Bush uses final 50 days in office to tout legacy

[Suji to Seoul]

Source: AP via Yahoo News

President George W. Bush says history will judge him, but he is getting his own crack first. Bush is using his final 50 days in office to tout his legacy, hoping to leave a lasting impression of overshadowed progress. On Monday, World AIDS Day, Bush was heralded for his leadership in fighting the disease, a point that even his Democratic critics readily concede.

The anti-AIDS program Bush championed in 2003 has delivered lifesaving medicine to more than 2 million people in five years, up from 50,000 people before it began. Many of those helped live in impoverished sub-Saharan Africa, where AIDS is the leading killer.

"I would hope that when it's all said and done, people say, `This is a guy who showed up to solve problems,'" Bush said at a global health forum. "And when you have somebody say there's a pandemic that you can help, and you do nothing about it, then you have frankly disgraced the office."

For most of his last year in office, Bush has shied away from legacy talk for two reasons. One is that he did not want to seem as if he were looking back when he was still running the country. The other is that he did not want to get dragged into the 2008 presidential campaign by defending his record.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081201/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_legacy

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Here's your legacy, shit-for-brains!

BAD ECONOMY DUE TO YOUR ECONOMIC POLICIES


TORTURE AND MASS MURDER


BRUTAL CIVIL WAR


DIVIDED COUNTRY


SHREDDED CONSTITUTION

AMERICANS HATED WORLDWIDE


IS IT JANUARY 20TH YET???

[Jamastiene]

1. LEGACY? LEGACY? He leaves behind a broken country and a barren wasteland.

Thanks for nothing, Georgie. Go buy a Tupperware dish, stick a copy of My Pet Goat in it and call it your presidential "library" and spend the rest of your days managing it. Think you can manage that? I doubt it.

[auburngrad82]

2. Bush is the greatest

Fuckup the world has ever known. He's also the Worst pResident Ever.

Not a legacy I'd want to have following me around for the rest of my life...

[patricia92243]

3. He denied birth control to any clinic that offered abortions - great for your health to have 20 chil

children

Deep sarcasm!

[HughBeaumont]

4. Conservatives love to bring up the term "legacy costs" . . .

Maybe they should start looking in the mirror AND their "fearless leader" for those?

[Submariner]

5. I look forward to Al Qaida leveling Dubya's liebary someday

I hope I'm alive to see it on CNN. I hope Dubya and his sleazy parents are also around to see it. The Bush family should know how despised they are so they don't ever run for political office again.

Who's Bush trying to kid anyway? He has no legacy. Everything he touched turned to shit and he has no accomplishments. To the Hague with that ahole.

[tavalon]

14. Al Quaida is quite happy with their employer, Bush,

so I'm not sure you're going to get that wish.

[Double T]

6. Here is YOUR legacy Mr. President; wear it with pride!

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Festivito]

7. AIDS funding transfered tax dollars to Bush's buddies.

Legacy.

War punk. That's his legacy.

[Lint Head]

8. A legacy of death, lies, destruction and corruption.

:dem:

[cambie]

9. Such a great man

should have something named after him. How about "Lake bush", that swamp of sewage that burbles up in the streets of wreaked Baghdad. Cholera is spreading there now in that once clean and advanced city.
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/176513.html

[IDemo]

10. Touting should be an impeachable offense in his case

since, apparently, nothing else is... :shrug:

[unblock]

11. openly pondering one's own legacy. yet another sign of a pathetic little man.

i'd feel sorry for him if he hadn't done so much damage.

soooo much damage.

[quiet.american]

12. "... he is getting his own crack first." So I wonder who stopped buying it for him? nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. He has some nerve!

:puke: What a little sociopath, he is!

[Orsino]

15. The Constitution guarantees him these last 50 days of acting like a big shot...

...and Congressional "leadership" has already guaranteed him full cover.

It's an expensive luxury, but we Americans obviously love our unitary executive, it being the only true royalty we are allowed. So make sure you get every last bit of enjoyment out of Bush-style arrogant, disconnected elitism, because after the Inauguration, you'll have to make do with a mere president.

[kentuck]

16. Still on a PR campaign...

and politicking, even as the economy collapses around him....