2008 -- The End of an Error

Defiant to the end ... -- Picture captured by blogSpotter

by blogSpotter
In his final State of the Union address, W took some jabs at our Democrat-dominated Congress, vowed to veto new taxes and defied anyone to alter his economic stimulus package. He also touted the surge in Iraq, which is his one arguable piece of good news this past year.

As I looked at his slightly-and-always perplexed face, and listened to his Texas-style butchery of the English language, I thought how defiant and self-righteous the man remains right down to the final year of his star-crossed tenure. He is not a man offering too many apologies or explanations for anything that "went down" (most recently the economy) during his term.

As we look at the wreckage that is America, we have: a needless Iraq entanglement, a sub-prime melt-down, a recession, a housing crisis (fewest new home starts in 25 years), and New Orleans still laid waste with maybe half its original population. We have eroded privacy rights and instantiated torture as an acceptable approach for dealing with prisoners of war. I can think of no particular thing that isn't worse for the wear. No Child Left Behind is arguably Bush's one bright spot and that one is even fairly questionable.

I've wondered if 9/11 would still have happened, or happened differently with Al Gore in the White House. Gore ran a horrible 2000 Presidential campaign so we'll never know. My jaw is still fallen to the floor over American voters reelecting this missing link in the 2004 election. What in the name of God were people thinking? W will go right into the ranks of James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson and Herbert Hoover as a man dwarfed by the circumstances around him. Many of his actions were refutations directed at his father, George Herbert Walker Bush. Bush 1 is looking more erudite and wise by the day. Bush 2 -- what can we say? 2008 is the end of an error.

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