Lets us quit pussyfooting around and tell the unvarnished truth, GWB is beyond all doubt, the worst President we have ever had. Yet I do not per say think he is as evil as the evil this administration has done.
Nor do I think him a mental midget or mental giant, or all that different from average capacities, but he is somewhat of a reminder of how good people can be totally corrupted by their surroundings. With GWB an almost perfect storm case.
It is usually said of a President, that much of the Presidents work is done by the 5000 or so people that the President appoints to the top Federal departments, but GWB has done away with that and instead relies on a small inner circle of like minded people. His enablers and subordinates, GWB is supposed to run them, and sadly, I think the case is, they run him. People like Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Feith, and Rove do have ability and a vision of what they think is best for the country. Their failure is largely contained in the latter point because they are so in love with a theory that they must be right and therefore the failure of their correctly applied theory can't possibly happen. And maybe if everyone in the world thought exactly like the inner circle, they might be on to something, but the fact is that very few people agree, and like all Utopian ideas, its bound to fail on just their arrogance.
But once convinced of the rightness of their own theories, GWB&co seems to have an unlimited ability to justify any means to achieve an end, and seem to have a similar ability to never question their own theories or ideas. Any failures must be the fault of others and therefore others must be tricked, forced, and manipulated into supporting their ideals. And as long as they can support the ego of the President, GWB need never really have an independent reality checks or a need to pay the slightest heed to any critics. In the end, GWB feels he will be proven right and his whole life, is testimony to coming back from failure. Never mind the facts someone else always bailed his ass out, he came back and that is what counts.
Normally, if you or I had this delusion that we could jump off of tall buildings in a single bound, we would be cured after going splat on the sidewalk. In the case of GWB&co, he tosses us, we the American people off tall buildings, and if we can't fly and fail, its our fault because his theory can't be wrong.
Other Presidents have had similar ego problems, but GWB&co has elevated the insulation from reality to an unprecedented level.
And no Non Prof John, you may be somewhat right in comparing the popularity of GWB and Truman, but history has proven Truman's ideas and vision correct long term, but I very much doubt history will ever prove GWB correct because the very theories his administration operates under are bad in a short and long term sense.
Facebook
Twitter