THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS….George Bush is leaving office in style, isn’t he? In his farewell interviews so far, he’s said this:
Bush: One of the major theaters against al Qaeda turns out to have been Iraq. This is where al Qaeda said they were going to take their stand. This is where al Qaeda was hoping to take …
Raddatz: But not until after the U.S. invaded.
Bush: Yeah, that’s right. So what?
Then he explained his approach to economic management:
I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system.
And finally there was this, after Ben and Henry gave him some bad economic news:
So I analyzed that and decided I didn’t want to be the President during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression.
That’s some analysis. He’s really decided to go out with a bang, hasn’t he?
In related news, Pew has a new poll out in which they asked people to describe Bush in a single word. The biggest gainers since 2004 were incompetent, idiot, and ignorant. You’re shocked, aren’t you?
