I am almost delerious with joy about the end W's reign, an illegitimate president who seems beyond rehabilitation.
And this article that I've linked below has some eloquent reasons why I'm glad he's going.
But I wonder, in this list of his seven worst mistakes, what is not included? Please feel free to add...
seven worst mistakes of W
In particular, what jumped out to me what this paragraph, a work of art:
He politicized everything, promoted incompetents, and -- whenever things got tight -- appealed to our basest instincts of fear, greed, ignorance and hate.
Bush had all the luck of Jimmy Carter, the attention to detail of Ronald Reagan, the adaptability of Lyndon Johnson, the abiding respect for the Constitution of Richard Nixon, the humility of Teddy Roosevelt, the rhetorical skills of Calvin Coolidge, the fiscal restraint of Franklin Roosevelt, the cronyism of Warren Harding, and the overreaching idealism of Woodrow Wilson.
And his election had all the legitimacy of Rutherford Hayes'.
As he slinks off to Texas to a lonely life of alcohol-free Happy Hours, golf and hanging with his buddies, he'll have all the public isolation of O.J. Simpson. Let's hope someone has the courage to put him in the same place that O.J. is headed now...