re: Can we just move on from the Bush family?

quote:

---

W will be remembered by history as an above average President and a decent man

---

Won’t argue the decent man bit, but above average President?

Even without blaming him for getting into Iraq we have the following problems:
-poor management of war and aftermath be DoS and DoD (not enough troops until last ditch surge effort)
-bungled Afghan war where the taliban are allowed to come back from the grave and we devote massive resources to bringing the first world to a place it will never work
-TARP
-Poorly rolled out social security reform
-ineffective no child left behind (one of the few issues Dems and Rs usually agree upon)
-Letting NATO set outrageous timelines for budget commitments (the 2 percent phase in should have been mandated long ago)
-the ridiculous expansion of nato (when everyone’s a member it means nothing, and Americans, much less the French, won’t send send boys to die over stuff that happens on the Estonian or Latvian border)
-border security (we shouldn’t be arguing about enforcement still, this garbage about settling everything with one comprehensive bill started when W. wanted to try to apply his compassionate conservatism thing to immigration)

W. should be remembered as a fair to weak president. Though few are handed the challenges that he was, his performance was poor.