Now that George W Bush has left office, many people regard him as one of the worst presidents in modern history - a truth held in many circles is that W is the worst president since Nixon. The evidence for this statement is his abysmally-low approval rating when he left office and the country's shape in January, 2009.
However, history has a way of changing the views on Presidents. Many people think that our opinion of W will become favorable over the next 10-20 years, given the results of Iraq/Afghanistan and the Middle East, and the state of our education system. There is a role model for this "historical revisionism" of our modern presidents; Harry Truman left office in 1952 with approval rating at or lower than Bush's - and he is now credited for making the tough decisions for WW II and the post-war world. The nation's view of Truman has changed over the past 30-50 years.
Will the same happen to George W Bush? Only time will tell. That's not the point of this post.
The point of this post is - can we, as sports fans, finally admit to ourselves that Jose Canseco was right? Should we re-read his books with the understanding that almost 100% of the material in there was actually, you know......true? The latest A-Rod allegations that came out only further cement Jose's credibility.
Canseco has consistently been the canary in the mine for years - and people continually ignore, ridicule, and slime him. It's finally time to turn the page and admit he was right. And let him speak his mind freely again. It's time to finally re-evaluate Canseco and admire him for having the balls to speak out at a time wheneveryone urged him to shut the hell up.
(Relating Harry Truman to Jose Canseco? Posts like that can only be found here at F&J!)
2 comments:
I could not disagree more about Canseco. While I have no doubt that he was right all along, he didn't divulge the information because of some crisis on conscience or altruism. He did it because he was pissed off that he was black-balled and he figured he had nothing to lose so he could make himself relevant again and make some money in the process.
Just because he was right and was the catalyst for the breakdown of the steroid era doesn't mean we should anoint him as some sort of hero.
Obviously I meant crisis OF conscience. My typos tend to be more prevalent when I'm cycling off the HGH.
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