Yeah, the refurbishment his presidency has received in the light of the Trump admin is not greatArchived Message
Posted by IlliniRunner on November 7, 2023, 14:54:09, in reply to "Bush v. Gore"
he still sucks. And his admin had a lot of really potentially more consequential bad outcomes, with Iraq being at the top.
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Some of it was unfortunate timing and long term secular trends, but Bush really leaned into the decay of US power and made it much steeper than it might have been with his mismanagement across the board. Just a catastrophic presidency.
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VJ Day? Man walks on the moon? Hasselhoff singing at the Berlin Wall? Kuwait is liberated? Mission Accomplished? Obama re-elected?