[justa-hairyape]

Not a defender of GWB anymore, but he inherited the Dot com crash and less then a year into his administration 911 occurred. Basically the attack on 911 stopped and then slowed a sputtering economy. We have been on a war footing ever since. To slow or hamper the US economic engine in this current situation would be suicide for the west.

[Entrepreneur]

I agree W had an unusually large amount of problems. But he still largely governed as a fiscal moderate, not a conservative.

Regardless, I think I’m soon going to long for a president half as conservative as W, no matter who wins.