The 3rd recorded Burning Bush in History (must be all that oil)

The world is ending. Why are you here ?

Shouldn’t you be over at the Hill thinking ?

Let’s take a look at the legacy of President George W. Bush :

1. Started the war in Afghanistan – still ongoing.


2. Started the war in Iraq – still ongoing.
3. Inspired an entire new army of Jihad terrorists - Osama bin Laden is happy that Bush was President. Bush made recruitment easy for him.


4. Torture at Guantanamo Bay – bill passed : torture is barred, but the President now gets to determine what is torture. Hah!


5. Detention without trial – bill passed. It’s called the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_2006). The USA’s very own ISA.


6. Eavesdropping on public without a warrant – executive order issued amidst controversy. After legal wrangling, now subjected to judicial oversight.


7. Increase in USA’s national debt from US$ 5,727,000,000,000 (i.e. 5.727 trillion - on the day he became President) to US$ 10,149,875,434,832 (i.e. 10.149 trillion) – the greatest increase of any president in American history. And it’s still increasing.


8. The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. You could say that the bubble has been building for decades, but it burst on his watch – in the 8th year, so the new President gets to handle the shit from this baby.


9. Refusal to join the Kyoto Protocol – out of 185 countries, the USA is 1 of only 2 countries that have not ratified the Kyoto Protocol. And they’re the biggest per capita polluters in the world by a wide margin. I guess that would have meant reducing the profits from selling the oil in Iraq.


10. Both McCain and Obama, the presidential candidates, are campaigning on a platform of CHANGE :
    
    Guess who they’re changing from ?
    
    What a difference a few hanging chads make : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Florida,_2000

Worst. President. Ever.