August 18, 2008 at 07:31:43

The magnificent obtuseness of the Washington pundits.

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Contrast unfavorably? Any future president who has a terrorist attack on his watch will contrast quite favorably with Bush as the only president out of 43 to actually allow the only foreign terrorist attack on US soil. He was president when it happened, it's his responsibility. Bush and these pundits are trying to have it both ways. They won't take responsibility for when it happened, but they want to take responsibility for the times when it isn't happening, through no efforts of their own. As an analogy to that, the sign on my mantle, May This House Be Safe From Tigers, works perfectly. Haven't had a single tiger.

Bush's legacy, that these guys are trying manfully to spin into something that it is not, is that he is the only president in US history that didn't, couldn't and wouldn't prevent the most catastrophic foreign terrorist attack we have ever seen. That's the truth that none of these pundits want to bring up and instead try unsuccessfully to portray as a success, by just not mentioning it. Bush has no interest in and is woefully, abysmally incapable of preventing terrorist attacks. That's why we had one. That is his legacy.

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