[mairdie]

You state the case beautifully for me. I was so grateful Bush was there when 9/11 happened, and that Clinton was gone. And I hoped that the Afghan and Iraq wars would make us safer. I thought of Bush as a decent man, but he turned out to be too idealistic to do what really needed to be done. Thus my deep gratitude that we now have Trump, whom I trust doesn’t have the problem of wanting to be overly nice rather than effective. I never realized before Bush that a leader could be TOO decent. And I think his orientation as a Globalist was just wrong for the country. Trump is forcing the pendulum back to the middle, where it needs to be.

[Jamestown1630]

"when 9/11 hit, he was the right one."

I agree with both of you.

I was born in DC, and grew up/lived/worked nearby, all of my life. I always thought of it as 'my town.'

The entire District became very tarnished for me during the Clinton years; I didn't even like walking past the White House in those years.

GWB and his wife brought back dignity; and when 9/11 happened, we felt far more secure than we would have felt a year before.

We are never going to have a perfect President; and unless you've done that job, you can't possibly understand the pressures and horrible choices involved. I often wonder how many of those who criticize Bush could have done even half as well.

Politics have become so absolutely nasty, that the kind of people we would like to have up there want nothing to do with it. We shouldn't disparage the few generally decent people who are willing to take the job on.