Bush Gets Out the Shovel

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: Bush Gets Out the Shovel
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, December 2, 2008

President Bush's interview with ABC News's Charlie Gibson is being heralded by some media outlets as reflective, apologetic and self-critical, even "stunningly candid" -- but it was none of those things.

Rather, in the first of several planned "exit interviews," Bush continues to refuse to take responsibility for a single thing that went wrong on his watch.

The president who sent troops into a disastrous war under false pretenses, led the economy into its biggest crash since the Great Depression, let New Orleans drown, embraced torture and turned America into a pariah nation seems to believe that if anyone is to blame, it's not him. He just happened to be in charge during a series of unfortunate events.

Bush evidently thinks he can win over the verdict of history with a smirk and a shrug, and by maintaining that he "stuck to his principles."

But there's little reason to think history will be kind to him. Now down to his last 50 days in the White House, he is plagued by the lowest presidential approval ratings in the history of modern polling. The country has judged him and found him wanting. So either we're all fools or he is....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/12/02/BL2008120201744_pf.html

*Bush interview transcript: http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=6356046

*Bush interview video: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6371093

[yourout]

1. He is burying the evidence.

[Orrex]

2. I hope that Bush lives a long and healthy life. After that, though...

Is it a crime to take a dump on somebody's grave?

[47of74]

3. I think 100, 200 years from now...

People will shake their heads and wonder how we could have elected such a dump f--k to such high office.

[w4rma]

5. I don't think we'll have to wait nearly that long. (nt)

[wildbilln864]

6. hell I've alrady been doing that for years! nt

:banghead:


ETA: and K7R'd!

[lpbk2713]

7. There will be a footnote reference ...

to the influence of RW Radio Hatemongers like Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck et al.

[grasswire]

4. kick for froomkin (eom)

[opihimoimoi]

8. He shoulda folded 4 years ago and not run....but NOOoooo, he had to press the bet...went ALL IN

he had 4 years to figure out how to get this Nation going...and never even came close......

[Missy Vixen]

9. K & R

Worst. President. Ever.

Julie

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. Advice from Uncle Dick . .

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[opihimoimoi]

11. Guess who gets the F for Failued President.....its NOT CHENEY and Bush hasn't figured it out yet

Bwahahahaha

[OneBlueSky]

12. roll up the pant legs . . . it's too late to save the shoes . . . n/t

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[live love laugh]

13. "stunningly candid"...Pffffft. nt

[gratuitous]

14. Better check the other sections of your paper, Mr. Froomkin

The Washington Post seems to think that George W. Bush has done a fabulous job as president, and that, indeed, a number unfortunate things just happened while he was in the White House. If you're looking for a mea culpa from Bush now, at the very end, better get out an electron microscope. Because it surely won't be discernable to the naked eye.