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I'll miss his moronic attempts to platitudes the most.
We truly missunderestimated him.
The joke is upon us.


I can't believe people are taking this so seriously. First of all, it is a cartoon. Cartoons are exaggerations, they use metaphors, that's the point. Secondly, it is far from attributing false traits to Bush. He did, after all, famously say he could not recall anything he had done wrong during his presidency. The poor guy truly believes he did well as president.And of course Obama can't turn the US into "the Garden of Eden". Bush has set the country back trillions of dollars (which, granted, also thanks to Mr. Bush, aren't worth much of anything any more). Not to mention, the Garden of Eden was wonderful until Adam and Eve got ahold of the forbidden fruit. The forbidden fruit will always be present, and there will always be Adam and Eves to take a bite out of it. That's not up to the President. What is up to him, however, is how easy we make it for them to take that bite.No other 9/11 has occured in the US. But then again, had any other 9/11 occured in the past? Of course, you can say Bush did a good job, if you are one for completely forgetting the constitution, and, you know, the fundamental rights of the people, such as fair trial, NOT being tortured, or maybe not having the government sift through every email you write.Bush was a terrible president. Nothing will ever change that. A positive outcome in the future in Iraq could better his reputation, but it won't change the fact he ran the country into the ground. We can't expect miracles from Obama. He said it himself in his inauguration speech. It will be a tough few years to come. But if anyone can get things back on track, it's him.


The Bush HATERS will not let him go gentle into that good night. The Obama LOVERS (both in the U.S. & around the world) are already making excuses why Obama will not be able to create the garden of eden during his first term! Obama will need at least 3 or 4 terms.Just as all former Presidents were more fairly evaluated, History will judge former President Bush less harshly than today's contemporaries. There has been no repeat of a 9/11 incident happening on U.S. soil during Mr. Bush's terms. Can the rest of the world say the same.

Carlito Brigante

Oh, forgot somethin'...Adios, Mr. Bush! Just go easy on your pretzel whenyou watch (American) football. This newspaper isso hectic that it won't talk about you anymore evenif you fall in front of TV, chocking on your junk food.Still, I'm sure, it'll talk on you, at least, in Obituary.

Carlito Brigante

...What's wrong with George's script...!? Mr. Bush--in an attempt to lift the U.S. economy--is just trying to do some construction work on his own accord, even before he gets some bucks from Obama's stimulus package. Sort of digging holes.The economy, in fact, was still one of his woes.Sir, I want you to estimate how much his swan songwould contribute to GDP. Could amount to some that Mr. Obama should be interested in.

Mr. J

Maybe the cartonist should take it a step further and point out the differneces between Bush and Obama. Bush has already served as president and has made a contribution to this country, so some may feel that he deserves to be on the mountain. Obabma hasn't achieved anything in his life yet except writting two autobiographies about how great he will be. I bet you could raise enough support to have Obama put on the mountain today. I wonder how popular Obama will be after he actually does something. The judgement of history is a funny thing. I remember the Clinton's getting booed when the walked into a 9/11 memorial at a NYC baseball stadium just a week after the attacks. People knew Clinton's policy left us defenseless. Now Hilary is Sec of State and Obama's first few days look like he is taking us back to the days when we were attacked over and over again and did nothing. I hope history is a good judge. If it is; George Bush will get his own mountain.

john eddy

It's one thing to dislike someone, its another thing to attribute negative character traits that are not there. Saying that history will judge him differently is not the same as saying he was a great president. This appears to be ad hominem cheap shot taken from a minor news event. It's not worthy of this stage.


Ok, Mr. Bush was, is and will be on this Earth (till he dies, like all of us)! He is human, like us all! So, whoever didn't commit a sin, you're welcome to stone me and him (Citation from: Bible [Mr. Jesus said smth similar], Bible comes (directly and indirectly) from Torah, and also should be in Koran (which indirectly comes from Torah & Bible), but i haven't read Koran, and i don't know Arabic).

But i hope, you're still reading... As i DO understand, fianancial crisis is more important than my words.

It's human to err, it's human to change oneself, and any change must start from oneself, as we're all not perfect. i wish Mr. Obama to try his best & change himself, ppl around him (esp. the ones who'll help him, like Ms. Clinton and other high-level advisors), ppl in US (through MUCH better PUBLIC education, by having each citizen of US above age 5 y. to posses a single PC [e.g. 100 $ PC which is NOW being shipped to Brazil!]) and finally, ppl on this single and extraordinary Earth, our HOME. Mr. William Henry "Bill" Gates III and Mr. Warren Edward Buffett have set a nice example thru charity, of what it means to be a more-conscious-than average WORLD citizen.

About 100$ PC: it should contain as many Free and open source software (free as in freedom, those who understand Latin: ‘libre’) as possible; don’t let Mr. William Henry "Bill" Gates III created company to “donate” Windows Vista/XP ® [light version, of course, as 100$ PC won’t run 8 GB OS!] on every 100$ PC, as Mr. Gates has resigned from MS to do more serious work at charity. Therefore, a typical 100$ PC would contain some form of Linux, Firefox, Thunderbird, X Window System (to resemble Windows ®), OppenOffice.Org. For more Savvy users, it should contain VLC, Apache, CUPS, KDE ( Gimp), and other less known but still free programs. Furthermore, Mr. Gates is already having plans to put a PC in every library in this World. Yes, it’s nice charity, but what i can say from EU perspective, that every single library in EU (i’ve visited dozens of them in several major EU countries) has PCs which run ONLY Windows ®! That’s a shame, as Linux is more secure and CHEAPER to manage for such an organization as library. It seems that only Germany in EU is pushing a bit more into the direction of Free and open source software, but NOT fast enough!

That’s enough for this time!
Thank you for your attention, ladies & gentlemen!

NB: i owe much of this info/knowledge to many ppl, but one of the main ones is - Richard Stallman. He advocates floss a lot. i hope he’ll continue doing it!

passer by

The opponent of the president Bush is closely like as a real Asian.Is that mentions us about the importance of the USA politics for some Asian countries?

martin horn

RKG-RHU: "George Bush will be judged by history differently and far more objectively than by his peers." Ah, that's very same argument made by Bush that led Kal to make the drawing. How about this scenario: I hack into your bank account and completely bankrupt you. Now, at first you would be upset, but hey, who knows? Maybe the fact that your children will grow up in difficult circumstances (being poor) will make them try harder in school. If they were a little lazy before I stole your money, and then became hardworking and ended up curing cancer, I, a thief in my own time, might be partly responsible for curing cancer! So really, you shouldn't be mad at me for stealing your money. After all, I, like George Bush, will be judged by history differently and far more objectively than by my peers (such as you) whom I hurt so very badly.



Mount Rushmore is mountain in the United States that features the faces of 4 of the US's greatest presidents. GWB has his own likeness in stone and wants it placed up on the mountain because he too thinks he is great. When of course we all know he is a failure.


Mt. Rushmore? Naming a sewage treatment plant after "W" sounds like a more appropriate idea...


I am not totally sure of what KAL is trying to convey here... Was it that GW tried to hard to create a "great legacy" for his presidency? Well, the cartoon was funny for sure.I also agree with jchildress' comment, the current system of organizing comments by newest to first is very frustrating, as most readers do not read the comments more than once...


George Bush will be judged by history differently and far more objectively than by his peers. Lincoln was deemed a failure by his peers and has been rehabilitated by historians. Truman was also an unpopular President, but over time the populace who know nothing about history have come to regard him as a great president. The reality is that W will be judged by a generation that is still in diapers; and depending upon the attacks on the US under Obama and subsequent presidents, W may be the only one believed to have any chutzpas. The good news is, by the time his history is written most of you will be dead.


George Bush is not a war criminal, he was just a lousy President. He's also not egotistical, at least no more than most world leaders. I could see this cartoon being funny if it were about Bill Clinton, but it misses the mark with Bush. I voted for Obama, I'm not someone who automatically defends Republicans, but the cartoon is silly. Unfortunately, a lot of the left-wing responses to it are far sillier.



The US was attacked on September 11, 2001. How do you defend that? The reports are several on how he and Condi ignored the repeated and increasingly urgent warnings about Bin Laden and al Qaeda. So you've swallowed the horse dung about those idiot imperialists' doing their job after allowing the worst foreign attack on US soil in history. A bit like FDR touting Pearl Harbor as evidence for his vigilence.

Marine Justice-

Bush, Cheney, Addington and Rumsfeld are undeniably war criminals (though they weren't before they came into office--at least, Bush wasn't, but I can't vouch for the others). How do you explain the high-level memos authorizing coercive interrogation--admitted by the rest of the civilized world to be torture? How do you explain our non-sanctioned invasion of Iraq, flouting the UN, and the fabricated intelligence (yellowcake and pipes from east Africa! Followed quickly by Plamegate, treason in itself, likely ordered by Cheney and Bush) which led to this odious war?

The soldiers there are fighting bravely, carrying out orders conceived in the extreme of foolishness. Cheney wanted conquering Iraq to serve a warning to the rest of the world's dictators? Classic playground bullying: pick the weakest kid there and pick on him. Only the weakest kid left Cheney bloody, with a black eye, dazed and confused.

Mistakes aren't war crimes. But deliberate deception of a country's population, illegal invasion with no factual basis, authorizing torture, and exposing a covert agent are. They should be judged by their own standard: the US was at war? Then they were wartime criminals and traitors.

Wal Footrot

Kal has hit the mark once again. I don't think it is a big call to say that history will not treat him kindly. Involving the US in two elective wars coupled with a legacy of policies which were an affront to the constitution on which the US was founded.



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