skippy the bush kangaroo

Monday, April 07, 2008

from the sometimes the headlines just write themselves dept.

both ross douthat and matt yglesias in today's the atlantic:

worst president ever?

to which we reply: yup!

ross takes exception to matt's assertions:

and yes, it's also easy to imagine a future in which bush ends up judged not only a failure, but a worse chief executive than james buchanan and herbert hoover - though for this to happen, i would submit, the worst bush-created disasters would have to still be ahead of us, since neither the occupation of iraq nor anything else our current potus has been involved in rivals the civil war or the great depression for sheer destructive impact.
we'll spot you the civil war, ross, but considering that more than one economist has seen a the possibility of depression on the horizon, we say you're going to have to concede this one.

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posted by skippy at 5:17 PM |

3 Comments:

Note the mendacious racism embedded in Douthat's comment that "the occupation of iraq [doesn't] rivals the civil war or the great depression for sheer destructive impact."

By any objective measure, the death and destruction that this administration has wrought on the people of Iraq in a war that they chose to undertake surely does proportionally rival both our Civil War and our Great Depression for its destructive impact on the nation of Iraq.
commented by Anonymous Andy Crawford, 11:05 PM PDT  
i did wonder why an iraqi civil war wasn't the same as an american civil war.
commented by Blogger skippy, 11:27 PM PDT  
Well, generally speaking, it's better to destroy a country other than your own, so I'll cede his point and hope he's not being racist. But if you ask me, decimating the Iraqis as we have will go down in history as being akin to the savaging of the Aztecs. Gold, land or oil, it's all the same.


But you also have to consider worldwide destruction and at this point in time I don't think we've seen one fingernail's worth of the eventual body of evidence against BushCo, especially ecologically.
commented by Anonymous Anonymous, 7:38 AM PDT  

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