Posted by guest blogger Locutisprime.
As he leaves the White House at the end of his second term, the President has a poll rating of only 23 per cent, and is widely disliked and even despised. His foreign policy has been judged a failure, especially in view of the long, painful, costly war that he declared, which is still not over.
He doesn't get on with his own party's presidential candidate, who is clearly distancing himself, and had lost many of his closest friends and staff to scandals and forced resignations. The New Republic, a hugely influential political magazine, writes that his historical reputation will be as bad as that of President Harding, the disastrous president of the Great Depression.
I am writing, of course, about Harry S Truman, generally regarded today as one of the greatest of all the 43 presidents, and the man who set the United States on the course that ended decades later in the defeat of Communism.
Read it all.
What better testament, than to have the long view of history and what
those who actually know history, to write your epitaph as a president.
President Bush has made some glaring and obvious mistakes since he
first became president. But none of those mistakes involved his role as
Commander in Chief. He may have been misled by advisers and betrayed by
more than a few of his cabinet choices, but he has always kept his eye
on the ball of protecting this country, from the naked aggression of
Islamic militancy and those who would see terrorist given a pass as
petty criminals.
Bill Clinton only furthered the mistakes made by his predecessor Jimmy
Carter and the dangers forestalled for sixteen years by Presidents
Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Bill Clinton was aware of the dangers and
threats being talked about and targeting America through both of his
terms. But he did nothing. In all fairness, he did less than nothing.
He allowed it to happen
Nero reportedly fiddled while Rome burned. Bill Clinton's actions were
worse than that. Clinton consciously ignored the imminent treats of
Islamic terror aimed at America, while he pursued lascivious interests
in the Oval Office. While
simultaneously selling both his his office and the White House to the
highest foreign bidders. After which he closed out his tenure by
selling American missile technology to our enemies and pardoning
terrorists and enemies of America, for contributions and payoffs to his
library and Hillary's future election war chest.
"The overthrow and execution of a foul tyrant, Saddam Hussein; the liberation of the Afghan people from the Taliban; the smashing of the terrorist networks of al-Qa'eda in that country and elsewhere and, finally, the protection of the American people from any further atrocities on US soil since 9/11, is a legacy of which to be proud."
I'm proud to be of the 23% who understands and appreciates these facts.
Posted by: tim aka The Godless Heathen | Monday, June 23, 2008 at 12:20 PM