I think it was all recalled, wasn't it? But serously, Jeffrey Bell simply chimes in with DBM in affixing the "failed" label to GWB's presidency thereby overlooking the most destructive force by far during this administration: the media itself.
I don't call it a failed presidency knowing the esteem in which our Armed Forces hold this Commander in Chief. The real failure in this nation is that so many voters, the vast majority, have forgotten September 11, 2001. That is the failure facing us in this election year.
W has been so successful in leading the rebounding from that terrible day, that many have forgotten what/why we are fighting. He told us to 'live our lives', and we have. The dims never wanted to admit what that meant, and what that took.
I do not agree with his 'no-amnesty' immigration proposal. I do not understand the lack of a fight against the dims that have broken law after law.
We will probably never know how many attacks have been avoided. As has been said, the enemy only has to get it right once. With the dims in charge, they will probably get it 'right' many times.