Discuss “Conventional Widsom: George Bush, All Hat and No Cattle”

With his speech on Thursday, President Bush had an opportunity to admit his mistakes in the last four years and promise to correct them and move our country forward. He could have admitted that his failed economic policies have cost millions of jobs and created record deficits, that his education bill has put new burdens on schools without actually giving them money to fund improvement, and that his misguided foreign policies have alienated our allies and created more terrorists than have been destroyed, leaving our nation less secure. George Bush could have done this, but he didn?t. He proceeded with the same determined stubbornness and blind ideology that led him to attack a country that posed no threat to us and that led him to pass gigantic...