Historical Mystery of Bush's Presidency-By Robert Parry

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Historical Mystery of Bush's Presidency

By Robert Parry
January 20, 2009

After little more than two years of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon resigned and his successor, Gerald Ford, famously declared, “our long national nightmare is over.” But the painful end game of Nixon’s presidency was nothing compared to the eight excruciating years of George W. Bush.
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Even on Inauguration Day 2009, as most Americans rejoice that Bush’s disastrous presidency is finally heading into the history books, there should be reflection on how this catastrophe could have befallen the United States – and on who else was responsible.

Indeed, it may become one of the great historical mysteries, leaving future scholars to scratch their heads over how a leader with as few qualifications as George W. Bush came to lead the world’s most powerful nation at the start of the 21st century.

How could a significant number of American voters have thought that an enterprise as vast and complicated as the U.S. government could be guided by a person who had failed at nearly every job he ever had, whose principal qualification was that his father, George H.W. Bush, was fondly remembered as having greater personal morality than Bill Clinton?

Why did so many Americans think that a little-traveled, incurious and inarticulate man of privilege could lead the United States in a world of daunting challenges, shifting dangers and sharpening competition?

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1. CORPORATE MEDIA colluded with BushInc to keep the dictatortot protected as it smeared REAL leaders

who stuck their necks out to oppose Bush. They got kicked regularly from ALL SIDES, including the centrist Dem machine.

It took a category 5 hurricane to mount an event the media machine could not spin for BushInc.

Before Katrina, the left voices were RARELY heard - Dem campaigns of 2002 and 2004 were whittled down to meet the needs of a corporate media machine that wanted Bush to stay in office for the favorable rulings their industry expected from Bush and his fascist FCC.

Robert Parry always peels back the curtain:

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But the emergence of an imperial presidency did not occur without some resistance. Despite residual fears about another 9/11, many rank-and-file Americans, both liberals and traditional conservatives, grew uneasy over Bush’s power grab. Their voices, however, were rarely heard in the major media, confined mostly to Internet sites and alternative radio outlets.
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[Catshrink]

2. Corporate media, complicit Congress

The first time I read your title I read "Historical Misery." Perhaps that is more appropriate, eh?

on edit: I need to use spell check.

[BanzaiBonnie]

3. Not a mystery

The media "sold" him to the country. They failed to give us the truth about Bush. Only those of us who did not solely rely on the corporate media learned the truth early on.


Our media corporations sought to prop up business as usual, at any price. And what a price we will pay.

[DCKit]

5. And we need to make them all pay.

Treason is a hanging offense.

[Winterblues]

6. The Media took a man with a reputation of being the most honest and honorable man in Congress

and made him out to be a serial LIAR and delusional. "Invented the Internet", discovered "Love Canal" none of which Gore ever said but the Media ran with it and did not let up until the "Torture pResident" was selected by right wing cronies. The "fourth estate" was complicit because they felt Republicans would make them money...They put money ahead of the good of their country. And they still do..

[BeFree]

4. Well

It was stolen. The presidency was stolen first from Al Gore and then Kerry.

The question is: why did we let it happen?