<p>Thoughts? Discuss :)</p>
<p>Not a very good one. However, I thought he could save himself with the whole energy revolution thing/global warming, yet that seems to be at a standstill.</p>
<p>With a Democratic Congress and public opinion the way it is, his Presidency is over. He won't be able to do anything. Which is a good thing.</p>
<pre><code> IMO, if Bush and the NSA is wiretapping this and I could speak to him I'd tell him to focus on Global Warming, the Environment, and Oil. It would help his tarnished legacy as there is no good solution to Iraq and he's lost his reputation in the World Arena and could make no positive impact there. But again, Bush,the oilman, help improve the environment. Might as well expect the Columbian Drug Cartel to stamp out cocaine production.
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<p>America doesn't like its own president when they are presidents. They love them before and after they're presidents. So too they will on Bush. People will remember him for his leadership in 9/11 and they will recall the positives of the Iraq War which will overwhelm the negative effects and consequences...especially if future wars and conflicts has casualties that goes over 4 digits which will most likely happen. And how can anyone forget the pretzel incident?</p>
<p>Bush still retains some powers, although no longer ensured. The Democrats have only a slight majority and if I recall, it's rare to have a voting pattern of the Congress in which every party member votes for their party's decision; there's always those few and many members who side with the rival party's decision.</p>
<p>I don't recall any past presidents being chewed up by historians, regular citizens, and media about their environmental record. At best, I only heard jokes about Reagan: how trees were pollutants, the smoke caused by Helen is more than the total emission of smoke from cars, and such. I sure didn't hear nor read any presidents being praised for their environmental achievements.</p>
<p>There are studies that show that volcanic activity and decaying vegetation in the rain forest do contribute a decent amount of greenhouse gases and methane, you know.</p>
<p>The biggest contributor to global warming is cows farting.</p>
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<p>lol</p>
<p>Good stuff.</p>
<p>"Hitler is fuhrer. Deal with it."</p>
<p>You couldn't "deal" with Hitler though, because that was a totalitarian state (although you kinda could, but you'd end up in a camp or guillotined or something, but people still tried. Look at the Danish, they were miraculously successful). However, George Bush is SUPPOSED to be the head of a DEMOCRATIC state. One where the people's opinions are supposed to matter, even if they do not always. Unfortunately, the biggest chance we had to use our voices to express our disapproval came 2 years ago, and yet got him for another four years.</p>
<p>But look what we did a couple months ago. The Democrats control the Senate. We're dealing the best we can. :)</p>
<p>Maybe, because I don't like it, I should just leave the country. :) Afterall, I do not say the pledge. I know, I should be hanged for treason...</p>
<p>Clean Water Act, Emissions Control, under Clinton. Other presidents did so something about the environment, although Faux News maybe didn't mention it.</p>
<p>His decision to go to Iraq will go down as the worst foreign policy decision in U.S. history.</p>
<p>You should move to Canada... oops, the right-wingers are running the show there too. Too late, pinkos.</p>
<p>Goodness, when will people get over the Fox News thing? It has a conservative slant...it's not like there aren't several that have liberal slants. I guess it's fine to ignore the slant as long as it agrees with you, though.</p>
<p>His presidency is effectively over. His entire platform was based on Iraq, which by the way over 60% of Americans including me disapprove of, democrats took back control of congress, and the majority of Americans disapprove of the job he's doing or think he's doing a poor job. </p>
<p>He's nothing but a figurehead with a machiavellian campaign manager.</p>
<p>Get over it. Fox is conservative, CNN is liberal. There are biases both ways. I can say that because I'm libertarian.</p>
<p>Fine, maybe New York State will secede from the union. We'll join Canada and take 80% of the US economy with us.</p>
<p>thank you to the OP. It's about time someone said that. :)</p>
<p>Dems have such a small majority that even if they get a bill passed, they can't override a veto. The legislative system will be in gridlock. Luckily, Bush has a history of cooperating with Dems in Texas, so maybe some moderate bills will be passed rather than nothing. We'll probably pull out of Iraq by 2008 (in time for the election). Has eveyone forgotten that bin Laden is still on the run (assuming he is alive) and we have yet to catch him. That is Bush's biggest failure. He will salvage everything if he gets bin Laden and finishes Afghanistan.</p>
<p>"machiavellian"... isn't that Emperor Palpatine's first name?</p>
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<p>Have you forgotten Vietnam?</p>
<p>No, I haven't forgotten Vietnam, although my post was worded so that one would pick up on that (now I can post again!). I believe Iraq is worse becasue it's a ticking time bomb. Iraq is not as deadly - the highest Vietnam casualty rates for U.S. soldiers was greater in Vietnam. But in regards to the native population, things are worse in Iraq. A relatively accepted nationalist North Vietnamese takeover vs utter anarchy and civil war? Civil war is worse, it just hasn't come to fruition yet. If it can be stopped, than I'll be wrong. I have my doubts, only time will tell.
The Middle East is a much more critical region to U.S. interests than SE Asia was in reality, the domino theory was flawed, as hindsight shows us. </p>
<p>Sorry venkater, but Bush will not slavage everything if he captures Bin Laden, although it might help a few approval rating points by the end of his presidency. Bin Laden is not his biggest failure, it's most definitely Iraq. Even coming from a purely statistical standpoint, Iraq is 100x more important on a global scale than Bin Laden's on-the-go leadership. Also, I think you're right about gridlock, although both sides would do well to make compromises.</p>
<p>To the original poster: The American people did deal with. We flipped two Republican majorities.</p>
<p>you flipped them. good for you. Now deal with the fact that he is still president and work with him to accomplish something instead of bickering. Did you even vote in 06?</p>