Bush's Delusional Take on His Legacy

[marmar]

via AlterNet's PEEK:



Bush's Delusional Take on His Legacy

Posted by Digby, Hullabaloo at 9:42 AM on November 30, 2008.

"I'd like to be a president (known) as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace."



In your dreams:

"I'd like to be a president (known) as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace," Bush told his sister, Dorothy Bush Koch, in a conversation recorded for the oral-history organization StoryCorps for the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

I'm sure that would be nice, but instead you will be remembered as the man who invaded a country that hadn't threatened it using lies and propaganda -- and ended up "liberating" millions of people from their lives.

"I came to Washington with a set of values, and I'm leaving with the same set of values. And I darn sure wasn't going to sacrifice those values; that I was a president that had to make tough choices and was willing to make them," he said

No, it wasn't a tough choice to invade Iraq or ignore Katrina or allow the financial system to run completely amuck. It was a unique combination of stupidity and malevolence, which will be studied for centuries by historians struggling to imagine how such a person was ever given such power by a supposedly democratic people.

I believe he did go to Washington with a certain set of values -- after all he'd signed over 150 death warrants without even reading the paperwork. That's exactly the kind of person who would legalize torture and suspend the constitution. And naturally a man who would steal an election and then govern like he'd won in a partisan landslide would politicize the Justice Department. Surely anyone who would hire a thug like Karl Rove could be expected to spy on Americans and use the presidency for political purposes.

Yes, his values are intact, no doubt about it, and his legacy is intact.


http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/109187/bush%27s_delusional_take_on_his_legacy/

[greenbriar]

1. what a fucking dumbazz

I hate the mother fucker more every day


when he is gone from OUR white house, I will dance for JOY

[malaise]

2. This morning I heard his wife say that he's setting up

a Freedom Institute. Delusional is a kind word. :puke:

[HopeFor2006]

7. What exactly is the purpose of this "Freedom Institute"?

:shrug:

[JeffR]

8. Catapultin' the propaganda n/t

[HopeFor2006]

11. Well, that would make sense

"Freedom on the March" and all the bs that goes with it.

[malaise]

9. Well it's Bush so just think the opposite

meanwhile he'll find some way to make money off another clusterfuck.

[Vanje]

3. "I came to Washington with a set of valves........"

"I came to Washington with a set of valves, and I'm leaving with the same set of valves. And I darn sure wasn't going to sacrifice those valves; that I was a president that had to make tough choices and was willing to make them," he said

[benld74]

4. Most recovering AAA ex partiers born agains have the same feelings

[Swamp Rat]

5. LOL!!

:rofl:

[opihimoimoi]

6. No Nation for Leaders who SUCK....Bush SUCKs

[RetiredTrotskyite]

10. I Didn't Know From Crazy...

until Shrub showed up. The man is batshit, certifiably insane!

[Fovea]

12. like a second incarnation of Caligua

and I will be surprised if we see the back of him before he manages to get his attack dog Barney named a Senator.