[oldbrowser]

Bush has gotten a bad rap and he allows it to happen because he doesn’t try to correct the record, preferring instead to leave it to future historians.

"W" will go down in history as a selfless patriot. The Abraham Lincoln of our time.

[Hawthorn]

>> “W” will go down in history as a selfless patriot. <<

He certainly SHOULD be remembered that way. But it may take a long time for today’s BDS to fade away.

>> The Abraham Lincoln of our time. <<

That’s a little strong for my tastes. I’d prefer to say, “The Harry Truman of our time.”

[I’m old enough to remember well how strongly my father and his peers detested Truman in 1948. I grew up thinking HST was the devil incarnate. Yet fifty years later, in 1998, my father was “just wild about Harry!”]