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In the last eight, you took a budget in surplus, an economy headed for mild recession but fundamentally sound, and a nation at peace . . . and left trillion-dollar plus deficits, the longest recession in 76 years, and a divisive war that took five years to get right.

Fortunately, some of the rest of the author's analysis is a little better than the above. 9/11 - which had the potential to completely destroy our economy and plunge us into a world war - seems to have vanished from the minds of people like the writer. Bush got us through it so successfully that most people have even forgotten that it happened. And as for the war, he obviously did take out a couple of big terrorist sponsors (although I think he should have gone on to Iran) and on the whole, we have been more secure from Muslim attacks than any other country.

I'm certainly not defending some of the stupid overspending that he engaged in subsequently, but nothing like 9/11 happened on the watch of any other president except, perhaps, FDR.

A couple other minor things... The Clinton ‘surplus’ was fake, the dot com bust was real (clinton recession) then 9/11, then 6 years of the best economy ever, then the dems took over, and we totter on the brink of complete economic meltdown.

We are stuck in a time when the worst of what both parties have to offer seems to be the result of decisions made at all levels of government, regardless of who is in power. If common sense doesn't prevail, what's left of our Country will be a fragile skeleton of what it used to be.

In the last eight, you took a budget in surplus, an economy headed for mild recession but fundamentally sound, and a nation at peace . . . and left trillion-dollar plus deficits, the longest recession in 76 years, and a divisive war that took five years to get right.

There never was a surplus. This is a lie. Throw this article in the trash.

Invisigoth: “9/11 - which had the potential to completely destroy our economy and plunge us into a world war”

I don’t buy that. While 9/11 was a terrible tragedy, I think it’s overused as an excuse for anything and everything.

“Everything” didn’t change - at least not because of the terrorist act itself. What was much more damaging was our use of it as an excuse to “change everyting”.

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9/11 - which had the potential to completely destroy our economy and plunge us into a world war - seems to have vanished from the minds of people like the writer.

Don't worry. Methinks that with the dismantling of our intelligence agencies, we will be reminded again.