Bush Myths Dying Slowly

Myth 1: Dubya is an uncurious Philistine. (Source: leftist commentators, reporters, bloggers and conversationalists)

Fact: Dubya devours books. (Source: Karl Rove, with whom Bush has had a friendly competition to see who can read the most books since 2005)*

Myth 2: The last eight years have been an unrelenting series of terrible events made worse by the wicked and incompetent governance of Dubya. (Source: as with Myth 1)

Fact: By most objective measures, the last eight years have been pretty good, and the administration can take credit for at least some of it. (Source: Ed Gillespie, a Republican political operative who gives a list of accomplishments that isn't entirely spun out of imagination or crediting stuff that happens naturally.)

Myth: If Gore had won in 2000 as he really did, we never would have entered the Iraq War.** (Source: as with Myth 1)

Fact: Everything about Gore's record and the circumstances of 2001-03 suggest that he would have faced the same pressures in a similar way. (Source: Frank Harvey of Dalhousie University as reported by Kelly McParland of the National Post)

What matters: Folks should brace themselves for the fact that Obama's election doesn't make things better all at once, and for the likely rhetoric--as much as eight years' worth--that the problems created by the evil Bushies are just too hard even for the slender, erudite Wunderkind to solve.

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*Leftist response: Rove is the Evil Genius, and this is a lie. Rejoinder: why should the Evil Genius create such a pointless lie for a Lame Duck?

**Note that this thesis is akin the Oliver Stone's contention that in late 1963 JFK was about to end American involvement in Vietnam, so he was assassinated by everyone in the government, industry and the mafia who wanted Vietnam to happen .