Thank you for posting this.
I am proud to say I support President Bush, and in my 4 years here on FR, nobody could find a single post of mine trashing him even when it got “popular” to throw him under the bus.
I will miss him when he leaves office.
Oh yeah, people will look back on these days and say, Damn, I wish I could change back.
I voted for Bush both times. But he is the reason the Dems now control the House, Senate and Presidency.
He should have thrown Rumsfeld out before the 2006 election, not the day after the Democrats swept the Congress.
He should have surged sooner than later.
He should have opted for a strong dollar policy.
He should have hammered home on the Fannie/Freddie mess—he knew it was a problem, tried to do something, but obviously not enough.
I don’t know what to make of the many poor decisions, the lack of fortitude/leadership, that landed us here. I like the man, but he did not follow through. And now, come to think of it, McCain might have been more of the same in that regard. If McCain couldn’t make his case in the election, how would he do it in office?