Treatment of Bush has been a disgrace

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

I feel sorry for Bush and think he's probably a cool guy. Some of this is of his own doing, though.

Ditto. I think he is probably a perfectly lovely person. I just didn't (and don't) like the way he leads. It takes a certain person to be President in the state we're in and I just don't think he has it. Maybe if everything was easy peasy he might have been an okay leader. But he just...didn't make the wisest or most sensible decisions...to say the very VERY least. And you can't really afford that when all eyes are on you. Unfair but it comes with the territory.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by christiangirl

Ditto. I think he is probably a perfectly lovely person. I just didn't (and don't) like the way he leads. It takes a certain person to be President in the state we're in and I just don't think he has it. Maybe if everything was easy peasy he might have been an okay leader. But he just...didn't make the wisest or most sensible decisions...to say the very VERY least. And you can't really afford that when all eyes are on you. Unfair but it comes with the territory.

I don't think W wanted to be President any more than John F Kennedy did. If JFK had lasted for 2 terms, God knows how he'd be remembered by history now. IMO they were both pushed into it. I believe W came out at some point and said his lifelong goal was to be baseball commissioner, not POTUS.

Helicopter Parents: Not A New Thing.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I don't think W wanted to be President any more than John F Kennedy did. If JFK had lasted for 2 terms, God knows how he'd be remembered by history now. IMO they were both pushed into it. I believe W came out at some point and said his lifelong goal was to be baseball commissioner, not POTUS.

Helicopter Parents: Not A New Thing.

Maybe we should have a Joe Kennedy thread.

ETA: can you imagine a Joe Kennedy recruitment thread, kind of like the one from Chuch Norris?

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

Maybe we should have a Joe Kennedy thread.

ETA: can you imagine a Joe Kennedy recruitment thread, kind of like the one from Chuch Norris?

LOL - especially with his ookabillion children!

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I don't think W wanted to be President any more than John F Kennedy did. If JFK had lasted for 2 terms, God knows how he'd be remembered by history now. IMO they were both pushed into it. I believe W came out at some point and said his lifelong goal was to be baseball commissioner, not POTUS.

Helicopter Parents: Not A New Thing.

Haha...people don't want to hear my opinion on JFK...

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by puglover

In my opinion, a lot of people are influenced by what the Media feeds them which is not always the honest truth and as a result peoples perceptions become clouded.
So I believe that President Bush's approval rating is mostly a direct result of the media ability to change perceptions instead of his true leadership ability.

Absolutely - it's called "the power of the Press" for a reason!

Originally Posted by KSigkid

8 years in office will do a lot - it's crazy to look at the before and after pictures of Presidents.

Granted, his family seemed not to age well but this is what FOUR years of the Presidency did to Jimmy Carter:

1976:


and 1981:

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

I think Bush's presidency will be much better regarded by history than it is today.

I agree - but it's going to take some years. Unfortunately.