[mbennett203]

"He seemed to take this in stride, presidentially, and with class."

This is probably the biggest reason I'm so forgiving of Bush and quick to defend him when people trash him. He's been genuinely olive branching the crap out of the Democrats the whole time he's been in office. He's going to be doing more of that now, and they'll still say he's being stubborn or something stupid like that. I just can't grasp the really visceral hate some people seem to have for him.

[proseandcons]

He's been genuinely olive branching the crap out of the Democrats the whole time he's been in office.

I'm not sure that's really a defensible statement. In fact, it was Bush's eagerness to depict his opposition as being "with the terrorists" - or any other number of nasty charges that amounted to calling them treasonous - that first seemed to fuel the growing view of him a a divider, rather than a uniter.