Charlie Rose

IRISH  01/15/2009 08:38 PM Report

The tragedy of the Bush II government in all its dimensions whether it be economic, political,administrative, justice, law scientific, militarily...is the basic ideological rot and corruption at the centre of power.

Mandan  01/15/2009 07:13 PM Report

I do not understand why we cannot say that the criminal attacks on September 11, 2001 occurred on George Bush's watch. Does he get a pass for not being vigilent the first 9 months of his presidency? Didn't his administration mess up? W then blames the rest of his failures on the September 11 crimes and no one calls him on it.

markhas  01/14/2009 03:20 AM Report

"Saying the financial crisis just "happened" on his watch is ludicrous. The US in the last half-century has done virtually everything it could to bring it on, and anyone foolish enough not to have seen that should stand impeached."

This has been obvious to me since since the 70's when manufacturing started to move to "offshore". This indicment should include the likes of the criminal Milton Friedman and his ilk!

By allowing the lose of Agriculture, Manufacturing, Mining, the means of wealth production they have assulted and robbed the citizens.

chrisbak  01/13/2009 10:31 PM Report

This was a very interesting interview about a President who intentionally failed to govern from the middle, or anywhere nears it. Part of the problem is we elected him somehow expecting he would govern like his father, when the son was always completely different. One reason that happened was because there is this fascination with family names in the US that in the case of Bush got the country into a lot of trouble. Therefore perhaps we need a federal law that a child may not succeed their parent for federal office.

tartufe  01/13/2009 09:42 PM Report

WOW! Two fantastic well presented comments. My comment has to defer to be: read the first two (again?).

WinstonsMyDog  01/13/2009 08:25 PM Report

What I wish was discussed more deeply is not that if the president kept the country safe, but a question about the nature of the United States. When the president says that he kept us safe, he did things that infringed on our civil liberties. The question should be raised at all times is whether we want the US to be a free country in the way that the founding fathers wanted us to be or a safe country that is essentially a police state.

REMant  01/13/2009 05:21 PM Report

If history exonerates him, it will only be, as appears to have the case here, by forgetting most of it. He may have been curious and intelligent - he certainly never gave that impression - but there was a haughtiness or condescension, even a disdain, of the public, not just the press, that is unforgiveable, which I thought still in evidence in his last moments before them, and which his father betrayed as well. What strikes me most is the resemblance to a dictatorship, where maintaining power and appearance is uppermost. In that regard 9-11 strikes me not so much as a crisis, but as a gift. That is I presume exactly what al Qaeda wanted. Saying the financial crisis just "happened" on his watch is ludicrous. The US in the last half-century has done virtually everything it could to bring it on, and anyone foolish enough not to have seen that should stand impeached. I certainly wouldn't go around naming capital ships after any of them.