Bushs legacy

[MissCatholic]

interesting to see as we have 4 years to go and i get a feeling that the next two years are crucial to his legacy.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Really neither even though I voted option 1. I think the fact is, Liberals will always hate him. 100 years from now liberals will still view him like StatesRights views Lincoln. Conservatives will like him, but Bush will always be universally hated by leftists until the end of time.

[MissCatholic]

The fact that Lincoln was gay always gets under Republicans skin.
Or that democrats fight the wars like vietnam etc while Republicans sit at home saying that they support the troops but then always block bills to increase the minimum wage.

[dazzleman]

The fact that Lincoln was gay always gets under Republicans skin.
Or that democrats fight the wars like vietnam etc while Republicans sit at home saying that they support the troops but then always block bills to increase the minimum wage.

Brilliant analysis.  The fact is, nobody cares whether or not Lincoln was gay except for those who keep insisting he was.  Nobody else is interested.

As far as fighting wars is concerned, Democratic politicians inaugurated heavy involvement in Vietnam, and then betrayed the troops when opposition developed.  Today, the military is heavily Republican, so your argument that Democrats fight the wars is simply not true.

[A18]

He'll be dead before his legacy is known. Change comes in generations.

Anyway, his domestic legacy will be more interesting to see. Especially if we get an originalist majority on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Interesting fact: the flag burning amendment fell short by only four votes in March 2000. Since it came super-close in a one-seat-less Republican Senate last time (counting Jeffords as a Democrat), and I think some other Republicans who voted against it that have since been replaced, they may very well come up with the four extra votes.

If so, I imagine it will be easily ratified (49 of 50 states have passed resolutions supporting it), and it'll go down as part of the "Bush era," much like the repeal of Prohibition goes down as part of the FDR era.