Predictable Disaster Of George W. Bush (Robert Parry)

[kpete]

Predictable Disaster of George W. Bush

By Robert Parry
November 16, 2008

In his trademark goofy way, George W. Bush explained why he supported a bailout of the U.S. financial markets, saying he was “a free-market person, until you're told that if you don't take decisive measures then it's conceivable that our country could go into a depression greater than the Great Depression.”

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Even today, as George W. Bush’s crony capitalism, aversion to regulation, and his trillion-dollar war in Iraq have driven the U.S. – and the world’s – economy off the road and into financial quicksand, big-time journalists continue with their Bush deference. They won’t put too much blame on the person who arguably should top the list of those responsible.

While the Brokaws and Friedmans might justify their behavior as a resistance to “piling on” a lame-duck President, they also are contributing to a distorted history – one that fails to identify Bush and his political/media enablers as largely to blame for this global catastrophe.

By averting their eyes from Bush and focusing so much on Obama now, the mainstream U.S. news media also clears space for right-wing media voices like Rush Limbaugh to begin writing another false narrative, blaming the financial collapse on the incoming President not on the one who has held the office the past eight years.

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Though the U.S. press corps is loath to examine history, especially when it reflects badly on the Bush Family, the present – and the future – might hinge on the American people finally understanding how George W. Bush and his reverse-Midas touch managed to turn a relatively golden U.S. economy to dross in just eight years.

It was all predictable.

more (6 pages)at:
http://consortiumnews.com/2008/111608.html

[fascisthunter]

1. They Can Try all They Want but the Left Wins the Info War on the Internet

They can try to diminish his direct respnsibility but we'll be there every damn step of the way rebutting every damn lie with FACTS.

Bush and the GOP are Responsible for America's Present Crisis and will wear their bang job around their necks for many generations to come.

[alsame]

2. Quite predictable. As President, Bush did what he has done

all his life - f**ked things up and left a big mess for others to clean up. He always was and always will be a failure at everything.