The Enigma In Chief

Well, there certainly is a lot of celebrating going on. Here's a site I came across about hosting your own Bush Bashing party:

http://bushbash09.com/

If you routinely surround yourself with like minded advisors, and make it clear through your actions dissenters will be fired; can you actually claim to consider a wider view in decision making? The answer is no.
Any thought that Bush was manipulated is ludicrous, he is not just the "Decider" but also the manipulator.
He installed like minded people through out the Government, the most news worthy being in the Justice department.
Bush accomplished exactly what he intended to accomplish with the possible exception of privatizing Social Security, and we can thank our lucky stars and congress for that,

The problem is Bush is totally devoid of any real empathy for Main Street or any real concern for America at large, and the best anyone can expect is his oft statement, "America will recover" Yes we will but it will be in spite of him and what we have to recover from is what he has done to America.
Bush had more than enough opportunities to be a great President the most significant was the world wide support America had just after 9/11 quickly squandered in favor of invading Iraq as Alan Greenspan noted in his book "For Oil"

In view of the fact Bush has accomplished exactly what he intended to accomplish. No doubt the reason he has difficulty finding fault with his term in office or admitting any missteps is simply because in his mind there are none.
Incompetence falls short of accurately describing GW Bush.


Bush has done exactly

Four more days until history. F-O-U-R. Mark your calendars for a true changing of the guard. It's why the Constitution was written!!!!

As time will reflect the history of Bush's administration and his supporters, Bush and Cheney, will hold a karmic debt of tremendous accountability of 2 terms that destabilized a nation in peace and prosperity. Hindsight tends towards 20/20 vision of a leadership deluded by superior wisdom and virtue. So many Americans have become homeless, died and/or injured as a result of a very expensive war, and been robbed by the allowance of rampant deregulation of banking, wall street, major corporations, insurance companies and so on. With more exposure of robber barons that emerged during his terms, it is no surprise that middle class Americans have lost their jobs and their homes. There is a question in anyone's mind that had Bush's team done the math before engaging in war, who were actually paid 10 billion a month for the war effort, major companies? And those that already benefitted from his administration felt that they needed to make a last ditch effort to ask for more billions before his term ended. Another question must be posed, should there be another family member in past presidencies be allowed for a presidential election? Are the American people promoting dynasties or democracies? Only time will tell. Hopefully, history does not repeat itself.

"Did Bush's own innocence and incompetence drive his missteps? Or was it the people around him, primarily his vice president, who manipulated him into his major bad choices?"

This is a false choice. Both can be true, and probably are-- Because he was "innocent" or ignorant, anyway, and incompetent, he allowed others to manipulate him. Competent people don't allow others to manipulate them.

You're still trying that futile quest of trying to find something, anything, that means the MSM didn't utterly fail to describe while it was happening how utterly venal and corrupt this president was. So you call him "innocent"? He's a grown man. Whatever he is, he's chosen to do-- and you as a reporter also chose not to call him on it.

So many have been wounded during the Bush's administration. The errors in judgment have cascaded catastrophically for the American people, probably down to the next generations. Some things just cannot be ignored as so much damage has been done and may not be totally undone. We can only hope that the following administrations can unravel and redirect efforts to peace and prosperity once again. As for Bush's legacy, it is totally shot to pieces as reflective of those he left dismantled, but not undefeated. All Americans during these difficult times have only to rise above from the ashes and eventually move forward towards target correction in preserving peace, multiplying our efforts and mindfulness in enriching and strengthening our people. "In God we trust."

George Bush was President for 9 months prior to the 911 attacks.

I always get a kick out of pictures Newsweek uses. You have Obama in flattering, black and white beautiful still pictures with captions such as "A Lion in Winter", while they have GWB in with goofy, shitty looks on his face. They do it over and over.

Please NW, just tell us your biased!

Jacob Weisberg is a traiter. He is full of hate and does not appreciate the freedom provided by democracy. Instead he uses this freedom to spue his erroneous views of Bush to the public. His ideas about George Bush are splattered with resentment and unadulterated misinformation. Weisbery would do better supporting Bin Laden and terrorism because his ideas are in line with the propaganda and hatred of evil people.

Jacob Weisberb is a traiter. His personal views of George Bush are fostered by hate. Weisberg would do well writing about Bin Laden and promoting the cause of terrorism. He is not a man who makes democracy a way of life to protect and foster. I find Weisberg to be a disgusting example of verbal diarrhea.

Wow, the Bush supporters cannot handle the truth... Denial, excuse after excuse, distraction after distraction... They were taught to think that way by a party stuck in the 50's and devoid of anything close to in touch with the facts on the ground.

They value party and ideology over truth and integrity. They value party over country, and would sell this country down a hole to save an incompetent impotent wannabe poser puppet.