“We’ll have a nice place in Dallas,”[said Bush] where he will be running what he called “a fantastic Freedom Institute” promoting democracy around the world.
2007-09-01 10:49:55 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
"In Book, Bush Peeks Ahead To His Legacy" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/washington/02book.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp
2007-09-01 10:50:29 · update #1
Why would he spoil his near perfect record of failure?
I'm sure the good people of Dallas, TX. will welcome him, but shunt him off into the corner once they have their money from the taxes they'll extract from him.
I'd almost like to see any white papers from this institute he's planning. The talking points would make for a good Letterman top 10 list.
2007-09-01 10:57:52 · answer #1 · answered by Max H 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
By "retirement venture" do you mean his investments in the military industrial machine, or his efforts to make the Iraq war seem justified, mask all the scandals and screwups of his administration, and make himself look good in history?
Democracy around the world is a noble ideal, but it is an ideal, and it cannot be imposed upon other nations by force. Stalin, Lenin and Khrushchev believed that communism was a noble ideal too, and swore to impose it upon all the world's nations, also by force if necessary ("We will bury you!" cried Khrushchev to the democratic world).
Democracy, like morality, has to be earned by a people seeking freedom, sometimes with the help of other nations. We cannot force democracy on a historically theocratic society. And in our own nation, we must not allow theocracy surplant American democracy, another failed legacy of the Bush administration.
2007-09-01 11:16:02 · answer #2 · answered by Don P 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I depended on him to do a sturdy activity, quite while he rigged the 2000 election. while he first began up the conflict in Iraq, i actually concept it replaced right into a sturdy theory, by using fact i concept we'd captured Osama bin laden and placed Saddam Huessin out of ability. We did a sturdy activity with Saddam, yet we nevertheless have yet to detect bin laden, and since the physique count quantity in the Iraq conflict began to pile up, I heavily began to lose faith. As an open-minded Canadian, I also have a objective that i could prefer to be sure take place beforehand I die, and that's to be sure Canada and the US come mutually in peace and team spirit, with none animosity from its electorate. we are on the song to it, yet i've got faith we nevertheless have some the variety to flow beforehand that is extremely finished. regrettably, I understood that Bush replaced into all that undesirable while i found out that this ranked very low on his record of priorities, and that this unpopular conflict, and vetoing dates to get our troops out of place the place they don't belong, replaced into tremendously plenty all he cared approximately. So sure, i concept Bush replaced into all that undesirable.
2016-10-17 10:20:13 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope it's more of a success then Arbusto Oil, Harken Energy or his fiasco in Iraq. Somehow I think his legacy will be one of the worst Presidents in American history.
2007-09-01 11:06:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It just proves that his so called ranch is just a prop to make people think of him as more of a Reagan type than a New England Blue Blood that he comes from. W is just a rich spoiled brat that does not know or care about the effects that his policies have on the common man or women
2007-09-01 10:55:48 · answer #5 · answered by jean 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I think if he stays out of jail and doesn't shoot himself, he'll carve out a small niche for the small man that he is, yes.
He's got lots of logbook time for retirement, since he's taken 423 days of vacation since entering office. He's well on his way to beating Reagan's record for absenteeism in office...which I think is something like 463 days.
All play and no work made George a very dull boy.
2007-09-01 10:59:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
If the past is prelude, then we can only conclude he will be an abject failure, since every other venture he has attempted in his life has failed. He is, for instance, the only man I ever heard of who couldn't find oil in Texas.
And his attempt to promote democracy in Iraq has gone so well...
2007-09-01 10:54:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Success to him will be bilking unsuspecting people from their hard earned money so he can continue supporting his war, on other people's money.
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2007-09-01 11:12:23 · answer #8 · answered by Brotherhood 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, he will be hounded by liberal and anti-war activists as the president that ruined this country.
2007-09-01 11:02:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sure.
As you know, Bush always succeeds at everything.
Just ask the two weirdos, Gore & Kerry.
2007-09-01 10:58:41 · answer #10 · answered by wolf 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋