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Not a religious or spiritual sort, but from the first time I saw him during the election as VP candidate, I truly sensed evil. Good riddance
Yes. Not to whitewash GWB at all but Cheney was the true evil of that administration
It was clear to anyone paying attention. GWB was a patsy. Doddering idiot.
By all accounts he had a good heart, but terrible friends and family.
Cheney took the opportunity to run the presidency from the shadows, and did great evil in GWB's name.
With that said, they both barely hold a candle to the evil of the current admin.
Don't give GWB that much credit, he was playing up the bumbling idiot schtick as a smokescreen for what was going on behind the scenes
Certainly could be true.
He did evil, whether he was putting on a show for it or genuinely an idiot, he performed a lot of evil.
He lost his first campaign because he was “that egghead from Harvard.”
He certainly recalibrated and leaned into a fake Texan accent after that.
Whether he is an actual bumblefuck I can’t say. He’s certainly a legacy admission.
Having a number 1 in evil doesn't mean there's no number 2.
And Gee Dubya is definitely a number 2.
I'd put Karl Rove ahead of W. He was, in Bush's own words, "the architect", of such things as the Iraq war.
True, but Bush put him in the position and enabled him. Shit rolls down hill and Bush was at the top.
Hence the "not to whitewash" qualifier there, definitely not absolving him
Usually at least once a day there's a number 2.