Welcome to FR. If I were you, I’d find a zot-proof suit, ASAP!! :-)
As far as your question, I thank God every day that He allowed George W. Bush as the POTUS—in the right place at the right time for our country to survive the horror of 9/11 and the aftermath of it...I love it when the MSM tries to make it sound like a bad thing that a John McCain presidency will be like W’s ‘third term’—let’s see, no more terrorist attacks on American soil, the economy is basically fine, and we are winning the WOT around the world—of course, all of these can be fine tuned due to various problems, because no one is perfect. But no, there’s not been any ‘slide’ as far as far as that goes, except when Billary ruled the country for 8 years! And that goes back to the racist/bigoted Jimmah Carter’s years in office.
Well done!