Thank you George W. Bush
Thank you and farewell, George W. Bush. Your presidency has made an indelible impact on my life. If not for you I could have spent an entire lifetime uninterested in politics. My feeling of apathy towards government could have continued unbounded. I may have continued to this very day to claim (blindly) that Democrats and Republicans deserve equal scorn, an assertion that should now seem patently ridiculous to anyone paying attention. If not for your epic ineffectiveness, your magnificent incompetence, I might continue to think that the election of a president is inconsequential to my life.
I've watched you over the past eight years stumble from one train wreck to the next. At times your intentions were impossible to comprehend as you bumbled into wars with little foresight or prudence. At other times you claimed good intentions, but your actions were woefully inadequate. You were alarmingly passive as a city drown. Most damaging of all however, were the times you saw your intentions as pure, while bringing about one of the worst regressions in our country's history. You have given us a shining example of the dangers born in evil acts justified by good intentions. Yes, torture is evil. So I say farewell with a modicum of gratitude, because I have never been so aware of the deleterious effects of an indifferent electorate.
