Thank you, mr Bush

A new poll suggests that president Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history. A CNN/Opinion Research poll shows 71 percent disapprove of President Bush's job performance.

See : http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/01/bush.poll/index.html.

That is quite understandable. The following summary is not new, but to the point. It states that the next president will have to deal with yet another crippling legacy of George W. Bush : the economy. A Nobel laureate, Joseph E. Stiglitz, sees a generation-long struggle to recoup.

"When we look back someday at the catastrophe that was the Bush administration, we will think of many things: the tragedy of the Iraq war, the shame of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, the erosion of civil liberties. The damage done to the American economy does not make front-page headlines every day, but the repercussions will be felt beyond the lifetime of anyone reading this page."

See : http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/12/bush200712.

One can only hope, almost against hope, that the president's successor will be more competent. That cannot be too difficult ... poor America !