This is my second fleeting thought about the 41st president of the United States of America. Number one is the previous blog.
I consider George W. Bush to be one of the greatest presidents in
American history. One who should be put on Mt. Rushmore in the next 50
years. One who will have more streets, schools and children named
after him than any other human being in the next two centuries.
Like Lincoln, he 'stayed the course' during a war of national survival despite the most vitriolic, hate-filled, venomous ravings of the Democratic Party, and he won the war. Like Theodore Roosevelt, he brought significant reform to national government with or without the support of the Republican party, most of the time with the support of the Party. Reforms included tax overhaul of significant importance, Supreme Court reform, UN reform and many others....
The only reason I have to doubt my judgment on the greatness of George W. Bush is that I identify too closely with him. Like him, I am surrounded by the most idiotic, short-sighted, self-serving, anti-empirical ranting of people who ceaselessly spew their blind rage at everything in range. Like him, I find no reason to respond. Like him, I have spent six years washed in the shower of venom. Like him, I know that my antagonists, including friends, have completely closed minds...response to their vitriol is not possible.
I love talking to people who accept an empirical world and empirical evidence. There are so few, unfortunately.