History Don’t Know Much About Bush

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The decider rides again. From George W. Bush’s “interview” with Sean Hannity a couple days ago:

I enjoy making decisions. You know, there’s something exciting about reading and studying history and realize you’re making history with it. And one of the lessons, by the way, about when you read history is that, after your presidency, you know, it’s going to take a while for the historians to fully understand the decisions you made, if you’re making big decisions, and so therefore you don’t worry about history.

I like to say there’s a portrait of George Washington in the Oval Office. I often look at him. I’ve read three history books about him. And if they’re still analyzing the No. 1 guy’s presidency, old No. 43 needs to not worry about it.

In short, Bush seems to hope that his legacy will rest on a solid foundation of inscrutability. Take that, eggheads!