WEYRICH: The Olympics and politics

My God, Paul, you are a total moron. "If Mr. Bush had done what he promised in 2000 - that is, no nation-building - he would go down in history as perhaps the greatest president since George Washington." I'm not sure what you have been doing to dull the pain of watching bush and the republican party become the greatest failures of all time, but smoking crack is not a good solution to your problems. Stop imagining what bush might have been and open your eyes to the worst president ever and the total devastation he has caused.

"If Mr. Bush had done what he promised in 2000 - that is, no nation-building - he would go down in history as perhaps the greatest president since George Washington. As it is, he will be judged on the outcome of two wars, and that outcome is mostly out of his control." HIS two wars were under his control from day 1 and he managed them like everything he ever touched in his life, with disastrous results in every case. "True, many people will have heard nothing of Mr. Bush's remarks. But in this age of satellites and the Internet, word will get out." We've suffered through long years of George Bush's remarks and they are as ineffectual as they have always been, as hollow as well. They mean nothing. Judging from the pictures of him at the Olympics that I've seen, he may not even remember much of his trip there. When will word get out that George Bush partied a lot but didn't do much presidenting at the Olympics?

If things had gone according to plan I would be rich and famous by now, but things never go as planned. Give it up.

Ah, the sweet sound of little Conservative voices, crying in the Wilderness for Hope, and Redemption! When George W. Bush had approval ratings in the 80's, and Cheney and DeLay and Santorum and Frist were running things, it was going to be blessed GOP-Conservative rule for 1000 years, wasn't it? I credit GW Bush as having achieved what was unthinkable at the time: Finding a way to dismantle both the GOP and the Conservative Movement. He's destroyed their moral standing, the foundation of their appeal to Americans, (limited Government), their entire platform of ideas and values that they spent 30 years out of power building. It is an impressive achievement, if you ask me. I would certainly vote to have his frat-boy "What, me worry?" mug imprinted on a new 3-dollar bill, just to keep reminding America what Conservative Government means.

Si, Senor Weyrich, the previous writers are correct. You are wrong, stupid, and crazy all at once!

OK, I will suspend disbelief and assume you were not going for humor with the greatest president since George Washington bit. Please tell us what accomplishments GWB has achieved while in office that compare to those of Washington. You know, the kind that have changed the world for the better and will be remembered for hundreds of years. Keep in mind the grand achievements you cite should outweigh the few little nit-picky missteps like: failure to act on 9/11 intelligence, Abu Ghraib, Katrina, state-sanctioned torture, spying on American citizens illegally, disastrous mismanagement of the economy, cronyism bordering on if not actually being criminal (Enron, Cheney's "energy task force"), political suppression of science, politicization of the Department of Justice, and various-odd wars of aggression that, sadly and unexpectedly (!) did not turn out so well. On your mark, get set...