Recognizing Bush’s Farewell Address.

It was decent, albeit boring, and that’s a lot coming from me.  As far as I’m concerned, I never voted for him in any election, hated him since he ran against Gore, and continued to be proven correct every time I called him a crook and a misguided fool.  Terrible things to say about a president, but it’s the truth after all.

I remember doing a report in college about how our involvement with Afghanistan and our record of ignorance led to the war and the bombing of the towers.  Needless to say, I was slightly too radical to have come up with such a report within the month of it happening.  I was bound determined to get the real story, and the fact of the matter is that every party involved leading to the events of that day were failures.  Republicans, Democrats, radical idealists, they were all at fault for not addressing the issues that should have been dealt with from the beginning.

George W. Bush, and I still have yet to put president in front of his name, did a lot of wrong.  He flew the bin Laden family back to their homeland without question because of his involvement with the family’s oil reserve.  He caused unholy rifts among the religious by incessantly oppressing his own values against other countries.  He went after oil in Iraq when the real war against terrorism was still being fought elsewhere.  We made a big deal about capturing Saddam, but he wasn’t the one who bombed and killed Americans.

His attempt now is to ensure that he isn’t labeled as the worst president in history.  As far as historians go, they don’t know what to make of him until 20 years down the line.  As far as journalists go, he’s a surefire winner for failure at life.  As far as the American people go, well, the Republicans are out of majority and the country is on a new road for hope and change.

Bush made a very interesting argument about all the things he prevented from happening, which in all seriousness could have been worse.  But considering our borders are hardly the most protected barriers in the world and he’s based his entire system on a “what if” construction in his head (which could have been made up from any one of the kindergarten kids he was with when the bomb hit), it’s hard to follow anything he says after claiming all sorts of world-devastating weapons existed and never did.  Fool us once, shame on you.  Fool us a hundred times, time for a new president.

What irks me is that Obama doesn’t want to open up this can of worms and begin the investigation against Bush.  Why?  Is there something so top-secret that it would destroy the very fabric of America if all the lies were put on the table?  Eh, I don’t get it.

Then again, people want to focus on the future right now.  People are hurting pretty badly, and Obama has found the Internet to be the most ideal way to get out weekly messages to Americans.  So what’s more important, eight years of justifying past failure or 4-8 years of promising future?

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