The Bush Administration

Rating:	★★★
Category:	Other

"It is not enough just to identify the problem, nor just to choose the best course of action, a leader must also convince the people of it. It is on that last part that our current leader has failed. He understood and believed in his decisions with such conviction, that he didn't understand why it would need explanation. His opponents then defined the issue in their own terms." - WOTN

The greatest failure of the Bush administration, in my eyes, was in its stewardship of our individual liberties; it allowed the communists and socialists to redefine things at will, thus weakening our political foundation perhaps irretrievably. The second greatest failure was as described above: knowing the right thing to do, knowing its necessity, President Bush has naively believed that the self-evident nature of his decisions would be sufficient to convince the people of their rightness. He didn't count on the absolutely inevitable vociferous campaign of opposition to his every idea mounted by the socialists, and this has allowed the socialists to portray him, his ideas, and his administration repeatedly in the worst possible lights, so much so that Joe Normal on the street believes, by an overwhelming majority, that he made the WRONG decisions on most of the things he did.

As such, President Bush has failed our country in such a way, and to such an extent, as has never been accomplished by any previous President. (FDR did it on purpose.) The only redeeming value to be found in his administration is that, despite his near-catastrophic public relations failure, he has accomplished most of his national security goals, thus leaving our nation, in his last year in office, safer, despite the weight of public opinion.

Fortunately, his administration has also been marked by the presence of increasingly loony opposition; the socialists have allowed his agenda to smoke them out in the open, where their irrationality can be clearly seen by the public, whose approval of the socialist agenda is even lower than its approval of the Bush administration.

In conclusion, the Bush administration, through its catastrophic failures, has been perhaps the worst Presidency ever; but it has succeeded in weakening dramatically the sources of the greatest external threat the U.S. currently faces, as well as forcing the true nature of the socialist opposition in this country to reveal itself. As such, despite its failures, the Bush administration might well come to be seen in future years as an important POSITIVE turning point in this nation's history. Three stars.