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George Bush Jr. like many Presidents before him, including Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter, was a bad President.
Hear me out, I am not talking about platforms, ideologies, directives or actions, I am merely talking about the ability of the President to carry the bannister. When George W. Bush became President of the United States he was no longer George W. Bush, son of Barbara and George Bush, he became President Bush-- the current representative of a lineage plagued with promiscuity, dirty-dealings, unethical practices, and the most lethal back-hand known to man. The measure of one's Presidency has more to do with the measure of how they carried the title President, as soon as a President is inaugurated they become the anthropomorphic form of the “dark-side” of success; as success in modernity is not who you can work with, as much as who you can screw (of course there are always exceptions). We as Americans are fortunate to be a highly successful nation, and we are also fortunate to be able to channel the blame and the dirty-baggage to our Commander in chief, and occasionally congress but they are just not as fun to watch.
President Bush had a chance to finish his Presidency strong, without allowing the world to cave his chest in. However when it was his time for his skirt to fly up, Monroe style, people saw what every President for the past century, or two, had been doing. Instead of smacking-faces, gasping, and re-arranging his attire, Bush took it, and denied any and everything that was apparent. He appeared to no longer care about his legacy, and he just wanted to gtfo. He did not fall prey to a victim of failed policy, but as a victim of loneliness.
I don't blame him. If 7 out of 10 people in my class commented on how bad of a student I was, then I would not want to show up the next day to class. If 3 out of the 10 who approved were also bashing me on the side, and plotting the next group activity without my influence, I would be there, standing in the vent with a red-face.
Hear me out, I am not talking about platforms, ideologies, directives or actions, I am merely talking about the ability of the President to carry the bannister. When George W. Bush became President of the United States he was no longer George W. Bush, son of Barbara and George Bush, he became President Bush-- the current representative of a lineage plagued with promiscuity, dirty-dealings, unethical practices, and the most lethal back-hand known to man. The measure of one's Presidency has more to do with the measure of how they carried the title President, as soon as a President is inaugurated they become the anthropomorphic form of the “dark-side” of success; as success in modernity is not who you can work with, as much as who you can screw (of course there are always exceptions). We as Americans are fortunate to be a highly successful nation, and we are also fortunate to be able to channel the blame and the dirty-baggage to our Commander in chief, and occasionally congress but they are just not as fun to watch.
President Bush had a chance to finish his Presidency strong, without allowing the world to cave his chest in. However when it was his time for his skirt to fly up, Monroe style, people saw what every President for the past century, or two, had been doing. Instead of smacking-faces, gasping, and re-arranging his attire, Bush took it, and denied any and everything that was apparent. He appeared to no longer care about his legacy, and he just wanted to gtfo. He did not fall prey to a victim of failed policy, but as a victim of loneliness.
I don't blame him. If 7 out of 10 people in my class commented on how bad of a student I was, then I would not want to show up the next day to class. If 3 out of the 10 who approved were also bashing me on the side, and plotting the next group activity without my influence, I would be there, standing in the vent with a red-face.