How much worse than you expected has Bush been?

[mwb970]

My God. If I had had any idea what we were in for, I would have started working against him in 1999. Or sooner. Ah, for a time machine.

[murray hill farm]

1. perhaps not worse than i expected...

but...pushing hard at what i had feared. Pushing real hard!

[electropop]

2. For the first time in 45 years I am genuinely frightened

Bushco are rapidly consolidating their power, and are well on the way to a Hitler-style fascist dictatorship. We are in deep doo doo.

[benburch]

3. I predicted ALL of this in 1999...

In one way though he is less bad than my prediction; I expected Martial Law by now, but that still seems a few months off.

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[Bridget Burke]

7. Ah, you must have enjoyed 9/11 a lot...

And the wars in Afghanistan & Iraq. And the economy. Plus how much health care, education & the environment are improving.

Everything's coming up roses.

[amber dog democrat]

5. Given that this giggling serial killer was a liar

and an opportunist all his life, he is NO worse than I expected.
He's somewhat short of being a Caligula and maybe not even as intelligent.

Nope - this is what I expected.

[Feathered Fish]

6. Pre 2001

I thought that he was just another stupid, falsely religious neocon who had one term in him before the US woke the hell up and reformed their election process. But I felt that the potential for evil was there in the form of his VP and cabinet.
After 9/11, it became clear that we were dealing with a dangerous man, with delusions of a war against Islam. He is corrupt and slimy - a hypocrite war monger. Someone who lies and cheats and kills and then blames everyone who is even slightly left of centre. He has convinced some people in the US that his wars are righteous and good, meanwhile the rest of the world calls him on his hypocrisy every day. And what does he do? He smirks in their face.
He is much, much worse than I ever thought possible.

[Hugin]

8. No disappointment here...

They're right on target.

[SmokingJacket]

9. Much worse. I thought he was unqualified and not very smart, but

I didn't know he was a criminal, cruel, and set to destroy everything I care about in this country.

I honestly thought he was just another republican.

[Solly Mack]

10. Not a bit

He's every bit as bad as I knew he would be...and some Americans have embraced this time to be as bad as Shrub allows them to be by his own words and actions. Same way Reagan gave the nut cases permission to be vocal about their hate...

I expect, and expected, more and more outrages with each passing day and Shrub never fails (or has failed) to deliver.

[burn the bush]

11. a gazillion times worse. I originally thought that because of checks and

balances that he couldn't get into too much trouble and thet he would provide 4 years of great late nite tv satire. I had no idea that our checks and balances could be swept away and he would be left to destroy the world.

[quiet.american]

12. Excruciating-human-suffering-worse

First, the Twin Towers being reduced to dust and rubble is far worse than what I could have imagined would happen under a Bush occupation.

Then, I could probably shrug off Bush's residency as a "we'll get through this, too" kind of thing, if it weren't for the constant realization that this man, without remorse, has caused not only the catastrophic loss of life and limb for hundreds of thousands of brutalized Iraqis who had NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with 9/11 and who had NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS WHATSOEVER, WHO WERE ABSOLUTELY NO THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, but he has also broken and exploited our own military for...what?

The photos of these troops with their limbs blown off, eyes gone, traumatic head injuries -- for what? And the kool-aid drinkers' song about "democracy" doesn't cut it. Ahmed Chalabi still running around Iraq with a smirk on his face as he lines up for his piece of the pie, if nothing else renders the entire "election" a farce.

Bush's turning his back on the troops by seeking to cut their combat pay the moment they hit the ground running in Iraq is far worse than what I could have imagined of him.

"Inviting" the troops to the inaugural (they were commanded to go) and then not offering them a scrap of food or drink or even a roof over their head is far worse than what I would expect of a "war-time preznit."

Bush may be in delusion, but I'm not. Living in New York, I'm always holding my breath awaiting the massive retaliation that WILL come because of Bush's psychotic folly. And just to be in this state of mind is far worse than what I could have imagined.