LOL John Hughes

From the ever more conservative Yahoo editorial section

President Bush is moving reflectively through his final days in office, in various interviews putting the best face on a presidency that has garnered some of the worst presidential approval ratings from Americans in history. The reviews from non-Americans, from Venezuela to Vladivostok, are not much better.Whether Mr. Bush, like Harry Truman or Ronald Reagan, will in time come to be more favorably regarded than he was during his presidency, only history will reveal. Much depends on whether Iraq – currently enjoying a new and boisterous kind of democracy – courtesy of American arms and diplomacy, sinks back into a dysfunctional state, or encourages larger freedom throughout the Arab world. Sadly, Bush currently seems to get little credit for ridding the world of Saddam Hussein, surely one of the world's most fearsome despots since Adolf Hitler.

It's rare to find someone that remembers that Reagan wasn't viewed all that fondly as he was walking out the door. But is he remembered better now? Not really. Indeed one fault Republicans had in the past election was name dropping Reagan every fourth word. Reagan left office 20 years ago. Most voters under 35 have no memory of his term. Those that do remember all the deregulation that well keeps looking like a bad idea. Reagan's motto was the government doesn't work well and the Republicans that followed him created a government that didn't work well. From arming Saddam to training "freedom" fighters in the Afghanistan is Reagan looking better as time goes by or worse? It's worse right.

Saddam was not the worlds worse despot since Hitler. He can't touch some post WWII dictators in South East Asia. For anyone to suggest him as being so, is a joke. How about Chairman Mao? Apparently John Hughes likes him over Saddam.

What's Bushes vision for freedom in the middle east? Got me. No one knows. Gaza is now experiencing the Bush vision. A vision where elections = freedom. Not understanding elections without freedom don't exactly get the people anymore freedom. Instead it simply legitimizes militia backed despots. Is Iraq sinking back into a dysfunctional state? Really. It hasn't even approach functioning as well as it did when craptacular Saddam ran it. To reach that level it would have to rise not sink. So we don't have to wait Mr Hughes. Bush is going to look like crap 50 years from now. It's sort of like wondering in 1945 if Hitler will look better in the future. Sometimes you don't need the lenses of history to know someone sucked.