J's Poli Rant

Sunday, January 18, 2009

It's Finally Over

8 years ago I had hope. I did not vote for Bush, ever, I voted for Nader in 2000 & 2004, but I did have hope. (ironic now)

I figured Bush was a border-state president. He had actually improve conditions along the US/Mexican border in Texas, and was not one of those xenophobic Republicans that see brown and see a stain on America. He was committed to improving relations with Latin American and promised immigration reform. But, alas, it did not happen.

Then 9/11 happened and everything changed, and Bush lost his way, big time. I personally was very skeptical of his blustering shortly after the attacks. I was amazed on how quickly Afghanistan was overrun, but knew that war was far from over. Then talk of regime change in Iraq. That could only mean one thing, as the representative of Naboo said, "this can only mean one thing, invasion!". I did not believe the justification for the war, nor did I support it. This will be the Bush legacy, an ill-advised war that was badly run. Of course, in the midst of all of this, Katrina came, and the famous "your doing a hecka of job" line just was so out of touch of what was on their TV screens. It was over for me them. That was it.

He did help Africa, particularly AIDS help, but all of this has been over-shadowed by his administration's other faliures.

Good bye Mr. Bush, you will not be missed, but you did have an impact, too bad it was a negative one.