Dear Mr. President,

Mr. Bush,

You began your Presidency on a bad foot, with the White House literally sabotaged by the outgoing Clinton Administration and more than half the people who voted in the election you won feeling cheated by your victory. You proceeded to claim a mandate which did not exist and push forward a partisan agenda which was ill-received by the public and your opponents. Then, the worst happened: we were attacked and you were forced to completely change your plans in order to confront this new threat. In the end, we became involved in two heavily draining and unpopular wars with little tangible results to show. You have been labeled the worst President ever, an imbecile, a villain, and an overall poor person. You disapproval ratings as you leave are the highest since Nixon.

However, there are some of us who do not hate you, and who do not believe you to be a failure.

Mr. Bush,

You began your Presidency on a bad foot, with the White House literally sabotaged by the outgoing Clinton Administration and more than half the people who voted in the election you won feeling cheated by your victory. You proceeded to claim a mandate which did not exist and push forward a partisan agenda which was ill-received by the public and your opponents. Then, the worst happened: we were attacked and you were forced to completely change your plans in order to confront this new threat. In the end, we became involved in two heavily draining and unpopular wars with little tangible results to show. You have been labeled the worst President ever, an imbecile, a villain, and an overall poor person. You disapproval ratings as you leave are the highest since Nixon.

However, there are some of us who do not hate you, and who do not believe you to be a failure.

Dear Former President Bush,

We may not see eye to eye, in fact we may not agree on anything but I just wanted to say I do realize that you did the best job you could do and made the best decisions you could make to keep us safe. So I just wanted to say thank you for keeping us safe the past 8 years. I do recognize that you worked very hard as our president and I hope you now can enjoy some rest and relaxation at home in Texas.

A proud American citizen,
RS

Dear Mr. Bush,

You made me feel like a war criminal. You wrecked my health with the lies about toxic air at the World Trade Center rescue site and, as a result, my grandchildren will be feeling the financial devastation you caused my family. You invaded an innocent country and have killed countless people. You neglected our troops, downtown New York, New Orleans. And your so-called stewardship of the economy has now broken millions of Americans and people around the world.

There is a ranchero song in Spanish entitled "Rata de dos patas" or "Two-legged rat." This describes you. The lyrics are below.

Sincerely,

A good American citizen

I'll be honest, I'm not a religious man, but if there were a hell, then you would have been one of the Devil's greatest accomplishments.

You made a country that was supposed to be a shining beacon of liberty and fairness (except for all that slavery, lynchings, killing off native Americans, apathy before getting involved in WWII.... okay... I'll admit it, America was still screwed up, but it was better than almost every other place on the planet. Sad but true.) and made America look like it was going down the path that Germany took right before the Nazis rose to power.

Thank you.
Thank you for allowing me not to be blinded by patriotism, and for crushing the ideals and beliefs of my generation before they manifested into ignorance and hate. My life out of high school begins with you out of office, my first vote cast for a man capable of moving the masses, a man with respect and knowledge about the office he intends to hold, and a man deserving of the office.

Mr. Bush,

Goodbye George W. Bush! And goodbye to the best eight years of non-stop comedy which I greatly enjoyed. Beware of those pretzels.

1.James Buchanan
2. Warren G Harding
3. You