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UGoGirl Posted – 10/31/2007 12:41:47 PM | show profile
... well it's a bit premature to compile a list of Bush's legacy (just can't wait to call the whole thing done), but here are a few sure to arise... please feel free to add to the list.

Lives lost: tens or hundreds of thousands

Oil: sold for about $24 a barrel when Bush started his first term; now selling for about $94 a barrel.

Dollar: when Bush started office, the US dollar was worth 1.52 canadian dollars and 1.07 Euros. Today one US dollar is worth .95 canadian dollars, and worth .69 Euros.

American reputation around the world: not great when Bush started; dismal now.

Income disparity: currently the widest gap between rich and poor since 1920s at least.

Please... feel free to add...
Metro Writer Posted – 11/4/2007 11:07:56 PM | show profile
Trashed the Constitution.

Turned the U.S. into a police state with domestic spying.

Continued the downward spiral of health care thanks to gifts to the pharma and insurance industries (Medicare Part D and veto of S-CHIP bill).
smith Posted – 11/6/2007 5:06:06 AM | show profile
Re: Trashed the Constitution
Trashed the Constitution,
If you are so knowledgeable about the Constitution, than you should know that nowhere in the Constitution does it state health care is a guaranteed right of all US citizens. Just sayin'.
Metro Writer Posted – 11/7/2007 12:52:52 PM | show profile
The heath care issue is separate from his complete disregard for the Constitution. I was referring to things such as cruel and unsual punishment, right to speedy trial, things such as that.
Metro Writer Posted – 11/7/2007 12:57:15 PM | show profile
Smith, also remember that after six years of torture, rendition, and extended detainment, the U.S. government still haven't tracked down Osama bin Laden, who supposedly has severe kidney and heart disease. Six years of of living in caves and on dialysis and Osama seems to have access to better health care than some 40 million Americans. Just an observation.
RachaelWordSmith Posted – 11/7/2007 1:13:14 PM | show profile
Supposedly
You say supposedly. That is not the same as (f)actually.
crimedog Posted – 11/7/2007 1:48:10 PM | show profile
He's a small man in big clothes.
Metro Writer Posted – 11/20/2007 11:13:27 PM | show profile
Was it ever actually confirmed that Osama has heart and/or kidney disease? We heard that on the news as reported by the Bush Administration. When I was a child, the U.S. government reported that Fidel Castro had terminal cancer. I haven't been a child in more than 30 years. If he had cancer back then, all I can say is that it gives Michael Moore credibility on his claims that health care in Cuba is excellent. I don't trust anyone in the Bush Administration. Actually, I don't trust any politician because politicians will say anything to get and stay in office.
chucho Posted – 11/21/2007 2:33:15 PM | show profile
Some possible candidates:

#1.) Huge deficit;

#2.) Instituting preemptive unilateral military action against other countries as an official US foreign policy initiative;

#3.) Making legitimate any forms of torture that doesn't cause death or organ failure (ie drowning and reviving detainees and rendering suspects);

#4.) Breaking down the barrier between the executive and judicial branches of government by ordering the attorney general to fire circuit judges;

#5.) Whittling away the separation of church and state by funding faith based (Christians needs only apply!) organizations through the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives;

#6.) Making it illegal for the federal government to use the basic principle of capitalism called "economy of scale" to negotiate smaller per-unit prices for drugs purchased by the federal government to be used in Medicare and Medicaid; and

#7.) Using the largest paramilitary armed force in world history (40,000 armed security contractors) to fight a war in another country.
Canadiana Posted – 11/24/2007 6:52:43 PM | show profile
I often pause to think of how much better off the world would be if Bush hadn't won the last election...
crimedog Posted – 11/24/2007 8:58:34 PM | show profile
He's a great man much like OJ.
Olbypocrisy Posted – 11/25/2007 12:38:10 PM | show profile
OJ is a democrat.
UGoGirl Posted – 11/25/2007 3:54:19 PM | show profile
Or even more, how much better the world would be today if the Supreme Court hadn't handed Bush the Presidency the first go around.
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