Apparently, Babs Bush never taught young George the lesson of not placing all of one's eggs into one basket.

This is a sad lesson that George W. Bush has learned in later adulthood at the expense of the American people and the expense of our great Nation.

The reason Bush hasn't grasped the reality of his failures is because he hasn't yet grasped the reality of reality. Until he does that, he is destined to be failure. At age 60+, I don't hold out much hope for him.

The reason Bush hasn't grasped the reality of his failures is because he doesn't beleive that he has made any mistakes.One of The problems with having a President that is a Religious fanatic is that he they can no see things from a fact base.They beleive that everything is black and white there are no grey area's. As any level headed person can tell you almost everything in the world is grey. Yes there are absolute rights and wrong's like you should treat another human like a anamail that you take Out back and beat ( oh yeah he thinks thats ok because there Muslim).Thats what we get when we elect the guy we would rather have a beer with over the guy that has been right about almost every major issue for The last 20 years. ( Bush V Gore 2000)Oh wait we did;nt elect him over Gore the supreme Court did.

the title is wrong. Should read:

Are Bush trying to unnerstand his many failure?

British historian (Alistair Horne) in the article above states that prime ministers and presidents at the "end of the day" are poor lonely people. What a crock of shit. Now we have an insane (lonely) president.

Well lets see here, 3 thousand plus US soldiers killed in Iraq. I don't know how many other thousands are truely mentally and physically messed up for life plus (many) not receiving the medical care they need. Families of these soldiers living daily with the loss of a love one and the pain that goes with that loss. Tens of thousands of Iraqi women, children, and men (all ages) killed or hurt seriously with almost NO medical care to speak of.

So lets see if I can feel sorry for our poor lonely president....give me a minute..........NO!!!..I still would like to see his arrogant, insane ass skinned alive.

Skinning is too good for dub. Put him on the rock pile at Leavenworth for 16 hrs a day,take away his medication to reveal his madness,and keep an open video feed on him 24/7 so that all those who wish to follow in his footsteps can see what will become of them if they dare to attempt to usurp the power of the Constitution of the United States.If you want to skin dich go ahead ,but I don't think anyone in their right mind would want to put a knife to that fetid rotten carcass. Pity borne out of contempt is more than they deserve.

Nah, let him keep his freedom. Just find him an $8/hour job and make sure he has no other income. Well, let Laura have an $8/hour job also, and make them live on their income, including purchasing health insurance, car insurance, paying the utilities, purchasing groceries, paying rent, you know -- real life. And condemn them to living that way the rest of their lives. Maybe Bush will get a second and third job and really LIVE that "uniquely American" way of life he so praised when told a single mother was working three jobs to maintain her family afloat. Bastard. (Sorry, Doug...)

Kent

I doubt that he's searching for answers, I suspect he's trying to figure out why nobody else understands just how right he's always been AND why those incompetents in the other branches of government and military haven't been able to make his dream of global domination and control of OIL come true.
He's also probably confused by the resentment the families of those killed or wounded in his little game seem to feel for him and his policies. After all, his personal military memories are of drunken orgies and cocaine binges, not of death and destruction.
So long as Uncle Dick is patting him on the head and feeding him cookies he'll remain convinced that it was everyone else who failed him - nothing - I mean nothing - could be his fault.

Peace

Steve

No Mr. President, it is not you personally, however, with your arrogance, I can see where you would think like that.

Now Mr. President, if you do not know why everybody hates America and/or Americans, why did you run for the job in the first place? It seems to me that if you yourself do not know the answer to this question, then no matter what you do, you will never change the opinions of others.

But then, this is just my opinion.

Roger

Well, I guess there's some consolation for him; he gets to eat Maine lobster and marinated swordfish at the family bunker in Kennebunkport, ME.

It's a case of the parasitic family killing off the innocent animals this time.

It's a little late to seek information, when you have nothing bout contempt for people with wisdom.

John Hanks, Laramie, Wyoming

Mr. President does not care 2 figs about what we think of him. He is merely following the advice of his PR hacks/handlers who are probably looking for an historian willing to sell his soul to the Dark Side and write nice things about the most venal and murderous administration that was ever not elected to office. Mr. President is not smart enough to worry about how much he will be despised by this country as the true cost of his presidency comes due. But it doesn't matter. He and his buddies will have stolen enough money from the American people that the USA will be too broke and starving (not to mention dead from either wars or lack of health care) to worry about him anyway.

jwalteru

Michael Schermer in the April 2007 issue of Scientific American presented an article entitled "Bush's Mistake and Kennedy's Error". Because of copyright laws I cannot quote the article however here is the URL link to it.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&arti...

If this does not work, google the title of the article.

The difference between Bush now and Bush six months ago is that he is no longer surrounded by enablers. Bush has no talents or special abilities that would qualify him to be a leader of anything. If you look at his history, he has never accomplished anything on his own other than failure. The republican political machine sold him to enough of the public to get the elections in a position where they could use their connections to install him as the president.

The whole point was to have a "image" president for the public to focus on who was clueless enough that he would not interfere with the real presidency of Cheney and the neocon agenda. It was the perfect set up until the last election that removed the enablers that rubber stamped everything. Now, Bush has to actually be a president and make decisions. But he has no ability to negotiate or work with other people. All he has ever done is give orders and ignore the rules everyone else has to live by. Those days are over.

Bush has always been able to get away with failure. But, as the President of the United States he cannot hide, there is no one to bail him out, he is having to take the responsibility for the mess that has been created and come up with answers or solutions. He is desparate.

His "surge" is nothing but a desparate attempt to salvage victory in Iraq, a country and people he has absolutely no understanding of. He knows he cannot withdraw our troops and leave the country to the Iraqis because we would lose the oil. He is acutely aware of the reason why we are there. But that is all he knows. Cheney has been making all the decisions, he is responsible for the conditions in Iraq. Conditions deliberately designed to fuel a continuing conflict that generates profits for the MIC.

Now, the jig is up. The people of the our country have stated they will no longer tolerate the waste of money and death of our soldiers. But it is Bush who must take the blame. He is the president. The democrats know Cheney is the man and they know how incompetent Bush is. But you don't impeach the executive branch of the government during a war that was instigated under false pretense. That sends a message to the other nations that the US has made a horrible mistake. That we allowed criminals to commit crimes against humanity. There is no way any congress would do that.

The only alternative for congress is to "go to war" with the executive branch and wrest control of the government from them. That explains their actions of late and why Bush is stumbling around in confusion. He has no clue how to handle not being able to do as he damn well pleases and he may be realizing that he will end in disgrace if his surge is not allowed to play out and be successfull. Of course, the democrats will not allow that. They want Bush to fail and take the republican party down with him.

Don't be surprised if Cheney resigns in a few months "for health reasons." That will leave Bush all alone to face the music and it would be a very good idea to have someone experienced in the mental health field with him at all times. Bush may start blowing up frogs again.

Sorry but I can't muster an ounce of empathy or sympathy for Georgie boy. We have had an overgrown, utterly spoiled, psychotic out of control child playing at being a man at the helm. Who was, by the way elected by the Supreme Court, not We The People for "president".

And have ended up with Darth Cheney as the real "president". Barf!!! Now the whole mess is unraveling fast.

In my opinion, it's way too late for the Chimp in Thief to be talking to anyone about where it all went wrong for him. There is nothing he could say or do at this point to ever win back the trust and respect of the American people. We are the most hated nation in the world, as well as the laughingstock of the world. We The People have been sold out and sold into virtual economic slavery.We have been lied to and played for fools in the worst of ways for way too long.

Time for Georgie to pack it up and go home.

If I were God, I'd take Dubya and his followers, the neocons and the zionists, and make them all three inches tall. Give 'em a chance to survive, but let them feel what it must be like to be an Iraqi or a Palestinian or Mexican immigrant. Besides, it would be a lot of fun watching kharma at work.

Can somebody please tell me why Bush and Cheney are not being impeached? How much more damage can they do before the people pressure the Congress to rid us of them in the White House?

BUSH Pardons Scooter!!

Now is this failed President saying it is OK to lie to Federal investigators?

What a precedent.

Sad day for this country.

Why does anyone think this administration has gone horribly wrong?

It has gone according to plan. It's been a wild success for the NeoCons.

If someone out there has Christopher Hitchens' book "God is Not Good", please quote the passage about the young child who is obsessed with the little fits of destroying everything for the sake of destruction.

This young child is our president, and he destroys things. Despite the fact that his office affords him the capacity and the ability to create, he cannot do so. He can only destroy.

He's the worst possible example of the Eastern WASP Aristocracy. Many of those kids are well disciplined, smart people. But sometimes a spoiled runt gets a number of priviledged plums handed to him (e.g., college, graduate school, a great job). But Bush is an example of priviledge gone wild! He's been backstopped so many times,- and pratically EVERYTHING handed to him - that he has no idea that life has consequences for terrible decisionmaking. The people backstopping him now are lower middle and working class kids who are dying for Bush's gross stupidity!

As the political historian Kevin Phillips stated last year, Bush would have made a great Vice-President of the Bank of Amarillo. But a spoiled wastrel like this as President of the USA? It was mindblowing in 01', and it's still mindblowing today!

The Bush Presidency is the epitome of the danger of electorate apathy. I dare say this is the President we deserve. The Bush faithfuls will stand with him come hell or high water (pun intended). Why? I can only suppose that it's because he never got a "bj" in the Oval Office and then "lied". Not really, but, what's the point. After all, everything that can possibly be said about this enigmatic Presidency has already been said!

You are right JerryG. We have what we voted for. WE look again to see who voted for Bush and it all comes down to the work of Pat Robertson and the apathy of the rest of the voters. I had no candidate so I wrote in P.J. O'Rourke again. Damnit. bring me a candidate I'll take anything but what I saw on that GOP Debate.

NO! "WE" did NOT vote for Bush! Al Gore, who surely would have been an awful president, won the popular vote by more than 600,000. There were many irregularities that occurred on election day in Florida in 2000, including state police sealing off black neighborhoods, no one allowed in or out, while they looked for people on their most wanted lists. Why election day? Could it have been because blacks traditionally vote democratic, and brother Jeb used the state cops to help insure victory for little Georgie? The Supreme Court should have refused to hear the case in 2000, but voted Bush into office. Both 2000 and 2004 were STOLEN elections.

You reap what you sow!

When a presidency is based on a pack of lies, as is the Dubya's, one can only expect it to eventually collapse under its weight. It just very sad the Dubya's failures weren't recognized before the 2004 elections.

Bush doesn't need to ponder how history will treat his failed, despotic presidency. His legacy will always be his illegal invasion of Iraq. The blood of his innocent victims will drip from his murderous hands for all eternity.

A tyrant is as a tyrant does!

I hope I'm there when he meets his Maker!

Charlie Couser

Bush doesn't have a clue as to what true leadership is about. He thinks of leadership as an authoritarian, dictatorial paradigm that has no place in America.

The simple fact is that modern leadership is very complex and one mind alone cannot always come up with the best decision but must depend upon consensus from the finest minds available in various disciplines. A good leader must truly "listen" to these advisors with their advice balanced against the well-being of his constituents; i.e., "we the people", and what's best for them. He then makes the final decision as to what is the best path predicated on the aforementioned inputs. The Presidency of the U.S. is no place for a petty, egomaniacal persona surrounded by toady sycophants...! The world is far too dangerous in these times for the likes of George Bush at the helm.

I don't care to understand this mattoid, all I want is to see him out of the Whitehouse asap his hand no longer on the nuclear trigger and his less than sterling intellect no longer involved with strategic policy.

Carl Nemo **==