Editorial from today’s SF Chronicle:
A Failed Presidency
It is hard to imagine that one U.S. presidency could leave more wreckage than George W. Bush’s did during his eight years in the White House.
By his own yardsticks, his administration was an abject failure. He was a divider, not a uniter. He was “the decider” who led the country into a war of choice on what proved to be false pretenses. His administration was neither compassionate nor conservative. It ran up record deficits while giving tax breaks to the wealthy and creating a culture of government neglect that left some Americans trapped in a netherworld of neglect after Hurricane Katrina, and continues to keep all of us gripped by the angst of an economic system that remains on the brink of collapse…
You can read the rest of the editorial here.
It’s worth noting that the Chronicle doesn’t accurately reflect San Francisco’s liberal tradition. This is a paper that publishes the putrid Debra J Saunders, a right-wing hack if there ever was one, and relegates columnist Mark Morford to its online edition only — no print — in order to avoid upsetting its Republican readers. Presumably these Repugs are too old and entrenched in their ways to stumble across Morford and his heresies (read: anti-Bush screeds) online. Out of sight, out of mind.
It’s a paper owned by the Hearst Corporation.
And yet even the Chronicle levels Bush in their farewell editorial.
“Bush” and “farewell.” Damn it feels good to write this. After a harrowing eight years, it’s about time.
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