pywong
5th November 2008, 05:27 PM
Nature abhors a extreme imbalance in the power equation. That's why Bush was sent down to the US. He's probably the best President that the US could have been saddled with. ;D
He will either slink off into the darkness or create a last hurrah over Iran. He's probably dumb enough to try the latter.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/World/Story/STIStory_297925.html
Worst US president, by Chris Patten
Nov 3, 2008
'I think that President Bush has been the worst American president in my
lifetime,' Mr Patten, who was in the former British colony this week to
promote his latest book on global politics and economy, told broadcaster
RTHK.
HONG KONG - HONG Kong's last British colonial governor Chris Patten said in
a radio interview on Monday that he thought President George W. Bush was the worst American president he had seen.
'I think that President Bush has been the worst American president in my
lifetime,' Mr Patten, who was in the former British colony this week to
promote his latest book on global politics and economy, told broadcaster
RTHK.
'I don't happen to think that President Bush is as foolish as lots of
Europeans and others suggest. I think he's actually perfectly intelligent,'
he said ahead of Tuesday's US presidential election.
'But I don't think he's got a first-class temperament, put it mildly. And I
think he's deeply uncurious intellectually.'
Mr Patten, a former minister under conservative British governments, said
the Bush presidency was marked by 'hapless unilateralism' which had led the
United States and Britain into war with Iraq.
He blamed the Bush administration for feeding anti-Americanism and for what
he called a fixation with taxation policies for the rich and mismanagement
of the economy.
Mr Patten admitted being a strong supporter of Democrat presidential
candidate Barack Obama and said he was impressed by his intelligence and the
way he has run the campaign.
'People say that governing isn't like running a campaign, true. But if you
run a very organised, well-ordered, well-focused campaign, it says something
about the way you will run an administration.'
Mr Patten was the governor of Hong Kong between 1992 and 1997, when the city
was handed back to China after 155 of British colonial rule. He later became
a European commissioner and is now chancellor of England's Oxford
University. -- AFP
He will either slink off into the darkness or create a last hurrah over Iran. He's probably dumb enough to try the latter.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/World/Story/STIStory_297925.html
Worst US president, by Chris Patten
Nov 3, 2008
'I think that President Bush has been the worst American president in my
lifetime,' Mr Patten, who was in the former British colony this week to
promote his latest book on global politics and economy, told broadcaster
RTHK.
HONG KONG - HONG Kong's last British colonial governor Chris Patten said in
a radio interview on Monday that he thought President George W. Bush was the worst American president he had seen.
'I think that President Bush has been the worst American president in my
lifetime,' Mr Patten, who was in the former British colony this week to
promote his latest book on global politics and economy, told broadcaster
RTHK.
'I don't happen to think that President Bush is as foolish as lots of
Europeans and others suggest. I think he's actually perfectly intelligent,'
he said ahead of Tuesday's US presidential election.
'But I don't think he's got a first-class temperament, put it mildly. And I
think he's deeply uncurious intellectually.'
Mr Patten, a former minister under conservative British governments, said
the Bush presidency was marked by 'hapless unilateralism' which had led the
United States and Britain into war with Iraq.
He blamed the Bush administration for feeding anti-Americanism and for what
he called a fixation with taxation policies for the rich and mismanagement
of the economy.
Mr Patten admitted being a strong supporter of Democrat presidential
candidate Barack Obama and said he was impressed by his intelligence and the
way he has run the campaign.
'People say that governing isn't like running a campaign, true. But if you
run a very organised, well-ordered, well-focused campaign, it says something
about the way you will run an administration.'
Mr Patten was the governor of Hong Kong between 1992 and 1997, when the city
was handed back to China after 155 of British colonial rule. He later became
a European commissioner and is now chancellor of England's Oxford
University. -- AFP