by shep
Yesterday, both Wolf Blitzer and Chris Matthews played the same inane story angle on the historic meeting of the living ex-presidents and the president-elect. Don’t these guys ever have an original stupid idea?
The basic question, which they both mangled horribly (I’m shocked!) was, if George H.W. Bush’s and Jimmy Carter’s presidential approval ratings could be rehabilitated over the intervening years, couldn’t George W. Bush’s 27% approval rating improve with the passage of time.
First off, after the inevitable recession, or depression, we will be living through for the next couple of years, along with the inconceivably massive debt we will all inherit, two interminable, disastrous wars, a completely corrupted federal government and a near total loss of respect and credibility in the world, my prediction would be: no. Though, perhaps, the war crimes trials will help.
I wonder if it ever occurred to the brilliant leaders of our cable news gasbaggery that any ex-president looks better after eight years of the worst presidency of all time. I understand that James Buchanan and Warren G. Harding are asking for recounts. Seriously, George W. Bush makes his father look like John Kennedy and Jimmy Carter look like Thomas Jefferson.
Unfortunately, it appears that our corporate press has risen to the challenge of being able to make George W. Bush look good by comparison.
