The reason we now are inaugurating Obama is because of George W. Bush. Let no one forget that. The inane "change" mantra was in fact change of presidents. So all Obama had to run on was that the incumbent was hated. And it resonated well enough to be a winning platform.
Why then was Bush disliked? Because he was too liberal to the extent that he appeared to hate conservatives and conservative principles, in the classic way that Eastern patrician Republican-RINOs hate people like Sarah Palin and real conservatives such as those who write on this site. This made the conservative base mad... (the same base that stayed home and implicitly elected Obama).
But that is not all-- He came across as petty, preening, passive-agressive, and condescending (which pissed everyone off).
A perfect example of this is the fact that he let this Ramos thing go on for so long. There are many other such cases which really infuriated me, for years: He also let Wuterich and the Hadditha Marines hang in the breeze for years (after they had day after day put themselves in extraordinary and excessive danger to try to engage the enemy according to his ridiculous Viet-nam type rules of engagement). He also let that female soldier get eviscerated because of the stupid but harmless fraternity pranks she participated in at that prison.
These instances were signs of Bush's spinelessness, pettiness, bitchiness, and lack of integrity.
Why do I say that? Because war is extremely messy, and when you put young people into it to do your dirty work as Commander-in-chief, according to ass-hat stupid PC rules of engagement, you should stand by them unless they are doing something really, really wrong. President Bush never stood by them.
Oh, yeah, I just remembered Rummy. That really angered me and many others.
He just cut them loose, when he could have instantly protected them by making a few phone calls as C-in-C.
He also naively (fecklessly is perhaps a better word) let the press set his agenda, instead of him setting THEIR agenda, as he should have done as a wartime President.
The President overall performed solidly in some things, but he screwed up in many ways: He disregarded his duty to the Constitution: maintaining porous borders, starting ridiculous LBJ type entitlements such as universal prescription coverage, bailing out all the Wall Street executives, who were engaged in the mortgage scandal and took down our financial system, (by the way, notice how agressively they are being pursued by 43's DOJ), and developing all the stealth One-World crap like the Mexican NAFTA highway that he and his class are so hell-bent on executing.
So please, let's not talk about BDS on this thread, because there are a lot of very solid reasons why I and many, many others are pleased not to have to defend this President any longer.
And if you think I am full of it, just remember that it was President Bush 43 that got us Obama, in exactly the same way President Bush 41 got us eight long years of Clinton.