If Obama wins the Presidency the Bush admin. will be looked back upon with nostalgia in very short order.
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the zealots in the Middle East - who saw the strong horse in Bush - will test the new president to see whether he or she is a strong or weak horse. And then the real fun will begin.
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I think, ultimately, Bush will wind up in the same group as James Monroe (whom I've always compared him to), Warren Harding, William Henry Harrison---not great, but certainly not horrible.