On air: Do you miss President Bush?
| 12:27 UK time, Tuesday, 9 November 2010
President Bush's memoir Decision Points goes on sale today. A CNN poll found that only two per cent more people thought President Obama was a better president than his predecessor. At souvenir shops in Washington T-shirts are now for sale with Mr Bush's image and the question: "Miss Me Yet?"
Well, do you? How do you judge President Bush now? Have you changed your opinion in any way since he left office?
Here's what President Bush said about his legacy in an interview with Matt Lauer:
I hope I'm judged a success. But I'm gonna be dead, Matt, when they finally figure it out.
Andrew Roberts thinks history will be kind to Bush's legacy:
The first is that history, by looking at the key facts rather than being distracted by the loud ambient noise of the 24-hour news cycle, will probably hand down a far more positive judgment on Mr Bush's presidency than the immediate, knee-jerk loathing of the American and European elites
Michael Tomasky does not agree, he had this to say:
Tragedies don't actively leave legacies, but rather legacies are created out of their ashes. And this is the context - the only context - in which we must think about the legacy of blessedly exiting administration of George W Bush.
Friday in Nigeria posted on our Facebook page:
History will judge him to be the best thing that happened to America during his time. I do seriously miss him and his policies
De La Chris Hearn wrote:
I don't miss him in the slightest. I'm glad he is gone. I do hope that history will judge him harshly. He was not a good president for the US, and an even worse president for the international community
Here's a round-up of global reaction to the book.
Post your reaction below.
