We have no idea how history will judge him, or this time. Much of that depends on what is in the future.

People didn't think too highly of Harry S Truman at the time he left office......not knowing that he had successfully set the foundation for a Cold War victory 30 years later.

No. They really won't.

Ann Coulter might write such a book, just to draw attention back to herself in the darkness coming to her career.

lmao!!!

classic work there, submittard.

AirForceVet: Ann Coulter might write such a book, just to draw attention back to herself in the darkness coming to her career.

He said "coming!"

No, it's not hard to imagine retarded douches writing stuff in the future. It's a growing industry.

So it will only take 10 more years to undo the damage done in Kansas? (new window)

It'll be Bob Woodward. He's the ultimate journalist whore.

Not bloody likely.

this is like how someone speculated that Britney's break-down was all part of a master plan for her to get more money, right? Because we all see how smart she is to manipulate the media and the public like that.

what do you suppose his foresight is? wage war on everyone different? get them before they even think of getting us?

Well, I suppose that kind of prediction is easier on the ol' ego than admitting you were dead farking wrong for nearly a decade.

Control_this: It'll be Bob Woodward. He's the ultimate journalist whore.

Bob seems to have developed a change of heart on Bush's war.

Bush's legacy will be one of corruption, lies, and incompetence. With any luck his greatest contribution to our nation will be as a warning to future generations.

See, the problem here is that the presidents who were vindicated by history did something during their administration that showed they were capable statesmen.

Poor Bush, he would have had an easy time of it if he could have been around instead of Clinton but the fact of the matter is that the times he governed in demanded a Teddy Roosevelt.

All this prediction says is someone, anyone, will write such a book. That's not hard to believe. Let's say a Democrat wins this election, and then gets a second term. 9 years from now would be about the right time for the Republicans to want to polish the image of their last president in time for the election.

Kublai Khan: All this prediction says is someone, anyone, will write such a book. That's not hard to believe. Let's say a Democrat wins this election, and then gets a second term. 9 years from now would be about the right time for the Republicans to want to polish the image of their last president in time for the election.

Nothing like buffing a complete tool, I guess.

SockMonkeyHolocaust: Poor Bush, he would have had an easy time of it if he could have been around instead of Clinton but the fact of the matter is that the times he governed in demanded a Teddy Roosevelt.

And we got a friggin' Teddy Ruxpin instead, with Cheney recording the tapes and Rove doing the motion cues.

bill kristol will beat "someone" to it by 9 years or so. lots of idiots write books.

, indeed.

If they'll write hagiographies for Nixon and Reagan I'm sure they'll find a way to polish this turd of a presidency.

Maybe a film!

You would have to have the IQ of a glazed donut to think of George W Bush as brilliant.

In ten years time, such a book will be pointless, due to all the children who were left behind and cannot read.

Sleeping Monkey: You would have to have the IQ of a glazed donut to think of George W Bush as brilliant.

No one thinks or thought of Gen. Patton as an intellectual either, and he put his stamp on history in much the same way Bush has...with a black and white view of the world and the balls to do something about it.

In 10 years, that might look good. On the other hand, it may look really bad. It won't matter though because the world ends 2012.

I_C_Weener: No one thinks or thought of Gen. Patton as an intellectual either, and he put his stamp on history in much the same way Bush has...with a black and white view of the world and the balls to do something about it.

Having a black and white view of the world is a symptom of intellectual deprivation

Someone will and that someone will be an idiot.

But unlike dubya, that future writer might be able to stay within the lines when writing the book.

Somewhere in Texas a village has to wait 359 days for its idiot to come home.

I_C_Weener: Sleeping Monkey: You would have to have the IQ of a glazed donut to think of George W Bush as brilliant.

No one thinks or thought of Gen. Patton as an intellectual either, and he put his stamp on history in much the same way Bush has...with a black and white view of the world and the balls to do something about it.

FTFY.

He didn't have the brains to do something about it, just the urge to do something. Bush is like a football fan who shouts at his TV about a bad call.

We now consider Reagan to be one of the best presidents we've ever had. I'm confident that Bush will be vindicated in much the same way, paving the way for future leaders of our great Republican Party.

/channeling some Republicans

Kublai Khan: All this prediction says is someone, anyone, will write such a book. That's not hard to believe. Let's say a Democrat wins this election, and then gets a second term. 9 years from now would be about the right time for the Republicans to want to polish the image of their last president in time for the election.

THIS.

I promise you that on a long enough time line, someone will publicly state nothing but good about each and every major public figure, and someone else will state nothing but bad. The medium might change, the audience may be small, the position might border on insane, but it will happen.

Doesn't make the hypothetical writer any less deranged, or the Bush Administration any better.

Actually, Bush will be remembered as the President who took that difficult first step to fight terror in the name of the United States.

And we are doing the same thing in Iraq. Terror exists there, it is our duty to contain it, and yes if that means bombing half the world. Teror will be wiped out by the midpoint of this century with or without your constant obstacles.

Funsucker: Someone will and that someone will be an idiot.

so...an autobiography?


/obvious.
/drtfa

"Foresighted" meaning he ushed fascism to the U.S.A. and destroyed a republic based on constitutional law earlier than what was going to happen anyway?

"Foresighted" like a premeditated murderer?

themindiswatching
It is not WE consider, it is more like YOU consider. Reagan was douchebag who couldn't remember his treason.

It's entirely possible, assuming enough damage has been done to growing minds by by lead in imported Chinese toys and other products.

Some 10-year-old now will be about 20 or 21 and do his/her doctoral thesis on the brilliancy of the Bush assault on Iraq.

Hopefully, by then I'll be living on Mars.

paints a picture of Bush as a man who failed to live up to the expectations of his own party, which had thought he would be a 'second Ronald Reagan'.

Yes and who the fark thought that? He was always the second coming of the Bush.

My wifes grandfather said the same thing about Nixon. He's just as wrong as subby on this one.

I_AM_M: It is not WE consider, it is more like YOU consider. Reagan was douchebag who couldn't remember his treason.

He remembered it. And apologized for it. And then won his re-election by a landslide.

/i was just a tot then
//but read about it, well after the fact
///the only people who applaud Bush will be those who made billions in profit from this illegal war

I_C_Weener: No one thinks or thought of Gen. Patton as an intellectual either, and he put his stamp on history in much the same way Bush has...

Um, what? Patton was an expert in military history. He was an avid reader of the classics and was fluent in French. He was far more of an intellectual than Bush will ever be.

Did skookum submit this headline?

FTFA: A publicity blurb for the book, ignoring the fact that Bush has 11 months left in power, talks of the president's 'historic downfall'.

Unless Halliburton and Blackwater manage to fight off an alien invasion that seeks to enslave humanity and steal our planet's water I'm not really sure what Bush can do in 11 months to turn things around.

The headline might be true if it turns out that Bush is actually a democrat. Kind of like a totally awesome version of Stephen Colbert. Otherwise, not so much.

Although, I guess the headline could also be true if the US continues on the path Bush has set, and in 10 years major corporations have complete control of the government and freedom of speech doesn't exist.

El_Dan: The headline might be true if it turns out that Bush is actually a democrat. Kind of like a totally awesome version of Stephen Colbert.

Bush is doing it for the lulz?

SockMonkeyHolocaust

Poor Bush, he would have had an easy time of it if he could have been around instead of Clinton but the fact of the matter is that the times he governed in demanded a Teddy Roosevelt.


No one made Bush invade Iraq or hand over various government agencies to corporate insiders.

El_Dan: hand over various government agencies to corporate insiders.

This has been happening for a while.

Hey Templeton keep it up, I'll kick you some dough when I have enough to guarantee groceries for myself first. I try to point affluent people POAC's way but they whine about being too busy (most of them watch football every week but can't spare 10 minutes a day to keep up on things... ah well).

El_Dan: The headline might be true if it turns out that Bush is actually a democrat. Kind of like a totally awesome version of Stephen Colbert. Otherwise, not so much.

According to 'real conservatives' (ie, idiots) Bush is actually a liberal, so that isn't really stretching the truth...

Libs hated Reagan just as much as they hate Bush now. 20 years later, he's being heralded as one of our greatest presidents. Bush will be remembered as the same. Partisan hack politics from the left don't make it into history books.

'In 10 years' time, someone will write a book about how brilliant and foresighted Bush was, even though that might be hard to imagine now,' said Professor Shawn Bowler, a political scientist at the University of California at Riverside.

I never realized the background radiation in Riverside was so high.

I can't take Bush threads anymore, it's like listening to whiners calling in to biatch and moan on Air America. The general arguments being thrown around against the Bush administration are about as intelligent as the ones I remember hearing against Clinton.

"OMG we're attacking random countries full of brown people based on nothing but lies so Halliburton can get teh mooney!"

A little more complicated than that...

Desterion: Libs hated Reagan just as much as they hate Bush now. 20 years later, he's being heralded as one of our greatest presidents. Bush will be remembered as the same.

LOL...that's hardly a comparison. Reagan left office with what, a 60% approval rating? Bush has half that if he's lucky...the downward spiral continues for this president. The economy is a mess, we're embroiled in what many view as an unnecessary war, and his own party is running on a message of change because they're embarrassed about what he has done in his presidency. Reagan got his own veep the presidency for chrissakes...Can you really say that Cheney could become president if he were to run today?

SemperLieSuckah: A little more complicated than that...

I'll give you the reasons Bush is a bad president from the point of view of someone who voted for him in 2004:

1) Fiscal irresponsibility on a level never seen in the history of this nation
2) Complete meltdown of the US currency
3) Blatant dissolution of the Bill of Rights in the name of 'security'
4) Miserable failures in managing both post-Katrina Louisiana and post-invasion Iraq
5) Pretending that points 1-4 don't exist in order to 'stay positive'