I think the negative assessment of W is a continuation of blaming everything on him. The blame propaganda was effective. I think a sober reassessment W will be coming after a dose of Obamachev.
I don’t blame him for everything. I blame him for professing to be a conservative and then creating huge new programs of entitlements and presiding over a congress that spent money like teenagers with daddy’s credit card. I blame him for half-heartedly speaking out against Fannie and Freddie and for selling Iraq as a hunt for WMD’s and then stubbornly ignoring the facts on the ground until 2006.
That has got to be the understatement of the year. Progressive vermin fomented and fanned the flames of anger and resentment against Bush into full-blown, gut-wrenching hatred so that every lie, slander and exaggeration was taken for granted as truth. This was all in preparation for Obama to be their messiah.