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              George W. Bush saving the world from the Oil Cartel
                                        
> As he leaves the White House at the end of his second term, the President
> has a poll rating of only 23 per cent, and is widely disliked and even
> despised. His foreign policy has been judged a failure, especially in view
> of the long, painful, costly war that he declared, which is still not over.
> 
> He doesn't get on with his own party's presidential candidate, who is
> clearly distancing himself, and had lost many of his closest friends and
> staff to scandals and forced resignations. The New Republic, a hugely
> influential political magazine, writes that his historical reputation will
> be as bad as that of President Harding, the disastrous president of the
> Great Depression.
> 
> I am writing, of course, about Harry S Truman, generally regarded today as
> one of the greatest of all the 43 presidents, and the man who set the
> United States on the course that ended decades later in the defeat of
> Communism.
> 

Via Flares into darkness [1], “History will say that we misunderestimated
George W Bush [2]”

What? You thought this was about Dubya [3]?

Well, yes, it is.

And President Lincoln [4] was equally hated in his day [5]—14,000 protestors
arrested, suspension of habeas corpus [6] and censoring newspapers [7]. And
yet he has his own memorial [8] in Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia)
[9] and is considered one of the best (if not the best) President we've ever
had.

History has a funny way of working.

(Oh, and the title to this one? Reference to an email I sent back in May of
2001 to a now defunct mailing list in response to someone mindlessly sending
political screeds against President Bush without even bothering to read said
political screeds first. I don't mind political screeds, as long as the
person screeding can back up their screeds, which this person wouldn't, or
couldn't, do.)

[1] http://yargb.blogspot.com/2008/06/wednesday-links_25.html
[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/22/d
[3] http://www.dubyaspeak.com/
[4] http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html
[5] http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=465
[6] http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=747
[7] http://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/98342.html
[8] http://www.nps.gov/linc/
[9] http://www.dc.gov/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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