According to Phil Agre’s compilation, Bush is a laughingstock:

Green Bush fails to fluorish. “Americans seem to have noticed that the US

president’s performances as an international

statesman have been rather amateurish.” The Guardian

Hard evidence suggests that, in contrast to Bush’s overblown gladhanding of Putin at their summit last month, Putin thinks the naive American is ripe for the picking. The Guardian

“Barring a well-handled international crisis that rallies the country to his side, Bush is likely to be, at best, a 50-something president when it comes to approval ratings.” E.J. Dionne, Washington Post

President Bush risks becoming, well, another President Bush. Wall Street Journal

Fourth of July remarks (which I transcribed here yesterday, below) reveal The Second Boomer President, a narcissist who can’t see past himself New York Times