You'll miss him

Thank you George for sabotaging the US Empire

I have always been a fan of George Bush, on the simple grounds that the American empire needs taking down several notches and George Jr has been the right man for the job.

Bush leaves America a poorer but in many ways a better place, moreconscious of its blessings. Just as it took bad King John to force thedrafting of the Magna Carta, on Bush's watch Americans have learned,amidst the threat of losing them, that they have constitutionalprotections.

A commander in-chief who made Jerry Ford sound like Demosthenes hasgiven them a fresh sensitivity to language, even the dream that theymight have a president who can speak in whole sentences.