[Fhios]

History has it’s own criteria for legacies, deciding who was great, who was so so and who was just terrible. Being so and so does not invite a comparison to somebody that was great, somebody truly tested.

Just dwell a bit on these quotes from these American Presidents that come to my mind when I first think of them.

Kennedy: “Ask not what .... “
Nixon: “I am not a crook” (despite it being a bit inexact).
Reagan: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall”.
George H Bush: “Read my lips, no new taxes”
Bill Clinton: “I did not have sex with that women, Ms Lewinski”
George HW Bush: “Strategery” and less comic “No nation building”.
Obama: “You didn’t build that”
Donald Trump: — his best is yet to come.

[rlmorel]

The context of my post was, from DIRTYSECRET's post at #20 "... On a smaller level it’s the same with Bush 41 after Kuwait. The people will never recognize the skill with witch he conducted the war and the diplomacy leading up to it..." which I feel is entirely appropriate parallel.

I doubt that on the whole, anybody, specifically DIRTYSECRET or myself was comparing GHWB to Churchill except in the narrowest of focus.