Funny how so many are convinced that GW is just stupid. Even when you ran Bush, a Yale graduate and with an MBA from Harvard, against a guy who flunked out of divinity school with five Fs out of eight classes, Bush was still painted as the dumber one.
Right before Bush won his first national election, a left-leaning journalist who traveled with him during the campaign, noted that everyone has always underestimated GW, and everyone has always paid a price for it.
He also went on to tell how GW seems to be a uniquely skillful politician, with little tolerance of dissent, and how he buried anyone who opposed him in the Texas Republican Party. Prophetically, he predicted that this is what Bush would do to the national Republican Party.
Bush is the worst President I am aware of.
I think a decent case can be made for treason, for his entering into a neocon Middle-East-reshaping pipe-dream war, which was clearly against important American interests.
He never saw a spending bill he didn't like, particularly if it benefited Big Business. His populist/Big Pharma bill will weigh on our financial backs decades from now.
He gutted the Republican Party of fiscal conservatives, and turned it into a single-issue religious freak show. (O.K., two issues: gay marriage and abortion.)
On the international front, he alienated old allies, made new enemies and handed Iran a regional super-power status, while ignoring South America's populist leftist dictators, who were busy solidifying their positions.
What I am trying to say is, GW may have been a terrible President for most of us, but stupid he was not.
(On the other hand, he had the "ugly" Kindle....
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