In the case of George Bush Jr., he is nowadays a lame duck because he’ll be expelled from the White House in two months, when President-elect Barack Obama moves in. In fact, Bush has been a lame duck president for the past four years because this has been his second and final term and therefore he can not run (no pun intended) again.
While he was at it as President, however, Bush was not lame in the sense of being inactive or ineffective. Not at all. The guy launched two wars to start with, which is the reason why I always want to metaphorically beat about him in the first place.
Finally, you see, we’ve come full circle to where we started – beating about the Bush. Fortunately, that’s also where I’d like to finish - I never intended to dwell on the sorry subject of President Bush anyway.
Let’s call it a day here because I don’t have anything to add, other than that I’m really happy for him leaving office. Good bye, man – and good riddance.
Here now, are two recent media examples of lame ducks:
1. President Bush will be the lamest of ducks by Nov. 15, when leaders of 20 nations meet in Washington to discuss the global financial crisis. With only two months left in office, he will not be around to implement any policy changes he proposes or agrees to.
Bush’s bigger problem is his utter lack of credibility when it comes to the central question of how to regulate national and global financial markets to ensure that this disaster never happens again. Eight years and a huge financial crash later, and Bush is still extolling the corrective powers of unrestrained markets.
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