[asneditor]

This is a great read freepers. I like the part of W. being like Ronald Reagan

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This is a good read. And this came from Time magazine? It must be a Christmas miracle.

[A Navy Vet]

The adults are indeed back in charge. What a team!

[goodnesswins]

THEY did not LEAD.......WE WILL.....and WE are. I am SOOOOOO glad that GW Bush is President. MERRY CHRISTMAS.

[Maceman]

Can anyone -- ANYONE -- imagine Bill Clinton handling the war on terror (assuming he would even mount one) with anything like the vision, discipline, competence and class that Bush has demonstrated.

Everyday it gets clearer that Bush is a world class executive, and Clinton was an over-rated clown.

[slimer]

Good stuph! bump

[Cicero]

This reads like an accurate summary of events to me. It puts the whole thing together very well, and gives credit where credit is due. There are still one or two obligatory snide comments, such as "What he lacks in experience, he has made up in instinct." On the contrary, Bush has had a lot of experience working, dealing with people, running businesses, balancing budgets, and running a state government. Far more experience than either Gore or Clinton, for instance, or that idiot Daschle.

Also, that bit about "overreaching" when he lambasted congresscritters for leaking secrets to the press. It was exactly the right thing to do, and it appears to have stopped the leaks. Bush is not a power-hungry, imperial president. That was clinton.

[j.cam]

How was Bush less qualified than Clinton? They show their bias even when trying to be fair.

[j.cam]

"his distaste for detail"

Distaste for detail? Bush met with the CIA chief twice a weak according to this article, while Clinton met with Lewinsky instead of the CIA chief.

[Keith]

"But his reaction to the leak was the first of several instances in which Bush has overreached as he has presided over the greatest expansion in federal power in a generation or more. "

This crap still p***es me off. It's because it's the first time we've been attacked by a FOREIGN POWER in a generation, you idiots. You know they would be defending the former felon if it had been on his watch. Fortunately, no one is listening to Time on this crap anymore...

[boris]

I had been wondering pre 9/11 when Bush would finally get rid of Tenant. Oh well.

Every Clinton appointee that remains is a saboteur-in-place, up to and including the director of the CIA.

And, BTW, Pakistan is a terrorist state, and needs to be dealt with. In particular, all of the "madrassas" need to be destroyed utterly--yesterday.

--Boris