The Bush Legacy Blows

Posted on 12/23/2008 at 12:06 pm by Bob Cesca

Ed Gillespie adding to the No Attacks Mythology:

And one last fact: Our homeland has not suffered another terrorist attack since September 11, 2001. That, too, is part of the real Bush record.

Building upon Yglesias’ Hoover metaphor, this is like bragging that President Clinton didn’t suffer from an impeachment prior to his 1998 impeachment. No impeachments before 1998!

But I know what Gillespie is saying. He’s suggesting that there wasn’t another attack in which hijacked planes deliberately crashed into buildings. So in that regard, congratulations, President Bush! You only presided over three hijacked planes crashing into three buildings. Good for you. Only three.

Wait. Strike that. It turns out that every American president — ever! — presided over exactly zero planes deliberately crashing into zero buildings. Sorry. Your legacy really, really blows, Mr. President.

(More about the ‘No Attacks Mythology’ in my book.)

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  • LameDuckHunting

    And we haven’t lost a major city since Katrina.The hits just keep on coming………

  • dontpanic23

    If you want to nitpick (“I do, I do”), there was the kid in Tampa who flew a small plane into a building in some weird copycat statement sometime after September 11, 2001. It didn’t involve a grand scheme outside the misguided imagination of an adolescent, but it did intentionally fly into a building under Bush’s watch.

  • mike

    I know this is off topic but did anyone see this?WTF is wrong with this guy…He needs to seek help immediatly! I mean this is beyond stupidity,this borders on down right insanity.”Limbaugh’s Crazy Conspiracy Theory: Democrats Started The Economic Crisis To Help Elect Obama”

  • http://www.ieatgravel.com/ Alaska

    And I just received your book recently. Packy bought it for me for Mythicalfiguremas (At least that’s what the card said.)Good stuff. I’ve only annoyed my wife from laughing out loud while she’s trying to sleep a few times so far.

  • LameDuckHunting

    Yeah, and the Democrats started the war in Iraq so that it would eventually become so unpopular that Obama would be elected.Wait….now I know who masterminded 9/11……..it all makes sense now!

  • Strawdog

    Bush has also kept Osama Bin Laden safe since 2001.

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    I think you’re just attacking Bush out ofget this”Christophobia”http://www.saddlebackfamily.com/blogs/newsandviews/index.html?contentid=1720

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    It’s par for the course with George Bush Jr. After all, he’s been cocaine-free since 1974.