As W is headed out the door, Obama is just being nice. I have no doubt he doesn’t really mean it. I’m betting during his inauguration speech he’ll be like Clinton, and proclaim the previous Administration was nightmarish and mean-spirited and blah blah blah.
One of my hopes is that in some of the preparation meetings covering national secrets, Obama has a major CTJ when things are revealed like threats, positions, and why decisions where made. Maybe this is a reaction to seeing things how they really are, not how he thought.
I think he might be easy on Bush. He is a politician after all. He has the left entirely under his sway and he can do most anything and those moonbats will lap it up. He might see this as an opportunity to try to fool conservatives and get some legislative support.