George Bush’s exit interviews accomplish nothing more than to remind us how far in over his head he was as President.

Many Americans voted for Bush in 2000 – I remind you that we did not elect him – because they thought he would be a better guy to have a beer with than Al Gore.

How innocent we were. Remember those days? Before 9-11. When we were at peace. When the federal government ran a budget surplus. When we thought that was a recession.

We can perhaps be forgiven for thinking back then that Bush was up to the job. But then he spent eight years proving in spectacular fashion how we – as he might say – misoverestimated him.

The best examples of his shallowness came when he talked about his “disappointments” (not mistakes, mind you):

• Katrina. He thinks his mistake might have been not landing Air Force One in Louisiana. Not putting an incompetent political flunky in charge of federal disaster relief.
  
• Iraq. He thinks the mistake was the “Mission Accomplished” banner on the aircraft carrier. Not cooking the WMD intelligence or attacking a country that had nothing to do with 9-11.

Without any sense of irony, he rues the tone of politics in Washington. This, the man who – for all his rhetoric about being a uniter, not a divider, and a compassionate conservative – turned his administration over to the twin Dark Sides of American politics: Darth Chaney and Darth Rove.

He can’t leave fast enough. Talk as much as he wants, he can never erase the stain, the damage and the wasted opportunities that his Presidency represented.

Be gone. Good riddance.

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