Rolling Stone - May 5, 2006

[Redleg]

I normally stay away from political editorials written in the Rolling Stone - but this one does raise some valid points about the Bush Adminstration. Some of which are more telling then the budget spending mentioned in the article. Spending borrowed money can hurt the economy - but that can also be correct.

Calamitous presidents, faced with enormous difficulties -- Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Hoover and now Bush -- have divided the nation, governed erratically and left the nation worse off. In each case, different factors contributed to the failure: disastrous domestic policies, foreign-policy blunders and military setbacks, executive misconduct, crises of credibility and public trust. Bush, however, is one of the rarities in presidential history: He has not only stumbled badly in every one of these key areas, he has also displayed a weakness common among the greatest presidential failures -- an unswerving adherence to a simplistic ideology that abjures deviation from dogma as heresy, thus preventing any pragmatic adjustment to changing realities. Repeatedly, Bush has undone himself, a failing revealed in each major area of presidential performance.

No matter how staunch of a Republican one is - or a conservative - one can not deny that the author hit the describtion in bold spot on.

[yesdachi]

No matter how staunch of a Republican one is - or a conservative - one can not deny that the author hit the describtion in bold spot on.

The only thing I could think of while reading that part was that the writer should have remembered that I graduated from public school and cut out some of the big words. Sheese.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Rolling St-- *CRAP!*

[Tribesman]

And what about '29-30 and the Great Depression ? The economy was bad then, too, and (I'm guessing) there were more jobless people then than there are now (proportionally)...

Bad comparison , the US debt was reduced in '29 and the following years .

You either buy that the war on terror is worth the price (me) or you don't (Tachi', Soly).

Yep , war is expensive , America started with a big debt from the revolution , the debt rises sharply each time it goes to war (not so with Spansh-American war though) . To be worth the price Seamus it requires a satisfactory outcome , do you see Bush getting a satisfactory outcome for all them dollars?
Thats what makes him the worst President .