Is it January 20th yet?

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2 responses to “Is it January 20th yet?”

1. 

   Zaid

   January 13, 2009

   I’m trying to think whether corporate governance is better with a dumb-sounding leader (Bush) or a smart-sounding one (Obama). Guess I’m about to find out.

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   JerryT

   January 13, 2009

   I think Bush’s legacy will be that all future presidents will use him as the measure of how bad it could be, as in ” at least I didn’t let the economy melt down like Bush”, or “at least I didn’t start a huge war just to impress my daddy”.

   It’s a new low benchmark for incompetence, hubris, ignorance, carelessness (in all meanings), and probably corruption. We now have shiny new examples of many things to avoid in a good government. It’s Bush’s one great achievement; take the idea of poor government- both from a wonky policy perspective and an esoteric philosophical perspective- and manifest it so boldly, so large, and so spectacularly damaging, that there shouldn’t be too much disagreement on what to avoid ever again.

   Or at least until the next poseur comes along (Sarah Palin).