An awesome time: Dubya vs. The World

By Michael J.W. Stickings

"Eight years was awesome and I was famous and I was powerful," says George W. Bush.

Well, he was famous and he was powerful. As for that awesomeness, apparently he remembers things differently than most of the rest of us.

Eight years that accelerated the decline and fall of America is more like it.

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I'd say MoJo's Asawin Suebsaeng got it just about right:

Just to recap, George W. Bush is saying that his 96 months as chief executive of America -- endorsing torture, launching war on convoluted make-believe, jumping the gun, decimating a record budget surplus, politicizing NASA and the DOJ, wiretapping, ditching Kyoto, bungling Katrina, restricting stem-cell research, fighting AIDS in Africa, pushing reasonable immigration reform, and getting pissed at the South Park creators -- were straight awesome.

Will Ferrell is officially allowed to retire; George Walker Bush now ad-libs self-caricature at a level of sharpened, terse, crystallized wit that even the most practiced comic or impersonator could only hope to channel.

Yes, what a fucking awesome time that was. Good to see he hasn't lost any of his self-aggrandizing un-self-awareness.

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Can't get enough of the ex-president? The following clip, which includes the "awesome" line, is over an hour long.