>>He was so successfully demonized by the D’s
I agree wholeheartedly.
0bama ran against Bush in ‘08 and again in ‘12. Anything Bush did would have added fuel to that fire.
Damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.
I have plenty of disagreements with Bush, but this is most definitely not one of them.
I tend to agree with you. I blame Bush for allowing himself to become the most hated man in America during his last term, which allowed the press to portray him as the second Herbert Hoover after his term was over. He was so demonized that any effort after September 2008 to rehabilitate his military or financial policies would have failed. His mistake was letting it get to that point, from 2002 to 2008, his refusal to fight back. He let them get away with so much during that time, and eventually, it stuck.