W infuriated me with his plans for immigration amnesty, his 11th-hour bailouts of financial institutions that should have gotten a mercy bullet, his failure to pardon Libby, and his inability to control spending. I don’t doubt that he’s outlawed lead pencils.
But he accomplished great things at the same time, things that O’Bama cannot even Hope! to match, and will probably Change!, i.e, sabotage. I don’t know if he deserved to be in the top 10, but he certainly didn’t deserve to be in the bottom 10, either.
I do believe it will take decades to get rational perspective on W net-net. There are a ton of domestic negatives. Long term political direction in Iraq and Afg. will impact this. Growth of the federal debt under him (ignoring the last 6 months) was not a good thing.