Ten lessons we must learn from the Bush Presidency

In the Washington Post, Bob Woodward has written an excellent summary of the ten lessons we have hopefully learned from the Bush Presidency.    The article is titled “10 Take Aways From the Bush Years.” Here are the titles to these ten lessons, which Woodward carefully illustrates throughout his article: 1.…

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Bush then and now, the “threat of Iraq” and the “failing economy”

Jon Stewart's team does a great job of editing George W. Bush speeches from five years ago and from recent days.   It does seem to be the same speech. Consider this earlier post, and the opening lines from the BBC's terrific documentary: “The Power of Nightmares: The Shadows In The…

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More about the Worst President Ever

In my daily scan of Creationism related news, I found this historical analysis of presidential faux pas. Author Wm. C. Shelton explains in detail how Dubya's lowest presidential approval rating in history is not his reason for rating our present leader the "Worst Ever": The measure of a bad presidency,…

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