| Look guys, as you know, I'm mostly conservative, but GWB has been the most polarizing, divisive President in recent memory. His foreign policy has been characterized by the unprecedented stated policy of simply not talking to any countries it disagrees with - hardly exemplary statesmanship. His most lasting negative legacy will be the tremendous breakdown or misrepresentation in intelligence which led to the Iraq fiasco. His destructive foreign policy legacy will take decades to reverse. I find it almost impossible to believe as George Sr. was a true statesman, and one would think he could have counseled his son.
Anyway, just in terms of foreign policy GWB has been the worst president I've ever seen, and that's not taking into account the spending issues. No, it's not true that any President is the same in office. H.W. Bush, Reagan, even Nixon would never have behaved this way. |