[MinorityRepublican]

"Bush is often compared to Harry Truman, whose reputation improved over history"

[Jeff Head]

These historians are full of Bravo Sierra.

[JasonC]

He won. You aren't going to. And it is all Obama's fault.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

A little early for evaluations, IMO.

[ducdriver]

...when President-elect Barack Obama takes over in January, people may view Bush in a new light.

Oh, really, ya think?

[mrsmel]

Our objective media, rubbing the salt in.

[KosmicKitty]

Any real historian wouldn’t be talking about Bush while he was still in office. History isn’t the “now” it is the past!!

Those that do aren’t historians!!

(Where are the names of these “historians”?)

[Soothesayer]

When Obama finishes destroying the country, they will still blame Bush.

[jessduntno]

All I know for sure is this...show of hands...who thought we were ABSOLUTELY going to get hit again? If you didn’t raise your hand, you’re lying like a Democrat.

I rest my case for telling Bush critics to STFU.

[henkster]

That’s great to hear Zeliza bash Bush. After all, he is a Prof at the WOODROW WILSON school. I guess it takes one to know one...

[RoseofTexas]

I will NEVER forgive the mediPUKERS because they were the ones who attacked him 24/7 calling him a lair and many more things. When his poll numbers skyrocketed after 9-11 the mediaPUKERS were determined to bring him down and accuse him of starting a war by himself ignoring the RATS who also voted with him. I LOATHE THEM I HATE THEM THE MEDIAWHORES INCLUDING FOX CAN GO STRAIGHT TO HELL!! Let's see how satan their god will treat them there...I'll tell you it won't be no picnic!

[Sacajaweau]

8 years of MEDIA and DEM Bush bashing...Fortunately, these folks will die off and history will recognize him as a successful leader in the war on terror...which is not over.

The Clinton's never upped USA security after the 1993 hit ON AMERICAN SOIL (not one little bit)...embolding the terrorists!!

[Names Ash Housewares]

No terrorists attacks on US since 9-11.
Recovered from the recession inherited from Bubba.
Two emerging democracies in the middle east.
Missile defense deployed.

I guess none of those things were on the “historians” lists.

[OpusatFR]

Too early for evaluation!

President Bush was handed an economic recession from the Clinton years and then 9/11 which was a disasterous blow to an economy already in recession. Those NASDQ losses were in the 98-99 years.

The rest, the constant battering from the left and the media which was unconscionable will go down in history as a hideous example of out-of-control partisanship.

The “stolen” election which wasn’t, Katrina and the democrat Governor who had everything at her disposal on her command as governor and didn’t use it because she froze, and everything else incompetent in LA isn’t mentioned, I see.

Also not mentioned is the demise of a sacred tradition that politics stops at the water’s edge.
The democrats in Congress, Former President Bill Clinton, and others used the media in foreign countries to bash Bush to politicize their cause for the future.

President Bush’s presidency was unlucky. Everything that could have happened, did.

The current economic problems have their origins in the Clinton admin, although this admin helped it along.

I am glad he was there. He’ll be written as a good president, not great, but good for the times.

*In about 200 years....

[I see my hands]

The Sec. Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, the SCOTUS, and Congress should, in a joint ceremony, present W with the highest medals of military distinction in recognition his stalwart bravery and success at home and victories abroad in this early chapter of the War On Terror.

[Tarpon]

All this proves is setting yourself up as the left’s punching bag is a really really bad idea. Says nothing about how Bush will be judged by historians.

Republicans and Conservatives might ask themselves, why didn't Bush defend himself against the scrupulous unjustified attacks? Good question. Bad results for Republicans.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Such high praise. They said worse about Reagan.

[Billthedrill]

I have another few adjectives - "maligned, slimed, misrepresented, and deliberately lied about." But then anyone at CNN would know all about that from that company's editorial policies.

Current "historians" are little different from journalists. It isn't "history" until enough time has gone by to assess it in context of what went before and what came afterward. Chou En Lai once made a remark about the French Revolution's importance - "It's too early to tell."

Nevertheless, we have a steady line of Bush haters, even here on FR, triumphantly trumpeting the risible illusion that they've had the last word. The presumption is amusing. In time the idiocy will be as well.

[Liberty Valance]

I think historians may find that THESE are the good old days.

[spectre]

I can't agree with the way Bush handled Illegal Immigration.

OTOH, he kept this Country safe for 8 years. He didn't disgrace his wife, family and country, the Oval Office like Bill Clinton did.

Bush was and is an honorable man. God Bless Him.

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[Feckless]

The same scumbags, as well as the Drive By Media are ready to put Obamaramla-ding-dong on Mt Rushmore already.