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Probably because he didn't intend it, Bush has been successful at one thing. By failing so spectacularly his demise feels like what is was, the end of 25 years (except for Clinton) of Republican totalitarianism. Obama's win was deafening because it was accompanied by the sound of a wall falling down.
In those 25 years of voodoo trickle down economics, taxpayers have picked up the tab for two unprecedented banking failures: $1.2 trillion under Senior Bush and $700 billion (and counting) under Junior Bush. Almost $2 trillion. Nearly 20 per cent of America's total natiional debt. And all the while, through good times and bad, prosperity miraculously managed to trickle up, not down.
Thanks to Bush, Obama has the best chance of any president we will see in our lifetime to undertake the bloodless revolution it will take to fundamentally turn away from a futile, feudal system of pandering to the business elite and monied class that exists only to favor the few over the many.
Skeptics will say that in the two party system in America, there is no real choice. They say the rich and the powerful got that way because they know how to work the system. They say America belongs to the interests of business. We can only hope they are wrong.
How can anyone aspiring to president not expect to be in some manner of military conflict considering the fact that America has been in a military style conflict under virtually EVERY president since 1776. It would be nice to live for four or eight years without a war of some sort. It is said that war is the way American's learn geography. Well, I for one, don't want to learn any more geography. Germany, Japan, Korea, Viet Nam, Grenada, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq I&II.....ENOUGH!
He's got two months to try to salvage something from the wreckage, but I'm certain all we'll get are empty gestures (like these), a few pardons, and a glimpse of his entire administraion whistling right on to the bank.