by Joseph Stiglitz
Tuesday, Jan. 01, 2008 at 4:12 PM mbatko@lycos.com
After seven years of this president, the US is less prepared than ever toface the future. The world was a very different place when G W Bush took office in January 2001.
for the article published in: Vanity Fair, December 2007, click on
No, the world was not all that differant. Bush makes the offenses of both baught and paid for major parties clear enough for even the denses of folks to understand. He also speeded up the pace of the empire's offenses around the world.