CNN

"Welcome to my hanging".... How many American's would pay to see THAT? I would be happy to have one half of a cent off the price of a ticket from ticket sales... I'd be rich beyond my wildest dreams...

Just to clarify, I am a strong Obama supporter. I hope when people look back on President Bush's term in office, they will take an honest and fair view of what is truly an accomplishment and what has been a failure. He did inherit an economy that was at the peak of it's bubble and ready to burst, and is handing off one that has been popped from another bubble. As much as people may want to blame him as a convenient scapegoat, he can not be blamed any more for the ups and downs of the economy any more than President Clinton can be given credit for the good economy that existed during the tech bubble.

As far as Iraq, I think that there were more diplomatic alternatives to consider before pushing for war, but then again, he was given the right by the Congress, most of whom didn't even read the report. Our government is built on the concepts of checks and balances, so no one man has all the power and no one man should have to take all the blame when this country is headed in the wrong path.

I, for one, will remember him as a good man who stuck to his convictions, did his best, made mistakes, and has the sense of integrity to take the blame as a good leader should when his team has failures. I won't downgrade the failings of his administration, but I won't make him the scapegoat for everything that has happened in the past 8 years because it is easy and popular.

George isn't keeping us safe. Bin Laden doesn't need to bother attacking us, he has already won. He has realized his goal. We've been terrorized into two wars. And our economy is in a shambles. He broke us just like the Soviets, just like he said he would. Also, In the name of the Almighty Stock value we have outsourced white collar jobs to overseas companies and taken away the careers of many middle aged professionals. The Bush suggestion of getting re-trained is at best naive. The bills don't go away. Who can afford to start over at age 55? So we go bankrupt and lose our homes. I hope the next administration does a good job. But I believe it's too late to prevent next year from being an economic nightmare. We ain't seen nothin yet. Squirrel stew anyone?

There should be Congressional investigations into everything the Bush Administration got involved with and trails forthwith!!!

John Starnes Tampa Florida You are ignorant. Those Americans gave there life for your freedom. You have no idea there sacrifice or there families. So dont even dare bring them into your arguement. I got an idea go to Detroit. See how many people die there this month. From murders alone. At the end of the month tell me where there are more. Then sit there are think about who died for more the drug dealers or the troops.

Weatherman... Do you honestly believe that when history looks back at this president, he will be remembered for a economic bailout? Which was a marginal outcome even in the most benificial outlooks on its effect of the state of this economy? Really? If this wasn't a joke post and you were serious... wow, that just dumbfounds me.

Darn it! For a moment I thought Bush was actually gonna be hanged!

Anyways, I'd have suggested lobotomy to a hanging, to get rid of his habitual lying.

For the next 4-16 years we will hear how the screwed up country is Baracks fault. The GOP even believes Clinton left this current mess for Bush!!!

In other words, Bush did a great job!

Our screwed up country isn't W's fault...it's the fault of Clinton and Obama! Bush is completely innocent of killing 4000 + American soldiers in a war that should have never happened! We should have gone into Pakistan and Afghanistan and killed Bin Laden! Not Iraq!!! But the Bush family has ties with Pakistan and wouldn't go after Bin Laden!

When Obama goes into Pakistan and Afghanistan and kills Bin Laden, the GOP will say Bin Laden is dead thanks to Bush!

In other words it something good happens it's because of Bush and all the bad this country and the world is facing is because of Clinton and Obama!

AMAZING!!!

(...continued) Forget the roles that hundreds of thousands of people have played in causing a perpetuating the problems the amarican people face, and let's blame it all on ONE MAN. That makes a lot of sense. And here we are complaining, when other parts of the world are hungry, thirsty, being slaughtered, and dying from curable diseases. Think about that next time you complain about how it Bush single handedly made it cost so much for you to fill up your SUV.

I am glad that everyone blames just one person for total corruption of all government and the total breakdown of the world economy. I am sure subprime lending didn't just start originating in the last 8 years that got us into this mess. Maybe everyone can get a ticket to Obama's induction ceremony that costs millions or catch it on Oprah while thousands of people have no jobs, worry if they will have enough food at night or when it there time to beg on the side of the road. Where are our priorities!

That portrait shows his hand on a book. A book!! He has never read a book. Or is that book in the painting titled "The Presidency For Dummies"?

Thank you Mr. Bush for putting this country back on track. Enough with the "wanted to be rich" borrowing money to keep up with the Jones'. Let's live within our means, keep this country safe, and support this country by "buying American". That's what you were all about. Just one thing I did dislike. No support for the American Automobile manufacturers...Enjoy your retirement from the political life. You should be much more appreciated than what they all gave you credit for. You got my vote! Good luck Mr. President.

Such rude comments, shame on those of you who disrespect the highest office in the land. We are the land of free speech, but come on some of you take it to a new low. Call him what you may, he is our President and he should be respected. Now as to our economic mess, can anybody say Barney Frank or Chris Dodd, both these guys got sweet deals from Freddic Mac and Fannie May. Not to mention Barney's friend who helped run one of these organizations into the ground. And for those of you who voted for change, the only thing you got was a reshuffeled deck, the same faces just in different positions. And finally, did you get the best and brightest, nope just the guys that sold Hillary out, like Bill Richardson and the list goes on and on and on.

Can you really blame all the country's problems on one man? Forget the irresponsible borrowers, lenders, and investors and their parts in the financial crisis. Forget the fact that we're ALL overly dependent on a nonrenewable resource that we have to import from the other side of the world.

@indiana voter

We don't need sympathy from idiots who voted for the Chief Idiot–G. W. Bush. You're a moron, but then I think you knew that already.

The Weatherman @ 7:36
"I think the man is a genious"

Hmm, I think I see why.

CNN please post this:

These people that are STILL upholding Bush and his "wonderful" presidency (HA!! What a joke that is) must either be dillusional, blind or just plain stupid of what's been going on for the past 8 years. This is the same moron that diverted the American peoples attention from a war that we should've been fighting (remember Afganistan people, and that tall skinny man named uhhhh.....BIN LADEN???), to an un-called for unnecessary war that has claimed 4,200 lives of our U.S. soldiers. I agree with John of Tampa, Flordia – - how he smirks with their blood on his hands just shows what little soul and substance he has.

Oh!! And there's also Hurricane Katrina. His response to that was "priceless"!!! His actions showed just how much (better yet, HOW LITTLE) he cared about the American people.

When Clinton was in office (yes we all know he had an affair – BUT- that situation should've only been between him and his wife.........GET OVER IT PEOPLE!!!), the economy was great, the American people were working, our allies actually liked us, and we had a surplus. When this drunk moron took office, everything went downhill (yes, even before 9/11). Jobs are leaving left and right, the economy has pretty much gone to pasture, and we've got a deficit so high that there's no more room on the billboard for the numbers!! And this man has the nerve to compare himself to President Abraham Lincoln??!!! Hey George, do us all a favor.......be a contestant on "Wheel of Fortune" and BUY YOURSELF A "CLUE"!!!!

He's more in a league with Herbert Hoover and James Buchanon, some of the worst presidents ever.

The artist forgot to add the horns and cloven hooves.....Bush being the anti-christ and all.

First OJ, Bush next please....

LOVE THAT PAINTER.

KEPT HIS CHIMP, BEFUDDLED EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE..

ON THE OTHER HAND, IF HE GOT RID OF IT, NO ONE

WOULD RECOGNIZE OUR WORST PRESIDENT EVER.

President Bush's Presidential Library should be a doddle...a dozen comic books and 8 Hooters calendars...how long will that take to organise..?

For those who wonder how 46% of the population can vote for an "out-of-touch ill-tempered crank" for POTUS and his "Alaskan Airhead with an Attitude" V.P. nominee; just read the comments from those thinking Bush-43 did a good job and it help explains where the 46% come from and the pathetic depths our nation has sunk.

you paved your path George W... now walk the walk

HIS PORTRAIT IS AN ATTEMPT

TO CHANGE HISTORY ALREADY.

HE HAS NEVER IN HIS MISERABLE,

IGNORANT LIFE ACTUALLY READ A BOOK.

Term limits should be lifted so Barack Obama can seek a Third and fourth term in the white house. just to un-do the damage done by G.W.Bush, so much for the uniter,oh dont think we dont know whats
going on with Jeb Bush he will never be president.

I DON'T WISH HIS HANGING.

I HOWEVER WISH, TO NEVER LAY

EYES OF AN IMAGE OF HIS OR HIM.

The Bush Legacy – How stupid were we as Americans that we elected him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All of you, and I mean all of you!

Why must you label each other as this or that? What is you "hate" is the label without really ever knowing the person and that my friends comes from you being brainwashed. You have to admit you did not make up the words left, right or liberal or conservative.

Please for the sake for of the human condition...back off! What a waist of oxygen that allows you to say and write such things. I feel like I am back on the play ground in grade school.

There is so many other important things that need to be addressed in this world then your HOT AIR!

The Tinman

Bush needs to be spending more time fixing the national disasters he is leaving behind, and less time fretting over his legacy.

The very fact that George Bush would refer to "his hanging" certainly shows that he understands he is no hero to the American public. There is no doubt, if you watch his face twitch and his jaw muscles tense as he speaks on national news, that this person is severly stressed. We can only hope he is starting to feel remorse for the many lives his wars have cost, we can hope he is feeling guilt for those Iraqies who have lost not only their homes, businesses and country but their families and lives in George Bushes wars. We all wish for his impeachment and jail time but maybe thats not what he deserves. Maybe what he deserves is to live with the knowledge that HE IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY AND HE AND THE ADMINISTRATION HE CHOSE, ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR AN ALMOST TOTAL DEVISTATION OF HIS COUNTRY. I wonder if it's possile for a former Commander N Chief to suffer presidential PTS..... Wouldn't that be deserving?

Best thing about Bush is that he was so incompetent that he made it okay for America to vote for a black man. Thanks Bush for giving us black folks the best present since the gains of the civil rights movement. hahaha.

LEGACY OF BUSH-43 PRESIDENCY

Bush-43 legacy should be written as his attempt to prove his worthiness to Bush-41 (aka Dad). Bush-43 came into U.S. Presidency with a string of failed executive and managerial ventures in tow. Unsurprisingly Bush-43 leaves the Presidency with even more disastrous failures, to include: [1.] two unending wars, [2.] broken borders and immigration policies, [3.] failed energy (Cheney) policies,
[4.] national economic meltdown, [5.] skyrocketing unemployment,
[6.] record breaking home foreclosures, [7.] unaffordable or no health coverage, [8.] lost investments and retirement plans, [9.] spiraling national debt, [10.] lost of international credibility & admiration,
[11.] ineffective agencies like EPA, FDA, CDC, FEMA, [12.] the lost of civil liberties, [13.] banking and financial credit crisis.

You know it is comments like some of the ones above that give the Democratic Party such a black eye, and the descriptor of being left winged wackos which personally I find disturbing. I am a democrat and believe in democratic principals, this does not however include being rude, obnoxious, disrespectful, and in general terribly unpleasant. Why must we always "hate" the opponent? Why should we lower ourselves to the level of say Rush L. who brings hatred to a whole new level? This country is mostly made up of reasonable people, you know your neighbors and the people you go to church with, to scout meetings, to the PTA, and such. We just want to live a good life, and help those who are less fortunate to get a hand up. Not a hand out, but to help them learn how to take care of themselves, education, vocational training, and possibly the upcoming work projects of the 21st century. This to me is what being a democrat is all about, being kind and good. I find the Republican Party very bottom line oriented, perhaps that is how greed got so out of hand (not that we don't have democrats who have followed down the same path). The point is that it is time for change, not name calling and rude behavior, we need to come together as communities and neighborhoods to make this a better world to live in, for all people.

W, Chenney, et al – good riddence.

You don´t need to be a liberal to see W as an imbecile who can hardly put two words together. Be thankful for what!; for over 4,000 US Servicemen and women death? For thousands wounded? For an economy on the pits? And yet, there are enough rednecks to vote for him for a third term if the Constitution would allow it.

To make a long comment short.

Good Painting.
Bad President.

That is All.

SEE IF OBAMA IS ANY BETTER CONTROLLING TERRORISM...

The Press has sanctified Barack Obama as their patron saint. Like it or not, their "saint" will also have to deal with Islamofascist terrorism, and the desire of the radical Muslim world to return fo the 12th century. Bush understood that this is a war of cultures and life-styles.

The annointed left, which hates Bush so much would be the first to be executed at a Muslim political rally.

Bush took the battle to the geography of the radicals. He has prevented us from another terrorist attack. Nobody, I mean nobody thought we'd go through these many years without another attack, even the liberals.

Look, I'm not saying Bush had a decent energy policy (neither party did), or ran the Iraq War properly before Petraeus.

All I'm saying is that in order to fight terrorism, Obama will also have to bring the battle to the terrorists. This will mean the necessity for military action.

The same pacifist contingent that fought Bush and put Obama into the Oval Office will also turn against Obama...just you wait and see...

In another 15 years, Bush will have been given the credit he deserves for keeping the Western World intact and free from Shar'ia Law.

sanjosemike

Time will favor you,people will need to be further educated by the historians on what the real situation was that you walked into,and all that you have accomplished.

I dont think he is graduated and go to YALE with HONESTLY ,he is pro drug dealer and criminal type
anybody run for office need IQ TEST and LIE DETECTOR republic or democrat ALL same crooked and moron should be this all people never in there capital hill

TO LINDA-ANGI'S MOM -THE WEATHER MAN-BUSH A GEIOUS!!!!! YOU GATTA BE FU#@ING KIDDING ME,KEEPING US SAFE, SEP 11, ON HIS WATCH. TRY TELLING ALL THE PEOPLE THAT LOST THERE JOBS THAT BS.I'M SICK OF ALL YOU REPUNKS, IF YOU THINK HE DID A GOOD JOB YOU MUSY HAVE BEEN IN A COMMA IN THE LAST EIGHT YEARS. IT'S PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO VOTE. YOU VOTE FOR PEOPLE YOU LIKE TO HAVE A BEER WITH. I VOTE THE BEST THE MOST INTELLIGENT ONE. (THAT ONE) YOU THINK PALIN CAN BE POTUS, IF THAT'S TRUE VOTE FOR MY DAUGHTER SHE'S SMARTER THAN PALIN.

THOSE Republicans that get on here make me laugh and puke at the same time.
BLIND FAITH IN BAD LEADERSHIP IS NOT PATIOTISM
WAR IS NOT PRO-LIFE
AND WE ARE ALL AGAINST HYPOCRITS

BEST WISHES TO YOU ALL

Never again !

This moron can still laugh and joke after all the misery he has caused in this world. Bush is war criminal and a PIG.

ROT IN HELL

Bush you are no comparison of Abe. I'm a historian, trust me your legacy will be told the way it really was. Not the way you and Rove sell on Fox. Sick Pigs.

Liberals have hate in their hearts????? After all the trash that Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter spew, not to mention Sarah Palin, and the liberals have the hate market cornered? If a Democrat did half the damage Mr. Bush did to the country, the economy, not to mention the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights, the neo-cons would have had a lynch mob after the Democratic president.

Get over yourselves, neo-cons. You had control and look what happened! Don't be mad at the Democrats, they didn't mess up your party, YOU DID!!!!!

MR BUSH IS YOUR TIME UP YET? IT SEEMS HE HAS BEEN ON RUNNING TIME FOR QUITE A WHILE NOW. WITH ALL DUE RESPECT MR BUSH ITS TIME FOR YOU AND THE MRS TO GO HOME ON THE RANGE AND SING OLD HOME WEEK BECAUSE WE DONT WANT TO HEAR ANYMORE OF YOUR CHEATS, LIES AND ALIBI'S

I do not understand the continuing angst. My fellow progressives, don't you get it? We finally won! Get over your hate and let it go, it is just holding you back. Unless someone out there has a time machine, we can't change the mistakes of the past eight years. Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives. It's time to move on.

Uglyego3
You and the others here make some strong statements and charges. Just shooting your mouths off does not make it true. PROVE IT.
Linda & justin.
I agree with you

They should have included the Supreme Court judges who are the only reason Bush got the job in the first place!

Dubya was alright until the right-wing putzs like Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, and Cheney brainwashed him.

What a disaster. I feel sorry for us.

And all the folks defending him–do you all understand that he acted upon bad intelligence and got us in that quagmire Iraq?

I give up on Republicans. They never get it. Country First my a$$!

For Bush to compare himself to Lincoln in any context just shows how ignorant and arrogant the man really is. Lincoln would be appalled by the GOP and the President of today. No doubt he'd find more in common with Obama. Bush was an average 'Joe', in the most powerful office in world, at an extraordinary tiime, blinded by his own simple-minded arrogance and manipulated by ideologues, producing exactly the kind of disastrously botched stewardship you'd expect from the guy next door.

Mr President:

Though I disagreed with some of your policies, I thank you for wanting to serve your nation as our 43rd President of the United States.

God Bless You & America

How appropriate to immortalize him with the confused chimp expression that he has made so famous.

George W., as American as apple pie.

It is undeniable that there were more than acceptable numbers of wrong decisions made by Bush administration in the last 8 years. Otherwise, the U.S. wouldn’t be in this current situation, but Bush is NOT the only one who is responsible for all mistakes. I think it’d be better to let go the past and get ready for the challenges ahead.

I'll be perfectly honest. I get really tired of all of the comments attacking President Bush. Not his policies, but President Bush himself. It really gets on my nerves. Like him or not, he is the President of the United States. That title alone deserves, and indeed, commands respect.

I didn't vote for Barack Obama, but I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and show him respect. Why? Because he is now going to be the President of the United States. So why can't fans of Obama show Bush a little respect?

Bush you are hardly abe lincoln. you are thee worst president in history. i dont know how you sleep at night knowing how many lives you destroyed. good riddance, time for change.

From the man who campaigned:

"I'm a uniter, not a divider" who promised to "provide leadership".

This man, who is responsible for the economic wreck and downfall of so many innocent people shall be condemned to shame.

History will remember George W. Bush as a disgrace. The worst president in the history of the nation.

I pray that Barack Obama is offered a quadruple term in office of 16 consecutive years (without wasted time or money for elections) - in other words, rewrite the constitution for this one man and no one after, to 16 years in the White House as President of the United States of America.

We need his leadership, his words of wisdom, his inspiration and his character.

Message to Republicans: I'm afraid we will have to accept Democratic control for the next few decades.

911 is because American place troops in Saudi and make A LOT of crazy Muslims go nuts. YOU give them a valid reason to attack, think :Why America want to place troops in other countries? Answer: It's to protect the supply of oil. That is plain stupid if you think for your country. When you want oil you buy it from open market just like all the other country are doing, let the producer provide the military support themselves, just sell them weapons.

The reason we have war in Iraq is because the defense industry want it and lobby for it and of course we have a DUMB As?. president and a evil vice president. Well on top of that we have all those arrogant generation citizens baby boomer and gen. X that do not think for others. How many percentage of Americans support the war of Iraq in the beginning – 70+%. 7 in 10 adult support the war or have no problem with the war.

Well, if we do not get rid of the oil dependent we WILL HAVE another 911. Imagine those crazy Muslims growing up seeing America taking advantage of their natural resources and

1.You don't believe in their god – 2. You eat pork, have a dog (they hate dog for unknown reason, you drink wine and beer (guilt, guilt, guilt...).

Just imagine we do not import oil from them one day with just the oil produce in America and import from Canada only.

Bush is the worst President in the history of this country.

Yea, he should be hanged, for treason and crimes against humanity. All of you out their that are still supporting him should get the same treatment. I'll supply the rope.

I still can't get why the Republican party is still in existence? Only Reagan made a positive difference in this ill founded party! They are the party who will eventually bring this country down to its knees. How pathetic! When you here those loosers screaming "Country first!" you can't help but wonder how the forefathers should feel ashame of leaving their legacy to these "locos".

Everyone look at don hays' post. Brilliant.

"After all he has gone through…..911, Katrina, two wars, a world-wide economic depression may history show him the respect he deserves as our President"
He has gone through so much. Born with a silver spoon, dodged the draft, got his daddy to get him into harvard. Must be tough. Im just glad he was able to repay exxon for getting him elected with this war.

I would like to thank FDR for serving 3.5 terms and the Congress of that time for noticing that one man should not be President for Life. Other wise I'm sure W. would have ran again.

It is a tough job, not everyone should be President. Mr Bush had potential, but let the people around him influence his choices. Thank You W. for being the whipping boy and taking all this heat.

Now for those who comment and blame the Democratic Congress for the past 2 years???? Um it will take more than 2 years to clean up 6 years of muck that the GOP Congress has created. Out of the 8 years Bush has held office SIX of them were with a Republican Congress. The past 2 years have been spent rebounding and trying to pick up the ball that was dropped. With Obama Biden in office starting 1/20/09 and the new majority in both houses, you will see a great turn around.

Bush thinks his efforts compare to those of Lincoln? He is putting himself in a league with Lincoln? BUSH BELONGS IN PRISON! HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN IMPEACHED! Oh the nerve of this guy! Prison. Prison! PRISON! FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE.

He's not likely to get the respect YOU think he deserves "t".

Look – the less than 19% who like and support Bush because they only listen to Fox and Limbaugh and believe the bull about the "liberal media" (truth: the media are all in the hands of the corporations – which are far more conservative than liberal) are the rabid obnoxious ones who actually go on these listserves to stick up for him. NO ONE around the world thinks Bush was a good president except the ultra rich and those who are duped into believing Fox and Limbaugh. Everyone but that 19% (which probably equals less than 1% of 1% of the world population) knows that. I guess the other 99.9% of the world are just "unAmerican" "unbelievers."

I am not a Republican nor a Democrat, so Bush lovers don't use that 'liberal elitist' excuse as to why I think Bush is a terrible president. This man has single handedly destroyed the strength this country once had. I voted for him in 2000, so I take the blame but c'mon, how can anyone defend him?!! He is the worst leader we've ever had, and I'm relieved his reign of terror will end soon. The fact he compared himself to Lincoln is sickening. This man is delusional, and he can barely speak English correctly. Thank god for Barack

There is no doubt Mark Carder has skills. I wonder who he voted for this year though, I really do.

The fact that Bush compares himself to Lincoln is a joke...I don't know anything from that long ago unless it was in a book, but i don't read anything about him being a crook, but the winners write the history books I guess....

There are quite a few things done in the Bush administration that I do not agree with, but I find it humorous when people call Republicans uninformed and make comments like:

"The 1990's were the best years in the last 50 years when Bill Clinton was POTUS. The economy was great, we had a surplus in the coffers and now we owe trillions, are in two wars and the economy is in shambles..."

Who's uninformed?

The economy went to hell in 2000, when Clinton was president. Recession was declared in March 2001, only 40 days after Bush took office, recessions take more than 40 days to develop. The "surplus" everyone always talks about was a PROJECTION, based on the 1999 economy and the budget; it never actually materialized and therefore never actually existed. Gas prices? I just paid $1.79 a gallon to fill my tank; doesn't seem to be a problem right now. And this lovely houseing crisis was caused, in part, by the Clinton policy that "everyone should own a home" and regulation of loans to "high-risk" individuals should be decreased.

Wars? At least one of these two wars, which I've seen with my own eyes, would have occurred despite who the POTUS was (Afghanistan and 9/11 should ring a bell). And history will be the judge as to whether Iraq was a huge blunder or not. Calling it a failure now shows the kind of ignorance and defeatism that liberals are supposed to deplore; this one's still too soon to call.

Anywho, Bush wasn't a great president, but he certainly wasn't the "worst in history", and closing your eyes to basic U.S. economic and militaristic history won't change that.

Just get over it Phil. You must be crazy if you think we would let uneducated Palin go anywhere near the White house.

You sir President,

Built the platform with the invasion of Iraq and let Cheney form the noose with the whole Halliburton messy.

My offer still stands to help you pack your stuff and move it. How many moving trucks will you need. I will no doubt be able to recruit as much help as needed.

'Welcome to my hanging'.

Oh that it were...

I am frankly surprised at the number of Bush supporters still on this site. I thought you would have all just gone away by now. Scared of government-provided healthcare (OK, soacialism); scared of peaceful relations with the rest of the world; scared of gay people; scared of Muslims; scared of big business not getting its way; scared of a black man; scared of honest news reporting; scared of your shadow (unless you have a gun). How can you possibly not be terrified of the INTERNET?

HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN HUNG LONG AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is nothing more pathetic than an ex-president other than a whining Ex-President.

It sickens me how he tries to suggest he worked hard as president. I think what we are going to find after he is gone is what we all knew in the back of our minds, Cheney was in charge, not Bush.

I wish he would really see justice for betraying his oatyh of office rather than it being a joke.

The joke is on us people.

Although I do feel that President Bush holds some responsibility for the situation we are currently in, I am absolutely sick and tired of all these Democrats blaming ONLY President Bush for the problems we're currently having. Until the Democrats gained control of Congress, the economy was fine! Once the Democrats got control, everything went to Hell! In our system of government, the President can't do anything without Congressional approval, and the Democrat-controlled Congress keeps shooting down President Bush's (and Republican Senators') ideas. We can all see where that has gotten us!

Also, please remember that if it had not been for President Clinton, the terrorists who hijacked our airplanes on 9/11, wouldn't have even been here. Clinton was President while all of the terrorists were in the United States learning how to fly, and gaining the necessary information for their 9/11 plans. It was Clinton who was President when the U.S.S. Cole was bombed, and it was Clinton who was President when the World Trade Center was first bombed in 1993.

It was President Clinton's lax security policies that were the genesis of our current problems. If we hadn't been attacked, we wouldn't have gone to war. If we hadn't gone to war, the economy wouldn't have tanked.

I did not vote for Barack Obama. I did vote for John McCain. The reason is I just do not trust the Democrats, and I did not think President-Elect Obama was ready to be President, especially given current world events. That being said, I did, and still have misgivings about John McCain. I have also been given hope from some of President-Elect Obama's choices for his Cabinet, and some of his recent statements. I just really hope it isn't all smoke and mirrors. I hope and pray President-Elect Obama is able to move in to the White House and get the government to work together for the good of the people, transform our country's image in the world, and that he can get things turned around for the better.

One quality I like in Mr. Bush .... self deprecation! Not many have this quality!

I wonder where the cheerleaders of the lame duck get their information. Have you people been out of the country for the last eight years???? Are you buying into the revisionist history being written by the Bush Legacy Project? Were you people living in the same country I was?

I will not sing the praises on Obama, nor will I criticize. Obama hasn't taken office yet. When he does, all eyes will be on him.

But for people to be praising Bush for our safety, for his handling of the economy, the war on terror. It really makes me sad. We are poorer, less educated, sicker, less safe, and less free than we were eight years ago.

Check out his executive orders, regulations, directives, and his signing statements. Read something other than blurbs in the news.

Awww,

I thought my dreams were coming true and Bush was going to be hung in Washington D.C. on the white house lawn like criminals should be.

What if Al Gore won way back when,, Oh wait he did. And before someone says he might have not done a better job. He couldn't be any worse. btw We need more than a 2 party system and get rid of the Electoral College.

YES THE 90'S WERE A GRAND TIME.......REPUBLICANS RAN CONGRESS

Okay, Lincoln was one of the best presidents in history, whereas Bush is one of the worst. Let me just say, though, that Bush does not merit the title of 'the worst' president in history: that honor goes to James Buchanan.

That so many hate one man is the evidence of his incompetence and contempt for our constitution. That any would still make excuses for him is cause for deep pity and disgust. Goodbye, Bush. May you and your painting both molder away.

Our country is doomed. One needs to look no further than most of the comments posted/will be posted here to understand why.

Keep in mind most will have a collage degree. Sad

No matter what he says," He always has a sense of humor". I love Bush, he has gone thorugh so much to protect his country, yet no one appreciates anything. All that grey paint on his head, gotten from the job. You voted him in, appreciate a few good things he has done people. Things will get better soon.

bush... lincoln? hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. in his dreams... or nightmares, hopefully.

look up the facts, people....they speak for themselves....bush and cheney and most of his admin did EVERYTHING they could to stay out of fighting in any war....cheney even got FIVE (yes, 5) deferments saying he couldnt fight in any war because he had kids and a wife (as most of those fighting in iraq also do)....they did everything they could to not fight in any war because they knew they needed to grow up and be in politics where they big money is...now they profit millions off their buddies like halliburton, kbr, and blackwater...none of you republicans think its a little odd that theyre making money off of war? doesnt that seem like a conflict of interest to yOu no, i didnt think so. bush screwed this country into the ground....and it will take years to bail us out...while bush and cheney sit sipping champagne on top of a stack of money. you people are delusional if you still support this scumbag.

bush is a joke, but i cant help but laugh when i read some of these blogs!!!!! i do laugh alot, what else do we have ???? some of you people are really funny !!!!!! after all laughter is the best medicine!!!!!

Quote from INDIANA VOTER:
"You liberals are funny. It is like some kind of a disease that you have so much hatred in your hearts towards one man".
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The hypocrisy of Evangelical-Republican supporters never ceases to amaze me. You INDIANA VOTER have the audacity to misrepresent the people's "righteous" anger as "hatred" for the worst U.S. President in history? Let me remind you hypocrites what real hatred looks like. Real hatred is when self-righteous Republicans spend $58,000,000.00 over a 7-year period to dig up dirt on the Commander-in-Chief via an Arkansas White-Water land deal. And after 7-years and $58-million the only thing the HATEFUL Republicans could find was a stained blue dress and a thousand ways to tie the Presidents hands at a time the people really needed his attention and leadership domestically and internationally. Now that was true hate on the Evangelical-GOP side!

News flash, Bush did not ruin any lives. Well, I guess he did to those of you who have no concept of personal responsibility and like to blame others for your problems. Yea the economy is bad, but please, to put so much stock in Bush and Obama is mind-boggling to me. Seriously, no one man can solve or create all the problems in the world. Men aren't that smart. We are mostly fallen, stupid creatures a lot of the time. None of us are immune to that, so stop acting like any of you would do any better. And, let's hope Obama does a great job but please don't look to him as a savior, he will make mistakes too. It is called reality, welcome to it

Hey Phil, I agree with YOU!!!!

UglyEgo3: Nice going! I see you've done your research and homework!?!? Are you part of that youth vote (18 to 29) that know NOTHING about politics???

redbarchetta88 said...

"Before you liberals start, what will you do this time next year when you don't have Bush and the GOP to push around and blame for everything anymore?"

Easy. We'll be enjoying all the ways our country is improving.

I am totally amazed that after eight years of this President that any Republican would have the audacity to besmirch anyone that would have negative comments about their great leader. I guess it is truly a fact that sheep will blindly follow their leader no matter the cost. And the cost of following this imbecile has cost this great nation so much that it will probably take generations to restore the US to it's greatness again. For those of you that will still defend his narrow-minded, almost traitorous destruction of this country, I truly feel sorry for you. Watch out the edge of the cliff is coming closer, do you want to fall off it with him? If so, we will be better off without you, too.

Bush was a great leader. time will tell. We wished there was someone like him to handle terror attacks.

I am not an American, I don't live in the USA. I found most comments very hateful. G.Bush may not have been a good president but is that a reason to sink into hatred? I always that Americans were different from Europeans who are very cynical but now I know everyone is equal. Human beings are not different or more educated than other beings.
Hatred is the word that leads the world right now.

I must be living in some other alternate reality based on some of the comments on this board. Though Bill Clinton was an idiot for his invlolvement with Monica Lewensky, when he left office he was an extremely popular president (and not just with Democrats but also with Independents) for having brought us peace and prosperity. Now Bush (and his Republican sycophants) want us to pity him for all that he has had to deal with, rather than lay the responsibility for all that he has done at his feet. I pity Obama who will have to try to clean up this mess and only hope and pray that he will be successful otherwise our country will be suffering for many years to come.
JM

It won't be 6 months into the Obama administration and you'll be asking "where have all the cowboys gone?" The media built the Obama legend and they'll be the ones to destroy it!!!

It was pretty obvious you wouldn't post my comment.

The truth hurts.

Can one of you smart Republicans explain exactly how Bush has kept you 'safe'? And in correct grammar please.

It's not that he is ignorant, incompetant and arrogant. It's that those qualities of his ruined so many lives. I can't wait to see how his memoirs try to rewrite history. Good riddance you boob.

It might have come just short of an hanging if most Americans had their chance at impeachment.

Folks,

President Bush made mistakes but we're a forgiving Nation. We have picked a new leader that is not Bush bashing our President. I have not like how Bush has run the Country for the most part, but we must give him the respect that that Office's holds.

We voted him in, we keep him, and we learned our lesson. I am happy that President-Elect Obama will come in now and try to fix some of the problems left behind by President Bush.....BUT RESPECT OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT.

I like the picture Mr. President.

I'm sure that the President is preview to much more information on a daily basis than we will ever be aware of. Has W made mistakes? Sure but who are we to throw stones at our elected leader when we are guilty of similar mistakes but on a lesser level. Let's cut the guys some slack.

This guy is an absolute bag of human waste...His picture does not belong hanging in the White House...It belongs on a black and white "WANTED" poster in every post office, and police station in the country and INTERPOL Office in the world..

He is the WORST PRESIDENT in 232 years of American history.

43 more days left for this BUTTHEAD.

Clinton inherited the first Bush's plans, economy, jobs etc. That is why everyone thinks that Clinton did it. Well, people look at the history books Bush #1 did all of the dirty and hard woek and that greedy Monica, cheating husband got all the credit for it. To me he was horrible. Who knows how much terror stuff was out there when he was in office and never did anything about it. Maybe 9/11 could have been stopped?? If Clinton stopped looking at the interns for 5 mins and pay attention to his advisors. Ooh yeah and thanks for voting for Nobama and letting him raise my taxes.

To put all the blame for the nation's ills on one man not only shows liberal ignorance but blindness to the truth as well. God help you when something goes wrong after Jan 20th...how will you cope? You will have no one to blame and God knows that the Obama Messiah can do no wrong. Add to that a Democratic Congress and I imagine your little pea brains will go into a tailspin looking for a scapegoat. It'll be such fun to watch! Good luck!

Bush comparing himself to Lincoln is offensive in the extreme. Bush was not our best president, nor is he a genius- unless you consider thousands of dead US soldiers and 1.2 million dead Iraqis genius. (No dead bin Laden yet, and al Queda is live and well.) You would also have to consider torture a good thing (no lives saved yet), illegal indefinite detainment a good thing (charge them or let them go), wiretapping everyone a good thing, and lying to the the entire US (wmds, anyone) a good thing. Oh, and letting the residents of New Orleans twist in the wind after Katrina? Fan-freakin'-tastic.

Lincoln brought the country together after it had, quite literally, split in two. Bush cares about no one besides himself. I can't quite figure out if he is incompetent, or pure evil, but Lincoln, he is not.

A handful of ignorant morons defending one of there own to the very end no matter how screwed up he's been.

Great picture Mr. President. Thank you for serving this great country and standing up for what you know is right. It is sad to be losing a Commander In Chief who knows how to command and keep us safe. Please keep America in your prayers as you know we will need it more than ever. We love you and the First Lady. Thank her for always being proud of being an American and proud of her country. She has truly always been a real lady.

He is right. He deserves to be hanged for the unprecedented crime against humanity!

How about that? The worst miserable failure of a president in the history of the United States compared himself to Abraham Lincoln!
Mr Bush, you are NO Abraham Lincoln. You are Herbert Hoover, only a hundred times worse. YOU left us in two failed wars with a $13 trillion deficit (including the trilion you gave to Citigroup and friends). Even Herbert Hoover didn't screw things up nearly so bad as you have, Mr. President.
Thanks to you we cannot afford a rope.

Linda – He alone has not ruined our economy–he inherited a lot of the mess and please put some of the blame on the democratic congress for the last 2 years.

Ok, so tell me how he inherited a mess of a 200 Billion dollar SURPLUS. Please wake up.

Phil – I'd take another 4 years of bush instead of BO. Just wait.

Obviously you liked having the United States go down the toilet the last four years. The same goes to you, please wake up.

I dont understand, isnt "liberal" supposed to mean progressive and open to everyone's ideas equally? Seems to me like if you do not agree with everything liberals say they hate your guts and blog about you like psychotic babies.

George Bush and the Republicans had complete control over all branches of the government for 6 out of 8 years. During that time he never vetoed a thing. He took us to war on faulty intelligence and used fear an scare to keep the American people in line. He ruined our reputation all over the world with his form of diplomacy. When the American people finally began to see the light, he lost control of the Congress. All of a sudden he found the veto pen. He began to veto everything Democrats tried to do. Republicans in Congress played along and protected him while the country fell apart. No matter how much you Republicans want to blame every one else besides Bush and the Republicans, it won't work. Even if you want to believe it was everyone else's fault, what the heck has Bush been doing for the past 8 years? As far as keeping us safe, that depends on what you consider safe especially considering the state our country is in now.

Did Bush really welcome us to his hanging? He welcomed us to Saddam Hussein's hanging, as well.

How grey I've become? Yea, the "Dorey and Grey" look of a dilusional fern! History is always biased by the author,and there's a scarcity(suicidal authors) for this scholar. Controversial,and arrogance are sparsed by character which emulates Mr."Bush",and I pray that Jeb baby(middle brother) loses his senate run in Florida (2010). PS Lincoln's leadership was never controversial, it was a necessary war for the preservation of the "Republic of the United States of America"(the guy doesnt even know history,...

This one will be prominently displayed in the janitors quarters. We will want no reminders of this con man come 2009.

I think Bush has gotten a bad rap from day 1. Everyone seems to forget the bubble was bursting while Clinton was still in office. They also seem to have forgotten he signed NAFTA, let binLaden go when he had the chance to do something about him, and brought disgrace to the office with his dallying with other women. He didn't ask for Rita, Katrina, Ike, floods in Midwest, fires in California, etc. He doesn't approve of the murder of babies while having fits about convicted murderers getting the death penalty. Whether these Democrats want to believe it or not this country was founded on Christian values and they are throwing them away as fast as they can.

why do I not like bush, because he does not speak for the things that I believe in. Yes is he in part to blame for the economy but I am so much more happier to see him go because of the fact that he goes against so much that I believe in and Obama is for so much that I do.

BYE BYE BUSH SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU GO!!!!

Linda, it is my husband (20 yrs in Army), and all of the US Military that has kept and will continue to keep this country safe, NOT the idiot George Bush. Many people I know in the US Military look forward to the day he is out of office. Bush and Cheney are evil men who made a huge profit from the wars, and could care less about the thousands of lives lost because of their greed. It's amazing how you can still praise him after all the damage he's done to our great country?

Why is his so much bigger than Lincoln's OH I KNOW HE WAS A BIGGER BUFFOON!!!

He was a complete and utter failure. He stole the first election, but the fact that he re-elected, and not impeached was/is so beyond the realm of comprehension. He and the dullards who elected him should be so, so ashamed.

Where's the talk of that windfall profit tax? We need the government to bail out the economy. Bring it up more.

Do they still hang people for treason? War crimes? I think a pretty solid case could be made for both, based on the public record alone. Still, get Cheney away from that shredder, ASAP!

Good point,and time will favor you,people will need to be further educated on what the real situation was that you walked into,and all that you have accomplished.

To The Weatherman-The man is geniuos....? He is, without any doubt, the biggest bleeping idiot ever to hold office, of any level! Yes, he made money, for Cheney, who was his puppetmaster, and all of their wealthy friends. History will show, hopefully in my lifetime, that George W. Bush, was the absolute WORST president in the history of the United States of American. Hell, he would have been the worst president of any high school student council. How can you moronic right-wingers even post that there was something positive about his eight years? Oh, I forgot, you listen to douche limbaugh. The only positive of his presidency is the fact that he is leaving. His portrait should have been done by Salvador Dali!

Where's that windfall profit tax? We need the government to bail out the economy. Hurry up with that tax already Obama.

there are 45 days left of Bush and his gang of crooks. Too bad he can't leave now

They should have just framed a picture of Alfred E. Neuman and hung that on the wall

I don't. I hope he's reminded for many years as to what a failure he's been to America for the past 6 years or so. By the media, by scholars, by historians and by the people.

Linda,
How has Bush kept us SAFE when more than 4000 Americans have died in Iraq a war waged on lies or don't they count?

I just hate it when the bush apologists blame the media for bush EARNED unpopularity, when it was the medai that sat silently while the UNPROVOKED Iraqi war was waged to kill so many Americans and INNOCENT Iraqis.

Too bad that before this incompetent and failure was elected and re-elected, most Americans couldn't see the wild and wicked bush for the destructive and heartless creature that he really was.

As governor, bush couldn't pardon from execution, an old woman that could have been his mother, and who could have been allowed to just rot in jail.
Bush had to have that old woman and murderess killed, and for why? For he was a heartless son of a you know who.

You know, I could say a lot of bad things about him. But it is clear that it would be like kicking a dog while its down (and rightfully so). As long as he and everyone in his family tree just sits back for the rest of their lives and never makes a political decision again while America pulls herself up by her own bootstraps, I won't urge his hanging!

I cant wait till the untold stories come out next year,Most of the insiders are still afraid to speakup.

I don't think people should hate Pres. Bush so much. I think he was just dealt a horrible set of cards. I wish him the best. I do agree he should have made better decisions but i am sure he did what he felt was right.

Bush does not have to repair anything.
When things really turn around in Iraq, and the process has been long underway, the American people will finally learn the truth, not the managed press' take on events.
They will have to credit Bush.
He is intelligent and articulate, and hs a great depracating sense of humor.
Because peace and prosperity will break out in the Mid-East within 10 years. Bush will finally get the positive recognition he deserves.
He will get the Nobel Peace prize in 2030, and deserve it, unlike Albert Gore.

I can not believe the deluded Republican comments being posted. You guys just don't want to get a grip on reality. It's always someone else's fault.

Bush is a failure and the Republicans are to blame for the mess we are in. You've controlled the White House for the past 8 years and you controlled Congress for 16 years. The country was already headed for recession by the time the Democrats were elected. And our country was mired in a war that never should have happened.

Wake up Republicans, WAKE UP! Your ideas have failed!

I wish Bush would be hanged.

bush is an obnoxious PIG!!...how many BILLIONS in profits has his 'good ol boy' gang raked in from the war in Iraq that bush has orchestrated??

really ppl...grow up. you honestly think you could do his job better? you think if Kerry were in office we would be better off? try again...go back to bagging groceries and waiting on tables.

I cannot believe the Republicans are still upholding George W. Bush. The 1990's were the best years in the last 50 years when Bill Clinton was POTUS. The economy was great, we had a surplus in the coffers and now we owe trillions, are in two wars and the economy is in shambles. The Republicans no doubt listen to only Faux News and are uninformed and/or misinformed. Get with the program and listen to different news shows and become informed.

I would love to examine the portrait and find what the artist has hidden in it.

You liberals are funny. It is like some kind of a disease that you have so much hatred in your hearts towards one man. It is actually sad too. I feel sorry for you that you "suffered so long." I hope Obama can make you "feel" better about yourselves and your country.

ya u should be hanged

Per Linda:
George Bush does not SMIRK about the lives lost in Iraq. I have seen him speak of the young men that died and his lips trembling.
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You bet his lips are trembling – he KNOWS that the blood of our men and women are on HIS hands, as well as the blood of over 1 million Iraqi men, women and CHILDREN!
You can thank him all you want, but he has done NOTHING to keep us safe – what he has done is to create more enemies for our country.

Per Linda:
George Bush does not SMIRK about the lives lost in Iraq. I have seen him speak of the young men that died and his lips trembling.
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You bet his lips are trembling when he says that, he knows that the blood of our brave men and women as well as over 1 million Iraqis are on his hands!
You can thank him all you want, but he has done NOTHING to keep us safe. All he has done is create more hatred against our country.

I love how all the liberals on this sight blame everything on GW Bush. The biggest problem with Wall Street is failed democrat policy on making loans available to non-qualifiers and Chis Dodd and Barney Frank asleep at the wheel when they were in charge of banking oversight. They were warned as early as 2003 and did nothing about it. So lets put blame where it is due. I also find it moronic that Dodd and Frank would be allowed to even be involved with dispersing bailout money.

They should find some place in the basement to hang his portrait, where he is viewed by a majority of the American people.
What a charade this man has played upon us. The house of cards he, Rove and others built has come tumbling down on him and in consequence the United States as a whole. It used to be tar and feather, put on a rail and run out of town. All in all it wouldn't treat him harshly enough.
His 2 terms have done more to ruin this country than anything we have know in history to date. With luck we may survive.

Now he leaves and goes about finding donors to his library that records his legacy. I will mail him a quarter and instruct him to use to call some one who cares.

Good by, good riddance, may we never be visited upon by anyone like you again. You spread a blight and pestilence across this land, leaving death, ignoring destruction, focusing only on the attainment of politization of to the right wing of all of our government.

911 happened on his watch. He did not keep this country safe.

One day my grandchildren will ask me "Grandma....why didn't the American people do nothing to stop Bush from causing the second great depression and WWIII?"

and the only answer that i can give them is that we were fools for Bush...just like the Germans were fools for Hitler....they never stood up; neither did we.

I will proudly tell my grandchildren that I've never voted for Bush, and that I wasn't fooled into accepting tyranny and propaganda for security and "freedom"

Hopefully the American people can redeem ourselves through Barack Obama, and war & corruption trials; so that we wont be ashamed to tell our grandchildren that we were ALL asleep in the back while a madman(Bush) drove the bus off the cliff.

Any American on here or anywhere who gives Bush any credit for keeping America safe or for not causing all the problems being faced today has to be dumber than Sarah Palin and let me tell you....that woman is extremely dumb.

Ask the parents of the military who died or were injured in the needless war in Iraq who lost their sons and daughters or the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi's families who lost their lives if they think Bush deserves any credit.

Ask 90 % of the world population whether they think Bush deserves any credit for what he has done and they will tell you a flat big NO.

Here we have Bush making stupid jokes and worrying about his picture while Obama who is not yet President trying to figure out ways to get the USA out of the mess its in.

Yes you people who still think Bush deserves credit for what he has done are dumber than a sack of Hammers.

I dare CNN to print this which, I am sure they won't, because it attacks the stupidity of all those who ever voted for Bush and I am sure they were many employed at CNN who did.

Good point George W,and time will favor you,people will need to be further educated on what the real situation was that you walked into,and all that you have accomplished.

I like Bush. I have always been a fan.
The Democrats and left wing press and tv hosts, etc. have denegrated him from the start. Unfortunately, the gullible public has bought this image.
He is smart amd incisive, and he is articulate.
The Bush Doctrine is having a positive effect in the mid-east. The positive turn of events in Iraq and Afghanistan will be he legacy. Already the Dems and left wing press are beginning to credit Obama with turning things around in Iraq.
No amount of revisionist history will deny Bush his legacy.
Look at Bush receiving the Nobel Peace prize around 2030.

Bush's War may have killed almost a million Iraqi civilians. How many Iraqi civilians did Saddam kill?

I just think that the comments he made about himself were light-hearted fun, as should be taken as such.

First and for most, both Democrats and Republicans are to be thanked for this mindless lack of governance we have seen over the last decade. Second: to honestly THANK W. for ANYTHING short of not screwing up his SECOND choice for secretary of Defense (you know the man who is the REAL REASON we have not been attacked again) is a gorse overstatement of the W's competence, morality, and common sense. We are LESS SAFE than we were when he took office! He has helped Osama Bin Laden remain a house hold name, by...well, you know NOT finding him. And lest we forget the slow, painful, decline of one of the worlds strongest economies....OUR OWN. The fact that this man is making a Joke about lynching in no surprise to ANYONE but the far, far, right, most of whom would condone such things to begin with. But i will say this ...the hard left can thank Bush for one thing...there is an entire generations who announced themselves so spectacularly to Virgina, Ohio, Florida, and a slew of other formally red states, Ladies and Gentleman say hello to the BUSH BORN DEMOCRATS. An entire generation that is OVERWHELMINGLY (not all democrat ) But VARY much against any sort of Republican rule.

So yes.. W! BANG UP JOB!

I'd take another 4 years of bush instead of BO. Just wait.

Love the lefty wackos out here. Why don't you get worked up over Barney and others who are really to blame? When the country is going down the tubes, I hope Bush looks at you liberals and gives you a big one fingered salute.

Republican's know no shame. If you count the last eight years in each branch – the White house, Senate and Congress, that is 24 years. Repub's have been in charge for 22 of those executive and congressional branch/years.

And they blame this mess on the dems.

Shame on you people. Shame.

Time you step up and take ownership for the worst period foisted on the US in the last 60 years.

I would like to take a moment and thank President Bush for destroying my life. Thanks to globalization and deregulation of the financials I was forced to train an Indian to perfrom my job and then lost it, lost my retrirement savings and finally my career. Bush and the Republicans managed to destroy the country, but there is no remorse uttered from his lips. How does this SCUM live with himself.

Wow, Bush finally says something that gives many Americans hope, even in a metaphorical sense.

Two wars? Wait a minute. People seem to forget that the Iraq war is a war of choice for Bush of his own making. Iraq did not attack us.

Linda wants to thanks George. Is Linda code for Laura?...I think so!

One suggestion , George W. Don't come to Ohio; the 200,000 unemployed people will be looking for you. Just go to Texas and go away.

I wonder how many people on here who joked about Bush's hanging would be appaled if the same was suggested for Obama?

Yes he should have been hanged all right. We would be much better off.

After all he has gone through…..911, Katrina, two wars, a world-wide economic depression may history show him the respect he deserves as our President

What??? Are you kidding?? This goes beyond ignorance....

1) 9/11- Remember Bush's initial reaction to Ari Fleischer?? It was "what a terrible accident". Why? Because although his national Security team knew what happened from the first moment (because they had been pleading with him to recognize the clear warning signs that he ultimately ignored) he obviously ignored his briefings.
2) New Orleans was listed as one of the three critical weaknesses in our infrastructure well before Katrina and the dangers were well understood. Katrina "happened" as we know it because there were only minimal preventative measures and Bush got caught with a crony heading FEMA when a true leader was needed.
3) Have you forgotten that Iraq was a unilteral action? Or why we are there? Or how many months of public pleas his administration made convincing us that if we didn't act, we were in mortal danger because of the WMDs. Not to mention the fact that the Taliban has regrouped in the meantime due to our lack of focus?
4) Enron, Worldcom, Tyco during admin 1 and now this and all you can come up with is poor Bush???

How about the people that died on 9/11? After nine months in office during which he convened a total of 0 cabinet level Counter-terrorism meetings, despite the tireless urging of his own counter-terrorism chief, you want people to feel bad for HIM? O the soldiers who have died or been disfigured fighting a war that was based on lie? Or the people who died in New Orleans while Condoleeza was buying shoes and Brownie was being congratulated for the job he was doing? Or the people who have lost their jobs and their homes as a result of his administrations' handling of this economy? He has been in office for almost EIGHT YEARS. It is one thing to be loyal, but another to be this closed-minded and naive. I'm sure you were this sympathetic to Clinton while Newt Gingrich was launching hostile investigations against our sitting president, crippling his power and weakening our national security. Sure you were. Do you realize that there are animals that potentially have more developed reasoning than that??

protection of american lives shouldn't come at the expense of poor, marginalized sects of society.

bush was dealt more problems than many other presidents, but it's how he responded to those problems that pisses people off. (9/11 and bin laden, iraq, katrina, etc). he was a failure because of the decisions he made post-disaster. if you think he has protected us then you're delusional, he's made more enemies than allies

God, if only it were true! If there was ever a president who deserved to be put down like Sadam Hussein, it is Georgie boy.

I love how Bush is innocent of EVERYTHING, and all his problems before 2006 are due to something Clinton did, after 2006 it's all the fault of the Democrats in congress, and since Nov 4. it's all been Barack Obama's fault.

I wish I had the Republicans' immense capacity for self-denial.

Did he seriously just compare himself to Abe Lincoln?

the media doesn't hate him. i hate to admit this to you, but the media is a BUSINESS! and a good buisness model is to take advantage of a growing market. when that growing market is 'hatred of pres. bush' then of course they're going to take advantage of it. even fox news does this by catering to the market that supports bush. it's all marketing.

quit saying the media hates bush. the majority of AMERICANS hate bush, the media is taking advantage of that and/or representing that animosity

he probably spent more time in office getting his portrait done than actually doing any work!

he said it right, DEATH to Him, This man is responsible for thousands of innocent lives, 4200 plus American troops and still counting, thousand of Iraqies lives and still counting, billions of dollars spent, and still counting, an economic collapse, millions of people loosen their jobs, stock market crash, this country hated all over the world b/c him and Chaney had the most outrages way of thinking about people and the world. So why allow him and that idiot Chaney just walk away from all the damage and destruction they of cost, SO HANG THAT FOOL, I say, an eye for an eye.

I don't. Every day the news media, scholars, historians and general populace show this fraud for what he has been, the better.

Keeping me safe? More like keeping me poor.

Yeah, legacy is important and all but here's what I want to know: Was it oil or acrylic?

To the poster above who said this moronic statement, "after all he has gone through…..911, Katrina, two wars, a world-wide economic depression may history show him the respect he deserves as our President"...

You might want to pay attention. In ALL of those situations, Bush proved to be a worthless fool, a terrible leader, and a man riddled with the judgment of a 4 year old.

He took the entire world's good graces after 9/11, flushed them down the toilet, and proceeded to plunge them into the septic tank.

Katrina was a place that he flew over way too long after the floods hit, and let the least of our citizenry wallow in disease-infested waters while his best batch of potential helpers (i.e. our military) were out fighting pre-emptive wars that proved to be miserable failures.

Don't even get me started on our economic depression. This fool, in times of war, annihilated our government's ability to generate revenue & contributed to the callow de-regulation of Wall Street.

Go do your homework before you try to use Bush's personal catastrophe's as benchmarks for his "respect" as "our President." And the comparison by this idiot between himself and Lincoln... unbelievable.. unbelievable..

Bush did not inherit a mess, he created a mess and our great grandchildren will still be paying for it.

Oh George, you certainly won't be missed

For Bush to imply that he knows anything of how Lincoln may have felt is pretty much the dumb "boy of priviledge" talking. This dope wouldn't have the sense to know how a dear feels when it's watching a set of headlights approaching.

That said, he apparently, if unconsciously, does have some sense of reality: Many Americans would very much welcome his hanging!

Why didn't Bush get a caricature done? It will represent his influence on Americans during his presidency!!!

It's too bad most of you can't step back from partisan bickering and respect the man. We haven't had an attack at home after 9/11. Thank you President Bush... I know these certainly haven't been the easiest of times, but the world is a safer place because of your presidency

I'm proud to have served under him, and hope one day to meet the man and thank him for keeping me and my family safe. Thank you Mr. President!

This is the right thing to be doing, bush is a war criminal and deserves to be hung, but not in a portrait. He had men severe a head so he could have it in his office... what else needs to be said. Bush is evil.

George Bush is complete fool. He kept us safe by taking our liberties. Ben Franklin once said, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

I am sure Bush meant well but I bet his rich buddies did as well.

Worst President ever! He even makes Buchanan look good!

Just go away already!

Ol' Dubbya shore is a funny dood

Thank you for your service President Bush. The factual ignorance of those on display on this board and the pure hate is just the proof that Washington will always be decisive. All the best to you.

Bush thinks he knows how a real president like Lincoln felt? Bush is the greatest joke in history since Nero and Caligula–as are his followers. Look at our country–pretty much destroyed by the neoclowns.

There's no controversy... everyone is in total agreement: You suck Bush, and you ruined the country with your simpleton, fifth grade mind..

Carter is the worst President in my lifetime. Can't speak about the others. Someone states high gas prices. Gas is under $2. But, blame Bush for only the bad things, right?

It's a shame the way this country treats Bush. The economic troubles today started many years ago. These things take a long time to manifest and are the result of poor decisions, particularly in the real estate lending markets. The war was supported by both parties, but when it became unpopular, Bush is again the scapegoat. History will serve him well. He freed people from a ruthless dictatorship and the Iraqi people are thriving. It takes time and much progress has been made. Thank you George Bush. God bless you and Laura.

Bush was not a horrible president, he was an average president who surrounded himself with horrible people.

If only it was true, Can I pull the lever please. , please.. please..

To the Weatherman: Please learn how to spell 'genius' before you try to figure out who is one.

In case you hadn't noticed...Bill Clinton left us with a surplus, so of what do you speak? His rough times had to do with getting some from under the desk – something the Republicans pounced on (whilst they were doing the same thing: ask Newt Gingrich or Foley). The genius of the man and his cronies is that he is gifting them and the corporate elite-after they gambled with credit swaps and more and played a bad hand-with even more money, so they don't 'suffer' any hardships after Bush and company walk out the door. Darlin', if you really believe what you wrote, just go back, sit down and watch American Idol and pick up your triple whopper – and wait for your job to disappear.

@ redbarchetta88 I don't know.... when Bush isn't around to blame anymore maybe I will... take a vacation? Stop watching my 401k drop and start watching it go up? Stop eye'ing Canada and saying "Is it really that cold?" And most of all I may actually get involved in a government I can believe in.

Nobody cares about what travails Bush feels he has endured. or gray hairs his job has earned him. He's made millions of Americans miserable and poor and thousands dead. Hang his portrait backwards.

Good riddance to bad rubbish!

1. We have been safe for seven years and I thank Mr. Bush for his courage in making these tough decisions.
2. If these hanging remarks from bloggers were about the president-elect, there'd be a firestorm, so let's be respectful and stop the hate.
3. Do you forget that Frank, Cox, and the Dem. controlled government had alot to do with the financial problems?
4. Someone mentioned deporting Mr. Bush to Mexico. You believe in deporting someone who is a legal citizen who pays his taxes?
5. Why am I bothering. If you get a hangnail, you'll blame it on(let me get it all straight) "Bush-Cheney-Rummy-Rove-Big Oil-Haliburton", yadda, yadda....

"Mostly just the media?" When a politician has a 24% approval rating and a 63% disapproval rating, that is not just the media. History will indeed give him what he deserves – the number one spot on the list of 'Worst Presidents Ever.'

Fortunately, when he's 'not there to kick around anymore' we can get started on cleaning up the mess he's made – just like Democrats always do, fixing the wreckage left by short-sighted Republican idiocy.

Mr President, I served with Abe Lincoln. I knew Abe Lincoln. Abe Lincoln was a friend of mine. President Bush, you're no Abe Lincoln.

Oh for him to disappear into the Mexican badlands to never be heard from or seen again. Back when he was in the news all the time I would have to keep changing channels in order to dodge him. Could not bear to hear the man speak.

redbarchetta88 wrote: "Before you liberals start, what will you do this time next year when you don't have Bush and the GOP to push around and blame for everything anymore?"

Um, that's easy red. Smile at the fact that they're gone.

Redbarchetta88,

Umm, I don't know....maybe celebrate? The economy should be on the mend, our worldwide image will be improved, unemployment will be down and global markets should be recovering.

The real pushing and shoving has been from eight years of Bush the Disgrace and his GOP thugs.

Get over yourself......

to Linda: Inherited WHAT mess? When he took office the country had a surplus, there was no war (especially one of choice against the nation that did NOT blow up the towers), more of us had jobs, etc. Did he do it alone? Heck, no! He and all the other Chicken Hawks (NONE of them ever served in the military – in fact they have treated the service people like crap and lied about it) – Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle, Rumsfeld – and all the corporate lackeys he placed at the head of all our agencies. Please. Do your research. Blessings.

When i saw this article i knew the hate president Bush crowd would not be able to resist there boring typical comments these people need to get a life.

Bush's Legacy:
HURT our people.
HURT our families.
HURT...our country.

I respect our President and thank him for his 8 years of service. If you look back in history and thoroughly scrutinize each of our former Presidents you will not find one perfect person. The most important job of a President is to keep our country safe. Unless you are the head of the CIA or FBI you will never know everything that has gone on before and continues to go on now. Thank you President George W. Bush.

This story far overshadows the fact that George Bush and his War Criminal REPUBLICAN Administration should be found guilty at The Hague for Crimes against Humanity and Inciting Genocide.

"Welcome to my hanging" indeed.

He has become truly irrelevant.

He forgives his own and the barbaric deeds of his administration with a joke, but I cannot be that kind. Bush will live through his life contented in the thoughts of himself as a good and wise leader. The rest of us will long atone for the many sins and crimes against humanity he committed. For him I wish only the most hellish existence until he dies.

Typically outrageous for Bush to compare himself to Lincoiln in any way shape or form....

The rewriting of the Bush Legacy has already begun and he will try to portray himself as a leader who was the victim of bad intelligence (no pun intended).

That doesn't explain the shredding of the Constitution, Katrina, Abu Graib fake color coded terror threats, firing of federal attorneys, VA Hospitals...must I go on......?

It's unfortunate the blame that has been put on his shoulders. A little education goes a long way in understanding the causes of the recession today. These things take years before they manifest and it was long before Bush came in the picture. Bad decisions in the past have us paying now. As far as the war goes, get over it. Both parties supported it when it started. Bush has done the right thing. I will remember him as a man of integrity and I think history will prove he was right. God bless you George and Laura.

republican or democrat, it doesnt matter.
Would you be honored at your job if you performed like this idiot? I dont care where you come from ,you cannot deny the mess this president made over the last 8 years. Denial is the ONLY solution for those who say that this guy has been a good president. Let me settle this as well. BUSH DID NOT KEEP US SAFE, 9-11 HAPPENED WHEN HE WAS THE PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!.

May God bless President Bush...
sucks that he has to be the scapegoat...
hmmm...our world..our nation/economy WILL get worse and worse– believe it or not. it is inevitable–
it's not Pres.Bush who brought all this upon us..
you'll see. Thanks Pres. Bush for putting up w/ all this B.S.

i heard that Saddam's sons are twice more EVIL than him. I do not agree with W's policies, but he was the man for the job. You see, the world has to get rid of Saddam, otherwise, the Apocalypse will not run as scheduled. There is a plan and we cant have a ROGUE Middle Eastern State, running around, defying the prophecy. Iraq is Iran's antidote. Iran cant have an enemy breathing down its neck, to fulfill the prophecy. Proverbs 16 – The Lord works out everything for his won ends – even the wicked for a day of disaster.

Naw, everyone really dies hate him, Smiles. Not just the media.

A hanging would be just about right. I suppose it's almost as good that he will live through his legacy–the one he is failing to change. Also, anyone who thinks just the media hates him is a moron.

Linda and Smiles, I am glad that you are a minority on this discussion board just like in reality. I guess you have IQ's as high (or low?) as W.

You got to be kidding me. Lincoln/Bush. Bush is too dumb to understand what a sorry president he has been. He just don't get it, never has. What a bozo.

Weatherman, compared to you Bush is a genius. I wouldn't praise anyone that takes money from my family for 2 or 3 generations and use it without any say from me. Any one that still supports Bush after the direction he and Cheney led this country, is truely mentally unfit. We as a nation will be suffering the effects of this administration in a negative way for several decades. I agree with John Starnes from Tampa.

This is typical of the american people. It all comes down to winning/loosing blaming/praising. No one looks at the big picture. We all take sides. Black or White. Win or Loose. Democratic or Republican. We turn blinders to the person on our chosen "team" and villify whoever is on the opposite side. I'm not a "fan" of Bush. Niether was I a "fan" of Clinton. Clinton turned a blind eye to TWO genocides and ethnic cleansings, Bush launched us into Iraq. Perhaps instead of choosing sides or laying blames, let's try and see BOTH sides of every situation and work out something. Weak minds discuss people, Average minds discuss Events, Great Minds discuss Ideas. Let's all try to evolve, people.

My only hope would be that Bush and his gang of cronies could be tried for war crimes. The evidence is there but most likely no one would have the courage to pursue it.

Bush's picture has absolutely no place hanging next to Abraham Lincoln's......

Thank you Mr. Bush for your service. You have been handed a great deal to suffer through, along with the rest of us Americans. Ignore the negative and rabid Democrats who love to blame you for everything...their day is coming, their leader(s) are on the hot seat now. A thanks to the thousands of public servants who surround you and help to make the daily decisions that make this country run....may those who are corrupt and bring suffering to the country be ashamed of themselves. Give Laura a hug for us!

It will be great to see January 20th arrive. Since apparently all of America's problems have been directly linked to Mr. Bush's presidency, on January 21 we will be liberated. No more failing economy, no more war, no more problems! It will be great! There will be no more poverty, everyone will have a job. Healthcare costs and college tuition costs will suddenly fall and the good ole USA will catapult back into the limelight once again as the most highly respected nation in the world. All we have to do is swear in a new president and get Mr. Bush out. You know, I don't blame the Democrat controlled House and Senate for sitting on their hands over the past two years, not doing anything to move America forward. Why introduce a good idea to help the failing economy? I mean why let the current President get credit? We would not want that now would we? Let's just wait for the new guy and then start acting like we have ideas and in the meantime let the economy fall further into the toilet. That will show America how much we care.

Great job guys.

Where has Linda been hiding or better yet, what is she smoking?

Funny listening to all you whiners and criers over President Bush. Get a life you pathetic lazy liberals.

I like CNN's note at the bottom of the page about commets being apporiate, then you have what that moron at #17 says. He is the President of the United States, and deserves respect, if not for the man, at least for the office.

i only wish that were true

I'm sorry, but President Bush is no Abraham Lincoln. President Lincoln is best known for his role in ending slavery, promoting civil rights. On the contrary, President Bush will be best known for alienating Americans and foreign powers as a result of his policies.

It is totally offensive for Bush to compare himself with Lincoln in any way.

It insults the American public, any reader and student of history and all who value the meaning of genuine and honest leadership in a democracy.

A narcissist of very little brain (with apologies to A.A. Milne)

Na na na na.... na na na na.... hey hey hey.... good bye.

Or history will show he just took capitalism out of America by investing taxpayer money...let's hope not.

I can't speak bad about him, I can't imagine carrying the burdens he has had. For me, if he was in the wrong he is accountable to God and there won't be any skirting around that.

Suddenly Bush is all about deflecting responsibility; that the economic disaster was seeded in the late 90's under Clinton. Who, sir, has been in charge for nearly a decade?!? What happened to the chest-beating on your "ownership society"?!? He was "disappointed" about the intelligence on WMD in Iraq. I'm sure MANY in America share this disappointment 5+ years into this war, especially with tensions building between two REAL nuclear powers – India and Pakistan. Only the most ardent Kool Aid drinker can overlook this President's severely flawed logic. I think the perspective of history will only sharpen the image of this man being an idiot and a clown.
And comparing himself to a great Republican President like Lincoln? Pure egomania!

"Before you liberals start, what will you do this time next year when you don't have Bush and the GOP to push around and blame for everything anymore?"

Fix the mess you made.

Weak humor now is all this idiot has left. If not for the unnecessary deaths, US and Iraqis, the shameful debacle of Kartrina, the total evil of himself and his henchmen Cheney, Rumsfeldt, Rove and a few others,one could feel sorry for him. Guess not.

This guy is such an idiot! I hope he fades into obscurity very soon.

Please January 20th hurry up. I can't take anymore of this IDIOT

President Bush is one of our greatest presidents. You can call him a war monger, greedy, or whatever else you feel like. You can not take away his true patriotism, or his courage for standing what he believes in, and not worrying about the polls. God Bless President Bush, and all he has done for our Country, and the World.

Shouldnt he be wearing a CLOWN SUIT? Like in one of those clown pictures? Better yet, put Palin in clown suit next to him and maybe throw in that retard huckabee as well.....they cold call it " first clowns of the 21st century"

To bad he can't take Congress with him and we could start all over.

really is amazing that he can still smile like the spoiled brat that he's been his whole life with the knowledge that he took a country in good shape and gave us two wars, an economic recession, the politicalization of a justice system, and many more travesties. as state radio once said, "jefferson roll over, and tell old stalin the news."

He can't get out of office quickly enough for me. I'm sick of seeing his stupid grins and listening to him attempt to give a speech. Thank God we have an intellectual in Obama.

It should have been Bush in a zoo, like the "chimp in charge" that he was!

Bush a genious? DISingenious, yes. Genious, never.

I dont agree with his policies, but I did appreciate his steadiness. I cant say much about him, but as a Christian, this is what Proverbs 16 has to say: All a man's ways seem innocent to him, but motives are weighed by the Lord. " -As far as I'm concerned, he did such a poor job representing, caring and saving souls that are so valuable to God, I dont think he'll be a General in Heaven, but will clean windows and toilets like the rest of us. Oh yeah, I'll see him in Heaven. He believes in Christ, the Saviour, just as I do. Heaven is not for the Perfect, but for those who accept Christ as Saviour and do the best they can.

President George W. Bush, the best Presi.....I can't even finssh the sentence without laughing.

I know we should respect him as our president, but instead of comparing himself to greater presidents and trying to salvage his reputation, he should be doing something productive.

Not a pretty picture.

Where the heck is his dunce cap??????

If only it were his hanging. But that would be too good for him.

When Clinton left office, this country had money "in the kitty'. Bush's "genious" has left my great-great-grandchildren with an enormous debt to pay. His "economics" have thrown this world into a a recession that will take years to climb out of. He may be laughing about his "hanging", but I'm sure that many people who are at the bottom of the financial pile, through no fault of their own, would like to see more substance to that word.

When he said "Welcome to my hanging" I think he was alluding to Saddam Hussein and his ultimate demise. Now that's gangsta!

What a total waste of public money, time and effort in creating a portrait of this buffoon.

"Welcome to my hanging." Well, I suppose one can still dream.

What are you doing?! You're still the president...do something about the economy!

Hey, comon, I wanna see the real hangin, like on the end of a rope!

I can't believe he would have the audacity to compare himself to Lincoln. A new low, amoung many, for our current President.

I am so glad that everyone hates Bush... oh, wait... not everyone does... mostly just the media.

I would think that George Bush would get credit for keeping all of us SAFE since 2001. He alone has not ruined our economy–he inherited a lot of the mess and please put some of the blame on the democratic congress for the last 2 years. George Bush does not SMIRK about the lives lost in Iraq. I have seen him speak of the young men that died and his lips trembling. I for one would like to say "Thank You, President Bush–for mine and my loves ones safety since September 11,2001: May your retirement from public life bring you the peace of mind that you so richly deserve.

This spoiled rotten frat boy has been an absolute disgrace
the Republicans were supposed to be about business, Well they gave us the business all right , and look at the shape they are leaving the country, a recession bordering on depression
We are despised world wide because the administration has the emotional maturity of a teenage boy. Bush never put a priority on catching Osama Bin Laden, only securing Oil fields for his buddies in Houston. ( Exxon etc... )
George Bush legacy will be of the man who proved that deregulation of business is an absolute must & corporate GREED has no end. This man needs to be in prison, not posing for a painting, but posing for a mug shot.

To me he will be the worst president in history who has left the united states in a depression.High gas prices,high cost in the stores.Everyday their are more people losing their jobs and we can't forget this senseless war we are in Irag.When Clinton left office people still had their jobs and the economy was good! Every day more and more people are losing their homes and their jobs.I'm even afraid to think what 2009 will be for the Amercian people!

...as long as the painting doesn't speak, I can live with it.

deportation to mexico would be more appropriate.

The hanging is a few years late.

This moron is out of touch, he has no respect for anything or anyone. He is NO Lincoln and by far the worst president in History.

After all he has gone through.....911, Katrina, two wars, a world-wide economic depression may history show him the respect he deserves as our President

What a tease.

I may disagree with some of Pres Bush's decisions, but I sure will miss him. He has such a likeable personality.

Right now, Bush is the man that has precided over the largest economic downturn since the Great Depression and a costly foreign war in Iraq. Even if the "nationbuilding" in Iraq actually works, in all likelihood, Obama will get the lion's share of the credit for its success (from liberals of course), and Obama will get every part of the credit for when the economy comes back no matter how much help the Bush bailout was.

Then again, if his presidency was a time of partisan bickering (9/11 withstanding), is there any reason why the left and the right should agree on what his legacy will be?

AND lets not forget he TOOK TAXPAYER'S BILLIONS and started a war over false pretenses, did nothing to stop the mortgage crisis & economic situation we are now in, nor did he lift a finger to do anything about global warming and our "addiction to foreign oil".....OH, remember also how he used the so-called "War on Terror" to spy illegally (via wiretapping, etc) on Americans without warrants or cause, OH and let's not forget the fiasco in New Orleans after Katrina, The Shrub & FEMA did such a awesome job down there.....

Bush's image will litter the wall it hangs on, maybe the idiot will rent himself out as a pinata. I'll bring my own stick.

Seeing one image of this human waste is bad enough, the above picture is enough to induce nightmares.

How dare he compare himself with Lincoln. Bush's presidency has been one of politically engineered division, tremendous arrogance, and egregious decision-making; not one of honor and choosing a difficult path that would eventually mend a broken nation. There will be no monuments in Washington, D.C. celebrating his contributions to the nation.

I'm quite struck by the President's numerous attempts to compare himself to Lincoln. It is amusing and laughable. Thank goodness for Lincoln's controversial leadership...it helped give the President-elect the opportunity to become President of the United States. If anything, Bush's controversial leadership was because he was an ineffective and ofen divisive leader...not even close to Lincoln.

President Bush, you are no Lincoln.

We are looking to Bush for leadership in a time of multiple crises, and he's chomping at the bit to leave the White House. President-Elect Obama, who currently has no Constitutional power, is doing the best he can to help our economy by putting together a good team of professional people with integrity and by crafting plans for our economic future. But Obama has no power right now. Maybe Bush wouldn't have to joke about his "hanging" if he would simply lead the country right now.

A delusional president for a delusional country...

They do not get any worse. The alsoloute worst president ever. No one will ever drop to the level of the Bush era . I hope he rots in his new home in Dallas. It is a given no one will be "consulting with this fool!

I love George W. Bush, and I'm going to miss having a president in office who has the backbone to stand behind his true beliefs. Barack Obama does make a great music video, though!

AHH, would that it were real

You've got to be kidding!

Though being a huge fan of President Clinton, I was responsible for many people voting for Governor Bush in 2000. It did not take a long for me to realize that I was wrong. Not because Bush is a bad man, but because he is not a great President. I believe he has had a few evil people like Donald Rumsfeld and Cheney in his administration but he himself is a very good man at heart. In 2004, I campaigned aggressively for Senator Kerry. President Bush won again and 4 more years of an administration with a faulty, or more of a disastrous, both domestic and foreign policy continued.

I have started loving President Bush. I think he means well, I think he wishes well. First four years of his damage is his fault. 2nd four is not. It is the fault of every single American who voted for him after seeing the things he did in the first four.

I feel bad for President Bush. I hope people realize all the above, put things in perspective and start giving the man the credit for who he is. And stop blaming him but themselves for the disaster in the past four years.

Well wishes to you and to your family Mr. President. You are a good man.

More appropriate background for the portrait would of been the inside of a casino, maybe near a roulette wheel .....or wallpaper with dollar signs......

For some reason I'm not laughing....

When will this dope get out the way so the real President can take charge?

Mr. Bush: Your comments may be a joke to you sir because you obviously know how the American people feel about your performance. But we do not find it funny sir. You are still the president and we are in a critical state yet you have already clocked out. Shame on you Mr. President and shame on you Mr. Chaney.

The Weatherman: Yeah, the invasion and occupation of Iraq comes to mind as sheer "genious".

Before you liberals start, what will you do this time next year when you don't have Bush and the GOP to push around and blame for everything anymore?

Where are they going to place the portrait, in the bathroom?

After the young people that died do to his poor decisions and thousands more maimed for no good reason it it is disgraceful to even give him a platform to joke about it.Normally a person would find it hard to have the free time to reflect on these disasterous matters but this man continues to rub it in to this countries population. I would hope he lives a long time to reflect on these decisions.

Maybe they can find a place in one of the broom closets to hang it.

Before the Obamites fill this one with their hate, I have a few points to make. Bush inherited a recession and a strong terrorist enemy from Clinton. He took the blame for the scr&w ups by a Democrat mayor and Democrat governor during Katrina. His backing stopped the spread of Aids in Africa and saved millions. He put our enemies on the run. The military, following his command, defeated an evil dictator and Iraq is on its way to becoming a true democracy in the barbaric MIddle East. He made mistakes. But, he did accomplish a lot.

I know quite a bit about Abraham Lincoln, and george bush is no president Lincoln.

Silly george, ride your bicycle around the painting! Honk, honk!

1.20.09 cant wait

You, sir, are no Abe Lincoln.

Bush in the Treaty Room. What a travesty. He who has shown no respect for 'old' treaties like the Geneva Convention and no respect for the Senate making Presidential agreements that really should have been treaties subject to the Senate's approval.

Bush is very fond of comparing himself to truly great former Presidents...in his mind, it really IS "all about me". How he smirks with the blood of 4,200 U.S. troops and 1.2 MILLION Iraqis on his hands shows just what little soul and substance lies behind his perennial adolescent arrogance.

Maybe not a hanging but a war crimes tribunal at the Hague would certainly fit the tenure.

Everything is a laughing matter to this clown. In the wake of the destruction, lies, heartache, unemployment, uncertainty, fear and danger that are the legacies of his miserable presidency, the best he can come up with to an interviewer's question about his tenure is "It was a lot of fun." What a sorry excuse for a human, let alone, a President of the United States.

History will look back at the Bush presidency and note he and Paulson invested taxpayer money into the Amrican economy for a profit just like real people do with 401K investment. I think the man is a genious and the rude democrats don't seem to remember Bill Clinton went through the same name calling for tough economic times at the end of his second term.

Worst president ever comparing himself to one of the greatest US presidents?

This guy has absolutely no shame.

GW can compare himself to Lincoln if it makes him feel good but the unpleasant reality is that there is no similarity.
He will go down in history, and will be listed, as the worse president ever elected in the U.S. and history cannot mitigate that fact.
Let us hope and pray that the American voters don't make that mistake again. The country and the world cannot withstand the trauma.
The sad part is that millions of voters voted for him..twice..for the wrong reasons and too many of them don/t realize their blunder.

Nothing satisfies me until I see this man in Den Haag....

Great. Now President Bush is comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln.

No, Lincoln's leadership was controversial, yours was bad.

All the other stuff, too too easy.

It's offensive that Bush would try to compare himself to Lincoln. He's more like Hoover or Buchanan.

You don't have a clue W

Is he seriously comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln? He really is out of touch with reality, isn't he.

President Bush is a wonderful man. He protected us for 8 years. Thank you Mr President.

Somehow, I feel sad for President Bush. He seems like a lost soul, like he is just now realizing what was happening outside of the White House all these years. I feel bad that he wasn't the favored son, but that didn't lead him to take the lead on social issues with the exception of the global AIDS initiative. I pray he will have time to join other presidents dedicate his life humanitarian efforts. Perhaps he could build houses in New Orleans?

No comment!

I know that I will be the only one on this post who will say anything postive about you President Bush, but thank you. Thank you for your leadership and thank you for not blinking when your enemys both abroad and here at home wanted to break you. They may think to themselves that they have made you look like a fool, but I do believe Mr. President that you will be remembered fondly when Americans open their eyes and see how honorable you really were and how much you loved America. Especially beginnging noon Jan 20 when the United States and the world no longer have a leader. Thank you sir. Oh, and unlike most short sighted American's I did not forgot the 7 years of immense wealth that you brought to this country and to the world. P.S. To all Bush haters, I know that this is an open invitation to be bashed by you are. Go ahead and do that, but the only person you will be disgracing will be yourselves.

No, your "leadership" has been a failure, not just controversial. Glad you can joke about it though.

The president also compared himself to another commander-in-chief. “I found it interesting that the League was founded in 1862, to support President Lincoln in a time when his leadership was deeply controversial,” he said. “I know how he felt.”

Good point,and time will favor you,people will need to be further educated on what the real situation was that you walked into,and all that you have accomplished.

Except Lincoln was a unifier and W is a divider – along with being a loser.

You're no Abraham Lincoln.

Bush comparing himself to Lincoln....dear lord. I personally think that as much as he's ready to exit, he also has to feel humiliation in knowing just how UNmissed he will actually be.

What an idiot. Generations from now, my grandchildren's children will wonder why on earth he was ever a serious candidate for the Presidency, let alone a President.

Wise cracking about hanging? What a joke he is.

He NOW says Saddam was never involved in 9/11. You know how many people think he was? You know who put that lie into their heads? You know how many people have died as a result?????? What a sad excuse for a human he is, shame on him and shame on his name and legacy. Go to jail and take Cheney, Rove and all the rest of your ilk with you.

Comparing ourselves to Lincoln now... AMAZING. Go away and enjoy your status as the WORST PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

we have to give president bush credit, he's got a good sense of humor.

Go away with your hangings!

The painting would have made a better president than this jerk. THANK GOD he and his corrupt bunch are out of office. Shame on him for all the crimes and murders he commited in office~you will NOT be missed, and NEVER respected!

That's you alright!

Cue the venom from the left wingers who aren't happy about winning last month...

Well, he looks goofy in that too. Did they HAVE to put him next to Lincoln?

Comparing himself to Lincoln – good grief.