I hope you are right. I hope Bush will do great things before his term ends. I have to be very honest and say I have little hope. Unfortunately, my disappointments are not immediate; they have been growing slowly over the last three years. Some say he’s the best we have right now, but to me that's just settling for mediocre, at best. At this point, I continue to hope for the best, but expect the worst.
"that's just settling for mediocre"
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Just exactly who do you think could have done any better than President Bush, in face of all the crises and challanges?
You are really living up to your screen name.
"Unfortunately, my disappointments are not immediate"
I meant while he is serving we see all his flaws, because we are looking at him and all his failures in running all the nation against, all the conflicting interests and all the messiness of internal American power struggles and interests.
A few years after he has left office and we can see the big picture, I think we will be proud of him and recognize him as a dedicated servant of his nation, that brought honor to his office and did his honest best to serve our long term interests without regard to his personal ego.
For all my complaints I knew we had to enter the Muslim world, and he did in a very forceful, old style American way.
We're breaking eggs, and it is our only chance for reshaping the future of the Arab Muslim relationship to the civilized world.