Mr. Bush’s presidency has about 6 months to go. If it were to end today, what would his legacy to We the People be?  Would he be remembered for a government that was uncompromising, intransigent, Insensitive and unconcerned about the consequences of the harm it caused to his country and the World?  Most assuredly it wouldn’t resemble one like FDR’s, a “traitor to his class, who brought us out of the depression and then went on to win WW II.  Nor will Mr. Bush be remembered for his courage as Mr. Truman has. General Eisenhower was the Peacemaker and the man who gave us The Interstate Highway system. Mr.  Kennedy left us Camelot, the Best and the Brightest, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the question “what would he have accomplished had he lived?” Mr. Johnson, was first the Great Legislator, the civil rights act, Medicare, the voting rights act followed by Viet Nam and Richard Nixon. Mr.Nixon, “Tricky Dick”, was the President who gave us Spiro Agnew, and then went on to to almost destroy our form of Constitutional government.  But he did open up Communist China. Mr. Ford “bound up our wounds” and brought us out of our “national nightmare.” He gave us the swine flu vacine, the WIN button(Wip Inflaton Now),and pardoned Mr. Nixon who was never held publicly accountable for high crimes and misdemeanors. Mr. Carter of the “failed Presidency, but the best example for what an ex-President could do after he left office.  His brokered peace treaty between Israel and Egypt remains the best example of how peace could be achieved in the middle east. Mr. Reagon was The Great Negotiator, the man on whose watch saw the end of the communist experiment in Russian. He also left us with The Savings and Loan Scandal and the Iran Contra Affair followed by Ollie North and George Bush I. Bill Clinton was the President with Great Potential and failed to realized it because he let his balls get the best of him.

Now, what will Mr. Bush II’s legacy be?

FDR was the “traitor to his class, but succeeded. And with the exception of Mr. Nixon, history has treated his successors kindly. Right now, if I were to pin a label on Mr. Bush’s place in history it would have to be summed up as follows: He was “The Protector of his Cabal” that very small, very exclusive group of family, friends and sycophants, all of whom benefited from inherited wealth, that has nurtured and protected him all of his life. And what will be the final act of his Presidency, that action that will be be the capstone on his Legacy? I don’t think it will be another war, or a tax break for the rich. No, it will be something much more personal. He will exercise his power of Presidential Pardon, and grant one to himself and all the members of his government who are now under indictment, or soon will be indicted for contempt of Congress, politicizing the Justice Department or crimes against the American people and violations of International Law. Now wouldn’t that be a legacy of the First Presidency that kicked off the 21st Century?

Sabagio Mauraeno, at home in DeKalb County Georgia, celebrating the Forth of July

With an “educational materials” Bush family member, little George fancies that he can get a History Book written with all of his glory and shoved down the throats of school children for 50 years.  Thats what he means when he says “History will....

Pelosi, in her wish to avoid a confrontation and impeachment of the president, will instead produce the greatest confrontation this country will ever have.

Namely, between congress and a president who plunges this country into a second bloody war in the Mideast, against the advice of his military leaders

Do you job Pelosi, protect and defend this country, it’s people and it’s constitution against it’s number one enemy, George W. Bush.

On the third day of SunDance this old man looked at the I Ching.  Hexagram #49, Revolution, changing to Hexagram #11, Peace, was the result.  Most commenting here seem convinced of there still being some conventional institutional (and relatively painless) way out of the worsening multi-faceted mess, daily described on this site and indeed all over the “media,” that theamericanpeople are foundering in today.  Or if not actually hopeful, are anyhow resigned to there being no other Way available to them.

The Oracle suggests otherwise.  Only drastic changes in their own attitudes and behavior can bring about the balance and clarity domesticated peoples everywhere are increasingly so desperatre for, as their circumstances and condition continue to deteriorate.

Yet elsewhere on this site there is a discussion about the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling which will likely (and is intended-to) usher-in an even greater incidence of people reaching for their firearms in problematical situations.  There are, of course, those who would much prefer such infantile and futile and ultimately canabalistic violence as a first resort of the captive masses.  It will, after all, confirm their inferiority in the minds of their masters (the “subjects” of a book reviewed elsewhere on the site), while leaving those self-selected “elites” pretty much immune to any personally damaging consequences.

The last thing these wannabe “absolute rulers” want to see is their “livestock” looking within their own humanity and to one another for the direction and mutual support they need to get free of their increasingly hellish confinement.  The day the domesticated peoples come to see their tormentors as not simply malicious but also completely irrelevant to their lives as Human Beings is The Day this ten-thousand-year reign-of-terror will end.

Probably the clever trick of pretending to give people a “choice” every so often as to who will occupy the false-fronts of “power” is going to work one more time.  Though there are those here who see that as being “aborted” if it appears that the “wrong” crowd might “win” the “election.” Even so, it will have succeeded in keeping the confused from seeing past the smokescreens, and continuing to look for their “deliverance” from “forces” outside their own immediate neighborhoods....for awhile longer, at least.

The nature of anything is revealed in its actual effects on our Living Arrangement....and never to be found in its “advertising.” Isn’t it about time to recognize this monster raping and pillaging the Earth for what it is?  Isn’t it way past time not to be taken-in by the lies it tells about itself?

Let’s say “talk of revolution” has now gone around twice.  For one that will actually work, for-a-change, try the Tiyospaye Way.

HokaHey!

In 1993, when professional-baseball owners were deciding how to rehabilitate the reputation of baseball, after the player’s strike, they debated whether to enact a wild-card rule to allow a second-place team into the playoffs. Only one owner at the time voted against this: Texas Rangers general partner George Bush.

When the rule passed 27-1, at the time the President said, “I made my arguments and went down in flames...History will prove me right.” [Associated Press, 9/9/93]

Since then, nearly a third of World Series champions have been wild-card teams, including the 2004 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox.

The rule helped saved baseball as history has shown.

Taken from the Flint Journal June 27, 2008

At a GOP fundraiser in Michigan, President Bush said,"I’m going to finish my job with a sprint to the finish line. So if I’m Iran, I’m worried.”

Need we say more? The warmongering goes on. Of course it would not be beneath this underhanded person to go ahead and invade yet another country based on lies and thus declare Martial Law and remain in the not so White House, especially if it looks like their man might loose the election.

Felicity, you are right about the Bush family being rotten, but don’t forget about grand daddy Preston Bush, a Hilter supporter until this countries government caught on, yet they let his son and grandson run this country into ruin. Talk about creeping incompetence. These bushes are so rotten that my dogs won’t even use them, might catch something.

Imagine Cheney handing over the keys to the white house to a black liberal senator.  That’s a total rejection of the neo-con plague.  Will he do it?

Bush is a fascination for the psychology crowd, one of whom suggested a few years back that Bush functions to defend against anxiety and thinking makes him anxious.  Does it follow then that he doesn’t?

George Jr. has a legacy from George Sr. who as vice under Reagan fired the prosecutor investigating the masterminds and players in the Iran-Contra affair.  By doing so, George Sr. pardonned himself. It’s a rotten family.

Yesterday msnbc.com had a piece about Bush at the top of the page saying that Bush does not believe his low poll numbers.  He thinks they are much higher and that he is beginning to turn it around again.  He says he senses a surge in approval in the way he is doing things which is not reflected in the polls.  It must be the $4.50/gallon for gas that we love him for.  He will never see himself as irrelevant.  I am surprised that the neo-cons are going to walk away from power.  I never thought they would.  I still think there is a chance that Bush will declare a state of emergency and cancel the elections.  According to Seymour Hersh, Gates told the democratic senate leadership that an attack on Iran will mean that our grandchildren will be fighting jihadists here in this country.  Maybe an attack on Iran will give Bush the excuse he needs to declare a state of emergency.

Does Bushy-bush-bush have “loose ends” or is Bushy-bush-bush a “loose” cannon?

We are now going to see the results of the debacles that the neo-cons in their obviously demented and warped minds have dreamed up. 
As to foreign policy, the next president and the American people are going to reap the whirlwind of successive and degenerating policies, that have only caused us much hurt and woe.  Abu-Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay Prison camps, secret rendition of innocent civilians by the CIA, up to and including the torture and death of illegal detainees, all of these things have only made it harder for the American people to hold their heads up as people and a government that follows the rule of law and international conventions and treaties that previous presidents and Congress have been signatories to.
It is shameful that the shrub was allowed by the Republican controlled Congress and Senate to continue these policies that have put our troops in danger, allowed Osama bin Laden to escape justice, and worse than all of these things, to have created such ill will among the rest of the world that now America is looked upon as a rogue nation willing to do anything to achieve its aims of control of natural resources.
As to domestic economic policy, the neo-cons in their infinite and ever-expanding wisdom, have wrecked the American economy to the point that now China owns some if not a major portion of our debt. Some if not all of our manufacturing jobs, some if not all of our best technically skilled jobs, these are now done by overseas countries due to the lack of a functional and market-oriented educational system.
We are facing within the next 10 year, becoming a Third world debtor nation that cannot control its borders, has no viable economy and cannot educate its children, preparing them for a future that will require advanced technical knowledge.
The Neo-Cons have ruined any chance of the next president having any legitimate and legal means to complete the tasks that are set before him by the people of the United States. Oil by the barrel will be by next year $200.00 U.S. and this will cause major restructuring of the economy of the US. What will be the outcome of an economy that is in freefall?  Only time will tell, but one thing is for certain, the perpetrators of these horrific crimes will not be held accountable by the Justice system of the US or the world. Because they will be give immunity from prosecution, in order to protect the presidency as an institution.
However flimsy an excuse this is, it will be the one used to protect the shrub, Darth Vader, the Gang of Five, the “war council” and all the rest of the hangers on that made this country what it is today, a despised and hated country that the world wants nothing to do with because of the arrogance and lack of compassion that this administration has shown to the rest of the world. Besides which, this administration has shown such contempt for the rule of international law and the laws of this country, it is a wonder that someone in their right mind, does not secretly rendition the shrub and all those who have perpetrated this mess.
As to the fact that the shrub cannot be counted on to remain docile, this is an accurate and fair description of a man for whom desperation is a way of life and more than that his whole way of thinking. He will act of, a need to leave a legacy that is positive and not one which, of his own making has left the US in dire straits for the next 10-20 years.

This BS Rhetoric about ahving to pre-emptiviely strike iran so it does not threaten Isreal is an Outrage. Isreal not only has the war heads,but the best trained military force in the region.
Bush appears to be in Line with Hagee’s Armegeddon Stratedgy- A sociopath.
But this is exactly what the Cheney Group envisioned when they propped him up. Nixon a paraniodschizophrenic, Reagan a Alzheimers victim, HW a Yes Man Pussy, Clinton too busy chasing Pussy,W. a ego maniac with a Low IQ and Now Mac who appears to have all these mental deficiencies wrapped into one.A True Manchurain Candidate.
Attack Iran and the 60’s will appear to have been only the Woodstock Festival!There’ll be A Lynch Mob surrounding DC and no doubt the majority of Law enforcment and Military will be standing with US this time!

I believe the Bush plan is to get Israel to attack Iran before the election. The US of course will “come to the aid of our ally” thus insuring that whoever the next President is, we will be trapped in an ongoing and expanded war in the region for years.

It’s scary to think and realize that this usurper and his illegal administration once seriously considered suspending the 2004 Presidential election (in which, of course, Ohio and Florida were stolen yet again).

I am deeply worried that if Obama continues to destroy McCain in the polls and wins in November, Bush-Cheney will seize some “Reichstag Fire"/9-11 incident to ensure he never takes office.

Because, if Obama wins and there’s a landslide leading to Democratic dominence in Congress, the investigations into the criminal activities of the Usurper’s WH will kick into high gear--even Speaker Pelosi won’t block it.

That means Bush and Cheney will go to prison until America stupidly elects another buffoon Re-thug who pardons them.  Which we will.  It’s our history--Reagan, Nixon, Coolidge, Harding, Taft, Benj. Harrison, all the way back to Grant.  Yeah, there’s the George HW Bush, Eisenhower, Hoover, TR and McKinley all of some competence (Hoover is much maligned), but the GOP buffoons dominate.

• “..Bush met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani at the White House last week, and Talabani said later that he hoped an agreement would be completed “very soon.”..

Talabani is a Kurd. He’s always been easier to deal with than the rest of Iraq. They want their own country anyway, and they’ve already cut oil deals.

• “A few months ago, Bush vowed to strive for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord before he leaves office. Even he must realize by now that this isn’t likely to work out. There’s no shame in this failure—it’s not as if his predecessors have done much better, with the exception of Jimmy Carter and the Camp David accords—but he is still left in search of an unalloyed foreign policy achievement upon which future historians can agree.”

It’s always curious to me how few Americans seem to register this point. The point that NO US president aside from Jimmy Carter has managed to get ANYTHING done on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and of course these past 8 years of the worst administration in history have made the situation even worse, because they’ve encouraged, aided and abetted Israel’s continued crimes. That’s why I always marvel at the overwhelming antagonism displayed toward Obama on these threads, on this PARTICULAR issue. They make it sound like it’s all his fault for the conflict, and that he damn well better become accountable for it. That just never ceases to amaze me.

Meantime, George isn’t going to find any political achievement on which future historians can ever agree, unless the criteria for ‘achievement’ is flipped as totally backwards as everything else has been. Like, achievement for the worst economic disaster in the history of the US? (yep, worse than the Great Depression, since this has lasted nearly twice as long). Achievement for the most people killed, both at home and abroad, Americans and foreigners? Maybe the most wars instigated, or the most countries intentionally destabilized, INCLUDING US?

Yeah, if we call those ‘achievements’ (I’m sure Dick Bush does) then they’ll have lots to talk and write about.

At least there’s a mention of Sy Hersh’s article on the invasion of Iran here. Ed was expecting TD to get to this. EJ doesn’t mention Seymour Hersh as the author though. Only a just a story in the New Yorker.