How Will History View the Bush Administration?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/01/16/Uncommon_Knowledge_Andrew_Ferguson_and_Rob_Long

Land of Lincoln author Andrew Ferguson and TV writer and producer Rob Long examine comparisons between George W. Bush and Harry Truman during discussions of Bush's historical legacy. They also address the difficulty conservatives have in talking about the former Republican President.

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How close in style and substance is Barack Obama to Abraham Lincoln, one of our greatest presidents, who also hailed from Illinois and emerged from a humble background to lead our nation in a time of crisis?

Ferguson and Long examine the first inaugural addresses of both men to explore the parallels between the two and offer insights into how President Obama will guide our nation. -- The Hoover Institution

Andrew Ferguson is an American journalist and author. He is senior editor of The Weekly Standard and a columnist for Bloomberg News based in Washington, D.C. Before joining the Standard at its founding in 1995, he was senior editor at the Washingtonian magazine. He has been a columnist for Fortune, TV Guide, and Forbes FYI, and a contributing editor to Time magazine. He has also written for the New Yorker, New York, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and other publications. A collection of his essays, Fools Names, Fools Faces, was published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1996, and Land of Lincoln has just been released by Grove/Atlantic on May 30, 2007. His work has appeared in several anthologies. In 1992, he was a White House speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush.

Rob Long is a writer and producer in Hollywood. He began his career writing on TV's long-running "Cheers," and served as co-executive producer in its final season.

Long is a contributing editor of National Review, and Newsweek International and writes occasionally for the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. His weekly radio commentary, "Martini Shot," is broadcast on the Los Angeles public radio station KCRW, and is distributed nationally. He is a regular political and cultural commentator on the "Dennis Miller Show" on CNBC, and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio.

Peter Robinson - Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.

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[csrocker101]

"How Will History View the Bush Administration?"

A complete and utter failure.

[guderian2000]

So because the Japanese army behaved atrociously in China that justified a bombing campaign by the USAAF that killed mostly non-combatants?

[culbertsonew]

My point is, you have to see the good in Bush to know what to talk bad about him.

[mlawren7]

Compare one administration to another one 100 years ago... a journalistic non-question to set the imagination down a path to nowhere.

[TheSinestr]

Bush was a puppet. A lot of presidents are puppets in one way or another but he was the most obvious. I doubt he devised ten per cent of his policy.

[csrocker101]

@gopconservative78

K...nice rebuttal. Did you know your buddy George Dubya was also responsible for the LARGEST corporate welfare program ever? The Federal government gave 800 billion dollars to the banks and various other corporations. Not to mention he signed into law a HUGE entitlement program for seniors: Medicare Part D dramatically expanding the federal government. So I guess he is in your argument a "communist".

[gopconservative78]

@csrocker101 I don't drive a hummer, I drive a honda......I don't show off my wealth, I save it for a rainny day while you idiot communist scum bought a house that was out of your price range....as usual the Liberals piss and moan they lost....well too bad

[csrocker101]

@gopconservative78

Exactly. YOU made millions. No one else did. During his administration and because of his policies he caused the WORST financial crises since the great depression. Trillions of dollar were lost, thousands of people lost everything HOWEVER; that is all over-ruled by the fact YOU made millions of dollars. Congratulations. Have fun driving your Hummer and shopping at Wal-Mart.