The unemployment rate was among the lowest in history during President Bush's two terms. Income growth went to those who took advantage of the change to a knowledge economy. Those who chose not to improve themselves were left behind. As for health care, I don't recall any administration effectively tackling the problem of people who choose not to make health insurance a priority. Clinton failed too. Show me what the Bush Adminstration did to make the problem worse. You're left-leaning, I'm laissez-faire. We disagree. I don't think President Bush was among the greatest presidents this country has ever had, but he wasn't among the worst. I look forward to four years of the 21st Century James Earl Carter.
Everyone involved in the (mis)handling of the Katrina disaster deserves blame. It was completely shameful.
Ray Nagin actually started getting some heat, especially after his ill-advised Chocolate-New Orleans comment, about the handling of Katrina and the evacuation of New Orleans specifically after it was all over. It never reached the levels of the Bush administration taking heat, and certainly wasn't discussed heavily on CNN or MSNBC (I do not watch Fox), but he did get some heat for it.
Something Ray Nagin did not do: Appoint a "Judges and Stewards Commissioner" of the International Arabian Horse Association (someone with little to no emergency management experience) to lead FEMA. Just one of many WTF moments in the Bush era. -Pop
What about destroying and demolishing a whole country? what about all those thousands of civilian deaths? Oh yeah, they had weapons of mass destruction...
Yep, live under the Baathists was a paradise... George W. Bush will be considered a hero to Iraqis much the same way FDR is considered a hero to much of Western Europe and Ronald Reagan is considered a hero to much of the former Eastern Bloc.
