The Bush Legacy (2 Viewers)

[Iron]

Assess

 

[reh]

a right kuffuffal

2 wars, both enduring longer than the US involvement in World War 2,
2 recessions...
lowest approval rating ever...22%, 1 below Nixon's 23%

fuckin onya George Dubya

 

[Iron]

Apparently the administration had plans to do legacy stuff in the last hundred days, but the financial crisis put a cruel end to that (wouldve been great if it waited till Obama's day one)

 

[Trefoil]

Some poll elsewhere asked me this, too.

I thought about it, and I honestly wanted to give him just "bad", but when I thought about a bit more, I realised it would have been hard to fuck things up more than he did, so "awful".

 

[Iron]

You have to mark him hard on Iraqi intelligence and initial handling of the war...
Inaction on climate change
Kinda stole the election

Good marks on 9/11
AIDS funding to 3rd world
Managed China's rise well

 

[Captin gay]

George W. Bush continued the deplorable erosion of the Enlightenment principles that America was founded upon. America became the greatest nation on planet Earth not on May 8 1945, not during the Fall of the Soviet Union but on July 4, 1776. Everything else is a pale imitation.

 

[9deuce]

The Bush Legacy...

sucks dick

 

[spiny norman]

I hate to be one of those knobs who names the current guy as the worst President ever (let alone Bush, where everyone does it).

But really, I can't see him not rank down there. The economic collapse, even if not entirely his fault, will only further cement it.

Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses Grant, Warren Harding, George W. Bush.

So it will be.

 

[reh]

Managed China's rise well

idk if you are being sarcastic here,

But China has fertilised the fucken apple tree with America. And we all know, an apple a day keeps the doctor away.

that is, China invests in America, thereby funding the American trade deficit in which case America is importing goods from China (using Chinese funds).
The chinese are feasting off the interest earnt, and export earnings that america is providing for them

 

[Iron]

I was talking foreign policy. The president is generally pretty toothless on domestic/economic matters. Blame congress

 

[Trefoil]

I was talking foreign policy. The president is generally pretty toothless on domestic/economic matters. Blame congress

Bush had a Republican majority Congross for 6 years.

 

[reh]

I was talking foreign policy. The president is generally pretty toothless on domestic/economic matters. Blame congress

LOL
i will right an angry letter. Informing them just how angry i really am at their economic management!

 

[Iron]

No. The GOP had a majority. Bush had vague ideological allies, but he could only get them to do stuff if popular opinion was on his side, like after 9/11

 

[nick1689]

Here's a query for everyone:

If Bush wasnt elected as President, would America still have been involved in two wars? Was it the contextual events of the 21st century that defined the Bush Administration? Would the US be in the same position as it is now if Bush wasnt elected?

GO!

 

[Iron]

Afghanistan war would almost certainly have occured regardless of President, but do ur own homework

 

[spiny norman]

Well it would've been Gore.

I highly doubt Gore would've invaded Iraq.

Also Gore definitely would have taken global warming seriously and done something to address that more immediately, rather than Bush's refusal to recognise it for much of his presidency.

 

[breaking]

holy shit its spiny norman
how's quakers hill going for you dude?

 

[Iron]

Na Gore wouldve been pretty ineffective imo. How they run the campaign is the best indication of how they'll govern, and lol Gore's was pathetic. Admittedly, Bush's was an exquisite win over incumbency etc, but yeah, Gore just wanted to eat cheesecake

 

[Anonymou5]

Ladies and gentlemen...we got 'im.

 

[sam04u]

There are some things that were inevitable.

1) China's rise on the back of it's manufacturing industry contributing to the U.S deficit.
2) Russia's economy growing and also moving away from Yeltsin anti-Influence policy.
3) Terrorists taking a shot at the U.S for it's support of Israel and Middle Eastern policy in general.


Given those three factors are inevitable something was bound to happen. Considering there is a good, bad and neutral response to all three of those inevitable happenings. Bush would easily have scored a bad on all three.