George Walker Bush...is a GENIUS!

As one analyzes politcal thought of the 21st century the name George W. Bush shall be part of the vernacular. While it can be argued that he shall go down as one of history's LEAST popular presidents his effectiveness CANNOT be over looked. Consider this. Prior to being elected governor of Texas Bush's only political experience came by watching his father run for congress and later the presidency. He ran for governor ADMITTEDLY out of SPITE ( "Ann Richards embarrassed my daddy." ) and was elected in an OVERWHELMING margin.

As a one term governor he used Karl Rove's Lee Atwater-esque tactics and smeared a venerable war hero named John Sidney McCain with liebelous half truths and outright lies in order to steal the GOP Nomination from him. He admitted that his favorite "Political Philospher" was Machiavellii. We're talking about the SAME Machiavelli whose treastie "The Prince" is in essence that the ends justifies the means when power (either it's aquistion or retention) is concerned.
Bush obviously forgot to mention the great Sun Tzu's "Art of War" in which he said: "When capable, feign incapacity." For the bulk of the past eight years, a man who graduated from Yale reveled in his detractors painting him the buffon as if he were Falstaff to Cheney's Henry or Claudius to his Caligula. One seldom views those whom thought to be stupid or the least bit slow witted as any sort of threat.
George W. Bush rather than proving his intellect directly played the fool and ignored the constitutiion, congress, the supreme court and the rule of law in general has he passed an agenda that circumvented all of the aforementioned. The credo of his administration? "To hell with you...I'm the president." Whenever called on "bad" or unpopular decisions he simply pretended to be a dullard. In the process he dismantled the framework of his own political party and reshaped American and geo-politics as a whole. To wit I say: well played Mr. President.! While I vehemently disagree with the BULK of your administrations agenda I must compliment you on a hand well played.

Government WITHOUT the consent of the governed. As you once said:
"I have no problem with a dictatorship...as long as I'm the dictator."
You sir after 8 long years of an economic and energy policy that looked as if it was written by chimps (which I NOW know was a brilliantly crafted doctrine that ruled people based on the premise that they are too ignorant & stupid to know what is in their best interest) have my respect.

The 2008 Presidential Election: Epilogue

 

A tall, lanky man stood before the statehouse in Springfield, Illinois and announced his intent to run for the office of the presidency of the United States. The bulk of his political experience had been in the very same Illinois statehouse. He wasn't born in Illinois, but had chosen to migrate to it. He had been sent to Washington but was seen by those who opposed him as an ignorant political novice.

          His chief competition was a seasoned political veteran and their debates became the stuff of legend. When the smoke cleared and the election was over the tall, lanky man had been elected President of the United States of America.

         We all know that man's name, but for those who don't his name was Abraham Lincoln and he is on both your five dollar bill as well as every penny you've ever tossed into a fountain. 

      

        Two years ago another tall, lanky man who had immigrated to Illinois from Hawaii rather than Kentucky stood before the same statehouse in Springfield, Illinois and was given the same odds that a young lawyer and congressman named Abraham Lincoln had been given. His opponent was an experienced Stephen Douglas, Obama's was Senator John McCain. President elect Lincoln  had to face a fragile union destined to  fracture, Obama takes the helm with a nation in financial crisis and fighting two wars.

  

         Parallel between Lincoln and Obama aside, the longest political campaign in our history has finally ended. Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States and in victory thanked John McCain for his service to a grateful nation.

        John McCain like the American hero he is urged his followers to get behind president elect Obama as we as a nation face one of the most trying times in our history. The campaign was a long, hard and ugly one and passions ran high on both sides. Truly intelligent McCain supporters simply said that Obama didn't have enough experience. Truly evolved Obama supporters said while they had philosophical disagreements with Senator McCain, respected him as a great American.

        The ignorant called Obama a terrorist, questioned his citizenship and an elitist. The truly stupid attacked McCain's wife for once having had a drug problem, questioned McCain's sanity and called him a racist.

       The United States has survived the election of 2008 and hopefully the next four years will see the next president and the Senior Senator from Arizona working together to show us what we as Americans can achieve when we put aside our differences and place the greater good above petty politics.