As much as I despise Bush, that video has very little substance. It's more bashing his mistakes than exposing his not having done what he said he would.
It points out some areas where he was wrong, but not really where he didn't try to do something he said. In that video, he said he'd lower taxes and end the surplus and he did. He said he'd try to fix Social Security, and in his own way he did.
Love him or hate him, the guy did pretty much what he told us he would. The problem was he also did a lot of stuff that was clearly never discussed, like ignore Katrina or launch the Iraq war. But that's not really hypocrisy.
I don't like that video either, but Bush clearly discussed having a humble foreign policy, not being the world's policeman, and not nation building. To me, that seems fairly inconsistent with what happened.
Well, that was in the pre-9-11 world. You have to admit that was sort of a game changer. Even though I didn't agree with the Iraq war when it happened, at that point it was clear that something has to be done about radical Islam. That wasn't the answer, but not being the world's policeman isn't possible when people are flying planes into buildings and bombing subways.
I would say that one was less an act of hypocrisy on Bush's part and more an adaptation to the post 9-11 world.
I would say Bush snatched the opportunity presented by 9-11. Before 9-11 he would not been able to do a tiny part of the damage he did. Come on... Iraq was not caused by 9-11: 911 only made an invasion based on doctored intellige possible.
Well, that's largely true but misses the point. The world is much different than it was in 2000. The War on Terrorism is real. Whether or not you agree with the Iraq War (and I never did) you can't call him a hypocrite for changing his foreign policy in the light of new and very important information.
Although terrorist threats are real, I don't consider our War on Terror to be anything but a method to ensure spending against it is the size of war spending. Bush is a war president who is the son of a war president who is the son of a Senator that was also made loads of money off wars. People do what they know.
TV shows a bunch of clips of him being a moron, but for the most part he's lived up to his campaign promises.