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In reply to the discussion: The Verdict is in: Guess Who's The Worst President in US History? -- Guess who? [View all]thebighobgoblin
(179 posts)the last 18-24 months in office. He at least started to distance himself from Uncle Dick a little bit, which is probably why there was at least some modest and temporary improvement on the ground in Iraq. Doesn't change the fact that the decision to invade was a disastrous one, with permanent consequences, but I give him credit for recognizing (finally) that he was getting some horrible advice from a long-time trusted insider and that he needed to reverse course. I also give credit for basically eating his own party's free market mantras and enacting the New Deal bailout legislation. Again, the damage had been done but he was basically fighting his own party on that one and did the right thing.
The problem with Bush is that he really had no business running the country. No ideas of his own. Totally reliant on others, not only for implementing his own ideas but for ideas at all. It amazes me how idiotic American voters can be, voting for one guy just because we're tired of seeing the other guy in office. Or voting for the outsider just because we buy into this bullshit that he or she's going to change things in Washington.
Give me someone with experience, who knows how Washington works and at the same time has some sort of vision for how to enact new ideas pragmatically. Hillary Clinton would be a perfect example. Bernie Sanders...not so much.