No harm, no foul.

(Stupid mouse button…)

Worth the long read.

“crappy president gene”

“crappy president environment” – TEXAS”

I declare co-winners!!!

If only Ann Richards had REALLY wanted to be gov for a second term…

We could have had President Richards instead of Preznit Shrub.

http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.12.26/news5.html

Dammit y’all, dont give them any ideas…

I hear ossama getting out the video cam even as we speak. Can you say “red” alert right before the elections?

The RS article is very good.

My favorite paragraph (so far):

“Calamitous presidents, faced with enormous difficulties — Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Hoover and now Bush — have divided the nation, governed erratically and left the nation worse off. In each case, different factors contributed to the failure: disastrous domestic policies, foreign-policy blunders and military setbacks, executive misconduct, crises of credibility and public trust. Bush, however, is one of the rarities in presidential history: He has not only stumbled badly in every one of these key areas, he has also displayed a weakness common among the greatest presidential failures — an unswerving adherence to a simplistic ideology that abjures deviation from dogma as heresy, thus preventing any pragmatic adjustment to changing realities. Repeatedly, Bush has undone himself, a failing revealed in each major area of presidential performance.”

I have never seen anyone say it better and more clearly than that.

Guess who is a descendent of FP?That’s right, George W. Bush (from his mother’s side).

GW inherited the crappy president gene.

“George W. Bush’s presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace. Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, after which the public might rally around the White House once again, there seems to be little the administration can do to avoid being ranked on the lowest tier of U.S. presidents. And that may be the best-case scenario. Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history.”

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/9961300/the_worst_president_in_history?rnd=1145468541266&has-player=true&version=6.0.8.1024

Yup, it’s what I’ve been saying from day one– Worst. President. Ever.

In fact he may be the Worst. President. Possible.

The better question would be should Iran come to the table.Given the past history of the U.S. in that region and elsewhere, if I were Iran I’d be using the table for a barrricade and arming for self preservation.

Which is pretty much what is happening.

Was Saddam eating less because of the sanctions? No.

Did the sanctions unfairly punish innocent Iraqis. Yes. (I am betting the average Iraqi would prefer living under sanctions rather than under U.S. occupation and civil war).

Did the sanctions against Iraq prevent them from developing WMD? Something(s) prevented it. I think Sanctions played a big part.

And also as usual, his take is both profound and profane, so if you cant take rude words, dont click.

But if you can enjoy a little rude humor with the truth…

http://www.rudepundit.blogspot.com/

And then we are surprised when they bristle with weapons, both real (iran) and imagined (iraq)?

I agree, with the war drums pounding in the u.s., no one is the world is feeling very safe right now.

Sanctions were indeed working. If you think they weren’t then you either think that the military assigned to the overflights and naval duty, etc. were completely incompetent, or you dishonor them by presenting misinformation about their decade long (and successful) efforts to enforce the embargo and sanctions.

We would be there, according to rummy, six days, six weeks, but certainly not six months? And we have been there three years with no end in sight? Is that called “rolling through iraq” and defeating saddam in 21 days?

More bushco lies. Black is white and up is down and by god, if the preznit says it, it must be true.

That thinking is how we got here. Much like the queen said to Alice, to keep bushco in power the american people must believe six impossible things before breakfast. I wonder what is on the menue today…

Freedom fries anyone?

I think the preznit and his buddies were so juiced for war with iraq that even if the sanctions were working, they would have said they were not and went to war anyway.

Maybe the sanctions did work since we found no WMDs in iraq. I’d say that worked better than what we are doing now.