe.

Food you eat shouldn't be contaminated.

You should not be considered a second class citizen because you are poor, a member of a minority, a woman, an immigrant or anything else.

The government has no right to spy on you.

GOVERNMENT COLLECTS MONEY AND IS SUPPOSED TO PROVE SERVICES. It isn't going to stop collecting money. It has to grow and change with the times, just like a businesses. Reagan's whole notion of "Government IS the problem" is crap. Government is REQUIRED to do these things. Cutting taxes and cutting services while spending hundreds of millions of dollars A DAY killing people is absurd.

I find it quite amusing that, while Zakaria believes Bush's first term was an umitigated failure but that in his second term he has begun to undo some of those mistakes to a degree, McCain is trying to make the opposite argument. He's been saying during his recent campaigning that things have gone wrong "over the past four years" (with the exception of the Iraq "surge"). Probably because he's trying to appeal to Bush's base, who loved the inflexible first term policies which Zakaria criticizes. Also, McCain carried much of Bush's water during his first term, so he can't very well criticize that when he helped enable it.