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Ann — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:09:38 -0000

Come on, guys, he's not so bad.

Well, he successfully instituted tax breaks for millionaires. All those starving millionaires and Fortune 500 companies can take a deep breath and quit worrying about where their next meal comes from. Whew!

He gave everyone $600 they might not have already had. So they could spend it on the extra gas costs he caused.

He bravely defended the institution of marriage in the face of all logic, humanity, civil rights, and common sense.

He generously gave everyone in my hometown, New Orleans, a nice formaldehyde-rich FEMA trailer to stay in, after he destroyed our homes with global warming. That was sweet.

He has tossed aside that pesky Constitution and strengthened the Presidency, just the way our old leaders did. Like Hitler, or Mussolini.

Impeachment, schmimpeachment. Let's save that for important things, like lying about blow jobs.

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Hugh — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:25:25 -0000

Getting Nelson Mandela declared not a terrorist? Although if I remember rightly this took slightly longer than getting Gadaffi declared not a terrorist, but hey.

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megpie71 — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:03:50 -0000

I'm going to suggest a possible: if enough people put their money where their mouths are, he may well succeed in getting the largest voter turnout in a US election in the past 100 years.

However, I'm not putting money on it. The Melbourne Cup happens on the same day, and with our population (Australia's) being about one fifteenth the size of yours, I'd still be willing to predict more people will bet on a horserace than will vote for the next president of the USA.

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angryyoungwoman — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:19:01 -0000

He's succeeded in alienating almost all of our allies! I'm sure that makes him feel all succesful and mavericky.

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SunlessNick — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:27:34 -0000

Jean: You forgot the establishment of indefinite military bases and a puppet government atop one of the world's largest oil suppliers.

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lizpolaris — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:06:05 -0000

I surely hate President Pretzel, but Nancy Pelosi calling him a failure after the performace of the 110th congress is a bit rich.

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Dean_Lewis — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:00:52 -0000

I couldn't think of one, but I remember at one time reading something he did or funded and I agreed with it. So, I googled to see if I could find it. Unfortunately, I found a forum where someone had started a thread of good things Bush has done, and it made me vomit. Then I found 5 things Bush has done well, and it made me dry heave until bile came up -- especially the third item about him bringing more dignity to the office of the Presidency than Clinton did. Maybe the second one is being facetious, but it still made me ill. So, I can't type anymore until I finish cleaning my dinner off the keyboard.

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Jean — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:35:55 -0000

Unfortunately, I think Boy George Bush has many accomplishments, all of them exactly what they were supposed to be.
He has undermined the Constitution he was sworn to uphold.
He has continued the destruction of the middle class begun by Ron Reagan so many years ago, and carried on by his dear old dad.
He has allowed the public airwaves to be sold to the highest bidder - Radio and television, once a great public trust have become corporate toys spewing the venom of the right.
He has been complicit in the continued dismantling of the Food, Drug, Natural Resources and Land management regulatory administration of this country, which had been in place since FDR's time.
He has gutted the Department of Justice.
He has driven out so many career public servants that whole sections of the department of Education, for example, are run by political appointees who have no understanding of their mission nor the tools/skills to do their jobs.
He has brought us to the edge of fascism; if we continue down this path, we will be a third world nation, inhabited and controlled by large corporations and private armies (Blackwater was already deployed in New Orleans following Katrina).

George has admirably done the bidding of his owners.
Do you really think this wasn't the plan?
Now its up to us to pick up the pieces.
Let's get to work.
Peace
Jean

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SunlessNick — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:45:55 -0000

Me, I get a kick out of how he didn't even manage to be 'world's worst" because Mugabe is still around.

Yeah, but it's a pretty sorry bar when you have to resort to those who are actively trying to destroy their countries in order to find a worse president.

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Kristin — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:49:08 -0000

Clinton passed VAWA, not Bush.

I guess Bush has been successful at clearing lots and lots of brush. Absolutely nothing else that is of any good to the country, though.

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Lalaroo — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:38:37 -0000

He's done a good job with trafficking. He passed the VAWA and strengthened the Trafficing Victims' Protection Act, and straightened out the Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons in the State Department, and he helped make it a more major part of US diplomacy. At the anti-trafficking NGO I worked for goes, they say "A lot of people hate Bush, but we in the anti-trafficking advocacy, he's okay by us."

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savannahm — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:38:29 -0000

PEPFAR (the president's plan for emergency aids relief). Genuinely good thing. Sure, wrangling in Congress let Democrats keep the more inane parts out, and it might not do enough on prevention, but what is there is very good. I'm interning at a major NGO and all of them heavily push for it and depend on it for their AIDS care and so forth. Just take a look at the ONE Campaign blog--almost every other post this month is about the effort to get it reauthorized at full funding (and, albeit at $48 rather than $50 billion dollars, they did Wednesday! Hooray!)

So, you know, even Bush has off days when he fails at screwing up the world.

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nightshift66 — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:32:04 -0000

oddjob,
While I admit that DICK! has been a powerful force in this administration (both the man and the action), Dumbya pushed it, wanted it, and used everything from brute force to "executive signing statements" to get it all done. VP has no power independent of POTUS, none at all. Everything DICK! has accumulated has been through the White House.

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MeM — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:00:35 -0000

And has just about broken the middle class. I'll bet he's very proud of that. Seriously.

Hey, if you're too stupid not to get yourself born as a president's son then you pretty much deserve to be homeless, amirite?

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tatiana — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:36:54 -0000

Me, I get a kick out of how he didn't even manage to be
'world's worst" because Mugabe is still around. Doesn't mean he didn't try his damnedest, though. But, hey, he did get to feel up Merkel!

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katecontinued — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:27:24 -0000

Zip for the public good.

But perspectve is all when measuring success. Bill gave us a handy Chucklenuts checklist last December that had nearly every item checked off.

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Esme4 — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:24:04 -0000

He has successfully seized so much power for the executive branch that I really do fear my government. He has so profoundly demonstrated that the purpose of capitalism is to secure wealth, power, and control of the means of production for a small oligarchy of unelected elite that I have begun reading Marx with far more seriousness than ever before (if you mix Marxism with Maria Mies, you get just how fucked the world is).

He's become the first person I've ever heard of to almost die by choking on a food which has large holes in it.

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mistharm — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:35:57 -0000

Oh! OHHHHH <^_^> I have it! Bush has successfully made a pair of comedians some of the most well respected reporters in the country! (Colbert and Stewart of course)

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Kristen from MA — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:32:20 -0000

He made his very rich friends even richer. And made the poor poorer. And has just about broken the middle class. I'll bet he's very proud of that. Seriously.

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TheHolyFatman — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:16:01 -0000

Uhm....he can really clear some brush......

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sj — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:09:53 -0000

More what nightshift said.

Also Deborah

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juliemania — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:59:56 -0000

One thing he was quite successful at was providing David Letterman with a wealth of "famous presidential speeches" material. (unedited)

and candygram4u --- yes the end is near!

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Flitt — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:49:22 -0000

Totally agree, and Nancy Pelosi should catch a lot of flack for taking impeachment off the table!

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Constant Comment — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:45:54 -0000

That turkey pardoning thing worked out all right. :lol:

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Lloyd — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:38:54 -0000

He's basically made Nixon's claim that "[W]hen the president does it that means that it is not illegal" a reality (after all, he ain't never going to jail). Oh, wait did you mean accomplishments that are good for the country? In that case, none.