Archive for January 31st, 2009
(Originally written on January 21, 2009)
As the world begins to embrace the new administration of Barack Obama, I felt the urge to collect my thoughts on the prior eight years and the legacy of the Bush administration. While never an ardent supporter of Clinton and his policies, I decided to support George W. Bush in his efforts to become the 43rd president of the United States when it became apparent that John McCain would lose the primary. During the election, Bush ran on a more traditional Republican platform of fiscal responsibility and a stance of neutrality on the world stage. However, as we close the door on the Bush years, he will forever be remembered as a war-mongering president who presided over the worst terrorist attack on American soil and what could eventually amount to the worst economic crisis on American soil. While it could be argued that Bush was not directly responsible for either of these events, failures in his administration have tainted these events as we look back at the last eight years.
