(photo from www.BushorChimp.com).
At this exact moment Bush is holding the final press conference of his career. It's a pitiful display. Bush is being asked those career summary type of questions, "What were the biggest mistakes of your presidency?", "What would you do differently", etc., and if it wasn't clear to anyone before that Bush as President was in way over his head, today that fact simply smacks you across the face.
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Bush, first of all, can't string two coherent ideas together; his answers are rambling and nonsensical, but most stunning is his obvious lack of any introspection at all. At one point, Bush tried to address the problems of Katrina, and he attempted some kind of response about why he couldn't land Air Force One in Baton Rouge, as if that was the reason why he was blamed for the fiasco in New Orleans. But nothing about the fact that he had no plan to deal with this type of crisis in the first place, especially in a post-911 world, he had incompetents in the top positions at Fema and other crucial government organizations and his initial response to the entire situation was lackadaisical at best until the whole thing threatened to blow up his presidency.
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Bush also mentioned something about regrets about Abu Ghraib, (as if he and Cheney and Rumsfield had nothing to do with the prisoner abuse), and not finding weapons of mass destruction, but of course, no mention of the fact that invading Irag was a huge and costly mistake for which American will be burdened for decades to come.
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The most comical and shocking moment came when one reporter asked something about the mood of the people, and Bush said, he actually said this, (to paraphrase), "I've traveled all over the country, and I've not found anyone who's angry." Wow. I've got a suggestion for you Georgie, maybe if just once in the past eight years you had let someone attend your town hall meetings other than your most partisan Republican supporters you might have stumbled across some of that anger.
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In the end, I don't think the historians will describe Bush as a villian, those tags will be reserved for Cheney, Rumsfeld and the others in his administration who clearly had a ideological, almost psychotic agenda in mind for Bush's presidency. But way back before the 2000 election, Cheney, Rumsfeld and other extreme right-winger's knew that the only way their deranged, right-wing blueprint could succeed was if they could find a man who could get elected to the Presidency who was so inept, so incapable of comprehending complex, sophisticated issues and so easily swayed by "expert" opinions regardless of the motivation behind those opinions that they could then convince him to follow their agenda. Welcome to your legacy, George!
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