Friday, January 16, 2009

Open thread for Friday.

4 days left!

From listening to the speech of farewell by Bush last night on the news, he dwelled mostly on 9/11 again and again and the so-called war on terror characterizing the invasion of Iraq as part of his effort to take "the fight to the terrorists." But, what Bush didn't discuss in his farewell address which really defines his presidency are a partial list:

* Climate change
* China
* Russia
* North Korea
* Iran
* Pakistan
* Osama bin Laden
* Nuclear weapons
* Poverty
* Health insurance
* Foreclosures
* Housing
* Guantanamo
* National debt
* Budget deficit
* Trade deficit
* Wall Street
* Financial regulation
* Dow Jones
* Retirement security
* Social Security
* Medicaid
* Energy
* Immigration
* Automobile industry
* Housing
* Subprime credit
* Wages
* Jobs
* FEMA
* Wiretapping
* Torture
* Civil Liberties
* Hubris
* Hurricane Katrina

* Middle Eastern crisis [Israel-Hamas war]

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I saw Dean Reynolds (ABC News)being interviewed after the farwell speech, and our Chicago Tonight interviewer (the very cute, Eddie Arruza) asked him what did Bush do good for this country..

Dean Reynolds could only answer....he showed us anyone can be President.

The other guest was a Professor from Loyola said no child left behind, but that has a lot of problems.

OK Justice League Bloggers what is the best thing Bush did while in office?


When Dean was asked what mistakes were made, he said the first one and biggest one was to have Cheney as VP, he went on to say that Cheney brought in all his people, Rumsfield etc etc.

Wow, the other person

airJackie said...

TGCN the anwer to your question is
NOTHING.

SPB defining Bush's Presidency is easy.
The US was invaded from within and run for 8 years by a Dictator who followed the orders of the US Supreme Leader Dick Cheney. Behind every corrupt action was Dick Cheney. Many others went rogue and we now see the results. Bush/Cheney not only stole from the US taxpayers but also the World. The Palestine Holocaust Massacre will show the part the Bush Administration played and the US started a Terror/Torture Policy for others to follow.

SP Biloxi said...

"Justice League Bloggers what is the best thing Bush did while in office?"

Answer: Zip, nada.

Glad that he is leaving office. This entire earth will finally breathe again because the polluter-in-chief is gone for good in 3 days!

Anonymous said...

Jackie and SPB

That seems to be the deer in headlights look that so many who are being interviewed have to say

The answers to what he did wrong,....well that is volumes in a series, to much to post on a blog!

Anonymous said...

sayonara bushdick, his legacy will be the damage he tried to wrought upon our democracy and freedoms. he will not be sorely missed.

Anonymous said...

sayonara bushdick, his legacy will be the damage he tried to wrought upon our democracy and freedoms. he will not be sorely missed.