<p>His legacy is no where close to what dear GW had pulled. -- excuse me? We will discuss his legacy perhaps in 5 years, or perhaps in 9. Certainly in the first three months of an administration.<br>
As to Bush -- whether you are indifferent to him or dislike him ( i dont think anyone actually liked him), the Wall Street deregulations that helped the mess we're in, started in the administration prior to him.</p>
<p>I won't discuss the legacy of a President until 10+ years after the President's last day in office.
I remember how hated Reagan was when he left office. Basically, by the same people that believe Obama can do no wrong (the press, Liberal Democrats, and most NE BD students & Professors). Now he is usually voted in the top 10 best US President polls.
I remember how everyone hated Nixon when he left office, but looking back now.. BOY he sure helped us in American - Sino relations, and got us out of Vietnam (sorry for the So. Viets and the Cambodians).
I can't know Bush's legacy yet, unless I could see into the future.
With the "new" changes in economic and Middle Eastern policies, things could get real dicey here in the near future. Atm Obama is an "icon" for the youth and the hurt. I have yet to see solid moderate change that works and that won't be remedied by the next administration.</p>
<p>May I ask, what is Bush going to do that is gonna help his rep so much?</p>
<p>Yes, but let's talk about it in ten years. It's not what he is going to do.</p>
<p>I meant to type -- certainly NOT in the first three months of the administration,</p>
<p>PV- Back tot he purpose of this thread. You will find plenty of teachers and students to talk about the results of President Bush’s eight years in office today. Most of them will be along your political lines. Many of us on CC are adults who have been through the discourse and exercises of Boarding School political studies already. We realize that there is political theory (the pundits) and then there is the actual history. If you want some good reading, read Bill Clinton’s book. He wrote it right out of the White House, and we know now 8+ years later that he was more intent on rewriting much of his history and accomplishments to fit the way he wishes he would be viewed. A History class at BS would have been doing a disservice to it’s students by including Clinton’s book in the curriculum in 2004. But I would bet you that it happened.</p>
<p>We all have our opinions, and while I respect yours, I disagree. I guess I am too liberal.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth I have friends who knew GWB and Obama personally. GWB at Andover and Yale. Obama at Harvard.</p>
<p>Their judgements? GWB was likeable but dumb as a post. Obama was remarkable - highly intelligent with ‘something extra.’</p>
<p>WADR, nobody, and I mean nobody, has ever graduated from Harvard Business School who was “dumber than a post”.</p>
<p>I guess you must be right then</p>
<p>hmmmm…actually no
only kidding</p>
<p>you have a touching faith in the purity of revered institutions. I have been party to some such institutions and confidently assure you that they do indeed matriculate people who are as ‘dumb as a post.’ I will grant you that this is a figure of speech and perhaps the posts you have in mind are so mind numbingly dumb that they can’t even find their way onto college premises. But there are those that I would consider to be little smarter than a lump of wood but can indeed perambulate, feed themselves and string words together. This however does not make them worthy of the status of the finer minds who have honored HBS.</p>
<p>It’s not just a matter of definition tho’ There are some facts to be considered. My lips are sealed but his Harvard professor’s aren’t.</p>
<p>take a look at this article entitled ‘The Dunce’ and subtitled</p>
<p>His former Harvard Business School professor recalls George W. Bush not just as a terrible student but as spoiled, loutish and a pathological liar.</p>
<p>[The</a> dunce - Salon.com](<a href=“http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/09/16/tsurumi/]The”>http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/09/16/tsurumi/)</p>
<p>A disgruntled liberal speaking out to Salon! No thanks…</p>
<p>Haha… Glad I jumped the stupid filter they have on this site (thank god proxy!)… Good conversation to come into… We have established that during the time Bush went, Harvard was NOT meritocratic. He was a rich idiot… That is what he was, that is what he is, that is what his kids will be… As a matter of fact check out the profiles of Jenna and Barbara, epic failures.</p>
<p>Strong stuff, principal! GW certainly cannot hold a candle to the incredible CLASS ACT that followed him!! What a first rate intellect and temperament and sense of history and culture! What a credit to America!</p>
<p>I am sure he is a great person to sit in a skanky bar and get drunk with.</p>
<p>Or to clear brush with down home on the ranch…But, in fairness to him, he was likely smarter in his teens, years before all the alcohol and drugs fried his brain.</p>
<p>Well not smart enough to make the right choices… But yes he probably was smarter. Sad.</p>