Glenden BrownThe Top Ten of the Worst Bush Moments
Over at AlterNet there’s an interesting article on the top ten worst moments of the Bush administration. Given that choosing only ten is an almost impossible task, I think the author’s used a good criteria:
Narrowing down the Bush administration’s various debacles to a mere 10 was no easy fete. In fact, I expect that many people will express dismay that their least favorite moment was left off the list. “How could commuting Scooter Libby’s sentence not even make the top 10??!!” I can hear some of you shrieking already. Well, I’ll tell you. Essentially, I tried to rate each Bush disaster by two main criteria: its body count and its damage to the country’s reputation. So while Bush’s awkward groping of German Chancellor Angela Merkel may be personally humiliating to everyone, it doesn’t have the same heft as, say, the Iraq War.
George W. Bush is a petty, callow, spoiled man-child, the drunken fratboy cheerleader whose connections and blunt personal charm have seen him through life, but who arrived at long last in the one place for which he was manifestly unsuited and in which he proved to be the absolute nadir of American leadership - the anti-Wasington, the anti-Lincoln, the anti-Roosevelt, the anti-Kenndey.
July 1st, 2008 at 11:30 am
My favorite quote from the article:
Even though the emphasis was on showmanship, Reed only gave an honorable mention to Bush’s most impeachable offense: domestic warrantless surveillance of Americans. It’s the first time I’ve ever heard of a U.S. president going on TV and freely admitting to multiple counts of illegality over at least a four-year period.
That was in December 2005, two and a half years ago. Yet Bush is still in the White House, not in jail.
July 1st, 2008 at 12:13 pm
You think narrowing it down to ten is difficult, try to come up with the “top five accomplishments of the Bush Administration.”
July 4th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Obi wan Liberal:
That’s a really good question. The one and only accomplishment that has happened during the Bush administration that has helped us is the no-call list. Anybody else?
The whole term is an embarrassing failure of biblical proportions that is much too silly and unbelievable to put in the bible.