Historical perspective

How will history judge the Bush presidency in 50 years? It's hard to say but contemporary historians are not impressed. In an informal survey done by History News Network of 415 respondents, 338 classified it as a failure. Failure of course being a relative word.

“His presidency has been remarkably successful,” one historian declared, “in its pursuit of disastrous policies.” “I think the Bush administration has been quite successful in achieving its political objectives,” another commented, “which makes it a disaster for us.”

Therein lies the crux of Bush's "success" in misleading the public. The guy is such a fruit loop he actually believes that pandering to corporate corruption, cutting taxes on the rich while destroying social programs for the poor and waging insanely expensive preemptive military conflicts on the US credit card is a good thing.

He's so good at pushing the false propaganda because he believes it himself. This I think is why so many gullible Americans believe him to be a "straight talker." It will be no comfort to me when in 50 years they find out "the left" was right about Bush the whole time.

[via North Coast Cafe]