Re: Republican administration's sad, sorry State of the Union...

A Presidents legacy, any Presidents legacy, will be determined by the historians. None of us know how historians will rate this Presidency.


"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:n652q31eqvo370ul3f9a23ahvoq6oc68gj@xxxxxxxxxx

Bush's time has, indeed, passed and many in Congress and among the
American public, wish it was a time that had never happened.

His legacy will be a failed, corrupt Presidency that drove this nation
to the brink of the abyss and could yet plunge America into it.

He has, after all, nearly a year left to complete his dismantling of
the Constitution and final elimination of what little integrity is
left of the office of President.

In usual Bush style, he twisted facts, played the terrorism fear card
and claimed credit for successes that don't exist.

He claims of success in Iraq came on a day when five American soldiers
died -- the bloodiest death toll for our troops in a long time.

He continues to claim America's economy is sound at a time then
millions have lost their homes, a record number of Iraq vets are
homeless and this country slides deeper into recession.

Yes, the President of the United States gave Congress and America his
view of the State of the Union Monday night.

As he has six times before, he presented a view obscured by illusion,
illogic and incoherence.

America is in a sorry state...and it sailed into those dangerous
waters with George W. Bush at the helm of the ship of state.

But this captain will not go down with his ship.

He will walk away and leave others to try and save the sinking U.S.S.
America.


http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/4377#comment-26859

January 29, 2008

The sad, sorry State of the Union

Bush's final State of the Union was just more of the same

By DOUG THOMPSON


The snake-oil salesman tried once again Monday night to sell his
illusions to a skeptical audience that stopped listening to him years
ago.

George W. Bush's final State of the Union speech marked a sad,
pathetic footnote to a failed Presidency:

a dismal, clueless exercise in fear-mongering and falsehood; a
monument to arrogance and bluster;

and a testament to the depths to which this nation's government has
sunk.

For the most part, this seventh and last SOTU was pure Bush:

a mixture of unreality and unrelenting hyperbole, delivered in the
stilted, halting style of a failed orator.

He tried to convince an skeptical Congress to become more of a
co-conspirator to his failed polices, urging the House and Senate to
make his failed programs permanent as a lasting monument to his
corrupt legacy.

Congress must, he said, make his tax cuts permanent -- a move certain
to deepen the record deficits that he will leave to the next
President.

It must, he demanded, legalize his warrantless wiretapping bill to
make government spying on American citizens the law of the land --
cementing his destruction of the Constitution and destroying what
little is left of the freedoms we once thought were bedrocks of the
American way of life.

It must continue to send billions off to pay for his failed war in
Iraq and support a military presence there that will last well into
the next decade if not much, much longer.

But even Congress knows a lame duck when it sees one and, with one eye
on the approaching November elections, few -- Democrat or Republican
-- are willing to listen to the ravings of George W. Bush.

____________________________________________________

And you wanna put the Republicans back in office to continue their
destruction of our nation? Shame on you.

Harry

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