Bush as the Comeback Kid - vomit alert

I've never read anything more ridiculous in the New York Times. This 'analysis' just oozes stupidity. Yeah, let's love the guy who destroyed the country because he's such a funny, nifty dude!

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Now I would like to enter these treacherous waters again and venture another prediction: within a year of the day he leaves office, and no matter who succeeds him, George W. Bush will be a popular public figure, regarded with affection and a little nostalgia even by those who voted against him and thought he was the worst president in our history.


Yes, I know that right now Mr. Bush is associated with an unpopular and disastrously expensive war, with an economic collapse brought about in part by an administration that abhors regulation, with a spectacularly inadequate response to hurricane Katrina, with a precipitous decline in America’s reputation. After all, this is a guy whose name was never mentioned at the national convention of his own party, the guy that John McCain seems barely able to remember (just as after the Enron debacle Bush seemed barely able to remember that he ever knew Kenneth Lay).


But when Bush leaves office, he leaves behind all those liabilities, even though he had a large part in producing them. The war, the economy, the environment, the Middle East, a newly bellicose Russia — these will all be either McCain’s or Obama’s problems, and Bush will just be someone who shows up regularly and says mildly self-deprecating things about himself on the way to doing some good deed, perhaps in the company of his father and Bill Clinton.
What does Bush have to do? Not much, just be himself, not the wise and inspiring leader of the Western world — he never quite got that one right — but the amiable, funny, folksy and gregarious guy who tricked himself and the rest of us into thinking he was something more. Now he doesn’t have to do that. We’ll not be depending on him, so we’ll be free to like him.
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If you can stomach more - and yes, it actually gets worse:

http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/george-bush-the-comeback-kid/index.html

writing terrible plays like "Springtime For Bushler" and saying "the Chimpenfuhrer was sweet, the Chimpenfuhrer was kind."

in the future...Except they'll be occasionally checking in on their parent's desicated corpses to change their clothes and apply fresh lipstick...

Well, it's certainly possible. Idi Amin Dada is regarded fondly by some in Uganda. (I got a job under Amin. I got to eat under Amin.....what's a little body dismemberment and reconstruction of corpses compared to that?)

It goes without saying what that says about such people.