Thanksgiving Challenge
OK, I know that we all know George W Bush to be the worst President in history. However, one of my favorite sayings is “Even a blind chicken finds corn sometimes.” What, about George Bush, are you thankful for this year?
Personally, I am thankful that he got the Do Not Call list going. Now that election season is over, we get very few calls that we aren’t interseted in. I am also thankful that he was just so god-awful that the voters threw the Republicans out like day old rubbish.
Your turn.
By enacting a full slate of conservative policies, GWB did demonstrate how corrupt and simply idiotic modern conservatism is….still given the outcomes I’d rather he was never born.
Good one, Jason.
I’m thankful that he’s leaving office.
I am thankful that he has destroyed the Republican Party as it once was and has left us with the Socially Bigoted Party.
I’m thankful for all the fodder for jokes he gave Letterman, Stewart, and Colbert……:) 🙂 🙂
“By enacting a full slate of conservative policies”
Which, of course, he didn’t do. It’s funny that you’re back in the “if I say it enough, people might think it’s true” phase. It’s been months.
I’ll be thankful if Sarah runs in 2012 instead of Jeb
I’m thankful for the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. I’m thankful that he didn’t go all weak-kneed and kowtow to al Qaeda and ask why the poor dears were so upset with us that they knocked down a couple of buildings, and instead went after them to kill them, I am thankful that we deposed Saddam Hussein, and I am thankful for great justices like John Roberts and Sam Alito.
I’m thankful that we still have conservatives to bring us comic relief.
I am thankful that he proved that greed is not good. It clearly is very bad economics.
Well, he did increase funding for AIDS relief in Africa.
And, whether you like it or not, NCLB finally took the bull by the horns in addressing education reform, by starting to address the inconsistencies, incongruencies, and injustices across the education sprectrum, for all students and mandating assessment, intervention, and accountability. I know it’s a mess–but it’s a start.
I’m thankful for the dances!
Joanne…NCLB could work, but he never funded it. So he turned a possible success into a failure.
Indeed, you can say that about nearly everything he has done. His initial great response after 9/11 (going immediately into Afghanistan) was destroyed by failing to capture Bin Laden at Tora Bora when we had him, and then by diverting all our resources into Iraq. Afghanistan could have been a success story, but he even fucked that up.
No, I am not thankful for one thing Bush has done. I am only thankful that one of the most darkest Presidencies in our nation’s history is coming to an end.
And he didn’t deliver the actual promised money to Africa to fight AIDS, at least not in a timely manner. More lip service.
His signing statements and other actions by his Attorney’s General decimated the Constitutional balance of power.
Power and its abuse defines GWB’s leadership and all of us need to remind ourselves of just where it has left us….Dave.
C-SPAN reran a talk in SF by an ex-CIA named Baer this morning. Something else. The neocons who held sway over Bushco’s pentagon where wrong on every count and lied their way into this disasterous world we now face.
Baer says that Iran and Isreal are now very close to nuking each other because of the idiocy of the neocon expectation that Iraqis-will-greet-us-with-posies view of a rapidly stabilized Iraq and its supposedly immediate shining example of mid-eastern democratic star.
I’m thankful he can’t run for president again – EVER!