It appears to us foreigners that for us the greatest single advantage of the Bush years is our own growing gratitude. We are grateful, by contrast, for those who govern us, no matter how self-serving or incompetent they might be. Bush and company have lent perspective on our own various plights to the extent that we now realize how fortunate we are to be something other than Americans. What a dramatic turnaround from pre-2000 when much of the world admired America and aspired to much of what it represented.

Bush's legacy will be that he alienated much of humanity and made a laughingstock of his own people. What a shame that is. The squandering of goodwill.

May your next administration begin to undo the tangle of disrespect and revulsion that George and Dick and Karl and Donald and Paul and...have unleashed. We want to recapture the sense of respect and attraction we used to experience with the mention of 'America.'

If only his legacy is what old guy says and not the person who destroyed the US

Yesterday or the day before, there was a headline on ABCnews with Bush saying "They call me a warmonger." I can't find it today. Wonder where it went?

As a note, after seven years of death, destruction and occupation the poulation in general of Iraq look back on the regime of Saddam Hussien as 'the good old days'.

Now THAT'S a legacy.

Kinda like having the suvivors of the Nazi deathcamps yearn for the return of Hitler's Germany.

Yes, during his fantacy trip thru the middle east, mr. bush delivered 100 plus million dollars worth of smart bombs to saudi arabia, home to 17 members of the 911 hijack crews. Oh yes, our president will leave a legacy which generations and generations of as yet unborn children will end up paying.

Worst President this country has ever had. If that isn't a Legacy, I don't know what is.

Bush's legacy is set and the effects of his crimes will last for genarations.

To LeeAnnG above who was looking for the quote on bush being a warmonger, go here to see it:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/15/bush-im-sure-people-vi_n_81627.html

Bush: "I'm Sure People View Me As A War Monger"

Sadly ,, in few years ,, American amnesia will kick in ,,, everyone will forget the mess they made ,,, and History will be re-written ... All this Reagan-ian love on the mainstream America is just prove of my previous statement ....

If you ask me ,,, I will say ,,, Bush&Cheney's best legacy is they evaded impeachment ,,, now that is a great accomplishment ....

BUSH is a drunken frat boy, a cheerleader for the elite, has never had to be accountable for his mistakes and his mistakes keep getting bigger. Don't let this happen to your children, you will have to live with Barbara Bush's beautiful mind and the mental instability that comes with it for generations to come.

BUsh's mama went golfing the day after her daughter, Bush's little sister died of cancer. How's that for a cold hearted bitch? And people wonder why Bush can't relate to the rest of humanity. He's a sociopath programmed by his parents. a product of generational evil.

But saying that doesn't get Dubya off the hook....

Wait - wait!! It ain't over til it's over. If King George Bush takes over, like many believe he will, __ then gang,__ he will have his long sought legacy. Like Stalin had and Saddam once had, with his Statues in every city, town and village, and giant pictures of him hanging on highway billboards.
He may have the legacy he desires and he has the speech writers to write it. Let's not get our hopes up just yet.

KEM: I cant help but chuckle. Picture this: A large billboard or poster of BUsh's thousand mile stare, prominently displayed in public which reads...

"BIG FRAT BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!"

He doesn't mind the destruction, death, and chaos in Iraq because he thinks it is all going to be worth it.

I guess he never thought of making changes in a non-violent way.

I heard a news report about how Bush was asking the Saudi King for....(could it be more democracy, human rights, or for them to stop allowing their militants into Iraq???) ...an increase in oil production.

The Saudi King probably said something on the order of "I'll increase the oil flow if you sell me more weapons and stop talking about reform in Saudi Arabia." Bush probably said, "OK"

The idea of bush statues propped up in every town of the us is one of the most disturbing things I've read on the internet.

I agree with oldguy, bush's legacy is that in comparison most current day leaders look good while in the dimbulb's shadow. The only way for him to go is down, if he totally overthrows the us gov't then he might reach the depths of leadership displayed by creatures like Ivan the Terrible, Rex Louis XVI, Charles II (beheaded in the 1640's for treason)...

What "oldguy" says about gratitude is true. Looking at the US today is like reading a cautionary tale. We can learn from your mistakes. There but for the grace of God go I. Watching what America is going through, helps us better recognize potential traps set by our own Bush wannabes and avoid them.

Bill Clinton really plopped you in it, though, when he removed the fairness doctrine from the airwaves and allowed GE and company to own the airwaves. Your democracy has been effectively blinded and deafened. So handicapped, you must get voters to see and hear reason when the people making sense are barred from radio and TV. I don't know how you are going to educate the electorate enough to get you out of this one. It seems to me that you have crossed the Rubicon between democracy and empire when even the courts are jettisoning the right of voters to be informed and replacing it with the freedom of corporations to maximize profits.

If Bush actually does leave office, I predict that within a year the new Republican president will be erecting statues and naming buildings in his honor, the news media will be singing his praises, and the public will be weeping at the loss of his leadership. I further predict that the newly-elected Republican congress will be lining up to rubber stamp everything the president requests, including the drilling of oil in Alaska and other public lands, the sales of even more weapons to both Israel and the Arab community and new tax relief for the wealthy. Our war with Iran will be extended into perpetuity along with that in Iraq. . . . Legacy indeed.

It's not a lie if you believe it. Hence, the Loonitary Decider is already a legacy in his own deranged mind:

"I'm sure people view me as a warmonger and I view myself as peacemaker... I happen to believe that the actions I've taken were necessary to protect ourselves and lay the foundation for peace."

Legacy solidified.

The most enduring legacy we can predict for George Bush is the cumulative effect of all the bad decisions yet to come from the Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito wing of the Supreme Court. The four of them will be nearly always acting in concert, and the challenge to America for a generation will be to mitigate their damage.

Bush's legacy: He lost two towers in New York, two wars in South Asia, and the entire city of New Orleans.

Vinlander: Three buildings in New York. Building 7, the Salomon Brothers Building, which also coincidently contained the offices of the investigative arm of the Securities and Exchange Commision (!) and the Emergancy Planning Headquarters for the entire city, as placed there by Rudy Guilianni. As well as ofices for the FBI and CIA in New York. And as an aside, both the FBI and CIA offices were virtually deserted the day of 9/11.

Building 7, which collapsed after a MINOR low temperature fire and only had SUPERFICIAL cosmetic damage in the form of some broken windows.

Building 7, which collapsed FIVE hours after Towers 1&2 collapsed, but which strangly the BBC said had collapsed minutes before it actually did.

Bush's legacy. What legacy? The way things are going, NO ONE will be left to read about it. I like to imagine his legacy as similar to Mad TV's spoof of Kim Il Jong of N Korea. A self absorbed psycho with unearned wealth and the most powerful military on Earth. Makes Kim look normal.

Totaljoke: 'course there will be people...I mean cockroaches... I mean Bush's family to read about it.

jlocke123: I believe it was Ronald Reagan who removed the fairness doctrine, but maybe someone can research this.

The so-called "legacy" of George Wanker Bush is akin to a garbage truck crashing into your bedroom at 4 A.M. and burying you under hundreds of pounds of trash. By the time the first responders come to rescue you . . . you have already suffocated. Eight years of George Wanker Bush will have effectively destroyed what was left of true democracy in this nation. Aided by the acquisitive and cowardly Quislings of the Democratic party, Uncle Sam now stands naked in the street, unable even to cover his privates with his hands. Either he will be arrested by the police, run down by a speeding car, or freeze to death. That's all that's left for us. But don't worry - you'll still be able to watch the Super Bowl which, after Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year, will constitute the official end of the Holiday Season.

Lynne January 16th, 2008 3:04 pm:

"jlocke123: I believe it was Ronald Reagan who removed the fairness doctrine, but maybe someone can research this."

Thanks Lynne, a quick search finds that the FCC ended the fairness doctrine in 1987 and Reagan vetoed an attempt by congress to forestall the move.
The FCC under a Reagan appointee suggested that: "due to the many media voices in the marketplace, the doctrine be deemed unconstitutional"

"many media voices"? That doesn't hold up does it?

I wonder how long it would be before Bush's statues would be pulled down ala Saddams?

Galen, the statues would never get finished. The corrupt contractors would just keep raising the costs and using subgrade material so the projects would last forever. At taxpayer expense!

Ata boy jlocke123 blame Bill Clinton for what this moron Bush is doing.You Clinton haters should get a life. I wouldn't be suprized if you blamed him for World War One although he wasn't born then.Damn I'm sick of you people. I hope Hillaary wins by a landslide.

Galen - GWB's father ALSO went golfing the day after the little girl died. No need for name calling on the mother (as much as I hate her) - they both did it.

The legacy of the current Bush is the legacy of Reagan, no different from the legacy of organized crime, the Mafia solution: in this sequence--with minor modifications, dependent on circumstances: kill 'em, control'em, sack'em; and if your own people disagree, exile'em, then kill'em, etc. When and how do we stop the criminals we've elected?

George S.

His legacy will be either spending the rest of his miserable life in court or in jail.

clyde paige January 16th, 2008 4:09 pm:

"Ata boy jlocke123 blame Bill Clinton for what this moron Bush is doing.You Clinton haters should get a life. I wouldn't be suprized if you blamed him for World War One although he wasn't born then.Damn I'm sick of you people. I hope Hillaary wins by a landslide."

If you read what I wrote, you'd see that I was blaming Clinton for what Reagan had done. However, from a progressive vantage point, the Clintons and the Bushes are rather similar. Now that you mention it, Bill Clinton did do nothing to reverse the handing over of the airwaves to a few mega-corporations. So, you are right, the Clintons do share the blame. Thanks for pointing that out:)

What I can't get over....Who the hell elected him? Were all the Americans who voted for him dreaming that day? I didn't even take him seriously at first. I never thought he would win the nomination. It just goes to show that MONEY is first everywhere, even in so-called democracies. Who gave Bush all the money to run? Our corporations and other special interests. A country run by corps and money is NOT a democracy.

BTW, I love the "George Wanker Bush" comment.

George Bush left a more important legacy than any mentioned. It is because of the Bush Whitehouse that the problems posed by CO2 emissions have languished for seven years and the climate change problems and the evisceration of the environmental legislation in the USA has been put on hold until January 2009. George Bush had not only destroyed the credibility of the USA and the health of the USA but he has contributed to the meltdown of the world.

Any other person could not eclipse this evil legacy. Perhaps we must also mention his paid hitman. This ten year hold on on dealing with climate change and refusing to deal with global warming will lead to a most difficult return to the environmental standards necessary. Carbon emission controls will take longer to insitute, since it takes time to get this legilation up to speed for any administration coming to office.

A new congress must be elected as well as a prid cahnge in admnistration. Bush has given the world a legacy of his major contribution to global destruction and an end to human life. The Republican party has aided in the legacy.

Sorry for being harsh here ,,, BUT ,,,
"" You Elected Him. You Deserve Him. ""
So enjoy the rest of the ride .....

I like what Andrew Sullivan said ,,,
"The world has learnt a tough lesson, and it has been a lot tougher for those tens of thousands of dead, innocent Iraqis ... than for a few humiliated pundits. The correct response is not more spin but a sense of shame and sorrow." ,,,,,,,

Dear George's comment was: "It's not 'warmongering' you silly; I said that I was the product of 'whoremongering'. The very tag end of a Yankee genetic diminution of mental and moral capacity."

One (Small but very tedious) Dubya legacy is the ludicrous "war on terror" and the extraordinary unnecessary powers that it has given to the anonymous and the slow witted at airport and other "security stations"..
I am sick to death of having to carry tiny amounts of liquid in fracking stupid plastic bags because some idiot advisor claims (at the time of last Israeli incursions into Lebanon..) that it is possible to fashion "liquid bombs" in your seat, by mixing A with B... Jeezuz..What a pratt.. where is elementary chemical knowledge when you need it ??

The US is imploding and much of the Western World with it.

Bu$h the inferior's legacy will change every time a new president takes office. He is currently the 43rd best president of the USA. He will be 44th best president on 1/20/09.

Listen to Kem and Mordechai, it ain't over yet. In fact it may just be heating up. The thought of rogue elements in the government participating in 9/11 with no serious investigation, the Dims refusing to impeach, the construction of EPA prisons, the Blackwater expansion, the overt governmental attempts to weaken the American people by cutting the budget for necessary services, the arrogant disregard for public opinion, the increasing bloc of nations associating to resist the U.S., the involvement of Likud-like Jews in the neo-con assault on the Constitution, the weakening of the currency, and the conscious obliteration of the middle class are reason enough to be deeply concerned. The drama taking place between the pentagon and the line officers speaks to the tensions spilling over into the public realm. People in and out of the Government are taking sides.

The growing movement of the public for impeachment and for an authentic investigation into 9/11 is taking shape, and frustration with inaction is at the boiling point. Something has to give and soon.

MORDECHAI: thanks for the laugh. Garbage truck is probably the best metaphor for this delusional would-be king.

As per BUSH's presumed legacy, we cannot forget--nor NOT hold accountable--those sagacious court jesters who placed this business-friendly amoral baboon into office in the first place. (And to all those at Deibold, etc who ensured his holding "2nd place," too.)

IKE KAY & J LOCKE: Good points. Thank you for raising them.

yes there's definitely a disparity between what's being said by whom and about what, and what is actually happening and what is being done and not done, that should give us all a cause for concern as we reflect what's up ahead. there's a discomforting duality.

Well, Bush's legacy, moron, has been known for some time. But could it be that somewhere in his "education" at Harvard Bidnis, Yale and Andover, he was required to read a Greek tragedy-- you know, a play where the main character knows his fate or legacy but can't change it, in fact is stuck in flypaper and the more he struggles the more his six little legs get gooed up.

This also may be recompense for Bush's reported torturing of insects as a boy.

Probably, since the king or hero was morally superior to other human beings, Bush identified with him even though he only read a page and a half.

Finally, in the last year of his presidency, the play may be coming back to him-- or rather the page and a half-- and he is afraid that the author may be Shakespeare, not Sophocles, and the hero may actually be morally inferior to other human beings, like
MacBeth or Othello.

Dreaming further he may suspect that unlike those two, he has no tragic stature at all
(just isn't AWARE enough), and is merely pathetic.

So should we feel sorry for him? Hardly! He needs to be exiled to Pitcairn Island with all the rest of our American pro-torture louts.

Skippyagogo frets:

The idea of bush statues propped up in every town of the us is one of the most disturbing things I've read on the internet.

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Dude, c'mon, birds need some place to dispose of their waste. I'm waiting for an angry mob to burn down the Bush Library that all the corporate defense contractor fat-cats will build for him.

Bush will be remembered as the Global Warming president

Good points everyone. I'm trying to figure out my fellow American these days. If everyone felt the way most of us do, these problems would end today.

Evidently there's a huge amount of support, apathy, ignorance, fear, or something at play across the land. Americans, the US military, etc. have great respect for tradition, rule of law, the abstract system, whether or not the individuals in leadership capacities exhibit none whatsoever -- and are doing their goddamndest, apparently, to drive this country to the ground. We've basically got an anarchist in the White House.

And I don't mean that in a good way. Given the number of presidential signing statement he's made, he's expanded the law-free acreage for those with power/money, while shrinking it for everyone else.

"Family Values" are only about what other people do in bed. Nothing at all to do with the physical, psychological, and social health of the vast majority of children whose families aren't in the top quintile economically. Nothing to do with the health of the children of Iraq and Afghanistan who, if they aren't shot or blown up, can't get decent health care because we have destroyed the system upon which they depended, or even clean water because we blew up the purification systems. It's not just Bush, not just the Republicans in Congress. It's the 30% or so of America who continue to support the neocon agenda, despite glaring evidence of its abject failure in every conceivable sphere--military, foreign policy, economics, human rights, the environment, health care, science--and who continue to pontificate as if they, and only they, had the solutions. Look at the Republican primary, for example. Giuliani, Thompson, Huckabee, McCain and Romney are Bush wannabees. They speak of change but largely support the same old failed philosophy and policies. Sadly, most of the Democrats are only marginally better.

Come on! Where are the folks like me and the 9/11 Truth gang who would add a big page to the Bush legacy: THE 9/11 ATTACK itself! If that whole neo-con crew wasn't in on the actual planning of it, they let it happen without much in the way of interference. Look at the record beyond the "official" 9/11 Commission Report. This has not only been the most crooked and corrupt administration ever, it isn't even only Fascist, it's completely treasonous!

Semi-random thoughts:

Eisenhour was the last patriotic Republican.

If they legalized bribery, it would be called politics.

Don't worry, it's always been mostly lies.

Capitalism destroyed the USA.

The main differences between the CIA and KGB were the signatures on the paychecks. (Could add FBI and probably be just as right)

The next major event in human history will be a massive die-off of the species.

Funny I thought you could sustain an economy idefinitely just on debt, war, market derivitives, corporate take-overs, and corruption. Guess you actually may have to make somethng of some value, like maybe in China?

Mitt's who life has been dedicated to the accumulation of great personal wealth, sounds like just the guy we need -- Not!

If Bush were ever tried for war crimes, maybe he could plead insanity or feeble-mindedness. There are so many web pages of lunatic quotes from him. Not as impaired as most who voted for him, though!

Someone else said:

No one ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the American people. (Or lost an election?)

What if there was a successful conspiracy to steal the last 2 presidential elections? Whomever, did they also kill JFK, Robert Kennedy, M L King, JFK Jr., and John Lennon. The worse things get, the less difficult this becomes to believe.

Liars Rule!