Seeing that today is the last Friday of W, lets see what did NOT happen..

[rdsknbill]

[TMK9973]

He didn't work in a cross partisan tone

He didn't bring dignity back to the White House

He didn't return us to budget surpluses

He didn't spread democracy to the middle east

He didn't eliminate Al-qaeda or kill OBL

He didn't fix Social security

Your right - He didn't do a lot of things!

[TMK9973]

Here was his 2004 promises..... which ones do you think were kept?

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/02/gop.bush/index.html

[mjah]

There was concern in 2000 that Clinton would refuse to vacate the White House for one reason or another. I'm convinced that this "maybe-he-won't-leave" story comes up every time a 2-termer gets close to his last year as president. ...Unless he's Reagan, who by 1988 didn't even remember what color the White House was.

This time around, the irony is that Bush couldn't possibly want to get the hell out of there any MORE than he already does. He's over being president, and has been since about 2005.

[Chachie]

1. "The mission" was NOT accomplished.

2. There was NOT weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

3. Osama Bin Laden was NOT brought to justice.

[Cooked Crack]

I wonder if in another 8 years you'll be trumpeting that we haven't become a socialist state.

[The Sisko]

Something else that didn't happen? Competence.

And it wasn't a one off deal. There was more incompetence. Much more:

First, everyone loves to trot out the tired rhetoric that "We haven't been attacked since 9/11". Well, that is true. However, why does nobody seem to hold W. to task FOR 9/11 when his terrorism Czar had been trying since day one of the Bush administration to impress the seriousness of the threat on the them. Unfortunately, they knew but did nothing. With that in mind, the familiar refrain that "We haven't been attacked since 9/11" means little.

So in spite of what his advisors were telling him, W. and Co. decides that Iraq was to blame somehow for 9/11. They then proceed to waste a brilliant performance by the military in routing Saddam's forces by going to incredible heights of incompetence by not planning for, and mismanaging post-invasion Iraq.

So, after looking at the lessons learned from the chaos of 9/11, did they learn anything about managing disasters? Looking strictly at the Federal "response" to Katrina, evidently not.

Competence also didn't happen with regard to early warnings about the pernicious effects of deregulation on the economy.

So nevermind what didn't happen under W., I'm looking forward to what WILL happen in an Obama administration, competence and leadership based much less on ideology than what works.

[Chief skin]

This is a PARTY WEEKEND, The Worst President of modern times is finished. We party now because next week we start CLEANING UP THE MESS the son of a whore left

[Larry]

This is a PARTY WEEKEND, The Worst President of modern times is finished. We party now because next week we start CLEANING UP THE MESS the son of a _____ left

Uh,

I don't think there are very many who would accuse me of being a big Bush fan. But do you think you could clean up your language a bit?

[ACW]

If he wanted to start a substantive thread he wouldn't have started it with a quote from Jerome freakin' Corsi.

Which quote is Corsi's?

[The Sisko]

Uh,

I don't think there are very many who would accuse me of being a big Bush fan. But do you think you could clean up your language a bit?

Yeah, that's incredibly unfair to Bar. I'm sure she denies she's his mother whenever it comes up.

FWIW, I like W. and Bush Sr. They both seem like good guys in their own way and I think H.W. Bush got a really bad rap. However, there's just no way to sugarcoat it, W. is/was simply a horrible POTUS. He has turned out to be the GOP's Jimmy Carter.

I feel like a real moron to have voted for him...twice.

[88Comrade2000]

Yeah, that's incredibly unfair to Bar. I'm sure she denies she's his mother whenever it comes up.

FWIW, I like W. and Bush Sr. They both seem like good guys in their own way and I think H.W. Bush got a really bad rap. However, there's just no way to sugarcoat it, W. is/was simply a horrible POTUS. He has turned out to be the GOP's Jimmy Carter.

I feel like a real moron to have voted for him...twice.

How could you vote for Bush twice? By 2004, it was clear he wasn't a good president and had to go. It's just the democrats didn't have a good candidate against him. I think Al Gore would've won a rematch. Hillary Clinton would've beaten him in 2004.

I voted for W in 2000 but saw my mistake and voted Libertarian in 2004.

[88Comrade2000]

1. Bush was not a uniter but a divider.

2. The war or terror is hardly over and frankly has been made worse. After 9/11, Bush could've gotten the whole world to help confront terror head on and end the conditions that bread it. His Iraq diversion killed that.

3. America is not safer and quite frankly is more at risk now.

4. The U.S. is not so energy dependent on terrorists oil.

5. Government spending went down.

You can go on and on. Someone said Bush will end up as a Top 20 president. No he won't. He will be in the Bottom 10.

[The Sisko]

How could you vote for Bush twice? By 2004, it was clear he wasn't a good president and had to go. It's just the democrats didn't have a good candidate against him. I think Al Gore would've won a rematch. Hillary Clinton would've beaten him in 2004.

I voted for W in 2000 but saw my mistake and voted Libertarian in 2004.

Total and utter stupidity. I will now throw myself on the mercy of the court. :doh:

[Jumbo]

He didn't sell the defense satellite codes to the Jovian invasion fleet.

****. Forgot I wasn't supposed to say anything.

[ljs]

The draft was never re-instated (remember those MTV commercials in 2004?)

Whats really really funny about this part..is that it was Charles Rangle and a bunch of Democrats that were trying to get the draft going....NOT the republicans. Jesse Jackson was right there w/ him...

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:HR00163:@@@L&summ2=m

here are the 14 Co-Sponsors..

Rep Abercrombie, Neil [HI-1] - 1/7/2003Rep Brown, Corrine [FL-3] - 1/28/2003Rep Christensen, Donna M. [VI] - 5/19/2004Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] - 1/28/2003Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] - 1/7/2003Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] - 1/28/2003Rep Hastings, Alcee L. [FL-23] - 1/28/2003Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [iL-2] - 7/21/2004Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - 1/28/2003Rep Lewis, John [GA-5] - 1/7/2003Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] - 1/7/2003Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8] - 1/28/2003Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] - 1/7/2003Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. [NY-12] - 1/28/2003Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes [DC] - 1/28/2003(withdrawn - 6/21/2004)